[HP]Blue Soul

One weekend in April, Severus suddenly approached Charlotte and said, "Let's go to Diagon Alley."

Charlotte looked shocked. Although she was really looking forward to the trip to Diagon Alley, she never thought it would be so sudden. She thought it would be summer vacation at the latest, and Lily's guidance teacher hadn't looked for them yet. .

There was a bad episode on Lily’s side. On Lily’s birthday, Lily also got her admission letter. The Evans couple was very happy, but Penny didn’t. She even took Charlotte to write together An inquiry letter was sent to Headmaster Dumbledore, asking if they could also study at Hogwarts.Charlotte didn't want to agree, but Penny used free old textbooks as a temptation, so Charlotte had to sign her name on the inquiry letter.

Of course, they were rejected. A few days later, they received a reply from Dumbledore, which was brought by Crewe. Charlotte gave the letter to Petunia. The reply was hidden, and from that day on, she not only became more indifferent to Lily, but also became less clingy to Charlotte.

Charlotte sighed, packed up her things, and brought some money, which was her last savings. She could only hope that the consumption in Diagon Alley was not too expensive, so she could find some cheap stuff.

"Where is Diagon Alley?" Charlotte followed Severus on the road, looking in the direction that seemed to be the northeast side of the town, there was a train station, could it be that he was going far away?

"London." Severus had made plans the day before, and Tobias rarely slept at home without drinking, so he was able to ask Irene everything about Diagon Alley in a calm atmosphere.Irene also gave him a key, saying that there was a vault in Gringotts, and there was not much money in it, but it could be taken and used.

"London?" Charlotte had never been to London, but she often heard Mrs. Betty mention London. Her son and daughter-in-law were in London.In her mouth, London is a big city full of people coming and going, full of tall buildings and busy traffic, completely different from Cokeworth.

"Well. Let's go by train."

I bought a ticket at the train station. Charlotte boarded the train for the first time. They found an empty seat and sat down. Opposite was a couple with a child. The husband was sitting outside and was reading a newspaper. While the wife held the child and looked out the window, pointing the child to the scenery outside.The child was about 8 or 9 years old.

Charlotte was a little dazed, she thought of the first time she saw Severus, thin and small, like a little brother, but when chatting with him, he would feel like a brother, he knew Many things will not be as childish as the classmates in school.

She looked sideways at Severus who was looking out the window, and said softly, "Severus, will it be long?"

"No. Not that far," Severus replied, turning his head.

Sure enough, it wasn't that far away. When the child on the opposite side was finally tired and fell asleep leaning on his father's shoulder, the train slowly stopped on the platform.Charlotte followed in Severus' footsteps, weaving through the crowd and exiting the station.They then took a taxi to Charing Cross Road.

The street was indeed as Mrs. Betty said, full of people and traffic, but it was strange that she saw a very dilapidated bar between a large bookstore and a record store, with the words "Broken Cauldron" written on it. Bar (LeakyCauldron)", but many people passed by, but no one paid attention to this bar, even though it seemed particularly out of place between the bookstore and the record store.

"There is clearly a bar here, why no one saw it? Has it been cursed with the Muggle Repelling Curse?" Charlotte leaned closer to Severus' ear and asked.

"It should be more than that. There should be Confusion Charms and the like, otherwise those Muggles wouldn't be completely unaware. That's the entrance to Diagon Alley, if my mother is right."

Severus took Charlotte quickly across the road, and walked straight into the bar. Charlotte held her breath unconsciously as soon as she entered the bar. She glanced around, and the bar looked very dark and shabby , just a bar with a few tables in the shade in the corner.Several people in robes were sitting there drinking wine, and some were smoking long pipes.One of them looked at them with malicious eyes, Charlotte was a little scared, she grabbed Severus' hand, "...I...I'm a little nervous , Sev." Severus didn't break away from her hand, but just walked towards the back of the bar with his head down.

Soon they came to an empty patio behind the bar, and Severus looked around, then stood against the wall with a row of trash cans, and murmured, "This is it." He looked around from his He took out two black cloaks from the box and threw one to Charlotte, "Put this on."

Charlotte shook off the black cloak, there was no pattern on it, it was just a very simple black, but the style looked like a woman's style, she guessed it was Irene's, but Severus also wanted to wear a woman's style cloak?When she looked at Severus, he had already put on the cloak, because the cloak was quite large, and he adjusted the cloak a little, so it was no longer obvious that it was a woman's fit.Charlotte quickly put on the cloak and wrapped herself tightly.

