Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 167 A Trip to Diagon Alley

  Early in the morning, just as the sun rose, Albert had already opened his eyes and woke up from his sleep. He turned his head slightly to look at the door, and there was a familiar sound of footsteps in the corridor.

  The next moment, someone knocked on the door, and Nia's voice sounded outside the door.

   "Get up, Albert, get up quickly!"

Albert got up from the bed, just covered a yawn, raised his hand and stretched his waist, the door was opened, Tom got in through the crack of the door, trotted onto the chair, and then jumped again, landed on the chair. The soft cushion on the table is comfortable to lie on.

   "It seems that Tom likes this cushion." Albert reached out and touched Tom's head, and said to Nia with a smile, "You go out first, and I will change clothes."

   "Hurry up, Dad said we will arrive in London before ten o'clock." Nia beckoned Tom to leave, and she didn't forget to take Tom's cushions before leaving.

   "So early?" Albert was a little surprised.

   "He said to go early so that we would have enough time to visit Diagon Alley." Nia was leaning against the wall and said, she obviously agreed with Herb's approach.

  After all, this time it was the Anderson family who went to Diagon Alley together. To put it bluntly, it was a family shopping in Diagon Alley.

  If you don't make time in advance, the next trip will become very rushed.

   When Albert went downstairs to eat, Nia also proposed to take a camera to take a few photos, but Albert directly rejected it.

   “That makes you stand out, which is not a good thing.”

   "They..." Daisy frowned slightly, and said with some choice of words, "...'look down on' ordinary people?"

   She didn't use the word discrimination after all.

"Yes, some wizards are like this." Albert did not deny this, "They think they have extraordinary power and are superior to others. In fact, the entire wizarding world is very backward. When you go to Diagon Alley You will know, but sometimes you can’t deny that magic is really good and can solve a lot of troubles. But most wizards’ thinking is too backward, or they are very inferior and afraid of being persecuted. Well, ordinary people In this regard, we have to bear a big blame.”

  Actually, if magic and technology can be combined...

   Albert immediately got rid of this unrealistic idea.

  Reformers are usually the unlucky ones who die at the forefront.

  For a small person like Albert, the most important thing is to spend a short life well. Even if the world explodes in 300 years, it has nothing to do with him.

   Until the end of the meal, they didn't continue to talk about the unpleasant topic, but just said some things that should be paid attention to when going to Diagon Alley.

  At 8:30, Albert and his family set off for London by car.

  In the UK, this time is considered very early for most people.

   It took some time for the Andersons to arrive in London, and Herb quickly led them to great bookstores and record stores.

   "Are you there?" Nia looked between the big bookstore and the record store, and asked suspiciously, "Where's the bar?"

   "Here we are." Albert nodded.

   "When you went to Hogwarts to study, I came here several times, but I couldn't find that bar anyway." Herb couldn't help sighing, "Magic is really a magical thing."

   "Because there is a spell that shields ordinary people nearby." Albert explained, "The effect of this spell is to make ordinary people ignore something, and it can prevent ordinary people from entering the Leaky Cauldron by mistake."

   "How do we get in?" Daisy asked.

   "Come with me." Albert took Nia's hand, "Don't be nervous, make yourself look natural."

  With the help of Albert, the Anderson family finally entered the Leaky Cauldron.

"I didn't even notice that there was a bar here just now!" After Nia followed Albert into the Leaky Cauldron, she was taken aback by the scene inside. She shrank back and hid behind Albert, tightly grabbed his hand.

There's no way, it's too dark and dirty here, and there are some strange guys sitting in the bar, old women smoking pouches, bald, sloppy old men, and middle-aged men who are already drunk, no matter how you look at it , this group of guys has a different style of painting from the people Nia comes into contact with on a daily basis.

   Albert nodded slightly towards the bar owner Tom, ignoring the gazes of other people, and led his family towards the backyard.

   "Don't be nervous, you are here to shop." Albert noticed Daisy biting his lip, and comforted him.

  Although Daisy looked calm as usual, Albert knew that she had a habit of biting her lips when she was nervous.

   "The environment here is more... dilapidated than I imagined." Daisy looked at the backyard and asked, "Is the entrance here?"

  Ever since Albert visited Diagon Alley once last year, the Anderson family knew that the entrance to Diagon Alley was in the backyard of the Leaky Cauldron.

   "Yes." Albert took out his wand, knocked on the third brick from the left above the trash can, and motioned for everyone to step back.

   Looking at the archway opening on the wall leading to Diagon Alley, Nia looked extremely excited and screamed: "It's really amazing."

   Albert smiled and said, "Welcome to Diagon Alley."

"I didn't expect Diagon Alley to be a street." Daisy looked at the wizards passing by, and the old shops on both sides of the alley, and she understood Albert's description. It's not too much to describe.

   "Where shall we go next?" Daisy asked.

   "Go and buy books first." Albert said.

  Because Herb changed a lot of Galleons last year, and they haven't spent them yet, so they didn't go to Gringotts this time, and Nia was disappointed that she couldn't see the goblin.

