HP: Spirit Talker

I'll pay it off in about two years, assuming a quarter of the profit goes to taxes, a quarter goes to Gringotts, and only half goes to pay for the villa, though it's not a very big villa. Two floors, the third being a glassed-in attic, ten living rooms, one large living room, four suite bathrooms, a large kitchen on the first floor and a small one in the attic, four rooms for dressing rooms/storage/etc., and a special freezer room for food under the kitchen on the first floor.

In the backyard there is a double pool, a large regular pool and a small heated Jacuzzi. Small shed for miscellaneous items or a small barge — boat launch system is present but no dock. Excellent clean, tidy shoreline. Here is such a miracle for more than a million and a half gold coins plus taxes in another three hundred thousand ... that's it.

By Paul's birthday, I have delivered the first batch of first aid seals that will go into the personal first aid kits of the local enforcers. One seal is ten galleons, no bargaining or discounts.

Two days of deep trance, special stimulants and lots of energy. Seals are drawn with a brush only at the first level of skill, and then you can get to the point where the schematic image is contained in the mind, and the paper is transferred to the material by direct burning magic. The paper was prepared by small spirits. By Sunday evening, when the feast was scheduled, I was not looking and feeling my best, but three thousand four hundred and ten seals had gone to the DMLE, from where they would spread throughout France.

Nobody hid this moment of cooperation, and just a few hours before the party, four owls flew to me with letters from officials. Laura helped me to choose my clothes, the suit was waiting for me on the bed, the twins and Angelica also wanted to "put their hand", but having had time to get to know their naughty and harmful nature, I chased away this threat with a rag.

The first letter turned out to be a financial report on all operations of the transaction. By the way, a relatively inexpensive service, worth fifty coins, which will save a not too greedy magician from problems with taxes. The second letter came from St. Mary's Hospital, a magical hospital named after a hereditary mage who practiced life and healing magic.

 This woman, in the mid-eighteenth century, personally stopped an outbreak of the Mad Hatter, a disease that causes uncontrollable laughter and quickly drives people insane, after which the sick begin killing everyone they can reach.

The hospital was renamed in honor of St. Mary of Paris. The director of the hospital offered a meeting to discuss a possible collaboration. The third letter came from the DMLE with a detailed report on the tests of the seals (delayed, it seems), thanks for them and a request not to delay at least the first three deliveries. The last letter turned out to be a detailed advertisement for Beauxbatons, from which I learned a lot and also completed the puzzle with a loud click that only I heard.

I didn't stay long in France, but I managed to notice a lot of things. First and foremost, the people here are young, well-groomed, and good-looking. Second, it is very nice and easy to breathe here, in the sense that in the magical part of the cities there are no smells of civilization, as if there is a large-scale cleaning of the air.

And finally, the preschool children seen in the alley were playing with "children's magic wands" — a special toy, especially safe, recommended by doctors and authorities for the development of children's energy and control. This children's artifact is only capable of bright visual effects — low-capacity magical manipulations, such as colored sparks and illusions — incarnations of some fairy tale, i.e. fairy tale characters and the like.

It is impossible to hurt or harm her because she is specially enchanted. If a child plays with such a toy from childhood, by adulthood he acquires high skills of subtle manipulation, good skills of complex magic.

After reading the advertising brochure, I realized that Beauxbatons does not specialize in powerful magic, but in subtle, elegant spells, duels, potions, medicine and cosmetics, beauty and health magic. Other than that, the rest of the people here are probably not that strong, though it's still worth clarifying, but I'm 4/5 confident in my conclusions — I probably won't see any strong magic here.

Well, that's good. Now we should get ready for the party. Paul's a nice guy, so I won't refuse his company, but we'll see how things go, because Lucy might continue her business and give me some new worries.

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