Severus looked around again, took out his wand from his sleeve, and started counting bricks, counting a few vertically and horizontally, then tapped that brick with his wand, and then in Charlotte When he opened his mouth wide without knowledge, the wall slowly formed a wide archway.Then there is an alley paved with cobblestones.

The alleys are lined with restaurants, shops and various other small businesses, some with tables, chairs and brightly colored parasols in front of them.The closest to the entrance is a store that sells all kinds of cauldrons. Outside the store is a stack of cauldrons that glisten in the sun.

There were not many people in the alley, but they were all wearing various robes or cloaks.Charlotte can't help sighing, no wonder they need to put on a cape, otherwise they must look very garish here.Severus hurried on, and Charlotte had to look away from Diagon Alley to keep up with the boy.

After walking for a while, Charlotte saw a tall and towering snow-white marble building, which was very conspicuous among the many shops in Diagon Alley, and looked very imposing.This building has two shiny bronze gates, and standing beside the gates is a goblin in a scarlet and gold uniform.Charlotte had seen their portraits in books, but there was no real life in front of her eyes that stimulated her eyes.

They are short in stature, sallow in complexion, with extremely long hands and feet, but short legs, and round heads much larger than human heads with black eyes, which look extremely ugly.

"Gringotts, where you get your money." Severus briefly introduced in a low voice.

"Uh, can't you use pounds here?" Charlotte asked in a low voice.

"No, wizard coins, gold Galleons, silver Sickles, copper Knuts," Severus explained.

Charlotte didn't know so many twists and turns. The money she brought was Muggle coins such as pounds. "I brought pounds."

"You can change it, it's in Gringotts."

Only then was Charlotte relieved, as long as he could change.She followed Severus into the gate, she just glanced at the goblins at the gate out of the corner of her eye, but she didn't dare to keep her eyes on them, but after they entered a gate, passed a hall, and Entering a silver door, Charlotte didn't look carefully at what was written on the door, and there were goblins standing on both sides of that door.Going further inside, Charlotte couldn't help opening her mouth slightly so as not to scream. Inside was a tall marble hall, hundreds of goblins were sitting on high stools behind a row of long cabinets, and some were using copper balances. Weighing coins, examining gems with an eyepiece, writing something in a large ledger.There are countless doors in the hall, which seem to lead to different places.

Charlotte looked dazzled, and she followed closely behind Severus. Severus found a free goblin and said to him, "Let's get the money, Irene Prince's Vault."

"Sir, do you have the key?" said the goblin.

Severus took out a key from the box and handed it to the goblin, who identified it carefully, "It's this one." Then the goblin said to the other goblin behind him, "Take them there."

Charlotte and Severus followed the goblin through a door, which was nothing like a grand marble hall, but a very narrow and dark stone corridor, lit by torches on both sides, which made Charlotte feel very sad. Tate had to squint to see the road ahead.Severus took the initiative to hold Charlotte's hand, he was afraid that the girl would bump into the wall if she wasn't paying attention.

After passing the stone corridor, there is a steep downhill slope, and there is a small railway below. Following the whistle of the goblin leading the way, the small cart rushed over.They climbed into the car with the goblin who led the way and set off. The cold air whizzed by, making Charlotte's eyes hurt. Severus held her hand tighter and tighter. Under the dim light, Charlotte watched To Severus' already blue face.They stopped after a while, and Charlotte heard a voice screaming from the lower floors. She looked down, and there seemed to be dozens of floors below, which made her dizzy.She looked away and saw Severus throwing up beside him.She hurried forward to pat Severus on the back, "Severus, are you okay?" Then she took out a handkerchief from her pocket and handed it to him.

Severus waved his hand, calmed down, took the handkerchief and wiped his mouth, then put the handkerchief back into his pocket, and said, "I'll return it to you after I clean it up."

The goblin who led the way just stood there watching quietly, with no expression on his face. Although he couldn't see the expression on that face, Charlotte felt that this goblin was well-informed and must have seen this kind of thing many times. Condition.This car is really fast!

Seeing that there was nothing wrong with Severus, the goblin used the key to open the arch in front of him, and stood aside.Motioned Severus and Charlotte to go in.

Severus entered the archway first, and Charlotte followed.The area inside is not big. There are a few gold and some silver coins and copper coins in the box in the corner, but there are many books piled up on the other side. Charlotte stepped forward to take a look, and they were all books related to potions.

Severus silently put the pitiful coins into his purse, he should be thankful that he brought his savings here, otherwise the pitiful few coins might make him unable to buy second-hand things.But those potion books were very much to his liking, he picked a few and put them in the box, and he planned to get the rest when he had time.

"Let's go and exchange money."

