Hufflepuff never works overtime

So speaking of this year's gift to Hermione, she is not ready yet...

By coincidence, Faise just walked into the owl shop with her hands full of things.

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The author's words:

Because it involves shopping in Diagon Alley, I wrote a rough galleon conversion. The detailed content is in the work. If you are interested, you can take a look~

Here is a simple notation: 1 Galleon ≈ 100 RMB, 1 Sickle ≈ 5 RMB, 1 Nat ≈ 0.2 RMB

There is another update tonight (*/ω＼*)

Chapter 80 The Owl Shop

The creator must have spent a lot of thought to create such a handsome and cute animal like an owl.

Big round eyes with a small beak, soft and fluffy feathers wrap the graceful curves of the body, and they show full deterrent force when they spread their wings.

If only they were as cute for their price as they look...

Faise sighed silently, but it was obviously not the shortcoming of these cute little guys, it was her own problem.

She had already walked around the store twice, and the cheapest owl in the store cost 8 Galleons, and some with inexplicable certificates even cost as much as 40 Galleons.

The money bag in her hand would occasionally make the sound of gold coins rubbing against each other and colliding with each other when she was walking around. Faise felt that her heart was also under the watchful eyes of these little guys, as if she was about to compromise.

I still have so much money, it doesn't matter if I use some of it to buy gifts for Hermione, right?

But I haven't asked her if she likes owls, so I just bought it...

The villain representing reason popped out of his head, 'Hermione didn't bring her pet to Hogwarts in her first year, maybe she didn't want it!And keeping a pet requires parental permission, you don't know Mrs. Granger's attitude! '

Alas... The tentative seedling that had just grown in her heart was cut off in the middle, and Faith decided to leave this place that made her unable to hold back as soon as possible, and she started again—this time towards the door. .

"goo"

The owl behind it seemed to have noticed that the prey that had been delivered to its mouth was trying to escape. As an excellent catcher, it immediately uttered a crisp cry with its round abdomen.

It's keeping me!It likes me very much!

Yes, this is an illusion that everyone who has ever been to a pet store or encountered a little wild cat scratching his pant leg on the street, especially when the little animal is still very cute.

Faith stopped in her tracks, and she turned around silently to look at the majestic owl with long sideburns, who also stared at her with big eyes.

"Goo!" it barked again, and even tilted its head at her.

If you just touch it, it shouldn't matter, right?

Faith transferred the things in both hands to her left hand, and then carefully stretched out one of her fingers to tentatively approach the other. Her movements were very slow, and if it showed any resistance or fear, it would directly move The hand is retracted.

Just a little bit!

The slowly approaching fingers seemed to be able to feel the fluffy and soft touch, and the owl even adjusted the angle of its head to make it easier for her to touch it.

An old voice suddenly sounded in her ears, like a thunderbolt struck her mind, "It must be a mistake, this Miss Wizard."

"Yes, sorry!"

Faise quickly withdrew her hand, her face flushed instantly, she didn't even hear what the other party said next, she just apologized and rushed out of the shop.

Ah... This is really embarrassing. If I run slower, I probably won't be able to escape the salesman from the clerk and will agree to buy it.

Faith walked towards the bookstore in a hurry, and she even began to wonder if the shops opened by these wizards were filled with enchanting agents, luring customers to offer the Galleons in their pockets.

Although she complained so much about the evil intentions of the businessman in her heart, she couldn't help but think about it.

In fact, last year's magic robe can still be worn by herself, and she doesn't need to change it every year. She has grown a little taller in the past year, but fortunately, wizards mainly wear cloaks and robes. Don't need to worry about the problem of not being able to wear it.

After the money she had just spent at the Potions shop, she had close to 60 Galleons left, so maybe after she bought her textbooks and wand, she would have enough money to buy Hermione an owl for her birthday!

Of course, this is based on testing the other party's ideas for a while, if you don't feel disgusted.

As for the pocket money after school starts...that's not important, anyway, that's something I should worry about after school starts.

Finally, under the temptation of all the crowd, Faise struggled to break out of the encirclement and came to the door of Lihen Bookstore. She was about to open the door to enter, when a pair of black robed father and son walked out with gloomy expressions.

With a cold look, pale complexion, and the arrogance that seems to be unable to walk without holding his head up, this should be Malfoy and his father...

