Chapter 62: Tracking

After saying goodbye to Hermione, Maple found a place where no one was around, and raised her wand in exchange for the knight's bus.

The Muggles couldn't see the car, and sitting on it, Maple watched as the knight bus rushed straight into the two cars in front of them, and then saw the cars jump out of the way of the magic car.

What the eye saw seemed to be like this, but in fact it was as if the magic car was squeezing and deforming itself, rushing through the gap between the two cars. It's just that although the exterior is deformed, the space inside the car has not changed in the slightest.

Muggles couldn't see the Knight's Bus, but if the magic car was running rampant all the way, squeezing out all the obstacles in the way, Muggles wouldn't be unaware.

Many things in the wizarding world seem to be taken for granted, but there is a deep sense of magic hidden in them. Muggles could not see the knight's bus, nor could they hear the sound of the car, but wizards could see and hear.

It couldn't be an illusion charm, but a Muggle banishment charm. Muggle expulsion spells can be extremely advanced illusions and even spiritual magic, like Hogwarts, Muggles not only do not see the shadow of the castle, but when approaching the wizarding field of Hogwarts, they will suddenly think of something important and leave immediately.

But it could also be a simple confusion charm, Muggles have no magic in their bodies, and the confusion charm can easily interfere with their sight and hearing, and as long as children with magical talents, even before entering school, there is some magic in their bodies. The Confusion Charm of the Magu Expulsion Charm has a very low threshold, as long as it has a magic sense, it can eliminate its interference with sight and hearing, which is why wizards can notice many things that Muggles don't care about or can't see.

Of course, this is just conjecture, and the real details of the knight bus are still best known to their boss. However, what Maple is most interested in is the spatial transformation spell, although he has mastered the Traceless Stretching Spell to a certain level, but he doesn't know now, if the box with the Traceless Stretching Spell is cast inside, if he uses the shrinking spell on the box outside, will the space inside also shrink.

Hop on the Knight Bus and get to your destination quickly, even when the traffic in the secular world is extremely congested.

It hadn't been half an hour, maybe a quarter of an hour, before Maple arrived at the orphanage where he was going. If it were a Muggle transport, it would never have been possible to reach it in such a short time.

When she arrives at the orphanage, Maple sees not only the director, but also Emily. Seeing that there seemed to be tears in the dean's eyes, and the faces of the others were not very good, Maple immediately felt that something was wrong, and the good mood when he came was instantly gone.

"Dean, what's going on?" Maple ran to the dean's side and immediately asked.

The Dean immediately tells the other children to leave, and only Dean and Emily know about Maple's identity as a magician. The Dean was informed by Dumbledore, and Emily, considering that she could not completely let the Ray of Hope Company out of her control before letting it go completely, the Dean was only a legal person in name, but she was not good at managing the company, so the actual helm and person in charge was Emily.

However, Maple was still very relieved of her, before she founded the company, she didn't want to pay to teach the poor orphanage children, which shows that her character is still trustworthy, and after knowing Maple's identity, in addition to being surprised, she did not show any rejection of magic. Otherwise, if she had shown the same aversion to magic as the Vernons, Maple would have to find a way to cast an Oblivion Charm on her.

"Ike and Mary are missing, I haven't seen them for many days, I've called the police, and Emily has helped to track down clues everywhere, but I still haven't found them." The director of the orphanage cried.

"Dean, don't worry, leave this matter to me, as long as they haven't had an accident, I will definitely bring them back safely." Maple immediately assured the dean.

Before Maple left, she chatted with Emily about the company for a while, asking her to go back to the company first, and leave everything to him.

For building the company's influence quickly, Maple has a piece of advice. Didn't the company recruit many veterans to serve as security guards, so take this as an opportunity to establish a charity fund for disabled soldiers.

You don't need to buy off all the servicemen, just provide the necessary relief to the disabled servicemen, and you can gain the favor of the entire military circle. This will not only increase the loyalty of the security personnel under him, but also warn the slippery elements among them. By building a good relationship with the entire community of military personnel, their company can always find alternative resources to supplement the blood of the security team. But when they realize that they are no longer indispensable, they will have a sense of crisis, and they will not dare to do anything wrong even if their original caution still exists.

After a hurried meeting with the dean and a moment of separation, Maple felt quite uncomfortable. Although the original Maple's soul has completely dissipated into the world, the last trace of his remnant soul has integrated his nostalgia for the orphanage into Lin Feng's soul, and unconsciously made Lin Feng have a cordial affection for the orphanage.

