Another Bet
As Christmas approaches, Hogwarts finally welcomes Christmas Holiday. This is undoubtedly exciting news for all students, and everyone can't wait to go home to spend Christmas.
On the day of the holiday, Hogwarts's Hogwarts Express was quickly crowded with students. Albert, Fred, George and Li·Jordan finally managed to grab an empty carriage in the crowded crowd.
"Next time, be sure to come here early." Albert sat on the chair, looking out the window at the students flocking to the entrance of the carriage, in a good mood.
Near eleven o'clock, the train finally moved forward slowly.
Albert rested his chin on his hand while looking out the window at the rapidly retreating scenery. Next to him, Weasley Twins had just finished playing a round of Wizard Card. George, who had lost the round, was being forced by Fred to try a Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans from Red Chili Flavor.
"We now have 67 club members." Li Jordan took out his notebook from his pocket and reported to Albert the situation of Wizard Card Club in the first half of the semester. "Currently, there are still 39 students who do not have their own Wizard Card group."
"Wow, I didn't know that Wizard Card Club already has so many members." Fred couldn't help but exclaimed when he heard the number of people reported by George.
"I feel like it's almost becoming the biggest club of Hogwarts." George said as he planned to secretly throw away the Red Chili Flavor Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans.
Fred turned back and glared at George, warning. "Don't even think about throwing it away secretly, I will watch you eat it."
"We are already Hogwarts's largest club, but..." Li Jordan's tone changed and he said helplessly to Albert, "The club still has many problems."
"What's the problem?" George tried to divert Fred's attention so that he could find an opportunity to throw away the Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans.
"Our Wizard Card is too monotonous. As you all know, many people are not satisfied with this rough card." Li·Jordan took out a self-made card and gave an example to the three of them. "Compared to Exploding Snap, our card is a bit boring and more often requires players to have a little patience and combination ability."
"You are too impatient." Albert understood what Li Jordan meant and reminded with a smile, "If you want Wizard Card to become Wizarding World's most popular card game Playing the game requires enough patience and confidence to promote all the interesting things at once, which will easily make everyone tired. The complex and numerous cards also require more time for players to adapt, and all of this needs to be accumulated slowly over time."
Li·Jordan pursed his lips. It was really hard to understand why Albert didn't vigorously promote Wizard Card. In his opinion, this year is the best opportunity to let most Hogwarts students know the existence of Wizard Card and recruit more members for Wizard Card Club.
"Don't worry, listen to what Albert says, his reasons will always be more convincing than your suggestions." George pushed a box of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans to Li Jordan In front of, he picked up one and threw it into his mouth. As for the Red Chili Flavor one, George had secretly mixed it into the box of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans.
"Albert is too busy and rarely puts his mind on Wizard Card." Li Jordan believes that if Albert is willing to put more energy into Wizard Card, then the card optimization will definitely be faster.
"No, no, man, this is our wizard card, the wizard card for the four of us. You can't blame everything on Albert." Fred picked up a red pepper-flavored multi-flavor bean from the box and placed it in front of George. The latter knew he couldn't hide it, so he had to grit his teeth, throw it into his mouth, and swallow it directly.
"Man, you are too impatient." George made a face at Fred, then turned to Li·Jordan and said, "You know, the problem is not Albert's fault."
This is also something that makes them feel helpless. None of the three of them can keep up with Albert's progress. As a result, most things can only be done by Albert himself. However, there are too many things that he needs to be busy with.
"You have to understand that a game must withstand the test of time before it can be truly accepted by people." Albert was not angry either. He knew that Fred, George and Li·Jordan had not considered these things.
"Moreover, even if we complete Wizard Card, what will happen? Do you think a few underage wizards can keep this wealth?" Albert reminded them again, "Wait After Wizard Card completely spreads about Wizarding World, people will start to copy and pirate these cards, just like Dungbombs. You can't stop those merchants who know how to make Dungbombs from copying them."
The three of them were also stunned, and none of them thought that there was such a problem.
"So, we need to put our label on Wizard Card, so that each Wizard Card, like Galleon, has its own label and cannot be copied by others.
I hope that others can see the difference between a fake and a genuine one at a glance, but to do this, I need to know a lot of spells as technical support.
Therefore, our most important task now is to steadily expand the player base, let people gradually accept Wizard Card, and make them think that Wizard Card is more than just Wizard Card. It is not enough to be too anxious. Do you understand? "
Li·Jordan looked confused, and he didn't know if he understood it. He never thought about as many things as Albert, and most children don't have much patience.
"Man, your brain is definitely not as good as Albert, so there is nothing wrong with listening to him in some aspects." Fred raised his hand and patted Li Jordan on the shoulder, and put a gray Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans Putting it into the opponent's hand, he continued, "You should also realize that Albert is smarter than us and better at handling this matter. Since messing around on your own will only make things worse, why not listen to Albert's advice first?
"Don't be depressed. If you can take the first place in this year's exam, we will..." George was interrupted by Li Jordan before he could finish his words.
"Okay, I know I'm not as smart as Albert. "Li Jordan put the Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans back into Fred's hand, turned his head and looked at Albert who was admiring the scenery outside the window, sighed, changed the subject and asked about another thing, "Did your Patronus Charm succeed?"
"Patronus Charm? "Albert glanced back at Li Jordan, and continued to look at the scenery outside the window and think about the problem. He quickly opened Skill Panel and glanced at the Patronus Charm skill on it. He had just passed the first level, and there was probably no way to directly summon Corporeal Patronus.
Albert thought about it and raised Patronus's level to level 2. Anyway, he still needed to try to get Patronus to deliver the message later.
"Why do you care about this? "Albert asked rhetorically.
"We are betting on what your Patronus is. If we lose the bet, we will eat a few Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans with a special taste."
As he said that, Fred got a small box from somewhere, and there were a lot of weirdly colored Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans inside. Just looking at it made people sick to their stomachs.
"Dirt Flavor, Earwax Flavor, red pepper flavor, Vomit Flavor, Toilet Paper Flavor, Booger Flavor..." Li Jordan introduced these weird-colored Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans to Albert with great interest.
"Stop, you lost the bet and eat these horrible things. "Albert quickly stopped Li Jordan, and looked at him with a strange look. He didn't expect that there was also a ruthless person living in the dormitory, who could actually identify so many Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans flavors? "How to bet? "Albert asked calmly.
"Fred and George think that your Patronus is likely to be related to eagles. If Patronus is related to eagles, I need to eat half of the Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans here. If not, they will have three pills each and cannot spit them out. "Lee Jordan pointed at Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans in the box and explained.
Albert couldn't help but twitch his face after hearing the three people's bet.