Hallo and welcome to Charming! :D If you have any questions, feel free to reach out. I'm available via PM or Discord if you have it!
My first instinct for networking is to just throw everyone at everyone lmao but to start out with:
Veronica Gallivan is the owner of Quality Quidditch Supplies in Hogsmeade so I imagine that she and Clarence might know each other! She's very friendly and is also an inventor so I feel like they'd get on quite well.
Irene Crawley used to live in Hogsmeade as an artist and conservator. She likely visited the apothecary a lot for ingredients for mixing paints! Earlier this year she received a letter from a distant cousin who bequeathed a fortune that allowed her to move from Working Class to Middle Class; when she went to meet her cousin in Italy, she stayed for the summer for an art intensive. Upon returning to England in September, she was on one of the ships that got attacked by dragons, and has been at St. Mungos as a coma patient ever since. I have a bit of an abstract plot for her that could be interesting as well!
finally I have Philomena Sprout here whose family owns Evergardens, a magical greenhouse in London! If Clarence ever sources his materials from other places, the Apothecary and Evergardens could be an interesting business partnership, since Evergardens has a poison garden and helps supply the hospitals with herbs and such
I have more, but those are some good connections to start out with. Feel free to take or leave whichever you'd like, I'm down for anything! ^_^
My first instinct for networking is to just throw everyone at everyone lmao but to start out with:
Veronica Gallivan is the owner of Quality Quidditch Supplies in Hogsmeade so I imagine that she and Clarence might know each other! She's very friendly and is also an inventor so I feel like they'd get on quite well.
Irene Crawley used to live in Hogsmeade as an artist and conservator. She likely visited the apothecary a lot for ingredients for mixing paints! Earlier this year she received a letter from a distant cousin who bequeathed a fortune that allowed her to move from Working Class to Middle Class; when she went to meet her cousin in Italy, she stayed for the summer for an art intensive. Upon returning to England in September, she was on one of the ships that got attacked by dragons, and has been at St. Mungos as a coma patient ever since. I have a bit of an abstract plot for her that could be interesting as well!
finally I have Philomena Sprout here whose family owns Evergardens, a magical greenhouse in London! If Clarence ever sources his materials from other places, the Apothecary and Evergardens could be an interesting business partnership, since Evergardens has a poison garden and helps supply the hospitals with herbs and such

I have more, but those are some good connections to start out with. Feel free to take or leave whichever you'd like, I'm down for anything! ^_^