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Because the final exam is coming soon.
The professors were assigning more and more homework, and they were running out of time to play a game of wizard chess.
The Easter holidays were far less fun than Christmas, and most people chose to stay in school.
There was too much homework, and the blank parchment papers piled up like a mountain. They had to stay in the library almost every day, sighing and yawning, trying hard to complete these heavy homeworks.
In addition, they also need to recite the "must-test content" mentioned by the professors and practice wand movements.
It's holiday, but you can always hear the complaints of little wizards in the corridor.
"I'll never remember this!" Halfway through the holiday, Mikkel couldn't stand it anymore. He threw his quill and said angrily, "Who discovered the twelve uses of dragon blood? There are too many to remember!"
"Dumbledore."
Kyle, who was sitting opposite him, said without even looking up: "Do you want to duel with him? This is indeed a good idea. If you can beat him up, Professor Snape will definitely not let you carry these things anymore."
"..."
After being stunned for a moment, Mikkel reached out and picked up the quill, "What is the twelfth use of dragon blood... Oh, it's used as a furnace cleaner.
This isn't that hard to remember. I should have been more careful just now."
Kyle smiled and said nothing.
An hour later, he too put down his quill and closed his copy of One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi.
"Kyle, have you finished all your homework?"
Mikel and Ryan looked up suddenly like two Nifflers who had discovered a gold Galleon.
Kyle moved his shoulders and nodded, "Well, I'm done."
Mikel's eyes lit up, and he asked expectantly, "Can you... lend it to us for reference?"
"……Fine."
This time, Kyle did not refuse directly like before. After hesitating for a while, he pushed the assignment to them.
The main thing was that he remembered that Mikel and Ryan had already done a lot of homework. Although not much, it was definitely one third.
In this way, there is no need to worry about the possibility of copying the homework, and it doesn't matter if you lend it to them.
In addition, there is indeed a lot of homework during the Easter holidays.
But to be on the safe side, Kyle still reminded: "Remember, don't copy."
"Don't worry." Mikel patted his chest decisively and said, "We won't make the same mistake twice."
(End of this chapter)
Chapter 94 Big Deal
During the second week of the Easter holidays, Kyle continued his previous habits, leaving the common room after breakfast every day and not returning until the evening.
But he did not go to the library or the Room of Requirement on the eighth floor. Instead, he stayed in an abandoned classroom on the third floor of the castle all day.
And he was not the only one in the classroom, there were also Fred and George from Gryffindor, Qiu Zhang from Ravenclaw, as well as Connor and Cedric.
There were six people in total, and they were busy in this small classroom.
"Kyle, you come and look at this pattern, okay?" Qiu Zhang put down the knife in his hand, wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "Why do I feel something is wrong?"
"It doesn't matter. A few minor flaws won't matter." Kyle said without even looking up. "No one can tell anyway. It's fine as long as the general idea is there."
Kyle also holds a knife in his left hand and a branch in his right hand.
—Branches of the mountain pear tree, those brought back from the Forbidden Forest.
Kyle first shaved off the bark and excess parts, and then skillfully used the knife in his hand to carve irregular lines on it.
Soon, an oval wooden pendant was made, with a crossed pattern of a wand and a feather pen engraved on the surface of the pendant.
Next to him, there are many similar pendants, some oval, some triangular and some square.
The other five people, like Kyle, turned directly from wizards into carpenters, and fiddled with the branches.
Near noon, Fred dusted off the sawdust on his body, looked at the "fruits of his labor" for the whole morning, and couldn't help frowning and said, "Kyle, can we really sell these things we made?"
Upon hearing this, the others also raised their heads and looked at Kyle.
They were called here by Kyle two days ago, saying that he was going to do a big deal.
With their previous successful experience in selling maps, they were quite excited at first, and did not doubt anything. They were very cooperative and followed Kyle's arrangements.
But I didn't expect that Kyle actually took them to carve wood for two days, and he didn't allow them to use magic, so they had to carve wood purely by hand.
This made several people a little confused.
"it should be OK."
Kyle thought for a moment and said, "The Rowan Tree Amulet is still very popular in the magic world."
"Wait...we're making amulets?" George asked in disbelief.
The main reason was that they had no experience as carpenters before. Although the things they carved were not ugly, they were not very good-looking either, and the shapes were all very strange.
Even he wouldn't dare to say against his conscience that such a crudely made thing is a talisman.
