Chapter 346: Smarter than Expected

Slughorn was familiar with the bureaucrats in the Ministry of Magic. When he heard about the change of the centaur liaison office, he thought that some unlucky guy was going to be fired again and didn't care. He didn't expect that the director was Charles.

"What's going on?" Slughorn suddenly felt that the world seemed to be changing too fast. "Charles, how did you get to the centaur liaison office?"

Charles replied: "I met centaurs in the Forbidden Forest, became good friends with them, and gave them some help."

"Later, in order to better help the centaurs, I asked the Ministry of Magic for this position."

Slughorn was surprised at first, then smiled and asked Charles: "Is the Forbidden Forest fun?"

Charles thought that he thought he got this position in order to go to the Forbidden Forest, so he just smiled. After all, it was unreasonable to do business under the Ministry of Magic. People who knew it inside were tacitly aware of it, so there was no need to explain it too clearly.

Slughorn said nothing more. After taking a sip of red wine, he said, "It's not easy for you to handle this task now. Do you have any ideas?"

He has always regarded himself as a counselor, and now he is still the same. He plans to give Charles some advice.

Charles was well prepared for this and said, "This large-scale drug trial will be conducted at St. Mungo's Hospital under the leadership of the Ministry of Magic. The specific medical-related work will be handled by St. Mungo's Hospital. The Ministry of Magic will coordinate with the Ministries of Magic of various countries externally and provide logistics and security protection internally."

Slughorn looked at the young man seriously. He originally wanted to remind him tactfully that he just needed to leave the matter to St. Mungo's Hospital. Professional matters are more likely to be handled by outsiders.

He didn't expect that Charles could be so clear and clearly divide the responsibilities of the Ministry of Magic and St. Mungo's Hospital.

Charles continued, "I have initially selected two candidates. One is the first werewolf in the UK to test the drug. He is responsible for connecting with the werewolves participating in the drug test at St. Mungo's Hospital. The other is a very responsible and capable active young man who is responsible for the work of the department."

"I plan to donate to St. Mungo's Hospital to build a ward dedicated to treating werewolves."

After hearing this, Slughorn said, "Wow, Charles, I have always thought about how smart you are, and now I find that you are smarter than I thought."

Other people present also followed Slughorn's words and praised Charles one after another. Charles just responded with a shy smile.

Now he has achieved some results, and being modest and restrained cannot change the existence of these results. People still think that this child is easy to get along with.

The matter of the werewolf antidote came to an end. Next, Slughorn began to ask the members of the Slug Club one by one about their recent situation, and give some ideas to help those who encountered difficulties.

Although Slughorn often asked for some benefits from the club members, he could really help solve the troubles when the members encountered troubles, so everyone was happy to join this group.

After asking a round of questions, he finally asked Charles: "I heard that you also opened a company. How is the business?"

Charles replied: "My company currently has a protection detection project, which mainly finds loopholes in defense magic such as houses and safes and solves them."

Then he talked about the business of the Fire Dragon Guard Bureau in the Icelandic Ministry of Magic. This matter damaged the face of Iceland, so the client did not publicize it and outsiders hardly knew about it.

"Really?" The opera singer Dahlia looked very interested.

Slughorn asked her: "Dahlia, did someone who admires you run into your house again?"

Dahlia said distressedly: "It's okay if it's just admirers. They just want my autograph. Someone broke into my house three times in the past month and stole my jewelry."

"The Aurors came several times, but there was no clue."

She is a popular opera singer. The actions of some fans made her very distressed, and the recent thieves made her feel even more scared.

Seeing the business coming, Charles immediately said, "I'll ask the head of the security department to contact you next Monday."

Dahlia asked with some embarrassment, "Is it okay today?"

She knew it was difficult to find someone to work on the weekend, but it was too scary to have a thief break into her house. She didn't know what he would do to her family in the future.

Charles deliberately hesitated for a moment, and waited for Slughorn to help her before saying, "Okay, I'll take you to Falbatten Castle to find Moss Jeff, who is the head of the security department."

Dahlia raised her glass to thank Charles.

All the wizards present were wealthy, had requirements for house anti-theft, and were quite interested in this business.

But everyone should take a look first, and it won't be too late to follow up if Dahlia's side has any effect.

At about two o'clock in the afternoon, the lunch hosted by Slughorn ended, and everyone said goodbye to each other.

Before leaving, Slughorn handed a letter to Charles and said, "This is the letter your teacher asked me to bring to you."

Charles thanked him, took the letter, and then took Dahlia to Falbatten Castle.

Now the Dementors will not come to Farbottom Castle. Mos Jeff has moved here and his department has started working here.

This weekend, Jeff and a group of young people are riding flying brooms and playing dogfights in the open space in front of the castle.

They have a water bomb launcher on the front of their brooms, which will stain people with color when it hits them.

These people are divided into two teams, one is Jeff and his team, and the other is Spencer and others from the Umbrella Pharmaceutical Factory in the north. Ruby is making trouble in them, and there are also a few Hogwarts students next to them. Everyone is having a lot of fun.

Charles came over and waved to everyone. A group of people stopped playing games and flew down. Spencer and others also came over to say hello.

He told Jeff and others about Dahlia's family. Jeff agreed immediately. Among the others, there were fans of Dahlia. When they heard that they were going to help her catch a thief, they were so excited that they didn't even want to change their wet clothes.

Charles didn't need to worry about what happened next. He took Dahlia to the lounge of the castle for tea. After Jeff and others changed their clothes, they went to her house.

After everyone left, Charles curiously took out the letter that Slughorn had handed over. It turned out that it was full of some saliva asking him if he had eaten well and if he had been absent from class. It was probably just a prop played by the old man.

Charles recalled the lunch just now. It seemed that Slughorn didn't say that he wanted to join the Slug Club.

But he thought that this kind of joining was not so formal, but that he showed up a few more times when Slughorn organized team building, which meant joining.

Charles decided to let it go. Some things would be counterproductive if they were too deliberate and utilitarian.

He left Farbaton Castle and Apparated to the house rented by the Centaurs Liaison Office, and continued to measure the resistance of the lead wires.

The data showed that the resistance value of the lead wire processed by alchemy would not change over time.

Charles thought that he could measure other metal wires next week.