All Sold

To say that entering the shop had been a shock to her would be an understatement.

The first shock came when they realized that the shop was in reality not a shop at all.

It was just a gateway for the real shop which could only be reached through the 4 entrance Fireplaces in the shop.

Still, the whole shop was the aesthetically beautiful shop in the whole Diagon alley.

The entrance made of glass.

The bright colored walls filled with interesting paintings.

The walls filled with beautifully carved lights and the chandelier at the center of the shop.

Then there were the black uniform wearing guards and the beautiful receptionists and anyone who entered this shop would instantly feel the difference between this shop and the rest of the shops in Diagon Alley.

The person who ran this shop made the other shopkeepers in Diagon Alley look like amateurs who had no idea how to run a shop.

But that was shock was nothing compared to when the finally went through the Floo and entered the Mall that everyone kept talking about.

It was the first time she had entered a building that beautiful.

Not only was the building quite beautiful but it was also very advanced and futuristic.

She could see a lot of people walking around in the mall with their children.

As far as she could tell, there were only about 6 shops in the whole mall but even with all the extra area inside, it still seemed filled with people.

She could also see a large fountain in the middle of mall which reminded her of the fountain in the Ministry of magic but this one was far more beautiful and pleasing to the eyes than the one in the Ministry and the different ways in which the water flew in the air before dropping back in the fountain only made it even more interesting.

In fact, she could a few parents with their children spanning photos with the fountain as a background.

"Stop gawking around Ginny. Come." Ron called out to her and took her along with the rest of her family who were joining the line to buy the so called Magical Phones.

"It's alright. You kids don't need to join the line with us. Just go and enjoy yourself." Her father said and she gave and excited smile before pulling the twins along with her.

They walked around looking at the different shops in the mall.

When they came across the clothes and shoes section, she very much wanted to buy some of those muggle clothes but knew that her family won't be able to afford it so they had to leave.

The potions shop was next and Fred George looked rather excited for some reason. The shop itself was quite neat and clean unlike the Slug and Jiggers Apothecary that smells like week old rotten eggs and looks like it hadn't been cleaned for decades.

The next shop was filled with the new trunks that her father had told her about.

Except that those were not trunks but in fact trolley bags that could be taken around easily.

She instantly fell in love with a blue colored trolley bag and after her parents bought a pair of Magical Phones, they bought the new trolley bag for her.

They would have normally not bought a new bag for her but these trolley bags were very useful and even had a guarantee of one year. Especially because she asked for one as her birthday gift.

The thing that surprised her the most was that despite their apparent poverty, her parents were still able to buy those two MP Lites which were surprisingly cheap when you think about all the hard work and resources that must have went in making that device.

Oh well, the cheaper it was, the better it was for her family.

After buying her Trolley bag, they went to the last shop in the mall, which was not really a shop but a library.

The first public library in Magical Britain.

That was… surprising.

How had no one ever thought about opening a library before this.

She could already see a line of wizards and witches who wanted to register themselves for the library.

After asking around for a bit, Fred and George told her that the library even held books that were in the restricted section of the Hogwarts library along with many books that were not even found in Hogwarts at all.

She wondered where the people running this library had found all those books as some of them looked really old as well.

Oh well, she was not a very studious girl. Nor did she had enough money to register for the monthly subscription so she could only drool from outside.

After checking up the library, they finally went to the fountain in the middle of the Mall and snapped a few photos from her father old camera.

After that was done, they finally left the shop with Olivander's shop being the last stop before they went back home.

As she went home she thought back on how exciting the whole day had been for her. And the experience was only enhanced even further because of the Shop opened by Harry Potter even though the long wait in the lines were a chore.

Now she was even more certain of her decision to go to Ravenclaw and would ask the hat to send her there if possible though the chances of such a thing happening were rather low considering not general apathy toward books and education in general.

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"We're all sold." Steve declared as he sat down on the sofa in front of him and Harry wondered if he had heard it right.

"All sold?" he asked and Steve nodded.

"Yes. Till now we had produced about 3000 MP Lites and 1000 MP Pros. All of them had been sold. We've no more Magical Phones left for the masses and have already started to take orders from the witches and wizards." Steve said "Even the muggle parents of the muggleborns bought a fair share of your Phones which was a bit out of our expectations."

"Anything else?" he asked and Steve nodded.

"The Veela, Goblins and Werewolves that we hired in our company also bought a lot of our Magical Phones and have shared it with their communities so now we're receiving even more orders from Clients that we didn't even knew existed up until now." Steve explained.

