Lucius was finally taken away.
Because of lynching the staff of Gringotts, he was fined 1,000 Galleons and sentenced to two months in prison.
Murphy expressed deep sympathy for this and hoped that he could get along with the Dementors in Azkaban and reform himself.
As for Lucius's accusations against Murphy, they were all overturned due to insufficient evidence.
At the same time, Murphy's vault resumed normal use, and no one would question the so-called source of funds.
In return for Locke's defection in court, Murphy hired this goblin as his full agent to help him operate funds in the wizarding world.
Afterwards, Murphy fulfilled his donation to the Ministry of Magic and the "small" gift from the Minister in good faith, and won praise.
In the few days after the Wizengamot trial, Murphy almost became the most popular person in the Ministry of Magic.
Millicent personally handled the VIP visitor permit for him. In the future, he will be able to Apparate into the Ministry of Magic at any time without applying in advance.
Murphy couldn't help but feel a little ironic when he thought about the situation a few months ago when he could only use the temporary passage to go to work.
I work hard, so I am wronged.
I don't care, so I can go anywhere.
Since this is the rule of the world, can you blame me for becoming like this?
A few days later, the "Supreme Potion" store in Knockturn Alley opened.
It cost Murphy less than a thousand Galleons to rent a store, decorate, buy raw materials, and buy some potions to fill the storefront.
Because it was too cheap, Murphy opened another branch in Diagon Alley.
He didn't care about the money from selling potions, but it was good to disgust Malfoy.
On the first day of opening, Supreme Potion had a big discount, all potions were only 30% off, and recharge membership was only 10% off.
And the event will continue until Slug and Giggs Pharmacy go bankrupt.
It's just burning money, I can afford it.
With the current profitability of the Umbrella Corporation, it would be fine to burn for one or two years, or even keep burning.
Using the Internet marketing methods of more than 30 years later to deal with a small wizard pharmacy at this time, Murphy felt that it was a bit of a waste of talent.
But it doesn't matter, as long as it works.
At the same time, the Supreme Potion Shop began to recruit 30 potion makers.
These shop assistants are certainly not used to watch the store for him. They will go deep into the production line of the beautiful potion and start their own brick-moving career.
At present, Murphy has not found a non-magical method to make the beautiful potion, so he can only use this method to increase production.
Murphy is not worried about not being able to recruit people.
The employment pressure in the magic world is too great. Even if he cuts the salary in half, applicants can still line up from the Leaky Cauldron to Ollivander's Wand Shop.
Looking at his failed job search from the perspective of a capitalist, Murphy now thinks it is inevitable.
The existence of magic makes it unnecessary for most stores to recruit shop assistants.
Things like washing dishes and clearing tables can be done with magic, and they are done quite well. Why hire waiters?
Magic is so convenient that some low-skilled jobs have completely lost their value.
Look at the entire Diagon Alley, almost every store is run by a boss alone, because tasks such as sorting goods and cleaning can be easily solved by magic.
In fact, the omnipotence of magic not only reduces jobs.
From a broader perspective, this omnipotence also inhibits the division of labor in society.
A wizard who has mastered magic can easily meet all his needs in terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation.
Not to mention cooking a meal, cleaning, and tailoring clothes, even building a house, which may require the cooperation of many people and many days for Muggles, can be easily completed by wizards just by waving their wands.
The productivity leap achieved by Muggles through social division of labor and standardized production chains can be achieved by wizards just by mastering a little more magic.
This leads to the fact that wizards have a much lower need for material exchange and mutual exchange than Muggles.
Therefore, wizards do not need society as much as Muggles do. They do not need to be social people. They are closer to and more willing to live a self-sufficient life in the family unit like the agricultural era of the Muggle world.
This is why wizards seem so weird and casual, so naive, and so self-reliant.
Because society does not have such a strong constraint on them.
This is why Diagon Alley, a shopping mall in the British wizarding world, is only a few streets.
Because they do not need so many stores and they do not have so many needs.
This is why the Ministry of Magic's control over wizards seems so loose.
Because it is more like a commune than a government, and there are not so many reasons to guarantee coercive force.
This is why wizards actually handed over the right to mint coins to goblins who do not deal with them at all.
This is like handing guns to their enemies in the eyes of Muggles, but it is not the case in the eyes of wizards.
Because even if the wizarding world's economy collapses, it's not that scary for them.
They won't be without clothes, nor will they starve.
This is a utopia.
A society built on magic, very different from the Muggle world.
In contrast, Murphy, who is used to being introverted in the Muggle world, seems a bit out of tune with this society.
In the original book, the hard-working Hermione was regarded as a freak, and so was she.
She, like herself, came from the Muggle society and was used to being introverted.
"I was too naive at the time."
No wonder the owner of the potion shop disliked his method, because he used more advanced and accurate measurement methods, and the potion he prepared was more effective.
But progress is not the first value of this relaxed society.
Stability and tradition are.
So Ollivander is the best wand shop because it has the oldest qualifications.
So Hogwarts is second to none because it has the longest history.
That's why some wizards pursue pure blood, because that's the orthodoxy.
A potion shop doesn't need a clerk who is unconventional.
So…his job search at that time was doomed to fail.
This also explains why Dumbledore was so conciliatory towards Lucius and himself in the court.
He is a moderate reformist. He is kind-hearted and has his own persistence, but he doesn't publicize his own ideas. He is wary of evil and fights against it, but he is not jealous of evil. So his style of doing things sometimes looks like: "It's OK as long as it's OK."
This looks a bit strange to Murphy, but this is actually the overall style of wizard society.
Everyone upholds a gentleman-like harmony and lives according to some kind of customary and subtle rules.
Here, reformers actually have no soil.
Therefore, Grindelwald was doomed to fail, and Voldemort later looked like a joke.
However, now Murphy is here.
He is not a child like Hermione and Harry who only spent their childhood in the Muggle society, so he is not assimilated to the values of the wizarding society as they are.
He is a time traveler. When he came to the wizarding society, he was already an adult.
His three views have long been formed and are indestructible.
So after having to bite the bullet and try to adapt to this world in the past few years without success, Murphy has now discovered that if he wants to continue to live and live comfortably, he must change this world.
He cannot be assimilated, so he can only transform this world into what he likes.
He pulled out his wand at this time.
That is the wand that truly belongs to him.
Aspen wood, fourteen inches, phoenix wand core.
This is the wand of the revolutionaries.
From the moment he traveled through time, it was actually destined that he would do a big thing in this world.
(End of Volume 1)
The first volume is over. How is this story?
I strongly recommend you to read summary of Volume 1 in Auxiliary Volume 0 if you want.