Getting a shop in Diagon Alley

Hermione gazed at the transfiguration exam paper and wondered what the hell she was doing here.

At this point in time, she had learned a lot from Harry and was able to do most of the 3rd to 4th year transfigurations without any problem. But here she was, sitting alongside the rest of her peers, trying to give answer to 1st year questions.

Answers, that she knew in her mind were not really all that useful for her anymore.

The question she was currently working on asked what incantation you must use in order to change a wood into metal.

The answer was that she didn't even need to use any incantation to do such low level spells. She could simply use her will and intent to do these tasks.

But because of these exams, she had to read all the 1st year books and memorize things that would never truly help her with how she was now learning magic.

Maybe Harry's decision to stay away from these exams was the correct one because she was feeling rather stupid right now.

Harry, of course, had not attended the exams.

His seat had remained empty and just like the every other day in the school, her classmates ignored his absence once again. As if he was not someone even worth their bother.

Daphne, who was sitting a few seats ahead of her was not putting too much efforts into her exam paper either.

Well, she knew that Daphne had taken the Unbreakable Vow to fail in her subjects so it was not like she really had any other choice anyway.

Since the whole 1st year only had about 60 or so students, the whole class was giving their exams in one classroom which was being monitored by Professor Mcgonagall at the moment.

Professor Mcgonagall had saved her from bullying a lot of times ever since Harry threatened to leave the school so she now had a better opinion of the Professor but after the troll incident, they were never able to come to speaking terms again.

A pity. Because she could see that Professor Mcgonagall was just trying to do the best that she could from her position.

Hermione shook the thoughts out of her mind and gazed down at the paper once again. Wondering for the eighteenth time within the past ten minutes if she should fail her exams like Harry and Daphne as well.

But if she did so, then she would not know how to face her parents anymore so she gritted her teeth and started jotting down the answers that she'd memorize some time ago.

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Getting the shop in Diagon Alley was far easier for him then it would have been for anyone else. And the reason was rather simple.

He was rich and the ministry was corrupt to the core.

Of course, since he was still an underage wizard, he couldn't really buy a shop in the Alley and Andromeda was banned from opening as shop there as well so he had to rely on one of his muggleborn employee to do this for him.

The shop that he bought once belonged to a young couple who sold day to day magical items in their shop. But they chose to oppose Voldemort in the last war and were killed by the death eaters as an example to other people.

After their death one of their last living relative inherited the shop but he was and old man and did not held any interest in working at the shop as he auctioned it off back to the ministry who then auctioned off all the items remaining inside the shop before putting the building for sale.

A sale that was now made by Harry's muggleborn employee.

Of course, a decade of neglect plus the damage that the building suffered during the war made sure that the old building will be of no use to him but he was not bothered by it in the least because he didn't cared about the old building anyway.

The reason behind that was simple as well.

He wanted to create a new shop and give it the modern look of a convenience store from the year 2019.

That way, the shop would have a welcoming feel to it because the whole front will be made up of transparent glass while it will also appear different and unique from the other shops in Diagon Alley.

The construction of this shop was similarly given to Coretin de Phillippe who was sure that he would be able to finish it all within only a few days unlike the mall which would easily take more than a month.

The main reason why the shop would take so little time to be constructed was because in essence, the whole shop will be empty.

Yes. No products of his company will be sold in this shop.

In truth, the shop had will only have a single job to do.

To look good, attract customers and then send them to the mall in Lilta Dimun through the eight fireplaces constructed inside the shop. And then customers will buy the products of his company from there.

The main reason why he didn't simply enlarge the insides of the shop and create a mall in there was that some of the things he'll do with his company or some of the products that he sell in there will cause a lot of pain to the purebloods.

And sooner or later, they'll send aurors and try to close his shop.

At that moment, the law will not be in his side but not be against him either.

Because in truth, he was under the law anyway.

Because Litla Dimun fell under the Independent Archipelago named Faroe Islands which did not fell under the control of the land of Wizarding Britain.

So anything that he does in that island or anything that his company sell to people in there won't be something that the ministry could control.

It a surprising loophole that he found in the laws of the Wizarding Britain.

Of course, there were a few law against international transport. But they only applied when you're going from one magical country to another magical country.

And Faroe Islands didn't have a magical community so going there was not against the law either.

So with the law in his side, the aurors could not shut his shop down for no reason.

The problem was that once the Wizengamot learns of this loophole and he comes under their crosshair, they'll no doubt try to pass a new law regarding his situation.

But he already had a few contingency plans set up in place to deal with such situation as well.

So for now, all he needed to do was watch over everything being set up by his minions/employees and then open the shop with a bang when the time comes.