Alchemy Black Technology at Hogwarts

Chapter 77 The Ship of Theseus

"hope everything is fine."

William silently blessed himself.

Coming out of the vaulted headmaster's office on the eighth floor, he returned to the top of Ravenclaw's tower with ease, but this time Griphook didn't immediately open the door behind him.

"In my opinion, it is still the original ship. Even though it is constantly replacing parts during the voyage, its name and purpose have not changed, and its existence in people's minds has not changed.

Theseus, or Theseus. "

Griphook answered in her gentle voice.

After torturing many Ravenclaws, she finally came up with her own answer—but alas, it wasn't the answer William had been hoping to hear.

"Then suppose I dismantle every piece of wood on this ship and put it together to become another ship. So which one is between this new ship and the old ship? More like the real Ship of Theseus?"

William asked his question.

Since he came to this world, he has been thinking about the problem.

".I have no idea."

The tab was unscrewed silently, revealing the common room.

In a familiar place, William saw Gable.

He was lying on his back on top of the Ravenclaw statue, reaching for the wand in her hand with his claws - but his movement was kept pulled away by the statue's left hand.

Seemingly noticing William's gaze, the statue froze for a second or two, then silently retracted its left hand.

"Huh."

Gable yelled at her dissatisfied, and rushed towards William.

The Ravenclaw statue looked at it out of the corner of its eye, and pursed its lips—for Merlin's sake, William had never seen a statue that could make such delicate expressions.

"There may be some secrets hidden in her."

William thought, but didn't press.

There are already too many puzzles under his hands that need to be solved, and it is not the time to cause more trouble for himself.

After washing, William lay down on the bed.

The wind outside the window whizzed by, making loud noises on the window, but it was inexplicably comfortable, like the feeling of shrinking under the quilt during heavy rain.

He suddenly became interested, took out a book from the shoulder bag at the foot of the bed, and began to read.

"Beowulf".

This is an epic about heroes.

Not the one written in Old English though.

William saw this book in the library that day, so he "duplicated" a copy.

The night passed quickly.

The same goes for a week.

Soon, it will be Halloween.

Waking up early in the morning, William smelled a very sweet and tempting smell of roasted pumpkin floating in the corridor.

Thanks to the pumpkins that Hagrid had cast the Enlargement Charm on, Hogwarts Castle had so many pumpkins at the moment that Nymph's Secret was giving away free pumpkin juice to customers.

"So why do wizards celebrate Halloween?"

Suppressing the weak complaints in his heart, William walked towards the auditorium, planning to go directly to the herbal medicine class in the greenhouse after eating breakfast.

A few days ago, Lalo brought him good news—with the efforts of the architect Mr. Anderson, William's factory design drawings have already taken some shape.

In a few days, we can start working.

"Nymph's Secret" is as popular as ever, and has successfully opened up a market in the British wizarding world-after grinding the potions merchants for a while, they had to agree to accept William's request.

They can sell Nymph products.

But in terms of the price of the terminal, it must be completely unified.

In order to improve production efficiency, William split the raw materials of the love potion formula into more than a dozen parts, and entrusted them to carry out basic processing, and when it was time to cook it, Lalo sent it to Hogg for him. Watts.

But other products are also starting to appear on the market.

Mrs. Premnier, in cooperation with the Zabini family, launched their new beauty potion—whether it is packaging, taste, or the style of opening the experience store, they are all clearly "homage" to William.

But what they imitate is really.
"Can not bear to look."

Thinking of the photos Lalo took back of him at that time, William felt embarrassed and wanted to grab the ground with his head—they did guess that the nymph potion contained an improved version of the love potion, but they didn't like William, Completely abandon the hallucinogenic effect of it.
Not only that, but they also removed the characteristic that the love potion would designate an obsession with a certain person, which led to the fact that after the intake concentration reached a certain level, everyone around them would begin to feel glamorous.

as a result.

it goes without saying.

Their opening ceremony turned into a mess.

"Mr. Weasley was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief. After complaining dozens of times, the woman started mailing Howler letters to him. I heard that once he had no time to destroy it, it exploded."

William wanted to laugh a little.

His source of information was, of course, a Weasley.

The modification of the "Coffee Companion" William has given to the two of them to work on, and told them that the right temperature will help speed up the process.

A pint of "Coffee Companion" can be sold at a price of nearly 150 Galleons—unlike the acromander venom that was expensive in the past because of its scarcity, the only competing product of "Coffee Companion", Buffy, was banned from sale by the Ministry of Magic , Now there is a price but no market, it is a complete seller's market.

However, because William's output and speed have not been increased, and the same very expensive raw material, poisonous ginseng eggplant, is needed, the actual profit is actually not high.

It's just 70% of the area.

William got himself some scrambled eggs.

"I swear, I actually saw it!"

On Ravenclaw's long table, Jimmy said loudly.

"Morning, what do you see?"

William asked casually, "Good morning, Penello."

"He was saying that late last night, he saw a strange looking wizard coming out of the Forbidden Forest and entering the castle—it wasn't a professor, or a student, or Hagrid."

Penello replied:

"He suspected that the man had other plans."

"Who knows?"

William shook his head.

But in fact, he knew very well who that strange wizard was - on the Marauder's Map, his name had already been displayed, "Remus Lupine".

He has been in the Forbidden Forest for several days.

Not only was he alone, several new names appeared in the castle one after another during this time. They all went to the Forbidden Forest, but only Lupine stayed there until now.

"Except for Professor Sprout's herbal medicine class in the morning, the rest of the time is free, and I can use it to keep an eye on Quirrell."

William thought carefully.

He remembered that in the original book, Quirrell brought a giant monster into the castle, trying to divert everyone's attention-by then, Quirrell would definitely find a chance to act alone.

There was no reason for Quirrell to give up Halloween, a rare opportunity where everyone would be in the auditorium.

Unless he really came to be a model professor.

"I have no reason to let it go."

William thought.

His Flying Curse was already too thirsty.

(End of this chapter)