Harry Potter and the Secret Treasure

Harry and Hermione quickly noticed the situation, and they exchanged disturbed glances, worried faces, and the atmosphere fell silent.

Hermione poked Ivan lightly, motioning him to turn his head to look at Sirius.

Ai Wen turned around in surprise, he could completely understand what Sirius looked like now.

Although Sirius said that he didn't care about those treasures and gold, after all, it was the wealth accumulated by the Black family for centuries, passed down from generation to generation, and now it all became the property of other families.

No matter who encounters this kind of thing, they will be unhappy.

In particular, it was Sirius' mother who distributed these properties. She would rather trust his two cousins ​​than leave something to her own son.

If Aiwen himself encountered such a thing, he would die of sadness.

"Sirius..." Harry called out worriedly.

"I'm fine, I just remembered some unpleasant memories!" Sirius took a deep breath of cold air, pulled himself together, and participated in their conversation, "What Remus just said is right, the weakness of dragons lies in their eyes, and they can Hit that place with an Eye Sickness Charm or something else to make them retreat in pain. Besides, each Charmander has a particularly fragile scale on it, and if you want to slay a dragon..."

They said as they walked that Sirius appeared to be fully recovered.

Before heading back to the Leaky Cauldron for lunch, we decided to take a look at 36 Diagon Alley.

They left the main road and turned into a narrow, backlit street that hadn't been cleared for a long time and was knee-deep at its deepest point.

The streets are very depressed, and all the shops are not open for business.

Only one small, shabby shop was open, and an old wizard with two big light-colored eyes was sweeping the snow in front of the shop. The gold lettering on his head had peeled off, and it read: Olivan Germany, has been making excellent wands since 380 BC.

Ivan was very surprised to see Mr. Ollivander.

He was the same as the last time he saw it, without any change.

"Good afternoon, Mr. Ollivander!" Everyone hurried forward to say hello.

"Good afternoon, everyone, nice to meet you!" Ollivander raised his head, his light-colored pupils flashed across the faces of the five people one by one, staying on Ivan and Harry for the longest time, and finally falling on the little one. On Sirius, "Sirius Black, it's such a pleasure to see you again, it's been more than 20 years since we last met, I thought I wouldn't have this chance..."

"Oh, yes, I also thought that I had no chance to return to Diagon Alley." Sirius said happily, "You have read the recent reports. With the help of these three children, I have been proved is innocent."

"Of course, of course!" Ollivander said happily, "East Aoki, twelve inches long, is good at using transfiguration magic, right?"

"That's right, but that wand was broken when I was caught by the Ministry of Magic 12 years ago." Sirius pulled out the wand and said regretfully, "That's a good wand. This one is not as easy to use as the previous one.”

"Of course not, it's resisting your power!" Ollivander walked over and said softly, "This wand doesn't belong to you, I don't know where you got it. It's mine Grandpa's work, very ancient craftsmanship, elm wood and dragon's nerves, a bit tough, in that era, the materials on dragons were very rare, and only the wealthiest pure-blood wizard families could afford to buy..."

Ollivander took the wand from Sirius, observed it carefully, and told the pros and cons of the wand and its history, as if appreciating a certain work of art.

"Mr. Ollivander?!"

"Oh, yes!" Ollivander returned the wand to Sirius, "This wand is great, but it's not suitable for you! If you can, I suggest you go to my store and choose another wand .”

"I don't think it's necessary. I'm no longer a young wizard who has just grown up. I can handle any wand skillfully." Sirius said conceitedly.

"That's such a pity!" Ollivander continued, "You know, it's the wand that chooses the wizard, and using someone else's wand will affect your own power."

"Mr. Ollivander is right, you really should change to a wand." Ivan persuaded, he knew the importance of wands to wizards.

For a wizard, using someone else's wand will be extremely uncomfortable, affecting the power of the spell and the transmission of magic power. A powerful wand can even resist the will of the user.

In the original book, it was for this reason that Voldemort resisted using the Killing Curse on its real master, Harry, with the Elder Wand in his hand, and finally died for no apparent reason.

It is also because of this that Sirius has been running away in the original book, and it is impossible to pick a wand that belongs to him. He must be using this wand that belongs to one of his ancestors like now.

