The day, Hoare took the first-year Gryffindor and Slytherin students' assigs to the dungeons, which also served as the headmaster's office.

  Hoare had something on his mind and thought it was a good opportunity to ask the headmaster about it.

  The business deal he had discussed with Malfoy and the others—eliminating the source of Professor Quirrell's strange odor.

  He tried to exge for some exorcism potions with the system, but there was no response.

  Clearly, the names of these potions were incorrect.

  In all of Hogwarts, aside from Headmaster Dumbledore, who else would know more about potions than the Slytherin head, the Potions Master Severus Snape?

  "Knock, knock, knock," Hoare knocked on the door and waited outside.

  With a creak, the door opened.

  Inside, Snape was sitting behind his desk, writing something furiously.

  "Professor She assigs."

  Hoare pced the assigs on Snape's desk.

  Snape grunted in aowledgment. As Hoare turo leave, he was called back.

  "William." Snape looked up, opened his drawer, and took out a piece of paper.

  "Sign it."

  Hoare took it; it atent tract with a fidentiality agreement.

  Even if he signed his real name, no o the institution would be able to see it.

  Huessed that Snape had asked him to deliver the assigs because he had something to say, but he didn't expect them to be so effit.

  Seeing Hoare scrutinizing the tract, Shought he didn't uand. Remembering Dumbledore's request to take extra care of him, he patiently expined, "Once you sign this, the subsequent agency acquisition and development will be yours."

  "Okay, thank you, Headmaster." Hoare picked up the pen and signed his real name.

  Hoare uood, but he didn't expect Dumbledore to willingly fo the bes.

  After all, if this potioo be released, fame and fortune would be iable.

  Later, Hoare learhat Dumbledore didn't care because the potion was to be released by Hogwarts, and Dumbledore ractically synonymous with Hogwarts in the wizarding world.

  If Hogwarts became famous, so did Dumbledore.

  Of course, that's a story for aime.

  At this moment, Hoare finished signing the trad pced it ba the desk. "Headmaster, I'll take my leave now," Hoare said.

  "e to my office every night at eight from now on," Shought for a moment and couldn't help but add, "And put my cauldron ba the podium!"

  "Are you a troll? Grabbing anything nice you see."

  During his m css, Snape found his podium empty when he was about to demonstrate something to the students!

  He immediately kneas responsible. If it weren't for his exteeag experiehis Henry William would have driven him mad on the spot!

  "Professor, you're the head of Slytherin, and I'm a Slytherin student. We're family. you really call it taking when it's family?" Hoare put on a pitiful expression.

  No way he was returning it. If he did, he'd have to buy one himself, and a quality cauldron with stable temperature isn't cheap.

  "Hmph." Snape sneered, "You leave now."

  "Headmaster, do you know of any potion that exorcise demons?" Hoare quickly asked before Snape could dismiss him.

  "Of course, but that's not within your scope of study." Snape g Hoare, then, as if recalling something, his expression turned serious, and he said in a not-so-pleasant tone, "Mr. William, if you want to live well, curb your insatiable curiosity."

  "I don't care what you're pnning, but if I find out, be prepared to spend a semester processing materials iions room!"

  Hoare listeo Snape's warning but didn't take it to heart.

  It seemed Snape was unwilling to tell him.

  Hoare left the dungeons.

  He had two pns in mind, Pn A and Pn B.

  Pn A was to use his potion talent to create an exorcism potion, but this pn had a fw. Hoare o know the potion's o exge it with the system.

  However, it was clear that the exorcism potion wasn't called an exorcism potion.

  It seemed Snape knew but was unwilling to tell him.

  If he were to search through books, it would take at least a few days.

  He had already promised his ts to solve their problem today, and any dey would severely damage his reputation for future earnings.

  It seemed it was time to implement Pn B.

  Hoare had previously researched some books and discovered that a also had its own wizarding world, but it was very closed off and never unicated with the outside world.

  They called themselves cultivators.

  Hoare thought that the exorcism teiques he had seen before might just work.

  He decided to give it a try.

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  Hoare headed to the dining hall; his Pn B was waiting for him.

  "Well, look who it is~"

  "It's a little snake~"

  The Weasley twins were waiting in a er by the dining hall entrance, one of them holding a buh something long stig out of it.

  "Gee on the left, Fred on the right."

  Hoare spoke, immediately identifying the twins.

  The twins exged a surprised look. To be ho, if they wao hide it, even their family might not be able to tell them apart.

  Yet this Henry William could reize them at a gnce, which piqued their curiosity.

  "Let's skip the small talk. Here's what you wanted. What do you for? You have no idea how hard it was to get." Fred spoke up.

  Gee nodded, "We went through a lot for your stuff."

  The two said in unison, "You owe us extra!"

  Hoare... they pletely stole his line.

  But... pay them? That wasn't going to happen.

  "How much?" Hoare asked curiously.

  "Si's your first time w with us, I'll give you a 12% dist, 1 Galleon and 13 Sickles," Fred said, handing the item to Hoare.

  "I heard you're w on a UJoke Potion and need a lot of experimental materials," Hoare mentioned. "And I happen to have free access to the school's supplies."

  The twins exged a ghey had heard their brother Roion this and were quite envious.

  Free access! That could save a lot of costs!

  And now, since Henry William brought it up, it meant he was ied...

  "Do you have a proposal? What do you want?" Fred asked, unusually serious, as this involved their beloved project.

  "I want in. Basic materials will be provided for free, unlimited supply. If I have rare materials, I'll sell them to you first," Hoare's offer was like Merlin reinated to the twins.

  "What do you want?" Such a good deal made the twins worry about the price they might have to pay.

  "When you open your shop, I want 20% of the profits," Hoare thought of the Weasley Wizard Wheezes, which turhe twins into rich men in just two months.

  The twiated, "We o think about it."

  Hoare shrugged indifferently, "Sure." But by then, the price wouldn't be the same.

  Before leaving, Hoare waved the bag in his hand, and Fred generously said it was their pleasure to help Hoare, and that the item was a gift from them.

  Talking about money would just hurt their feelings.