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After walking a long way, Dumbledore finally stopped: "We're here." Tom looked around. It was a very ordinary street with a bar in front of it. The facade of the bar looked dilapidated and had a lot of history. It feels dirty, and the sign with the name on it by the door looks precarious, I'm afraid it will fall off in a gust of wind.

Dumbledore pushed the door open and went in, followed by Tom.The sound of the doorbell attracted the attention of the bar. As soon as Dumbledore appeared, many people stood up and greeted him.

Dumbledore responded all the way and brought Tom in, and stood at the bar: "Hey, Tom." Listening to Dumbledore calling Tom, the man at the bar, Tom looked at him unconsciously, and then frowned. He pursed his lips.

The man named Tom is a little fat, a middle-aged man with a big belly, a little messy hair, and a messy beard that hasn't been tidied up, looking messy.

Unable to watch it any longer, Tom turned his eyes away and stood quietly beside Dumbledore.

"Dumbledore, come and have a drink." The boss Tom greeted Dumbledore warmly, and took out another large glass of beer from the counter.

Dumbledore waved his hand: "Thank you for your enthusiasm, Tom. But I need to take Mr. Riddle to Diagon Alley to buy some things today. You know, he is about to enter Hogwarts as a first-year student."

"Oh, little sir, congratulations. Hogwarts will definitely become a place you will never forget." The boss Tom was very excited when he mentioned Hogwarts.

Tom was very calm, and just saluted lightly: "Thank you for your congratulations."

Seeing Tom like this, the boss's attitude cooled down a little: "You must be a Slytherin."

This time without waiting for Tom to answer, Dumbledore spoke first: "Tom, we have to go, there are still many things waiting for us."

"Okay, Dumbledore, goodbye. You must find a time to have a drink." Boss Tom waved his hand, and Dumbledore brought Tom to the backyard with a smile.

Dumbledore tapped his wand on the wall, and Tom memorized the position.

The bricks of the wall moved in parallel in front of Tom, leaving a hole at the end, and through this hole, Diagon Alley was in front of him.

"We can buy the cauldron first, after all, it's right in front of us." Dumbledore put away his wand and blinked a little humorously, Tom looked at the cauldron without any reaction.

This little kid is really not cute.

Dumbledore, who was left out in the cold, felt that he was basically used to Tom like this.

"Excuse me, what is the common currency in the wizarding world? Can gold be used?" Tom looked at the crucible shop. In this shop, he could only see layers of crucibles of different sizes stacked against the wall at the door. The wall looked like it was made of a crucible, but the inside of the shop was so dark that it couldn't be seen clearly.

"Oh, yes, of course gold can be used, but the wizarding world usually uses gold Galleon, silver Sickle, and copper Knut. But you don't have to worry, the school can take care of your expenses." Dumbledore explained .

Jia Min often said that if you receive kindness from others, you must repay it well.Tom felt that the money he would not spend was a good intention from the school, so he politely bowed to Dumbledore: "Thank you for the school's help, but you know, after all I have stayed in the orphanage for so many years, my savings are still There are some. The cost of school support should be used by students who need it more, and it can also be regarded as a little bit of my heart. Please don’t refuse my kindness, sir, believe me, the orphanage has given me enough in the past few years gone."

Tom said the impossibility of 'the children in the orphanage have money' in a reasonable tone without changing his face, which was very reasonable.

"If you insist." Dumbledore slowed down his breath and said with a relaxed tone, "Come with me."

Tom followed the other side of Diagon Alley. The house in front of him was obviously different from the shop next to it, like a small castle.Sure enough, finance is the most majestic thing in the world.

"This is Gringotts, the bank of the wizarding world, and it's owned by goblins. They guard wealth, weigh it, but don't own it, but if anyone tries to take from them wealth that doesn't belong to them, goblins will Will send them to hell." Dumbledore told Tom the legend of Gringotts in a voice that was tinged with fear, a voice that was almost breathless.

Unfortunately, Tom didn't feel the horror at all.In Tom's view, it is a matter of course that taking wealth from goblins will be sent to hell.If you get wealth from yourself, the other party will not even have the chance to go to hell.

Regardless of the seriousness on Dumbledore's face, Tom passed him directly into Gringotts, leaving only Dumbledore looking at Tom's back outside the door, curling his lips helplessly.

Dumbledore didn't receive the cute and terrified look he expected, and Dumbledore was numb from the shock.

This little kid is really not cute.

"Hello, I need to exchange some money." Tom took out twelve taels of gold from his pocket.An ugly big head was exposed behind the high table. Tom couldn't help showing a little bit of his face when he looked at it, but he immediately put it away.

The big head behind the table has two huge pointed ears, and a pair of glasses on the almost pointed nose. Through the glasses, the two eyes are staring straight at the gold in front of them, and the hands like dead branches are lifted from the table. Picking up the gold, he didn't even share a corner of his eye with Tom: "The purity is very high, you can exchange for more Galleons." Without turning his eyes, the goblin put the gold on the scale.

