Chapter 36: Revolutionary

Lucius was finally taken away.

And because he used private lynching on Gringotts staff, he was again awarded a fine of one thousand Galleons and a two-month prison sentence.

Regarding this, Murphy expressed deep sympathy and hoped that he could get along well with the Dementors in Azkaban and reform well.

As for Lucius's accusations against Murphy, they were all overturned due to insufficient evidence.

At the same time, Murphy's vault returned to normal use, and no one would question the so-called source of funds anymore.

And as a reward for Locke's defection in court, Murphy hired this goblin as his plenipotentiary agent to help him operate his funds in the wizarding world.

Subsequently, Murphy fulfilled his donation to the Ministry of Magic and the "little" gift for the Minister lady with great integrity, receiving a lot of praise.

In the days after the Wizengamot trial, Murphy almost became the most popular person in the Ministry of Magic.

Mi Li Sen personally handled a VIP visitor permit for him; from now on, he would be able to Apparate into the Ministry of Magic at any time without having to apply in advance.

Thinking back to the situation a few months ago when he could only use the temporary passage to go to work, Murphy couldn't help but feel a bit ironic.

I am conscientious, so I am deeply wronged.

I have no scruples, so I go unimpeded.

Since this is the rule of the world, can I be blamed for becoming like this?

A few days later, the "Supreme Potion" shop in Knockturn Alley opened.

Renting the storefront, decoration, purchasing raw materials, and then buying some potions to fill the storefront cost Murphy less than a thousand Galleons in total.

Because it was too cheap, Murphy opened another branch directly in Diagon Alley.

He didn't care about the money from selling potions, but being able to disgust Malfoy was also quite good.

On the first day of opening, Supreme Potion had a big promotion; all potions were only 30% off, and recharging as a member was only 10% off.

And the activity would continue until Slug and Jiggers Apothecary went bankrupt.

It's just burning money; I can afford to burn it.

With the current profitability of the Umbrella Corporation, burning for a year or two, or even burning forever, is no problem.

Taking the internet marketing methods from more than thirty years later to deal with a small wizard pharmacy at this time, Murphy felt it was a bit of a waste of talent.

But it doesn't matter; as long as it works.

At the same time, Supreme Potion began to recruit, needing a full thirty potion makers.

These shop assistants were of course not used to watch the shop for him; they would go deep into the production line of Beauty Potion and start their brick-moving career.

At present, Murphy had not found a non-magical production method for Beauty Potion and could only use this method to increase production.

Murphy was not worried about not being able to recruit people.

The employment pressure in the wizarding world was really too great; even if he cut the wages in half, the applicants could still line up from the Leaky Cauldron to Ollivanders Wand Shop.

Looking at his own job hunting failure at that time from the perspective of a capitalist again, Murphy now believed that it was an inevitability.

The existence of magic made most shops not need to recruit shop assistants at all.

Things like washing dishes and tidying up tables could be done with magic, and they were done quite well, so why hire waiters?

Magic was too convenient, making some low-skilled jobs completely lose their value of existence.

Look at the entire Diagon Alley; almost every shop was managed by the boss alone, because work such as cargo sorting and cleaning could be easily solved by magic.

In fact, the omnipotence of magic not only reduced job positions.

Expanding the vision, this omnipotence also inhibited the social division of labor.

A wizard who mastered magic could easily satisfy his needs in all aspects of food, clothing, housing, and transportation.

Not to mention things like cooking a meal, cleaning, or tailoring clothes; even building a house, which might require the cooperation of many people for many days for Muggles, a wizard could easily complete by waving his wand.

The productivity leap that Muggles achieved through social division of labor and standardized production chains, wizards could achieve by mastering a little more magic.

This led to wizards having a much lower demand for material exchange and mutual communication than Muggles.

Therefore, wizards were far less in need of society than Muggles; they didn't need to become social people; they were closer to and more willing to live a self-sufficient life with the family as a unit, just like in the farming era of the Muggle world.

This is why wizards looked so weird, casual, naive, and self-willed.

Because the constraints of society on them were really not that great.

This is why Diagon Alley, a shopping center in the British wizarding world, was only a few streets long.

Because they didn't need that many shops; they didn't have that many needs.

This is why the Ministry of Magic's control over wizards looked so loose.

Because it was less like a government and more like a commune; there were not so many reasons to ensure mandatory power.

This is why wizards would actually hand over the right to mint coins to goblins who were not at all compatible with them.

To Muggles, this was simply handing a gun to their enemy, but in the eyes of wizards, it wasn't like that.

Because even if the wizarding world's economy collapsed, it wasn't that scary to them.

They wouldn't be without clothes, nor would they be hungry.

This was a utopia.

A society built on magic, completely different from the Muggle world.

In contrast, Murphy, who was used to involution in the Muggle world, seemed a bit out of place in this society.

In the original work, the hardworking Hermione would be treated as a freak, and it was the same.

She was also from the Muggle world, just like him, used to involution.

"The me at that time was still too naive."

No wonder the owner of that potion shop would dislike his technique; clearly, he used more advanced and accurate measurement methods, and the potions he prepared had better effects.

But progress was not the primary value of this loose society.

Stability and tradition were.

So Ollivander was the best wand shop because it had the oldest qualifications.

So Hogwarts was second to none because it had the longest history.

So wizards would have people pursuing pure blood because that was the orthodoxy.

A potion shop wouldn't need a maverick shop assistant.

So... his job hunting path at that time was destined to fail.

This also explained what was going on with Dumbledore's attitude of muddling through, whether towards Lucius or himself, at the trial.

He was a gentle reformist; he was kind at heart, had his own persistence, but did not advocate his own propositions; he was vigilant against evil and fought against it, but was not hateful of evil; so his style of doing things sometimes looked like: "It's fine if it passes."

This looked a bit strange to Murphy, but this was actually the overall style of wizarding society.

Everyone held a gentleman-like harmony and lived their lives according to some conventional and subtle rules.

Here, there was actually no soil for reformers.

Therefore, Grindelwald at that time was destined to fail, and the later Voldemort looked even more like a joke.

However, now Murphy was here.

He was not a child like Hermione or Harry who had only spent his childhood in the Muggle world, so he could not be assimilated by the values of wizarding society like them.

He was a transmigrator; when he came to the wizarding society, he was already an adult.

His worldview had already been formed and was indestructible.

So after trying to adapt to this world with a stiff upper lip for the first few years without success, Murphy now discovered that if he wanted to continue living, if he wanted to live comfortably, he had to change this world.

He could not be assimilated, so he could only transform this world into the way he liked.

He pulled out the wand he had at this time.

That was the wand that truly belonged to him.

Aspen, fourteen inches, phoenix feather core.

This was the wand of a revolutionary.

From the moment he transmigrated, it was actually destined that he would have a big go in this world.

(End of Volume 1)

(There will be another chapter in the afternoon)

Volume 1 is over. I put the summary of Volume 1 in the work-related section. If you want to see it, you can go and take a look.

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