The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

The shopkeeper was standing next to a button that looked like a gas stove switch. Behind the button was a metal pipe.

"That..." Tom pointed to the pipe, and a word appeared in his mind.

"Gas lamp," the shopkeeper said proudly, "I got this from Muggles - they don't use this kind of thing very much now, and it's still not easy to get a complete system."

It can be seen that the shop owner is very fond of mechanical products such as gas lamps.

Indeed, the complete gas lighting system has a mechanical beauty to it. The bright yellow gas pipes, the gear-operated coin meters and the antique gas lamps all bring the beauty and madness of the mechanical age.

Tom carefully observed the gas light device in the room and found that the shopkeeper had pressed the gas light valve and gas meter on both sides of the door panel. There was also a pipe connected to the meter, and the pipe extended outside the house - Tom felt The end of the pipe should be a gas can.

The shopkeeper took out a key, reached under the meter, fiddled with it for a while, and then withdrew a coin.

"This is Muggle currency. One penny can allow the meter to provide gas for a quarter of an hour. Including what I just put in, the total is half an hour. You have to complete the assessment within half an hour." The shopkeeper put this coin in his hand. The pennies were stuffed into the meter again.

"I'll give you a simple question, make a home early warning device. There are no other requirements." The store owner looked at Tom and signaled that he could start.

There was only half an hour, so Tom naturally had to speed up. He quickly walked to the workbench and picked out a few tools: a carving knife and magic silver were essential. In addition, he also decided to do what his boss wanted and add some mechanical elements to the alarm.

This device is essentially a looking glass. Tom once made one for Hermione, and now he is even more familiar with it.

About ten minutes later, he had a top-like thing in his hand. The core of the early warning device was ready. Now he just needed to add some details to it to make it more expensive.

Tom thought for a moment and took out a bunch of gears, metal balls and various parts from the tool box on the side, and stacked them up - using deformation to combine them in places that were not easy to splice. Soon, a mechanical model of the solar system appeared on the tool table. The sun in this solar system model is the looking glass that Tom made.

At this time, the gas meter had already made a clicking sound, indicating that the flow inside had been exhausted. Tom tapped the model with his wand in the final stage. There was a sound of gears biting together from the model, and all the small balls on it began to rotate around the speculum.

"When someone with malicious intentions steps into your house, the sun will chirp to realize the early warning function." Tom handed the model to the shop owner.

"Let me try." The shopkeeper took out a small black ball from his arms. After throwing it to the ground, it popped out several tentacles and then ran quickly, like a big spider. "Spider" screamed sharply as he ran.

Tom's speculum was directly triggered and spun rapidly, making a sharp and piercing sound.

"A very useful gadget that can deceive most low-end speculum cameras. But in my opinion, the prank is greater than the actual use." The shop owner proudly caught the "spider" crawling on the ground in his hand. "Seriously, there are all these bells and whistles, but the core speculum is only worth a galleons at most - I doubt a wild dog sneaking into your kitchen would set off the alarm."

"But with these devices outside, I dare to ask for ten galleons." Tom spread his hands and said to me that this is a handicraft with low practical value, but it looks good!

The shop owner was silent. He felt that if he saw such an alarm while wandering outside, he would definitely be moved. However, the shop owner still has one thing to do.

"Those parts must also be included in the cost! The value of these things alone is more than five galleons." With a distressed look on his face, he restored the alarm that Tom had made to its parts status, and then refilled the gas meter. A coin.

He also wants to discuss salary issues with Tom.

"Although there are still various problems...but I think you are qualified." The alarm Tom made actually had many problems, such as not being smart enough and being too sensitive, but the mechanical decorations he added were very useful to the shop owner. appetite. Since it conforms to the boss's aesthetics, then lack of technical skills is not a problem.

Just like some game manufacturers, the games are mediocre, but the benefits are good enough and in line with the public's aesthetics, so they are also popular.

"Welcome to Pony's alchemy workshop, you can call me Mr. Pony... Now we can talk about the treatment issue."

It’s not surprising that the owner of Puni’s alchemy workshop is called Poni.

Mr. Pony proposed two salary settlement methods for Tom, one is share and the other is buyout.

The buyout means that Mr. Pony will give Tom a certain salary every day, and then Tom will make some alchemical creations for Pony. The consumption of raw materials in the alchemy process is borne by Puni. Because Pony provided the raw materials, he would not give Tom too outrageous tasks to avoid too many failures and unnecessary waste.

There is a higher degree of independence in sharing, and Tom is more like a collaborator of Pony Studio rather than Pony's subordinate. The consumption of raw materials is borne by Tom and he is responsible for his own profits and losses. It all depends on Tom's ability whether he earns a thousand galleons or loses his pants.

With Tom's temperament, he is naturally more inclined to choose sharing.

"Okay." Pony didn't say anything more and directly signed the contract with Tom.

"Do you want to use the original name or the code name?" When writing the employee's name, Mr. Pony paused and looked up at Tom. Many alchemists don't want to reveal their real names in an informal place like Knockturn Alley, and Pony understands this. Because even he himself uses a pseudonym.

"Code name... Well, Qi, just fill in [Qi] as my code name."

"Okay." Mr. Pony has obviously seen a lot of weird code names, and Tom's [seven] is still very normal among them.

After the contract was signed, Mr. Pony stretched out his hand and shook Tom's hand, and Tom officially joined his alchemy workshop.

"An alchemist needs his own studio... and there happens to be one in the workshop." Mr. Pony took Tom to the next room.

This is where Tom will work next.

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