063: Orphanage

"Would you like to have a light meal together?" Mrs. Camitchell offered to invite.

Joel wasn't going to go back to the orphanage tonight, and no one cared about him anyway, so he simply accepted the love of the Camitchells, thanked the couple and thanked them, and then followed Eddie into a silver Ford car.

Mrs. Camitchell drove the car, while Mr. Camitchell was in charge of communicating with Eddie Joel.

"I've heard that you've done a great feat, especially for your age," Mr. Carmitchell lamented, "and we didn't have them when we were in school, so we had to figure it out on our own." ”

"It was Joel's idea," Eddie said excitedly, "and he had a lot of ideas in his head to make money." ”

"You stinky boy thinks about money all day long." Mr. Carmitchell rubbed Eddie's head affectionately.

After a light meal outside, Joel turned down the invitation of the Carmitchells to stay overnight, and he made his way to Charing Crossroads with his luggage and owl cage to find the Leaky Cauldron Bar.

It was dark and damp, and many wizards gathered at a table to drink and chat, and the man in the bar was wiping his wine glass, and his movements were very casual.

"Hello, are there any rooms available?" Joel stepped forward and asked politely.

The man, Tom, the owner of the Leaky Cauldron Bar, put down his glass and took a key from under the bar, "2 Galleons a night, 10 sico, return the deposit after checking out and checking the contents of the room, breakfast is free." ”

Joel took money out of his pocket and lined up at the bar, and when he learned the room number, he took the key and went upstairs, and with the creak of the wooden staircase, he made his way to the second floor of the bar.

In room 11, Joel identified the room number, opened the door with the key in his hand and walked in.

There was a smell of dust, as if no one had cleaned it in a long time, the room was not very large, Joel estimated that it was about fifteen square meters, and there was only a bed, a fireplace, a window and a mirror.

It looked very rudimentary, but it was within Joel's acceptable range, and he put the suitcase next to the bed, then opened the owl cage to let Poppy out for a long time.

He opened his money bag and counted his remaining assets, plus the dividends sent by the Ministry of Magic last month, he still had a little more than 110 Galleons in hand, which was about 500 pounds when converted, and the purchasing power of 500 pounds in 1991 was equivalent to more than 1,000 pounds in later generations, which was undoubtedly a huge amount of money for an 11-year-old child.

Combined with the monthly dividends after that, he could have stayed at the Leaky Cauldron for a vacation.

Joel plans to follow his memories to the orphanage where he stayed tomorrow, where he still has a bunch of birth information and identity information.

Joel lay on the bed with his clothes, and the soft pillows stimulated the fatigue of a long day's journey, and he fell into a deep sleep.

He was woken up the next morning by Poppy, who stepped on Joel's quilt and stared at Joel with a dead mouse in his mouth.

"Merlin......" Joel sighed, covering his eyes, "I've warned you many times, don't bring dead rats to my room!" He yelled.

Bobby could guess from Joel's expression and volume that he was scolding himself,

Aggrievedly, he flapped his wings twice and flew to the windowsill, if you don't eat, you won't eat, why are you yelling loudly?

It covered its body with its wings and began to feast on dead rats, wondering why such a delicious food was not popular with humans.

Bobby's little head was filled with big doubts.

Joel rolled over and got out of bed, the bathroom and toilet in the Leaky Cauldron Bar were shared, and after washing up and changing clothes, he went downstairs, and some of the residents were already sitting in chairs enjoying breakfast, and they didn't talk to each other, just looking at the magazines and newspapers in their hands.

Seeing him go downstairs, Tom handed him a breakfast from the bar, and several residents lingered on Joel's jeans, which was tantamount to fancy dress for wizards.

Breakfast of baked bread, scrambled eggs, a little mushroom and a glass of milk, tasted much worse than what the Hogwarts house-elves cooked, and Joel had grown accustomed to the monotony of food after living in this food-barren country for nearly a year.

He moved quickly, first eating the burnt dough, then drinking half of the milk in the cup, and the milk rushed down his throat to the coarse pieces of bread into his stomach, and he felt the pain in his esophagus, and hurriedly swallowed the scrambled eggs on the plate.

After breakfast, Joel says goodbye to Tom and leaves the Leaky Cauldron to find the orphanage.

It is worth mentioning that since Joel's soul penetrated this body, the memories that were originally left in his mind have gradually become blurred, and these memories that do not belong to Joel are being erased little by little, and when the last memory disappears, the original owner of the body has really disappeared from this world.

He was the only one left who borrowed his body.

The topic was so heavy that Joel shook his head and jumped off the bus, surrounded by the same tall buildings, and the orphanage was hiding somewhere.

He now only remembers the general location of the orphanage and the name of the director, but he has forgotten the name of the orphanage and the surrounding landmarks.

Fortunately, there is a mouth under his nose, and he can't be difficult after all.

Turning left and right, he finally came to the orphanage where the original owner of the body lived a few years ago at noon.

Looking up at the orphanage's door, Joel didn't know whether to say it or not.

Woo's Orphanage.

This famous orphanage was where Voldemort Tom Riddle grew up, and the combination of childhood shadows and parental deformities forged his twisted and cruel personality.

There were no guards at the entrance to the orphanage, and Joel easily stepped through the gate and into the main building.

He walked down the dark, dark corridor where two thin, similarly sized children passed by, looking at Joel with timid and frightened eyes, one of whom opened his mouth to speak, but his companion next to him elbowed him hard.

The three of them passed by, and then Joel heard the two of them whispering, the voice so low that he couldn't really hear it.

He frowned slightly, it seemed that the years that the original owner of the body had spent in the orphanage had not been peaceful.

After passing through several rooms, Joel could see that although the rooms were small and dilapidated, the room was neat and tidy, and it seemed to be well managed.

The dean's office was at the end of the hallway, and Joel reached out and knocked on the door, hearing an old voice from inside, "Please come in." ”

Joel pushed the door open, and a gray-haired old man sat behind her desk and looked up, her face kind and in good spirits, dealing with a document on the desk.

"It's been a long time since I've seen Joel," she said, standing up and pouring Joel a glass of water, "How are you doing at that boarding school?" ”