Chapter 14: Sorry for you, Lucius

As soon as they met, Mr. Weasley greeted them warmly and exchanged pleasantries for a while.

They parted on the marble steps outside the bank.

Percy mutters about buying a new quill and Fred and George see their friend Lee Jordan at Hogwarts school.

Mrs. Weasley and Ginny are going to a shop that sells old robes.

Mr. Weasley insisted on taking Zhang Xiao and Hermione's parents to the Leaky Cauldron for a drink.

No, Mr. Arthur, do you still have money to drink?

"Meet at the Blotted bookstore in an hour and buy you textbooks." Mrs. Weasley explained as she set off with Ginny.

"Don't go to Tumbledown Alley!" She shouted at the twin brother's back.

Zhang Xiao and the three little ones wandered through the winding streets paved with cobblestones.

Buying four cones along the way, they wandered the alleys with ice cream and browsed the shop windows.

Ron pointed to the full set of Chadri artillery uniforms displayed in the window of the Quidditch boutique, and smiled, "I have one too, Zhang gave it away!" โ€

This sentence caused a wave of envious exclamation from the other greedy little wizards, this is not cheap!

Ron left with the big guy with unprecedented satisfaction.

He was even willing to follow Hermione to buy ink and parchment, knowing that he always wanted to vomit when he smelled both.

In a thrift store, they find Percy concentrating on a very boring book, How Prefects Gain Power.

Ron whispered that Percy wanted to be Minister of Magic in the future.

An hour later, they walked towards the Blotted bookstore, which was far more than a few of them.

Zhang Xiao found that there were more people outside the store than before.

Upstairs pulled up a large banner: Gilderoy Lockhart autobiography signed for sale today from 12:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m

"We can meet him in person!" Hermione exclaimed, "I mean, almost all the books on the list are written by him!"

The majority of the crowd seemed to be witches of Mrs. Weasley's age. A weary male wizard stood in the doorway and said, "Ladies, be quiet. Don't be crowded... Beware of the books.."

They struggled to get through the cracks.

The zigzag line runs from the doorway to the back of the bookstore, where Gilderoy Lockhart signs books.

They sneak to the Weasleys and the Granger couples in line.

Zhang Xiao looked around and found that her parents were sitting on the second floor drinking black tea calmly.

"Oh, you're here, that's great." Mrs. Weasley said.

She was short of breath, her hair was patting constantly, and her face was flushed.

"We'll see him in a moment."

Gradually, they saw Gilderoy Lockhart.

He sat behind his desk, surrounded by large photographs of himself of faces all blinking at the crowd and showing their teeth dazzling white.

The real Lockhart wears a robe as blue as a forget-me-not flower, matching his blue eyes.

The peaked wizard's hat is playfully crooked over a curly hair.

A short, grumpy man with a large black camera jumped up and down to take pictures in front of him.

Every time the flash flashes blindly, puffs of purple smoke erupt from the camera.

"Get out of the way," he yelled at Ron, backing away for a better angle, "this was for the Daily Prophet." โ€

"It's amazing." Ron said, rubbing the instep of the man's foot.

Then, as he had seen in his previous life, poor Harry was taken for a mascot, and Lockhart pulled him over and took a lot of pictures.

and announced on the spot that he was about to become the new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts.

I have to say that the weight of the Hogwarts professor is still there, and his fans immediately go even more crazy.

Screaming and cheering for Lockhart, and as if out of his mind, he pulled out the Golden Galleon and bought his books in sets.

Even if there are too many at home to put it on.

When Harry returned in a trance, he still had a complete set of Lockhart's books in his hand, which was almost a meter high.

He walked a little shaky, and with great difficulty stepped out of the center of public attention and came to the wall, where Ginny was standing beside her new cauldron.

"Here's for you," Harry said vaguely, pouring the book into the cauldron, "I'll buy it myselfโ€”"

"Potter, Weasley, meet again, and this young lady, hello." A voice that sounded a little shrill and arrogant remembered.

