Harry Potter’s Raven’s Claw

Chapter 4 Diagon Alley

In the early morning, two people, one big and one small, were walking on the road in Beiyang Keton.

Among them, the tall middle-aged man must be at least two meters tall, while the other is a child, with a thin body and a pair of black-rimmed glasses that cannot be repaired by tape. A pile of weeds piled up on his head, covering his forehead.

Walking on the road, this strange combination attracted the attention of the surrounding pedestrians. Some people even suspected that the child was abducted and sold. After all, the "giant" did not look like a good person.

But no one was meddling, not even calling the police. After all, gang activity is not uncommon for the residents of North Yorkton, but it is rare for them to be as unscrupulous as they are.

These two are Hogwarts gamekeeper Hagrid and Hogwarts freshman Harry Potter.

After a while, the two came to the door of a shack in the woods west of North Yorkton. Hagrid cleared his throat and was about to knock on the door, but the door suddenly opened.

Mike looked at the giant outside the door and recognized Hagrid from Harry Potter at first sight.

Before Mike could speak, Hagrid put down his hand that was about to knock on the door and coughed to ease the embarrassment.

"You're Mike Townley, aren't you? Um... let me see." Halfway through speaking, Hagrid seemed to have forgotten his words, and read a note from the pocket of his heavy coat.

"Abandoned by my parents when I was 2... Escaped from an orphanage when I was 5... Wandering in London so far. Ugh, sorry!"

Realizing that he had actually read the note, Hagrid was even more embarrassed, and hurriedly crumpled the note and stuffed it back into his pocket.

"Well, in short, I'm the gamekeeper at Hogwarts, and this time I'm here to take you to Diagon Alley, Harry."

Mike didn't care about Hagrid's rudeness, and showed a sunny smile.

"It's all right, Mr. Hagrid, and thank you for coming here."

Hagrid didn't talk nonsense. Seeing that Mike knew his intentions, he took Mike and Harry to London.

Harry was nervous all the way and never took the initiative to speak.

He originally thought that Hagrid would use some magical method to take him to the wizarding world. He didn't expect that Hagrid first took him to pick up a new Hogwarts named Mike, and then took the two of them to London by subway. urban area.

Harry is very fond of Mike. After all, Harry had always felt that there was no one more miserable than himself in this world, until he met Mike.

Compared with the experience of the other party, the hardships that I have experienced seem to be nothing.

Of course, it is not denied that Harry still has a little gloating in his heart, but this kind of thinking was quickly suppressed by Harry, and a strong sense of guilt followed. It has to be said that Harry is still very simple.

And Mike is very talkative along the way, always chatting with Hagrid Harry when he has nothing to do.

After the conversation along the way, Hagrid's embarrassment disappeared quickly, and Harry responded to Hagrid and Mike's topic word by word, and he was still nervous.

After a while, Hagrid led them into the Leaky Cauldron.

The Leaky Cauldron is obviously famous as a public entrance connecting the wizarding and Muggle worlds in England.

But as a famous place, it is too dark and dirty here. Several old women were sitting in the corner drinking sherry from small glasses, and one of them was smoking a long pipe. A little man in a top hat is chatting with a bar owner with almost naked hair.

The three of them caught everyone's attention as soon as they entered the door.

Just as he was about to greet Hagrid, the bar owner Tom noticed the two behind Hagrid, and after scrutinizing it for a while, he excitedly stepped forward and held Harry's hand.

"My God! Are you Harry Potter? I'm so honored!"

As Tom's words landed,

The whole bar was boiling, and everyone rushed to squeeze Harry, hoping that the famous Harry Potter would shake hands with him.

Mike noticed one of the figures dressed like India Asam, who was stammering, and he was obviously Quirrell, this year's Defence Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts.

Hagrid was very proud, as if he was being forced to shake hands with everyone. However, he played his accusation, and after driving away the crowd, he took the two to a brick wall behind the Leaky Cauldron.

