novelraw Chapter 137 999
Chapter 137 999
"999 Galleons?" Sirius jumped up, "Why don't you go grab it?"
"Mr. Black," Alice said with a serious expression, "please be careful. We are a serious business, how can we call it robbery when we normally ask for compensation?"
"999? Why don't you just charge 1000?"
"This is calculated accurately," Alice explained. "We will never charge you even one Galleon more while safeguarding our legal rights."
Snape smiled smugly: "I guarantee Mr. Black, it's only 999 Galleons, and the upright Gryffindor will definitely pay for it."
Sirius turned green when Snape interrupted him like this.He grabbed his wand and tried to cast a jinx on Snape, but he gave up because of the presence of the child.
Although he inherited the family inheritance, Sirius was not short of money, but it was not that easy for him to take out 999 Galleons in cash.Not to mention that he had just bought a bazooka crossbow for Harry at Christmas.
Not wanting to make the men and women in front of him too complacent, Sirius pointed to the bill: "Why is the tour guide fee 50 Galleons? With 50 Galleons, I can ask the Minister of Magic to be a tour guide."
"If you can really invite the Minister of Magic, I can waive this fee for you." Alice always smiled.Letting customers enjoy the best service is the purpose of all her stores, not to mention Sirius is the biggest customer she has ever met.
"Actually, this bill should be paid by you, Harry, Ron and Hermione," she added, "but I don't think you should make the children responsible."
Harry and the others moved uneasily, 999 Galleons, which is really too much.But it doesn't seem unacceptable for four people to share.
"Of course!" said Sirius without thinking.
After he finished speaking, he realized that something was wrong. Looking at the beautiful witch who was always smiling in front of him, he couldn't help but feel a chill.
Alice applauded happily: "I know that Mr. Black is a straightforward person, but I don't know how to pay?"
"This..." Sirius didn't look at Snape, because he could recall the mocking face without looking at Snape, "It will take a while to pay in cash."
"Of course, it's not a small sum after all." Alice said.
Sirius secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, although this Ravenclaw is not a good person, he is not as bad as Slytherin.If it's a slug, I'm afraid they won't wait for a day.
"However," Alice said in embarrassment, "we also have to open for business. If we delay for too long, it will affect the normal operation of the zoo."
Seeing that Sirius' face was really ugly, she said empathetically: "There is nothing you can do if you can't get it out for a while. But since the repayment time has been postponed for you, don't you have to express it?"
"What do you mean?" Sirius looked at Alice nervously, knowing that this woman would not let him go easily.
"With the strength of the Black family, we can definitely pay off the loan in a year or so. Then how about our interest rate being the lowest 4%?" Alice took out a brand new piece of parchment, "If there is no problem, We can sign the contract now."
Sirius looked at the contract as if he was going to tear it to shreds in the next second, and of course Alice felt that it was herself and Snape that he wanted to shred more.
In fact, although Alice charged more money, it was not as much as Sirius imagined.The acromantula and the basilisk are extremely dangerous creatures, and the construction of their venues is naturally the most thoughtful and expensive.
The building repair fee alone is already quite a lot. At most, she only made some manipulations on the loss of business and the tour guide fee, but this is also to teach them a lesson.
Regardless of the danger, they break into other people's places and destroy them wantonly.Alice, who is not related to them, will not get used to this problem.
Anyway, Sirius was reasonable, at least he signed the contract with a sullen face.
"Harry, let's go!" He shoved the two copies of the contract into his arms without looking at Alice, and pulled Harry to leave.
"Harry, wait," Alice called to several children, and took out a crystal ball under Sirius' almost murderous gaze, "I hope you have time to look at this with Hagrid."
"What is this?" Harry subconsciously took the crystal ball and asked blankly.
"It's your monitoring in the Spider Pavilion." Alice said, "You, Hermione, Ron, and Hagrid will take a look together to see if the acromantula is as harmless as you think."
Hearing what Alice meant, Harry blushed and nodded.
Sirius had a complicated look on his face, but he didn't say anything to stop him.Although he believed that as James' son, as a Gryffindor, he should be brave and adventurous, he cared about Harry's safety more than anyone else.
He didn't think carefully about encountering the acromantula this time, but Harry's and the others' miscognition of the acromantula was also a big problem.
Seeing Sirius and the others leaving dejectedly, Snape showed a sincere smile.
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The two who returned to the office were extremely tired, especially Alice, who almost collapsed on the sofa the moment she stepped out of the fireplace.
