A week had passed since Harry had escaped the Muggle world that night in a flying car.

In the morning, while Aitch was still eating a sandwich, there was a sudden "thump" sound from the kitchen window. A white owl banging on the glass with its beak is Locke, who is trying to get the attention of its owner.

Aitch opened the window and passed a piece of bacon to its mouth, stroking it from Locke's head down the hair to its back, which made it feel happy and comfortable.

Aitch took an envelope from Locke's claws, brought Hermione's letter, and agreed to go to Diagon Alley to buy books on Wednesday. Yes, the letter from Hogwarts has arrived a long time ago, with an address written in a yellowish sheepskin envelope and green ink, and Hogwarts always liked this one. In addition to explaining that the start of the school year will be to take the Hogwarts Express at King's Cross Station on September 1, the letter also includes a list of books to be used for the new semester.

Essential Books for 2nd Graders:

Spells Standard Course (Level 2) by Miranda Goswalker

"How to Deal with Female Leprechauns" by Gilderoy Lockhart

Walking with the Ghouls, by Gilderoy Lockhart

A Vacation with a Witch by Gilderoy Lockhart

"Travels with Giants" by Gilderoy Lockhart

"A Voyage with a Vampire" by Gilderoy Lockhart

"Wanderings with Werewolves" by Gilderoy Lockhart

Days with the Snowman by Gilderoy Lockhart

Aitch was prepared, but when he saw this book list, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but cramp, the teacher of this year's Defense Against the Dark Arts class is really unreliable, and the novel is also used as a teaching material, so Dumbledore can't find a good teacher?

Aitch got up early that day, and in addition to buying books, he had to go to Tumbledown Alley, which was next door to Diagon Alley.

The sky in this alley is not normal, it feels like there is a gloomy cloud that always obscures the sun, and it always wants to rain, but it is holding back, and it is dull. This made Erwin feel bad, and he shrank into Edge's arms.

The alleys are filled with dark magic shops, the largest of which is the "Borgin - Burke Wizardry", which leads to the Vanishing Cabinet that Aitch found in the Hogwarts Room of Requirement. There are also shops selling shrunken human heads, giant black spiders, withered human hands, and poisoned candles. Aitch is here for the vanishing cabinet.

"Borgin - Burke's Magic Shop" is named after the owner, and Aitch came by chance to meet an acquaintance, it was Malfoy, and his father was undoubtedly beside him, his face was also pale, his face was pointy, and his two cold gray eyes were almost identical. Holding on to a cane, he walked into the store and stood at the counter to bargain with Mr. Bock. And Harry Potter, who was covered in soot and had broken glasses. When he saw Malfoy and his son, he quickly hid in a black cupboard.

Aitch hid to the sidelines, he hadn't intended to meet them. Aitch waited for the Malfoys to leave, and waited until a man had escaped from the cupboard before entering the store.

There were shelves full of skulls, eyeballs in glass bottles, bloodshot clearly, "Good morning, young sir, is there anything you need?" Boss Bock had a trademark smile on his face.

"Yes, sir." Aitch looked around, and he found his target, the same pattern as the Vanishing Cabinet he had found in Hogwarts. "I heard you have the Vanishing Cabinet here." Aitch touched the cabinet and twisted a hand of ash. "Make an offer, I'm interested in it."

Mr. Bock was a cunning profiteer, and even if the Vanishing Cabinet was damaged, he was not willing to sell it at a low price. After some haggling, Aitch painfully paid a hundred gold gallons. This made Edge's purse empty all of a sudden, and it looked like he had to go back to Gringotts, from which he had just come out half an hour earlier.

Hermione had joined Harry and the Weasleys, and they stood together at the top of the white staircase in Gringotts. Hermione ran down as fast as she saw Edge, her waterfall-like brown hair fluttering in the wind. Harry had been "cleaned" and looked much more pleasing to the eye than he had been in Tumbledown Alley. Aside from the unfriendly Ron, the Weasleys would greet the Ravenclaw heirs warmly.

Hermione's parents were standing in the granite hall, anxiously waiting for Hermione to introduce them. Mr. Weasley was particularly obsessed with Muggle civilization, pulling the two of them to ask questions, making them overwhelmed.

