Hogwarts Wandering Wizard

After three days of fermentation, the Transformation Teapot incident was suppressed after unknown behind-the-scenes twists and turns. During this period, the Daily Prophet not only sprayed Cornelius Fudge, but also other wizards in the Department of Magical Accidents and Disasters. Even the higher-level Department of Magical Law Enforcement could not escape. They were all named one by one by the Daily Prophet.And Carl's name only appeared once before being taken away. The only description of him in the newspaper was "A teapot conjured by a wizard who was idle at home revealed the fact that there are so many idiots in the Ministry of Magic."

Good guy, are you praising him or putting him on the fire? Although the wizarding world is big, after all, bad things spread thousands of miles. In less than one night, the British wizards read the letters under the talons of the owls. Got the whole story.

However, Carl's ban was eventually lifted, and the Ministry of Magic did not allow him to appear in court to explain. However, given that he was the "initiator", he was still fined 100 Galleons.

When the Ministry of Magic's punishment notice arrived in Carl's hands, before Eric had time to swallow the bread in his mouth, he saw a look of disdain on his face, and he crumpled the parchment into a ball with skillful movements. Accompanied by the familiar parabola, it adds a few seconds of light to the fireplace.

"Dad, 100 galleons is a lot of money."

In his memory, it seems that Galleons in the wizarding world are very valuable. The most obvious thing is that when the Weasley family went to withdraw money from their family's vault in the book "Chamber of Secrets", Harry didn't even see a few Galleons, and the first Among the three movies, their family won the Grand Prize from the Daily Prophet. The few hundred Galleons allowed their family of seven or eight to play in Egypt for a month, and the remaining money basically solved their family's financial problems.

Although Eric has been observing the life of a family of three behind the scenes for ten years since he was a child, and it seems that he is not short of money, but most of his financial resources come from his mother Catherine's victory in lawyer lawsuits one after another. brought.

As for his father Carl, Eric took the known information and carefully recalled his memories over the years, and still found that he knew very little about him.

But after a few days of reminiscing, Eric finally remembered why the name Welfare felt so familiar.

"Don't worry, son. As a member of the Holy 28 family, Dad doesn't need you to worry about money, let alone..."

Karl no longer hides anything from his son in the past few days, and many new words came out of his mouth. After looking at each other with his wife, Catherine, the two of them smiled in tacit understanding: "Besides, your mother made a mistake before. , adding a lot of gold galleons to our family.”

After listening to the story told by the couple, Eric dropped the knife and fork in his hand on the table in shock.

After her mother Catherine married her father, she came into contact with the magical world. At that time, the British pound had not yet been exchanged for gold Galleons, and the price of gold was quite cheap. This coincided with the inflation of the 70s and the global economic depression. The price of gold was about to rise rapidly. Catherine, who holds a master's degree in law and economics and was born into a business family, came up with an idea.

That is to take advantage of the fact that the price of gold has not yet taken off, to purchase gold frantically in various countries, and then exchange part of it into gold galleons.

In fact, her prediction was right. After Catherine's parents exchanged all the money on hand for gold, the price of gold soon exceeded the sky-high price. Not only did her parents make a huge profit, but even Karl made crazy money. , you know, the gold added by the goblin when making a gold galleons does not even count to 1 gram, and when Catherine purchased the gold, the price of gold did not even exceed 50 pounds 1 ounce (28 grams). (In the first half of 1973, the price of gold had not yet exceeded $100 an ounce)

Carl didn't calculate the exact amount of money he made, but anyway, Carl bought two of the large ones in Gringotts' underground vault.

Eric spent a long time trying to swallow the saliva in his throat. He looked at his mother who was cutting fruit for them in the kitchen with dumbfounded eyes. He came to his father's side and whispered: "Dad, how did you get into this shit?" Marry my mother?"

Karl raised his eyebrows at his son with pride on his face, turned around, picked up the Daily Prophet, and read the news.

At nine o'clock in the morning, the Foley family of three got into the car and drove to the Leaky Cauldron pub on Charing Cross Road in London.

Along the way, Carl told Eric a lot of interesting things about the Leaky Cauldron because he didn't drive. He even told him that in the Leaky Cauldron, he had beaten up a fool named Lucius, and the other party had also A member of the Holy 28 pure-blood family.

Hearing this name, Eric's brain knew who this person was without much thought, Lucius Malfoy, Draco's father.

"Take my hand honey."

Due to the secrecy laws here, a large number of spells were cast on the Leaky Cauldron, making it invisible to Muggles. Therefore, Catherine had to be led by Carl to see it.

As soon as Eric got off the bus, his eyes were fixed on the famous tavern.

For no other reason than because compared to the normal-style shops on both sides, this tavern is really unconventional.

But even so, standing under the dirty sign of the Leaky Cauldron, his heart still couldn't help but beat hard twice.

"Hi, Carl Foley, our man of the hour is here."

Seeing Karl approaching the pub with his wife and child in hand, the bar owner Tom, who was wiping his wine glass, couldn't help shouting, and said to him with a smile: "Would you like to have a drink once in a while to celebrate that you made the headlines?" .”

Karl smiled and waved his hand: "I have business today. My son is going to Hogwarts. I'm here to take him to buy school supplies."

Old Tom turned his attention to Eric, who had been looking around, and a kind smile appeared on his wrinkled face: "Time flies so fast, little Eric has grown so big, in two years, My granddaughter is going to Hogwarts too."

With that said, Tom took out a lollipop from under the counter and handed it to Eric: "Here, kid."

Eric took it, thanked Tom, and walked with Carl to the intersection of Diagon Alley in the backyard of the Leaky Cauldron.

Karl took out his wand and gestured in front of Eric: "Count three times on the top of the trash can, two times on the side, and then tap three times with the wand..."

Along with his movements, the bricks he knocked began to loosen and rotate, and soon the bare wall turned into an alleyway.

Looking at the bustling shops on both sides of the endless cobblestones that could be seen from the alley, Carl coughed slightly, and after attracting Eric's attention, he laughed, just like Hagrid said to Harry two years later: "Welcome. Take your first step into your magical world, Diagon Alley.”

The dazzling sunshine happened to shine down at this moment, illuminating the cobblestone road in front of him, and also seemed to illuminate the reality in front of Eric.

On the narrow cobblestone road, adults wearing various styles of wizard robes circled around the entrances of various shops, while several children happily held up toy brooms, laughed and chased each other.

The nearest shop sells various pots and pans, and buckets are randomly placed at the door of the shop in front, filled with various magical biological materials. There are also several cages hanging at the door of the shop farther away, squatting inside. Colorful owls.

Seeing his son's eyes staring at a black and white owl, Karl touched his head and said with a smile: "Son, if you like owls, dad will buy one for you later, but we have to go to ancient times first." Lingge, that’s where all our money is stored.”