Although he didn't use a single magic, rushing to the zoo, cleaning up the mess and discussing the issue of compensation with Sirius was a bit exhausting.
"If you're tired, you can go home and rest." It was already past dinner time, too lazy to call the elf, Snape directly opened the food box on the table.
After rolling around on the sofa, Alice moved to Snape's side: "How is it? The cherry blossom flavor I recently developed."
It's okay for her to eat by herself, but it's better for others to taste the biscuits.
Before going out this morning, Alice also let the fur ball taste a piece, but the fur ball did not respond well.Unwilling to accept the reality, she thought that cats must have different tastes from wizards.
"Open your mouth," Snape said as he stuffed a piece directly into Alice's mouth, "It's too bland."
"Really?" Alice tasted it carefully, and finally admitted that she failed.It’s okay for a cat to say it’s not tasty, but if other people also say it’s not tasty, then it’s only possible that it’s really bad.
"It smells very good, but it really tastes weak." She pointed out the problem this time. "It seems that my plan to open a dessert shop can only be postponed."
Alice can only make the most common cakes and biscuits with a few basic flavors, which are too few varieties for a dessert shop.
Hearing that Snape took the biscuit, he said, "Dessert shop? You really want to open it yourself?"
The hall shop is because Alice was short of money when she was a student and has a five-three foundation, the zoo is because of the basilisk, and what about the dessert shop?
As far as he knew, Alice had always been good at making cakes. She had thought of opening a dessert shop when she was the poorest student. Why did she suddenly want to open a cake shop at this time?
"It's not what I want to open, who wants to open it?" Alice felt funny, "No one will force Alice Hall to open a dessert shop."
Snape looked at Alice with an inexplicable look: "Then let me put it another way, what are you going to name this shop? I guess it's not Hall's Dessert Shop."
It's Mrs. Rice's dessert shop, Alice wanted to say that, but hesitated for a moment but couldn't say it.
"She has a son, and that Tom wouldn't let you do that," Snape said.
Alice lowered her head in disappointment, of course she knew.Facing Tom who lost his mother, she didn't use "forget it all".
As the indirect murderer of Mrs. Rice, she is not entitled to make a son forget his mother, nor is she entitled to make Tom forgive himself.
This is the horror of Voldemort. He can easily make people die, and he can also make life worse than death.
"You'll have to let it go someday," Snape said.
Alice immediately retorted: "But not now, you know the reason why I tried my best to stay in Hogwarts."
To kill with her own hands, if not with her own hands, to see Voldemort die in front of her with her own eyes.Or make his life worse than death?Alice thought.
Snape was silent for a while: "Then I hope you can let it go, after all, you can't spend your whole life on it."
"Is this out of emotion?" Alice thought thoughtfully, "What about you? Can you let it go?"
Snape stopped talking.
"What a good role model," Alice drew the tone, and suddenly changed the subject, "It's already January, Sev, do you have any birthday presents you want?"
Snape wanted to correct Alice's address, but immediately changed his words when he heard "birthday gift": "Anything on the basilisk will do."
As expected, Alice nodded: "February is my birthday."
"I know." Snape gave Alice a strange look, "I give presents every year."
"But you send potions every year, all kinds of potions," Alice blinked, "I don't want any potions this year."
"To be precise, you are the one who told me to ask for potions every year, or all kinds of potions with strange effects." Snape felt a headache when he thought of those potions for hair growth, hair maintenance and beauty.
Perhaps the only good thing is that the sales of those potions are very good, greatly increasing his extra income.
"Since there is a market, it proves that these potions are needed by everyone," Alice told the truth, "No matter what potion it is, the one that can make money is a good potion."
Snape was noncommittal.He knew Alice's obsession with earning money, so he didn't argue with her: "So what do you want this year?"
Isn't it a potion? Is it a potion formula?Or a rare book on herbalism?For a moment, he really couldn't guess what Alice was thinking.
"Jewellery or clothes," Alice said, to Snape's surprised gaze.
Snape frowned: "How did you even think of asking for this?"
"Isn't that normal? I'm a beautiful lady and of course I want nice clothes and jewelry."
"I can give you money..."
"No, you have to choose for me," Alice interrupted Snape directly, "The gift is what you want, so what kind of gift is it if you give me money to choose?"
"If you insist on this." Thinking of Sirius' embarrassed appearance today and Alice's efforts in it, Snape finally compromised.
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