Shouldn't you go to the Leaky Cauldron first, then go to the small patio behind the bar, and end up in Diagon Alley by hitting the brick wall next to the garbage heap with your wand?

After entering Diagon Alley and walking for a while under the leadership of Professor McGonagall, the sense of surprise in his heart was slightly relieved, and Chu Xiaobai suddenly remembered such a stubble. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Because 'I've never been to Diagon Alley, and I've never been in contact with the wizarding world', it's not good to ask Professor McGonagall a direct question, but Chu Xiaobai still got a reliable explanation through his own guess - although the wizarding world is different from the real society, the basic business rules are still the same, in the real world, which commercial street is a dead end with only one exit? Similarly, Diagon Alley, the most famous shopping street in the wizarding world, should have more than one exit.

Well, it doesn't matter how many exits there are in Diagon Alley, anyway, Chu Xiaobai didn't plan to learn from the 'little lions' and 'explore' everywhere before he figured out the map.

"Hermione, did you bring the slip you sent earlier?" Guiding new students to shop is one of the responsibilities of the leader. As a 'good teacher', Professor McGonagall certainly does not forget her duty.

Surrounded by magical shops, every item in each store was a novelty for little Hermione. This little girl is already dazzled, and she doesn't know where to start.

"Oh oh, bring it~, here." Thankfully, Professor McGonagall reminded her, and little Hermione quickly pulled out a neatly folded list from her pocket.

The list lists a lot of things, in addition to the textbooks to be used in the first grade, there are also the necessary auxiliary items for every wizard, such as the crucible and other equipment used to make potions, such as a magic pet, such as the robes to wear to school, and of course, the most important wand.

"Just bring it. Now, put it away ....... ”

"Huh?" Just take it out and put it back again? Little Hermione was a little confused.

"Before we can buy something, we need to exchange coins. To shop here, you need gold galleons, silver sike and copper nat, and you can't use the pounds in your hand directly, you have to go to the Gringotts Wizarding Bank to exchange them for the common coins here. ”

The reason is very simple, it is the same as going to a foreign country to exchange foreign currency.

"Oh, okay then." Needless to say, the three adults also immediately understood the reason, and nodded very obediently.

Located at the interface of Diagon Alley and Tumbledown Alley, Gringotts Wizarding Bank is a towering white building. Looking at the building itself, it looks like a real world bank that is a few years old.

The difference is that the guards on either side of the bronze gate are not human, but elves in scarlet and gold-trimmed uniforms.

The bank has two gates, and there is a silver gate behind the bronze gate. On this second gate is engraved a short warning message: Come in, stranger, but beware, what will happen to you who is insatiable. Blindly taking, unearning, will be punished the severest. Therefore if you want to take a treasure from our underground vaults that has never belonged to you, O thief, you have been warned that it is not a treasure but a bad retribution.

Although the sense of deterrence of the article itself is not very strong, because it is engraved on the thick and sturdy door, it makes people invisibly experience a heavy feeling, so that they subconsciously restrain their behavior and dare not easily offend here.

Entering the silver door, there was a spacious marble hall. Behind the long counter sat a hundred and ten fairy salesmen, some weighing coins, some lying on the table writing something, and others who appeared to be expert experts examining gems with eyepieces.

Everything is so orderly, just like the big banks in the real world, but because all the staff in the bank are goblins, this makes the few people who come to Gringotts for the first time feel a strong sense of disobedience.

"It's a freshman who is about to enter the school, right?" Hermione's family's reaction was immediate, and the goblins in charge of the reception recognized their identities at a glance.

"Yes. We need to change some money. ”

"How much? Our exchange rate here is one gold galleon to five pounds, and if you exchange a large amount, we can also recommend a safe for you to store the gold galleons that you don't need for the time being. As you know, it's not a good habit to carry too much money with you, and the weight of the gold galleon itself is not light, and there are always some inconveniences ...... carrying too much. ”

Professor McGonagall just said 'change some money', but the goblin in front of him recommended a lot of other businesses, well, sure enough, it is a goblin who regards money as his life, and will not miss any opportunity to make money, and this level of business can be mixed at least at the level of a supervisor if it is placed in a real-world bank.

"Let's exchange it for a thousand gold Galleons first." After a little thought, and after consulting Professor McGonagall and Hermione herself, Bolton Granger, as the head of the family, took out the envelope that he had prepared long ago, counted out five thousand pounds from it, and handed it to the leprechaun salesman behind the counter.

