Royal Brompton Hospital, London.

"Anna, I'm here, you go back first. ”

Mrs. Michelle looked distressedly at Anna, who had a tired look in the corner of her eye.

"It's okay mother. Anna smiled and said, "I slept for a long time yesterday. ”

"Well, if you really can't do it, Anna, you can sell the farm. ”

Mrs. Michelle couldn't see that her daughter was hard-mouthed, so she couldn't help sighing: "The doctor also said just now, your father can't be too tired in the future, and the business of the farm will be handed over to the manager, to be honest, your father will definitely not agree if he knows it." ”

"Mother, do you think Father will agree?" Anna smiled wryly.

Robert West has always regarded family honor as his life, and the most 300-year-old and gradually lonely West family, in addition to the castle that costs a lot of money to repair every year, is left with the huge farm in Greenwich Town.

A few years ago, due to the bad economy, the crops did not sell very well, and Robert West had reluctantly sold part of the farm. Now if it is all sold, when he comes home and finds that the land is gone, I am afraid that he will have the heart to jump off the building!

"Alas...... "How could Mrs. Michelle, as a wife, not know her husband's thoughts, and couldn't help but sigh for the second time.

Anna comforted: "It's okay mother, I've asked someone to find a professional farm manager." When my father recovers from his illness, if he doesn't want to, he can be dismissed. ”

"Oh well. Anna, don't stay in the hospital any longer, go back and rest early. ”

"Well, I know. ”

After chatting about the farm, Mrs. Michelle suddenly said, "How are you and Evan doing now?"

"Okay, what's wrong?" asked Anna, confused.

"Nothing, just asking. ”

"Then I'll go back first, and you take care of your father more. ”

"Well, I've hired a caregiver to take care of it. ”

After a few more conversations, Anna went into the ward to take a look at her sleeping father, and after saying goodbye to Mrs. Michelle, she left the hospital and drove to her apartment in the city.

Half an hour passed.

As Anna was about to turn right back to the downstairs of her apartment, her eyes suddenly caught a glimpse of a bookstore across the road, with a poster hanging on the glass wall that read: "Evan's new Harry Potter!"

"It's already published?!"

Anna was pleasantly surprised, she had heard him mention it when she had contacted Lidt to help her find a farm manager, and she had not expected it to be released by Thames Publishing Company so soon.

After finding a place to park, Anna walked into the bookstore, and with the guidance of the owner, she picked up a copy of Harry Potter on the shelf.

On the cover, a young boy with round-rimmed glasses is timidly stepping onto an old train, which looks like the interior of King's Cross Station.

When Anna saw this cover, she couldn't help but think of the picture of him telling himself this wizard story when he walked past the crossroads station when she came to the UK with Huo Yaowen at the beginning of the year, smiled at the corner of her mouth, paid the money and turned away.

"Harry Potter" was released three days ago, and Tony Clive, the editor-in-chief of Thames Publishing, is very confident in the book, and the first printing is as high as 100,000 copies, and he is not worried about whether it will sell or not.

In addition to advertising in traditional places such as newspapers, radio stations, and bookstores, Tony Clive contacted the person in charge of King's Cross Station and asked them to help hang a huge banner inside the station to promote the book.

When Anna returned home and poured herself a glass of water, she couldn't wait to turn it over.

Because she was in a hurry to return to the UK before, Huo Yaowen didn't finish writing at that time, she only read more than half of it, and she didn't read the ending, so she had been looking forward to it for a long time.

And this scene has also appeared in many families.

Perhaps because of Huo Yaowen's fame, or because the publicity of Times Publishing Company is in place, more than 10,000 copies were sold in three days, which is a good result in the United Kingdom, which has gradually declined due to the economy in recent years.

It sold a lot, and the people who bought it were all adults, but most of the people who really read books at this time were children. Because this book is a children's book from the outside, and the previous content is only about a teenage boy, which makes those parents even more determined to be a children's magic fairy tale.

But with the passage of time, when some parents read it to their children, not only did the children enjoy listening to it, but they also slowly immersed themselves in the book.

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Mary was a nine-year-old girl, and like most children in England, she had some little freckles on her face, so when she heard her mother Laura read that Hermione Granger, the genius girl in the book, also had freckles on her face, she couldn't help but ask with joy: "Mommy, will I grow up to be like Hermione, will I become a smart child?"

"Of course, baby, you will also be a smart and beautiful girl. Laura smiled and touched her daughter's head.

"That's great!"

Mary was very happy in her heart, she always thought of a smart girl, but when she went to school, she was always ridiculed by her classmates for being a big fool, and every time she was aggrieved and wanted to cry.

This time, when my mother said this, I thought that when I went back to school tomorrow, I would take this book with me and read it to my classmates who laughed at me, and I would be a genius like Hermione Granger in the future.

Laura continued to read: "... Harry, go through it, go through nine and three-quarters, and you'll be waiting for the train to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry!"

"Mommy, is there really a train to the school of witchcraft?" asked Mary curiously.

