Hermione, join me as Minister of Magic!

If you can be as indifferent to it as other little wizards from Muggle families, or pretend to be sympathetic and still go the same way, it is understandable, because this matter has little to do with you, and even this social system helps For you, let you enjoy a delicious meal.

But you chose to intervene, which means that you decided to raise it to the political level to solve it, rather than sit idly by.

Congratulations, you have finally taken that step—from a bystander of a society to a reformer. From now on, you must learn to use your influence to "persuade" this society to change the existing system so that It gets better."

After writing this, Lockhart paused for a moment.

He should have used more words here, but he suddenly felt that if he did this, he would be no different from Dumbledore and Voldemort, and he was trying to impose his will and values ​​​​on others , even if Dumbledore had good intentions.

He decided to leave the choice to Hermione himself, so after complimenting her, he simply started to guide her on specific issues:

"I see confusion from your letter, because you are dealing with a deeply ingrained ideology in society and the intransigence of vested interests, and you don't know how to change it.

For this reason, I am willing to act as your mentor on the way forward, providing you with a ladder of progress and solving doubts.

There are various techniques of social influence, but in the end they can all be boiled down to several very basic influence processes, such as interpersonal, communication and persuasion, media promotion, etc., and the skills contained in each influence method can be written separately a book comes out

I know that you may be a little confused when you see this, but don’t worry—these all depend on the way human beings think, remember, feel and make decisions, and what ultimately affects human attitudes, behaviors and cognition, these skills I will introduce in the future Will teach you one by one.

Of course, as a textbook, I plan to give you a book called "Attitude Change and Social Influence", which was written by Philip Zimbardo in 1970. The content may be a little esoteric for a 14-year-old girl. But it doesn't matter, you can understand while doing it, and I am sure that there are indeed such a group of people in the wizarding world now, and they will gradually be as eager as you to change the status of house-elves.

I've cut a corner where I suggest you read it first, and I hope you'll read it if you promise to learn it.Then I'll leave you with a homework one

—I hope you use the techniques above to convince your two best friends that it doesn't matter if they don't end up getting involved, as long as they change their attitude towards you doing this business. "

After finishing writing the letter, Lockhart smiled at the impatient owl and stuffed a piece of dried meat in it, then sealed the letter, and took out an old book from the cabinet behind him, and let the owl I took it back.

What can be done next depends on Hermione's own good luck.

Because Sirius woke up at night for several consecutive days, he has been sleeping during the day.Lockhart also ignored him, but got up early in the morning and went to climb the mountain by himself.

Hogsmeade is the "village under the city" of Hogwarts Castle. Although the terrain is not as dangerous as Hogwarts, it is still an important point in terms of location. Otherwise, Hogsmeade would not have been chosen as the goblin rebellion in 1612. stronghold.

Regardless of military use, Hogsmeade is actually not bad in terms of scenery alone, but it is really too far away, and wizards really don't have the desire and energy to spend, so the villagers here live like this in the 17th century the exact same life.

However, according to the demand-market theory, sometimes there is not necessarily demand before there is a market. If the market supply is sufficient, people's potential demand can be easily created.

Therefore, if you want the wizarding world to prosper and abandon the original self-sufficient backward production method, you must first find a market, then introduce currency, and then use sufficient currency and moderate consumerism to stimulate the potential needs of wizards.

However, creating demand is risky, as long as it fails, the loss will be borne by the creator, so not many people dare to innovate.

But Lockhart is not afraid, because he has a very good market to learn from, then

Muggle market

Both Muggles and wizards are human beings. Muggles love leisure, hate work, and indulge in sensuality. They never sit when they can lie down, and never stand when they can sit. Wizards are not much better.It can be said that as long as he is a human being, he cannot escape the shackles of nature.

Lockhart has made two attempts so far, one with the mixed reputation of tap water and the other with a hugely popular movie.

The reason why tap water has mixed reputations is mainly because Hogsmeade is too close to the water source, so everyone feels a little baffled.

But then everyone's act of installing tap water told Lockhart that they might not hate it so much.

As long as people get used to comfort, they will never want to go back to the past.

It's just that Lockhart has never understood why the upper echelons of wizards turn a blind eye to these things.

If only a pureblood wizard could teach him that.

Back at the Shrieking Shack, he finds his wish granted right away.

A female employee wearing a Ministry of Magic robe, but the material has been replaced with high-grade bright-colored velvet, has been waiting for him for a long time.

"Good day, Mr. Lockhart, and I hope you enjoy your future business together," she said.

Chapter 190 The second purpose is not simple

Looking at the interns given to him in the magic section, Lockhart felt strange.

Because the person who came was actually an acquaintance of Lockhart, the female prefect who graduated from Slytherin, the female student president, and Gemma Farley from one of the 28 pure-blood families.

