Chapter 43: The Blotted Bookstore

In Gringotts, because the money has been withdrawn, so Darren and Hermione and Granger are together, watching them exchange pounds for Galleons, 5 pounds for 1 Galleon, it is said that this exchange rate has not changed for a long time, I don't know if according to the current gold market, it will be profitable to melt Galleon and sell it as gold......

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However, it is clear that the Granger couple are not used to dealing with non-human intelligent creatures, they do not notice the business opportunities here, and once again return to their original state, making Darren and Hermione the main communication force with the elves, and they are only responsible for taking money and collecting gold coins.

This naturally attracted the attention of others, especially certain wizards who had a keen interest in Muggles, "Ah, you are Muggles!" Mr. Weasley said happily, "We've got to have a drink! What's that one in your hand? Oh, you're exchanging Muggle currency." Molly, look!" Mr. Weasley said, pointing excitedly to the ten-pound bill in Mr. Granger's hand.

Fortunately, at this time, a goblin came over and led the Weasleys and Harry to their underground vault to withdraw money, and it could be seen that Mr. Weasley had put a lot of pressure on the Grangers, so that after he left, the Granger couples were relieved, and Darren knew that the feeling of being treated as a monster was really not good, and in the wizarding world, Muggles were indeed treated like this.

So, when Harry and the Weasleys returned to the hall, the Granger couple offered to be as tactful as possible that they would like to be able to walk around on their own, but to no avail, and Mr. Weasley insisted on taking them to the Leaky Cauldron for a drink.

In the end, Darren watched them leave together, but judging by the expressions on the Granger couple's faces, it was clear that they didn't have high expectations for the next event, and if it weren't for their baby daughter, they would definitely leave the place immediately.

But as underage children, even if Darren wants to follow along, it is impossible, and it is illegal to drink alcoholic beverages to minors in any Western country, even in the wizarding world......

So Darren can only hang out in Diagon Alley with Harry, Ron and Hermione, in fact, Darren plans to go to the Blotted Bookstore to buy books right away, so that he doesn't have to crowd with people, because he remembers that Gilderoy Lockhart will come to the signing party today, and there will definitely be a lot of people.

However, Harry and Ron rarely had the opportunity to enjoy the opportunity to let off the wind without adults, so Darren's suggestion was naturally ignored, and they wished they could hang out for a while, but fortunately, Harry had just withdrawn the money from Gringotts, a serious big fat sheep, not slaughtered at this time, but when?

So now the four of them have gone from hanging out to wandering around the alley with their pockets full of candy and strawberry peanut butter ice cream in their hands.

However, for children, in a place like Corner Alley, in addition to buying some candy and ice cream, and then looking at the window and having a good time, there is no more fun, but a few of the older Weasleys have more fun.

When they arrived at the Blotted Bookstore, they found that there was already a large crowd of people, "Are they all here to buy textbooks?" muttered Ron.

Hermione raised her hand and pointed upstairs, where a large banner was pulling: Gilderoy Lockhart signed autobiography "I Can Magic", 12:30-4:30 p.m. today.

"I didn't think we could meet him in person!" Hermione cried out, like a little girl seeing an idol, "I mean, almost all the books on the list are written by him!"

"In the future, you will have the opportunity to meet him, so much that you want to vomit. Darren muttered under his breath.

"What did you say?"

"It's nothing, I mean, so many people, you'll be squeezed until you vomit in a while......"

But Darren was wrong, because everyone was lined up under the command of the bookstore clerk, and the line went from the door to the back of the bookstore, and even the Weasleys and the Granger couple stood inside.

"I don't need Lockhart's signature, so why stand in line?"

"Because there are so many people today, everyone has to queue up, and they can't take care of the people who are afraid of going in the bookstore, and there are a lot of magic books there. ”

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Finally, as the group slowly moved forward, they saw Gilderoy Lockhart, sitting behind a desk, surrounded by large photographs of faces all blinking at the crowd and showing their teeth dazzling white, while the real Lockhart was dressed in a robe as blue as forget-me-nots, matching his blue eyes, and a pointed wizard's hat playfully crooked in his curly hair.

Seeing Lockhart himself, he had to admit that Lockhart's appearance was still quite good, an absolute friend of women, looking at Mrs. Weasley's nervous appearance, he knew his status in the minds of these female readers, and Hermione, the scope of this lethality was really not to be underestimated.

And Lockhart is also very good at hyping himself, so when he saw Harry Potter, he naturally didn't let go, and immediately pulled him over to build momentum for his new book, and successfully found an entry point with the help of Harry Potter, announcing on the spot that he was about to become the Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts, which must definitely make headlines the next day.

Of course, Harry, who was captured as a background wall, did not work in vain, and harvested a complete set of Lockhart's works, and he didn't have to break the bank for this year's textbooks, which is really not cheap.

Although the Weasleys are complaining that Lockhart's books are too expensive, it is because the customer base is too small, and the scheduled sales of books published in the wizarding world are estimated to be not even a thousand copies, so in addition to the cost of the books themselves for plate making, printing, and binding, they must also take into account the preliminary work of editing and proofreading, and then consider the profit, the price spread on each book is naturally surprisingly high, otherwise wait to lose money.

But Harry was naturally not short of money, so he gave all the books to Ginny, and he was indeed a local tyrant......

However, Harry didn't dare to go back to Lockhart anytime soon, so after Darren finished buying his own books, he had to buy his books for Harry, and those books were piled up next to Lockhart.

In addition, Darren was slightly surprised to find that the money that Hagrid gave him to buy books had just been spent after buying the textbooks, Dumbledore, you have done market research!