Although Lin Feng had an attachment to the orphanage, he hadn't been in the orphanage for a particularly long time since he came to this world, so he didn't have too much impression of the other orphans in the orphanage.

Even the wizarding world doesn't have a good way to find missing people in the vast sea of people, and they have been missing for several days. Then it can only be relied on luck -

Maple carefully put a small drop in his mouth, less than an hour's supply, but if luck helps, the elixir should be enough.

After drinking the elixir, Maple closed his eyes and silently recited to help me find the child in the orphanage, as if calling for a room of requirement, and then followed the sudden feeling in his heart.

"Go to Diagon Alley!" Maple waved his wand again, summoned the knight bus, and said where he was going, and where the elixir felt a clue.

This time there were other passengers on the car, but in order to hurry up and not waste the effect of the elixir, Maple directly bribed the other passengers with money and asked the driver to go directly to Diagon Alley.

When I came to the Cauldron Bar, it was the time for the students to take a vacation, and because the population of wizards was not large, young wizards accounted for a considerable proportion of the population of the wizarding world. It's not as lively now as it was before Hogwarts started, but it's still much more lively than when the students were in school.

Through the wall passage behind the Leaky Cauldron, Maple came to Diagon Alley. Although it lived up to the crowds before the students went to school, there were at least a few wizards in each of the shops, and there were still violent quarrels between customers and shopkeepers from time to time in the thriving shops.

The rent in Diagon Alley is very expensive, and if you don't have enough profit returns, you can't support the shops here.

But Maple didn't stay too long in this bustling street when he entered, and instead followed the instructions of the elixir towards a remote corner.

Knowing the future, Maple immediately knew where he was going-

Tumble Alley!

Compared with the glittering Diagon Alley, Tumbledown Alley is dilapidated and black, just like those rich and poor areas separated by a wall in the secular world, one wall apart, two worlds, one heaven and the other hell.

A happy scene, a group of demons dancing. It's like in the postquel of Journey to the West, after Wutian occupied Lingshan, he shouted: "Turn off the lights!" ”

Then the golden light of the Lingshan Hall immediately became lifeless, and all the Buddhas in the sky became demons and monsters, although the occupation of Lingshan by Wutian was a catastrophe, it seemed to save Lingshan a lot of electricity. (Just kidding, just have fun.) )

It's completely different from the hustle and bustle of Diagon Alley, it's dark and deserted, and it's not uncommon for the shops here to not see a single customer a month, and they don't open in March, but they open for three months, and that's the status quo of most shops in this place.

The image of Tumbledown Alley was once that it was a den of darkness and evil, but after a real walk, Maple discovered that this was not entirely the case.

Maybe there are a lot of big dark magic shops in Boginbock that are really evildoers, but there are more werewolves, wandering wizards, and even some of the dark wizards here are poor people.

Needless to say, the situation of werewolves is self-explanatory, and many of the sources of dark wizards here are Muggle wizards. Because of the harsh rules of secrecy, Muggle-born wizards must be cut off from the secular world and cannot find work in the secular world once they enter the wizarding world. (Witches are better, they can marry Muggles and be a housewife with peace of mind, so they don't violate the rules)

Jobs in the wizarding world are limited, and a lot of money is held by pure-blood families. Then these wizards, who couldn't find a job in the wizarding world, had seemingly high magical magic, but because they couldn't find a bite to eat, they were forced to fall into the dirty and smelly place of Tumbledown Alley and become the dregs of society.

The reason why it is a gathering place for dark magic is that it is easier to learn and more powerful than decent magic, and some wizards with insufficient qualifications can only mingle in the dark in order to survive. It's just that their knowledge of dark magic is relatively too superficial, and the backbone Death Eaters under Voldemort's command are all wizards of pure-blood families, and they can't look down on these dark wizards who are the same kind of them, so they can only mess with Voldemort on the periphery.

Tumbledown Alley and Diagon Alley were only one alley away, and it was impossible for the Ministry of Magic not to know about the existence of this place, but they couldn't help it. Because of the complete destruction of Diagon Alley, the Ministry of Magic, as the government of magicians, has to take care of the livelihood of these people. It's better to let them rot and stink here like now, and not worry about how good and easy it is.

Therefore, although the Ministry of Magic often checks Tumbledown Alley for dark magic items, it never intends to destroy this place completely, because the benefits of destroying this place are far less than the trouble that follows.

And every time they sweep, those small shops with poor strength and the dark wizards who set up stalls are unlucky, and those big shops are always as stable as Mount Tai, otherwise Lucius Malfoy himself would not have come here to sell the dark magic items that he found troublesome to Boginbock.