Magnus, in his dozens of companies, employed more than five hundred thousand people. Among these were thousands of Wizards as well.
Now, it was human nature to have the 7 deadly sins in their psyche. It was extremely hard to avoid all these temptations. And the hardest one was greed. Oftentimes, among the muggle workers, many would try to sell company secrets to other companies or would try to jump the ship.
To their bad luck, the paper on which their contract was written was not ordinary. As soon as they break the contract, it gets notified to a group of 10 completely loyal wizards. They would then find the man, look into his head at what he did, with whom he shared the secrets. Then, not just he gets obliviated, but also those who got that secret. Later, that man would be sent back to work, only to receive a letter of termination.
This was how all secrets remained a secret. The thing was harsher for Wizards. Magnus was the only big employer of wizards, there was nowhere else to go. So, the treachery here was a much bigger crime. Some wizards would either accept to damage something in Magnus's company for money from families that hate Magnus, or from some dark wizard.
These Wizards get their entire work life obliviated, their bank account gets emptied, taking away all the money they made by working for Magnus, then they are thrown out. The people who hired these wizards in the first place are given a letter of threat, that if they try this again, they will die.
Though treachery among wizards was extremely rare, they truly respected Magnus and were thankful to him for providing them with a job that makes them feel like an efficient part of society.
Treachery was most common among the muggles, as they don't really know about the consequences or that they are being watched no matter what their position is. It does not matter if you're a janitor or a Director.
MEDA was the only completely loyal organisation to him, as it only employed Wizards and due to their work, they were by the contract signed, made to go through mind checks every week to prove they had not been compromised. Only a select few and Adrian did these mind checks since this involved sometimes seeing a personal memory of wizards.
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Magnus returned home from the long trip. It was fun as well as bountiful. By the time he arrived back at home, in the US, Nixon had resigned and now Ford was the President, and as discussed before, he kept his words and checked the problems being faced by Magnus' company. Soon, everything got solved and all the monopolistic activities ended, with Emrys Construction starting to receive contracts from fair bids.
At home, everything was just fine, the economy was still facing an upward trend, completely opposite to the entire world. Currently, the US was facing a GDP growth of -0.54%, as compared to the previous year's 5.56%. It was an annual decrease of -6.19%. The UK meanwhile had a modest 3% annual growth, less than last year's 6.2%, but still acceptable since the world economy was down. Next year when everything goes up, their numbers will be better than ever in history. [A/N: In the real world, the UK faced a pretty bad decline, much worse than the US.]
All was 'Magnus Miracle', only those in the upper circles were calling it this. People were happy, protests against the government were non-existent at this point.
Only one thing was left in the UK that was still troubling them and damaging their economy. In February, eleven people were killed in the M62 coach bombing. Of course, done by none other than IRA. The bus was carrying off-duty defence forces and their families. Casualties included civilians and kids as well.
What was worse was the IRA Army Council response. Ó Conaill, an Irish Republican, replied that the coach was selected as a legitimate target because IRA intelligence had indicated that the vehicle was commissioned to carry military personnel only.
Magnus didn't like this level of disregard for life. He honestly didn't care about land or boundaries, all were human to him and he wanted nothing but progress to hit all. But, as the monarch, he could not just cede land, as that would put him in a bad position.
So, to ensure peace, he finally sent MEDA, a team of master obliviators went ahead, making the Irish side stop their armed conflict. When peace talks ensued, Northern Ireland was given the right to resolve any issues it had with the South. Other than this, the UK would still govern Northern Ireland like any other part of the country. Magnus wanted this, as he knew that they would not agree to let the UK govern. But, if he wanted to boost the country, he needed to divide it into states, for this, this agreement was necessary.
By 30th July 1974, the agreement was passed between the countries, finally ending the bloody conflict.
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"We have a report for the Nestle company. They have been found to lie about all their products. For their chocolates, slave labour is used in Africa, their Baby Formula is absolutely not healthy or as good as a real mother's milk. Their water bottles are mostly just tap water sold as mountain water. Sometimes they even subvert water pipelines in developing countries to fill their bottles, leaving people to drink contaminated dirty water.
"All in all, it's an evil company, as evil as it goes," Adrian revealed the entire report to Magnus and Grace in the living room of Magnus' Mansion.
Grace was shaken, "How... how did they go for so long without being shut? It's as if they are against all human rights."
"Well, this is what gives a bad name to capitalism." Magnis sighingly said. But the bigger bomb was yet to drop.
*Cough* "Lady Grace, Magnus, this isn't even the worst part. I checked all the old documents, from the inception of this company. I have found that Nestle was allied with Nazi Germany and used Jewish imprisoned Slave labour in their factories." Adrian revealed. [A/N: This is true. In 2000, Nestle paid 14.6 Million as a settlement with Holocaust survivors.]
*Whistle* Ragnar whistled in astonishment, "I'm from a wizard family, we were never taught about muggle history, but man, even I know Nazis equals bad. How is this company still operating?"
