The peaceful and comfortable Christmas holiday is gradually coming to an end.

Shortly after New Year's Day, students returned to school one after another, and the Hufflepuff common room became more and more lively.

With more and more people returning to school, Jon couldn't continue to learn and practice magic here.

He was forced to relocate and head to the Room of Requirement again, as before.

One week after New Year's Day, the new semester officially begins!

At the same time, a news began to spread widely among all the students——

"I heard that Harry Potter in Gryffindor received a Firebolt as a Christmas present!" Zacharis Smith said mysteriously in the common room one night.

"What is Firebolt?" Hannah-Aibo asked in confusion, "This name sounds familiar..."

"The Firebolt is the most perfect flying broom so far, representing the highest level of craftsmanship at present!" Zacharis explained incessantly as if he had received advertising fees: "Every broom twig at its tail has been screened. , streamlined to perfection, unmatched in balance and precision...accelerating to 150 miles per hour in under ten seconds, the first choice any Quidditch player could dream of!"

"The Nimbus 2000 before Potter was blown off by the storm during the game with us!" Cedric Diggory's voice could also be heard very envious: "He is a blessing in disguise, right? …”

After all, Cedric himself used a broom to sweep Eight Stars.

"Who the hell would give him such an expensive gift!" Ernie McMillan said incredulously: "Firebolts are not cheap!"

"Maybe it's his admirer... Harry has a lot of fans!" Hannah guessed.

"Maybe it's a Gryffindor smoke bomb?" Hufflepuff hitter Jimick asked tentatively.

"Anyway, our game with Gryffindor is over!"

...

All the speculation came to an end at noon one day at the end of January.

That day, when the teachers and students of the school had breakfast, Professor McGonagall and Mrs. Hooch appeared in the hall with a broom wrapped in protective film.

"Well, I just went to find you in the Gryffindor common room." Professor McGonagall's voice was not loud, but it was still loud enough for many people to hear: "Back to you, we have done everything we could think of. , but there's nothing unusual about this broom...you have a good friend somewhere, Potter!"

With the departure of the two teachers, the entire hall exploded in an instant.

"My God, is it really Firebolt!"

"That's the broomstick for the game set by the England national team!"

"Harry, can you let me touch it?"

Not only Gryffindor students, but many Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaw students crowded around and crowded.

Including Ernie McMillan and Zacharias Smith, who just sat next to Jon.

Everyone shouted loudly, just to take a look at "Firebolt".

Jon is naturally not going to be lively. He nibbled a ham in his hand while observing the surroundings casually.

Soon, he noticed Draco Malfoy on the long Slytherin table.

Poor Malfoy's face was livid, his eyes fixed on the crowd over Gryffindor, and his expression could not be said to be jealous or angry...

...

Jon can put himself in Malfoy's shoes and think about what Malfoy is in now. If he is Malfoy, he must make a call to Dad - no, an owl to call Dad; let Lucius Malfoy buy him one Firebolts, and even buy seven Firebolts, one for each Slytherin Quidditch team!

Of course, Jon obviously doesn't have the financial resources; but the Malfoy family, it seems, doesn't either.

Lucius Malfalcon bought seven Nimbus 2001s for his son to help him get into the Slytherin Quidditch team to challenge Harry Potter; but he couldn't afford another Firebolt...

In fact, Nimbus 2001 is now the top broom, and the combined price of seven is not inferior to a Firebolt.

Just the budget that Lucius Malfoy could spend on the broomstick, the seven Nimbus 2001s were completely used up...

According to Jon's own guesses, and through Astoria's knowledge... Most of the "pure-blood families" with bright appearances are in a state of eating and drinking.

The reason why they are said to be just good looks is because they have almost no source of income.

A typical "pure-blood family": he owns a splendid manor with many antique gold and silverware that have been passed down for hundreds of years, as well as mountains of gold at Gringotts.

But the manor is for living, and the antiques are for use; it seems priceless, but if one day you want to sell and discount them, you will find that you can't sell much gold Galleons at all.

The gold in the treasury will only become less and less in most families as it is consumed from generation to generation.

Even many families can only rely on borrowing from Gringotts.

Gold is accumulated by countless generations of ancestors of pure-blood families: they have found mysterious treasures, or they have made riches from potions alchemists, or they have made riches by exorcising Muggles and killing demons...

But over time, such accumulation of wealth has become increasingly difficult.

Few wizarding families have industries with sustainable output. In fact, for the wizarding world with extremely rich material production, the output of so-called industries is hardly worth mentioning.

Because of the existence of magic, the most basic survival resources such as food, cloth, and water are extremely cheap in the wizarding world.

Because of the basic transformation law of Gamp, you can't change food; but you can make a small amount of food more, you can make ordinary pumpkins grow taller than adults, and you can make barren farmland an unprecedented harvest...

Even the "poor families" of wizards like the Weasleys are troubled by the fact that they can't afford new magic books and wands because they have four or five children to read; even though they can't even get a gold Galleon , but this does not affect them living in a house of several hundred square meters, with an endless yard, a family with more than a dozen mouths, and they can still eat and drink spicy food all day long.

And a pure-blooded family will definitely spend a lot of wealth every year in order to maintain communication and decency on the family facade, as well as management with various classes; the consumption of these wealth is far from being a Ministry of Magic official or Hogwarts. A member of the board of directors, can make up for it.

So, they will become more and more dry and decayed.

This is also the reason why Voldemort's concept of "pure blood supremacy" can attract these pure blood families.

By attacking, enslaving and plundering hemp wizards and Muggles, they can once again gain a lot of wealth and resources, fill Gringotts' treasury once again, and let future generations enjoy the same luxury and prosperity as before. Life!

...

Jon bowed his head and calmly took another bite of the ham.

There was no fluctuation in his heart, and he even wanted to laugh.

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