94 Diagon Alley

He returned to Diagon Alley with the warm welcome of Mr. Levander. The old gentleman has recently received several orders, all of which are the business of custom-made wands for children by the old pure-blood family. Gwen took the lead and started simple service work in the store. Unless you have a discerning and destructive client like Harry that requires Garrick to come out in person, Gwen is already a small shopkeeper who can stand on his own.

She had expected the Weasleys to bring Ron to buy a new wand for half price during the summer, but the well-wishers were favored by Merlin.

"Dear Gwen,

We regret that we will not be able to communicate with you for the next month as our family is going to Egypt to see Bill. Dad got the Daily Prophet's Galleon of the Year award, more than we earned last semester. We'll send you pictures, bye.

Fred and George. "

Gwen scolded these two unscrupulous things in his heart, the owl flew from Devon to London, just to send them these simple three sentences? Then she unfolded the newspaper at hand and read the following: Arthur Weasley, director of the Ministry of Magic's Division for Muggle Misuse, has received the Daily Prophet's Galleon of the Year award. An elated Mr Weasley told the Daily Prophet: "We're going to spend the money on a summer trip to Egypt. Our oldest son Bill is in Egypt doing spell-breaking work for Gringotts Magic Bank." The Weasleys will be in Egypt for a month. Come back before Hogwarts school starts. Five Weasley children are currently attending school there.

Well, well. There's nothing better than the Weasley family being able to travel together without spending a penny. It would be better if the Ministry of Magic could pay them the last term as soon as possible. Gwen didn't have time to think about it. During the summer vacation, new students were eager to buy the first wand of their wizarding career. She was too busy to touch the ground, and she didn't have time to write letters.

Fortunately, she didn't forget Harry's birthday. Since the Muggle car incident last year, Gwen always felt that Harry couldn't get enough to eat at his uncle's house. So she borrowed four owls and carried a large bag of sweets and cookies. Fred and George also said that the Muggles would lock him up from his homework. Gwen wasn't worried that Harry wouldn't be able to keep up with the teaching progress at Hogwarts next year, but she thought that someone could just do their homework during the holidays, and she was not very happy when she was kind, so she thoughtfully gave a universal key to unlocking. to Harry.

"Dear Harry,

Happy Birthday! You need to eat more, you started to grow at the end of last year, and we are all worried that your meager fat won't be able to support your crazy bones.

In addition, there is a key under the wings of the grey owl, I believe that most Muggle locks can't beat it, I wish you a successful holiday homework.

P.S. I heard that Professor Snape has added 5 papers to you. If you can complete it before the semester starts, then you are indeed a boy who survives the disaster.

Gwen. "

A week before school starts, Gwen finally receives a letter from the Weasley twins. She removed the envelope from the exhausted owl, which contained two pictures.

The first one was also published in the Daily Prophet. The nine Weasleys stood in front of the pyramid, all waving to her. Mrs. Weasley is small and fat, while Mr. Weasley, who is bald, is tall, and their six sons and one daughter have fiery red hair (though not visible in the black-and-white photo). Ron is standing in the middle of the picture, tall and thin, with his pet rat Scabbers on his shoulders and his arms around his sister Ginny. The twins wore nondescript Egyptian striped robes and pillow-like turbans on their heads.

"Dear Gwen,

Since you expressed dissatisfaction with the length of the letter in the last letter, we will do everything possible to describe your trip to Egypt in this letter.

Egypt is awesome. Bill took us to all the pyramids, you have no idea how many spells the wizards of ancient Egypt cast on these pyramids. Mom won't let Bill go to the last pyramid. There are many odd-looking skeletons left by Muggles who forced their way into the pyramid. They have grown a lot of extra heads.

Why does Hogwarts have to send letters before we leave for the tour? As you might expect, Percy became president of the Boys Student Council. He spent the whole trip talking about how to better manage Gryffindor students. Fred asked me to add, 'He's just staring at us all the while trying to deduct points from both of us during the holidays. George and I had to top up his soup every day. ’

Also, we were very inspired in Egypt, and if you remember the fox eggs from last term, Fred and I made something new with them. Really looking forward to seeing you in London where you can always try new Weasley Brothers products for free.

