A Gift for Ginny

The exam results were finally released a week before I left school.

William once again achieved perfect scores in all subjects, ranking first in his grade.

When you're under someone's roof, you have to bow your head. Even if Snape was unwilling, he still had to give them that much face if he wanted to use the Basilisk's materials.

Of course, William was also careful; he asked Dumbledore to keep an eye on things during the summer to prevent the professor from stealing materials like he would steal a dragon.

During the time loop, William was in Snape's box and saw half of a frozen dragon's corpse!

This is all William's property!

Hermione was undoubtedly the top student in her first year, but she didn't get perfect scores in every subject; she lost ten points in Potions brewing.

According to Professor Snape, ten points should be deducted to prevent Hermione from becoming arrogant.

Professor Snape was truly a caring professor; it would be a disservice not to award him one of the "Ten Outstanding Young Wizards of Wizarding World".

Cedric also maintained his position as the top student in his third grade.

It seems that William's circle of friends is full of academic elites, monopolizing the top spot in most grades and leaving no room for others.

At the end of the term, everyone's luggage was loaded onto the train, and they left the school to take the Hogwarts Express home.

William, Cedric, Hermione, Cho, the twins, Harry, and Ron —they were in a separate cubicle.

Soon, the twin brothers left; they were going to the restroom.

They even went to the toilet together; it was obvious they were going to do something naughty.

As the train approached King's Cross Station, Cedric suddenly remembered something.

"William, you absolutely must come visit me during summer vacation," Cedric invited. "My dad's been nagging me about it."

"Of course, no problem, Qiu, are you going or not?" William once again took on the role of professional wingman.

Cedric secretly gave William a thumbs up; this brotherhood was definitely worth it!

"Okay, I'll stay home all summer," Qiu readily agreed.

Ron also started inviting Harry to his house, but Harry's eyes were always fixed on Cho.

Hermione sat next to William, leaning against the window, reading a book. The girl had borrowed another thick hardcover book from the library for her travels.

Bobocha lay by the window, its tail swishing back and forth, deliberately disturbing Hermione.

The girl waved her wand, and a rope wrapped around her tail, tying it into a pretty bow.

William watched Bobocha and Hermione playing around, smiled, and continued, "By the way, I'm planning to buy a house."

"Buy a house?" Cedric was taken aback.

"Yes, buy a house," William laughed, "With the prize money from the Daily Prophet."

William memorized the winning numbers in the time loop, and after he left, he sent an owl to buy two sets of numbers.

So he won the second and third prizes, worth 744.3 Galleon.

This caused a huge sensation at Hogwarts, and the students were filled with envy, jealousy, and resentment.

William inadvertently sparked a craze for buying copies of The Daily Prophet for a raffle.

William is no longer short of money; he's made a lot of Galleon from Akali's Mystery Shop.

However, he did not intend to use this money.

The characteristic of capitalist reproduction is expanded reproduction. William planned to invest the money in purchasing raw materials to further expand the store and seize more profits.

Therefore, he didn't have much readily available liquid funds, and the seven hundred Galleon was just enough as spare cash to buy a house.

Houses in the Wizarding World aren't as expensive as in the Celestial Empire; they're quite cheap and don't cost more than a few hundred Galleon.

After all, most wizards live in small, remote villages.

The most troublesome part is the paperwork; it requires reporting to the Ministry of Magic.

William was just a child and would only be eligible when he grew up, while William's parents were Muggle and therefore not eligible either.

But Dumbledore could handle it with ease.

Sometimes, having connections in higher positions isn't such a bad thing.

"Where are you planning to buy it?" Cedric asked.

"I'm not sure. Professor Dumbledore suggested I buy it in Godric's Hollow."

Godric's Hollow is a village in one of the western counties of England, a famous wizarding village named after Godric Gryffindor.

Many distinguished wizarding families once lived here, including the famous History of Magic, Bathilda Bagshot.

William continued, "Nicolas suggested that I just build a house near his estate so I can be his neighbor."

Qiu asked, "Where would you like to buy it?"

William pondered for a moment and said, "Actually, I prefer to have neighbors who I know well. How about Autry St. Ottery St Catchpole?"

"Great! That's wonderful!" Cedric exclaimed excitedly. "You can be our neighbor!"

"I haven't decided on a specific house yet, Dumbledore will help," William smiled.

Harry looked at William with envy. He also wanted to have his own house outside, and he couldn't wait to leave the Dursley.

Harry remembered that he also had a large sum of gold in his vault, and perhaps he could ask Dumbledore to buy a small house outside as well.

"By the way, Cedric, how's your wand coming along?" William asked again.

The wand Cedric made for William was made of elm wood with Unicorn tail feather core, but it frequently had poor contact.

Later, Cedric made a few more, and his technique improved somewhat, but the power was still insufficient.

After the Basilisk died, William gave Basilisk horn to Cedric, hoping he would use Basilisk as the core to create a more powerful wand.

Cedric shook his head and said regretfully, "No, I've checked a lot of information, but I can't find a good match."

I'll go back and discuss it with Mr. Ollivander again, to see which material would be more suitable.

"Alright," William nodded.

Soon, the train will arrive at the station.

"Where are George and Fred?" Qiu asked doubtfully. "Didn't they say they were going to the toilet? It's been half an hour, they might have fallen in there, right?"

Just then, an explosion suddenly came from a distant carriage.

Bang!

After the incredibly clear explosion, even William and his companions on this side of the carriage could feel the train shaking, followed by a sound like a tidal wave.

Percy stormed over, but instead of opening the train toilet door immediately, he cautiously peered through the crack in the door a few times before retreating to a safe distance.

Through the twins' pranks, he has developed an irrational intuition.

He pointed his wand at the toilet door from afar, "Alohomora!"

Snap!

The toilet door opened.

A huge current of water suddenly rushed out, and Malfoy was swimming with all his might in the two-meter-deep pool.

Some yellow, foul-smelling objects were also floating in the stream.

"Quick, help... me!" Malfoy dove back into the water. "I can't... swim!"

In fact, the Prefect didn't need to come to the rescue; the water level dropped quickly after the water rushed out.

Every student burst into laughter when they saw Malfoy looking like that.

"How did they do that?" Qiu asked with great interest, hands on her hips.

This was definitely done by the twins; there's no doubt about it.

"I think... they must have stuffed the Filibuster's Fireworks into the Fire Salamander's mouth," William analyzed, chin in hand.

"After swallowing it, the Fire Salamander will vomit a series of explosives."

"Speaking of which, why would they do that?" Cedric asked, puzzled.

"Well..." William thought for a moment, "I remember Fred said something like, 'I want to give the toilet seat to my dear sister Ginny.'"

"This is probably a gift Fred and George prepared for their first meeting."

Everyone laughed. The train slowly came to a stop; platform 9 had finally arrived.

--The Philosopher's Stone by Nicolas Flamel, the End!

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