Although he had thought in advance how many chips the pure-blood family would place on him, the weight of the chips was beyond his expectations. He thought that the Snake Sect would just randomly choose a young man from a small family. Come and be a liaison.

It seems that they really take the oil well thing seriously, and decided to pay attention to themselves?

Although he was still thinking wildly in his mind, Lockhart didn't let himself mess up his etiquette.

He immediately went forward, M wiped each hand on the handkerchief in his pocket, then looked into each other's eyes, and at the same time glanced at her hands from the corner of his eye—he had just returned from morning exercise, he was not sure who Is the eldest lady willing to shake hands with him.

"Miss Farley, long time no see!"

Although the other party was his student in school, but in society, a person is a person, he is not your student, nor is your relative, Lockhart found that he can still distinguish between the important and the important.

Gemma was obviously also well-educated in etiquette. When Lockhart came over, she raised her right arm slightly, indicating that Lockhart could shake hands with her.

Lockhart held out his hand quickly, as if he had offered to shake hands.

It's okay, at least an educated person - the thought came to Lockhart and Gemma's mind at the same time.

Since he didn't know the other party's behavior style, Lockhart decided to do business:

"Miss Farley, the conditions here are poor, and the office environment that can be provided may not be very good. I would like to apologize first..."

"This is official business." Gemma Farley replied to him equally solemnly, "Considering the limited time before the games, comfort should not be the first requirement for a temporary office."

Lockhart didn't expect the young lady of Slytherin to be so talkative, which is undoubtedly a good thing.

"Okay... Dobby, take out our second desk! I will accompany Miss Farley to find a place to stay, and then go to check on the progress of the work.

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Then his words were politely stopped by the other party again: "Thank you very much for your kindness, but there is one thing I need to tell you-this is Hogsmeade, my father has a country house here, just in Paddy Next to Madam Fu's Teahouse..."

Lockhart suddenly realized that it was no wonder that Mr. Crouch told himself that he didn't have to worry about the other party's life problems. It turned out that he brought his own dry food to work on the front line, so he was really worrying about it.

Now that he knew that the other party was only here to plate gold, Lockhart felt much more at ease. As long as the other party didn't take his credit, he didn't mind adding a great deal to the other party's credit book.

"Then ask Miss Farley to rest for a while, and after I deal with it, I will take you to see the completed projects and my plans for the future."

He pointed to the morning dew that was still on his body, and signaled that he still had to deal with it.

Gemma nodded: "I will wait for you at the Three Broomsticks."

After speaking, she turned and walked out of Lockhart's office.

Not a few steps after she walked out of the office, she couldn't help but raise her right hand to her nose and smell it. Then she found that it didn't seem very elegant, so she pretended to take it out of her mouth.

Wiping his face with a handkerchief in his bag, he concealed his actions.

After arriving at the Three Broomsticks, Gemma came to the front desk with ease, and told the sleepy-eyed bartender that she wanted a quiet corner seat.

Uh, Miss Farley? "The waiter didn't expect to meet her here, "I remember you have graduated?"Do you want to revisit old places? "

Gemma's expression became a little displeased.

"That's right, so can I order a drink now?"

She didn't even bother to explain to the other party that she was already an employee of the Ministry of Magic, because in her opinion it was a complete waste of time.

Only then did the waiter remember that the person in front of him was still a Slytherin even after graduation.

"I'm sorry, Miss Farley... May I ask what kind of wine you want?" He quickly corrected his attitude.

"A glass of canyon water, add ice hockey..." Gemma thought for a while, and then asked in the calmest voice, "What's the favorite drink of Mr. Lockhart, the staff of the Ministry of Magic who is stationed here? Give him too. Order a drink."

The waiter said without hesitation: "Ogden's Old Fire Whiskey, with honey, cherry juice and ice cubes... But he usually doesn't drink alcohol in the morning, he only drinks a little breakfast tea with lemon juice."

"Breakfast tea?" Gemma repeated. "What tea?"

What she said stopped the waiter - he really didn't remember the varieties, every time he randomly mixed several kinds of old tea together, which was called "combined tea", who knew what was in it.

But Gemma misunderstood his meaning: "Why, even this recipe must be kept secret?"

Rosmerta heard the conversation outside from the inside and had to stand up to save the scene

"Uwo tea is one-half: Lapsang Souchong is one-half, HuolLi purple tea is one-half, Ms. Farley." She said with a big smile on her face.

Gemma nodded in satisfaction: "Thank you... Please give me a seat in the middle, and my canyon water is cancelled, just give me a pot of breakfast tea."

Then she took out a Galleon and threw it on the bar counter, followed the waiter to the corner.

Rosmerta stares at her back thoughtfully --- a gold coin is used to buy a pot

Tea, this is obviously not water.

A few minutes later, Lockhart washed his face, wiped off the sweat and dew from his body, and came to the three brooms in a refreshed manner.

Unlike Gemma, Lockhart greeted everyone in the bar - diners, bosses and waiters.