As for your worries, Mom and Dad said they'd buy Ron a new wand and we'd be going to Diagon Alley the week before school.

(in a different font) I enclose our love for you.

George and Fred. "

Gwen glanced at the second photo, Percy looking particularly pretentious. He wore a turkish hat in his neat hair, to which he had pinned his HB badge with pride, and his horn-rimmed glasses gleamed in the Egyptian sun. The twins were holding him from left to right, laughing slyly. They turned Percy's Headboy's badge into a "Humungous bighead", which Percy didn't notice, and patted his two younger brothers to draw their attention to the image.

And the little gift that came with the letter is a beetle from Egypt, which has been lingering on the bumpy road. Gwen happily gave it to the greedy stomping owl, and two seconds later the twins' love entered its belly.

Gwen had just brought a bowl of water to the poor messenger when there was a knock on Ollivander's window.

"Surprise—" Two funny twins in Egyptian headscarves appeared in front of the store.

Gwen hugged George and Fred happily, and then sent out a soul torture: "Now that you are all in London, why are you still sending this letter?"

"Tsk," Fred shook his finger, "the wand shop business has cost you your precious sense of humor. You'll get two Gryffindor highs immediately after receiving the letter. What a happy thing to be a handsome boy in grade."

"Who? Where is it?" Gwen scanned the shop carefully. "The handsome senior in Gryffindor? Wood isn't here."

Fred patted his brother's drooping shoulder and fakely cried: "Okay, George. You're not even handsome this time. We should have let Miss Ollivander know about Wood sooner. terrifying."

George also pretended to cry for a while, seeing that Gwen didn't pay attention to them, and then said serious things. "Later Mommy's going to bring Ron to buy a wand, and then we're going to live at the Leaky Cauldron, and I heard Harry's there too..."

"...he blew his Muggle aunt into a balloon..."

“…if you’re not busy, you can meet everyone at the bar.”

"By the way," Fred checked the empty envelope, "if you didn't receive our love gift..."

George took out a large golden mouse from his robe, "There is also a mouse mummy left by an ancient Egyptian wizard. I heard that the old wizard imprisoned the mouse's soul."

“As soon as we saw it we decided to buy it for you…”

"...to honor all the great contributors who sacrificed for Miss Ollivander's experiments - the mice of Hogwarts."

Thank you so much, Gwen's face froze from laughing.

Minutes later, Mrs. Weasley and Ron appeared on the bench of Ollivander's wand shop. Mrs. Weasley gave Gwen a big hug again, thanking her for taking care of Ginny, and Gwen blushed again and said that she hadn't been of much help. But she had to admit that Molly made her feel the warmth of her mother's arms after a long time.

Although Mrs Weasley, who learned that Gwen had given a 50% off coupon as a Christmas present, was moved after Ron got a new fourteen inch, willow, unicorn hair wand Sobbing, then glaring at Ron warningly, took back the three Galleons himself.

After Mrs. Weasley went out, Gwen looked at the listless Ron and racked her brains to comfort him. The boy could also go to Hogsmeade this year, and three Galleons would be enough for him to spend a full term weekend there.

"Ron, if it makes you feel better, I've researched a new spell - maybe a little evil, maybe you'd like to try it with a new wand?" Gwen looked at Mr. Ollivander Still making a cane in the workshop with no intention of coming out, secretly pulling Ron to hide in a corner, "I think we can give Malfoy a little love education."

Ron immediately cheered up and waved his wand, proving that he couldn't wait to teach this kid a lesson.

"Wait for the next time you meet him, just say this spell." Gwen handed a small note, "In the future, every time he says the word 'mudblood', it will drop Half of the eyebrows may be left, right, or half of each."

The contented Gwen and the eager Ron are ready to go to the magical zoo together, Gwen also specially went with her fat cat, this guy gained another three pounds in one vacation. If it weren't for the fact that it could easily break through boxes of dozens of wands, Gwen would be worried that it would be too fat to walk.

On the way, Ron also complained about the new textbook of this year's magical creature protection class - Monster Book, "That book is like a mad dog, when we said we wanted two copies, the clerk