Malfoy and his son didn't even bother to give her a look, and left the bookstore one after the other.

Faith didn't care, and she was even a little thankful that she came at the right time. She didn't want to meet these weird people from pure-blood families and be ridiculed for no reason.

Oops... Hermione wouldn't be in conflict with them, would she?

Thinking that Mrs. Granger and the little lion should still be waiting for her in the shop, Faith hastily opened the door and walked in.

To her relief, as soon as she entered the store, she could see Ron with an exaggerated expression talking to Harry and Hermione, while Mrs. Granger was communicating with a red-haired man.

Great, it seems that the ones who were driven out should be Malfoy and his son.

Faith stepped forward and patted each other's shoulders, then nodded to Harry and Ron, "What a coincidence, you two, are you also here to buy books for next semester?"

"Well, I came with Ron." Harry nodded to her as well.

"Long time no see, Orest," Ron pointed to the people behind him, "Ginny, my sister, she is going to enter Hogwarts next year, and my brother and my parents are also coming with me .”

"Hi, nice to meet you, Faith Orest."

Faith showed a slightly cautious smile to the girl who was shorter than herself, but Ginny's response seemed much more comfortable, maybe she had heard about herself from Ron?

Several people separated soon after greeting each other. Harry and Ron's family had other things to buy, and she and Hermione would stay in the bookstore for a while.

"You really spent a lot of time this time..."

Hermione took the package from Faith, tried to find a suitable angle to stuff it into the satchel, and asked half-jokingly and half-concernedly, "Did you encounter any difficulties when withdrawing the money? Can you help me?" If you are busy, you can just tell me."

"No... because the various shops along the way just now are so attractive. I also visited a lot of other things besides the potion shop, so I came here a little late." Fey felt a little embarrassed. He touched the back of his head.

"There are indeed a lot of novelty things here," Hermione nodded in agreement. "When my mother went to change money just now, I had been visiting an owl shop. I didn't come here with him until I met Harry."

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The author's words:

I wanted to compare the family backgrounds of several people on a whim. The source of the data this time may not be too sophisticated. It is mostly due to the combination of Zhihu analysis and network data.

【No.1】Granger's House

Dentists are also quite high-income groups in the UK.

查了一下近几年英国正式牙医的年收入基本在5万到27万英镑之间（平均11万英镑左右），顺带一提英国工薪阶级平均年收入在3万英镑左右（约2700加隆）

Assuming that Hermione's parents are both dentists with an average income, according to the formula, the annual income of the Grangers at that time was about 2 Galleons...

So the Grangers were really, really rich.

【No.2】Porter's House

After reading some estimations by Zhihu (and counting the number of gold coins that appeared in the movie...), the monetary property left by Harry's parents is about [-] to [-] Galleons.

Of course, this does not include those magic props. There should be a lot of magic props, and the value will be very high. There is even a Deathly Hallows...

After all, he is a descendant of a pure-blooded family, and there is still some background in this.

The reason why the Potter family was placed behind the Granger family is that Harry is still eating his own money, and he cannot produce it himself.

【No.3】Orest House

Compared with the first two, Faise is more pitiful...

Mother Irene has a serious job, but her salary is not comparable to that of Granger's family. After her husband passed away, she needed someone to raise her daughter and moved house once.

After his father Apetos left the family, he went to Voldemort as an undercover agent. You can't expect Voldemort to pay him a salary...

And when he broke away from the family, it was impossible to move the treasury away, he just took away some collections of the rabbi and himself (just graduated from school, it is impossible to have too many good things)

Rabbi, the real reason for ensuring Faith's quality of life is that if Irene doesn't allow it to use magic to do illegal things, it can even turn the little master into a super rich man overnight.

Of course, the price is that it is very likely to be caught...

【No.4】The Weasleys

The Weasley family is really...too miserable. According to the description in the book, before the Chamber of Secrets part was won, their family's deposit was only 1 Galleon + a pile of silver Sickles

Because I have to pay for the purchase of school supplies for the three children in the family, the total amount of savings is estimated to be around 200 Galleons...

It can be seen how much the middle-level civil servants in the Ministry of Magic have to earn money. Of course, part of the reason is that there are too many children in the Weasley family, and only Mr. Weasley works alone.