Coming out of the vault, Severus immediately asked where the guide goblin exchanged coins. He took Charlotte there to exchange Muggle coins for wizard coins, and then finally walked out of this strange Gringotts. Lotter found it inconceivable that the underground space of Gringotts was so large that the bottom of London had been hollowed out.

"Where do we go next?" Charlotte asked, standing outside the gates of Gringotts.

Severus took out the long list attached to the notice from the box and glanced at it, "Let's go shopping for clothes first."

Charlotte followed Severus among the many shops, and finally saw a second-hand clothes shop in a corner. From the outside, you could see all kinds of clothes hanging on the hangers inside, and some still had a few more. The new ones are really dilapidated. I don’t know if anyone would really be willing to buy such clothes.

As soon as they entered the door, a tall and thin woman greeted her. She was Mrs. Catherine, the owner of the store. "New students from Hogwarts?" Her voice was full of surprise, "There are not many new students coming at this time. , they all like to come over in July and August, Diagon Alley is very lively at that time!"

"Yes, Hogwarts freshmen. We will come when we have time, ma'am." Charlotte answered.

"Oh, what a beautiful little girl." Lady Catherine said admiringly when she saw Charlotte, and she introduced herself, "My name is Catherine."

"Mrs. Catherine, thank you for your compliment. We want to buy Hogwarts uniforms. Are there any here?"

"Of course, the last thing we need here is the uniforms and work robes of the young wizards. I guess you also need black wizard hats, protective gloves and winter cloaks?"

Mrs. Catherine took out her wand, picked out some clothes, hats and gloves from all directions in the shop and put them on the table.

Charlotte looked at the clothes floating in the air with amazement. Lady Catherine looked very skilled. She picked out men's and women's styles, but the size seemed to fit well.

"It's for him, ma'am." Charlotte pushed Severus beside him.Severus had been silent since entering the shop, looking like he was thinking of something.

"Oh, sir. Then you have to pick and choose. We have handled these clothes very well, and they are still 5% new. They will not be particularly expensive. I have good eyesight and they will definitely fit you."

Severus pursed his lips and went up to have a look. It was true that the clothes were not too new. Mrs. Catherine seemed to be very good at reading people, as if she knew how much money they had in their pockets, so she chose a price that they could afford. Soon Severus was done choosing.The price was not bad, Severus could afford it, and because of Charlotte, Lady Catherine gave them a discount, and Charlotte also bought two wizard robes.

"If I have the chance to visit you in the wizarding world, I can wear this wizarding robe." After going out, Charlotte said to Severus with a smile.

Looking at the girl's smiling face, Severus nodded, "There will be a chance." Even if he didn't, he could create some chances, and there are a lot of Squibs living in the wizarding world.

Then they went to buy a crucible, a telescope and a brass balance. Of course, except for the crucible, they were found in second-hand stores. The crucible was bought new, because Charlotte said that the favorite potion is to buy this one. New ones are better, Severus agreed with her.

"Go buy books." Severus put everything into a box, and then muttered a little unhappy, "If my mother can't lose the first grade books, I don't have to buy books at all."

They went to a second-hand bookstore. The bookshelves of the bookstore were full of various books, and there were some old newspapers at the entrance. There was a small bookshelf next to the newspapers, and some books were placed on it.Charlotte was attracted by the moving images in the newspaper, and she said: "You go to the textbook, I'll take a look here."

Severus quickly picked out those books, among which "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" and "A History of Magic" did not need to be bought. When he put the bought books into the box and went back to Charlotte, She was seen frowning looking at a book.He walked up to her and asked, "What are you looking at?"

Charlotte breathed a sigh of relief and put the book back on the shelf, "Buy it?"

"Ah."

She pulled Severus out of the second-hand bookstore, and said softly: "I just saw the newspaper, which said about the squibs. Some squibs committed suicide in order to protect their own rights."

"I didn't realize how bad things were for wizarding Squibs, Sev. Then I saw the book My Life as a Squib by Angus Buchanan, who was a Squib, and he was a Squib in the first place." Some people tried to enter Hogwarts to study, but they were rejected at the time of sorting. Fortunately, I didn’t expect to be able to enter Hogwarts, otherwise it would definitely make me very sad to be rejected on the spot.”

She was suddenly grateful to Headmaster Dumbledore for rejecting her and Petunia.

"Charlotte..."

"It doesn't matter! That Angus Buchanan got a good job in the Muggle world later on, and I'm so smart, so I'm sure it's not bad!" Charlotte said optimistically, "So where do we go next?" She put Severus took the list in his hand and looked it over carefully. The wand and pets were still missing, "Do you want to buy pets? Owls, cats, toads..." The moment she saw the toad, she suddenly frowned. Frowning, "Why would someone treat a toad as a pet?" She didn't quite understand, in essence, she was a face control...

