Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 359 Honey Duke
Obviously, everyone's first thought was Mr. Weasley's.

By the time McGuffin and the others arrived at the Three Broomsticks, the place was already completely noisy, crowded and impenetrable.

The group couldn't even get close to the door.

The Weasleys only entered after being greeted by the Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge.

"Charlie! Are you Charlie Weasley? It just so happens that you come too! This is about you too!"

"Harry, I'm glad to see you! You can go to Honeydukes to have a look. I heard that there is a new kind of candy coming out of that place. I just applied for a sales license from the Ministry of Magic. It is a kind of dragon candy that can explode. Go try it. You must be here for the first time, right?"

"You should really relax!"

"Albert, you have to take care of Harry!"

"Remember, don't stay away from the crowd!"

Fudge kindly waved and greeted several people.

Percy on the side also wanted to squeeze in, but was blocked by a curvaceous witch.

"Come back later! There's really no room...for a while...for a while, butter beer will be [-]% off."

But Percy clearly wasn't here for that, and he stared anxiously, poking his head inside.

The tavern was filled with smoke, and several senior officials of the Ministry of Magic, Professor McGonagall, Headmaster Dumbledore could be seen vaguely, and even some members of the Hogwarts board of directors in very gorgeous clothes were sitting together.

They got together as if to discuss something.

Percy could only stand helplessly at the door, waiting for someone to leave so that he could squeeze into the 'center' of power.

There was a blizzard and a cold wind, and no one wanted to wait outside the door except that guy Percy.

Ron blushed a little, and after glancing at the beautiful witch who came to persuade the little wizard, he hurried to Honeydukes with McGuffin and the others.

"Hurry up, after a while, maybe it will be full too, and then we can only go to the owl mail shop to hide from the wind and snow."

Harry gasped, his hands were numb.

So they hurried across the road, and a few minutes later they were in Honeydukes.

Same overcrowding here.

Fortunately, I can still squeeze in.

If the Three Broomsticks can still see professors, Hogsmeade residents, or travelers who come and go and other adult wizards, Honeydukes is full of Hogwarts students.

The shelves in the store are full of all kinds of sweets that I have seen and never seen.

Magical, Muggle, big and small, flower-colored and transparent... Cream, chocolate, peanut nuts, fruits, various materials... All kinds of fragrances waft and mix in the air, making you mouth-watering.

Ron introduced the candies on the shelf to McGuffin Ron and the two of them, "That's a crucible-shaped cake, chocolate balls, chocolate crucible... Oh, I'll buy this and try it later... Those are chocolate frogs, as you all know."

"Harry, do you smell it? What you can't see over there is candied pineapple! It smells so good!"

"——FK! There are too many people in Toffee, are these people crazy?"

"Okay! The licorice wand... I finally got it!"

After Ron paid the money, he almost couldn't get out, and it was McGuffin and Harry who pulled him out of the little wizard with great effort.

"Get out of here first, I'm out of breath. Let's get pumpkin pop and pie later!"

"Hurry up! Go over there first... My parents really like the Mao Maoya mints here, don't let them be sold out!" Hermione muttered.

Ron spat, "Don't worry, no one likes that kind of thing except dentists!"

The little wizard yelled for the candy he wanted. Even with the store owner's broad body, it was still extremely laborious to move through the crowd. He responded loudly to the little wizard, took out his wand, wrapped the candy cake in mid-air, and then dropped it into the little wizard's hands.

"I want peanut butter! Chocolate balls!"

"Five Sickles for a Peanut Butter! Six Sickles for Chocolate!" cried the clerk.

"A big bucket of standard multi-flavor beans!"

"Three Sigrams for a small barrel, 24 Sigrams for a large barrel!"

"Three bottles of sherbet drinks!"

"Sincerely 25 nats!"

Gold Galleon, Silver Sickle, and Bronze Knut, waved by the wand, floated into the air from the hands of the little wizard, converging into a river and colliding with each other, rushing into a large glass jar on the counter, making a clanging sound.

