Parents of Hogwarts

"You are, how do you know about that...something about alcohol?"

At this time, the archway between them had narrowed and turned back into a wall. Snape and Callan were standing on the other side of the wall.

Karan was stunned as he looked at the sign of a crucible shop: copper, brass, pewter and waxy silver crucibles, complete models and foldable.

There is no automatic stirring model, but the inventor seems to...

"What did you say?" Karan asked, not paying attention for a moment.

"How did you know about the wine?" Snape asked again. Prince had never told him about this kind of thing, so Snape naturally didn't know about it.But it seems that for no reason, Karan always knows this information that comes from unknown sources.

"Oh, that, that's called Gamp's Social Wine." Karan repeated it again, but still didn't explain the reason why he knew it. Instead, he glanced at Snape with a smile: "Why do you want to try it? It only requires 1 galleon, and if it succeeds, it can become a hundred galleons. I believe that for this rare challenge, Tom will not strictly limit the age requirement."

Snape lowered his head and said nothing, but it seemed that he was really moved and was carefully weighing the gains and losses.

Karan smiled: "Let's go, we still have some things to prepare before Lily and the others come."

Snape frowned and asked, "Don't you have to wait for them in the Leaky Cauldron?"

"There's no rush, there's plenty of time for you and Lily to get along." Karan waved his hand and teased Snape, completely ignoring his ugly and red face and walked straight forward.

Although Snape was a little reluctant, he followed silently.

Karan looked around with interest. A fat woman stood outside the pharmacy. When they passed by, she shook her head and said: "Dragon liver, ten sickles an ounce, they are crazy..."

Well, Karan looked at the smiling clerks in the store and guessed that they wouldn't go crazy even if the price went up to sixteen kilos an ounce. They were happy.

A low and soft whine came from a dark store. The sign in front of the door read: Eela Owl Store Gray Owl, Grass Owl, Snowy Owl.

Several boys about Karan's age had their noses pressed against the glass of the display window, where broomsticks were placed.

"Look." Karan heard a boy say: "That's the latest Nimbus 1001 Top Speed"

There were shops selling robes, telescopes, and some weird silverware that Callan had never seen before.Other windows are filled with baskets of bat spleens and eel eyeballs, stacked with spell books, quills, rolls of parchment, medicine bottles, lunar instruments...

This familiar yet unfamiliar feeling always made Karan feel a little weird, but fortunately, it didn't take long for the two of them to reach Karan's destination.

Gringotts.

They came to a snow-white building that stood tall among the surrounding shops, with a shiny bronze door.

Seeing this, Snape's face couldn't help but become even more ugly. A feeling of inferiority welled up in his heart, but it was immediately covered up by a deeper self-blame.

"What are you doing?" Karan pulled Snape's hand and pulled him in.

The goblin at the door bowed even to the two children, and then a second door appeared in front of them. It was silver. On the two doors were engraved some words such as "Beware", "Greedy", "Punishment" and "Thief". ” and other warning words.I won’t repeat it here.

Seeing this, Karan sneered silently in his heart.

The goblin who thinks he has control over the economic vitality of the wizards, the goblin who thinks he has a niche, the most greedy but unaware goblin.

If Gold Galleons were really that useful, Callan didn't see any goblin resist bravely when Voldemort forcibly captured Gringotts.

At most, they would just run away.

When an individual's strength reaches a certain level, these soft threats will naturally no longer work.

And this happens to be the magical world.

The two goblins bowed to them and led them into a tall marble hall.There were about a hundred goblins sitting on high stools behind a row of long counters. Some of them were weighing coins with copper scales, and some were inspecting gems with eyepieces, while scribbling grades on the large ledger.There are countless doors in the hall, leading to different places, and many fairies are guiding people coming and going in and out of these doors.

"Hello." Karan greeted an idle goblin.

"Oh, hello, little human wizards." Because the counter was too high, the goblin had to straighten up and look down. At the same time, he looked back and forth: "I don't seem to see the adults."

"Only us." Karan had no intention of chatting with the goblin. He directly took out a wad of pounds from his pocket and put his hand on the counter: "I heard that for some little wizards living in the Muggle world, Galleons can be exchanged for Muggle currency."

Although he has a Hogwarts scholarship fund, Karan has no intention of ruining himself like this, and he does not have his own small savings. Although it is not worth mentioning compared to Mr. Anthony's inheritance, at least it can Let him enjoy a more prosperous life.

"Yes, that's right. That's right." The goblin seemed a little surprised at Karan's maturity and calmness, but he still opened the roll of banknotes, checked it over, and asked Karan: "Then what is your name?" "

"Karan Sangster."

"Sangster..." The goblin opened a book and checked carefully: "New student at Hogwarts, born in a Muggle family, orphan..."

The goblin's voice gradually became deeper. He glanced at Karan inadvertently, then looked at the coins in his hand, took out one, and asked Karan: "If I'm not mistaken, what is this?" Is there blood, Mr. Sangster?”

Snape's eyes slowly widened.

Karan looked at the dark red stain on the note, raised his eyebrows, and asked, "Will this have any impact?"