  However, the magic shops on both sides of this cobbled street quickly attracted Nia's attention.

  Albert was dragged into Lihen Bookstore by Nia. Herb and Daisy looked at each other and followed behind.

  Nia's eyes were immediately attracted by those very different magic books.

   After entering the bookstore, Herb had a simple communication with the owner to buy the books that Albert needed.

   Well, there's really only one copy you need to buy, and that's Standard Spells, Level 2 for Charms. The remaining textbooks will continue to be used from the previous semester.

   "Is this book not for sale?" Albert asked the shopkeeper, pointing to the books on the display shelf.

   "Yes, not for sale." The owner explained, "This is a new work by Mr. Mog McDougal. It is said that he only printed a hundred copies."

   "One hundred copies are sold out?" Albert was a little surprised. He originally thought that Mr. Mog McDougal's book would not be sold. "Why don't you continue to print it?"

"I heard that the content inside is very difficult, and ordinary people can't understand it at all, so Mr. Mog MacDoug thinks that it will not be sold in print, so he didn't print it." The shopkeeper explained, "If you are interested in the rune Interested, I recommend you to buy Mr. Mog McDougal's "Comprehensive Explanation of Basic Runes", this book is easy to understand."

   "So, most of the 100 books printed by Mr. McDougal are for giving away?" Albert muttered softly. That's right, no one else can understand this book, so how can you buy it? Do you spend five Galleons to buy it back and keep it?

   "Don't you have a copy of this?" Nia asked puzzled.

   "Okay, let's go!" Albert took the books, paid the other party a Galleon, and left with Nia.

   There are still many things that must be purchased.

  For example, go to the pharmacy to supplement the various ingredients of the medicine.

  In other words, Nia doesn't like drugstores very much, and the weird ingredients in them scare her enough.

  Before leaving the pharmacy, Albert asked Herb to buy a bottle of white fresh essence. With this thing, if you accidentally get injured in the future, you can use white fresh essence to heal quickly without leaving scars.

  After being introduced by Albert, the Andersons were quite emotional, and bought another bottle to give to Grandpa Luke. This is a good thing that cannot be bought in the Muggle world.

  Because the school uniform is a few inches shorter than the limbs, Albert needs to go to Mrs. Malkin's robe store to order a few new robes.

  Albert met acquaintances here, the McDougal sisters, and their mother, and the three came to get the custom-made robes.

  The two sides did not talk to each other from beginning to end, and Mrs. McDougal took her daughter and left after paying.

   "You know each other." Daisy asked curiously.

   "It's considered acquaintance, in the same club." Albert replied casually.

   This time, Nia didn't clamor to order one for herself, but just watched the whole process of Mrs. Malkin's custom-made clothes for Albert very curiously.

  While Albert was replenishing ink, quills, and parchment in the Weizeac magic supply store, Nia was attracted by a wonderful model of active constellations, which was a large glass ball containing a model of the solar system.

   However, Herb didn't buy it for her, because he thought it was worthless except as an ornament, and it cost 15 Galleons, which was too expensive.

  Nia was a little depressed.

  However, Albert secretly told her that as long as Nia had excellent grades in school, he would help persuade the family to buy it for her.

  Nia's complexion turned cloudy immediately, and she smiled happily, expressing that she would study hard.

  After purchasing the needed items, the Anderson family continued to wander in Diagon Alley. When they passed the shop of Magic Zoo, they also went into the shop to buy some rations for Tom.

   If you are tired from shopping, eat something under the umbrella outside the coffee shop, and chat with your family about what you have seen in Diagon Alley.

  During this period, Albert also met Wood who came shopping in Diagon Alley with his family. The goalkeeper did not forget to remind him to remember to buy a broomstick.

   "Broomstick?"

   Albert briefly explained the Quidditch movement with his family. Herb asked Albert if he needed to go to the Quidditch boutique, where they had passed by before.

  In the eyes of Herb and Daisy, their son is the best. Simple Quidditch is obviously not difficult for him, and from the tone of the guy just now, they think Albert is qualified to join the Quidditch team.

   "No need." Albert tactfully refused, "If you successfully join the team, it won't be too late to buy a broom."

   "Oh, okay." Herb respected Albert's opinion, but on the way back, he still couldn't help asking, "You don't seem to like Quidditch much?"

   "To be precise, I don't like Quidditch training very much." Albert thought for a while and replied honestly, "It's a waste of time, I think I can do other things."

"I think Albert thinks Quidditch training is troublesome." Nia couldn't help complaining, "In the past, he gave up basketball and tennis very simply, and the karate he took the initiative to learn only persisted for a few months .”

  The Andersons were silent. They all knew this. Albert knew a lot of things, but he was just too lazy. He gave up many of them without further study. Otherwise, he should be able to achieve good results in a certain field.

  Well, the brains of the Andersons seem to have actively blocked Albert from wanting to enter the financial world.

  (end of this chapter)