Chapter 30: Hagrid at the Bar
The next day, Sindra sent Canaan the Daily Prophet for the past few days, and the attack on the Wizarding Library of the United States was put on the front page.
"The library with the largest collection of books in the wizarding world in the United States was attacked by a mysterious organization yesterday"
A GIF of a ruined library took up a large part of the space, surrounded by many Aurors with ugly faces.
"Yesterday, the library in the wizarding secret realm of New York was attacked by a group of wizards in black robes, resulting in the loss of a large number of books, among which the largest existing library in the wizarding world has become a ruin... Five wizards were killed in the attack... The Aurors claim that this is what the group has been planning for a long time... They organized a number of defections within the organization. ”
"The two successive attacks have greatly reduced the prestige of the American Magic Guild, and many wizards have protested under the Woolworths building!"
Canaan flipped to the back of the newspaper, and there were many small pictures on it, including a photo of Canaan entering the library pretending to be Tofoos, and the large figure in the photo seemed to be determined to move forward.
"It's a good shot. Canaan was very pleased with the reporter's capture, and he saw a photo of Schuster, in which Schuster was facing the reporters' questions with a grim face.
Seeing Schuster's embarrassment, Canaan shook his head with a smile, in his impression, Schuster was extremely confident and thought he had the talent to see through people's hearts, so he often acted alone in the Serious Crime Division and did not listen to other people's opinions. Encountering such a big setback this time should be able to wake him up.
After breakfast, Canaan received a letter from Snape, which contained a lot of content, in addition to answering Canaan's questions about potions, and suggesting that it was best for Canaan to take a small amount of meditation potion, because this potion has a lot of side effects.
"The famous Mr. Bryan, you should know that the medicinal effect of the snake and scorpion powder in the raw materials of the meditation potion is not easily absorbed by the human body, and it will be lurking in the human body in large quantities, and the long-term accumulation will lead to rage and brain pain, if you don't want to die young, it is best to mix and write Lanshu grass liquid to drink, and eat it on the rhizome..."
This is Snape's exact words, Canaan said after reading it that this is very Snape, and the caring person is still so different, no wonder the girl will be chased away by others.
He quickly wrote a reply to Snape, and fed his owl some nuts, and sent the letter twice in three days, and the owl was familiar enough with Canaan to eat the nuts and called him affectionately twice, and flew away with the letter in his mouth.
Canaan yawned lazily, waking up too early today, he went back to his bedroom to grab his storage bag and prepare to sneak away to Diagon Alley.
Although Helen was still downstairs, Canaan said it was all a minor problem, and he was going to use the Levitation Charm to sneak out of the bedroom window, provided he didn't get seen by the Muggles.
Before leaving, he put another hair on the handle of the bedroom door, and if anyone had come in, he would have found it when he returned.
I'm so witty!
Calling a taxi outside the door, Canaan headed for Diagon Alley.
"Hi, Uncle Tom. When he came to the Leaky Cauldron Bar, Canaan greeted him warmly.
"Hi Canaan, long time no see, where have you been these days. Tom saw Canaan, put down the wine glass he was wiping, and said enthusiastically.
"Hey, Canaan, when is the show, we've been here for the past few days, and we've added a lot of business to Old Tom, just waiting to hear your music. A bearded man said.
"yes, yes. "There are a lot of people next to me.
", Rose, you haven't ordered anything from me. Tom interrupted.
"Haha, old Tom, every time I come, I don't bring a few friends to support you, since you say so, I will be generous today, and I will pay for everyone's wine today. The man known as Ross said loudly.
The surrounding wizards howled and cheered for Rose's treat. Feeling the lively atmosphere of the bar, Canaan also heckled.
Canaan suddenly saw a sorcerer with a body of more than two meters working alone on a wine table, smiling at him.
This is Hagrid!
I remember that he wanted to talk to this half-blood giant who played a lot of roles in the movie, but he never had the opportunity. This time, I can talk about it.
"Uncle Tom, give me a Venus and a Butterbeer. Oh, and add some dessert. ”
Canaan took his drink and came to Hagrid's table.
"I'm Canaan Blaine, and it's a pleasure to meet you. Canaan handed over a glass of butterbeer.
This alcoholic drink is forbidden for underage wizards, but Canaan secretly tried it, and it tasted a little maltose, and the alcohol flavor was not bad.
"Oh, hello, Mr. Blaine, my name is Hagrid and I'm the hunting groundsman at Hogwarts. Hagrid stretched out his heavy hands and introduced himself to Canaan in a very formal manner.
Canaan also stretched out his little hand, which he felt rough and rough, as if his hand had been stuffed into a hard, narrow hole in the rock.
"Oh, sorry for hurting you. Seeing the expression on Canaan's face, Hagrid hurriedly withdrew his hand, "I like your music a lot, and I think my teeth will like your music too" Hagrid was a little incoherent.
"Your teeth..."Canaan thought Hagrid was a little cute at this time, although he didn't understand how his thinking logic could jump on a dog.
"It's a dog I have, and he likes to listen to music and is a bit timid, but he always accompanies me when I guard the Forbidden Forest at night..."
"Haven't you ever had some strange animals, like a three-headed dog?" Canaan interrupted Hagrid with a bit of a headache, otherwise he thought Hagrid would be able to introduce Tooth for a morning.
"I don't have one, but I can try, I like dragons the most, I want to have one..."
Canaan patted his head a little speechlessly, and he interrupted again, "Hagrid, I think I can talk about Hogwarts, you know, in two years, I'm going to go to school there, and I'm interested in life there." ”
"Oh, sorry, I should have thought of that. After all, you're still a kid and definitely want to learn about the magical school of magic. Hagrid took a sip of Butterbeer and continued.
"There are four houses at Hogwarts, and when you new students enter the house, you will have a hat..."
Canaan patiently listened to Hagrid's introduction to Hogwarts, and pulled him on the right track from time to time, otherwise Hagrid would be sidetracked by the topic of conversation if he didn't pay attention to the topic of conversation.
He discovers that real-world Hogwarts is not much different from what he knows in the films. During Dumbledore's tenure as Headmaster, Hogwarts was still considered the most influential school of witchcraft and wizardry in the world.
Hagrid was very respectful of Dumbledore when he introduced him, and it was only when he introduced Dumbledore that Hagrid would not deviate from the topic. Sure enough, he was the most loyal person to Dumbledore.
It took an hour or so for Canaan to end up chatting happily with Hagrid, and he also knew enough about Hogwarts, after all, what he knew about Hogwarts before was all based on the movie, but there were always omissions in the film.
After chatting with the people at the Cauldron Bar for a while, Canaan came to Diagon Alley, where he needed to buy some Lanshu grass and some raw materials for alchemy medicine today.
The expenses during this period are not very large, Canaan's funds are quite abundant, but there is no need to worry about Garon, but unfortunately Canaan's Marvel series of books has been saturated in the wizarding world, and there are very few Galleons who have earned money by selling books recently. But this is also to be expected, and he has been mentally prepared for it.