What you can actually sell, how much Penny pays and what happens if you free her after Minding Your Own Business. The instructions below focus on the exact location, action or unlock from this keyword—not generic troubleshooting.
Quick Answer
After completing Minding Your Own Business, Penny operates your Hogsmeade shop and pays 10% more for unwanted clothing gear than ordinary vendors. If standard prices are 60, 90, 150 or 200 Galleons, her prices are 66, 99, 165 or 220. Freeing Penny does not remove the shopkeeper or the bonus.
Interactive guide
Exact steps — in order
Finish Minding Your Own Business
Complete the haunted shop quest, including Fastidio and Cassandra Mason, to gain ownership.
Choose a shop name
Select the offered names (Stitches and Draughts, Vesters and Venum, or Cladwell and Brewster). This is presentation flavor, not a different earnings system.
Decide whether to free Penny
You may free her or leave the existing arrangement. Either way, she continues working at the counter.
Sell unwanted Gear items
Visit your shop with spare clothing. Penny buys wearable gear, not a general inventory of potions, beasts or ingredients.
Check the price bonus
Compare a gear sale at a regular merchant with Penny’s price. Her normal advantage is 10%.
Remember the haunting-hours dialogue
The story discusses keeping the premises for Fastidio after hours, but the game does not become a player-managed opening-hours simulator requiring you to close by exactly 9 PM.
Important details and common mistakes
Shop name spelling matters
The game’s choices are Stitches and Draughts, Vesters and Venum, and Cladwell and Brewster. Names do not change the 10% price multiplier.
Freeing Penny is not a money penalty
She stays and sells your gear in either ending, and the 10% gear bonus remains available.
Don’t overstate shop management
You cannot stock shelves, run a customer schedule or automate profit generation. The money benefit comes from selling unwanted gear at her counter.
Frequently asked questions
Does freeing Penny make her leave?
No. She continues to work at your shop.
Can I sell beasts to Penny?
No; use Brood and Peck for beasts. Penny’s bonus applies to equipment/gear sales.
Is the shop closed at 9 PM in normal gameplay?
There is story dialogue involving Fastidio after hours, but no player-controlled daily closing task is required.
Reference checks
External guides and official documentation used for gameplay verification. Links are optional; the article works offline.