"The goblins themselves have ordered a large batch of 1800 MP Lite for their employees." Steve said "By now we've already received orders from about 6700 people whether it be a wizard, a muggle or some a person from some other magical race."

Harry took a moment to process what Steve had told him and calculated the numbers in his head.

"Doesn't that mean that we'll have enough orders to keep us working for the next 4 months?" he asked and Steve nodded once again.

"And it's not like those orders are stopping either." Steve explained "The wizards and witches themselves have a population of about 20,000 if we exclude other races like Vampires and Werewolves. And we don't know much about the goblins but I'm willing to bet that there must be more than 10,000 goblins living underground in London."

"So I believe that we'll have enough orders to last a whole year by the end of this month." Steve said with a frown.

"That is… a good thing." He said hesitantly. Because even though selling so many products was really a good thing, the problem was that their employees were rather slow in manufacturing those Phones.

"I need you to do something to increase the speed of production" Steve said and he gave a nod, already thinking about the various ways they could speed up the process of manufacturing each Magical Phone.

The most simple and obvious way to increase the production speed would be to simply hire more people.

But that was not really an answer as soon enough they'll have to expand overseas and they couldn't always increase more employees in order to increase production.

Such a thing was just not feasible if they wanted to keep up the quality of their product.

He also thought about creating a machine that could automatically carve small runes on a surface.

If he succeeded in creating such an automatic machine then that would save a lot of time and man power for the company.

"I'll think up of something." He said "Is there anything else you wanted to talk to me about?"

"Yes." Steve nodded "The money from selling all those MP Lites and MP Pros had already earned us about 300,000 galleons and more and more galleons are coming in the company account because of the video call rates of 2 sickle per minute."

"I don't I've ever seen Scarclaw look so happy as he did when he saw the bank statement of our company this morning." Steve said with a shiver and he wondered what a goblin looked like when it was happy.

He could only imagine that the sight must be really disconcerting as he himself had never witnessed a 'happy' goblin.

"So how much galleons do we have in our company account right now?" he asked and Steve gave him a large grin before saying.

"About 550,000 galleons. The rest of the money is from the Trolley Bags, library subscriptions and the clothing store that Mera and her friends are working on."

"Even the book you and Hermione wrote sold more than 3000 copies in the first three days since it's launch, earning you about 30,000 galleons after excluding the manufacturing price."

He raised an eyebrow at that before he shook his head at the apparent success of his first book.

"Send 15,000 galleons to Hermione. No wait. Send her 20,000 galleons. The idea may have been mine but she was one who executed it so she should receive more."

Steve gave a nod at that, not really thinking about that kind of wealth too much.

Now that their company had lunched with such great success, they would only get even more success in the future so giving away such small amount of wealth was nothing to him.

"There's also the article about your shop in the Daily Prophet" Steve said and they both started chuckling at the thought of the article written by some pureblood fool in the ministry.

The article told the readers about how the things he sold were changing the tradition of the wizarding world and how that was a bad thing.

The article was supposed to put a stop to the amount of people coming to his shop but the opposite effect of making people curious so the next day even more people came to his shop in order to check out what the Daily Prophet was talking about.

There was also an article in the Quibbler about how the clothes that he sold in his Mall would soon come alive and how selling those to the masses was all the part of a conspiracy by him to take over the Magical Britain.

That article was mildly amusing to him but it was not even compared to the article published by the Witch Weekly which was now claiming him to be the most sought after bachelor in the whole Magical Britain.

And ever since that article in the Witch Weekly, he had been getting owls upon owls bearing gifts for him from the girls who were not even 10 years old to women who were more than 50 years his senior.

In fact, it got to the point where he had to task two house elves to take any mail or gift coming for him and put it in a separate room.

By this point the room was filled to the brim with gifts and he had to open another room which was also half filled with those letters and gifts.

When this whole thing settles down, he would have hire a few people to sort through those gifts and see if he had received anything useful or not.

And probably even send a few mails back to their respective owner.

"But still. The fact that the Daily Prophet is writing such negative articles about us is not really a good thing." Steve said with a slight frown "Even though I'm a muggle, I'm starting to understand a little bit about how the magical government works and I don't think the purebloods will remain silent for very long if things continue to go like this."

He nodded at Steve's words. Steve was right. Sooner or later the purebloods will find some way to attack him because of all the changes he was bringing to their world.

But he was not worried because he had already created dozens of counter measures for every scenario that might pop up in the future.

"Don't worry about them." He assured Steve "If they do something then I'll deal with them. You just focus on the company and leave everything else to me."

Steve nodded at his words and got up from his chair "If there's nothing else?"

He nodded and Steve left the room, going back to his office with the help of Andromeda's house elf.

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