When he dueled with Bellatrix, because of the magic wand, he was unable to exert his true strength, and was finally defeated and lost his life.

For Sirius, in order to cope with the dangers he will face in the future, it is very necessary to change a wand.

"Sirius, since Mr. Ollivander and Ivan both said so, you should change your wand..." Harry said with concern.

"No need, I can control this wand!" Sirius replied stubbornly.

"That's only temporary, as time goes by, it will affect you more and more." Ollivander said softly, "The core of this wand is the nerve of the dragon, you know, the dragon is a kind of power Very strong creatures, they will not obey at will..."

Hearing Ollivander's words, Harry hurriedly shouted, "Sirius!"

"Well, well, I can come back later when I have time!" Sirius put his arm around Harry's shoulders and said in a soft voice, "Don't you guys remember? We are going to the shop now, I have to go to the hospital to visit the Weasley boy in a while, so I can't waste time here."

"It won't take much time, we can wait for you in the shop." Aiwen pointed to a very dilapidated house not far from the wand shop and said, "I saw the house number, that's No. 36 Diagon Alley!"

Chapter 241 Store Planning and Design

Under everyone's joint persuasion, Sirius finally agreed to change a wand.

Sighing, he followed Mr. Ollivander into the wand shop, ruffling his messy hair feebly, like a little wizard just coming of age.

"He used to be like this, he looks very stubborn, but as long as it is a reasonable suggestion, he will most likely adopt it..."

Looking at Sirius' back, Lupine told Ivan, Harry, and Hermione some embarrassing things about Sirius' student days, which made everyone laugh.

Amidst laughter, they came to No. 36, Diagon Alley, a shop belonging to the Black family.

This is a three-storey shop facing the street, located at the corner of the other end of the street, across the street from Ollivander's Wand Shop, next to a potion material shop, and passing through a dark small street to the north of it. Lane, is the Yila Owl Shop.

Harry's pet Hedwig was given to him by Hagrid after buying it there.

In addition to the pet shop, even this potion shop is very famous in Diagon Alley. Because of the cheap price, Ivan mail-ordered a lot of potion materials from their house.

The outer walls of the potion shop are brown-black bricks, with only one narrow window.Inside were rows of barrels of goo on the floor, and near the walls, assorted jars of powders, herbs, and bundles of feathers, fangs, and claws hung from the ceiling.

The merchandise inside looks fascinating, but because of the potion ingredients, the shop smells bad outside, like a mixture of rotten eggs and rotten vegetables.

Worse than this is 36 Diagon Alley next to it.

The old bricks are incomplete, and it looks extremely desolate and dilapidated.The two semi-circular windows were covered with thick dust, and the inside could not be seen from the outside.Between the windows is a scarred black wooden door, covered with insect eyes and traces of people scratching with sharp objects, exuding a decaying smell.

Ai Wen wiped the dust on the window, stood on tiptoe and took a look inside.

Through a curtain full of dense foxes, he saw furniture debris scattered on the ground and rubbish everywhere. A brown spider the size of a saucer was hidden in the gap in the uppermost corner of the window. The house looks like a haunted house.

"In my impression, this shop has been idle for more than ten years, and no one has been using it." Lupine explained, "Many people speculate whether there is something wrong here, so it has been idle, but I didn't expect it to be Black. Family property!"

He pulled out his wand and knocked on the wooden door of the shop, and with a puff, the door swung open.

Almost as soon as the door was opened, a large amount of dust splashed up.

Everyone hurriedly covered their noses and took several steps back.

Seeing the unexpected intruder, inside the shop, a frightened mouse ran across the house, squeaking.

They walked in, leaving clear footprints on the creaking floor.

The decoration of this shop continued the usual luxurious style of the Black family, and the dilapidated furniture inside were all made of precious mahogany and teak.

Perhaps because of this, it is also the object of concentrated patronage by thieves.

All the valuable things in the shop disappeared or were destroyed, and the wreckage of all kinds of gorgeous decorations and furniture were scattered on the ground.

The windows at the back were also smashed, and there was a gust of cold wind blowing in. Not surprisingly, the thieves crawled in from there.

From the outside, this store is bad enough; when you feel it up close, you can feel that it is extremely bad.

If you want to use it and sell it to the outside world, almost everything needs to be bought new.

