"Here, this is our gift for meeting you."
Fred and George gave Astoria their latest prank gadgets.
A bottle containing red-and-blue pills, and an ordinary-looking pair of sunglasses.
"What are these?"
Fred grinned wickedly. "The red pills are powerful laxatives, and the blue pills are fast-acting antidiarrheals."
If the victim of a prank swallowed two red pills...
The innocent Astoria seemed to understand something.
As for the unremarkable sunglasses, those were even more impressive.
If she encountered someone with ill intentions, all she had to do was put them on and touch the frame. The outward-facing lenses would emit a blinding flash of light.
"Are they really that amazing?" Astoria put on the sunglasses, and the world before her immediately darkened.
She looked somewhat tempted, but in the end, she did not try them.
Hermione felt relieved.
She had ideas, but she could restrain herself.
A person kind by nature could only be so bad.
Vincent had actually prepared gifts for his friends as well: several finished mass-produced alchemical products.
Their functions were not especially powerful, but they were quite convenient to use.
When Cedric and Cho came in, he had just taken out a thick instruction manual.
The twins did not tease them. Instead, they stared intently at the flat rectangular object in Vincent's hand.
George picked up another rectangle. "Is this for hitting people?"
"Of course not." Vincent flipped open the instruction manual with one hand.
"It's a short-range communication device I made based on the principles of two-way mirrors, combined with walkie-talkies."
He pressed his thumb against the center of the rectangle.
The rectangle in George's hand began to vibrate.
"Press the middle."
After George did as instructed, something magical happened.
A faint glow lit up the front of Vincent's rectangle, vaguely displaying a large chin.
"Merlin's