Chapter 1186 ? Inspection
The group returned to the tower and went to the berthing area. A huge floating ship with a sail battleship like a raven ship had already parked here. This kind of giant ship with three masts and three decks is not like a squid ship for transportation. Or the Nautilus, which is more used as a deterrent to declare power, and the fire dragons patrol around the floating city, at this time it happens to be used as Allen's flagship.
Percy Weasley, one of the accompanying officials, straightened his back. He strode over and took over the work from the sailors to install the stairs down, although as the new director of the Department of Magical Transport, it was a bit inappropriate to do such a small thing himself. .
After the giant ship lifted off, the immigrants at the entrance of Hogwarts city gate began to restore normal order.
Standing on the side of the ship on the top deck and looking down, the streets at the entrance of Hogwarts are full of traffic. It seems that the population is much more lively than before.
Suddenly, the eyes dimmed, and then turned bright again. The three black dragons of the Heshidia Islands who were in charge of patrolling the sky, under the control of the wizards riding behind them, descended from a high altitude and began to escort the battleship.
They are a type of dragon native to Britain, and are more aggressive than Welsh green dragons. Thirty feet long, the black dragon has rough scales, piercing purple eyes, and a row of not-deep but razor-sharp ridges on its back. Its tail ends in a pointed arrowhead, and its wings are bat-like. A Heshidia black dragon, in the wild, would need a territory of one hundred square miles to support itself. Primarily feeding on deer, it has also been known to poach larger dogs and even cattle for food.
The McFasty family of wizards who had lived in the Hessian Islands for centuries has always had a tradition of managing this kind of native fire dragon, but recently this almost unique business has been snatched by Harris, just like at this time Squid-shaped airships with dancing tentacles that rise or descend from time to time in various areas of the floating city, exploded in the sky and disappeared in situ, like countless black fireworks entering and leaving, representing Hogwarts floating ships. A business in an empty city.
"Their models are very convenient for the transportation of bulk goods, and those tentacles can load and unload goods by themselves." Percy introduced loudly, and a camera focused on him at close range, "These floating ships will fly to the Muggle world, We have established staging stations in the outskirts of large cities with Muggle societies such as London, Birmingham and Leeds."
"Director Weasley, as the director of the Department of Magical Transport, when formulating the rules for the use of these new magical transport tools [3Q Chinese], you must ensure that wizards are not seen by Muggles when using the transport tools. ?” Sitting beside her, Fu Rong’s blue eyes blinked lightly, her long waterfall-like silver hair slid down her shoulders as she turned her head, and her “husky” throat was very attractive.
Because Fleur's bloodline seems to have been strengthened after transforming into a magical Animagus, which made Percy's ears turn red, he quickly turned his gaze to look at the scenery outside, and kept telling himself that this was a filming promo,
Be yourself.
After a while, Percy straightened his back even more, but his tone couldn't hide his excitement: "Of course, this is my duty. We can't use Muggles at the transfer station because we need to contact Muggles." We were helped by our colleagues at the Department of Repelling Spells, Magical Accidents and Disasters, and their Reversal of Occasional Magical Events team arranged large-scale confusion spells at regular intervals regardless of artificiality. Muggles would only think that there were some big trucks coming in and out; When helping the Muggle government to transport to other Muggle countries that have no contact with us, the floating ship will fall into the sea first when it is close to the other party's port, cast a spell on its own ship, and pretend to be the transport ship of the Muggles. Go in, and the professionals from the team that also reverses accidental magic events will go with the ship, let the other party's dock officials and port entry and exit records make them normal in the eyes of Muggles, and let them ignore the abnormality that a ship can hold so much cargo .”
"As a member of the International Federation of Wizards, I have to praise your efforts in upholding the Statute of Secrecy, Director Weasley." Allen praised Percy politely, which made the third member of the Weasley family The second son bowed so many times in return that the glasses on his face fell to the ground.
Under Fu Rong's gesture, the camera quickly moved from the awkward scene to the bottom, focusing on the wizards on the street.
