Hogsmeade is really interesting.

It's not big, but it's small.

From the owl post office, to the clothing chain store, to the candy and snack shop, to the tea restaurant, to the large magic equipment store, to the magic material store...... There are even barber shops and shops that sell magical beast seeds, and there are basically shops that are in demand.

In the 17th century, when the elves rebelled for the first time, their headquarters were located in this village.

Through the perspective of Heavenly Ansu, Ted saw that the entire village still covered a large area.

At least two to three times as much as Decamund!

The distance between these buildings is not small, and it looks sparse.

After all, the land here doesn't need money, just circle it casually.

Most of the buildings are in the local style, with Scottish signature pointed roofs, slender chimneys, stepped gables.

But some of the buildings are particularly eccentric, twisted and crooked, and the style is very different, and it is not serious at first glance!

There are also some buildings that look dilapidated and abandoned, and there are quite a few, which should have been abandoned by some wizards.

The fertility rate of wizards is low, and sometimes there is no heir, so it is abandoned.

They don't need money for the land here, so no one bothered to demolish it.

Ted guessed that there should be screaming shacks among the ruins.

There are two taverns in the village, one is the Three Brooms Tavern, which is said to be a century-old brand.

And the current tavern proprietress is a mature big sister who still has charm - Ms. Rosmerta.

The proprietress stood behind the counter, and looked at the side of the ridge into a peak, with different heights and heights, the most important thing is the spring benefit of the world, and it is absolutely better than the smoke and willows in the imperial capital - that is a beautiful landscape!

That business, it's good!

And the business of another tavern is not bad, the pig's head bar.

In the original books, the owner of the tavern was Dumbledore's younger brother, Aberforth.

It's just that this old man inadvertently killed his sister because of Dumbledore's battle with Grindelwald in his early years, so he has never been in contact with him since then.

Oh yes, according to the content of the movie "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them", he should also have a son, who was silent, who was used by Grindelwald, and later should have died of illness. After all, Silent Ran generally doesn't live long.

The Pig's Head Bar is in poor condition and has a very bad service attitude, but it still has a business that does not lose three brooms, which is naturally not because the old man Aberforth changed into women's clothes to personally attract customers, but because the Pig's Head Bar is the "black market trading place" in this magic village!

Remember when Hagrid was in the first grade, he drank and played cards with someone, and "won" a dragon egg, right?

There it is!

If it's an ordinary tavern, how can someone show up with dragon eggs?

It's actually a place where wizards from the gray area exchange information and facilitate business.

This is also why other vain attempts to open taverns in the past hundred years have been defeated by generations of beautiful proprietresses, only Aberforth has done it, and it has been open for decades.

Aberforth's strength should not be weak, and he can control the field, so it has gradually attracted a lot of people here.

Even some of Ted's experimental materials were bought through other people's orders here.

Unlike Tumbledown Alley, which is mostly a gray area, the Dark Wizard is not a good one.

As soon as they entered the village, the friends dispersed.

The twins went straight to Jokowi's joke shop, mainly to copy ...... Ah, no! It's about borrowing from each other's ideas.

Then I made it myself and sold it to my classmates at a lower price.

There are no middlemen to make the difference! Let the students save more money and benefit the masses~

Noble!

Jerry and Ron went straight to Duke Honey's candy store, and when the two of them mentioned the candy in Duke Honey's shop just now, their saliva was already uncontrollable, and they almost dripped onto their clothes.

Neville went to Lady Padiv's teahouse, the hostess of which was a good friend of the grandmother's, and he had to go and say hello.

Hallie also said goodbye to Ted and ran away. Didn't say where it went.

Ted and Hermione glanced at each other and said in unison, "Do you want to go to the Literati Residence?" ”

Ted: I knew you wanted to go there!

The literati house and literati supplies store is a village that sells magic stationery.

From various types of quills to various types of parchment, from magic inks, colorful inks to crystal balls, divination teacups, ink correction fluids, photo developers, ...... It's quite a mess.

Ted recently engaged in experiments, and there were a large stack of experimental records, and the consumption of parchment paper had simply doubled several times, so he really needed to prepare more.

The two walked slowly to the literati residence, the shop was simply decorated, but full of literati atmosphere. A variety of goods can be seen in the lattice glass windows.

Pushing the door in, there were already two or three Hogwarts students picking up merchandise.

They all nodded or greeted Ted when they saw him.