"Count three dollars up... and two dollars in the horizontal direction..." he whispered. "Okay, stand back, little guys."

He tapped the head of the umbrella three times on the wall.

The brick he had knocked shuddered and began to move, and a small hole appeared in the middle. The hole became bigger and bigger. Before long, there was an archway wide enough for Hagrid to pass, leading to a winding The winding, unending cobblestone streets.

Mike excitedly looked at everything in Diagon Alley, this is the magical world!

Mike and Harry wished they had eight eyes and kept looking around, trying to see everything around them.

Hagrid laughed heartily when he saw that the two of them looked like hillbillies entering the city.

"Don't worry, we'll go to Gringotts to get the money first, and I'll show you around later, Harry." Hagrid noticed Mike beside Harry. "And you, Mike, don't worry. Your school supplies at Hogwarts are all ready for you, we just need to pick them up at Gringotts.

Mike nodded with a smile, he could clearly feel that Hagrid treated him differently from Harry.

While chatting and laughing, they came to a snow-white building towering over the surrounding shops, and the goblins in scarlet and gold uniforms bowed to them beside the shiny bronze gate.

Harry was visibly curious, staring at the goblin.

Seeing that Hagrid was possessed and said something to Harry, he was afraid that the goblin would hear it, so his voice was so low that even Mike, who was standing beside the two, couldn't hear it clearly.

Not long after walking, a silver door appeared in front of the three, with the words written on the door:

Come in, stranger, but beware of what happens to your insatiable greed, and you will be punished the most if you take it for nothing, so if you want to take from our underground vault a piece of wealth that was never yours, thief Ah, you have been warned, beware not treasure, but evil.

Mike dismissed it. He was a bank robber in his previous life, and the bank's warning signs can only scare simple-minded people like Hagrid and Harry.

A few people passed through the gate and came to the hall. There were about a hundred fairies sitting on the high stools behind the long counter. Some used copper scales to weigh coins, some used eyepieces to examine gems, while reading to the large ledger. Register on the grass. There are countless doors in the hall, leading to different places, and many fairy bows lead people to enter and exit these doors. Hagrid and Harry walked towards the counter.

Hagrid had a few words with the goblin at one of the counters and said to Mike, "Mike, just give him the Hogwarts admission letter, he'll give it to you, and Harry and I will do it. Going to the vault to get something."

Mike nodded, watching them walk away led by a goblin.

"Hello, sir." Mike turned back and handed the notice to the goblin.

The goblin didn't speak to Mike, took the notice and looked at it with a magnifying glass for a while, then took out a large box from behind.

Mike opened the box and saw that there were many learning items written on the notice.

But there are traces of use, especially the crucible. The inner wall of the crucible is uneven, the bottom is obviously much thinner than other parts, and there are large black stains on it.

Mike even suspects that its previous user cooked shi with it so that it still stinks to this day.

Mike closed the box and looked at the fairy who was looking down at the gem quality.

"Can you exchange British pounds for Galleons here?"

"Of course, 5 pounds is exchanged for 1 gold Galleon, and the limit is 100 gold Galleons."

The goblin raised his head, a little surprised that Mike, the poor ghost, would ask this.

"Keep it a secret." Mike threw out a small pocket containing pounds of various currencies.

The goblin opened the pocket and counted the coins in it, the speed of which surprised Mike.

After a while, the goblin put a pack of golden Galleons into Mike's hands.

"We have a policy that every Hogwarts student exchange of Muggle money for Galleons must be reported to Hogwarts."

The goblin spread his hands on the counter in a powerless gesture, but the smile on his face betrayed him.

"What a greedy guy." Mike took out 5 gold coins from his pocket and put them in the hands of the goblin spread out on the counter. "Also, tell the big guy who just entered, I'll go shopping around and meet at the Leaky Cauldron Bar."

The goblin got the bribe, and nodded as if pounding garlic.

"Don't worry, sir, you have never exchanged gold Galleons."

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