"Who told you to be so cute since you were a child?" Catherine suddenly reached out and grabbed K's cheek and pulled it out hard, "Every time I see you teary-eyed, it's super fulfilling." ”

“C！ You're so disgusting! K lunged at him, but Catherine slipped away early, and the two chased quickly around the cabin, leaving behind a string of silver bell-like laughs.

Looking at the red-haired girl who was smiling and groaning, thinking of her cute appearance in the afternoon wearing sunglasses, covering her ears, and hiding under the covers, Snape couldn't help but show a faint smile.

Harry, who accidentally looked at him, was surprised to find that Snape actually looked quite manly, but his temperament had been completely ruined by his cold expression and vicious sarcasm.

But when he thought of Snape's unusual attitude towards himself and Catherine, Harry always had a very bad feeling in his heart, as if something bad had quietly happened, but he couldn't figure it out at all.

The next morning, the five of them got on the flying carpet that K had purchased and headed straight to Lake Superior, and after dropping off Catherine and Snape in the middle of the lake, Dobby drove the flying carpet to the shore.

Snape and Catherine waited until the other three had landed safely on the shore before they drank the breathing agent together and got into the water, but they didn't dive to the bottom of the lake without anything out of the ordinary.

"Maybe it's in the wrong place." After Catherine recalled the dream, she decided to use her magic to probe the surroundings, but the personal mark of the mermaid queen Ruona suddenly popped out of her left palm, and after spun in place, a white light shot out.

Catherine and Snape looked at each other and swam past the light, and soon they ran into an obstacle, a large rock protected by magic.

Snape checks it and confirms that it's the merfolk's handiwork, and the red-haired girl asks the mermaid queen Jona to come out and help, and when she learns that this is North America, Jona sings a tune that Catherine can tell is speaking an ancient Indian language, but she doesn't know what she's talking about.

"The Great Lakes didn't separate at first, but the Great Lakes only appeared when Muggles invaded the living space of the North American Aquarities, prompting several Aqua Sages to join forces to cast spells to sink the waters into the ground." After the big stone moved to the right, Ruona began to explain, "This is the passage of the merfolk clan, you must show my mark when you enter, so that you will not be attacked by the guards." In addition, in order to preserve the spiritual power of the lake, those water sages also left a protective shield, so as soon as you enter, it will trigger a reaction, good luck to you. With that, Jona's light and shadow retracted into Catherine's wand.

With Jona's introduction, Snape was ready as soon as he found the shield, and Catherine reached into the cover with her right hand.

A vortex immediately formed on her right palm, filling their field of vision in the blink of an eye, only to be lost in the blink of an eye.

Catherine withdrew her hand in surprise and saw a small light green bead in her right hand, which spat out a bubble like an overfed child, and then twisted and burrowed into the red-haired girl's right palm.

"A lazy pig who eats and sleeps?" Snape made a vivid analogy.

Catherine was embarrassed for a moment, then smiled and asked, "Professor, can you go in and have a look?" ”

Snape nodded, clenched his wand and took the lead in getting into the protective shield, Catherine also took out her wand, and followed, after all, they were all at the door, and if they didn't go in and see, they would only leave a pimple in their hearts.

Passing through the protective cover, Catherine and Snape instantly thought that they had traveled to Texas in the 50s of the 19th century, filled with herds of water and "cowboys" waving whips everywhere, but the "cowboys" here were aquatic tribes riding giant seahorses, and grazing all kinds of sea beasts.

"Two wizard friends, I don't know who introduced you?" Between Snape and Catherine, a male merfolk on a seahorse swam over, a long whip in his hand and a wary look on his face.

Catherine glanced at Snape and held out her left hand to reveal Jona's personal imprint.

"The two turned out to be friends of the royal family!" The mermaid immediately jumped off the seahorse and saluted very respectfully, "It's for the 'Stampede'!" ”

"We just stopped by to have a look, I didn't expect there to be a show here today, can I get my house-elf to bring my two friends over to participate? They were on the shore of Lake Superior at this time. Catherine didn't correct the merfolk guard's misunderstanding, but asked with a smile, for she had already spotted many wizards dragging their families through the town with large bubbles, and it was clear that the merfolk were only guarding this passage.

"Absolutely." The merfolk guard enthusiastically pointed, "Please go to the central square of this town, which is the only place in the town where there is air, and where the shops selling underwater breathing agents and gill sac grass are also located. ”

"Thank you very much!" Catherine and Snape immediately put away their wands and swam to where the merfolk guard pointed.