"It's not uncommon for people to keep mice as pets."

"Mouse! God!" Charlotte couldn't believe it. She dared to swear that the animal she hated most now was the mouse. Not only would it bite her books, but it would also steal her family's food. "You can't buy a mouse! You can't buy a mouse if you buy a toad!"

Severus was helpless, "I won't buy anything. It's fine without pets, there's no need to spend a fortune on it. I'd rather buy a new wand of my own."

"Ok."

They passed the shop of those magical creatures, and Charlotte saw the mouse in the window. She looked away in disgust, and then saw a shop with a broom with a hair in the window. The messy, dark-haired boy was staring at the broom on the glass window, looking like he wanted to ride it right away.

"Don't you need to buy a broom?"

"No." Severus picked up the list and pointed to the bottom line, which read "Parents are reminded that first-year students are not allowed to bring their own broomsticks."

"Okay." They skipped the broomstick shop, but Charlotte's head was still stuck in that shop's pictorial, on which a person dressed like a jersey was flying in the sky on a broomstick, she I also want to have this kind of experience, "Sev, when you have learned it, can you take me to fly?"

"Maybe I don't like flying very much." Severus felt strange even imagining himself flying on a broomstick, "But don't you want to fly on a sword?" I still remember Charlotte and him before Said that when she stood on a sword and flew in the sky, he really felt that the girl was whimsical.

"That's a dream!" grumbled Charlotte, "but the broom is right in front of me!"

Severus curled his lips, "We'll tell when the time comes." He wasn't sure if the broomstick would be easy enough to learn by then.

They walked around Diagon Alley for a long time, just to find a wand shop. On the way, Charlotte finally spent some of her remaining wizard coins. She bought two ice creams at "Florin Fusco's Ice Cream Shop", One chocolate nut, one strawberry, she slipped Severus the chocolate nut.

Severus had to roll his eyes and eat it at Charlotte's hard look.

Finally, on the south side of Diagon Alley, they saw a wand shop. This shop was small and dilapidated. The gold-lettered signboard on the door seemed to tell everyone about its long history. The signboard read: "Olivan De: Excellent wands have been made since 380 BC".Getting closer, I could see a wand standing alone on a faded purple upholstery in the shop window.

When I entered the store, I saw nothing but a bench in the corner.Thousands of long, narrow cardboard boxes containing wands were stacked floor to ceiling, with a thin layer of dust everywhere.A person came out slowly from behind the counter. He looked at Charlotte with his light-colored eyes. Charlotte walked to the bench in the corner and sat down. He then looked at Xi who was standing in front of the counter. Fleurs said softly, "Is this gentleman going to buy a wand?" He should be Ollivander.

Severus nodded, and Ollivander took out a long tape measure from his pocket as he spoke, "Mister is left-handed or right-handed?"

"Right hand."

"Okay, okay."

Then he took a long measuring tape and floated up by himself, from shoulders to fingers, from wrists to elbows, from shoulders to shoes, from knees to armpits, and even his head...

After the measurement was finished, the long measuring tape flew back into Ollivander's hand. Ollivander began to walk among the shelves and picked out some boxes. He first took out a magic wand from one of the boxes. Putting it in Severus' hands, he took it back, "No, not this one."

"Try this." He picked another one, and Severus picked it up and waved it, and a gust of wind gushed from the tip, and Ollivander snatched it, adding, "Nor this one. You know, wandology is a complex and mysterious science of magic, and the wand always chooses the wizard, not the wizard chooses the wand."

Charlotte just heard this sentence next to her, and she felt a pain in her head. She felt that she had heard this sentence somewhere before, and the magical "sense of sight" came again...

Finally, Mr. Ollivander took another one, and Severus waved the wand in his hand again, and the tip of the wand glowed like gold stars like fireworks.This time Ollivander exclaimed happily, "Yes, this is it. The material is birch, the snake nerve is the core, and it is thirteen and one-half inches long. It is very suitable for you, sir. It is 6 Galleons in total. .”

They finally bought their wands before dark, and they walked across Diagon Alley, through the wall, and past the Leaky Cauldron back into the Muggle world.Looking at the row upon row of high-rise buildings and the endless highway outside, Charlotte suddenly felt that it was a world away. The wizarding world seemed centuries behind the Muggle world...

But in any case, this trip to Diagon Alley opened Charlotte's eyes, and magic is much more interesting than she imagined.Maybe she will come here to play if she has a chance.