81 Chapter 81: Renovations
The next step involves renovation and furniture shopping. For this, Alaric had to visit Diagon Alley several days in a row.
This time, he used the fireplace at the Weasley's to enter Diagon Alley through the Floo Network.
To be honest, for wizards not accustomed to or proficient in Apparition, Floo Network was indeed a very convenient means of transportation.
It was more comfortable and safer than Apparition, with a fixed network, allowing the user to reach the destination by simply stating the address, without the need to fully understand the target location, as with Apparition.
Alaric decided that once his home was renovated, he would also connect the fireplace to the Floo Network.
During the renovation process, Alaric spent a considerable amount of Galleons and visited several furniture stores—both Muggle and wizard ones—before finding satisfactory furniture. Any areas of dissatisfaction were modified using Transfiguration.
Among the furniture, there were typical wizarding items, such as mirrors that commented on one's appearance and teapots that poured tea automatically.
He also bought an antenna and a high-powered generator, making some magical modifications.
After the modifications, the antenna could connect to Muggle television and telephone systems regardless of distance, and in the future, it could also connect to Muggle networks.
The generator could be powered by magic, allowing him to use Muggle appliances at home.
Arthur Weasley was very interested in Alaric's technological prowess and strongly insisted on having a similar setup in his home.
However, upon hearing the prices of these Muggle appliances, he regretfully gave up the idea.
Finally, after a week of spending time and money, Alaric's new home was finally renovated. However, he had new tasks ahead—modifying the bus itself.
In reality, Alaric admired the flying and invisible Ford Anglia at the Weasley's.
After all, traveling by flying broomstick was convenient, but it couldn't match the ease and comfort of driving a car.
With Arthur's help, Alaric successfully added an invisibility system, braking system, shock absorbers and balance systems, additional power system, and flying system to the Olympia Bus.
He also transformed the engine to be powered by magic, allowing him to comfortably drive his house around the world.
The last step was to connect the fireplace at home to the Ministry of Magic's Floo Network.
However, Alaric encountered a problem at this point—because he was an underage wizard with his own house.
If he applied to the Ministry of Magic, the installation personnel would quickly discover this, and he might face expulsion from Hogwarts for unauthorized modification of Muggle items or using magic outside school grounds.
Fortunately, Alaric had connections at the Ministry of Magic. In fact, among the people he knew, the person most capable of helping him in this matter was his headmaster, Albus Dumbledore.
When Dumbledore arrived, he was immediately astonished by Alaric's creative ideas and the results of the modifications.
While touring the bus—or rather, the house—this old man studied the magical items personally modified by Alaric.
Such as the radio that could tune into both Muggle and wizard stations, a monitoring camera that showed the outside view of the bus, and a dressing mirror that could connect to Muggle television programs.
There was also a Muggle washing machine enchanted with water conjuring and drying spells, among others.
He studied them quite seriously and with great enthusiasm.
Finally, reluctantly tearing his gaze away, Dumbledore praised Alaric, "Your inventions by using magic in such a different way has truly opened my eyes.
Professor Babbling will certainly welcome you to her class. There are too few wizards who understand this kind of magic nowadays."
He gladly promised to help Alaric by using his influence at the Ministry of Magic, allowing the fireplace to be connected to the Floo Network.
"Connecting a mobile fireplace to the Floo Network is unprecedented at the Ministry of Magic. Doing so may lead to unforeseen accidents. Are you sure about this?" Dumbledore warned Alaric before installing the Floo Network.
However, Alaric proved with his actions that Dumbledore's worries were unnecessary.
It was just a spatial coordinate problem.
In just one day, Alaric modified the fireplace and reworked the Floo Powder so that the fireplace could connect to the Floo Network regardless of its movement, no longer hindered by coordinate changes.
Dumbledore praised this technology as revolutionary in magical transportation, stating, "This is a groundbreaking invention in magical transportation.
I dare say that if you publish this research, you will definitely receive the Order of Merlin."
"Of course, I'm more than willing to do that," Alaric happily agreed.
So, overnight, he wrote the theory of spatial magic for the mobile fireplace in the form of a paper.
Professor Dumbledore would help him publish this paper and secure the deserved honors for him.
Soon, Alaric received the news that his paper was published in the academic journal "Magical Innovation."
Everyone praised his theory, but the only drawback was that the writing style of this paper was too dull, like a straightforward account—though, to Alaric, academic papers were meant to be written that way.
If he wrote it like other wizards, with embellishments, what would be the difference from literary works?
Moreover, according to the internal information Dumbledore received, with this invention, Alaric could receive the Order of Merlin Third Class.
Simultaneously, FlyPowder Corporation approached Alaric.
This company was the only one in the UK producing Floo Powder.
After negotiations, Alaric decided to separate the mobile fireplace technology.
He allowed one part of the technology to be implemented through Floo Powder, and he simplified the ancient magical script involved in the other part into a spell.
This way, all wizards could learn the mobile fireplace spell. They only needed to use the spell on their fireplace to transform it into a mobile Floo Network entrance.
By using specially made Floo Powder, they could connect to the Floo Network anytime, anywhere with just a fireplace.
Alaric released the spell free of charge and authorized the recipe for the special Floo Powder to FlyPowder Corporation.
In this scenario, FlyPowder Corporation would become the only company in the world capable of producing this specially designed Floo Powder, and with the continuous popularity of mobile fireplaces they would be able to monopolize the Floo Powder market worldwide.
Alaric designed this plan for FlyPowder Corporation, and he also benefited from it.
According to his agreement with FlyPowder Corporation, he would receive 30% of the profits from all the special Floo Powder.
Although the price of each scoop of Floo Powder was only two knuts, with a large volume of sales, he would quickly earn a substantial amount of Galleons.
Just as Alaric was carefully considering his money-making plan, Dumbledore brought him some exciting news.
He had unilaterally registered Alaric for the International Wizard Chess Championship!
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