"Wow!" K, Harry, and Dobby let out a neat exclamation as soon as they saw what they saw, and Harry almost threw his head back to the ground.

"It's amazing!" K opened his hands and shouted, "This is the real underwater city, and New York is just an aquarium." ”

"Stop being an 'ignorant Martian'!" Catherine laughed and threw each of them a bottle of respirator and a flyer.

"It's called Wuhu Town, it was originally just an ordinary underwater village, but in the 19th century, the tide of animal husbandry development in North America also affected the aquarium, and it became the animal husbandry trading center of the aquarium, and hundreds of millions of sea beasts completed the handover here every year, this week happened to be the annual Cowboy Festival in Wuhu Town, and we stayed here until the end of the festival and then returned to China."

"Great!" Harry cheered and immediately pulled K with him to go shopping.

"Dobby, this is the key card for the hotel I booked, you put it away, and when they are tired of playing, take them back to rest." Catherine instructed Dobby earnestly.

"Yes, Miss Catherine." Dobby took the key card and bowed, then hurried to catch up with K and Harry.

"I've inquired." Snape walked over from the other side of the square with a piece of parchment, "This is the largest trading place for aquarists in North America, so the material market here is also the largest in North America. ”

"It seems that we didn't buy a lot of aquarium materials in New York, and the information provided by the octopus merchant is very accurate, the Great Lakes is really the territory of the Aquarium, and the Ministry of Magic of the United States and Canada can't put their hands in this place at all, and only creatures that have gained the friendship of the Aqua can enter." Catherine looked at the information she had just collected in her hand and sighed as well.

"Hurry up! It's the third day of the Stampede, and there should be plenty of supply for us to choose from, and I'm afraid that the money we bring will not be enough if it's too late. "Snape wanted to buy too much, but there was no Gringotts, no apparitions, no fireplaces, and almost zero access to the portkeys.

"Don't worry, this trip, I'll let Dobby go and withdraw one-third of the property just in case, and the professor can buy whatever he wants." Catherine smiled and ticked off the list of specialties in the town of Five Lakes, where the price of goods is not even one-tenth of that of New York, and even if she can't use it herself, she can make five times the difference in the price of a trip to England, which is the best deal she has ever made.

With plenty of money, Catherine and Snape didn't hesitate to eat a lot of Lakes production, and by the end of the Stampede, they had to bring ten large suitcases, each of which had been expanded to the size of a small warehouse.

K splurged on all sorts of novelties along the way, but she didn't dare to take most of them with her, so she had to give them all to Harry, and since several of them were magical items that were themselves space-compressing, his luggage became very cumbersome.

In the end, it was K, who forced Catherine to help her make an ultra-small, close-fitting space bag, filled with potions and some unobtrusive props, and only dragged a suitcase for disguise, but she had to go to Paraty, Brazil, through the guò fireplace, and then make a big circle from Rio's international airport to fly to Los Angeles in the United States, just in case the FBI came to her door.

Harry's return caused a wave of chickens and dogs in Dursley's house, especially those magic props, one carelessly will always cause all kinds of accidents, fortunately, one Harry has been sensible after a trip to the Americas, and the other is that Dobby was sent by Catherine and temporarily stationed at Dursley's house, so that No. 4 Privet Road did not suffer too much loss, but some of Penny's proud arrangements will always be changed beyond recognition by Dobby, if it is not for fear of attracting the attention of the neighbors, Penny definitely does not mind singing Italian opera every day.

As soon as Catherine returned home, she held a small "spoils sharing conference". She divided the large amount of low-end materials she bought in Five Lakes Town into four equal parts, one for Hogwarts, one for St. Mungo, one for the Malfoy family to sell, and the last for her own use. As for those rare and expensive ones, they were directly auctioned, and the wealthy Lucius alone intercepted 30% of them, Saint-Goment got 20%, Dumbledore cut off a few beards to get 10%, and the remaining 40%, Catherine naturally left it to Snape to deal with.

At this point, the two-week trip to the Americas finally came to an end, with a large amount of material to ensure Snape's daily needs for the next two years; Harry had access to a myriad of bizarre items and a lot of talk to talk about with his friends; But the biggest gain is definitely Catherine, not only has her own strength been rapidly improved, her knowledge has increased, and her wealth has directly doubled, which has given all the informants a new understanding of her financial management methods.