"I think Luna's punch actually makes a lot of sense. Because it at least makes you understand that we obviously care about you too – remember? We can be friends for life as long as you want! ”

Hermione half-held her glowing wand and spread her hands at Ron's side:

"So...... Hey, don't always look down on yourself, okay? Trust me, you just haven't found what you're good at yet! ”

Maybe it was because Ginny had made a little joke about Ron that he didn't have any real friends, which made him suddenly have that impulse. Of course, maybe it's really this kind of inferiority complex that has been accumulated for too long, so that for a while, I can't help myself.

Regardless, Hermione's words made Ron's heart feel much better.

After saying this, Hermione paused for a moment, and then said as if she wanted to put aside the trivial things just now:

"Come over here and see this!"

She said, raising her hand to raise her dazzling wand above her head. And as the light cluster rose, the ceiling in the fog gradually became faintly recognizable.

When Ron listened to Hermione's words and hurried to the other party's side to look up, he heard Hermione say softly:

Ron...... Still, you know, I want to thank you. Yes, 'If I die, what will I do to like Maca'? So, thank you for thinking about me and the three of us...... I'll take notice. ”

"Oh...... Well. ”

Ron nodded, and because he didn't know how to answer, he could only whisper:

"You're welcome! As you say, we can be friends for life. ”

Hermione smiled, then pointed to the slight area above her head that was illuminated by the wand's glowing charm:

"There should be the 'unfinished painting' that Tonks calls it." Hermione said, "I heard her say that the original entrance to the black market seems to have been destroyed, and now the entrance here is made by the goblins in the black market......"

When you look up, you can see that there are actually a lot of picture frames nailed to the ceiling.

When Hermione's wand moved, it was revealed that there were different oil paintings arranged in an irregular row, and if there was no fog, it would have been difficult to notice the contents of one particular painting at a glance.

When it comes to concealment, the effect must be very good in normal times.

However, although the fog of today has brought it a new way to hide, once there are not so many paintings to confuse people, it has made it easier to find.

Hermione simply walked slowly with her wand in hand, letting the light pass under the paintings, and soon saw a work painted only with a heavy blue-black undertone.

"I don't know much about art anymore, but ......," Hermione said, "it's probably an unfinished painting, right?" ”

"Yes, this is it," Luna leaned over and looked left and right, hesitating as she spoke, but finally nodded affirmatively, "It should be right!" ”

Obviously, the presence of the mist made her perception of magic less acute, and even when she was looking directly at the target, she still needed to sift through it carefully to be sure.

"Very well," Hermione nodded, "and now the question is, how do we get into the 'black market' through this painting...... Well, maybe like the courtyard wall behind the Leaky Cauldron Bar, it needs to be knocked on? ”

"You can give it a try."

Ron and Ginny both supported Hermione's claim.

However, after a bit of tossing, Hermione had to admit that she had a bit of a problem with it this time - it seems that the elves are indeed no less intelligent than humans, and maybe even higher!

Well, although their personalities and tempers are really flattering, so that although both sides always cooperate with each other because of reason, there will always be a lot of contradictions.

Just as Hermione was holding her somewhat sore arm and pondering, Luna suddenly proposed:

"Hermione, why don't you ...... Can we try the Golden Galleon? ”

When Hermione heard this, she was stunned for a moment at first, but soon said helplessly:

"Oh, I guess it must have been something from Maca that inspired you, didn't it?"

"Yes! Have you noticed that too? ”

Luna said, put her hand in her pocket and began to take out the money, and continued:

"Every time Maca mentions goblins, she always says that their heads are probably stuffed with gold galleons, so what they do must be exchanged for gold galleons......"

With that, she finally pulled a gold coin out of her pocket and happily held it in her hand and shook it in front of Hermione's eyes.

"Hey!"

At that moment, I saw her jump on the spot slightly, and then threw the gold coin at the painting on the ceiling with a flick of her hand.

"Ding—"

With a crisp and pleasant sound that swept through everyone's ears, everyone saw that the gold galleon almost hit the frame straight up, and then spun and bounced back into Luna's forehead.

"Oh!"

