Seems...... It's been a long, long time......

Irina Ivanovich looked up at the brightly colored sun umbrellas outside the café and the various wizards walking through the streets of Diagon Alley, and a trace of trance flashed in her emerald green eyes.

In the past, when her grandfather was still there, she used to sit in the cold drink shop in Moscow and listen to his grandfather's stories.

As the youngest granddaughter of Professor Walter Ivanovich, Walter Sr. could tell whatever story she wanted to hear, and wherever she wanted to play or what she wanted to eat, perhaps because her mother was no longer there, as long as she was obedient and read carefully at home, her father and grandfather would do their best to fulfill her wishes.

Whether it was a Muggle book or a school of witchcraft and wizardry, Grandpa would find a way to find it for her.

Irina Ivanovich often dreamed that when she entered the Kordos Dorez School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, she would strive to be the first in the school, win more awards to make her grandfather happy, and then enter the Ministry of Magic after graduation to work with her father.

It's just that on Irina's fifth birthday......

All the hopes of the Ivanovich family for the future have come to naught.

At the dinner table that morning, my father and my grandfather had a heated argument that they had never had before, and that evening officials from the Russian Ministry of Magic and the International Confederation of Wizards came to the house and announced that my grandfather had become a criminal.

Immediately afterwards, his father's job at the Ministry of Magic was also lost, and more than half of the family's savings were paid to the Ministry of Magic's fine.

The uncles and aunts who used to be guests at the house never came again, and Irina's former playmates avoided her like a plague, and the elder Ivanovich was placed under house arrest in a log cabin at the back of the house, and Irina hardly had any chance to see her grandfather except for the time when she was delivering meals every day, and her father's temper became more and more irritable......

According to the wizarding world's decree on the "Death of the Wizard", as relatives of Walter Ivanovich, they are not allowed to go to any of the wizarding places, even though the old Ivanovich has been dead for several years.

She and her father were as if they had been banished and forgotten by the entire Russian wizarding community.

Until......

"Hey, what are you thinking?"

A nice voice interrupted Irina's thoughts, and the girl came back to her senses.

Two big scoops of ice cream appeared in front of her, the snow-white cream scoop was drizzled with red strawberry jam and sprinkled with some rock sugar crumbs.

"Try it, it's a specialty of Florin's dessert shop – while his raspberry crumbled praline ice cream tastes good, I still prefer the new strawberry cream ice cream ......"

"Okay, thank you......"

Irina was slightly stunned, and took the ice cream cone in front of her in a hurry.

I don't know why, since they came out of the "Madame Morkin's Robe Shop", this senior sister named Elena Kaslana has been in a particularly good mood, and even offered to invite her to dessert.

Maybe...... Because the two of them are relatively close in stature?

With most of the family's savings used to pay the fines, the Ivanovic family's financial situation has been quite bad over the years, so much so that Irina is much thinner and thinner than most of her peers.

Eleven-year-old Irina is now only 118 centimeters tall, a little shorter than Elena.

However, Irina does not take Elena lightly because of her height.

While shopping for the powder on the list at a pharmacy in Diagon Alley, Irina Ivanovich heard the store manager call Elena "Professor Kaslana", and the two talked for a while about the supply of basic materials for this year's Potions class at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

There is no doubt that Elena did not lie about introducing herself, she is indeed a professor at Hogwarts.

As for why the girl looked so small, Irina was not too surprised.

As the granddaughter of the vice-principal of the Dorez School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in Kodos, Irina heard many wonderful magical stories from her grandfather, and although half-blood wizards are rare, they are not shocking in the wizarding world.

It's just that after comparing Elena a little, Irina suddenly lost a little confidence.

In that legendary monster-infested Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, is it really possible for her to be the best student in the school, as her grandfather had hoped - even if it was only at the top of her grade......

"What's wrong?" asked Elena.

"Nothing ......"

Irina shook her head slightly, turned her head to look across the street, and quickly diverted the subject.

"By the way, Elena, what kind of store is there?"

