The tournament was over, and the next round was a whole month away. Lockhart came scurrying back to the Cabin, begging Anton to write another article. He planned to release it as a blockbuster once the excitement had died down, getting everyone talking again.
The main reason he could be so brazen was that the Cabin Members were all shareholders in the Wizard Tournament Gazette, and Anton had put up the most money.
Simply put, Lockhart was just an employee.
Compared with big names like Dumbledore and Grindelwald, who had contributed a token handful of Gold Galleons to buy even smaller stakes than Lockhart's, Anton had generously put an entire small vault at Gringotts on the table.
Gleaming Gold Galleons filled every corner, nearly blinding Lockhart.
He still remembered Anton cackling as he waved a hand and declared with extravagant generosity, "Spend whatever you like."
In fact, Anton had originally intended the Gold Galleons in that small vault as startup funding for his underling, Rookwood. He had never expected Lucius Malfoy to be so generous, contributing so much money toward Rookwood's newspaper in France while asking for only a small share of the profits for his son.
Now Rookwood was gradually branching out into publishing and story magazines, which complemented Lockhart's newspaper perfectly.
Anton had a few ideas about this involving the field of gray magic.
But he was more cautious in this area, and the Top 100 Tournament was taking up his attention, so he set it aside for the time being.
The Cabin was particularly lively that day. Lockhart failed to get an article from Anton because the Cabin was holding an extremely important discussion.
There were two items on the agenda: whether to roll out the Muggle-to-Wizard Transformation on a broad scale, and whether to incorporate it