A thousand gold gallons is enough for Hermione for two or three semesters. However, it was certainly not enough for Hermione to use until she graduated. It was mainly Hermione's own opinion that I would choose such an amount instead of exchanging more at once - when I got used to life here, I could exchange it myself later, and for me, it was an opportunity to exercise. It's really not good, isn't there still Uncle Chu, it's a big deal to let him bring me.

In exchange for a thousand gold Galleons, he took out one hundred and fifty of them in his pocket and carried them with him, and for the rest, he rented a small safe and stored them in Gringotts. Soon, the fairy salesman took care of the Hermione family's exchange business.

Next it was Chu Xiaobai's turn. Although he was not a new student and did not need to buy textbooks and new gowns, he needed to prepare no less than Hermione.

After all, he is here to collect knowledge, whether it is to purchase all kinds of potion materials for experiments, or to buy various magic books, or to buy those special products and magic items that are only available in the magic world, he needs a large amount of gold gallons.

"Give me 200,000 gold Galleons first, by the way, do you have a bigger money bag here, I want to buy more things, and I need to bring more money with me." After estimating in his heart, Chu Xiaobai decided to exchange more gold gallons at one time: "Also, do you accept checks here?" You know, a million pounds is too heavy to carry around. (Previously, Chu Xiaobai had spent money to find a relationship to get an official identity in the UK, and sold the treasures collected in some Tianlong planes through the black market, in short, Chu Xiaobai is now a rich person with an official identity.) ）

"Of course, you don't have to doubt our business capabilities." Two hundred thousand? This is a big customer. In the blink of an eye, the attitude of the fairy salesman became a lot more positive.

Not only that, because Chu Xiaobai exchanged too many gold gallons, he had to use a large vault to fit them, in order to let him confirm the tightness of his bank, the goblin salesman also deliberately took him to an underground vault, so that he could see the gold gallons piled up like a hill with his own eyes.

Compared to the business hall above, the scenery in the underground vault is a completely different style.

The Hermione family saw a big scene that ordinary people and even ordinary wizards couldn't see when they first entered Diagon Alley.

It is precisely because of this big scene that the Granger couple are more relieved. With Chu Xiaobai's big money to help take care of Hogwarts, Hermione will definitely not encounter any trouble in her life. Well, the couple didn't know that Hermione would become friends with Harry Potter and be dragged into a series of troubles by him.

Once you're out of Gringotts, it's time to start shopping in Diagon Alley.

"Every wizard must have his own wand. First, you'll need to buy a wand. ”

Led by Professor McGonagall, the group quickly arrived at the door of the wand shop, which was the only wand shop in Diagon Alley, the Ollivanders wand shop.

The Ollivanders Wand Shop is a cramped, dilapidated shop, with no signage outside the store, and a box full of wands that reach to the ceiling, leaving little room for people to move around.

However, this shabby little shop has a very unusual reputation in the wizarding world as a whole, and Ollivander himself is one of the three major wandmakers in Europe, along with Grigovich in Germany, and one of the best wandmakers in the world.

Many foreigners come to London to buy a wand he makes, rather than buy it locally. Voldemort's wand was also bought at Ollivanders' wand shop. These are all examples of Ollivanders' strength and the status of the Ollivanders Wand Shop in the wizarding world.

"Minerva, long time no see."

"Hello, Mr. Ollivander~."

It can be seen that Professor McGonagall and Ollivander have a good relationship, if not friends, but old acquaintances.

"Is this little girl a freshman who is going to enter this year? Come, little girl, stretch out your dominant hand, I need to measure the length of your arm~. On the eve of the start of school, there were many students (not only Hogwarts) who came to buy new wands, and instead of being as free as usual, Ollivander didn't talk to Professor McGonagall more, but greeted Hermione directly, took out the tape measure and started his work.

"Well, try this one, the grapevine wood plus dragon heart tendon, it should suit you very well." In a short time, Ollivander had finished measuring Hermione's various data, and then, tremblingly, he climbed the ladder and took out a box from the high shelf and placed it in front of Hermione.

"Come on, try to swing it."

"Okay." As Ollivander had ordered, Hermione picked up the end of her wand with her dominant hand and waved it slightly.

"Bang~~~~~!"