"Does the US's FDA know about this?" Magnus inquired.
Adrian nodded, "They have received a lot of complaints and evidence, but they keep ignoring it. They are well-fed it seems."
Magnus nodded, "Fine, this is what you will do. Send all the evidence to the US President via mail with my stamp. Send it to a few real human rights organisations around the world. Send evidence of their alignment with Nazis to major Jewish organisations. Then, drown it in lawsuits, bring the company's market value to the ground. And when it hits rock bottom on the verge of bankruptcy, buy it."
"Are you going to run it?" Adrian asked.
Magnus scowled in disgust, "NEVER, I'm going to end the company, it will never see the market again, it will be delisted and become a piece of history. We will create a new company and take away all the current Nestle's assets. The company is the bad one, not the many of its workers. And this time, we will do it right, with Ragnar's healthy products and chocolates not made with Slave labour."
Ragnar nodded, "Sure, as long as you pay me money."
Magnus sighed, "Ah, and here I thought we were family. Look, mum, how greedy he is."
Grace chuckled, "Isn't Oroborus a dragon?"
Magnus shrugged, "Umm, I'd say it's a mix of snake and dragon. No wonder he's slimy like a snake and greedy like a dragon."
"You're no better, Magnus," Grace added.
And this was critical damage.
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Bobby sat at home and looked at the news. Due to Ragnar's potions, his dad's cancer had been completely eradicated. Magnus made sure of it by trying to sniff cancer on him, it was nowhere.
Now, Mr and Mrs Armstrong were retired and run a charity foundation that watches over helping poor kids go to school or college. They were extremely proud of their son, and also Magnus.
Bobby, albeit being super-rich, still acted like a good little son and spent family time at home. "Haha, mum look, all this was done by Magnus. That Netsle company was purely evil."
"Really? Hmm... I should stop giving their boxes to charity." Mrs Armstrong, a retired kindergarten teacher, said.
Bobby nodded, "But don't worry, Magnus himself is launching a new company, it will be a real healthy baby formula, he's even launching an adult version, saying that adults also lack a lot of nutrition in today's busy times. I will buy some for you two."
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Slowly, time went by and came 1st September, time to return to school. But Magnus had not much to do now, so he had decided to spend most of his time researching things he wanted to.
One of them was medicine with the help of Herbology and Alchemy. He wanted to become famous in the Muggle world after all, only then can he exert more influence.
And the best thing he could think of making was medicine to cure something that most people have but never admit having it... DEPRESSION.
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Spells to cheer people up already exist in the magical world. All he needed was to find a way to make a physical cure that is not addictive and actually makes the person better that at one point they'd stop taking the medicine. There should also be some way to make it so that if a person is not depressed the medicine won't work anymore.
With magic, it was clearly possible. All he needed to do was to make a pill with magical means first and then ask Ragnar to help find materials from the muggle world that can make the same thing.
And to be completely honest, it was really hard. He had to read so many books about brains, medicine, magic and whatnot. Thankfully, Merlin was very helpful. He would tell and teach him the secrets about the human mind.
This year, he did not participate in the Quidditch, yet, the Slytherin team won the house cup. They proved themselves to Magnus, that they were worth something even without him.
Emma, who was the captain, deserved a gift this time, so Magnus organised a party in Slytherin House again. Complete with food, music and dancing. Older and much more mature now, Magnus danced with Emma as well. Not the romantic kind, but the fun kind.
"Man, I pity the other houses. They can't have this much fun ever." Ragnar laughed.
"Don't say that Rag, look at Severus, he's missing Lily," Magnus said, targeting the brooding Severus. Eventually, they had to drag him to dance.
Later, they found out why Severus was brooding. It turns out, he wants to buy a new house, but, he didn't want to leave Lily either.
"You fool, just build a new bigger house right there, one with all kinds of safety mechanisms. Why move away? Heck, even build Lily a new house while at it." Magnus suggested.
"The government won't give permission," Severus said, after all, the land around his house was public land.
Ragnar blurted, "Fuck the government. Mag here is the boss, he will get you the permissions. Isn't that whole area like a ghost town already? Mag, why not turn that place into a posh locality with expensive homes?"
Magnus shrugged, "Sure, I don't mind. A lot of wizards live there anyway, their lives will become better with that."
"MAGNUS! Can I get a Television? I saw its advertisement in the papers." A 7th-year girl excitedly asked him.
Magnus nodded, "Sure, in fact, every single kid and teacher in the school will get a television unit for free. There will also be television sets fitted in each of the 4 house's common rooms."
~Hah, let me brainwash you into a more civilised society, you fools.~ Magnus was having his evil mastermind moment in his head.
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Ragnar left for Syria to participate in the eighty-second Wizarding Schools Potions Championship. Severus didn't go, saying Ragnar was going so it was pointless. With Ragnar also went Professor Slughorn, since he wanted to brag about his best student ever, Ragnar, to the entire wizarding potioneering community.