Tom didn't wait long, and a money bag was handed over the counter: "Gold with high purity, and there are certain technical processes, in exchange for a total of 131 gold Galleons."

Tom raised his eyebrows when he heard the word technology and thought of the golden locks inside, and without saying anything, he took the money bag and said to Dumbledore: "Sir, I think we can go buy textbooks now. "

"It's not urgent. What we need most now is a wand." Dumbledore said with a serious expression when he said the wand: "It will be your lifelong partner. Only by relying on him can you truly use magic power."

Tom, who usually has no magic wand and can control the magic power smoothly, is a little surprised by this argument, but under the influence of Dumbledore, his face also has some solemnity.

Taking Tom out of the wizard bank, the two stood in Ollivander's wand shop, and Dumbledore said earnestly in an elder style: "The first wand every wizard owns comes from here. Strictly speaking, Ollie Vander's shop is the real beginning of the wizard's path. Go and find that friend who will accompany you through the rest of your life."

Tom looked at Dumbledore and opened the door first.Some muffled sound of opening the door startled the people inside, a head protruded from the chaotic pile of boxes, and then stood up like a person.The back of him should be very spacious, although it can't be seen now, but one can infer one or two from the astonishing number of shelves and boxes stacked on top of each other.

It was a skinny man with a receding hairline, but because his hair was not much, he didn't think it was a mess.He stood there in his stained clothes: "Oh, we have a little guest, let me guess, you must have come to pick your life partner."

He came out from the counter and stood in front of Tom, as if explaining or emphasizing: "Please remember, it is not you who choose the wand, but the wand chooses you." There was a light in his eyes when he said this .

Tom frowned slightly, and took a small step back. Dumbledore's voice came from behind him: "Ollivander, my old friend."

"Dumbledore, long time no see, my friend." Ollivander stood up and looked at Dumbledore with some surprise, and then looked at Tom: "Did you bring this gentleman to choose the wand?"

"Yes, he is about to enter Hogwarts as a first-year freshman. I think his first step in the wizarding world should start with you. Please help him find his partner, Ollivander." Deng Bullido's figure looked huge in this small room.

"I'm happy to help you." Ollivander asked about his daily hand habits and measured his height. He went behind the counter and picked one out of the densely packed boxes, but he didn't take it out immediately. He looked at Tom and put it back again.

Then he turned to another shelf, and before he could pick out a second wand, the doorbell rang again, and a large silver-haired man walked in with a small silver-haired one: "Good day, sir." The bright silver hair, like two touches of moonlight, brightened the dim shop a bit.

"Dumbledore, hello, I didn't expect to meet you here." The guest who came in saw Dumbledore and stepped forward to talk to him.

"Mr. Malfoy, good day. I am accompanying Mr. Riddle. After all, he is from the Muggle world, and someone must lead him." He turned sideways and revealed Tom beside him: "This Mr. Tom Riddle , he is also a freshman this year."

Tom's attention had been on the wands in the room, and he turned his attention when Dumbledore mentioned him. The two Mr. Malfoy were looking at him.Turning around, Tom saluted: "Good day, sir." Every move was dignified and dignified.

Coming from the Muggle world, he behaves calmly and dignifiedly, so he should not be a child of an ordinary family.

"This is my child, Abraxas Malfoy, he is also a freshman this year, and you will be classmates for seven years in the future." Mr. Malfoy's voice sounded very pleasant, like a singing tone.

It feels like his life is like acting.Tom nodded with a faint smile.

"Hi, Mr. Riddle, I'm Abraxas Malfoy, you can call me Assas." Assas greeted Tom politely.Mr. Malfoy watched his gesture with a small smile of satisfaction.

You can call me Tom, Assas. Responding to the friendliness of the other party, Tom turned to Ollivander and said, "Sir, maybe you can choose a wand for Assas first." "

Tom wasn't backing down out of friendliness, he was just interested in the wand here.On weekdays, he can only use his own magic power, and correspondingly, he can only communicate with the power of heaven and earth.But today, when he arrived at Diagon Alley, he felt a little bit of magic power in everyone. Everyone was different, but except for Dumbledore, everyone had very little magic power.

Until I came to this wand shop.This shop is not very quiet, there are densely packed boxes, each box has a wand lying on it, and each wand is talking, or whispering, or talking to each other, and each wand is shining in Tom's eyes. The unique light has its own power.These forces compete with each other in this shop, and they are strangely harmonious together.

Tom was almost intoxicated by such power.

Tom made a gesture of invitation, and took another step back slightly, while spreading his magic power around, trying to communicate with them.He felt the tentacle-like strength from these wands on himself and Assas, but it bounced off immediately.No matter how you communicate with your magic power, the power of these wands is like living in your own world, no matter what.