Hogwarts on the tip of the tongue

Chapter 25 The journey begins

The early morning breeze after summer makes people feel particularly refreshing.The soft sunshine penetrates the thin mist of Loch Lomond and falls on the water, shining with mottled golden light.

A little silver-haired girl hugged her knees and sat on the grass by the lake. Her delicate little leather boots kicked restlessly at the turf under her feet. Apparently, she was not as quiet as she appeared.

Not far from her, a white-haired old man had his hands clasped behind his back and was watching the birds passing by on the lake with great interest, as if it was something extremely interesting.

"Okay Professor Dumbledore, what are we doing now?"

After hesitating for a long time, Elena finally couldn't help but stood up and took the initiative to break the silence.

After breakfast, Elena followed Dumbledore to the lake. Because of her guilty conscience, she almost always spoke in simple tones such as "um", "um" and "ok". Responded to Dumbledore.

However, after Dumbledore took her in a daze by the lake for at least a quarter of an hour, the desire to go shopping in Diagon Alley successfully outweighed the embarrassment.

"If I remember correctly, shouldn't we be shopping for all the things I need for school now?"

"Yes, in fact, we are on the way to Diagon Alley."

Dumbledore heard Elena's voice, turned around, and nodded happily.

"We have obviously been standing by the lake for almost a quarter of an hour on the way. We haven't been anywhere."

The silver-haired little loli's patience was dwindling little by little, and she began to wonder if Dumbledore was starting another strange cultivation experiment.

The old wizard blinked, showed a naughty smile, glanced at the badly damaged turf under the little loli's feet, and replied with a smile.

“Sometimes, waiting is a necessary part of the journey.”

"So, can't you just apparate? Don't you want to say that you are still waiting for the cooldown of your skills to change?"

Elena kicked the grass under her feet in a frenzy, so what she hated most was talking to this kind of guy who didn't talk well and always talked philosophically.

"Apparition is of course not possible. After all, our destination is hundreds of kilometers away in London."

Dumbledore raised his eyebrows. He found that although Elena seemed to know a lot of knowledge about the magical world, most of it only knew a vague concept.

Dumbledore took out a strange-looking pocket watch from his chest pocket and looked at it. He nodded slightly, looked at Elena and explained patiently.

"Apparition has a distance limit. To be precise, as the distance increases, the load on the wizard will become greater, and accordingly, the difficulty of success will be greater. If it is forcibly performed at a long distance, there will be unsatisfactory consequences. It's a small risk. I don't think it's a wise decision to put you in danger just to save a little bit of time."

Although Dumbledore's words were a bit vague, Elena realized immediately that what Dumbledore actually meant was that the distance was too far and there were not enough blue bars to fly.

Since you can't apparate, there aren't many transportation options to choose from, including trains, broomsticks, floo powder, and portkeys.

Logically speaking, Muggle transportation can be ruled out. After all, it takes at least a day from the Scottish Highlands to London.

And Elena didn't think that the young Professor Dumbledore would imitate the young people, holding her in his arms and riding his broomstick, flying to London in broad daylight.

In addition, according to Elena's impression of the original work, using Floo powder to transport between cities should be the most common way for wizards to travel.

For example, in the second novel, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the Weasley family used Floo powder to reach Diagon Alley directly from the Burrow where they lived.

However, Floo powder requires a fireplace to be used. The shores of Loch Lomond obviously do not look like a place connected to a Floo network fireplace.

So to say

The little silver-haired Lolita who was holding her fingers suddenly changed her face and showed a strong expression of resistance.

"Wait a minute, you don't mean the door key? No, no, no, I refuse."

Judging from the current situation, it is obvious that there is an [-]% chance that Dumbledore wants to wait for a door key to London to appear.

Elena's little face suddenly turned pale, and she trotted to Dumbledore's side, shaking the old wizard's broad sleeves and begging.

"Professor Dumbledore, let's go back to Hogwarts. Let's use Floo powder. This is just a small and insignificant request. Hogwarts obviously has so many fireplaces."

If she had to choose the scariest way to travel, Elena would undoubtedly vote for the portkey.

Even if it is the most convenient method of long-distance travel in the entire wizarding world, it cannot change the terrible mobile experience.

Because when you use the door key, you will feel as if there is a hook behind your belly button that suddenly hooks forward with irresistible momentum, and then you will feel your feet flying off the ground.It flew forward like a gust of wind, unable to see anything clearly in front of me.

At least judging from the description in the novel, the travel experience of floo network is obviously more comfortable than that of portkey.

One is to shuttle quickly in a warm fireplace, but you may get a little motion sick, and the other is to move forward as if your belly button is being pulled by a hook. This sounds scary, right?

"But, Miss Elena. You said just half an hour ago that that was your last request."

Dumbledore looked at the panicked little girl beside him with some confusion, winked playfully and said.

"I'm a little confused as to which one is your last request."

"Hey"

Elena's expression froze, she thought carefully, stretched out two fingers timidly, and whispered flatteringly.

"Otherwise, the one just now was the penultimate one, and this is the last one."

Although I don’t understand why Elena is so resistant to portkey travel, it does not affect Dumbledore’s choice.

"Return to Hogwarts and use Floo powder"

Dumbledore glanced at the hopeful little girl, lengthened his tone, and said quickly and playfully, "Of course not."

Hearing Dumbledore's answer, the silver-haired little loli instantly dropped her face, pursed her lips without saying a word, and looked at Dumbledore with her big lake-blue eyes aggrievedly, looking pitiful like "I'm about to cry." appearance.

When words fail to win, she usually has one last option, which is to use the magic in her bloodline to survive.

Did you instinctively not consider the replacement request?

Dumbledore shook his head with a dumb smile. He vaguely understood why Benitez doted on this little girl so much.

Dumbledore thought for a moment, raised three fingers, and explained seriously in a gentle tone.

"First, only fireplaces connected to the Floo Network can transmit. The fireplace at Hogwarts has temporarily closed this ability to the outside world."

"Second, our first destination is the goblins' Gringotts. They have never opened fireplace connection permissions to the wizarding world."

"The third hour has arrived."

As he spoke, Dumbledore suddenly took out his left hand behind his back.In the palm of his hand was a shabby little cloth bag that was glowing slightly and shaking constantly.

"Welcome to the magical world"

"Varied"

Before Elena could react, after a burst of light distortion, the two disappeared from the spot.

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