Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 506 Learned a lot

  The train stopped at a station on the outskirts of Berlin, the capital of Germany, for resupply. Under the bewildered and puzzled eyes of the flight attendants, Serra and Albert ended their long journey around Europe ahead of schedule, dragging their suitcases.

   "Mr. Harrisis."

  The flight attendant hurriedly stepped forward to stop the two who were about to leave, and kindly reminded, "This is Berlin, Germany, and your destination has not yet arrived."

   "I know this is Germany." Serra said, "However, we are going to get off here early."

  The two walked forward under the astonished gaze of the flight attendant.

  Before leaving, Albert vaguely heard the flight attendant muttering from behind, probably something like "What a waste of Galleon".

  If the ticket is only bought to Germany, it is estimated that half of the Galleons will not be used.

  However, Albert didn't feel sorry for spending money that wasn't his own.

  Selah took Albert into an old-looking grocery store next to the station.

  The place is dirty and cramped, reminding Albert of the Leaky Cauldron.

   An old woman with a hunched waist was sitting by the counter of the grocery store. When she heard the doorbell, she raised her head and looked towards the door, and suddenly smiled at them very strangely.

   "Long time no see, Harrisis, what brought you here."

   "I just stopped by to visit an old friend." Serra said with a smile.

   "Does that include me, an old woman?"

   "Of course, Adeline."

   "You are still as bad at lying as before." The old woman giggled.

   "We need to borrow the transfer gate and go to Vedbeth Village." Sera said her purpose of coming here.

  It is still some distance away from the Wedbest Village they are going to. Unlike Diagon Alley, which is behind the Leaky Cauldron, you can directly enter by opening a door in the backyard of the bar.

  Transfer gate.

   From the name, one can probably guess the purpose of that thing.

   This trip is really worth it, and I saw a lot of interesting things along the way.

   Sure enough, the world is full of wonders.

   Albert soon saw the so-called transfer door with his own eyes. It was an old stone door inlaid on the wall, which looked like a relief stone door left here for decoration.

   "Come on!"

  Selah stepped forward, as if leading Albert to hit the wall together.

  The next moment, the two went straight through the stone gate.

   This scene is a bit like pushing luggage past the stone wall at King's Cross Station Nine, only with a different effect.

   When passing through the transfer door, Albert felt dizzy as if he had been thrown into a washing machine. He was still not used to this feeling.

   At least, using the disappearing cabinet is much more comfortable than this.

  The two walked out of the stone gate one after the other, and no one on the street paid attention to their appearance.

   "Don't ask me, I don't know."

  Serra seemed to know what Albert wanted to say, and blocked his words first.

   "The transfer door is an ancient technology left by wizards long ago. It has been completely lost now. I think its principle may be similar to the disappearing cabinet. I don't know much about other things."

   "The transfer door is a bit outdated, but it's also worthy of in-depth study." Albert was very interested in that door, and even Sierra could see it.

   "Traveling with the Floo network is obviously more convenient." He said with a smile.

   While talking, the two walked through the stone-paved street and came to a park with a fountain. Albert even saw a few children playing around by the fountain.

   "Welcome to Vedbeth." Sera said with a smile, "Do you feel a little surprised?"

   "Indeed, it feels a bit different to me here than the wizarding town in England." Albert looked up and looked around.

  The town of Vedbeth directly overturned his perception of the town of wizards.

   "That's because the town of Vedbeth is still very young." Sera explained with a smile, "It was rebuilt once."

   "Rebuild?"

"The Muggle war spread to this town." Serra explained to Albert as he walked, "many houses were blown up and had to be repaired. Later they renovated the town, It's not the old Wedbest town anymore."

   Oh, it turned out to be air raided!

   It is not incomprehensible if you think about it carefully.

   After all, this place is located on the edge of Berlin, so it is normal to be bombed, and the town is bigger than expected.

   Thanks to the wizards of various countries who are good at hiding, they were able to carve out a large area on the edge of the capital Berlin as a wizarding village.

   Albert believed that the German Ministry of Magic must have spent a lot of time and effort to successfully hide the village.

  Wizards do have a traceless stretching spell that can expand the space, but the essence of the traceless stretching spell is only to expand the original space, and most magics will gradually lose their effectiveness over time, making it difficult to maintain for a long time.

   "This place is indeed more spacious and prosperous than Diagon Alley and Hogsmeade." Even Sierra had to admit this.

   "If the Ministry of Magic is willing to spend a lot of time with Garen on repairing Hogsmeade Village, that village won't be too bad," Albert said.

   "Unfortunately, that is impossible."

"There are two wizarding towns in Germany where no Muggles live." Sera introduced Albert, "The other is in the Black Forest in the south, which is similar to Hogsmeade Village. It is old and unwilling to maintain it. It’s going to be like that, and so are people.”

   "Exactly."

   "There is a commercial street that sells things over there." Sera pointed to the rather lively east street of the town and said, "However, it is not time for you to go shopping, we need to visit my old friend first."

   As he spoke, the old man led Albert into a remote alley, and finally stopped in front of an old-looking house, raised his hand and gently knocked on the wooden door.

   There was a sound of footsteps in the room, and the door was opened from the inside.

   "Selah, I didn't expect you to come to Germany."

  The person who opened the door was also an old man. Compared with Sera who was wearing a formal suit, he was a bit sloppy, which may have verified what he just said.

   "Your grandson?" The old man's eyes quickly fell on the young Albert, and he asked curiously: "It's still an apprentice, and he looks very good."

   "Not the grandson, Jonas." After giving the old man a simple hug, Serra pointed to Albert and introduced, "This is Albert, I think you know who he is."

"Oh my god, who is it? He's smaller than I expected." Jonas looked Albert up and down, took a step back, gave way to the door, and raised his hand to invite: "Come in Bar!"

   "This is Jonas, my old friend." Sera introduced to Albert, "If you need something special, you can buy it from him."

   "Hello, Mr. Jonas." Albert said in French.

   "You speak French very well, Mr. Anderson." Jonas looked at Albert in surprise, not expecting that the other party could speak fluent French, "much better than my grandson."

   "Mark, come here." Jonas called upstairs in German, and soon there was a sound of footsteps going downstairs.

   "Grandpa, what's the matter." The young man hurried down from upstairs.

  Selah glanced at Albert, feeling a little like to laugh, he knew what Jonas meant, but this old friend obviously misunderstood something.

  The old man did not intend to correct this small mistake, he believed that Albert could solve it by himself.

yesterday

  (end of this chapter)