"Good morning, Ike! Good morning, Rosmerta! And Lambert... How's your harvest?"

"Fortunately, I got more than a dozen fox furs." The person who was greeted also greeted Lockhart as if they were chatting with each other.

It can be seen that his popularity here is very good.

At the bar, the waiter couldn't help but whispered to him, saying that it would be better for him in the future, but Lockhart just ignored Gemma's temper as long as he didn't hold back his temper.

"I've been waiting for a long time..." Lockhart sat across from Gemma, "It's breakfast tea, it's great! I want to add a little lemon juice..."

"Here." Gemma pushed the small cup aside.

"thanks."

Because there were other things, Lockhart ignored why there was the most important thing on the table.

It wasn't about the tea to his taste, but after taking a long swig, he reached for his wand.

"So Miss Farley, let's get started! Shut your ears and listen!"

Following Lockhart's casting of the spell, the people around immediately could only hear a loud buzzing, and the conversation in this corner could no longer be heard.

Chapter 190 Three Buying

Because he believed that Gemma Farley was here for gilding, Lockhart was also straightforward.

He first introduced his measures of introducing tap water and movie theaters, and then explained his purpose and reasons for doing so—tap water belongs to material transformation, while movies belong to the construction of spiritual civilization. Transformation must rely on these two foundations

Gemma listened very carefully. She had heard about these projects recently, but she didn't know much about the details and the tricks. With Lockhart explaining it himself, she naturally seemed to see the light of day.

But I don't know why, when Lockhart said with a hint of showing off that he actually managed these two things without spending any money, and even had surplus to continue to manage, Gemma Farley's expression seemed Some squirm.

"Excuse me, how far do you plan to transform Hogsmeade?" Gemma couldn't help asking.

To put it simply, my plan for Hogsmeade is a "resort", and I plan to operate it for a long time, and providing services for the holding of the Triwizard Tournament is just incidental. And the open customers are not limited to wizards, there will be more in the future Bring in some Muggle 'elites', so some Muggle modernization is bound to happen - of course, I haven't told the residents of Hogsmeade this yet. "

Gemma didn't show any objection: "I understand that if you tell them in advance, they will just dismiss it again."

It is comfortable to talk to smart people, Lockhart continued: "Yes, but more importantly, we must not only keep Hogsmeade's medieval style, but also add some modern, technologically advanced features without leaving any traces. taste facilities, so that the muggles who come here to recuperate have a sense of freshness, and will not be affected by the medieval life

dissatisfied with the inconvenience.

"Hmm... how far should I go?" Gemma acted like a good student with an open mind.

"For example, it's fun to switch to firewood instead of a natural gas stove, but there must be no fire. Oh, by the way, you don't know that natural gas stoves

"No, I know." Gemma Farley acted calmly, "In fact, there is an installation in Farley Village's old house, just like other Muggle houses."

"Really, that's great, it saves me a lot of embarrassment...but why do you install a gas stove?" Lockhart became interested.

Gemma took a deep breath: "Actually... Although our pure-blood family's understanding of Muggles is indeed lacking, but..."

She hesitated at this point, as if she was hesitating whether she should tell Lockhart something.

Lockhart saw her embarrassment: "If there is anything that needs to be kept secret, then I am willing to show my gentlemanly demeanor, you don't have to force yourself."

Gemma shook her head, and then said another thing: ""It's not something that needs to be hidden from you, but we hope that after you transform Hogsmeade, you will not spread these reforms to other wizarding villages . "

Lockhart was a little surprised: "Why? Although not every wizard settlement can be transformed in this way, there should be no harm in promoting some successful experiences, right?

Under Lockhart's surprised eyes, Gemma hesitated to speak again.

"My God, it seems that the transformation I thought I had planned has actually caused some troubles to some people. It's incredible." Lockhart shook his head again and again.

Gemma knew that if she really didn't say anything more, Lockhart might really have a misunderstanding, which was exactly what she didn't want to see.

So she finally opened her mouth: "... If we can help you get more project funding, can you let the pure-blood family invest in these new facilities you run?"

Lockhart showed a strange expression: "You have to tell the Ministry of Magic, Miss Farley, these are the assets of the Ministry of Magic."

After hearing the word "Ministry of Magic", Gemma showed a kind of disdain typical of elites: "Don't worry about the Ministry of Magic, they will agree.

Lockhart thought to himself, good guy, you can even manipulate the Ministry of Magic, so why ask my opinion.

"It seems that you really think highly of me." Lockhart laughed at himself.

Hearing what he said, Gemma didn't know why she seemed a little anxious: "My father wants you to know that although we have our own considerations in everything we do, it doesn't mean that we are willing to do things against your wishes, We have great respect for you, sir."

Yes, at least I was notified. "Lockhart sighed and said, let me guess... do you want to buy the Hogsmeade property in advance?"