"What you and Fred made is just a lump of wood," Kyle said, "but it will be different once Connor and the others carve patterns on it."
Several people looked at each other in confusion, expressing their doubts about Kyle's words.
Unless these patterns are some special magical symbols, such as ancient runes, otherwise, even if a hundred of them are carved, it will still be just a lump of wood.
"Speaking of this..." Cedric couldn't help but ask, "What kind of pattern is this? I've never seen it before."
"That's a sign that you've passed the test. You can also understand it as passing every test."
Kyle thought for a moment and explained, "At the Wizarding Conference in 1790, the bill to establish the Wizarding Examination Authority was officially passed. In the same year, Hogwarts conducted its first NEWTs exam.
At that time, young wizards who passed the exam would receive a special letter from the Ministry of Magic. Printed on the envelope was a pattern of a crossed feather pen and a magic wand.
Later, this pattern became a symbol of passing the exam. At that time, many students who were about to graduate would draw this pattern before the exam and carry it with them for a good omen.
However, after Professor Marchbank became the head of the examination board, this pattern was removed and replaced with a very ordinary envelope. "
Fred and the others stared at Kyle in amazement, and subconsciously asked, "1790, that was 200 years ago, how do you know these things?"
"Reading."
Kyle shrugged and said calmly, "If you have read Hogwarts: A History, you won't be so surprised."
Read a book...that's fine.
Fred and George turned their heads at the same time and gave Kyle a thumbs up.
The book "Hogwarts: A History" is so big and thick that it can be used as a shield when held up. It's okay for them to flip through a few pages when they have nothing to do and read the parts that interest them, but it would be too difficult for them to finish it.
And not to mention Fred and George, even Cedric hadn't finished reading it.
But that's not the point.
After this explanation, they understood what Kyle meant.
Although these things made of yew wood are not real amulets at all, it cannot be denied that they are very attractive.
Especially at this time.
Even Fred and George were a little tempted.
If someone had sold this thing before the final exams last year, they might have actually paid for it.
"But Kyle, can't we use the copy spell?" Qiu Zhang asked doubtfully, "Just like the previous map, that would be much easier."
"Of course, but that's a different price."
Kyle shook his finger. "I'm going to make three grades of products this time. High-end customization costs ten Galleons, pure handmade... which is two Galleons like what we're doing now, and finally a one-off batch product, five Sickles."
"Is it so cheap?" Qiu Zhang was a little confused.
You know, one map costs ten Sickles. They are both replicas, but sculptures like this are much more difficult to replicate than maps.
Before Kyle could explain, Cedric next to him seemed to have thought of something and turned around to ask, "How much pocket money do you have now?"
"Pocket money?" Qiu Zhang thought for a moment and said, "I spent quite a bit some time ago, and now I probably have about one Galleon left..."
Suddenly, she paused and a look of realization appeared on her face.
"Understand."
Kyle smiled and said, “It’s the end of the semester now, and most people don’t have much money anymore. If the price is too high, they won’t be able to afford it even if they want to.
And this time we are no longer targeting only freshmen, but the entire school, which is several times more than before, so five Xikes are enough, just think of it as making friends. "
Everyone automatically ignored Kyle's last words. If memory serves him correctly, he said the same thing when he was selling the map.
Wuxi is about making friends, but what about the other two types...
Fred and George lowered their heads without saying a word. The branches in their hands seemed to have turned into the shape of gold Galleons, and all they had to do was to take out these Galleons.
"Oh right..." Kyle seemed to have suddenly thought of something and said, "For those that are not made by the copy spell, remember to engrave the year at the end."
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(End of this chapter)
Chapter 95 Fashion Accessories
Under the temptation of Garlon, Kyle and his companions stayed in the small, stuffy abandoned classroom for a whole week and made more than 300 "pass every exam talismans".
More than a hundred of them were carved one by one by six people. They are purely handmade and not adulterated at all.
The remaining 200 were assembly line products, where the patterns were first engraved and then transferred to the branches of the mountain pear trees using a copy spell. It could be said that this was done rather perfunctorily, but it still looked quite authentic.
After this week, several people have become very proficient in using the copy spell.
It is worth mentioning that this spell was originally not to be learned until the sixth grade.
"The rest is up to you."
At the dinner before school started, Kyle looked at the other five people with a serious face and said, "You all know the process. Just do it again the same way you sold the map before."
Fred and the others also nodded seriously.