Immediately, the sound of the voice changed completely.

"Zhang! Long time no see! โ€

"Malfoy ???"

Zhang Xiao couldn't help laughing, and stepped forward to give this stinky fart brother a hug.

Harry and Ron stood there with gloomy faces, not knowing what to do with him.

Their current state is very delicate, neither friends nor enemies, and they will hurt each other when they meet, and they are not used to seeing each other but have no grudges.

Not to mention that they had an adventure of 'birth and death' together two months ago.

Harry and Ron couldn't do anything to say to their 'comrades', so they could only freeze in place and stare at Malfoy.

As if that would stare him away.

"Ron! Harry! Mr. Weasley squeezed over with Fred and George.

"The people here are crazy, let's get out of here."

"Ah, that's not ..... Arthur Weasley? He placed one hand on Draco's shoulder, the usual sneer on Malfoy's face.

"Lucius." Mr. Weasley nodded coldly.

"I've heard that Director Weasley has been very busy lately," Lucius said

"So many plagiarisms. I suppose they pay you overtime, right?"

He reached into Ginny's cauldron and pulled out a tattered copy of the Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration from the middle.

Zhang Xiao's eyes froze, here! This is it!

"It doesn't seem to be. Oh my God, if you can't even get a good pay, what's the good of being like you?"

Harry Ron and the Weasley brothers were already clenching their fists, and Mr. Weasley's face was redder than Ron and Ginny.

Zhang Xiao stared at him with burning eyes, it would be difficult for you to put a diary in order to have a conflict, Lucius.

"Daddy!" To everyone's surprise, it was Malfoy who was the first to shout, his lips pursed, and there was a hint of embarrassment on his pale face.

I used to think that I was handsome to ridicule others for being poor, but since I learned what a 'real nobleman' is.

and Zhang Xiao's letter during the summer vacation, Malfoy felt that his father's behavior was simply .... It's a low-burst!

Lucius wanted to say something, but seeing that Malfoy's eyes had begun to turn red, he still closed his mouth and said politely to Zhang Xiao with a cold face:

"Zhang, with such a noble status as you, you should be more involved in our great cause in full swing.

Instead of ....."

His gaze swept over the Weasleys, who were almost burning, and said contemptuously:

"Dealing with families that have declined, because they... Worthless! โ€

With a clang, Ginny's cauldron flew out.

Mr. Weasley lunged at Mr. Malfoy, knocking him into a bookshelf, dozens of thick spell books falling on their heads. Fred and George yelled, "Beat him, Daddy!"

Mrs. Weasley screamed, "Don't do this, Arthur, don't do this!"

The crowd panicked and retreated, knocking down more bookshelves.

Mom and Dad stuck their heads out from the 2nd floor, stared down, and found that it was Arthur who rode on Lucius and buckled... Beat violently, then retracted his head and didn't care.

Lucius regarded Daomen as a tool to make money, so didn't Daomen see Lucius like this?

One is a tool person who is not very familiar with each other, and the other party is his friend, so it is clear how to choose.

Well... Lucius's play is almost done, in order to protect his family and cut the Dark Lord, Lucius is really fighting.

Hiss... At least a dozen punches, right? The nose is crooked! So dedicated!

Malfoy stood in place with his fists clenched, trying to rush up to protect his dad several times, but in the end he held back.

Then he held back his tears and shouted at Ron, "This is a duel between fathers, I won't interfere, but Weasley, I have written down this feud!" โ€

What kind of Eula behavior is this!

As far as Lucius said just now, who can stand it! directly insulted the family, probably begging for a hammer, and it was not wronged at all.

It may not be realistic to expect Hagrid to pull the two apart, and the big man is preoccupied with his Noble, and he has already gone back.

Seeing that the scene gradually got out of control, Zhang Xiao's fingers were lightly hooked, and the lightning strike wooden wand flew out of the wand bag on his waist with a joyful tremor and fell into his fingers.

The wand seemed to turn into a pen, and easily drew a strange rune in the air.

Volley Talisman, Thunder!