Chapter 4 Diagon Alley
"Mr. Augustus."
Both Lindh and Felix looked at Snape.
"This is Charing Crossroads in London. Next, we're going to a shopping street that belongs to wizards. ”
"Wizard?" Felix looked at Snape suspiciously.
Snape, who was about to turn around, paused and stared at Linde's face suspiciously, "I thought Mr. Linde, who received the letter, had explained all this to you.
Of course, I can understand if he took it as a prank. ”
As he spoke, he looked at Felix again, "Please come with me, I'll explain to you on the way." ”
"On the evening of July 30th, Mr. Lind officially received an acceptance letter from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and asked the school's owl to send a letter back that evening."
"School of Magic?!" Felix followed Linde, looking at Linde with a puzzled look, he remembered that day Linde was holding an owl.
Lind shrugged at him, looking embarrassed. He never thought it would be Snape who would take him to school!
The rest of the professors, except for Quirrell, should at least explain well before bringing the children and their families to Diagon Alley!
Snape didn't care what the two behind him thought, and continued to lead the way in front. It seems that despite how busy he is, he still phantoms to a place that is some way away from the Leaky Cauldron, so that the two of them can better remember the exact location of the Leaky Cauldron.
"Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is the best school of witchcraft and wizardry in the UK, and it teaches young wizards with magic in their bodies how to use and manage their own magic.
The vast majority of wizards throughout England have studied at Hogwarts. And your brother Linde is a man with magic in him.
His name has been written on the Hogwarts admission list since birth. ”
With all that said, Snape led the way in front and let Felix brainstorm in the back, but it wasn't too hard to accept. After all, he had long known that Linde was different from ordinary people, but before that, he felt that it was something within superpowers.
Snape led the two to a squalid and dilapidated pub sandwiched between a bookstore and a record store.
Snape walked in with the two of them, and he could hear Felix muttering from behind, "There are still guests like this?!" ”
Linde heard that it was also a black line, and you and he were not really peers, and you complained about what others were doing.
As the three approached the house, they could see several old women sitting in the corner of the room drinking sherry with small glasses, and one of them was smoking a long cigarette pouch. A small man in a top hat was chatting with the barkeeper whose hair was almost stripped and looked like a shriveled walnut. As soon as they entered, the chatter suddenly stopped, probably because of Snape.
Ignoring them, Snape led the two of them across the bar to a small, walled patio on all sides. There was nothing but a garbage can and some weeds, but Lind knew where it was, the gate to Diagon Alley.
"Coming in from the bar, coming through the bar. See this wall? I'll just say once, count three up, two more horizontally, and tap the brick three times with your wand. You're going to have a wand. ”
As he spoke, Snape tapped the brick three times, and then the brick began to shake and spin to reveal a hole, and in a few moments the hole was the size of a doorframe, revealing the winding road behind it.
"This is Diagon Alley, the largest gathering of wizards in the UK. Everything you need to buy in first grade is available here. ”
With that, Snape led the way into the alleyway.
"I'll take you to Gringotts, a wizarding bank, to exchange for wizarding currency, where you can buy what you need to learn."
With that, Snape walked forward quickly, and the wizards around him avoided him.
Seeing that Snape didn't want to talk more, Felix didn't look bored with himself, and walked with a big belly and looked left and right. It stands out among the peaked hats. However, his hands remained on his waist, and it seemed that this new environment did not let his guard down.
Linde was no better, looking left and right all the time, wishing that he had eyes all over his head.
After all, it used to be seen through the screen or text, but now it is a personal experience, and it feels completely different.
Window full of eyes and spider corpses, and a Quidditch window with a child about Linde's age in the doorway.
"My Tianlinde, the broomstick, just like the one in the story when I was a child, exactly the same, oh my God, I want to buy one too." The man, who was almost forty years old, was now like a child, and he said loudly to Linde, and the people around him frowned and crossed the two.
Snape walked so fast that the two of them didn't have much time to look around, and in a short time they came to a snow-white building that was higher than the surrounding shops, with a crooked pillar with large gilded letters - Gringotts.
A gleaming bronze gate flanks a golden fairy statue.
Short hands, short legs, short necks.
Long fingers, a long nose and long leather shoes with long toes wrapped around them.
"That's ......"
"Ahem!" Felix was about to say something when he was interrupted by Linde's deliberate cough.
Lind motioned with his eyes to look inside the door, which was full of the kind of creatures he had just wanted to complain about being ugly.
Snape also heard what Felix was trying to say just now, and the corners of his mouth rose slightly, "Elves are not friendly creatures. ”
It seems that he agrees with Felix's assessment of the goblins.
Felix sneered, touched his head, and the two of them followed Snape's steps inside.
Arriving at an empty counter on the right, Snape knocked on the countertop, unceremoniously interrupting the elves who were scribbling with a quill.
The elf looked up and looked at Snape coldly, "Severus, it's not a good habit to interrupt other people's work. ”
"It's just a matter of calculating over and over again how much wizards' money can become yours!
I have a freshman here who needs to exchange Galleons! Snape was still in a cold, deep voice.
"Freshmen? Muggle families? Tut. The elf raised an eyebrow, and his voice sharpened again.
"They're busy!" Snape explained casually, then beckoned Lind to come forward.
The elf frowned when he saw Lindh come forward.
The voice of the voice became the same as Snape's, no, more serious than Snape, and the words were like they couldn't pull out, and they jumped out in a low voice, word by word.
"According to the rules, you can exchange 250 pounds for 50 gold galleons. One galleon is equal to seventeen silver sicos, and one silver sike is equal to twenty-nine copper nats. ”
"That ......"
"No more, the pound is completely useless to us. If it weren't for the Hogwarts contract, you wouldn't even want to change Galleons. Before Linde could say anything, he was interrupted by the goblin.
Why is this tone, oh yes. Some time ago, it seems that the vault containing the Philosopher's Stone was forcibly broken into, so it's understandable that they are angry - what a fart!
I'm sorry that your vault has been broken into!
The goblin sat at the high counter and looked down at Linde coldly.
Lind didn't reply, but beckoned Felix to come forward.
It seems that he is going to get his father to get the money.
He saw this scene a lot.
However, when Felix came over, he stopped next to Linde and leaned over to listen to Linde. After all, Linde himself is rich, and calling him over should be something that needs his help.
Then, under the gaze of the goblins around him, he picked up Linde and placed it on his shoulder, and waited for Linde to sit down before he walked to the counter.
Now, Linde looked down at the goblin in front of him. He pulled five queen's heads from the inner lining of his jacket and leaned over to hand them to the goblin.
"I've changed it all."
"When ......"
"What I was trying to say is, can gold be exchanged?"