The goblin stared at Karan for a while: "No, of course not, money will not diminish its value just because of such a trivial matter."

"So," the goblin took out the extra part and said to Karan at the same time: "Gringotts has certain restrictions on the exchange of Muggle currency. It can only be exchanged for a thousand pounds at most. The exchange ratio is five to one, so That’s two hundred galleons.”

After saying this, the goblin suddenly wrinkled his nose, reluctantly uttered two words and added: "Every year."

Obviously, this goblin is extremely dissatisfied with this policy. Muggle currency is not as attractive as shiny gold in their eyes.

But Karan also knew that in fact, during the period when the Secrecy Act was introduced, the goblins were extremely opposed to this policy. At least at that time, they definitely had an industry in the Muggle world.

But in order to avoid being far away from the center of the wizarding world like the Malfoy family, the goblins reluctantly passed this law.

After all, no matter what, the Malfoys are still humans at least, and goblins are just goblins.

For the tough wizards at that time, if the goblins continued to oppose without wisdom, it was hard to imagine what would happen next. At least for the goblins, they would definitely not like it.

But now, the goblins have to solve the currency barrier problem for the wizards, which is difficult to convince all the goblins.

Karan calmly took the small bag of gold and the returned pound, and then handed the pound to Snape very naturally, twisted his head to indicate the goblin's position, and said.

"Go."

Snape and the goblin were stunned.

The goblin's nose wrinkled even more, and Snape wasn't much better either.

He said to Karan in a low voice: "Don't order me."

But in the end, under Karan's indifferent eyes, Snape's anger was like a punch hitting soft cotton, unable to exert any force.In the end, he just cursed "Damn Sangster" silently in his mind, handed the wad of pounds to the counter, and said silently: "Snape, Severus Snape."

The goblin wrinkled his nose and opened the book again. After checking it three times, he asked Snape: "There are only 950 pounds here. Are you sure you want to exchange these, Mr. Snape?"

On the word "sir", the goblin emphasized his tone.

At this time, Snape hesitated a little, and his hands in his pockets clenched tightly again.

He secretly glanced at Karan and found that he was looking at the weighed gems on the other side with interest, so he quickly took out the money Prince gave him and whispered: "Add these. "

After seeing this, the goblin seemed to know something. The way he looked at Snape didn't seem to hate Karan. He nodded silently: "Exactly one thousand pounds, here is two hundred plus Long, please put it away."

After walking out of Gringotts, Karan tacitly took out 10 gold galleons from the bag and put it in Snape's hand. Snape didn't say anything and took it silently.

But then, Karan suddenly counted 19 Galleons and handed them over again.Snape frowned and asked him, "What does this mean?"

"It's one-tenth of the handling fee. It's impossible for you to help me in vain." Karan smiled nonchalantly: "Perhaps you think of me as the kind of person who doesn't know anything in return."

Before Snape could refuse, Callan put the money directly into Snape's pocket.Snape was stunned for a moment, but in the end he just lowered his head and said nothing.

But while wandering around, Snape couldn't help but approached Karan and asked in a low voice: "What happened just now?"

"What" Karan was staring at an ice cream shop and didn't hear clearly.

"Just now... there was blood on the money." Snape's voice was even lower.

Karan then turned to look at Snape. He pretended to be surprised and said: "Does a dark wizard still care about such a small thing?"

"Please keep your voice down." Noticing that there were people around him looking over curiously, Snape quickly stopped Karan's words: "I'm not kidding you, Karan, how did you get that money?"

"Hogwarts did not refuse my admission." Karan said suddenly.

"What?" Snape was stunned for a moment.

"What I mean is," after seeing Snape's reaction, Karan explained helplessly: "No matter how the money was obtained, Hogwarts did not exclude me because of it. , isn’t this reason enough?”

"It's not enough." Snape insisted, with an unprecedented firm look under his greasy hair: "It's not enough if it might affect Lily."

This was the first time that Snape formally revealed his inner thoughts in front of Callan.

But what he didn't expect was that Karan actually looked at him with pity.

"What do you mean?" Snape asked sullenly.

After staring at Snape for a while, Karan silently shook his head and did not answer the question. Instead, he explained again: "You should be aware of the environment in Spider End Alley."

Snape nodded: "I know."

Karan continued softly: "So, in such a bad environment, I occasionally have to clean the house. Do you think this is wrong?"

Although it was still not very clear, Snape somewhat understood the meaning of Karan's words.His attitude towards Karan was no longer so hostile. Instead, he asked in surprise: "You mean...magic is illegal."

Snape certainly knew that Karan's magical talent was much stronger than his own. Although he might be suspected of being trickster, he could indeed use some wandless magic, which might be enough to scare some Muggles.

"Magic, magic..." But what Snape didn't expect was that Karan actually shook his head angrily and funny. Finally, he said to Snape: "I really don't know you." Are you overestimating those rubbish, or are you looking down on me, Snape?"

Before Snape could react what this sentence meant, Callan forcibly took him to the Leaky Cauldron: "Let's go, stop thinking about what is and is not. The Evans family will It should arrive soon."

"By the way, there's also Gamp social wine."

Karan suddenly added: "It's only one galleung, go and try it."