Chapter 10 Main Quest
The brick-and-stone Diagon Alley, full of mottled silhouettes, is a trace of history.
In the antique shop on the side of the street, there are all kinds of antique objects that have precipitated time, such as chaise longues, wall clocks, figurines, medieval knights' armor, each of which is neatly kept, and there is a stone statue of a wronged little monster on the outermost, with a unique Scottish atmosphere.
There are tall towers everywhere, and there are coffee shops or small bars around the corner, and the neatly polished glass windows let in the sunlight, and you can see the little wizards sitting and chatting inside.
Most of them wore black wizarding robes, which appeared to be Hogwarts freshman uniforms.
The weather was gloomy, and there was still a light rain, and the two of them walked here, as if they had walked into this thousand-year-old street.
Diagon Alley, also a cultural street, is full of traces of magic.
Here, there are mystical elements of Scottish character.
"Really······ It feels amazing, a completely different feeling. ”
"I love it here."
Zhang Ming smiled happily, clutching a tube of ice cream that he had bought while passing by an ice cream parlor.
Lin Zhengyang, as the richest wizard in Britain at present, naturally does not treat his disciples harshly.
Zhang Ming now had a bag with magic on his body, which contained hundreds of gold gallons and a small amount of silver sico, which was his pocket money.
"If you like it."
Both of them have black hair and black eyes, with an oriental appearance, and occasionally people pay attention.
As I walked, I came to a bookstore.
It's not a bookstore, it's a bookstore that doesn't have a reputation.
It seems to be a newly opened store, the original logo has been removed, and a new banner has just been hung up.
Through the glass window on the side of the street, you can see that all kinds of books are neatly arranged inside, as well as several large open boxes.
"Orton's bookstore, which deals in all kinds of magic books, can be delivered to your door."
Motioning for Zhang Ming to go and buy a book, the little boy knocked on the glass door very politely.
"Is anyone there?"
"Welcome, little guest."
Soon a clerk with round-rimmed eyes walked out with a big smile on his face.
"Please come in, two."
He opened the glass door, gave way, and watched the two walk in.
"I'm sorry, but I was looking for a magic book that would become invisible········ Oh, Merlin! Look how long I've been looking! ”
He explained, and then he saw Lin Zhengyang stepping on something casually, and a transparent book gradually appeared under his feet.
I didn't see what Lin Zhengyang did, so the book obediently unfolded the page, and it read "The Invisible Book of Invisible Techniques".
"Yes, this is it, damn it, I've been looking for it for a long time, and I used to stay here."
The clerk stepped forward to pick up the book and patted it. Then he threw it hard, slammed it into a sand-covered window in the back.
There were a lot of identical invisible books, piled on the sand, and they were tiptoeing up the pages and trying to sneak away, but the sand kept them from disappearing without a trace, and they couldn't get past the tall windows.
The clerk was still complaining to them:
"These weird magic books suck! Those creators are always going to cause trouble! ”
"Books that can be invisible, books that can bite, and someone has imprisoned a boggart inside the book to serve as a teaching material for Defence Against the Dark Arts!"
"Oh my God, I'm going to have to ask the shopkeeper to give me a raise, at least seven gold Galleons a week!"
Zhang Ming looked curiously at the various magic books around him, each of them had a considerable degree of energy fluctuations, and the characters on the pages would also make some simple reactions.
"By the way, guest, are you here to buy Hogwarts textbooks? There is a full set of textbooks organized from Year 1 to Year 7, which students will always need at this time of year. ”
Looking in the direction pointed out by the clerk, the large open boxes were indeed neatly stacked with Hogwarts textbooks, brand new.
"A Thousand Miraculous Herbs and Mushrooms", "Carnivorous Tree", "Toadstool", "Encyclopedia of Ingredients", ······
"Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Defense", "Defense Against the Dark Arts: Getting Started with the Basics", "Defense Against the Dark Arts Basics", "Defense Against the Dark Arts Theory", "Encountering the Faceless Youkai", ······
The number of each book is not very large, it is not more than forty, and it is estimated from here that in fact, the number of new students entering Hogwarts every year is about 100, and there are no more than 200.
Zhang Ming took the list of books attached to the admission letter and went to find his textbooks.
Lin Zhengyang chatted with this interesting clerk by the way.
"There don't seem to be many students enrolled at Hogwarts every year?"
"Of course, last year, there were only about 50 new students, and when there were 140 students, there were more than 140 students, but this is not the only one that sells textbooks."
"And how many years does it take for Hogwarts textbooks to change?"
"There have been very few changes, at least in the last five or six years."
The clerk thought about it, and whispered it again:
"The Ministry of Magic has designated some books, these are the prescribed textbooks, and the next thing is to see the arrangements of the headmaster and the professors."
"Unless there is any personnel change, the average professor will not easily change the textbook, as far as I know, the designated textbook has not been changed in the past five years!"
Lin Zhengyang nodded.
"Sounds like the textbook the professor has assigned to the class?"
"Of course, the professors at Hogwarts are very powerful wizards, and they know what books are suitable for use as teaching materials."
The clerk said with envy.
Professors at Hogwarts may not really have a high salary, but they must have a high status.
The twelve trustees of the school donate a large amount of gold to the school every year, because it is not a profit-making organization in nature, and it is even upside down.
The daily consumption of ingredients in the Hogwarts kitchen alone is a large expense, not to mention the maintenance of such a large area of the campus, and the maintenance cost itself is astronomical.
But even so, there are still people who are willing to spend money to post it upside down.
For thousands of years, this was the only school of magic in England!
The board seat is also an honor.
"Looks like it's time to make an expedition to Hogwarts."
Lin Zhengyang's mission in this world is to choose one of three.
"Choose one of three main quests: 1, establish a school of witchcraft and wizardry, and within twenty years become the most prestigious school on a par with Hogwarts; 2. Improve the modern magic system and make the Harry Potter world enter the medium magic era (the current is a low magic era); 3. Completely destroy the magical world, so that the world will no longer have mysterious elements. ”