94 hp Diagon Alley

Dimly, "Sirius, I can't play with you through the mirror."

Sirius sucked in his breath, and just when Gwen thought he was about to cry, the black-haired gentleman yelled, "Kreacher! Kreacher! Your little master needs you!"

With a crackle, Kreacher appeared out of nowhere in the bedroom.

Gwen had never seen such a decent Kreacher. He looked clean and tidy, the terribly dirty rags replaced by a brand new tea towel with the Black crest on it, and the fluff in his ears was white and fluffy.It bowed willingly to Sirius, resisting the urge to curse even when it saw Gwen and Tonks, and simply rolled its eyes.

"Kreacher is here, Master Sirius."

"Come and play with Harry." Sirius pointed to the two-way mirror on the cushion, and Harry, who was smiling awkwardly.

Gwen thought Kreacher was going to say something sly about not playing with dirty half-breeds.But it just sat obediently in the open space next to Gwen.

"Um, I think we can choose elves as pawns." With the veins on Harry's forehead twitching, he directed Kreacher through the mirror.

Sirius happily took away the wizard chess piece wearing a pointed hat and waving a wand as if he had been waiting for a long time.

Gwen felt that the current picture was too weird. In order not to disrupt the currently stable atmosphere, she quickly picked up the manual and introduced the rules to the players.

"Everyone has an initial capital of 150 Galleons." She drew a circle with the tip of her wand, and the shrunken fake Gold Galleons, Silver Sickles, and Copper Knuts were automatically divided into four small piles and stacked in front of them.Thanks to Merlin, now few people in the house will report on Gwen using magic during the holidays.

"Move on the map by rolling dice. If you reach a land without an owner," Gwen pointed to Hogwarts Castle and the Diagon Alley store on the map as examples, "you can use the funds in your hand to buy." She cleared her throat, "I want to buy Diagon Alley!"

Her unattractive mermaid piece flicked its tail and moved to the square in Diagon Alley, and aggressively inserted a small flag with a mermaid on it.Then a very ugly goblin jumped out of Gringotts on the map, and ran into the Wizarding Bank holding Gwen's Galleon without looking back.

"If your chess pieces pass by my territory, I can collect rent." Gwen poked Tonks' werewolf, and the sharp-toothed kid stepped on 'Diagon Alley' unwillingly, and was immediately stuck in the The mermaid banner there stumbled and didn't let go until Tonks honestly handed over a few copper Knuts.

"Anyone who has no money in hand can mortgage the land to the bank." Gwen pulled down the flag and threw it in front of the Gringotts gate. The ugly goblin came out wearing glasses this time and put the flag on the big After sniffing under his nose for a long time, he took out a small handful of Galleons and threw it to Gwen, who then ran away.

"Look at that face," said Tonks in disgust. "Exactly like the goblin at Gringotts—why did you only get half of it?"

Gwen read the instructions carefully: "The player can only sell the house to Gringotts for half the price-damn capitalists. Or mortgage the land to the bank in exchange for half-price cash. The mortgaged land cannot be rented, but the player still owns the land title .When redeeming the land, an additional 10% interest on the mortgage value shall be paid.”

Tonks scratched his head, "No one has ever taught a wizard to count!"

Sirius scanned the map ambitiously, "What is this?" He pointed to the only black square on the colorful map.

"Oh, that's Az... Caban." Gwen stuck for a moment, looked at Sirius' expression, and continued after seeing nothing unusual, "...It's a prison, if you accidentally walk to this grid, you will be killed." You can't move anymore, and you can't move on unless you pay a penalty of 5 galleons, or until you roll the same dice."

Both Tonks and Sirius are gearing up to start their magical empire.

They had a good time in this not so bright room.

Except that Kreacher didn't change his nature, and always had to mock Harry.

"Harry Potter asked Kreacher to buy the Muggle land, Kreacher can only agree, what can it do?"

"Harry Potter insists on building a second house at Hogwarts. He won't make any money at all. If this continues, his poor Gallon will be ruined sooner or later..."

An hour passed, and Tonks was even more haggard.Gwen's mermaid pieces nearly strike.

Gwen finally understood why Lupine reminded himself before he left that Sirius was still Sirius.With a cynical smile, he almost occupied three-quarters of the territory, and the wizard's flag was flying high on the map.

