The Lonely Dragon of Hogwarts

Following Professor McGonagall slowly downstairs, John's expression was a little tangled and weird.

He still doesn't quite understand that a nun actually returned to her hometown to get married?

Is it possible to get married in a profession like a nun?

But no matter how he refuted it, Michelle still assured him swornly: "The nun did go back to her hometown to get married, just before they were about to escape from St. Brelade." '

After repeated inquiries to no avail, John agreed with the result.

In his memory, there seemed to be a scene of the nun bidding them farewell and saying that she was going back to her hometown to get married.

It's just... where is the nun's hometown?

"John, we're here."

Professor McGonagall's voice rang out, waking John up from his reverie.

At this moment, they were standing in a small courtyard surrounded by walls. There was nothing here except a trash can and some weeds.

"Maybe after you get to Hogwarts, you should go see Madam Pomfrey. She is an excellent school nurse. She came from St. Mungo's, the largest magical hospital in the wizarding world in the country."

Professor McGonagall said sincerely and distressedly.

She felt that John's brain must have been seriously injured, so that his memory was confused.

What a poor kid.

John nodded and said nothing.

Upon seeing this, Professor McGonagall stretched out her wand and tapped on the wall several times.

A surprising scene appeared.

The bricks she had knocked shook and began to move. A small hole appeared in the middle, and then the hole grew larger and larger, eventually forming an archway large enough for everyone to pass through.

Seeing a look of surprise on John's face, Professor McGonagall smiled and said:

"Welcome to Diagon Alley."

They walked along the archway and soon arrived at a commercial street paved with cobblestones.

Because it was so early, there were not many people on the street, and some shops were not even open yet.

But it can be seen from the signboards hanging outside that all these shops sell strange and weird things.

For example, animal materials such as crucibles, herbs, dragon blood and liver, broomsticks, and various quills, globes, etc.

Professor McGonagall has been silent since entering here, and has a serious face.

Even if someone greeted her on the street, she just nodded coldly, as if she could maintain her aloof image.

Michelle, on the other hand, was completely crazy.

This girl has been locked up in St. Brelade for as long as she can remember. She has never been to an ordinary commercial street, let alone the magic commercial street.

So as soon as she entered Diagon Alley, she started going crazy. She would rush to the store selling cauldrons to take a look, and then lie on the window glass of the broomstick store, chattering non-stop.

Fearing that something might happen if Michelle ran around, John caught her back and followed Professor McGonagall closely.

This move won high praise from Professor McGonagall.

After all, Michelle's move was really embarrassing. In just a short while, no less than five shop owners were pointing in their direction, and even laughed out loud from time to time.

The group of three people continued to walk forward, and soon they arrived in front of a snow-white building that towered above the surrounding shops.

"Gringotts, we're here."

Professor McGonagall pointed to the shiny bronze door and said, "We need to come here to get some money first, and then we can buy the items needed for admission."

John nodded and said:

"I understand, this is the bank for wizards."

"No, Gringotts is very different from a bank."

Professor McGonagall explained, "Gringotts has the right to mint coins, and wizards can indeed store wealth here. But strictly speaking, Gringotts is just a wealth depository. Wizards need to rent insurance to store things here. Not only do you have no interest in using a safe or a vault, but you also need to pay a rental fee. Of course, in contrast, Gringotts will not check and use the contents of your safe without authorization like a Muggle bank before making investments. activities.”

John roughly understood, but at this moment, Michelle pulled his sleeve and motioned him to look towards the bronze door.

Looking in the direction she pointed, John quickly saw a figure wearing a scarlet uniform with gold trim.

The figure was very short, resembling a dwarf, and its facial features were completely different from those of humans.

"Red hat!"

John said coldly, with a look of disgust on his face.

"It's not the red hat, but the goblin. Although they all belong to the family Goblin and the genus Goblin, they are essentially different species of creatures." Professor McGonagall corrected, "The red hat is a pure black magic creature, while the goblin has more High intelligence. More detailed knowledge will be known when you enter Hogwarts. As for now, you only need to know that they are responsible for running Gringotts and are managed by the Goblin Liaison Office of the Ministry of Magic.

Oh, the Ministry of Magic is the magic government for wizards. "

Professor McGonagall explained in detail, and John and Michelle fully understood the difference between red hats and goblins.

Unfortunately, this didn't make the two of them hate goblins any less.

They look so much like the Red Riding Hood, they're almost like relatives of the Red Riding Hood and the Mysterios.

Professor McGonagall didn't say anything more about this.

She knew exactly what John and Michelle were going through.

The group of people entered Gringotts under the guidance of the goblin at the door. Considering the feelings of John and Michelle, Professor McGonagall seemed to have used some kind of privilege. After a while, he successfully took out two bags of gold coins from the counter. And left Gringotts with John and Michelle.

"These two amounts of money are your special student subsidies, which are 20 gold galleons each. They are only given once a year. They are specially designed for you Hogwarts students with special family circumstances."

Professor McGonagall took John and Michelle walking down the street. As he walked, he explained, "Gold Galleons are the magic currency of wizards. In addition, there are Silver Sickles and Copper Nuts. The difference between the three of them is The exchange rate is 1 Galleons, which is equivalent to 17 Sickles, or 493 Nats.”

Hearing this, John nodded silently, while Michelle was counting with her fingers.

This scene made Professor McGonagall laugh.

But she soon suppressed her smile and walked into a shop with John and Michelle.

"jingle--"

The bell at the door jingled.

Soon there was a rush of footsteps inside the store.

"Welcome...welcome to Ollivander's Wand Shop!"

An old man with light eyes came out and said breathlessly, "Oh! So it's Professor McGonagall! Have you already started to help guide the little Muggle wizards? Why do I remember that there are still two months until the start of school? ?”

Hearing this, Professor McGonagall pursed her lips tightly, as if she wanted to complain about something.

But after looking at John and Michelle, she finally endured it.

She didn't want to ruin Dumbledore's image in front of the students.

"Ollivander, let's pick out wands for them first."

"Okay, of course it's fine."

Ollivander casually took two wands and handed them to John and Michelle, "Take it, children, hold it and feel it first. These two wands are definitely not suitable for you, but it doesn't matter, I just need you to go Feel the feeling of being resisted by the wand. Only by feeling the living resistance can you know that the wand is not a tool, but our partner. The whole selection process is not that the wizard chooses the wand, but that the wand chooses... …Well!"

Ollivander suddenly froze mid-sentence.

Because he was surprised to find that John had already picked up the wand he handed him.

However, the wand that was supposed to snap open and show great resistance was now lying in John's hand.

There was no resistance, no look of 'joy' as the wand met its new owner.

It was as if John had been using that wand for a long time.

"It's not reasonable!"

Ollivander screamed and tumbled out from behind the counter, then took the wand from John's hand and put a new one back.

This set of movements was smooth and smooth, and he didn't look like an old man at all.

However, this is of no use.

The second wand placed in John's hand still showed no response.

Seeing this, Ollivander narrowed his eyes and said to John:

"Kid, there's something wrong with you, something big wrong with you!"

Hearing this, John's heart suddenly trembled, and the look he looked at Ollivander changed.