Sure enough, it's the same everywhere.

It felt like the magic shop was squeezed out of the vegetable market by the little wizard.

"McGuffin, go, go over there!"

Ron and Hermione dragged McGuffin and Harry to the less crowded wall of the shop. (Most little wizards gather here, few little witches are interested in the candy here)
This wall sells mostly 'special effect' candies,

For example, Blowing Bubble Gum, Little Black Pepper, the previously mentioned Mao Maoya Mints, Ice Mouse, creamy mints like toads, crunchy candy quills, sandwich candy that will explode in the mouth, of course the most popular here is a certain kind of multi-flavored jelly beans that make people make various animal noises after eating (this is also a must-buy for most little wizards around)
McGuffin quietly used the levitation spell to pull the little wizards away, and bought a large bucket of multi-flavored jelly beans that imitated animal sounds, and a little black pepper urchin that could make people breathe fire... There is also a candy that can turn hair into seven rainbow colors when eaten, and plans to give it to others.

(I don’t know if it’s because I got up early every day to cultivate the world tree, McGuffin bought a lot of green candies)

Harry also bought a bunch of floating marshmallows that made him levitate.

And a little further in, on the counter in the dark corner, there are some more exotic products.

There is a sign that says 'unusual flavors'.

Under the signboard, first of all, there is a large plate of lollipops that smell of blood, and next to it is a large jar of densely stacked cockroach skewers.

There are large jars of dark cooking candies under the shelf - what kind of spider nest candy, skeleton hand cheese, eyeball Q candy, jelly slug, soft lactose chocolate, unknown brain juice, sour lollipop, sizzling bee candy...

Even McGuffin squatted down and saw something in a super-large iron box in the darkest corner at the bottom.

The packaging above is—very familiar!
It has the same style of painting as the packaging of the white rabbit toffee tin box in the 80s of the previous life.

It depicts a giant dragon with oriental characteristics, embracing an indescribable similar pattern, and an unusually familiar Chinese symbol in seal script——

——Long Bao.

Seeing this, the corners of McGuffin's eyes kept twitching,

——Wouldn’t this thing be?
—Let the little wizards buy them for their parents?
— or store owner Ambrosio Froome bought his own spare and misplaced it.

At this time, Hermione also squatted down to check, and she seemed to follow McGuffin's line of sight and saw this thing as well.

"McGuffin, what is this? It seems to be Chinese calligraphy?"

Hermione was particularly interested in this exotic style of magic items.

——Put it here, it should be for people to buy!

—Is it some kind of exotic magic candy?

Thinking about it, she stretched out her hand...

"Don't!" McGuffin quickly grabbed Hermione, preventing the scene from continuing.

"McGuffin, what are you doing!" Hermione stared at her friend who often went crazy, puzzled.

"me……"

"Look, what is this?" McGuffin saw a yellowed Ministry of Magic notice on the back of the iron box.

……

By order of the Ministry of Magic
Note to Customers: Until further notice, Dementors will patrol the streets of Hogsmeade after sunset each day.This move is for the safety of the residents of Hogward... (Balabara)

McGuffin pulled it out and read it aloud.

Hermione stared suspiciously at McGuffin's crazy behavior, and brought the notice to her eyes.

"Dementors? This is the previous notice. Didn't you see the words Happy Halloween written at the bottom?" She put down the notice angrily.

"And didn't you just see that latest notice still posted by the door of the candy store?"

"what?"

"The Ministry of Magic warns young wizards and residents not to go to the Hogwarts train station, the path along the edge of the Black Lake, and the old road leading to the Forbidden Forest at night... It is best not to leave the range of Hogsmeade Magic Village after eight o'clock in the morning and nine o'clock in the evening... Fire dragons will patrol there, and accidental damage may be caused!"

Hermione stood up and said sternly.

McGuffin was relieved, at least after such an interruption, Hermione finally forgot about the bad luck of the dragon whip.

Ron was looking carefully at the plate of blood-scented lollipops. He always felt that this thing was very suitable for the big black dog's taste.