As for Kreacher, I don't know how it managed to make the anti-cheat dice obedient. It and Harry dodged every property in Sirius. Although it was true that it didn't make much money, it kept its capital modestly.

Only the naive Tonks and Gwen were gloriously broke and were given a good blown nose and goblin eyes by the goblins at Gringotts.

Tonks cursed angrily, and Kreacher stared into his bulging eyes to accuse her.

"Okay, I'm sorry, I shouldn't swear in front of him." Tonks, who still had a sliver of reason, put away the magic monopoly on the ground, said that it was time for lunch, and staggered out of the bedroom, Almost fell on the stairs.

After banging his head a few times, Kreacher respectfully asked Sirius what he would like to eat for lunch today.

"Hash browns and sizzling bacon?" Sirius was still looking regretfully at the box of card games.

"Kreacher can't disobey Master, but Kreacher can't allow himself to feed Master this fattening, unnutritious food..."

"Okay, okay, do what you are good at, Kreacher." Sirius twisted his body impatiently, sulking to himself.

The annoying house-elf disappeared contentedly, and the underground kitchen made the sound of tinkling pots and pans in a short while.

"Hey." Sirius greeted the stupefied Gwen, "Are you also studying at Hogwarts?"

"What? Oh, yes." Gwen was a little uncomfortable.

"I want to go to Hogwarts too, I sneaked around before going home." Sirius twirled his fingers around his curly black hair, "It's pretty cool there, isn't it?"

"It's pretty cool." Gwen thought about it, and said with difficulty, "You can go when you're 11. I guarantee you will like Hogwarts."

"Well," Sirius looked up at the ceiling, "that's years away."

There was a bang from upstairs.

Gwen was taken aback. "I thought Buckbeak—"

"--it was indeed taken away by the big guy. Now there is a witch living upstairs." Sirius counted on his fingers that he would not be able to go to school for a few years, "I advise you not to look, they locked the door, usually except The old man with the white beard can't go in. I guess Tonks fell down just now, and if the old man doesn't come today, Tonks has to give her medicine."

"Feed medicine?"

"The witch was seriously ill. When they brought her back, she was limp." The corner of Sirius' mouth drooped, "I was scared."

Gwen felt that a member of the Order of the Phoenix was probably injured while performing a mission, so it was inconvenient to ask further.Since old man Dumbledore with the white beard knew what was going on, she had nothing to worry about.

"Tell me about Hogwarts." Sirius put his hands behind his head, leaned against the end of the bed and raised his chin to Gwen.

Gwen felt that Sirius must have been a bad boy when he was a child, so he simply told him about the wonderful adventure of the twins fighting Umbridge.

When she was talking dry, Kreacher finally invited them to the restaurant.

Tonks hissed in pain as he touched his knee.Handed Gwen a cold glass of water and a sympathetic look.

"Tell a story?"

"He will ask me to repeat the key points three times." Gwen extinguished the smoke from his throat with cold water, "Parenting is really hard work."

The kitchen is almost unrecognizable.Now all surfaces are new: the copper pots and pans are polished to a rosy sheen, the wooden tabletops are polished to a shine, the lunch sets are set and glisten in the firelight, and a mouthful is simmering over the merry flames. cauldron.

"Please take off your shoes, Master Sirius, and wash your hands before eating dinner." Kreacher said hoarsely, but it still ignored Tonks and Gwen.

"I can't help it, Tonks." Gwen whispered in her ear, "Did someone give Kreacher a love potion?"

"I'm more inclined to the Imperius Curse." Auror Tonks narrowed his eyes, and then replied seriously, "I heard from Lupine that when Sirius was just sent back to Grimmauld Place, Kreacher cried and asked To his mistresses - Lestrange and Malfoy."

Gwen's face scrunched up in disgust.

"And then Sirius single-handedly got the elf to belong to him," Tonks went on. "Dumbledore probably added fuel to the fire by saying Sirius needed it. Later Kreacher saw that the original had been burned. Its name reappears on the Black family tapestry, and it seems to feel obliged to look after the last certified Black."

"I don't know whether to be happy or sad for Sirius." Gwen looked complicated.

Kreacher hurried over to the table with the big soup bowl, and ladled the soup into small, clean bowls.

"Thanks, Kreacher." Sirius dried his hands gracefully.

"Merlin's spoon, I'm happy for Sirius now." Gwen was amazed at Kreacher's cooking skills, today's French onion soup is completely