Hogwarts: Don't call me Wandmaker

Chapter 62 Mobile Advertising Cat Plan

As the exam time drew closer, the atmosphere in the castle gradually became tense. Students could often be seen hurriedly passing by in the corridors, carrying heavy magic books and reciting spells and potion recipes in low voices.

There are even more people in the library, and sometimes if you run a little slower you can't find a seat, so you can only borrow books to read.

However, most of these people are students preparing to participate in OWL and NEWT, and Xilun, who is only a first-year, does not feel nervous at all.

The only difference is that he is probably more popular.

This was mainly because Fred and George, the two of them, had paraded their "brand new" wands around the castle at noon on the day their detention ended.

While attracting a lot of attention, it also helped Xilun to advertise. Now many people have begun to consult him about the dye spray.

It’s embarrassing to say that I prepared everything at the beginning of the school year, but I forgot everything because of various things. I didn’t sell the first bottle until the end of the school year.

But at this time, everyone's pocket money is basically used up, and Xilun's pricing focuses on the concept of "open for 30 years", so most of the time there are just a lot of questions, but basically no one buys.

"What if you lowered the price a bit?" Fred suggested during breakfast one day. "If they were all priced at one Galleon, most people could actually afford it if they gritted their teeth."

"Yeah," George nodded beside him. "A wand is only seven Galleons. The dye spray can't be more expensive than the wand, right?"

"No, I won't cheat poor students." Xili said righteously.

"Hmm?" The Weasley brothers looked at him, suddenly feeling implied.

Xi Lun actually felt that they were not poor students. This feeling was really good...ah, that's not right.

Come to think of it, if the discount offered by Xilun hadn't been so attractive, they wouldn't have spent ten Galleons on a bottle of wand dye spray that was useless except for decoration.

"Then you can only advertise," George said, "and maybe more people will be fooled."

"That's a good idea." Xi Lun touched his chin. "The problem is how to put the advertisement? On the bulletin board in the common room?"

"If you could get into the common rooms of the other three houses, that would be a good option."

"But I can't get in." Xi Lun shrugged. He hadn't even met all the Gryffindors yet, so how could he possibly know people from other colleges?

"Want some advice?" Fred suddenly lowered his voice and chuckled, "Think about it, who tirelessly travels back and forth to every corner of the castle every day?"

"Who always likes to chase after every student?"

"And who is known to all the students?"

"Dumbledore?" Siren said tentatively.

"No, that's not right." George shook his head vigorously. "It's Mrs. Norris."

"Why don't you use spray tint and write your ad on Mrs. Norris?"

"This way, your product will appear in front of every student," Fred said coaxingly. "More importantly, you don't have to spend any extra money."

"Yeah, it will be brought to Filch, and then by next year, Filch will include spray dye on the list of banned items." Siren said unhappily. He shouldn't have believed that these two people could come up with any good ideas.

"Don't say that. How do you know if it works if you don't try it?"

"Yes, give it a try."

The two chased after Xi Lun, trying to persuade him to change Mrs. Loris's clothes to a brighter color. But Xi Lun knew very well that they were just doing it to make it easier to observe the enemy's movements during night patrols.

Besides, Tom often beat Mrs. Norris when he was showing off his power, so he felt embarrassed to mess with the little hair she had left.

Anyway, the "pet wand" he launched can also earn pocket money, as long as it is enough... Xilun is quite easy to satisfy in this regard.

A few days later, the exam began.

Like everyone else, Xi Lun had to stay in the hot and uncomfortable classroom to compete with the test questions.

The first-grade exam wasn't difficult. Xi Lun estimated that he could answer half of them correctly. The main problem was that some of the questions were trivial, empty, and lengthy and complicated, which he hadn't memorized at all... For example, there were fifteen ways to deal with a werewolf.

To be honest, there doesn't need to be fifteen ways to do this. To put it simply, there are only two: either run, or find a way to kill the werewolf if you can't run. Everything else is nonsense.

Besides, werewolves would also be able to read this thing. The textbooks at Hogwarts haven't been changed in at least 30 years. Maybe they have already developed a corresponding solution.

In the whole of Gryffindor, only Hermione would take the time to memorize something like this... well, maybe Percy too.

In comparison, the practical exam is much more interesting, especially for Xi Lun. After all, he can "cheat". As long as he uses the right magic wand, it is not difficult to get a high score.

The content taught at Hogwarts can basically be considered as the category of white magic. With the help of Silver Mane, the exams that were originally a bit difficult have become much simpler.

The Transfiguration test was to turn a mouse into a snuff box, and Xi Lun was the first to complete it.

During the Charms exam, Professor Flitwick asked them to make a pineapple tap dance across a desk.

This test is about the students' application of the levitation spell. The so-called tap dance is nothing more than making the pineapple move up and down on the table, making it look like it is tap dancing.

After all, there is no Tarantella Dance Spell in "Standard Spells, Level 1". If you want to learn it, you have to look for it in "One Hundred Means of Retaliation against Your Enemy".

If it was just a levitation spell, it would naturally not be difficult. Even without silver mane, Xilun could easily complete the requirement.

His tap dance looks a bit like robotic dance, and I don’t know if he will be deducted points.

If I were to say which exam was the most troublesome, it would definitely be Potions, because potions are mostly made in crucibles, and the wand basically only serves the purpose of stirring.

Snape gave them two hours to concoct the correct potion of forgetfulness.

This was not a question that Xilun was good at at all. The correct answer should be blue potion and smoke, but what Xilun handed in was brown potion and pink smoke.

Judging from Snape's expression, he probably won't get a high score.

Xi Lun then took the exams in Herbology, Defense Against the Dark Arts and History of Magic in turn, and then the exams were completely over.

In order to welcome the upcoming holiday, the castle was plunged into a sea of ​​joy, and the previous depressing and dull atmosphere was instantly swept away.

On the second day of the holiday, Fred and George approached Xi Lun again to seek cooperation, inviting him to attack the Whomping Willow again in the evening, and repeatedly assured him that there would be no mistakes this time.

But Xi Lun still refused.

Besides not quite believing their assurances, he was also waiting for something more important.

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(End of this chapter)