Chapter 198: Dudley: Father-in-law, please bow down to the child!
Is there anything convenient about traveling with Harry?
Of course there is!
For example, with such a guy who doesn't seem to be messed with around, there will be far fewer flies buzzing and harassing.
As a 'romantic' Frenchman, their parents are naturally a little wasteless, when the Christmas holiday comes, they both run away with their bags to celebrate their fifteenth wedding anniversary, although the daughter is beautiful and cute, but in the eyes of the father, it is still not as good as the mother's.
The feeling of being left at home by their parents on vacation was not at all uncomfortable, and the thought that the two of them were having fun at the moment made the little sisters feel a little itchy in their hearts, so they had this ski trip to the Alps.
Although the Delacour family is an orthodox wizarding family, France is not as closed as England, although it is not controlled by Grindelwald's Witch Party, and still maintains complete independence, but under the influence of Nicolamay, France and Beauxbatons have also closely followed the new trends in the wizarding world.
A large part of the many alchemy props invented by the wizarding world in the past ten years are based on the technological products of Muggle society, and the inspiration for the pan-global wide-area magic network that has just been built not long ago is the Muggle Internet.
Although the gap between the wizarding world and the Muggle world is still widespread, wizards who can accept the new school of theories no longer continue their previous ideas, and their contact with ordinary people has gradually increased, and after putting aside their prejudices, the technological world can enjoy much more than the wizarding world that has just begun to reform.
And after officially stepping into the world outside the wizarding world, the wizards who had closed themselves off for hundreds of years really realized the vastness of the world, and they were originally imprisoned in cages.
"Have you booked the hotel?"
As the train was about to reach its end, Harry asked Fleur about the fact that he had seen that Fleur's travel notes did not include accommodation, and he couldn't help but be a little curious.
"Huh?" Fleur was a little stunned for a moment, "Is that a hotel?" I brought my tent with me. She patted her small backpack, "The guide says to book by phone, I don't know much about this, but it's enough to have a tent, it's very spacious inside." ”
"Tents?"
After a few hours together, Dudley barely had the courage to speak, but he didn't dare to look into Fleur's eyes, the magical sapphire eyes would make him involuntarily sink into them, and Dudley didn't want to look foreign again.
"Harry, why don't you help them open a room in the hotel later, it's so cold outside, how can they live in a tent."
"The wizard's tent may be bigger than ours." Harry patted Dudley on the shoulder and whispered to him, "Magic is powerful. ”
"Really?" Although Dudley knew something about the wizarding world because of Harry, it was the first time he had heard of such a thing.
"There are three floors, twelve rooms, and an observation deck where you can see the scenery."
Fleur smiled and blinked, the Delacour family is also a wealthy family in France, and the wizarding family that has been inherited for hundreds of years is not shallow.
"In this case, the hotel is not comparable, even if it is the presidential suite, it is much worse than this portable villa."
To be honest, Harry would have liked to see the big houses in the wizarding world, and he hadn't seen any other luxury mansion in the wizarding world except for the Malfoy family's manor.
"Then Harry, can you book one for me? It's the presidential suite you said, and I brought a lot of money. ”
Fleur, who was a little curious in her eyes, touched her pocket, and then found a pile of brand-new 1,000 Swiss francs, at least two or three hundred thousand, the rich woman's temperament was exposed at this moment, even if it was converted into pounds, it was more than Uncle Vernon's year-end dividend.
"Uncle heard that I was going to Switzerland to play, so he asked me to bring some Muggle currency, but I haven't spent much yet, is that enough?"
"That's enough room for you for a month." Harry, who has seen the world, is not surprised by this amount of money, converted into gold galleons, which is worth tens of thousands, and if it is exchanged on the black market, it is not even ten thousand gold galleons.
"I'm going to tell Uncle Vernon, I don't have my phone with me."
Mobile phones can also be regarded as sophisticated electronic instruments, if you get along with wizards, it won't be long before they will be interfered with by magical magnetic fields and scrapped, for now, it is impossible for scientific and technological products to really enter the magical world, and the internal structure of items that can accept magic transformation is extremely simple, such as a radio or something.
Uncle Vernon's seat was behind Harry and Dudley, but when Harry got up to look in, he saw a pale face, and Uncle Vernon, who had been running to the toilet several times, was transforming into a baby Vernon to be cared for by Aunt Penny, and the two stared at each other in awkwardness for several seconds when Harry found him.
"What's the matter?" Uncle Vernon pretended nothing had happened, and straightened up with a weak smile.
"Other things can be put aside first, I think uncle you need treatment."