Hermione chose two quills made from the tail feather of the same pheasant for a long time, which were very beautiful, and the gold edges on a black background looked cool.

"I'll give you one!" Hermione paid the money and handed Ted a slightly longer one.

Ted took it with a smile: "Thank you~"

In return, Ted said to treat Hermione to a drink.

Although there are now seven or eight different types of drinks in the Hogwarts kitchen, there is no butterbeer after all.

So the two intend to revisit this delicious drink.

At first, Ted was going to go to the Pig's Head Tavern, but after coming out of the post office on Central Boulevard, he turned into a side road, and the intersection was.

A sign of tattered wood sticking out, hanging from a rusty iron bracket on the door, depicted with a severed pig's head, blood seeping through the white cloth that encased it.

Pushing the door in, the scene suddenly went black. Visibility is a bit low~

Originally, there were not many tavern windows on this floor, and they were still small, as if they hadn't wiped the glass for a long time, with thick dust and extremely poor light transmission.

So much so that there are a lot of candles lit in the daytime.

But the candle also increases the area of shadows, the contrast between light and dark, and it is the same as at night.

On the wall facing the door, a large specimen of wild boar's head was hideous, with messy hair and dirty.

The floor under the soles of the feet is a little sticky and greasy. I'm afraid I don't know how long it's been since I wiped the floor!

Isn't it just a clean thing, as for making it like this?

In addition, there is a goat's smell in the air, not to mention how unappetizing it is!

Ted, a waiter who works at the Leaky Cauldron Bar, almost couldn't help but pull out his wand and clean it up!

An old man with a long beard behind the bar slowly sorted out his oak wine glasses, glanced at Ted and the others at the door, and then ignored them.

And the other seven or eight other drinking guests, all of them were secretive, either wearing hoods, hiding in the shadows, and even wearing masks, which didn't look serious!

Forget it!

Ted: "It doesn't seem like we've come somewhere, so let's go first." ”

Fortunately, I was originally here to recognize the door, and I was not disappointed.

After a while, the two of them had already come to the three brooms, and there were more people here.

Maybe it's because the school is open on weekends, so there are still quite a few students in the school.

As soon as Ted and the others entered the door, there were four or five voices of greeting.

Ted even sees Jerry and Ron.

Jerry: "Over here~"

The two walked over and sat down.

Ted responded to the greetings of his classmates one by one, and then said to the proprietress who walked gracefully, very charming, with a fashionable hairstyle and a marked facial features: "Two glasses of butterbeer, thank you!" ”

"Hehe, okay, handsome little guy. You're really popular~"

Hermione pursed her lips suddenly, looking at the proprietress with a look at the fire elemental of the Land of Fire.

Of course, the proprietress didn't care about the little girl's attitude, and went to pick up the beer with a slight smile.

"It's beautiful indeed!" Jerry said.

Ron nodded, his face obsessed, his eyes straight into the eye.

Ted was smarter, and instead of looking at the proprietress at all, he talked to Hermione about the beautiful quill.

It put Hermione in a very good mood.

Jerry reached out and shook it in front of Ron's eyes, smirking evilly, "Hey! Lavender is here! ”

"Huh? What? No, no, I didn't see anything......" He immediately picked up his wine glass and looked at the beam, pretending to look at the scenery.

Ron quietly glanced around and found that there was no shadow of Lavender at all, and suddenly found that he had been tricked, and he was about to strangle Jerry if he went up.

Jerry was also clever, and hurriedly shouted in a low voice: "The boss lady is here, the boss lady is here!" ”

When Ron heard this, he immediately withdrew his hand, and shrank honestly like a quail, but his eyes glanced at it, and he was deceived again!

Just as he was about to do it again, the proprietress Ms. Rosmerta had already come over with two glasses of butterbeer.

She twisted her slender waist to put the butterbeer down, "Have fun." Then he twisted away.

Well, it's not easy for the twigs to bear fruit!

The hostess is also very good at showing her strengths.

Moreover, Ted smelled the smell of various magic cosmetics that he had developed, and it seemed that the proprietress still paid attention to her own maintenance.

Ron, on the other hand, was a little distracted, his soul had been twisted away by his nimble waist.

Ted: I didn't expect you kid to like big ones!

Young man, you have taken twenty years of detours!

But what would he feel if he knew that this Lady Rosmerta had been a hostess here when Sirius and they were in school?

That's not a 20-year detour, that's 40 years of straight-line overtaking!

(End of chapter)