Drink Black Tea Calmly at Hogwarts

Mr. Weasley and the three of them came to Zhang Xu to open a broom shop.

With the energy of the Weasley family, it is not difficult to buy a shop in Diagon Alley, but how to run a shop is the first time for their family.

Zhang Xu didn't know much about this, so he just told them about price wars and marketing promotions, and let them figure it out by themselves.

During dinner time, Zhang Xu, the Weasleys, Harry and Hermione had a big meal at the Leaky Cauldron.

After dinner, Zhang Xu gave Hermione a big bag of dried fish to tease the pet cat she just sold.

This was warmly welcomed by Ron, because he thought the cat wouldn't eat his rats after he'd had enough of the jerky. So he also asked Zhang Xu for a pack of dried fish, planning to stuff the cat's mouth with dried fish as soon as he saw it.

After dinner, Zhang Xu went out for a walk.

In Diagon Alley at night, there are occasionally wizards who sell strange things. The distinctive feature of these wizards is that they all wear hoods that make it impossible to see their faces, and they use magic. Changed voice.

And these wizards don't just sell things by pulling a customer on the road, they only sell things to those who also hide their heads.

Not a few steps after Zhang Xu put on the hood, a man with the same hood approached him.

"Brother, do you want poison? Do I have any poison here?" The hooded man whispered to Zhang Xu.

Zhang Xu blocked his throat and didn't spit it out for a long time.

The hooded seller seemed to know what the customer in front of him was thinking, and explained in a low voice: "This herb tastes extremely bitter, and it does not cause any harm to the human body after eating, so it can be used to harm others. But you won't be arrested for it."

Zhang Xu seemed familiar with this poison.

Then the hooded man took out some hay from his sleeve and said, "Preferential price, one Galleon."

Zhang Xu looked at the tranquilizing grass in the hooded man's hand, which was exactly the one he gave to the bookstore manager a few days ago.

Sure enough, there is no shortage of talents in this world to discover business opportunities.

I just hope that he won't meet Hogwarts students who have graduated in the past two years, or he might be beaten up.

After rejecting the hooded man in front of him, Zhang Xu walked around a few more times and found that there was nothing good to buy tonight, so he went back to the Leaky Cauldron to sleep.

Early the next morning, without waiting for the Weasleys, Harry, and Hermione, Zhang Xu took a taxi to the train station by himself.

As soon as he entered the platform, Zhang Xu found a stranger in front of the steam locomotive who was incompatible with Hogwarts students.

The stranger wore new, perfectly tailored wizard robes and carried a suitcase, also new. He has a sick face, but his spirit is very good. He looked young, but his well-combed, light-brown hair was flecked with gray.

"Nice to meet you here, Professor Lu Ping." Zhang Xu stepped forward to greet him.

"Ah, hello, Mr. Zhang." Lu Ping reached out and shook Zhang Xu's hand.

"The new robe fits well." Zhang Xu looked at Lu Ping's robe and said.

"Thanks to Professor Dumbledore, I paid a large amount of salary in advance, otherwise I would have to continue to teach students in a patched robe." Lupine said with a little emotion.

"Beginning this year, we new professors can pay two months' salary in advance before the start of the semester. Now Hogwarts is not short of money, and professors' salaries and bonuses have been rising in recent years. In the past two years, treatment alone The income from Squibs is enough to raise the salaries of professors several times." Zhang Xu said.

"'We'?" Lu Ping caught a certain word in Zhang Xu's words, "Are you going to be the acting professor of a certain course?"

"Yes, but which one specifically,

I knew it at the school opening banquet. Zhang Xu said with a smile, "It's not the acting professor of the Defense Against the Dark Arts class anyway." "

Lupine smiled and said nothing.

The two talked while walking, and came to the last carriage of the train.

After Lu Ping put the suitcase and sat down, he said to Zhang Xu, "Mr. Zhang, how sure are you about the treatment of werewolves?"

After making a fortune in curing Squibs, Dumbledore began to lead Hogwarts into the medical field. And also specially selected "ancestral psoriasis, specializing in the treatment of old Chinese medicine" and other difficult and miscellaneous diseases to start with.

After treating the squib, Dumbledore chose to treat the werewolf, which was more difficult.

A year ago, Dumbledore began to implement the plan of combining traditional Chinese and Western medicine to treat werewolves. Up to now, this plan has achieved phased results, and the only thing left is clinical trials.

Ever since, Lupine was recruited to Hogwarts by Dumbledore as an experimenter and a professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts.

Zhang Xu really doesn't know about this kind of high-end treatment. He still participates in it as a clerk and liaison officer. He can only see from the report that the chance of cure is 80% to 90%.

After receiving Zhang Xu's answer, Lu Ping heaved a sigh of relief.

For so many years, the werewolf problem had made him miserable.

No one wants to hire a werewolf, which makes Lupine, like other werewolves, wandering and working part-time to make ends meet.

If you can get rid of the werewolf state, I believe that most werewolves will pay the full price for it.

After the two chatted for a while, the train drove away with a "dirty..." sound.

Not long after the train drove, the carriage door was pulled.

Lupine turned his head to look in the direction of the car door, and then froze.

Zhang Xu also looked towards the car door and found Harry's trio standing in front of the car door.

"Hey, Harry." Zhang Xu greeted Harry, "This is Professor Remus John Lupine, the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor."

As soon as Harry heard Lupine's name, his eyes lit up immediately, and he walked into the carriage and said to Lupin excitedly, "Professor Lupine, I'm Harry Potter. I heard you are my father's good friend?"

Lupine, who was excited to see the son of his deceased friend, and Harry, who was even more excited, were stunned for a moment, not knowing how to react.

Zhang Xu said from the side at this time: "Professor Scarlet told Harry about the four of you at school."

Zhang Xu and Harry suddenly trembled when they saw Lupine heard the name Scarlett.

This aroused Zhang Xu's desire to gossip. It seems that what Scarlet said about beating the four of them back then was true, and it seemed that the beating was not light.

"Senior Scarlet is really..." Lupine shook his head helplessly and smiled.

After Lupine asked Harry and the three to sit down, Harry couldn't wait to ask about Sirius Black.

After Lupine thought for a while, he told Harry and them the ins and outs of the Potters' murder.

When Zhang Xu was listening to the story, he kept paying attention to Ron's pocket, thinking that if Peter Pettigrew escaped at this time, should he just settle this year's matter on the train.

As a result, the mouse didn't come out until Lupine finished telling the story of the year.

Just then, the train stopped.