Published at 30th of November 2019 10:41 pm

Chapter 112: Albus Dumbledore the model

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"Steve." Harry shouted and the man turned to glare at him.

"Can you not disturb me for once. Can't you see I'm working?"

Harry gave him a shrug and passed the blue prints, rune prints, or whatever you would call them to Steve.

The older man looked at Runes written on the parchments before he gazed back at Harry and asked "MP Pro?"

Harry nodded "I want the production to start as soon as possible."

Steve nodded "I understand. Any other request President Harry."

The sarcasm in his voice couldn't have been more clearer and Harry wondered if this is how he talked with everyone else in his company as well.

No wonder he got kicked out of Apple.

The new employees in his company had already started complaining about the harsh treatment they were receiving from Steve with how hard he pushed them.

But regardless of all his apparent weaknesses, Harry would not remove the man even in his dreams.

The Apple company made that mistake and they almost lost everything because of it until he came back and saved their asses.

Plus, the man showed results.

Great results.

"I want each of the new products to be thoroughly tested before we launch them in the market. I don't want any problem to occur because of the carelessness of our employees." Which was true.

The men now working under him (or Steve) were all very talented and rather good at their work. But anyone can make mistakes. Especially in his company where everything was hand made.

At his words, Steve gave him an unamused glance and said "Already took care of that. Do you really think that I would even sell 2nd class product to my clients?"

Coming from any other man, those words might have sounded a bit arrogant. But coming from Steve Jobs, who was the CEO of Apple, which was a company known worldwide for it's quality, those words held a lot of weight and Harry realized that he had been worried over nothing.

He didn't needed to worry about the MP Lite and MP Pro anymore.

Steve would take care of them.

Now he only needed to take care of the Magical towers that would boost the range of the Magical Phones and then create a central large tower that would act as a headquarter, data base, call center and what not.

The runes and charms for the Magical towers had already been constructed and now he was waiting for Penelope to decipher his runes so that he could then pass it on to Steve who would then pass it on to the employees working under him.

But the Central tower would take time. Lots and lots of time as he would have to create everything himself.

And the runes he created in the central tower would never be deciphered as they needed to be kept secret from other people.

Other rune masters might copy the runes in his Magical Phones and succeed in creating their own version of Phones in a few years but they would never succeed if they didn't knew how to create the Central Tower.

He wanted to create a monopoly in this communication business.

He knew that monopolies are not always a good thing because they generally hinder progress and innovation but he doubted that he would have to worry about such things with Steve Jobs at the helm of his company.

Nope, he didn't need to worry about that at all.

The only thing he needed to worry about was that Steve wouldn't overwork the people working under him and scare them away.

And with that thought, he resumed working on the design of the Central Magical Tower which would be the key to everything.

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"Harry my boy, it's so good to see you. May I know what brings you to my humble office?" Albus asked curiously as Harry entered his office and sat one the chair in front of him without even asking for permission.

Such a rude gesture would have angered or at least irritated anyone else but his long life had taught him anything, then it was patience.

Plus, by now he was used to such rude gestures from the young boy so he didn't let it bother him too much.

Though the fact that he had lost the boy's trust did saddened him a little bit.

"If you call this office humble Albus, then I think I should call myself the Queen of England."

Albus smiled at the boy's sarcastic answer.

At least the boy was not being totally hostile this fine day.

Then he remembered something and took the jar from underneath his desk and took out a round sweet from inside of it and offered it to young Harry "Lemon drops?"

The boy gave him an unamused glance and Albus knew that the boy would not realize that wonders of Lemon Drops either.

Just like every other wizard whom he offered the sweets.

And wasn't that a tragedy upon itself.

That people get so entangled in his life that they stop enjoying the small sweet things in life.

"You do realize that you look exactly like the kind of person that parents usually warn their kids about? You know… what with the purple colored robes and that kind smile"

The sarcasm couldn't have been more evident in his voice but Albus just smiled.

He had been called far worse things in his life than a creepy old man and if he let such things effect his life then he would never get anywhere.

"Regardless. I'm not here to argue with you today Albus." Harry said and he raised his eyebrows in curiosity.

So the boy wanted something from him.

He wondered what it was.

As long as it was not something very expensive or very time consuming, he would not mind giving it to the boy. Such a gesture might go a long way in rebuilding their broken relationship.

Plus, the boy had suffered a lot in his life because of him so it was only proper that he gave something in return for it.

"Then why are you here my boy?" he asked with a grandfatherly smile and Harry gave him an unamused glare.

He knew that Harry didn't liked to be called 'My boy' by him and took some sort of perverse joy in doing that again and again.

After all, you needed to enjoy the small sweet things in life otherwise it would get too serious and boring.

"Okay Albus, I'll cut to the chase. You know that you made a huge mistake when you sent me to live with the Dursleys. You also told me that you were sorry to do it. But you never did anything to earn my forgiveness."

"Ohh… And what must I do in order to earn your forgiveness my boy?" he asked curiously.

"Simple. You are going to be a model in the new advertisement campaign for my company."

"Model?" Albus asked, feeling a bit confused. He had no idea what the boy was talking about. And advertisement. Albus had seen a few advertisements in the muggle world but there were no such things in the magical world.

Was the boy thinking of using him as a model in the advertisements like how the superstars from the muggle world appeared in those posters.

He didn't knew what point such a thing would serve but the whole process didn't seemed to time consuming so there shouldn't be any problem with accepting the proposition.

Except, he couldn't make it so easy for Harry or the boy might take his help form granted.

"I am afraid afraid that as much as I want to help you my boy, my schedule just doesn't have any free space in it where I could act as a model for your advertisement."

"Oh don't worry old man. It won't take a lot of your time. And if your posts are taking so much of your time, then you could always drop one of them." Harry said with a scoff "It's not like you're doing a good job in any of your posts."

Albus knew what the boy was talking about but chose to ignore the barb made at his expense.

"I'm afraid that is not an option my boy. Abdicating my position until someone worthy comes along to replace me would just be irresponsible of me. So even if I wanted to, I couldn't leave any of my posts."

Harry's left eye twitched and Albus inwardly smiled. He was getting under the boy's skin and both of them knew it.

So just like that, the both of them shared words for ten whole minutes until he was at last persuaded by Harry to act as a model for his new company.

If nothing else, this new experience of being a model should at least provide some amusement to him.

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