Diagon Alley.

As far as the eye could see, there was only a stone street that meandered in the distance, and on both sides of the street were sloping buildings, as if they were about to collapse at any moment.

It stands to reason that this scene should be very scary, but instead of feeling scared, Li Yang and Harry Potter felt a strange beauty, as if they had stepped into a bizarre fairy tale world.

"Wow......" From the moment he stepped into the alley, Harry (1) had nothing but amazement left in his mouth.

Rao is Li Yang also admired for a while, and then turned to walk two steps quickly, caught up with Hagrid, who was leading the way with a meteor in stride, and asked, "Isn't the school opening in September?" But it's only July 31 today. ”

Hagrid smiled and said: "My child, I just brought you here today to buy school supplies, it will take half a day just to buy these things, and then you have to buy tickets and take the bus, don't think that Hogwarts is outside London, it is a long way from the school, not to mention that as a student, come to school a few days early and report early, isn't it?" ”

"And when will we get to school?"

"Even if the train is delayed, August 2 will definitely arrive."

How many days early is this called?

It's almost a month early, okay!

Li Yang was speechless in his heart, and couldn't help but have the idea of leaving Hagrid's party.

Since he was promoted to junior high school, he has not had the habit of reporting early, and sometimes he will even deliberately report a day late in order to avoid tiring and dirty work such as moving books, class meetings, and cleaning.

Of course, he didn't dare to report late when he went to Hogwarts, and there was no need to play such a clever trick, it was nothing to report a few days earlier, but it would be too exaggerated to go a month earlier.

Thinking of this, Li Yang felt more and more that he should break away from Hagrid and his party, grasp the time of this month, and do something useful.

So he stopped and grabbed Hagrid, "You guys go to school first, I want to stay here first." ”

"What are you doing here?" Hagrid looked down at Li Yang suspiciously.

Li Yang looked up and was very serious, "Play." ”

"Oh, Merlin's beard." Hagrid slapped his forehead helplessly.

What else can I do?

Eleven or twelve-year-old children are not the age to play.

If you don't play hard, you can still call it a child?

Hagrid squatted down, put his hands on Li Yang's shoulders, and said earnestly: "Child, play, you can play at any time, not bad at this time, and you can also play when you go to Hogwarts, believe me, Hogwarts is more fun than here, besides, you don't even know the road, how can I rest assured that you are left here alone?" ”

Li Yang immediately said: "I already know each other." ”

Hagrid, of course, didn't believe it, "No kidding, how could you..."

"The small patio behind the Leaky Cauldron Bar, against the wall on the side of the trash can, count the third piece on it, then two more horizontally, and tap it three times." Li Yang clearly described the way Hagrid knocked on the passage of Diagon Alley just now.

Hagrid was stunned.

Although this method is not complicated, you must know that he did not deliberately teach Li Yang just now, that is to say, in the few seconds when he knocked on the wall three times, Li Yang was so accurate that he even remembered the first few wall tiles.

For a child, this observation is amazing.

"Mr. Hagrid, can I stay?" Li Yang asked again.

Hagrid stood up and spread his hands, "What more can I say?" I'm not really your teacher, and I'm not your parent. ”

"Thank you, teacher." Li Yang still respectfully calls Hagrid a teacher.

"How long are you going to play here?" Hagrid was worried that he would overplay and forget about the days of school.

"Not much, just a few days."

"What time are you going to take the bus to school?" Hagrid was still not reassured, and asked more precisely.

"August ......" Li Yang thought for a moment.

"Twenty-seven or eight."

Hagrid's eyes widened, "How many days is this?" It's almost a month, okay? ”

Li Yang smiled, "Even if the train is delayed, it will definitely arrive before September 1st." ”

Why does this sound so familiar......

Hagrid said helplessly: "It's better to go early, if you are late and can't enter the door of Hogwarts, then it will be troublesome." ”

"I see, thank you for your advice." Li Yang hung his head very politely.

Seeing Li Yang like this, Hagrid nodded, relieved.

couldn't resist Li Yang, so he took Li Yang to finish all the school supplies, and specially sent them to the cauldron bar to open the room.

"If you have something, just find Tom, the owner here, he is an old acquaintance of mine, and he will help you......" Hagrid finally said to Li Yang before leaving with Harry Potter.

Out of the Leaky Cauldron Bar, Harry looked back frequently, and stopped talking, "Sea..."

"No, No, No, don't say it, you want to stay here and play for a few days. Brother Hai said worriedly.

"Uh...... No. Harry really wanted to say that, but he didn't want to upset Hagrid, so he changed his tune on the spur of the moment.

"Great, little Harry is still sensible." Hagrid was greatly pleased, and said to himself:

My little Harry, fortunately, was not spoiled by Li Yang's bear child......

Hotel room.

Li Yang sat cross-legged on the bed, still wearing a brand-new black robe that he had just bought, and a black peaked hat on his head, like a little wizard.

