Harry Potter: Dark Alchemy

"I can't believe that after buying textbooks and wands, I actually have two extra Galleons!" Ron faced the sun and raised two golden Galleons above his head, two round coins. The black shadow just fell on his eye sockets, as if two dark circles suddenly appeared on his face, "Jin Gallon, Jin Gallon, hehe..."

"That's not called buying. It was given to us by the manager of the bookstore, and it was to thank Wright for his help." Although Hermione was complaining, she also looked happy. She bought the most books just now. She has Care of Magical Creatures, Divination and Arithmancy, Ancient Runes, Muggle Studies, and other required textbooks. Secretly, Hermione even secretly took a few collector's editions of Lockhart's books.

After all, the free opportunity for pie in the sky was given by the bookstore, and Hermione didn't want to miss it.

"What the hell!" Ron carefully put the two gold galleons into his pocket, "I never thought that I, Ron Weasley, would actually use a brand new textbook one day!"

"New wands, new textbooks, and new classes." Harry teased, "Ron, you are like a new student who has just received your admission letter."

"Really? Hahaha!" Ron giggled and scratched his hair.

"Chang Chu, Wei Lita and I have almost bought all our things. Have you bought all your things?" Wright, who was walking in front, turned his head and looked at the trio who had been chirping behind him. "Have you bought all your things?" Almost all of those things were put into his space expansion suitcase. "If we have bought them all, we can go back to the Leaky Cauldron now."

"I've bought them all," Harry and Ron said at the same time.

"But Banban's condition is not very good. I want to take it to the pet shop to have a look." Ron said again.

"I also want to buy something." Hermione looked at her wallet and said, "Originally I thought it would cost at least ten galleons at Flourish and Blotts Bookstore, but I didn't expect it to be free. So now I still want to buy something." There are twenty galleons—"

"Twenty??" Ron shouted jealously, "How do you have so much money!"

"Shut up! Ron!" Hermione scolded in a low voice, "You don't have to tell the street that I have so much money."

"But you have so much money!" Ron said, "Twenty Galleons, even if you sell me, you don't even have that much money!"

Hermione ignored him and continued: "I don't want to buy any more books, I want to buy a pet, a cat... an owl, yes, an owl, you and Harry both have one, and Wright also has a fat head."

Actually, Hermione, what you just said was a cat, right? Wright immediately thought of Crookshanks, the little tiger who drove Pettigrew crazy.

As expected, Hermione fell in love with the big ginger cat almost at a glance, without even caring that they were in a pet shop instead of an owl shop.

And Wright finally saw this cat that was going to be very powerful this year. Its ginger fur looked thick and fluffy, just like Hermione's hair, and its four feet were a bit boxy. But the most interesting thing is that the expression on its face looks very gloomy, with a weird persimmon face, as if it is always angry.

"Wright, you can put it down now." Hermione looked at Crookshanks held in Wright's hand with some fondness, "I think I like this cat very much."

"You like it very much? Didn't you see that it almost bit my head off just now?" Ron patted his butt and got up from the floor.

Just now, when he asked the female clerk in the store for a rat tonic, Crookshanks suddenly jumped out from the top of the highest cage. If Wright hadn't grabbed it by the neck quickly, Ron would have probably broken his own neck. Got crushed by this smelly cat!

Before Hermione could say anything, Ron ran out of the store, shouting Scabbers' name.

"Are you sure you want this cat?" Wright shook his hand, and Crookshanks swayed in the air with his movements. Surprisingly, this big cat, who was extremely violent just now, did not have any fur at all at this time, but was instead extremely docile.

"Yeah! I'm sure!" Hermione nodded affirmatively.

"Crookshanks has a strong catnivet bloodline, so he is very smart and can also identify bad guys." The store clerk introduced with a philistine expression.

"Is your name Crookshanks?" Hermione held Crookshanks tightly in her arms and helped him smooth out his messy hair, but Crookshanks' eyes were always looking at Wright.

Wright nodded slightly to it, and Crookshanks immediately meowed happily.

"How much?" Hermione asked the clerk.