Although JK Rowling said in an interview that the tuition fees for Hogwarts are borne by the Ministry of Magic, it is clear that food expenses, accommodation expenses, commuting fares, and various miscellaneous items are also a considerable amount of expenses.

Chapter 81 Gilderoy Lockhart

"Are you going to raise an owl?" Faith asked curiously.

Hermione glanced at Mrs. Granger who was about to leave the bookstore, and shook her head, "I really want to, but Mom doesn't think it's necessary. After all, an owl is quite expensive, and I can borrow it for free at school. Owl, and there are not so many urgent things to contact."

She took out a few Galleons from her robe, "Mom just gave me some pocket money, which can be used to buy what I want, but I went to the owl shop and looked around and felt that it wasn't enough. So I’m going to buy some books in the bookstore.”

Faith nodded thoughtfully. If Hermione is not disgusted, and even wants to raise an owl, then it is the best choice to accompany her to choose today.

Already imagining what kind of owl to choose, and the happy look of the little lion after receiving the gift, Faith suddenly became excited, and she even wanted to take him to the owl shop right now.

"By the way, Hermione, what are these people doing here?"

Faith stood on her tiptoes curiously, trying to see what they were looking at from between the various wizard hats. Could it be that they were queuing up to pay?Do all witches like to read books so much?

"Hum~"

Hermione took a book out of her satchel. On the cover, a man in a rather flirty bag was posing constantly, "Hurry up and finish buying the book and go to queue, Mr. Lockhart is here today When you get there, you can ask him to sign the book!"

She couldn't wait to open her book, and showed the title page in front of Faise, on which was a ghostly character that took up an entire page.

"Can this be called a signature?"

Faith looked at it with a bit of distaste, let Sonny's paws be stained with ink, and crawl casually on the paper, it probably looked much better than this.

"What does it matter? This shows that Mr. Lockhart's words are as uninhibited as his own experience!" Hermione held the book in her arms, her expression looked very intoxicated, she was like a fanatic Star chasing kids think that idols are good in everything.

"Stop reading his books, Hermione..." Faith shook her head helplessly, "I'm afraid you will lose your mind and become an idiot. You should also realize that not all autobiographies are true."

Hermione piled the books on the side into Faise's hands one by one, and said indifferently, "You just tend to think too much, Mr. Lockhart is a teacher hired by Principal Dumbledore, and his autobiography is even textbook!"

After stacking the last book, Hermione nodded in satisfaction, "How can such a person be a liar?"

Faith's hands were suddenly stuffed heavily, and the expression on her face hidden behind the book was very dissatisfied, "Last year, Principal Dumbledore applied for Professor Quirrell, and I don't think this Mr. Lockhart is doing well. Where are you going?"

"Anyway, you don't believe what I say. You'll know when you meet him in person and have a few chats with him."

No... I had no intention of asking him to sign for me at all...

Faise silently refuted the other party in her heart, but she didn't choose to say the words out, she just barely exposed her head from the side of a pile of books, and gestured to the bookshelf next to her with her eyes.

"Hermione, can you pass me the book "Standard Spells, Level [-]"? The version of the book at home is different. I thought it was a bit weird when I was in class last year. This year I still use the same one as you guys." All right."

"Let me get some for you." Hermione quickly found the book on the bookshelf, and by the way, she divided the book in Faise's hand and held it in her arms, saving the other party's blocked vision.

The two walked to the cashier together. Fortunately, the crowd was just watching Mr. Flower Peacock, and no one was queuing up to buy books.

"How much are these in total?"

"46 Galleons, thank you for your patronage." The clerk glanced briefly and said to Faith.

"what?!"

Faith felt her hands holding the bag tremble, almost letting the coins fall to the ground, "Why is it so expensive?"

"Son, Mr. Lockhart's books are all excellent, and the price of a book is 5 Galleons."

Merlin's beard, what kind of bad luck has happened to me...

Faith couldn't help wailing in her heart, she might as well let Professor Quirrell teach, at least then her wallet can survive.

"What's the matter, Fay?"

Hermione noticed that she stood stupidly on the cash register for a while, worried that the other party had encountered some problems, walked up to Faise and asked, "Didn't you get enough money?"

"No..." Faith shook her head stiffly, "I just didn't expect these books to be so expensive."

She pulled out a book with a purple cover and said to herself, "I already had a copy of this as a gift last year, so I just need to buy the rest..."