In front of him lay eight books of varying thicknesses:

"Spell Standards", "History of Magic", "Principles of Magic", "Introduction to Transfiguration for Beginners", "A Thousand Magical Plants and Fungi", "Magic Diagrams and Magic Prescriptions", "Magical Beasts and How to Find Them", "The Power of Darkness - A Guide to Self-Protection"

Li Yang couldn't wait to pick up the "Spell Standard" and look at it.

The more I looked, the more excited I was on my face, and after only a few pages, I was basically impatient, and I turned it roughly, and then put it down, and picked up the second and third books...... Until I finished the last book, there was a "pop" and I slapped on the bed in disappointment.

"How come it's all theoretical knowledge, but no specific spells and casting steps?" Li Yang ran unwillingly to ask the boss Tom.

Tom was an old man with a wrinkled face, standing in the bar, and as soon as he spoke, his toothless mouth leaked air, "Isn't this how it should be, which textbook will clearly write how to cast spells?" What if the child casts a spell according to the book? It is natural to prevent this kind of thing from happening, knowing that learning magic is very rigorous and dangerous, even under the personal supervision of teachers and parents, accidents and risks cannot be completely avoided. ”

"So how can I get my hands on the casting content right now?"

"Of course, go to the Blotsis bookstore, which not only sells Hogwarts textbooks, but also many books, such as spell books, magic potion recipes, etc., so many that you can't read them all in your life, I don't think there is more places in the world than the books in the Blotst bookstore except for the Hogwarts library."

"Don't worry, when you get to school, you'll be able to learn." Old Tom saw through Li Yang's thoughts at a glance and persuaded.

"Thank you." Li Yang gave a perfunctory voice and went back to the room.

Of course, he won't wait until school starts, and that's still a month.

Didn't he leave Hagrid and stay behind just to master magic earlier?

In the previous few worlds, he was used to being a master, and this Leng Bu Ding became an eleven or twelve-year-old child with no combat effectiveness, Li Yang said in his heart that no sense of crisis was fake, and in this world, he could only improve his self-protection ability by learning magic.

As for the power of self-preservation, Li Yang naturally learns as soon as possible, after all, entering Hogwarts is not absolutely safe, and it is even more dangerous.

Professor Oddfall, Lord Voldemort, Chamber of Secrets...... As soon as he thought of this, the greater the sense of crisis in Li Yang's heart, the more eager he was to learn magic as soon as possible.

"Blotted Bookstore." Li Yang muttered in his mouth and took his wand.

The wand, of course, was bought by Hagrid with him at the Ollivander store, twenty-three centimeters long, no wider than a finger, and resembled chopsticks that were slightly longer.

When choosing a wand at that time, Li Yang was quite apprehensive, worried that he was a traveler in other worlds and would not be able to match a suitable wand in this world.

It turned out that he was overly concerned.

Li Yang not only matched the right wand, but the wand was also very ordinary, and the process was very simple, compared to the scene where Harry picked it three times in a row and almost demolished the store, it was really incomparable, and even the author didn't want to waste pen and ink to describe it too much......

Entering the small patio behind the Leaky Cauldron Bar, he knocked on the wall on the side of the trash can and knocked on the passage to Diagon Alley according to the method he remembered.

Passing through the passage and walking into Diagon Alley, because Hagrid had taken the relationship he had walked before, Li Yang came to the Lichen Bookstore with ease.

The bookstore is not big, but it is full of books, and the shelves even extend to the ceiling, because the bookstore is close to the beginning of the school year, and the bookstore is full of students and parents, and it is almost too crowded.

When he proposed to buy a professional spell book, the middle-aged female store manager suddenly raised her voice, "I remember you, you are the first-year imp that Hagrid brought to buy the book just now, a professional spell book?" Oh, no kidding, is that a book you can read at your age? ”

The store manager said, pointing to the spell book that was placed in the cupboard, which was different from the bookshelf.

The book was the size of a floor tile, seven or eight centimeters thick, and just looking at it had its own dissuasive effect.

Li Yang still insisted on buying it.

"I'm a Hogwarts school, a professionally designated place to sell textbooks, and I signed an agreement with Hogwarts, and you have an accident with your indiscriminate practice of magic, how can I explain to Hogwarts? Hurry up, hurry up, don't delay me in doing business......"

The store manager sternly refused, pushed Li Yang, went out of the store, muttered "The current child is really unworrying", turned back to the store, and continued to greet other customers.

Li Yang stood at the door of the bookstore, looking helplessly at the noisy and crowded book buying scene in the store through the open door, and for a while, he had no idea.

That's the disadvantage of a child.

At the beginning, he would rather pay detectives to go to the zoo to investigate than go himself, didn't he just feel that he was a child and the zoo staff would not cooperate?

Money is not omnipotent, detectives will actively cooperate when they get the money, but when others see Li Yang as a child, take out money that does not match their own financial resources, they may have bad thoughts, or they may directly send it to the police station...... At present, the store manager is only quite principled in refusal, which is good, of course, this is also because the store manager is so busy that he has no time to deal with Li Yang.

What's next?

What's the point of staying in Diagon Alley if you can't learn magic?

Just as Li Yang was secretly hesitating, a dry palm with sharp black nails stretched out behind his back......

Note (1): Henceforth referred to as Harry.