Soon Hope knew why Joey was unlucky, and saw Amos proudly showing off his child: "Joey, my son Cedric you know, he is the first in his grade this year, and he rides a broomstick very well, and this year he is going to Quidditch tryouts... Balabala..."

He was a passionate person, but there was too much enthusiasm, and soon Hope found that Joey couldn't stand it anymore and handed him a look, and Hope understood.

He said very cleverly: "Dad, I want to buy some other books besides textbooks, you can help me pick a few." Joey looked at Hope gratefully, worthy of his father's good son, and was about to agree, but it was obvious that Amos didn't want to let him go, and said: "No, my son should finish buying textbooks, he is the first in the grade, just let him help, let's continue to talk." ”

He shouted to the other side of the bookshelf, "Cedric is here to help Hope, he needs to buy a textbook and some other books." ”

As the words fell, a fair-skinned boy who looked the same as Hope walked over with a few books. Amos patted the boy on the shoulder very proudly and introduced, "This is my son, Cedric, son, this is your Uncle Joy's child Hope." ”

Cedric obediently handed the book to Amos: "I'm done with the book." Then he said to Hope, "Let's go, let's go buy you textbooks first." Under Joey's pitiful gaze, Hope cast a helpless look.

Hope, with the help of Cedric, quickly found the textbooks,

Cedric asked, "You're a freshman this year, aren't you?" ”

Hope nodded, "Yes." ”

"Then you should have received the notice today." Cedric thought for a moment and said, "I remember the notice I received last year at this time, and there are not many new people like Ling who come to buy things so early. ”

No wonder I didn't see a new student on the road, I felt that I came early, and I didn't see a few students who looked like students, Hope asked curiously: "I don't seem to see a few students on the road, don't you need to buy new things in the new semester?" ”

Cedric explains: "No, we've only been on holiday for a few days. I'm not in a hurry to buy new textbooks. Looking at Hope's curious eyes, Cedric continued: "Dad brought me here today when he was free, I don't know why, he has been busy working overtime recently. ”

Hope remembered that his father had said that a smuggling gang had come to England, and Uncle Amos was in the Department of Magical Beasts Management and Control, and had been busy working overtime lately.

But this has little to do with him, this is what adults should worry about.

During the conversation, Cedric took out two books from the bookshelf and put them in Hope's hand, and said, "Personally, I think the more difficult ones in the first-year course should be the Charms and Transfiguration classes, and they are the most attractive, "Simple Spell Casting Tips" and "Transfiguration Basics" should be very helpful to you. ”

Cedric thought for a moment and found a few more books from the shelves: "Potions Teacher is a bit. . . How to say it, it's a little weird, you can take a look at "Learning Potions Refining" first, of course potions are inseparable from herbs, and the professor of herbology is my dean, he is a very kind person, this "Encyclopedia of Herbs" is very good, although there will be no magical beasts class before the third grade, but magical beasts are really charming, this "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" you must read ......"

After a while, in addition to the textbook Hope, there were seven or eight more books in his hand, and it seemed that something had been done before the start of school. But Cedric didn't mean to stop at all, he took another book and walked over: "'The Magic Continent' is highly recommended, but this is not a study material, but a book... I can't say it, it's a very new subject matter anyway, it's very interesting, and it would be nice if I also had a wand that lived with an ancient wizard. ”

Inhabited by the wand of an ancient wizard? Why is this routine so familiar, and there are also cool articles in the wizarding world? Hope didn't take this book, he had enough books in his hand, and he didn't know how to write cool texts, and he had several books under his bed that he wrote himself.

After buying it, he couldn't get it because there were more books, so Hope chose the mailing home service, looking at the owl's small body with a large pile of textbooks, Hope silently felt sorry for it for two seconds.

Later, after Joey and Amos were still unsatisfied, the two groups separated, and Joey gritted his teeth and said to Hope: "You go to school and go to class hard, get me a good grade, hear no, sooner or later I will show off one day." ”

Hope looked at Joey speechlessly, I haven't been to class, how do I know if I can get good grades, but in order to appease Joey on the edge of anger, Hope still hurriedly said yes.

After buying tools such as crucibles and dragon skin gloves and some potions materials from some potions textbooks, it finally came to the highlight of the day, buying wands.

All the way to a dirty-looking shop with a plaque that reads Ollivander has been a well-made wand since 382 B.C.

With the sound of the bronze doorbell, Hope and Joey walked in, and the owner, Ollivander, put down the half-made wand in his hand and beckoned, "Welcome, ah, it's Joey, Heartwood and Dragonstrings." Ollivander looked at the boy next to Joey and asked curiously, "Who is this?" ”

Joey said respectfully, "You are still so wise, this is my son, he is enrolled this year, and I brought him to buy a wand." ”

A master is a master, and this is the first time Hope has seen it today without being surprised that Joey has children.

Ollivander said with an inscrutable expression: "Of course, the wand is an indispensable companion for every wizard, but child, you have to remember that the wand chooses the wizard. ”

"And which hand do you usually use?"

Hope stretched out his right hand and said, "Right hand, sir." Ollivander nodded, took a closer look at Hope's right hand, and measured the length of his arm with a ruler.

As he continued to measure, Ollivander's eyes became more and more strange, and after the measurement, Ollivanders rummaged through a pile of wand boxes, and finally found a very worn wand box, Ollivanders opened the wand box, a tan one, which seemed to be wrapped around green vines, and after just one glance, Hope liked the wand.

"I thought I wouldn't get a chance to open it again." With that, Ollivander handed the wand to Hope.

Hope carefully picked up the wand, a feeling of comfort that he had never felt before emanated from the inside out, and with a flick of his hand, a green transparent phoenix flew out and circled around Hope, and the cheerful chirp dissipated.

Hope looked at the dissipated phoenix in surprise, is this the Patronus Charm? It's not the first time a young wizard has been in this situation with a wand. He glanced back at Joey, not in the slightest surprise, as if he had known beforehand. I glanced at Ollivander again, and it looked like it was.

"The tail feathers of ivy wood and phoenix are full of hope and vitality, and in the same way they represent nature, and those who are not favored by nature will not be recognized by it." Ollivander said to himself: "Wilson has a good grandson. ”

"Who is Wilson?" Hope asked, confused.

In Ollivanders' strange eyes, Joey quickly explained: "Wilson Loreman, your mother's father, my father-in-law, that is, your maternal grandfather. ”

Hope: (* ̄(エ) ̄), I haven't seen it, I don't know it.

"For thousands of years, there have always been some unusual people in the Lorman family, who have been favored by nature, and the Ivy wand is their standard."

"But it hasn't been seen in the last hundred years, so I don't use ivy wood anymore to make wands, this one was passed down to me by my father."

"I'm glad I found its user before I died."

Ollivander was in a very good mood, and said with a rare humor: "Of course, money can't be less, Chenghui 7 Galleons." ”