"It really takes a lot of work to clean this place up!" Hermione wrinkled her nose, took out her wand and said softly to a carpet, "Clean it up!"

Instantly pink soap bubbles appeared on the carpet, but to no avail, there was so much dust that the bright colored soap bubbles instantly turned into black goo.

Hermione waved her wand reluctantly and said the spell a few more times.

"Don't waste your efforts, Hermione, just throw that rug away." Ai Wen said, clutching his forehead, "You can buy new furniture and office supplies, but what you just said is right, this place really needs a big cleaning, It's a lot of work!"

"This house has been empty for many years, and many things have grown and multiplied in it. You must be careful when you clean it." Lupine leaned in front of a cabinet and looked in through the keyhole. "It seems to be a blogger inside." Gert, better get him out before cleaning this closet."

"It's crazy to clean up a house that has been abandoned for more than ten years. I don't want to spend the rest of Christmas here." Harry came down from the upstairs, panting, "This shop is better than It looks much more spacious from the outside, with a lot of space above, and a lot more garbage than here.”

"Don't worry, Harry! I think three days should be enough. We can ask Dobby and Kreacher for help. House elves are very good at doing this kind of thing." Ivan also went upstairs and looked around, nodded in satisfaction , "When I go to visit Ron later, I can also ask the Weasleys to help clean up. I have an idea that the second and third floors are completely enough space for the headquarters of the newspaper, and the first floor can be used for other things. , such as selling Fred and George's joke products..."

"The two of them will be delighted, they've been running an owl mail order service in the school since last term!" said Harry. "The products they develop are very interesting and very popular."

"It's also very dangerous, and also disgusting!" Hermione said disapprovingly, "Look at what they did last semester, they actually made a remote control dung egg, which made the whole corridor full of stench, those dung are very difficult was cleaned."

"That's something Filch needs to worry about. Except for the Slytherin basement, they haven't used that kind of thing anywhere else in the school." Ivan said guilty.

He hadn't dared to tell Hermione that the birth of the remote-control dung egg was actually his suggestion.And the theory used, how to activate the big dung egg to obey the command of the user, was inspired by Hermione's contribution to the newspaper on a research article on transfiguration.

"There is a lot of space here, and many counters can be placed. In addition to Fred and George's joke products, you can also sell the things researched by other little wizards." Seeing that Hermione wanted to continue talking about the joke products , Ai Wen hurriedly said, "For example, the potions we boiled in the potions class, except for taking out a little to give Snape a mark, all the rest were poured out. It's too wasteful, and it can be put here For sale, the price is much lower than the normal market price.”

"That's a good idea, if Snape can let us do it," interrupted Harry.

"He will agree. Those potions were originally brewed by the students themselves, and he has no reason to refuse." Ivan walked down and carefully observed the first floor of the store, while contemplating future plans and designs, "In addition to potions, All the things made by little wizards can be sold here, the more the better. This matter can be publicized through the "Hogwarts Ministry of Magic", and it should attract a lot of people's attention."

Chapter 242 St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Injuries

Ivan, Harry, and Hermione were excitedly discussing the future design and planning of the store, the products that could be sold here, their pricing, and so on.

Lupine went around the house by himself to see if there were any dangers and hidden dangers that needed to be addressed.In less than 10 minutes, he found two boggarts, a dozen nests of mice and spiders, a large group of foxes, and patches of bandy awns.

Bandemans is a parasitic magical creature that is extremely easy to survive and reproduce.

They look like greenish-eyed fungi that crawl under floorboards and behind skirting boards, swarming houses.

Usually something rots and emits a foul smell, and there will be bongos.

Once bandems appear in any house, they will slowly secrete a corrosive substance, which will slowly corrode the foundation of the house.

"It's very bad, we have to deal with these bentems as soon as possible!" Lupine opened a floor and motioned Ivan, Harry, and Hermione to look inside.

Aiwen saw a large patch of bongos clinging to the rotten floor, and because they were frightened, they hurried away with countless slender legs.

"Generally speaking, the Sweeping Curse is very effective in dealing with Bandy Mounts." Lupine clapped his hands and stood up, "But there are too many Bandy Mounts here, taking action lightly may have very serious consequences , even knocked down the house. We need to contact the Ministry of Magic's Pest Advisory Committee, they will send someone to deal with this matter."