Not far from Florin's dessert shop, dozens of young wizards, men and women, gathered around the door of a shop, discussing something with excitement on their faces, and even across the street, they could be faintly heard.

"Hmm, if it's that direction, it should be ......"

Elena muttered for a few seconds, then her gaze casually swept over Douglas, the fairy standing beside her.

"Oh...... That's a Quidditch boutique!"

Capturing Her Majesty's gaze, Douglas, as the chief financial officer of Gringotts Wizarding Bank, shook his head and gracefully bowed his back, taking Elena's words and continuing with great naturalness.

"Gringotts Wizarding Bank, in collaboration with Destiny Group from Austria, has launched a new concept of high-speed broomsticks, and today is the first day of the new broomstick sample show......"

"Hey, do you goblins make broomsticks too?"

"Of course, there is no shortage of well-known wizards in history who have had one or two tools made by goblins - in the field of smelting and forging magical items, we goblins are far more powerful than human wizards. ”

Douglas straightened his back, grinned and bared his sharp teeth, and said proudly.

With the introduction of Fairy Douglas, Elena and Irina left Florin's dessert shop and walked in the direction of the Blotted bookstore, where Irina still needed some textbooks for school.

As they passed by the Quidditch shop, they heard the owner introducing him in a very proud voice.

"The [SU91] developed by G-H-Сухой Design Institute can be said to be the fastest flying broom in the world, it combines the most advanced streamlined design in the world today, and uses the fairy process of metal and wood mixed forging on the broom material, which not only has braking performance far beyond any model, but also can resist the impact of Bludger at a speed of more than 150 miles per hour without deformation. ”

"The British national team just placed an order for a total of fourteen of these brooms—"

"If nothing else, you should be able to see how it performs at the opening ceremony of the World Cup next week...... For safety reasons, orders from outside the professional team are not accepted at this time. ”

The world's fastest broomstick...... Exclusive ...... for the national team

Irina subconsciously stopped, tried to stand on tiptoe, and crossed the gap in the crowd, looking curiously at the beautiful broomstick in the window of the Quidditch boutique, it was the most magnificent broom she had ever seen.

She remembered that her father was very fond of Quidditch, and if he was here, he would definitely be standing here and not moving, right?

"Irina, first-year students are not allowed to carry broomsticks. ”

Elena glanced at Irina, who was full of yearning and curiosity, raised her fingers, and said quite seriously.

"If you've played Quidditch before, I can recommend you to the Hogwarts Year 1 team—and if you pass the selection test, I'll give you a decent broomstick. ”

"When I was very young, my grandfather gave me a toy broom......"

Irina replied subconsciously, her voice suddenly dropping a little.

"However, when the Ministry of Magic came to our house to inspect it, they took all the broomsticks and Floo powder, and I don't know if I'll be able to fly now...... Everybody in the school is amazing, right?"

"It's hard to say......"

Elena shrugged, "Actually, there are also flightless wizards at Hogwarts, and there are quite a few of them - there have even been cases in history where first-year freshmen swept the house team and won the championship. ”

"House team?"

"Well, you know, Hogwarts is divided into four houses: Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw - and then, from Year 2 onwards, each house forms a separate house team, which rotates through a year of Quidditch and wins are decided based on points and wins. ”

"Are all the first-year students at Hogwarts that good?"

Irina said with some shock, and with Elena's introduction, she became more and more nervous.

Current students serve as professors, junior students sweep the house team, freshmen defeat seniors in a magic duel, and self-study senior courses and get perfect scores......

"It's not all...... But in the past year or two, it seems that every year there will be some ......"

Elena touched Derpy's hair with some weakness and explained casually.

I don't know how her "Seven Under the Moon" is doing this summer, and whether she has followed the study plan she has made - if she stimulates Irina's sense of crisis, it will be very embarrassing to find that when the girl arrives at school, there is no one who can fight.

Thankfully, Luna Lovegood is also in this year's first grade.

Although Xiao Yue, who has been making up for her for a year, is still a little confused occasionally, whether it is in terms of strength or family background, Luna Lovegood has undergone earth-shaking changes compared with the original book.

And at the same time, the other side......