Chapter 4: The controversy at the Blotted Bookstore
He took Harry and Hermione to Gringotts, and met Mrs. Weasley, who was anxiously looking for Harry, at the gate.
"Oh dear, I've been praying that you've just run to the far away fireplace, Arthur has come looking for you, I'm waiting here to see if I can catch up with you, oh Merlin bless." Mrs. Weasley screamed excitedly and ran forward, holding the skinny Harry tightly in her arms, Harry's face turned red all of a sudden, and he didn't know if it was because of Mrs. Weasley's excess, well, cough cough, interrupting his thoughts, Bernard spoke.
"Molly, Harry didn't just run a few more fireplaces, he accidentally ran to the corner alley." Bernard said in a somewhat serious tone.
Before Mrs. Weasley could reply, the voices of the two teenagers interjected. "Cool, the grown-ups never let us go to Angled Alley, saying it's not good, how about Harry, is it fun there?" Fred and George, twin brothers, have always been able to speak in unison in an amazing way.
Apparently the boy's words struck Mrs. Weasley's concern, and she roared loudly, "Unless I can't walk with your father anymore." Otherwise! If I let me know that you go to a place like that, I'm going to break your legs! ”
"Mom is right, you are still children, you should not touch these things." Mr. Weasley said and shook Bernard's hand, "Bernard, it's a pleasure to see you, we haven't seen each other in a long time!" Mr. Weasley's tone was filled with indescribable emotion.
"Yes, the last time we worked together was in the late Voldemort era, but at that time, everyone was busy capturing the dark wizards, and they never had a chance to sit down and talk, you don't know, I met Bill in Egypt later, and he was really good." Bernard said enthusiastically.
The two men, one in one and one in the green, were talking to each other, while Mrs. Weasley was telling Harry, Ron, George, and Fred to let them go after they had repeatedly promised not to go to Angled Alley.
At this time, "Molly, you don't know, just now Bernard told me that he wanted to recruit our kid into the extracurricular group he organized next semester, and he could give them some extra tutoring. Mr. Weasley was pleased to tell Mrs. Weasley.
"Really? Bernard, thank you so much, Boxi is doing very well, I'm not worried, this time he got a full honor, you should know, I heard that you are now teaching at Hogwarts. Mrs. Weasley's cheeks flushed with excitement as the adults exchanged enthusiastically, apparently giving her three younger sons a headache from their studies.
"Hermione, guess who I saw just now?" Seizing the opportunity, Harry quickly shared what he saw with his friends.
"Are you saying that Malfoys sell things at the Borgin-Bock store? It must have been Dad's raid that scared them, and I'm going to tell Dad the good news. It can be seen that Ron was very excited to hear the news, and it was obvious that his father's actions had made the unstoppable Malfoy family express something, and in Ron's opinion, it was a very happy thing.
"Daddy! Father! Ron shouted happily to Mr. Weasley.
"Well, I already know, Ron, Bernard told me just now, obviously, Lucius was scared." Mr. Weasley's hands were on his hips and his ears were red, and it was clear that he was also excited by the news, and from this point of view, Ron still looked a lot like Mr. Weasley.
However, Mrs. Weasley, who was on the side, splashed Mr. Weasley's cold water, "Arthur, don't try to gnaw on the hard bones that you can't gnaw. ”
"Do you think I'm afraid of him?"
"No, Arthur, but ......" And just like that, a large group of people walked towards the Blotted Bookstore.
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"Do you know who this Gilderoy Lockhart is?" Hermione whispered to her friend, "He looks so powerful, the textbooks for our Defence Against the Dark Arts class this time are all books written by him." ”
Harry and Ron looked at each other and said, "We thought you knew about him?" We don't know who he is, but Mrs. Weasley (my mom) is obsessed with him. ”
Today's bookstore is very crowded, there are many housewives of the same age as Mrs. Weasley lined up in front of the bookstore, and on one side of the bookstore hangs a large poster with a very handsome middle-aged wizard smiling at everyone. The poster reads, "Gilderoy Lockhart's book signing!" ”
Harry and the others struggled forward, and Mrs. Weasley beckoned to them, "Come on, come to me, oh, we'll see him in a moment." With that, Mrs. Weasley straightened her hair.
Gilderoy Lockhart slowly swayed in through the back door of the bookstore, dressed in a sky-blue cape, holding gloves in his hand, showing everyone his eight white teeth at any time, to be honest, Harry didn't think this kind of style was charming at all, but looking at the witches around him who were fascinated, Harry didn't dare to say what was in his heart, just when Harry was wandering in the world.
As if he had discovered a new world, Lockhart said cheerfully, "Isn't this Harry Potter?" The crowd immediately moved out of the way, and everyone whispered excitedly. Harry was clearly uncomfortable with the scene, and seemed a little confused.
Then he was dragged to the front by the reporter of the Daily Prophet to take a group photo, the reporter who had just stepped on Ron's foot, if it weren't for this kick, maybe Harry wouldn't have been discovered by Lockhart, Harry is now annoyed by this arrogant reporter.
After escaping from Lockhart's clutches and Harry encountering Malfoy's father and son, Harry felt that he must have been cursed, and that he might have been buying the copy of "Curses and Anti-Curses" that he had been wanting to buy last year.
"I'm guessing you like it, Potter?!" Draco said coldly. "Even going to a bookstore can make newspaper headlines."
"Ignore him, he's not happy at all!" Ginny said. It was the first time she had spoken in front of Harry without blushing, and she could see that little Ginny already had the shadow of Mrs. Weasley, like a lioness who was guarding her shorts.
"Potter, is this your little girlfriend?" Malfoy said with a playful expression.
Before the innocent Harry could react, an annoyed Ginny had already thrown the cauldron at Malfoy's handsome face.
The fall started a fight between the two angry fathers. Lucius, who saw his precious son being beaten, angrily drew his wand from Ginny, but before he could start chanting the spell, he was interrupted by a punch from Arthur Weasley, who rushed over, and finally the two wizards actually scuffled in front of the bookstore like thugs.
"Strength is loose!" "Impregnable."
Bernard put away his wand and saw two angry men glaring at him like two bulls, so he had to say helplessly: "Pay attention to the impact, there are children here!" ”
Draco on the side was obviously frightened by his father's figure, as for Ginny, do you think the Lord who can take the initiative to hit people is easy to mess with? Unlike Draco's bewildered face, Ginny's little face was filled with excitement and excitement. But the really bad ones are still to come, "Arthur, how dare you!" In front of the child, fight! You have a good head. ”
Despite the chaos, a contented Bernard took Hermione's apparition to the forefront.