A day at Hogwarts

The environment of Charing Cross Road in London is not very good. If it weren't for the entrance of Diagon Alley, Charles felt that he would never come here in his life.

The letter said that we would meet here at 11 o'clock, and the old and the young came here half an hour earlier to chat with each other.

Jack asked Charles: "Do you want any pets?"

Charles replied, "Vela."

Old Jack was silent for a moment, pulled him and said, "Come on, let's go to Azkaban, I'll book you a suite, and I'll let the dementor prepare a sheep for you."

Charles' face darkened suddenly, because the old man picked him up in Wales.

"Yeah! Charles!"

At this time, a few people came over, and the one who greeted Charles was a girl with buck teeth, followed by the Grangers, and Professor Meow.

Hermione ran over slowly, and happily said to Charles: "I didn't expect that you are also a witch... and go to the same middle school as me!"

She remembered the day when Dumbledore said the name Charles Smith, she and her parents were stunned.

Charles looked surprised, and said with a smile: "I didn't expect to be waiting for you, we can be classmates again."

At this time, he heard the old man say solemnly: "Hello, beautiful lady, I am Charles' grandfather Jack Smith, may I have the honor to know your name?"

Charles raised his head and watched in surprise as the old man greeted Professor McGonagall like a gentleman in the last century. He was not so enthusiastic when he was getting close to the voters before.

Meow meow, what's going on?

Professor McGonagall seemed a little embarrassed, Charles gave the old man a light kick, and then asked her: "Hello, are you a professor from Hogwarts?"

With his interruption, Professor McGonagall introduced himself calmly: "Hello, Mr. Smith, Charles, I am Minerva McGonagall, the vice-principal of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and also the head of Gryffindor and the transformation art professor."

"Oh, Transfiguration?" Jack made a surprised look, "Is it changing one thing into another? If Charles doesn't obey, you can turn him into a sheep and let him eat grass three times a day." .”

He thought he was being humorous, but he frightened the Grangers, fearing that he was sending out a daughter and coming home a white sheep.

Professor McGonagall replied seriously: "Hogwarts no longer uses transfiguration as a means of punishing students."

"Really?" Jack seemed disappointed, "What a pity."

Charles rolled his eyes while listening.

Everyone knew each other, and Professor McGonagall took them to the Leaky Cauldron. On the way, Jack and Mr. Granger made an appointment to take Charles to check his teeth tomorrow.

The Leaky Cauldron is dark and dirty, the decoration style and the clothes of the guests are very simple, making visitors who come here for the first time think that they have traveled back in time and returned to the Middle Ages.

At one table sat a pale man with a thick turban on his head, nodding nervously in greeting to Professor McGonagall.

The Grangers just glanced at him indifferently, and Charles and Jack looked at him a little longer, with inexplicable smiles on their faces.

The crowd walked through the Leaky Cauldron, and Professor McGonagall tapped three times with his wand on a brick on the wall. As the brick moved by itself, a street appeared in front of everyone.

"Welcome to Diagon Alley." Professor McGonagall said to everyone.

Perhaps it was because of the presence of the Smith family. Although the Granger family was a little nervous, they seemed relatively calm, talking in low voices about the cauldrons, owls and broomsticks sold in the store.

Charles looked around curiously, talking to Hermione from time to time.

Jack walked side by side with Professor McGonagall, asking her any questions.

"No, no!" Professor McGonagall shook his head in answer to one of Jack's questions, "First-year students are not allowed to bring their own broomsticks to school."

Jack said emotionally: "Charles' birthday will be in a few days, and I will never forget the night I picked him up from the trash can on the side of the road. He was so thin and small, and he seemed to have no breathing .”

"This child managed to survive and has not been separated from me for so many years. I regard him as my own grandson. Now that he is leaving me, I want to give him a gift."

"He has liked airplanes since he was a child and wanted to be a pilot when he grows up. I think he will definitely like the flying broom."

"I have no intention of challenging the school rules. How about leaving this broom to you for safekeeping? You can give it to him when he can sit and fly."

Charles heard a black thread behind him.

After hearing what he said, Professor McGonagall thought for a while and said, "Well, this broom was first deposited with the dean of his college during his first year."

At this time they came to a snow-white building, and Professor McGonagall said, "Gringotts is here."

Everyone saw a goblin dressed in red and inlaid with gold standing beside the bronze-colored gate. They couldn't help but look at it a few more times and discussed it in a low voice. Only Jack turned a blind eye.

Professor McGonagall asked him strangely: "Have you seen goblins before?"

Jack replied, "After seeing you, I wouldn't be surprised to see a fire-breathing dragon."

Professor McGonagall froze for a moment, then said calmly, "Sorry."

After speaking, she went to lead the Granger family through the bronze gate.

Charles and Jack, who were pulling behind, whispered, "Respect yourself."

As a result, he was glared at by the old man.

With the help of Professor McGonagall, the family quickly exchanged pounds for Galleons, Sickles, and Knuts.

The old man directly took out a few stacks of pounds from his vest and put them on the table. As a result, Charles was tired of holding the gold coins.

After exchanging good money, the first thing to do is naturally to buy a magic wand.

Jack wanted to see through the Muggle business, so he didn't bring out his wand, which made no difference to him anyway.

Everyone walked into Ollivander's wand shop, and Ollivander immediately came out from behind the counter to meet the customers.

Here two newbies are picking wands. Jack is there asking Professor McGonagall about all kinds of knowledge about wands. He looks like a studious student.

This time even the Grangers saw the problem and stepped aside consciously.

Jack asked so seriously that he had to end the conversation until Charles came over and told him that the wand was ready.

"Buy it?" Jack was taken aback, "What kind?"

Silently, Charles showed him his new wand, which he had just called out to him.

The body of this wand is made of yew, and the core is phoenix feather. It is a little over 18 inches long, which is 460 millimeters in conversion.

Ollivander came over to explain Charles' wand to Jack, as he does when Muggle students buy wands: "Your grandson's wand is the longest in over a hundred years, and the last one who held a wand of similar length A man... whose name I dare not say, but a very powerful man. Yew wands are very rare, rarely used by wizards, their ideal owner is unusual, and it will give the bearer The power to control life and death. The core of this wand is phoenix feathers. Phoenixes are very proud and they will not submit to others easily. The feathers of this wand come from extraordinary sources. It is not the phoenix raised by Dumbledore. It is said that a hundred years ago, a great person asked my ancestors to make a magic wand with a phoenix feather core, which is the other magic wand that is said to be extremely long, and this feather is the reward."

"The owner chooses the wand, and the wand also chooses the owner. The characteristics of the two are similar. Your grandson will become a great wizard in the future!"

A bright smile appeared on Jack's face when he heard this, and he gave a few extra gold coins when paying.