The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

Hermione never imagined that eating melon would end up on her own head! The conflict between Fred, George and Mrs. Weasley turned out to have an unexplained relationship with Tom.

Just imagine, if Tom didn't buy Weasley's Wizard Wheezes products in large quantities, Fred and George wouldn't have enough income. After the frustration of their "entrepreneurship", they might give up the idea of ​​continuing to make funny toys and instead Study hard.

In other words, Tom was most likely the "culprit" of the quarrel in the garden! Hermione panicked when she thought of this. She couldn't accept the fact that the big boy she liked might be destroying other people's families.

The Weasley family is such a friendly family. Even after being here for only a few minutes, Hermione can sense the warm atmosphere here. Shouldn't anyone who damages this family be punished?

"Tom, is this true?" Hermione's voice was trembling slightly.

Faced with Hermione's questioning, Tom frankly stated that all this was true. He had purchased many Weasley's Wizard Wheezes products in bulk. He was a loyal user of this small workshop. He would also be the first to buy new products on the shelves. Time to buy. Not only that, he is also an internal beta user and will participate in testing the latest series of products with the Weasley brothers.

Hermione: ...

Her body swayed: it turned out that Tom was not only a "buyer", he was even a part of the "sellers", and he was more involved than she thought!

A feeling of powerlessness came over Hermione.

The surrounding Weasley family members had mixed reactions to this.

Ron's eyes widened and he exclaimed: "Merlin's boxers! Tom, are you also working on inventions with them? Ginny said that you can always hear explosions in the room upstairs. I thought they were just I love hearing it, but I didn’t expect them to actually make something, it’s really cool!”

As a younger brother, Ron knew nothing about his brother's invention. I can’t blame Ron, Fred and George for their first works. They imitated existing magic toys on the market and made their own gadgets such as dung eggs. Only recently has it begun to flex its muscles in the field of originality. They are still an insignificant small workshop: they produce in their bedroom, receive orders and sell their products through owl mail, which is not large in scale. So not only Ron was kept a secret, but also all the other members of the family, until Mrs. Weasley opened their bedroom for cleaning...

Ginny timidly hid behind everyone and quietly looked at this magical senior.

To her, Tom has a very high sense of existence. According to word of mouth from the senior students, he and Harry Potter foiled the mysterious man's conspiracy in the first year of school. In the second year, he was captured by the castle's Monster attacked, but he survived tenaciously - without delaying his studies, it is said that he completed a whole school year's courses in just one week, and became the first in his grade. In his third year, he made an unprecedented initiative: he took the entire Hogwarts curriculum. No one had done such a thing in the past hundred years. There were rumors that he signed up because his rumored girlfriend Hermione also signed up for all the courses, but some people said that he did it to comprehensively explore the mysteries of magic... Ginny herself was more willing to believe the former. After the two came to the Burrow together today, Ginny felt that she had discovered some terrible gossip: Granger and Yodel were just friends? None of the ghosts at Hogwarts would believe that! She didn't believe this kind of talk after the two of them summoned a strange patron saint together - this kind of talk could only be used to deceive a first-year kid.

It is simply unbelievable that such a person would hang out with his naughty brothers. But does this mean that his brothers are doing something great? Ginny had no idea about Fred and George's career, because the two little sisters rarely showed the prank products they developed in front of her sister - some things were really not suitable for showing to children who were too young.

Even Tom himself didn't know that his reputation among the first and second grade students was ridiculously high. His preferences can even influence how these people view things.

Originally, Ginny had a negative attitude toward Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes because of Mrs. Weasley, but after learning that Tom was also interested in these mischievous toys, Ginny's perception of these products also changed slightly. , turned from passive to curious.

Bill leaned against the wall and watched everything happening in front of him quietly. To him, it all felt like children playing house, and privately, he was very supportive of Fred and George, not in front of his mother. He thought that instead of spending his life in the Ministry of Magic, why not go out and have a try?

That's what he did. When he graduated, if he wanted to go to the Ministry of Magic, he would certainly be able to find a very good position, but in the end he chose to work as a Curse Breaker in Gringotts - which was a much lower status than an official in the Ministry of Magic. Maybe in the eyes of others, he is not doing his job properly, right?

Bill felt that he was more considerate of Fred and George, and he saw his own shadow in the two brothers. Well, a weakened version of myself.

After the initial surprise, Hermione reacted.

"You should apologize to them!" She gently grabbed Tom's clothes and said angrily: "They are not doing their job properly. They should have focused on the O.W.L.s exam, not the magic wand shop! You really You should reflect-"

"Reflect on what?" Tom's attitude was extremely decisive, "Reflect on the fact that I led them astray, reflect on the fact that I was like a devil tempting them to not do their job properly?"

Hermione paused, she did mean this, but Tom's words were too serious, and she couldn't bear to watch Tom bear these charges.

"Many people, before they make a career, are also considered by others as not doing their job properly." The words coming out of Tom's mouth began to have a strong taste of chicken soup, "Have you heard of Bill Gates? He is fast He became the richest man in the world, and he was a Harvard student."

Hermione: "Oh?"

"Do you think based on his life trajectory, should he study hard in school and start his own career after graduation?"

"Is not it?"

In the 1990s, the story of Bill Gates was not so popular, and Hermione was not so familiar with this man's experience, so she naturally fell into Tom's trap.

"He dropped out of school. He often skipped classes at Harvard and didn't like taking showers. He eventually dropped out of Harvard in 1977 and went to New Mexico to find a job writing code for $10 an hour. At that time, his Microsoft It’s been established for two years.”

Hermione:? ? ?

"I took him as an example to tell you, Hermione, that some people may seem to be not doing their jobs properly, but in fact their final achievements may be astonishing. Dumbledore once said that a person's origin is not important, what is important is his growth. For what kind of person, let me modify it a bit. It doesn’t matter whether a person conforms to mainstream values. What matters is what he is doing.”