"We will need money. A good bit of it." Dudley said, while they were scouring the house for parts to their wonderful TARDIS. At least that's what Dudley called it in his head. He still wasn't entirely clear on how the whole thing would work, but then he wasn't exactly the brains of the outfit, he knew that.
"Yes, we do. And some source of Cadmium." Millicent is going through her lists.
"Does it need to be pure? And how much?" Dudley asked.
"Not much, a few gram will do and I can purify it myself." Millie answered checking off a point.
"Great," said Dudley, "You can check that off then, I just need to find my walkman. The batteries are nicad, there should be enough of it in there. Now about the money."
"I thought about looking up lottery numbers." said Millie. "But that might be to random and might be different even with the first step we make, so I thought about treasures found between then and now, but I have no idea where to look for that."
"Can't you just magic up money?" Dudley interrupted.
"No, goblin money is protected and muggle money has those serial numbers. And unless we want to stay on the shady side, most money needs to be traceable on the muggle side. Taxes and such. It won't work."
"What do we do then?"
"Well we get the lottery numbers anyway, just in case."
"Could we steal it? Should be easy with magic, shouldn't it?" Dudley asked, surprising himself.
"Steal?" Millie wrinkles her brow. "That's. That's actually a good idea. We can't just steal money. But small, easily sellable things? That should work. The wizarding authorities only get involved if it's blatant and the muggle police make a fuss." Millie was thinking out loud.
"Let's keep it in mind unless we have a better idea. But only until we have capital." Millie said. "For afterwards I have a perfect and easy plan. We just buy antiquities in a bad state and fix them up."
"Huh?" said Dudley, not quite caught up.
"Look, it's pretty easy to repair things and make them last longer, or renovate them. Most wizards only need shopping for things they don't have at all. Once you have something, it's easy to make it last. So we buy up things in a bad state, so we can get them cheap, repair them, polish them up and sell them."
"That's, that's brilliant." Dudley said.
For a moment though his face fell. He tried to school his face immediately, but Millie had noticed.
"What is it?"
"I'm sorry. I just had a Mum-moment. I feel a little useless. It's all so easy with your magic and I'm just the muggle brawn."
"Dudley?" said Millie.
"Yes?"
"Shut up. I want you by my side. Got that?"
She stopped him from replying with a finger on his lips and then replaced it with her own lips.