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Cassandra invited her teacher Horace the Walrus.
"So you plan to make me the leader of a company?"
The expression on Horace's face was wonderful. He could no longer follow the train of thought of his student.
"Although I admire your ideas, I really have no talent in this area. I don't know how to manage others, let alone how to run a company."
Horace instinctively wanted to refuse.
He just wanted to go back to Hogwarts to teach, and he should only face students, not adult wizards.
"Teacher, don't worry, this company doesn't need you to manage specific operations."
"He will be more like a research institute, with various research as the main task."
"If there are really results in the future and some kind of production needs to be carried out, I will naturally organize the corresponding manpower."
Hearing this, Horace became more and more confused.
But after Cassandra explained, a faint gleam appeared in his eyes.
"You mean, you plan to hire hundreds of people or even more people to conduct a series of research together, and even if there is no result, you will pay them wages?"
"That's right, Master."
Now Horace understood.
Isn't this the Ministry of Magic!
Ah, no.
It should be said that there are many redundant departments in the Ministry of Magic.
It's just that those wizards are in the Ministry of Magic, using their seniority and connections to eat and die; Cassandra has found something for them to do, although the result may be just as meaningless.
Horace pondered what was at stake, how long Cassandra would last, and the Ministry's reaction.
In the end, it was Cassandra's words that made Horace smile.
"At that time, you may be able to meet the Minister of Magic and the headmaster of Hogwarts in a more equal capacity."
"Of course, if you want to go back to Hogwarts anytime, you can tell me directly."
Horace was a restless man.
Being a tutor to Cassandra is also an investment in the future.
It's just that Cassandra has completely convinced Horace, and Horace has already regarded Cassandra as a real child.
Now, in just one year, this investment has already received an unparalleled return.
How could Horace be unhappy?
At the same time, he was also secretly surprised by himself as a student.
Even if the enterprise established by Cassandra develops a little in a year, how large will this enterprise be when Cassandra becomes an adult?
Maybe wait until Cassandra is a little more mature and get a bit of qualifications.
There is no one in the entire British wizarding world who can stand against her anymore.
Looking at his beautiful student, Horace became more and more satisfied, and then straightened his collar: "Mr. Shareholder, what do I need to do now?"
"Please give full play to your best strengths and make a name for our company."
"I'm really good at this... wait a minute, what's the name of our company?"
Cassandra nodded her chin and smiled slightly: "It's better to call Abstergo."
Cassandra checked, and the word Abstergo does not exist in this world.
So don't worry that someone will get a glimpse of Cassandra's little fun from this vocabulary.
If Cassandra's blood transfusion investment is not just a blood transfusion, but can really achieve something in the future.
It must be a very interesting sight for Abstergo to have branches all over the wizarding world in various countries.
After all, in the previous life, Abstergo was a company serving the Templars in a game.
A week later, as Horace visited more and more people, the name Abstergo began to spread through the British Ministry of Magic.
Although people don't know exactly what this company is going to do and how to make money, just judging from the fact that the other party has contracted out the entire Ferret Mountain, it is enough to show that this company is rich and powerful.
They not only hired Horace, the big elephant, as the person in charge of the company, but also recruited people with special skills from the entire wizarding world.
This method of operation has never been heard of, and many people doubt the authenticity of this enterprise.
Especially when the other party directly offered a terrible basic salary of [-] Galleons.
You know, the professors at Hogwarts only earn more than 100 Galleons.
In the fringe positions in the Ministry of Magic, many don't have a hundred Galleons.
But now, as long as he joined this company called Abstergo, he could get a hundred gold Galleons as an income.
When did it become so easy to make money?
When Cassandra heard the doubts of many people from Horace, she could only say that she had lowered the salary very cruelly.
After all, in the original book, the house-elves pay more than 40 Galleons a month.
She couldn't afford a salary that was lower than that of a house elf, could she?
But it turns out that ordinary wizards are really poor and have little money in their hands.