As Lupine said, this house has been abandoned for too long, and it is not protected by various magics like No. 12 Grimmauld Place, and the house is in a very bad condition.

While they were figuring out what to do with the troublesome creatures that inhabited the shop, Sirius walked in.

He had already got a new wand, a handsome black wand of hawthorn wood with a dragon's heart chord core.In addition to the new wand, he was carrying a cage in his hand.There was a beautiful little owl inside, and it kept screaming excitedly after seeing Ivan and the others.

"I just went to the owl store next door and bought this owl for that Weasley boy named Ron." Sirius said, "Maybe he would be willing to keep this owl, after all it was my fault." , he lost that mouse..."

"He'll be delighted, Ron has always wanted a pet of his own."

"As long as he likes it!" Sirius said with a smile, put the cage on the ground, walked into the shop and looked around, "Ivan, how do you feel here?"

"The layout is very good, similar to what I imagined, but it needs to be cleaned up. Before you came, we also found a large patch of bongos."

"This shop hasn't been used for a long time, so it's not surprising that there are these things." Sirius opened the floor and looked at it, and said with a frown, "These things are not easy to deal with, we'd better eat first, and then visit Your friends. During this period, I will instruct Kreacher to clean up here first."

"Bendemons can be put in my charge," followed Lupine. "I have an acquaintance on the Pest Advisory Committee who is an expert in dealing with these creatures."

After discussing for a while, everyone returned to the Leaky Cauldron for lunch.

Then, they set off to St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Injuries and Injuries to see Ron. This time, they didn't take the Knight bus, and Sirius and Lupine directly took Ivan, Harry, and Hermione to Apparate.

There was a loud bang and they emerged on a wide Muggle street.

"Where's St. Mungo's Hospital?" Harry looked around curiously. "Why don't we just Apparate in?"

"When the hospital was first established, the people did this, but as the number of patients gradually increased, the Ministry of Magic banned apparition in the hospital, which is prone to accidents." Lupine explained, "As for the location, we are now Standing in front of the hospital."

In front of them is an old-fashioned red brick department store called Taotao Co., Ltd.

It looked rundown and deserted, with only a few cracked dummies in the window, with wigs on one side, in various poses, and clothes from at least ten years ago, with "closed for renovation" signs hanging on the dusty doors. brand.

Near a particularly ugly female dummy, Ivan felt a strange magical atmosphere.

"Go this way!" Sirius muttered, pushing Ivan, Harry, and Hermione in front of him, "There are too many Muggles here, and there is not enough land in Diagon Alley, and the Ministry of Magic finally found them." The reason for building a hospital at this address is that patients can come and go among the crowd.”

Beside them is the Muggle commercial street, with endless streams of people and cars, in stark contrast to Diagon Alley.

"Aren't these Muggles at home for Christmas?" Sirius asked strangely, "What are they all running out for?!"

"There is a commercial area near here, where people can have dinner, shop, sing, watch movies and so on during the holidays." Ivan noticed the doubts on Sirius' face, and he continued to explain, "Movies are made by a machine. People's specific actions are recorded and then re-screened on the big screen..."

"I know, it's special Muggle magic, the effect is similar to that of a Pensieve!" Sirius looked up and looked around, with his right hand unconsciously placed on the wand at his waist, "We will discuss this issue later, the three of you had better leave I'm closer so I can take action if something happens."

Seeing Sirius' appearance, Ivan doubted whether he really understood what he said.

In fact, except for special cases like Mr. Weasley, wizards know very little about the Muggle world, and most people's knowledge is still hundreds of years ago.

Regarding the rapid and rapid development of science and technology in the Muggle world, the wizarding world basically adopts a disregarded attitude.

An idea popped up in Ivan's mind, maybe he could try to cooperate with Mr. Weasley to introduce some of the more advanced mechanical equipment from the Muggle world into the magic world, which might have unexpected effects.

It's a pity that Hogwarts' defensive magic prohibits the operation of all electronic equipment, so it can only be promoted in Diagon Alley first.

Ivan considered the feasibility of this matter in his mind, and followed Harry to the female dummy in a green nylon skirt who he just felt abnormal.