Chapter 344: The Cost
“What’s with this one-liner? Just tell what you want,” Magnus asked them straightforwardly.
Jas ca forward, “Umm… not here. Co with us.”
With a raised eyebrow, Magnus tried to see what they even wanted, it could be a prank, after all, he did prank the heck out of them at the end of the last sester. “Hmm… let’s go then. Rag, Sev, follow us.”
“They can’t… Ughh fine.” Sirius relented.
They soon arrived at the empty corridors of the 5th floor. Remus was the one to break out of the tensions, “Magnus, they found out about . They want to ask you for help in becoming an Animagus. So they can roam around with in their animal forms.”
Magnus smirked, “Hehe… what is this? Do you need help from this, Magnus the great? Fine, but it’s going to cost you.”
“Money is not the problem.” Jas blurted, of course, he was the rich young master of the group.
Magnus scoffed, “Like I need your money. No, what I want is not money. For one whole month, you will beco my underlings, do whatever I order you to.”
The four looked at each other’s faces in uncertainty, this was not really what they wanted. They had no idea what Magnus would make them do either. They weighed their options.
“How long will it take to beco an Animagi?” Sirius asked.
Magnus looked at them as if they were fools, they had co to him without even doing so research. “It takes at least a month to turn into animagi, the process is long and arduous. First, you will have to keep holding the leaf of a Mandrake in your mouth for an entire month, then using the leaf, we will make a potion, then one must recite an incantation of Amato Animo Animato Animagus on a daily basis, then you drink the Animagus potion during a lightning storm.
“Rember, if you make any mistakes during this process, you are done. Either dead or disfigured. Do you still want to do it?”
As always, Peter started crying that they should not do it, but he was shut up by the angry glares of others. “We are Gryffindors. We will never back down.” Jas proudly voiced.
~Haha, fools.~ Magnus laughed inside.
“What will we have to do? We need to set so limits. For example, no making us run around naked, no making us your servants.” Remus tried to argue the terms.
Magnus shrugged, “Sure, we can do that.”
The agreent was soon signed.
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Magnus made the Gryffindor 4 do his, Ragnar, Severus and Emma’s howork. It was a hassle anyway for them. anwhile, they had fun.
Amidst all this, Magnus was notified that King Faisal wanted to talk to him. So he went to his secure office and spoke on the phone.
Magnus picked up the phone. “How are you? What made you call today, Faisal?”
King Faisal chuckled, but his voice sounded tired, “It’s good to hear from you again. Well, I just wanted to talk to you. I am afraid my end is near, Magnus.”
Magnus stood up in his seat, “WHAT? What do you an? You’re just 69,”
“A good number to die at I’d say, haha…” King Faisal joked and continued, “Well, I don’t know what will kill . It’s certainly not a disease. Most likely an assassination. I have been made aware by soone. And nobody can fight the fate that Allah has already decided for his subjects. I will distance myself from the people now and let fate run in its due course.”
Magnus snorted, “Huh, then you can prepare to enter hell. Do you not see it? The greatest duty, the greatest act of kindness you can do is by continuing to be the king, help make not only your country prosper but also the world. What is a greater service than this? And now if you die, it might be considered a suicide, since you knew about it and didn’t prevent it. And from what I know, suicide is one of the biggest sins in most of the religions.”
(￣▽￣)”
King Faisal was left speechless for a minute, the realisation slowly seeped into his head, then he exclaid, “CRAP! I shouldn’t have talked to you. No no no… I can’t die now. It’ll be suicide in heaven’s eyes.”
Magnus chuckled, “Haha, see, I told you. Now stay put, I am sending you my DA Saudi Arabia Chief. He will find out who wants to kill you and why.”
“Fine… talk to you later… if I survive.” King Faisal sighed and hung up.
Magnus laughed alone, like hell he was going to let that man die. He didn’t know how the next king would be, would he have a moderate mindset like Faisal, or would he beco too religious and head towards extremism. There was always uncertainty.
He found the number of Saudi Arabia’s head of DA and called. The man was a Saudi Arabian wizard, from a distant family related to the Saudi Royals. He had co to the UK and studied law in Oxford, only to get recruited by Adrian and then trained subsequently.
The man was called Abdirashid Abdullahi Tarabi, a hard-working man. If everything went well, he’d get promoted to Middle East Head.
“Mr Tarabi, King Pendragon speaking to this side,” Magnus started.
Formal greetings ca from the other side, “It is an honour to speak with you, Your Majesty.”
“I have a high priority task for you. Mr Tarabi. The Saudi King, a great friend of mine, King Faisal, has received the intel that he will die soon. It is going to be an assassination most likely. So I am going to need you to head to him with your best n, protect him and also catch the assassin, dead or alive.” He briefed Abdullahi.
If sothing happens to Faisal, everything will be ssed up. His land deals in Africa and peace in the Middle Eastern region, all will get pushed back.
“It will be done, Your Majesty. I will head to the Royal Palace imdiately. Ah, one more thing, sir. I would like to report to you so dangerous activities. We have caught a few smugglers who brought in British, French and other European nationals, kidnapped. Won were to be sold as sex slaves, n were to be sold for organ harvesting. There were so kids as well. We have reported everything to the Saudi Governnt and they have given us complete freedom to deal with this matter.” Abdullahi grimly inford him.
Magnus felt alerted, he didn’t receive this news. “Thank you, Mr Tarabi, I will look into it. Keep updated on this case as well.”
Magnus quickly called Adrian at that, “I got the news from Abdullahi that human traffickers were caught there with European n and won. What is going on?”
Adrian frowned, “I… we did not get any such news. If this is indeed the case, then it must be strictly done by the muggles.”
“Investigate it properly and report to what’s going on. We don’t want another Oscar now. Go and interrogate the traffickers caught in Saudi as well.” Magnus ordered an investigation and hung up.
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October 1975
It was the month that marked another great achievent. Finally, after an entire year of production, MagicMade Studios, under Warner Brother, owned by Magnus, released Superman Origins.
The new DC movie, full of all kinds of special effects, explosions, badass fight scenes, beautiful flying shots, over the mountains, oceans. The trailers were being shown around the world in theatres before the start of other movies.
There was already a lot of hype around it. The main actor, the Superman, was a British actor, his sister was a wizard. Hence, he knew about the wizarding world.
The company’s priority was to at least have the main leads know about the wizarding world. Still, it was not a major issue, they had already co up with elaborate plans to make their illusions even fool the muggles at the set.
The best part about the company was that they can do as many destruction based shots as they want since magic could fix anything. They could also shoot amazing aerial shots with the help of brooms, as they gave much better manoeuvrability than helicopters.
In total, the cost of the movie was 10 Million USD(50 million today). It was a pretty conservative price honestly, as the cost was minimised by magical ans.
The date of release was December 20th. Perfect for the winter holiday season.
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