Especially ordinary wizards who are not affiliated with those big companies or the Ministry of Magic, they don't have decent skills, and they can't find any way to make a living.
Suddenly, Cassandra understood the wizards at Knockturn Alley.
Why do they all look dirty and weird, dangerous and cunning.
Maybe they really just had to take the risk because they had no money.
After all, there are various welfare guarantees in the Muggle world, and ordinary people can earn a certain amount of income even if it is just a mechanical job.
It is still only the 90s of the twentieth century, and the contradiction of large-scale machinery replacing manpower is not as prominent as it was before Cassandra crossed.
But does the wizarding world need such a position?
Obviously not.
Aren't all the places that require manpower to work repeatedly can be solved with a magic spell?
The low-level wild wizards who have no jobs and no assets may really not earn a single Galleon for a whole year.
But now that the tone has been released, Cassandra does not intend to change it.
After all, she is not a philanthropist, and she will not really hire a wild wizard who knows nothing to make a humanoid dung machine. She still wants to try to research something.
Then the next question is how to prove the authenticity of Abstergo to the wizarding world.
Cassandra quickly thought of the media in the wizarding world.
Compared with the TV, radio, newspapers and magazines in the Muggle world, the media in the wizarding world is obviously more backward, only newspapers and magazines.
The sales volume of small-category professional magazines is not high, and the remaining giants in the entertainment industry are the "Daily Prophet" and "The Quibbler" magazines.
Among them, the former is strictly controlled by the Ministry of Magic, so many people don't like him, and instead subscribe to the Quibbler.
Even the content on the Quibbler is too crazy in the eyes of the wizards, but after all, if you don’t choose the Daily Prophet, you can only watch the Quibbler to relieve your boredom.
So Cassandra plans to advertise in both media.
And when Cassandra took out the "Daily Prophet", she was almost caught by a glamorous man on it.
Gilderoy Lockhart.
He's clearly a wizarding celebrity, a well-known adventurer and author.
He is a recipient of the Order of Merlin, [-]rd Class, an Honorary Member of the Defense Against the Dark Arts League, and a five-time Wizards Weekly Award for Most Charming Smile.
In the wizarding world, he has many fans, even Hermione and Molly Weasley, the mistress of the Weasley family, are his fans.
However, Cassandra almost forgot about this guy.
Because he is really just a clown.
The only spell he can skillfully use is the Oblivion Curse.
All the content he has written in the book is just the adventure experience he cheated from others, and then he used the forgetting spell to make the person forget everything, and he himself will become the protagonist of the adventure experience.
In short, Lockhart is a consummate liar and a skilled self-marketer.
Such a guy might be an opponent to the second-year Harry.
But for Cassandra, he hardly poses any threat.
While not threatening, it has value.
There is no doubt that Lockhart committed a crime. If his behavior is exposed, he will be imprisoned in Azkaban.
The premise is that he was not thrown into St. Mungo first like in the original book.
But before he was exposed, his current fame could be used by Cassandra.
Even if his incident is revealed in the future, the incident itself can be used by Cassandra.
This is the self-consciousness that Internet celebrities who are on the cusp of the storm must have.
They enjoy the dividends of the media, and they will become stepping stones for the next wave of Internet celebrities at any time.
Cassandra is naturally not interested in being an Internet celebrity, but she is still a little interested in being a trader.
Cassandra wrote a letter on parchment and made an appointment with the wizarding celebrity.
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When Gilderoy Lockhart received the letter, he was stunned.
At this time, he was preparing for the signing event in a few days later, and then he would be a professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts. He was not interested in this job at first.
But Dumbledore told him that he could become Harry Potter's teacher because of this, so Lockhart was moved.
Lockhart was a man who was unwilling to be alone, and he craved fame even more than Horace.
And unlike Horace who likes to hide behind the scenes, Lockhart prefers to hide in the foreground, or even stand in the center of the stage, admired by everyone.