I Want to Start a Company

Inside the Leaky Cauldron, Lester lay comfortably on the large bed, staring at the ceiling, contemplating his plans for the next three months.

There are still three months until the start of Hogwarts, which means there are still more than two months until Harry Potter enrolls.

I can't be idle during this time. First of all, I should find a house in the Wizarding World to live in. After all, given my status, living in the Leaky Cauldron every day is a bit beneath me.

The main problem is that the people coming and going here are too chaotic, mostly all sorts of wizards from all walks of life. I have quite a few plans to implement in Diagon Alley, and living here every day means I might be monitored whenever I go out.

Secondly, Lester also wanted to emulate the rise of pure-blood nobles and start his own business in Diagon Alley.

He had 'kindly' built luxurious accommodations for the Azkaban prisoners on the island, and even went to great lengths to build them an academy to enhance their fighting capabilities.

Although it's not finished yet, once it's completed, those prisoners will be the ones enjoying these services.

What should have been prison life has turned into a vacation, with occasional medical parole to go out and have fun. Where else in the world can you find such a wonderful thing?

Lester isn't doing charity work; all he's done is to get prisoners to work for him, isn't it?

Therefore, he decided to conduct on-site investigations in Diagon Alley and Knockturn Alley before choosing a business project based on his forward-thinking vision.

We can start a company, recruit prisoners, and provide them with housing and generous salaries every month. I'm sure those prisoners who usually struggle to make ends meet in the Wizarding World will be happy to join.

Having made up his mind, Lester didn't even bother to change his clothes and went straight downstairs, intending to first check out Diagon Alley and see what the most bustling street in the Wizarding World had to offer.

Just as Lester reached the bottom of the stairs, he heard a commotion coming from the bar downstairs.

It's human nature to join in the fun, and even Lester couldn't resist taking a few curious glances.

"Wait a minute, there are still more than two months until Harry Potter enrolls," Lester's first thought was that Harry Potter had already started school.

Those who can afford to drink at the Leaky Cauldron every day are usually wizards who are doing poorly in the Wizarding World. Whether they are Pure-blood wizard or Muggle-born, they are the kind of wizards who are unhappy with their lives.

Don't assume that all purebloods are rich; in fact, most purebloods live very miserable lives.

Like the old-line pure-blood nobles led by Malfoy, their family businesses span the world, and they have connections everywhere. Even Dumbledore is subject to their influence on a social level. Naturally, these pure-blood nobles are never short of money.

However, there are only a handful of powerful and wealthy Pure-blood families. Apart from a few particularly powerful families among the 28 sacred families, the rest of the pure-blood families are in dire straits.

Houses like the Weasley family and Longbottom family are considered to be among the better-off pure-bloods.

Don't let the Weasley family's poverty fool you; they may not be able to afford books, but their social standing is undeniable. According to the rules of pure-blood families, they are on par with the Malfoy family.

In other words, Malfoy could mock Weasley financially, but he would never dare to use underhanded tactics to cause trouble for Weasley. Only when Weasley actually made a mistake could he find an opportunity to get back at Weasley.

Otherwise, if it were any weaker Pure-blood families that dared to challenge Lord Malfoy, they would have been easily framed and thrown into Azkaban long ago. They wouldn't have ended up like the Weasley family, who have been at odds with the Malfoy family for so long.

In reality, only a handful of Pure-blood families are truly doing well; the rest are in a miserable state.

These pure-blooded individuals may have had a particularly prosperous family hundreds of years ago, but as time went by...

Each generation of descendants is worse than the last, so in their generation, they only have the title of Pure-blood wizard, and in other aspects, they are even worse off than some hardworking Muggle-born.

Inside the rather unrefined Broken Hair Pub, a group of Pure-blood wizard who were not living a very happy life were gathered.

Looking into the distance, Lester saw three middle-aged wizards dressed in black robes beating a young man with disdain and mockery in the center of the bar.

"You damned Mudblood, you think you're worthy to come here looking for work?"

Judging from their words, these three people are likely Pure-blood wizard, and even extremists among them, who particularly dislike Muggle-born wizard.

The young man, surrounded and brutally beaten, clutched his head in fear, trying to avoid further harm from the three wizards.

"I'll fucking kill you, you Mudblood! It's because of parasites like you that we can't find jobs! I'll kill you!!!"

The Pure-blood wizard's words were full of hostility, clearly blaming the Muggle-born for all the misfortunes in his life.

Because Muggle-born are helpless and alone in the Wizarding World, pure-blood Muggle-born can exploit them at will. Faced with this exploitation, these Muggle-born, who have difficulty finding work and cannot survive without it, have no choice but to silently endure it.

Naturally, pure-blood merchants tend to prefer hiring Muggle-born when recruiting employees. Of course, this is not out of kindness, but because Muggle-born are easier for them to exploit.

However, in the eyes of those purebloods who were unhappy with their lives, this behavior was clearly seen as a sign that Muggle-born had taken their job.

Although the ones who did this were also purebred merchants, these trashy purebreds wouldn't dare to cause trouble for purebred merchants.

Take the Leaky Cauldron, for example. Look at how dilapidated this bar is, but it's actually owned by the Abbott family!

Thanks to the Abbott family's influence in the Wizarding World, they were able to use this run-down bar as the main route to Diagon Alley. That's how powerful those Pure-blood families are.

To reiterate, every business that can operate in Diagon Alley and Knockturn Alley has a powerful, Pure-blood families as its backer.

If these miserable, poor purebloods dare to provoke those nobles, rest assured, their wands will be snapped the next day, and they'll be thrown into the River Thames to feed the fish, wands and all.

Therefore, this group of cowardly purebloods, who bullied the weak and feared the strong, did not hesitate to choose the Muggle-born, who had no status in the Wizarding World, as their targets for venting their anger.

And whenever they see Muggle-born looking for work, they fly into a rage, at best cursing and at worst beating him.

Now, these three purebloods were clearly drunk, and this Muggle-born came looking for work, only to walk right into their line of fire.