Chapter 895: Ivan: I know Muggles better than Muggles
This is... a fireplace made of gold?
Will Granger couldn't believe his eyes, and Mrs. Granger and Hermione who followed were equally stunned.
Ivan frowned when he looked at the big golden furnace in front of him. He remembered that this thing was not in the living room yesterday. Who moved it out of the warehouse?
"Dobby? Shining?!" Ivan looked around and shouted around.
After a while, the wrinkled house elves appeared in front of the crowd with two thighs as high as possible.
"Do you have any orders? Sir!" Dobby stood upright, wearing a fancy little skirt, and holding a dirty rag in his hand. He was probably doing some cleaning work when he was called. .
Shining standing next to it had a weak look, looked at Ivan in fear and said. "Xinyan is willing to help you, sir!"
Ivan nodded at Shining, then looked at Dobby and asked. "Dobby, why is this fireplace here? Didn't I ask you to get it in the warehouse before?"
"Mr. moved to a new house, Dobby... Dobby thought it should be decorated well, so he and Shining installed Mr.'s gold fireplace in the living room!" Dobby blinked his eyes and looked at Yi earnestly. Fan is like a child who has done an amazing thing and is waiting for praise.
Shining, the house elf on the side, was not so calm anymore. It hugged the golden fireplace beside it in horror, and slammed its head on it vigorously. "Xingling...Xingling shouldn't be hiding from her sir, Xining is a bad elf...bad elf! Bad Dobby, it is the one who confuses her to do this..."
Ivan was a little bit dumbfounded for a while, and hurriedly stopped Shining's self-masochistic behavior, and said. "I didn't blame you, Shining, but you changed the fireplace to gold. What if it melts when the fire is burning?"
Dobby patted his chest immediately and said that he and Shining had set the thermostat magic in the fireplace, and there would be no problem.
Ivan looked at Dobby and hesitated to speak. The thermostat magic is a trivial matter. The main reason is that such a big pure gold fireplace is facing the door, which is too arrogant and does not conform to his usual low-key style...
After a brief astonishment, Hermione quickly recovered, and then she was even more surprised to find that the style of the pure gold fireplace in front of her was very old, and she faintly felt very familiar.
"Couldn't this fireplace be the one lost in Hogwarts Castle, right?" Hermione suddenly remembered that a few months ago, a fireplace disappeared in the castle inexplicably. At the time, Professor McGonagall was also alarmed, but she looked for it for a long time I didn't find who did it.
"Ahem..." Under Hermione's weird gaze, Ivan gave an awkward cough and explained. "When I was doing the experiment that day, I accidentally turned this thing into gold, so I had to get rid of it first."
Will Granger couldn't help but stepped forward and stretched out his hand to caress on the fireplace. After confirming that he had no hallucinations, he sighed. "Magic is really amazing, it can do such an incredible thing."
"Hermione, can you turn a fireplace into gold?" Will Granger looked at his daughter curiously.
Without waiting for the little witch to reply, Ivan took the initiative to help. "It usually requires a high level of alchemy skills, but I believe that with Hermione's talent, I can learn it sooner or later."
Although Hermione was very happy that Ivan was speaking for herself, she shook her head. She had read many books on alchemy and naturally understood what the Philosopher's Stone represented. There were so many alchemists in the magical world before Ivan, and only Nico Lemay could make this amazing alchemy creation.
After Hermione’s explanation, Will Granger gradually understood what it meant to make a Philosopher’s Stone. This was much harder than winning the Nobel Prize. Especially at Ivan’s age, he could only use his genius. To describe the genius!
Understanding this, Will Granger inevitably worried about Hermione. Although his daughter was excellent and clever, it was far inferior to Ivan.
Not to mention the other party's talent, just the pure gold fireplace and this unimaginable mansion in front of them are enough to discourage ordinary people like them.
Of course, Ivan also noticed the restraint of the Grangers and his heart was very helpless. He set the meeting place here. He originally wanted to show the best, but he didn't want to seem to have some counter-effects.
"It's too early. Let's go to dinner first." Ivan suggested.
Will Granger nodded and readily agreed.
Under the guidance of Ivan, the group soon sat down at the long table in the restaurant. The two house elves were busy going up and down in high spirits, bringing in the same dishes that had been cooked.
Hermione looked distressedly at Shining and Dobby being busy, but she didn't say much. She knew very well that the cause of liberating house elves would never be achieved in one go. Ivan was good enough for house elves. Now, there are not only wages, but also corresponding holidays.
Facing a table of delicious food, Will Granger was still a little unwilling to let go, but after drinking some red wine, he gradually regained his talkative nature.
As the host, Ivan would naturally not neglect the guests from time to time to talk about some interesting things in the magic world, and even chat with Will Granger about the influence of the disintegration of the Soviet Union on the political pattern of Muggles in previous years. .
"If I didn't know it in advance, I would have thought Hals you were a... well, that's what you said that word... Oh, Muggle aristocrat! Not a wizard who knows magic..." Will-Ge Lan Jie looked at Ivan and said with surprise.
While accompanying his daughter to Diagon Alley in recent years, Will Granger has also come into contact with many wizards. Ancient, conservative, and mysterious are almost synonymous with them. The attitude towards ordinary people like them is often high, in the words Full of contempt.
However, Ivan was completely different. Before that, Will Granger could not believe that a wizard could actually understand the Muggle world better than him, the Muggle.
"In fact, I always think that wizards are just a rare magic talent than ordinary people. There is no difference between the two." Ivan shrugged and replied casually.
In his previous life, he was an ordinary person who knew no magic. He had a deep understanding of the power and convenience of technology. Some magic can indeed do many incredible things, but the power of technology is also terrifying... The two are complementary.