Luna only felt a pain in her forehead, and then she squatted down with her head covered. Jin Garon then fell down again and rolled forward, and when he hit the base of the wall, he spun around and fell to the ground.

"Luna, are you alright?"

Although she really wanted to laugh at this moment, Hermione held back a smile and hurriedly leaned over to support Luna's shoulder. When Luna heard this, she slowly raised her head, and her eyes were already shining with tears, but she laughed first.

"It hurts...... It turns out that Jin Gallon hurt so much when he hit someone, hahaha......"

Not far away, Ron couldn't help but rub his forehead as he looked at the red mark on Luna's forehead.

"Needless to say, it looks really painful," he said, holding out his wand and pointing at the wall, "So, why not use the Levitation Charm...... Throw it into the painting, don't you? I'll try ......"

At the end of the day, low self-esteem is often the result of inappropriate comparisons. After all these years of training, even Ron, who has a rare talent for spells, can easily use the technique of silent spells on the levitation charm.

As he spoke, the gold galleon leaped up from the ground and flew towards the unfinished painting.

And in the next moment, everyone saw that the gold coin had really disappeared into the cold-toned painting without hindrance, and disappeared in a flash.

"Oh! It goes in—"

Before Ron could finish his sentence, he felt a suction coming from the painting, and he hurriedly changed his words and exclaimed:

"Is it a charge of one Galleon per person? So expensive! ”

Before he could finish speaking, a dozen pieces of silver could suddenly fall in front of him from the painting with a piece of paper, and immediately after, he was pulled into the painting and left together in a spatial distortion.

As soon as his feet hit the ground, the dozen or so silver xies were not bound by magic, and they were scattered all over the ground at that time.

Ron grabbed the piece of paper that had fallen from the sky before looking up and looking around.

Over here...... What seems to have been a large hall?

"I finally left a dangerous building, but when it came out, it was another bigger dangerous building?"

Looking at the hall, which was supposed to be very open, but now it was also full of signs of collapse, Ron didn't know what to say.

However, it was clear that this was the hall of the Dark Spirit Pavilion on the other side of the elf-built passage, in the middle of the black market.

It didn't take long for Hermione and the others to cross the passage with their own pockets and appear near Ron one after another. Ron couldn't help but sigh when he saw that none of them had any silver coins scattered, and that each of them only had a piece of paper following.

"Why? Didn't it find you Yinxico? ”

"We don't give much," replied Ginny casually, holding out for the piece of paper, "as long as we throw three silver sicos, it will send us over." ”

"Oh! Well......"

Ron bent down with a bitter face, and began to look around for the coins that were rolling everywhere - no way, the coins were all given a certain degree of charm resistance, and the Flying Charm didn't work against them, he had to pick them up one by one.

"Luna, help! It's all your money...... Well, let me owe it to my three silver sieks first! I came out in a hurry today, I didn't bring any money......"

As Ron was digging up the money, Hermione had finished reading the scrap of paper. In fact, it's just a pass that you can use to activate the passage back when you need to leave.

It is worth mentioning that there is also a line of eye-catching flower characters printed on it: "Welcome to the Dark Spirit Pavilion Wizards Guild, you will be received by honest and reliable goblins."

"So, where are the 'honest elves'?"

Hermione couldn't help but purse her lips as she looked at the messy scene in front of her.

"Looking at the situation, the ruins outside may not really be disguised...... It seems that this black market has also suffered a rather terrible attack! ”

If there is a real battle, the elves will not be weaker than the wizards at all. Although they lack a particularly prominent individual, their average ability is much higher than that of the wizard group, not to mention that they still have a lot of magic items from ancient times to the present.

It's just that...... Of course, with the goblin's temper of asking for money and not wanting to die, whether or not to use it when needed is also a big problem.

"Ron, are you done picking it up? We'll have to go out and see what's going on. ”

After all, he is in a hurry now, if this is just his own money, even if he is stingy, he will grit his teeth and give up at this time.

But when I think it's Luna's......

As soon as Hermione turned around, she saw Ron straighten up and said with a depressed face:

"Four pieces left...... If you're in a hurry, why don't you help me find it? You know, they're all so round, once rolled up...... Oh! ”

.。 Vertex m.