This Was Necessary

"This really isn't necessary, is it...?"

At first, Manus had considered using this opportunity to transfer away the mythic nature, but after Alchemy changed his view of it, that idea had faded away.

Even if the idea had remained, selling them to the other three houses at a high price did not seem like a good thing either.

"Ah, this is necessary. Since the Broomsticks you made are good enough, they should have a price worthy of them. Otherwise, people might actually think you have ulterior motives."

Flitwick looked at Manus with a serious expression.

"And... even if you are willing to trust the professors, you still need to think for yourself. If you give away your creations for free too often, then no matter how good their quality is, no matter how good your intentions are, they will start to seem worthless."

As he spoke, Flitwick smiled again.

"Don't worry, the professors will not be paying for them ourselves. The house budgets are sitting there. If we do not spend them, the funding we receive next time will be reduced. Money is money, no matter where it is spent, isn't it?"

This... was something he had not considered carefully enough.

It was not that Manus could not think of such things. He simply had never intended to sell these items for money, so he had not considered them from that angle. Now that Flitwick had pointed it out, another issue occurred to him as well.

If he gave Broomsticks to the three houses without asking for much in return, then in the future, other Hogwarts students would basically have no hope of making money from the school.

Giving them to his own house was one thing. But with his example hanging over them, the other houses would find it