027: Rush to Tumbledown Alley
The shelves here are filled with all kinds of candy, from lollipop quill pens to exploding sandwich gummies...... There are also bibi flavored beans.
"We can buy some and try it when we come back." Joel looked at the candy in the wizarding world and felt very strange.
Sergei nodded, clutching the thick scroll in his arms.
This is his greatest asset.
Joel and Sergei slipped out of Duke Honey's confectionery, the village of Hogsmeade, the only pure wizarding village in Britain, home to hundreds of wizards, pubs, restaurants, post office, ...... The whole nine yards.
He stretched out his wand flat and made a gesture to hail a taxi from his previous life.
Five seconds later, with a deafening bang, a purple three-decker bus suddenly appeared.
"Good morning, both of you, and welcome to the Rider Bus, I'm Stan Sanpark, the conductor." The sliding door of the bus opened, and a tall, lanky boy in a purple uniform jumped out, looking to be eighteen or nineteen years old, with a pair of eye-catching ears and a few pimples remaining on his face.
The moment he saw Joel and Sergey, Stan froze, "How old are you two?" ”
Joel's face didn't change, "I'm almost 11 years old, and I'm going to study at Hogwarts next year." ”
He certainly wouldn't tell his real age and couldn't let Stan know that he and Sergei had snuck out of Hogwarts.
"Oh......" Stan nodded, mistaking the two of them for the wizard kids who lived here, "Tell me where you're going." ”
"Tumbledown Alley."
"Tumbledown Alley?" Stan frowned, "Shall we not go to that place, go to Diagon Alley?" ”
Joel nodded, "Okay, but do you know how to get from Diagon Alley to Tumbledown Alley?" ”
Stan shook his head, "I haven't been there either, you can ask someone when you get to Diagon Alley." ”
"Go to Diagon Alley for 11 silver sicos, plus 3 sicos, and you can get a cup of hot chocolate."
Joel doesn't have that much money on him, so Sergei pulls two Galleons out of his pocket and hands them to Stan.
"No hot chocolate." Sergey deliberately emphasized.
Three cups for a cup of hot chocolate, that's 87 copper nats! How much is chocolate powder worth? It's a million profits!
The three of them board the bus, and Stan puts Garon in his purse, from which he pulls a silver coin for Sergei.
"This is Ernne Poulan, a 20-year driver." Stan introduces them to the older wizard in the driver's seat, who wears a pair of glasses as thick as the bottom of a beer bottle, which makes Joel suspect that he can't see clearly.
"It's going to take some time to get to Diagon Alley, so I'll take you inside to get some rest." Stan leads them inside, and the bus is very dimly lit, with six copper-framed beds around it, unlit candles on the wall shelves, and a narrow wooden staircase leading upstairs.
Joel and Sergey each picked a bed, and the moment they lay down, the knight's bus started.
Erne Pullan is indeed an old driver, but Joel can't stand the speed of the car, the inside of the bus is very bumpy, and the items in the cabinet are swaying from side to side, and even his stomach is turning over.
Fortunately, they didn't eat much in the morning, otherwise they would have to vomit.
Fifteen minutes later, they managed to reach Diagon Alley.
"Have a great day!" Stan drops them off the car and waves goodbye.
The knight's bus twisted into a twist in Joel's sight and disappeared into the space.
It's the weekend, and many wizards are shopping in Diagon Alley, and the streets are bustling with people.
There is very little description of how to enter Tumbling Alley in the original book, although Diagon Alley is not big, but there are dozens of forks in the road, and it is not clear which one leads to Tumbling Alley Joel.
As Stan, the conductor, said, he had to find someone to ask for directions.
"Hello ma'am, do you know how to get to Tumbledown Alley?" Joel saw a short, fat, and kind wife, and hurriedly stepped forward to ask.
"Tumbledown Alley...... "Lady Downside Alley," the lady turned twice around Joel and Sergei with a kind gaze, "I don't recommend that you two young children who are not yet in school go to such a dangerous place alone. ”
She also had two children in her hand, a boy and a woman, who looked to be about the same age as Joel, and both had red hair, the girl's gaze wandered over Joel's handsome face, and the boy was obsessed with the comet broom in the Quidditch boutique, and his eyes were full of envy.
Joel looked at the two red-haired children and suddenly felt that something was not right.
It can't be so coincidental, right?
"What about your parents?"
"Hmm...... They went to work today and commissioned us to sell these two volumes. Joel made up an excuse and showed her the book that was clutched to his chest.
She didn't want to go to that dark alley, but the kindness in her heart didn't worry about letting these two children go to the alley by themselves, anyway, her own affairs were done, so she simply ......
"Well, I'll take you two on a trip, and you don't wander around with me, and if there are other wizards talking to you, don't talk to them."
She led them to a fork in the road.
Joel was visiting Diagon Alley for the first time, and he followed the fat lady to imprint the scenery in Diagon Alley.
Quidditch Boutique, Book & Stationery, Blotted Bookstore, ...... The windows of each shop are bright and clean, and through the transparent floor-to-ceiling windows, you can see that there are many wizards shopping inside, and the business is not booming.
"What do you two call them?" The fat lady asked with a smile.
"I'm Joel, he's Serge," Joel thought for a moment and added, "The two of us are going to Hogwarts next year." ”
"That's just the same level as Ron," the fat lady looked at her youngest son, "I just forgot to introduce you, this is my youngest son, Ron Weasley, and this is my youngest daughter, Ginny, who won't go to school until the year after tomorrow." ”
"Just call me Mrs. Weasley."
It was exactly what Joel had expected.
Yesterday I just learned from the Weasley twins about the secret passage to Hogsmeade, and today in Diagon Alley, Mrs. Weasley is going to send herself to Tumbledown Alley......
The Weasleys were really the protectors of their own books.
The four children simply said hello and did not mean to make friends in depth.
The group walked into the fork in the road, there are also some shops in this small alley, but the scale and flow of people are much less than the main road, the more you go inside, the more sparsely populated, when the bustle ends, silence gradually dominates the street.
Mrs. Weasley's four children followed closely behind, and now the shops on both sides of the road were becoming more and more eerie, with one shop even hanging a withered human head on a curtain, sunken eyes, dry skin, and ravines like a dry river.
It seems to have entered the boundaries of Tumbledown Alley.