"There must be!" Laura wanted to laugh in her heart, but her daughter was naïve, and she also said in obedience, "Maybe Mommy is a Muggle, so there was no owl to send me letters when I was a child." ”

Mary blinked her emerald green eyes and asked seriously, "What about me, can I become a wizard? Can I go to a magic school?"

Laura rubbed her daughter's hair fondly: "Oh, baby, it depends on whether an owl will come to our house to deliver a letter to you when you are ten years old next year." ”

"I'm sure the owl will send me a letter!"

Mary's cute little face was serious, she clenched her fists, looked up at her mother Laura and said, "Mommy, I want to go to King's Cross Station now, I am familiar with the station of Nine and Three-Quarters of the Familiar, and when I enter school next year, I can go to class by train alone like Harry!"

Laura pretended to be bitter and said, "Oh my God, dear Mary, are you tired of Mommy and Daddy? ”

Hearing this, Mary immediately got out of Laura's arms, stood on the sofa, patted her mother's shoulder, and said in a little adult posture: "Don't worry, Mommy, I love you and Daddy very much, when I learn magic, I'll come back, don't worry!"

"Haha......" Seeing her daughter so cute, Laura finally couldn't help it, hugged her daughter, and kissed her cute face fiercely.

Mary blinked, "Mommy, did you promise me to go to Crossbow?"

Laura thought about it, although the crossroads station is a bit away, but it is good to take her daughter to see it, nodded and said, "Okay, but we can't go until next week when you have a holiday, now it's dark, and you have to go to class tomorrow." And you have to make sure that you are honest next week, and you can't lose anything else. ”

"I promise!" Mary said hurriedly.

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In the blink of an eye, a week passed quietly.

Laura and her husband drove a cheerful Mary from south London to King's Cross station in the heart of the city.

"Oh my god, there are too many people here!"

As soon as they got off the train, the three of them noticed that there was a large crowd of people gathered at the entrance of the station, and there were many children among them.

Compared with the surprise of her parents, Mary's eyes lit up when she saw so many children, and she shouted excitedly, "Wow! There are so many children here." Mommy, Daddy, they must all be the ones going to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry! No, I'm going to ask them where the nines and three-quarters are there!"

Laura naturally didn't believe it, but seeing so many people, as well as children, she couldn't help but think that it might be the same as her own purpose, and smiled: "Really, how do I think it's the same as our little Mary, who came to familiarize herself with the Nine and Three-Quarters Station in advance?"

Laura guessed right, all the adults and children gathered at the station gate had come to King's Cross Station to look for the nine-and-three-quarters platform in the book.

Not only are there more people outside, but there are more people inside!

This has greatly delayed the passengers who come to take the bus.

However, considering that the station was all with children, in addition to setting up a fence at the entrance to prevent them from entering, they did not drive them away.

But despite the fence and the large number of staff who came out to persuade them, only a handful of people chose to leave, and there were still a large number of adults and children inside and outside the station, trying to find the mysterious platform of nine and three-quarters that could lead to the legendary Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry!

As the number of people grew, the heads of dozens of newspapers stationed in London immediately sent reporters to interview these adults and children, and even the BBC television station in London was no exception, driving a special communication and interview car to rush over.

"I'm Jim, the location host of the BBC News, and today I'm at King's Cross station, and you can see a huge crowd of people behind me, and they're silently protesting something? Women's rights, people's livelihood, or political parties?"

"Let's get closer and interview them!"

With that, Jim beckoned to the photographer, followed him, walked up to the three of them, who knew that they were a family of three, and asked, "Hello sir and madam, I'm Jim, the host of the BBC News Alert, can you ask what you are doing here?"

Laura's husband is a shy person who doesn't like to talk much, and he smiled a little embarrassedly when he saw the host interviewing him.

Instead, Laura said generously: "We are looking for nine and three-quarters of the station!"

"The car... Station?" Jim was dumbfounded.

"Yes sir!" said Laura.

Jim pointed to the group of people in front of him, "Excuse me, are they also looking for this nine-and-three-quarter station?"

"I think so!"

"What is this station, where are you going, can't you find the platform, the staff may know where it is!"

Laura smiled and shook her head: "No, people can't find this platform!"

"Can't find it, so what are you doing here?" said Jim, confused even more.

Mary raised her arm and motioned for Jim to ask herself.

"Oh my God, it's a lovely little girl who seems to want me to ask her. Well, may I ask this lovely lady, what are you looking for this platform for?"

Mary looked at the microphone in front of her, and the shot that was filming herself, quickly touched her hair, marked her cute little face, and said seriously: "I want to familiarize myself with the platform, next year I will receive a letter from the owl, become a little wizard, and then I will come to the station alone, enter the platform of nine and three-quarters, and go to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry!"

"Huo... Gwartz... Demon...... School of Magic ???"

Jim looked confused, he was a BBC location host, not to mention that he knew the whole of Britain well, but he had heard of almost all the well-known schools, but was this Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry real? Is there really a school that teaches people to learn magic and can become a legendary chief wizard?

This scene, under the live broadcast camera, spread all over London, and even the whole United Kingdom, and even several nearby countries that can receive BBC signals have heard this somewhat strange, seemingly real Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry!

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