Chapter 4: Diagon Alley and Unexpected Acquaintances
After breakfast the next day, Mr. Lambert took Ryan to Charing Cross Street, which was only about half an hour away from their home.
On the way, Ryan keeps thinking about the Harry Potter world.
In the novel, the wizarding world is not the kind of high demon world where there are as many demigods as dogs, where lichs are everywhere and transcendents dominate. But from some perspectives, the otherworldly side of this world is not so simple.
For example, in the realm of life, there are magic stones that can make people immortal. A time turner on the time field that can be used by a little girl. In the spatial realm, the space expansion spell and teleportation popularized by adult wizards. There are even lucky potions that may affect cause and effect and fate. These things, especially some of the spells that are popular in space and mind, can be said to be hundreds of years ahead of the world's technological side.
It's likely that the magic of this world isn't as simple as it seems. After all, Rowling writes fairy tales and is only a part of the wizarding world.
As for the combat effectiveness of wizards, even Peter Pettigrew, a wizard who is considered a bit lame, can blow up half a street. This can only show that the wizarding world is not incapable of combat effectiveness, but that a lot of things related to combat have been removed from school education, and this knowledge can only be passed down through the family.
Thinking of this, Ryan breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately, he has a grocery store in the worlds, which should be able to make up for the shortcomings of being an ordinary person and lacking some knowledge, after all, he went to school in the same year as the savior, thinking about the original text of the novel, he knows that it will definitely not be safe and stable in the past few years.
It seems that the previous life plan needs to be changed, and now it is necessary to take the improvement of strength as the main goal, after all, the wizarding world is still the foundation of strength, otherwise why would Dumbledore be the leader of wizards and not Fudge.
As he was thinking, Mr. Lambert suddenly stood in front of him.
"Here it is, it's 24 Charing Cross Street...... Number 28, huh, why isn't there number 26?"
Ryan looked up and saw an old and dilapidated bar with a wooden sign reading Leaky Cauldron Bar, between a record store and a bookstore.
"Daddy, take my hand. Ryan pulled his father open the door to the bar.
"It's amazing. Mr. Lambert sighed as he looked into the room in front of him. It's a medieval-style pub that doesn't look very neat, the lights are a little dim, and some people in robes are drinking or playing dice.
Maybe they had been standing at the door for a little longer, and a man with almost stripped hair and a bearded walnut appeared in front of them quietly: "I'm Tom, the owner of the Leaky Cauldron, and it looks like you need help." After speaking, he glanced at Ryan: "Are you a new Hogwarts freshman for the first time?"
"Yes," Ryan said. "We've never been exposed to magic before, how do I get to Diagon Alley? ”
Tom, the boss, gave an ugly smile: "Diagon Alley, come with me." After saying that, he took Ryan and his son to the backyard. Tom pulled out his wand and pointed at the back wall, "Count three pieces above the trash can, and two more horizontally...... Knock three times!"
As Tom tapped, the walls shook and began to move, and finally a wide archway appeared that led to a cobbled street that winds and has no end in sight.
"You'd better go to Gringotts first, just go straight and see the tallest white building where you can exchange the wizard's currency. With that, Tom put away his wand and left.
Father and son walked down the cobblestone street towards Gringotts, where the sounds of bargaining and the chirping of strange animals could be heard from the shops on both sides of the street, and Mr. Lambert showed the curiosity of a writer, and it took some effort for Lane to keep him from leaning on the glass to look at the intricate gilded astronomical model.
Soon, they came to a snow-white building that towered above the surrounding shops. Next to the gleaming bronze gate, stood a goblin dressed in a scarlet and gold uniform (Mr. Lambert complained in Chinese: "Is this a goblin? ”)。 The goblin raised his eyes and looked at the two of them, and then said weakly: "Hogwarts freshmen, exchange money and go to the special window, there is a sign there to remind you." ”
Entering the Golden Hall of Gringotts, there was a counter in the corner of the hall with a sign for the exchange of Hogwarts new students.
"Hello. Ryan walked over to the counter and greeted the goblin.
"Freshman, say your name. ”
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"Confirmed, you're on the list. The goblin took a piece of parchment and looked at it.
"New students can redeem up to 200 Galleons per year. After saying that, Mr. Lambert took out a wad of 50 pound bills from the bank last night and handed them to the goblin at the counter, and then said to Ryan: "This is a bit similar to Huaxia, last time your cousin told me that he also has a quota for everyone to exchange pounds, and he has to write a lot of papers." ”
After exchanging the money, the two decided to start with familiar things, so they went to various shops and bought magic robes, textbooks, crucibles, scales, potions, crystal bottles, and other items listed on the list. Of course, Ryan declined Mr. Lambert's suggestion to give him a pet on the pretext that he might need all his energy to deal with the new surroundings in a strange place.
The shopping process went smoothly. But thinking about spending a lot of money on a crook's novel next year, Ryan is a little depressed.
Eventually, they came to the door of a small, broken shop with a peeling gold sign that read, "Ollivanders: A Wand Made Since 382 B.C." In the dusty window by the door, a wand sits alone on a faded purple cushion.
Pushing open the door, Ryan found a man in a suit with his daughter trying on a wand, and their backs looked familiar.
Before he could think of a picture of his back, Mr. Lambert stepped forward and whispered, "Mr. Granger, I didn't expect to meet you here." ”
Ryan remembered that this Mr. Granger was a dentist, the clinic was not far from home, he had visited his clinic to have his teeth checked, and the most important thing was that his daughter was in the same school as himself, but not in the same class, and was the second in the school exam every time (Ryan: "College students take the first place in elementary school, they are not to be proud, they should be humble. ”)。
Suddenly, Ryan froze, Granger, the dentist, the brown curly-haired girl, went to Hogwarts in '91. It was easy for him to guess who the girl was. I didn't know before, on the one hand, I felt that this was an ordinary world, and I didn't think in that direction, on the other hand, Miss Granger's appearance was a little different from that of an actor, and most importantly, the pronunciation of the young lady's name he heard at school should be close to Hermanny, which was far from the pronunciation of Hermione in Chinese.
Ryan sensed the world's malice towards him as an outsider, and it seemed that his plan for seven years was about to be revised.