Chapter 157 Big Business
'Bockin-Bock Store' is still the same.
It is one of the few shops on Knockturn Alley that is brightly lit and has its doors open, allowing people to come and go at will.
When John arrived, Mr. Borkin was standing behind the counter, counting a pile of gold galleons.
His expression was solemn and solemn, just like the worshipers John had seen at St. Brelade's before.
However, this state of affairs was soon broken.
As soon as Mr. Borgin spotted John, a bright, greasy smile spread across his face.
"Oh - Mr. Shafiq, what a rare visitor..."
Mr. Borkin got stuck mid-sentence.
Because he saw Dobby.
His eyes glanced back and forth over Dobby, as if he was guessing Dobby's origins, and also seemed to be assessing Dobby's value.
John didn't talk nonsense to him, leaned on the counter and said:
"I'm going to do something."
"Is that the house elf?" Mr. Borkin said with a smile. "I must remind you, Mr. Shafik, that appears to be the property of the Malfoy family. It would be a pity if you stole it from the Malfoy family. , I can't accept it. After all... I also have a long-term trading relationship with Mr. Malfoy."
Dobby was trembling all over by this time and could hardly stand.
John, on the other hand, glared at Mr. Borkin.
As a famous 'black shop' on Knockturn Alley, how could it not accept stolen goods?
The other party just wants to bargain.
"This kind of house elf was given to me by Mr. Malfoy." John said calmly, "But the goods I want to sell this time are not him."
"Oh - then what are you going to do this time?"
Mr. Borgin's expression quickly turned cold as he spoke.
Obviously, he didn't think that a little wizard like John could come up with anything valuable.
Even if he thought John was from the Shafiq family.
John snapped his fingers, and Dobby immediately opened the magic suitcase tremblingly, and took out a large number of basilisk sloughs, basilisk fangs, and scales, as well as some magic products that John had collected from goblins and a large number of basilisks obtained from the Forbidden Forest. All the magic materials were taken out.
The goods almost filled the entire 'Bockin' and Bock Store'.
As there were more and more things, Mr. Borgin's mouth opened wider and wider.
By the time Dobby closed the magic suitcase again, he was speechless. He could only look at John and the pile of goods with disbelief.
"Let's get an estimate, Mr. Borgin."
As soon as John said this, Mr. Borgin jumped out from behind the counter with a roar, threw himself into the pile of goods, and began to rummage through them.
But he was obviously most interested in the basilisk slough and the basilisk fangs.
Seeing him carefully caressing the snake's slough and fangs, John felt that this was the first time he held his biological son.
“It’s unbelievable, it’s so amazing!”
Mr. Borgin murmured, "It seems that you not only killed the basilisk at Hogwarts last year, but also found the Chamber of Secrets and the basilisk's lair!"
John narrowed his eyes slightly and said:
"Stop being verbose and come up with an estimate."
Mr. Borkin held out three fingers and said:
"Three thousand galleons."
"Eight thousand." John shook his head.
"This is impossible! You are simply more greedy than a goblin!" Mr. Borgin blushed as if he had been insulted. "At most three thousand and five thousand! No more!"
John didn't take his advice at all, and ignored the angry look on his face and said:
"Just eight thousand."
"four thousand!"
……
After a round of bargaining, the purchase price for this pile of goods was set at six thousand Galleons.
Adding this money to the Galleons that John already had, John's current cash has reached an astonishing [-] Galleons!
"Snapped--"
Mr. Borkin snapped his fingers.
Immediately, another house elf appeared in the shop.
He looked much stronger and fiercer than Dobby, but he had the same greasy smile on his face as Mr. Borgin.
The house elf first collected the materials in the store, and then poured out a large amount of gold coins from another cloth bag that was obviously also a space prop.
"It's all here, let's take stock, Mr. Shafiq."
Mr. Borkin said with a smile.
But John shook his head, placed the magic suitcase on the counter, and handed out a piece of parchment.
"I need you to continue to find someone to expand the capacity of my suitcase. I need to add two new areas inside. One area will be transformed into a magic herb warming shed, and the other area will be left empty for me to decide what use it will be used for later." John said, "Besides, I want these things on the parchment."
When Mr. Borgin unfolded the parchment and took a look, the smile on his face became even brighter.
Because the things written on it are all high-end magic potions such as polyjuice potions, elixirs, enhancers, and intelligence-enhancing potions, as well as related high-level magic materials.
Also, there are a lot of them.
This is big business!
In fact, John estimates that he can start trying to make these potions under Snape's guidance next semester.
But it takes too much time.
For example, polyjuice potion, from material processing to actual refinement, takes several months under normal processes!
Even if he used Snape's secret formula, he probably wouldn't be able to compress the production time to just a few days.
Not to mention the rest of the potions.
And what John lacks most now is time.
And John has already thought of the next way to make money, and the price of the magic potions here in the 'Bojin-Bocker Store' is several percent lower than in Diagon Alley due to the bonus of stolen property.
So buying the finished potion directly is the best option.
Only in this way can John drink a large amount of magic potion in a short period of time to maximize his strength.
Afterwards, the two had a discussion about the potions, materials, and the price of expanding the suitcase.
It was not until the end that Mr. Borgin shook hands with John and said with a smile:
"Five thousand galleons is a good price, but it will take me some time to prepare these things."
"how long?"
"You can definitely get it done before you go to Hogwarts!"
"I believe you. After all, we will still have more business to do in the future."
After saying that, John put away the gold galleons on the ground, turned around and left the 'Bojin-Bocker Store'.
Before leaving, Mr. Borgin had a strange expression on his face.
John didn't understand the expression at first, but he soon did.
Because not long after he left the 'Bojin-Bocker Store', he discovered that several hooded and sneaky dark wizards were already following him.
Obviously, they regarded John as a big fat sheep.
John sighed, took out his wand and prepared to solve the problem.
After training with Michael for such a long time, he already has a full understanding of the strength of the dark wizards.
To be fair, although dark wizards have a terrifying reputation, the average low-level dark wizard is actually not very strong.
So John can still clean up these dark wizards.
However, before he really started to take action, he saw a large green light suddenly light up behind the dark wizards.
Following a series of slight explosions, several dark wizards fell down, and Mr. Borkin's greasy smile appeared in John's field of vision again.
"Oh - my dear Mr. Shafiq, I forgot to remind you that there are often blind fools on this street."
Mr. Borkin ran over quickly as he spoke and handed over a very thick book.
The cover is pure black without any logo, but a large amount of item information and prices are recorded inside in the form of pictures and texts.
"This is the product catalog in our store. If necessary, send an owl directly to place an order!"
Mr. Borgin said, "You are an outstanding wizard with potential, and I look forward to more cooperation with you. Also, do you really not want to consider working in my shop?"
"I answered this question to you last year. You can't afford to hire me."
As John spoke, he reached out and took the catalog.
Mr. Borkin said nothing and continued to stare at John.
Their eyes met, and both of them showed bright smiles.