Some wizards on the ground wear costumes with strong regional customs of their original culture, which shows that they are also outsiders, but they are different from those who have just arrived in Hogwarts Floating City in the previous camera. The mental state of the immigrants is different, and they are full of vitality. It can be seen that their new life in Hogwarts is very fulfilling and ambitious.
The camera follows some of the migrants into group housing apartment blocks similar to Sirius' ancestral home at 12 Grimmauld Place.
"The apartment buildings developed under these umbrellas are low-rent housing prepared for immigrants who do not have sufficient funds. They can move in with a small amount of silver Sickles." Hermione, her tone was cheerful, and it sounded like People feel that they are very lucky and happy to be able to live in these houses. "Of course, they are not too extravagant, and the decoration is relatively simple, but they are enough to meet the living and living needs of wizard families, and the surrounding supporting facilities are relatively complete."
At the entrance of the apartment, two wizards in the uniform of the umbrella staff and carrying the blue backpack with the umbrella mark are extra eye-catching.
Percy, who was a little annoyed by the mistake just now, had just put his glasses back on. Seeing the camera pause on them, he immediately took the opportunity to introduce: "Wizard couriers in uniform and carrying this kind of backpack, it seems that they are Going back to my home in the wizarding world to have a meal and rest during work breaks... They are the new jobs that emerged after the cooperation between our Department of Magical Transportation and the Muggle government. They use the traceless retractable spell backpack and apparition to deliver goods for Muggles , the more couriers you send, the more money you make..."
Seeing that the camera had turned back to him, Percy added graciously: "These couriers provide a lot of jobs for immigrants, and there are not many qualified couriers at present, because unless they are Muggle-born themselves, they need You can get an O in the subject of Muggle studies, or complete the pre-job training for delivery in the Muggle world and pass the assessment to get on the job... Otherwise, guys who don't know the Muggle world will make trouble in the Muggle world..." Per Xi looked a little excited, "But I have to admit, I visited the Muggle world for a while...I have to say that the Muggle population is really large, and they have a high demand for this, especially the Umbrella Company in the Muggle world. What is the branch doing... online sales? Is this the name?..."
"It's a pity that our native British wizards seem unwilling to serve Muggles... Unlike those immigrants who are open, they would rather go to some more traditional jobs and give up this easy opportunity to make money." Hermione's tone was a little regretful, "Being a courier is actually much easier and freer than working in Umbrella Potion to extract the bodily fluids of slugs..."
Percy caught a glimpse of Hermione's expression and realized that he thought he had offended someone unconsciously.
"Miss Granger, I still didn't do enough publicity. This is the responsibility of the Department of Magical Transportation..." Percy assured the ticket, then pointed down the boat in an attempt to change the subject: "By the way, the potion is over there." workshop and alchemy workshop, after that is our destination Muggle magic chemical factory... Speaking of which, the rise of this factory is inseparable from the strong support of Miss Granger, my father Arthur..." Percy looked at The camera raised his head, "That is Arthur Weasley, the person in charge of this factory, he told me that Miss Hermione Granger's parents, the Granger couple helped him a lot in this regard, they let He took a lot of detours and chose some very practical Muggle items for him, and these items are very valuable to wizards after they are transformed into magic items... The official magic world is just not as good as the products of the Muggle world. It can greatly improve the quality of life of our wizards, and it can also provide us with more jobs..."
Hermione heard the nervousness and flattering intention in Percy's words, she first nodded habitually as a response, and then recalled the relationship between herself and Percy when she was just a junior student at Hogwarts They get along pretty well, both of them are top students, but unlike Alan, they like to follow the rules and don't know how to change them, and they like to yell at those who violate the rules. They are studyaholics in school and workaholics outside of school—but Unknowingly, the status of the two parties has also changed. Now Percy always appears in a 'bow posture, which makes him look like a hunchback', and he is also unknowingly used to others This class is even a little flattering.
"It's okay, Percy, as the exchanges with the Muggle government become more frequent, their forms will naturally change." Alan sensed Hermione's mood changes and came over and hugged her, "Speaking of domestic children Although most of the elves are still unwilling to accept wages and holidays, but wizards... at least the wizards of Hogwarts respect them more, don't they?"