"Come, drink." Harry magically took out a bottle of potions glowing with an ominous red light from his arms, "Refined refreshing potion, this thing can not only keep you up all night, but also treat all kinds of colds, of course, the weakness caused by eating a bad stomach is also within the scope of its responsibility, and the taste is wonderful, it is the taste of devil peppers." ”
As Harry had finished speaking, a series of cold sweats broke out on Uncle Vernon's forehead.
"I'll think about it again and I don't like it. Belch. I can't eat chili, Harry, you know."
"But the spicy chicken I made, Dudley can't even snatch you." Harry opened his mouth quietly, and then, with lightning speed, pinched Uncle Vernon's nose and poured him the potion into it.
"Hiss~ha~~~"
Uncle Vernon's pale face immediately turned rosy. The ruddy head was too ruddy, and the white air rising from the head was like the water vapor and smoke rising when the train whistle sounded, which aroused the curious eyes of many people.
"It's not spicy! It's not spicy at all! ”
Uncle Vernon spoke up firmly, bending his neck in an effort to show himself a tough guy.
"It tastes great!"
"Bang bang bang!" He patted Harry the shoulder, but his hand hurt.
"Take a sip of honey water to moisten your throat."
Harry, who didn't plan to dismantle the table, handed over a glass bottle, but after seeing the familiar bottle, Uncle Vernon hesitated again.
"This thing doesn't have a honey water flavor potion."
Gritting his teeth and stamping his feet, Uncle Vernon, who continued to show his tough guy style, unscrewed the lid and took a sip of the pale golden liquid inside, and suddenly, the terrible spicy taste in his mouth was neutralized a lot.
"You take it out early. Maybe I won't have to go to the toilet so many times. ”
Uncle Vernon, who had a little regret, said sadly, he almost suffered from toilet phobia today, "By the way, Harry, what's the matter?" ”
"Uncle, you can help book another room, the hotel we live in has a presidential suite, right, the girl opposite me went out for the first time, and when she was about to arrive, she found that she didn't have a hotel."
"Then I'll make a call." Uncle Vernon took out a newly bought Nokia, in this world where power technology is developing very rapidly and advanced, the research of electronic products also started a lot earlier, although it is still a few days away from 1993, but the era of Big Brother has passed more than ten years, and the touch screen has long been there.
After dialing the hotel phone, Uncle Vernon's brows furrowed slightly, he hummed twice, and then turned to Harry helplessly and said, "The one you have made up for is the last room, the hotel is full for the Christmas holiday, and it is gone." ”
"Then or not."
Harry wanted to say that he was going to squeeze Dudley, but before he could finish, Fleur, who had come over out of curiosity, tugged at his sleeve.
"Why don't I go to you with Gabrielle?"
"Huh?"
"Ahh
The Dursleys and their sons, who spoke almost synchronously, had completely different expressions on their faces, and the questioning 'ah' was from Uncle Vernon's doubts, and he thought to himself, just take a train ride, Harry, this kid is still . Ahem, cough, cough. Quite like when he was young, with a lazy hoarse voice, even if he didn't see anyone, this girl would definitely not be bad.
As for Dudley, he just shouted: "Father-in-law!" Please bow down to the child, how much you have taught me some magical powers!
"Set up a tent in my house?" Harry, the only one who didn't make a mistake, turned his head to look at Fleur.
"Well, it's a hassle to pitch a tent outside, but if it's in a hotel, some things can be much more convenient."
Fleur nodded, then added, "I don't like to use summoned water, it always feels dirty." ”
"Does this bother you?"
"I don't mind, if only the snoring doesn't reach the tent."
Harry shrugged his shoulders indifferently, his natural charm to the girl, or the elves of Villebit, was so resistant that he was almost immune, and Fleur and Gabrielle were just ordinary, good-looking girls in his eyes.
And this indifference, which is different from everyone, has also become a good helper for Fleur to improve his favorability, even if it is his own family, when he sees her, he will inevitably have a trace of abnormality, people who have been treated special since childhood, what they want most is the blandness of treating themselves as ordinary people.
"By the way, Fleur, do you know how to cook? After skiing in the snow, I plan to go to the mountains to find out what specialties there are, and how about we have a dinner in the evening. ”
"A little bit, I have help for my mother at home." Fleur nodded happily and took back the hand that was about to hand over the 'accommodation fee', "As long as you don't think I'm clumsy." ”
"The crepes made by my sister are delicious, and there are macarons!"
Gabrielle on the side stood on the seat excitedly when she heard that there was a dinner party in the evening, and when the sweet smile bloomed, the whole carriage seemed to be purified, and many eyes were cast on her, which made Gabrielle squat down a little shyly and look at her sister with pitiful eyes.
"Then it's a happy decision."
The train whistled and slowly braked to the terminal platform.
(End of chapter)