"Twelve galleons." The clerk concealed the information that Crookshanks had been in the store for a long time, and also increased the price a little.

Prejudging people has always been the only rule of thumb in doing business.

Hermione paid the money readily and walked out of the Magical Creatures store with Crookshanks in her arms. Wright and Villetta walked out behind her.

The three met Harry and Ron who had retrieved Scabbers at the door, and they walked towards the Leaky Cauldron together.

Along the way, Ron kept making sarcastic remarks about Crookshanks' existence, looking still angry.

After entering the bar, Wright took out the things he just bought from the suitcase one by one, gave them to Hermione and others, and then took Villita to the second floor of the bar, ready to see Chang Chu and Dad Chang.

The Harry trio walked towards the bar, and they saw Arthur from a distance reading the Daily Prophet by the bar.

"Harry!" Arthur put down the newspaper, looked up, and said with a smile.

"Hello, Mr. Weasley," Harry said, sitting next to Arthur with Ron and Hermione.

As he sat down, Harry saw the picture of Sirius still published in the newspaper.

"School is about to start. Have you bought all your things?" Arthur greeted.

"Yes, Mr. Weasley," said Harry, pointing to the newspaper on the bar. "Has Sirius Black not been caught yet?"

"No," Arthur retracted the smile on his face, "The ministry takes this matter very seriously. Even the staff who were not originally part of the Auror office were transferred from their normal posts and went all out to arrest him. , but so far there has been no progress.”

"Then today..." Harry said hesitantly, he was a little worried that Mr. Weasley had specifically asked for leave to go shopping with a few people. That would not be good.

"Don't worry, Harry!" Arthur reached out and patted Harry on the shoulder, "The ministry asked me to do this."

"Can you come with me now?" Arthur lowered his voice and pointed to an unoccupied corner of the bar.

Harry spoke to Ron and Hermione, then stood up and walked away from the bar, following Arthur to the corner.

"Well, Harry," Arthur sighed with a complicated expression, "to tell you the truth, after returning from Egypt, I am really relieved to see that you are still living safely in St. Catchpole."

"Are you still living at Wright's house now?" Arthur hesitated, "I mean, after you go back today, will you continue to live at his place?"

"Yeah, what's wrong?" Harry asked.

"There are many people in the ministry who will strongly object to me explaining this matter to you, but I think you should know the truth." Arthur put his hand on Harry's shoulder, "You are in danger now, very, very much. Danger."

"Is it related to Sirius Black?" Harry almost intuitively thought of the newspaper Arthur had just read.

Arthur glanced warily at the wizard passing by, put his arm around Harry's shoulders and walked to another corner where no one was, "How much do you know about Black?"

"All I know is that he escaped from prison, and," Harry paused, "Wright had speculated that the Ministry of Magic might be sending Dementors out to hunt down Sirius Black."

"Wright, he is a very smart boy. In fact, people in the ministry are planning to agree to the Dementor's application." Arthur praised Wright and then talked about the original topic, "Harry, you know Black Why did he escape from prison?"

Before Harry could answer, or rather, Arthur simply knew that Harry would not know what he would say next: "Thirteen years ago, when you stopped the mysterious man, Black lost everything. To this day, he is still A loyal lackey."

"So, in his eyes, you were the only one who stood in the way, preventing the mysterious man from making a comeback." Arthur said with some seriousness, "That's why he escaped from Azkaban - "

"Come to find you."

"To kill me?"

Arthur nodded reluctantly.

"I know you had a good time at the Wright family this summer and were very happy." Arthur said, "But no matter what, there is no adult watching in the Wright family. Black is not interested in underage wizards like you." It’s really too dangerous.”

"So, if possible, I suggest you move out of the Wright House." Arthur said, "You can move to the Burrow. Of course, the Leaky Cauldron is also a good choice. There are many people in the ministry paying attention to this place. ”

Harry felt a little embarrassed.

"Of course, it's only the last week." Arthur said with relief, "You talk to Wright about this, I believe Wright can understand."

"Blake, he is too dangerous."