After withdrawing the money, everyone teamed up and scattered, because it was the same grade, Harry and the three of them walked with Edge, but Harry and Hermione were sandwiched in the middle, Ron didn't want to get too close to Edge, the "snake", he preferred to be with Harry.

An hour later, they set off towards the Blotted Bookstore. They're not the only ones there. When they arrived at the door, they were surprised to find a large crowd of people gathered in front of the bookstore, desperately trying to squeeze in. The banner on the glass window in front of the door explains this strange phenomenon very well: Gilderoy Lockhart will be autographing his autobiography "The Amazing Me" today: "We have the opportunity to see him today!" ”

Hermione screamed. "I mean, he's written books that almost fill our list."

The crowd in front of the door seemed to be mostly witches the age of Mrs. Weasley. An embarrassed-looking wizard stood in the doorway and said, "Be quiet, ladies please...... Don't crowd each other...... Be careful not to stain your books, now ...... "Gilderoy Lockhart seems to be the quintessential "witch killer".

Four people squeezed in. A long line has gracefully stretched to the back of the bookstore. There, Gilderoy Lockhart was signing his autobiography. Harry and the three of them each took a copy of How to Deal with Leprechauns and squeezed into the line where the Weasleys and Hermione's parents were standing. Aitch didn't want anyone else to sign his book.

"Ah, great, you're here too." Mrs. Weasley said. She sounded like she was out of breath and stroked her hair from time to time. "We'll see him soon...... "Mrs. Weasley seems to be obsessed with Gilderoy Lockhart.

Gilderoy Lockhart walked in slowly, sitting at a table covered in his posters, which were blinking at the crowd, his snow-white teeth shining brightly in the flashlight.

The real Gilderoy Lockhart wore a blue magic robe made of forget-me-not flowers, the color of which matched the color of his eyes. His pointy wizard hat rested proudly on his wavy hair.

A short, grumpy man with a black camera shoots from side to side, and after each glare of flash, the camera always shoots out a puff of purple smoke. "Go away, go over there!" He yelled at Ron, who happened to be beside him. He jumped back to find a better spot to take the picture. "This is for the Daily Prophet!"

It has to be said that Gilderoy Lockhart is a very narcissistic guy who takes every opportunity he can to promote himself. Seeing Harry in line, he happily handed out a set of "The Complete Works of Gilderoy Lockhart" and took a photo together, "This will be the headline of the Daily Prophet".

Once again, Harry was in the limelight, attracting the displeasure of some people, such as Malfoy, who also entered the bookstore at some point and joked to Harry and Ginny, who were close to him: Harry has a little girlfriend!

To the Weasleys, the Malfoys kept stabbing them about the economic situation, and the little girl Ginny went crazy on the spot, and she threw the pot containing the book on the head of the old Malfoy, and Mr. Weasley and Ron caught the Malfoys and their sons respectively, and staged an all-out show at the public Blotted Bookstore. It's really fist-to-flesh, and Aitch uses "left and right separation!" "When they were separated, old Malfoy's eyes were all blue. He still had Ginny's old transfiguration textbook in his hand. He threw the book back to her, his eyes shining with a vicious light. "And then, little girl—hold it safe—it's the most valuable thing your dad can buy you—"

While everyone was criticizing Malfoy, Aitch prepared to take out the old transformation textbook. But he didn't expect someone to interrupt - "Don't move, it's my sister's book." Ron took Ginny behind him like a calf.

"Ron, I saw Mr. Malfoy take that book......"

"yes, we all saw it, and if it weren't for you, I could have beaten Malfoy to his stomach!" Admittedly, Ron had a family of brothers who had been pressing Malfoy's fight. But it was Aitch who stopped him, and now he thought that Aitch was favoring Malfoy, and when he saw Aitch reaching out to Ginny, he thought he was doing something bad.

In the end, Aitch couldn't do it, because Ron angrily dragged the family and Harry away, without giving Harry a chance to ask why Aitch could cast spells despite the Ministry of Magic's ban, let alone get Aitch to explain.