Journey through the heavens from Hogwarts

Lin Xiao did not know when the Borgin-Bock store opened, but the service they provided was described as "providing secret valuation services for rare and ancient magical artifacts such as those inherited from outstanding wizard families."

In Lin Xiao's opinion, this is just a second-hand antique store. You receive good things from others at low prices, and then resell them at multiple times. The profit is very considerable.

However, most dark wizards do not dare to provoke the owner of this store. They know that this store is backed by the pure-blood family Bock, and this family has a certain say in the British wizarding world, plus some pure-blood Families will choose to join forces (marriage), so few people will choose to provoke pure-blood families.

Lin Xiao knows very well that the people who open these stores have some quirks. Some of them they think have collectible value, but as long as the price is negotiable, they will choose to sell the items and put them outside for customers to choose from; there is another It is a personal collection and they will be secretly hidden somewhere. Of course, their owners will not choose to keep these precious things at home, especially those who are on the Ministry of Magic's key search list. They prefer to hide these treasures in Around yourself or a place where you often stay.

As for the small box with the Traceless Stretching Charm cast on it, it is not within their scope of consideration. This magic needs to be maintained for a long time. If they accidentally forget it, it will be like a severe knife in their hearts. ....

Even Lin Xiao didn't know who the biggest treasure he 'bought' belonged to, but he personally guessed that it was left before Bock took over, because compared to the previous British wizarding world, there is now an extra Dumbledore.

Obviously, the chances of getting these things were greater in the past, otherwise they would not have gone to great lengths to cover up the aura there. The aura emanating from the blood surprised even Lin Xiao. He guessed that it should be using a special The method preserved the activity of the blood. As for why the person from the Bock family did not come to take away his collection, Lin Xiao had no idea!

He was sure that the items placed on the bottom shelf were Mr. Borgin's collection, because he found a phoenix tail feather inside, and even he did not expect that the two people stored the items so close to each other. As a result, Lin was Xiao Lai came to a conclusion. He discovered why these people like to hide things in low places. Is it private money? ?

He estimated that people in the wizarding world were disdainful of things like mechanisms, and most people living in the wizarding world considered themselves to be superior to others. Why would they use the methods of the Muggle world when they already had magic... .

Lin Xiao still knows a lot about the recent history of this store. It seems that between the end of 1925 and the beginning of 1926, Tom's mother Merope Gaunt used a love potion to confuse the old Tom, who was a Muggle. Riddle, the two elope.

Soon after, Merope Gaunt became pregnant with little Tom. During this period, she did not use love potions on old Tom anymore. She thought that old Tom would choose to stay for the sake of the child, but she did not expect that he would He ran away directly (scumbag), leaving Merop, who was pregnant with the child, to live alone and in poverty.

The only valuable possession she has is a golden locket engraved with a snake-shaped letter "S", which is a relic left by her ancestor Salazar Slytherin.

Here’s the point, the owner of this store at the time was Caractacus Bock. According to Hepzibah Smith at the time, Bock bought the store from Merope for only ten gold galleons. Lytlin's Locket.

After some time, Bock resold the locket to Hepzibah, who bought the locket from Bock "at a high price" because she did not want to miss out on this true treasure.Bock made a fortune reselling the locket, and he could not have imagined the significance of this particular heirloom or how it would affect his business years later.

Even Lin Xiao found this process unbelievable. It seemed like there was a big magical hand fidgeting with everything. As for the author of this book, she has been expelled from the book. She is a novelist and she knows nothing about magic!

About 18 years later, in early 1945, Mr. Burke unknowingly hired the son of the witch who sold him the locket, Tom Marvolo Riddle, who later became Lord Voldemort.

After graduating from Hogwarts in 1945, Tom came to work at Borgin-Burke. At that time, Tom was still a handsome and charming boy. The task given to him by Mr. Burke was to persuade others to hand over their treasures to the store for sale. This seemed to Tom to be a very easy job, as he had been very good at it in school.

Later, while working in the store, Tom met Hepzibah Smith, who was also fascinated by Tom's mannerisms and handsome appearance. She began to gradually become friends with Tom, and even put Slytherin's The locket was taken out and shown to him.

After Tom saw the locket that was supposed to belong to him, he unreasonably tried to kill Hepzibah. In the process, he unexpectedly discovered that the latter had also collected a locket that belonged to one of the Big Four. Helga Hufflepuff's gold cup, he stole it and the locket, and blamed everything on Smith's house elf Hooch. He quickly resigned from Borgin and Burkes. Disappeared...

Lin Xiao couldn't help but lament why Dumbledore was so wary of Tom. He was the kind of person who would do whatever it took to take what originally belonged to him. To put it simply, he would do anything to achieve his goal!

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At two o'clock in the afternoon, after returning to school from home, Lin Xiao stayed outside for a while, looking at the white scene around him. The biting cold wind almost passed through his thick clothes and blew against his skin, which was freezing. He didn't stay long before he returned to the dormitory.

Inside the house, his owl 'Lightning' was resting not far from the fireplace with its feathers curled.Lin Xiao looked at the obese owl and felt a little headache. He didn't have many friends outside, so it usually didn't have much work except to work for a while during the holidays.

Because it would rather stay in a warm room than fly around the owl house that Hagrid takes care of.

Lin Xiao picked up Lightning, put the already awakened latter on the table, rubbed its fat body, and warned, "Now you have to go out and exercise for me every day to lose weight on your body. Otherwise, I will put you in a cage and reduce your food intake - one meal a day, divided into three meals!"

"Gu-gu-gu!" When he heard that the meal was going to be reduced, the frightened Scottish round-faced 'real' fat chicken shook his head vigorously to show that he understood.

Lin Xiao couldn't help feeling a little emotional. Most of the magical creatures in the magical world can understand human language, and they all have their own unique emotions...

For example, Harry's Hedwig blocked a fatal killing curse for him, and Dumbledore's Phoenix had a deep relationship with the former. After helping Harry after his death, he never appeared again. There is also the sea. Greg and Lu Wei, Newt and Frank, etc., they have all formed deep friendships with some magical creatures...