During the competition, Ragnar was too bullish, making potions in each round that would give the judges orgasms of satisfaction. They start singing the praises of Ragnar. Slughorn would every time feel that he made the right decision by becoming a professor at Hogwarts.
"Fufufu... you can't win." Ragnar proclaimed in the final competition, against him and a Syrian wizard student. The potion they needed to make was Liquid Luck. And, due to Magnus' greed, Ragnar had already mastered it.
The end result was, Ragnar won. He received the grand prize of measly 5000 galleons, a certificate, a gold medal and membership of the highest tier in the World Potioneer Guild.
A week later, he was proudly welcomed into Hogwarts and praised by Dumbledore at dinner. Dumbledore was genuinely happy, as he saw Hogwarts be the best in so many things. Heck, Magnus won them the World Cup.
~Are we seeing the new Golden Age of Hogwarts? I hope Magnus' siblings are just as extraordinary.~ Dumbledore hoped.
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During this time, in the muggle world, after the huge Nestle scandal and the bullish way its market cap was brought down to just 6 Million dollars, with the majority of its factories and plants closed, the company filed for bankruptcy.
The CEO of the company and all its management even came forward and publicly apologised, yet the protest against them around the world did not stop. Then, the company CEO made a foolish statement at a US congressional hearing, saying the company did not have the responsibility of how the people consume their products. That it did not matter to them if people add dirty water to their baby formula.
Well, hell broke loose then. The CEO ran away, back to live in his ranch in Switzerland. Magnus made sure to fuel lawsuits against that as well, on the basis that this property was bought with slave labour money.
After being constantly hounded by Magnus, MEDA, Tonks & Tonks. They finally decided to sell. Magnus's spokesperson proudly announced that they will buy the company, delist it and let it become history. On top of that, they also gave all the money Tonks & Tonks got for out of the court settlements to various Jewish and Human Rights organisations.
In the end, they came out as saints, while also entering the food and beverage business. Kitkat was owned by Magnus now. And the first person to eat the new batch was Emma.
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Great Hall, Hogwarts
"So, how is it? This is the first batch of chocolates made by real workers, not slaves. It also has some health supplements." Magnus asked her.
She was just eating them happily, "Well, it's pretty tasty."
"What are you doing? Ah, Kitkat? I like these. You used my formula, right?" Ragnar quickly took one and ate a big chunk.
Magnus stood up in shock and disgust, "YOU HEATHEN! How can you eat a Kitkat like that? God, look how you butchered this chocolate. NO! You eat it one small bar at a time, not with a big bite in the middle."
Ragnar shrugged, "Whatever, it's just chocolate. Anyway, I just found a new material that might help you in making that depression medicine."
Magnus hugged him, "Really? You're the best, Rag. Here, eat more Kitkats like a heathen, I won't mind."
"YOU HAVE DEPRESSION?!" Emma exclaimed.
Magnus annoyedly put his hand on her mouth, "Calm down, it's for the muggle world, my new invention, not for me."
"Ragnar, with this, I can complete my medicine development. We need to find people to test it on. Hmm... what about the Gryffindor four?" Magnus suggested.
Ragnar looked at them, "Umm... Nah, you need a brain first to be depressed."
*Sigh* "True, so... maybe I can find someone in Azkaban... OH, what about our prisoner?" Magnus inquired.
Ragnar's face lit up, "Hehe, how did we forget him? He's the best guinea pig possible. If the medicine works and he becomes cheerful again, I will have fun breaking him. If it does not work, no harm is done."
"Let's go after dinner." Magnus and Ragnar planned. Rodolphus Lestrange was still alive and facing every torture known to mankind for the past 8 months. The man was healed to the best condition every week only to be broken again.
And it was working, slowly Ragnar was growing bored of him. The day Ragnar decides to let him die will be the day he truly lets the past go.
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In the Muggle World,
To bring the image of the Royal family to greater heights. Magnus ordered for a new organisation to be made. It was named "Royal Administration for Food Safety, in short RAFFS." Its main purpose was to check every single consumable item entering the British market for health hazards. The tests will be done by both muggles and wizards. Anything hazardous would be kept away.
All the research was also publicly published in papers for all to see. Magnus's new company, Royal Delight, was the one that took over all the products, operations and assets of Nestle. They rebranded everything, changed the Baby Formulas, water bottles truly started to get water from the mountains, and cocoa harvesting didn't use slave labour anymore.
The new RAFFS report revealed that this time the new Baby formula is truly safe and good for children. Yet, on the box, it was written in big warning to only use clean water and that nothing can ever replace Mother's Milk, so only use Baby Formula if you can not give Mother's milk.
At the same time, Magnus made sure to grill WHO with lawsuits and public relations disasters. Magnus' company openly scolded WHO for not taking any action. This was like the old Ciggerate commercial disaster again, where smoking cigarettes was shown as good for health.
WHO apologised and promised to work better this time. And guess what, a lot of food and beverages companies doing illegal stuff became good by quickly stopping their evil ways.
This was exactly what Magnus wanted.
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