"How? That big black dog for Hagrid!"

"Farewell, it definitely won't!"

Just as McGuffin was trying to buy some 'fun' sweets for his family in this world, Mrs. Froome came out of the back kitchen with a large wooden box and came to the counter.

"Dragon fructose, a new experimental product, candy that explodes like fireworks in a bonfire, the first [-] can get it for free... Just write down your name and write back to us to tell us about your experience."

This made Honeydukes even more lively, and the little wizards rushed in like a wave, pushing towards the counter.

McGuffin and the others were immediately squeezed in front of a window with a mullion.

The little wizards screamed and rushed to the counter like piglets out of the cage.

The whole house was overwhelmed and the wooden walls rattled.

McGuffin always felt that the place would collapse in the next moment.

"Let's go out!" Ron said hesitantly, looking at the heavy snow falling outside, and at the crazier little wizards.

"Okay! Hurry—hurry—" Hermione struggled to get out a few words, and her whole body was pinned against the wall by the little wizards who crowded past.

McGuffin carefully controlled and used the [Levitation Curse] to levitate the little wizards in front of them a little bit, and then pushed little by little, rushing out one by one.

It wasn't until about ten minutes later that he finally left the candy store and came outside in the snowstorm.

I didn't expect to be so happy to be in the snowstorm!

After that, they headed to Devis Bans Magic Repair Shop (the only magic shop that wasn't too crowded) at the end of the main road in Magic Village, where they took shelter from the growing snowstorm.

By the way, McGuffin bought Harry a fancy-colored round thick-soled waterproof and fireproof magic glasses as a Christmas present.

I also bought a cat-shaped pet pocket for Hermione,
A mini pet house that can keep mischievous kittens in your pocket all the time.

Ron welcomes that.

"Now you have no excuse to let that stern-faced little tiger jump around and frighten Banban!"

"It has a name - Crookshanks! Ron!"

This made Hermione a little annoyed.

However, under McGuffin's persuasion, Hermione still accepted the gift. In fact, McGuffin looked at the pet pocket that had cast the [Untraceable Space Expansion Curse], and had other plans in mind.

In fact, he didn't dare to forget the request Snape made to McGuffin when he was acting as a substitute last time.

After being inspired by this thing, McGuffin finally has a clue about it.

After that, they found some socks of different colors and strange shapes in the Fengya wizard clothing chain store.

Harry bought these socks and planned to give Dobby as a gift. Last time he promised Dobby would visit 'her' when he had time, but he never did.

He always felt a little sorry for this, but Harry really couldn't face the transformed Dobby alone.

——The current Dobby always reminded him of DeLS Malfoy, the weird smile that Snape once showed to Harry himself, and the unmentionable potion.

Harry shuddered at the thought.

Ron even found a translucent garment at the store that was said to be made from water...

"It's hard to believe that idiot would buy such a costume!" Hermione said honestly.

Under the eyes of the clerk, several people hurriedly bought some big socks for Christmas and fled there.

Then McGuffin bought an automatic shorthand quill for Ron at the Wenrenju quill shop as a Christmas gift.

——Big red feathers, said to be made of fighting cock tail feathers from an ancient magical village in Southeast Asia.

Later, they meet the Weasley twins and Lee Jordan at Zonko's Laugh Shop.

The little group was smirking over the burp candy and frogspawn soap counters, looking like they were going to buy them and give Filch a trick he'd never forget over the Christmas holidays.

After leaving Zuko's joke shop, the twins started booing again, trying to bring them into the Pig's Head Bar.

But before they went in, they saw an unusually tall guy, almost as big as Hagrid, blocking the door. (this is rare)
And when they turned around, they saw that the guy had a pig's head on his neck.

I don't know if it's true or not, but the two fangs are indeed protruding from the mouth, dripping with blood.

It's really hard to get close.

Finally, when they got back to the Three Broomsticks, they were still arguing about the guy.

Fred took a big gulp of butter beer and said with certainty,

"That's an ogre!"

(End of this chapter)