Hogwarts Homecoming

Before coming to New York, Amosta had not expected to receive a warm welcome from the Magic Congress of the United States of America. The repeated rejection of Remus's application had shown some problems.

As an unwelcome guest, it was wise to remain low-key and humble, so Amosta turned a deaf ear to the wizards who surrounded his and Remus' residence.

However, this does not mean that Amosta will tolerate all offensive behavior.

What he said in the hotel before about "getting rid of the stalker" was just a joke. If these people really fall behind and follow them wherever they go, Amosta doesn't mind using some unfriendly means to remind them. The bottom line is Where exactly.

Near the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, there are rows of modern buildings as tall as clouds. This is one of the most prosperous business areas in New York. All you can see are No-Maj elites in suits and ties. You can see bright luxury cars everywhere on the road. Amosta stood on the side of the road, listening to the traffic, and his eyes wandered around a building. A tower building, feeling a little bit of the 'modern' city atmosphere where he lived in his previous life.

"Blind Pig Bar--"

Those who were spying on them knew how to behave and did not follow them since they left the hotel. However, Remus still did not dare to let down his guard. He had already felt the unfriendly attitude of the higher-ups of the Magic Congress towards him and Amosta. So, when Amosta loses his wand, he should be responsible for the safety of two people.

Amosta was misunderstood by Amelia in the modern city where he admired No-Majs. She thought he could not find his way out. Although she did not approve of Amosta going to a place where people and animals were mixed, she was only responsible for following Amosta and had no right to stop him from going where he wanted to go.

"When I was studying in Ilvermorny, I heard my classmates discuss it, but they didn't mention the address."

Out of guilt for an innocent person under surveillance and respect for a great magician, Amelia said with a hint of apology and shame.

She is the only local among the three of them, so she should be the guide.

"It's okay, I know where it is."

Amosta smiled and comforted Amelia,

“Some of my friends who sold goods in the past mentioned it to me.”

Take away the goods

Amelia pursed her lips, not knowing how to understand Amosta's words, while Remus's mouth twitched a few times.

Amosta was unaware of the subtle changes in the expressions of the two people. He discovered a dense grove not far away, so he waved to the two people.

"Come on, we need to change our appearance if we want to go there if we don't want to be looked at like monkeys in a circus."

Changing one's appearance is an advanced transfiguration. For safety reasons, Amosta, who lost his wand, did not do it himself. He asked Remus to cast spells for him. Although Amelia was a newly graduated wizard, her grades in each course were poor. She is considered an elite because of her excellence. It is not difficult to change her face.

Perhaps knowing that her delicate appearance would attract attention wherever she appeared, Amelia made her skin color become much darker, grew some freckles on her cheeks, shortened the straight bridge of her nose, and let her long hair tied behind her head grow loose. After opening, it becomes as messy as dead grass.

When she finished the forgery for herself, she looked at Amosta and found that Amosta was pumping air conditioner into the water mirror floating in the air, looking like he had a toothache.

"You made me look like Harry?"

"Oh, actually,"

Remus chuckled and said,

"It's James. Of course, I added a little bit of Sirius. Look, your eyes are gray."

Amosta rolled his eyes and said nothing more. Then he looked at Amelia. When he saw that stunning face turned ordinary, Amosta nodded with satisfaction.

"It looks better this way."

What do you mean it looks more pleasing to the eye? !

The corners of Amelia's mouth tightened suddenly. Her good qualities and strong self-control allowed her to suppress her crazy emotions and not go crazy.

Then, after a disguise, the three of them can finally set off.

Because none of them had been here, they could only use some relatively simple methods, such as No-Maj taxis, to travel. Although it was slow, it was convenient for the two of them to better appreciate this city for the first time. scenery.

"Where do you live, Amelia?"

Taking a taxi is a relatively new and comfortable way of traveling for Amosta and Remus. Amosta asked Amelia with interest in the back seat of the car.

"A neighborhood in Manhattan."

It's not polite to ask about other people's residence. Amelia's face was sullen, but in her heart she didn't object to talking to Amosta about herself.

"I graduated from Ifa. I mean, after I graduated from school, I planned to move out from home, but my parents preferred that I live with them because then they could see me every day."

"You have parents who love you very much."

Amosta nodded slightly, perhaps because he was worried. For a moment, he lost interest in chatting.

In any wizard's base, the environment is always incompatible with the surrounding No-Maj world.

The taxi took the three people through the streets of New York for more than an hour before arriving at Grafton Street. Unlike the new and clean cityscape two blocks away, the street where the Blind Pig Bar is located seems to have been forgotten by people: dirty. Garbage and puddles can be seen everywhere on the decaying roads, and the walls of cold-toned buildings are covered with faded advertisements and missing person notices. Tangled wires formed a cobweb that closed the space. When the three of them walked past an old metal telephone pole, Remus found that the pole had been corroded by the rain and was crumbling.

"It's not quite the same style as ours, isn't it?"

Amelia, who was not a native of the magical world, frowned at what she saw. She didn't believe that wizards were willing to stay in such an degrading place. Remus, on the other hand, smiled and said in a brisk voice, "What he meant was The underground world deep in Knockturn Alley.

Amosta nodded, but did not agree with anything. He raised his head and looked at the top of an old-fashioned six-story building next to him, a rain shelter supported by metal brackets.

"Let's go--"

Amosta looked back,

"The bar should be at the other end of the street. We have to walk a little further."

The three of them walked slowly along the narrow, messy streets, enduring the smell of stinking water accumulated on the bumpy ground. Amosta and Remus were used to this. They had seen worse, but Amelia had always been the same. With a suspicious expression on his face, he thought Amosta might have gone the wrong way.

When Amosta raised his head for the fourth time to look at the messy shelters of the buildings on both sides, Remus finally came back to his senses. He quickly glanced at the awning above, his eyes becoming sinister.

"Is someone targeting us?"

Amelia's arm trembled, and she subconsciously wanted to pull out the wand.

"Don't be nervous--"

Amosta smiled and said,

"Not a wizard, I think... well, maybe an overly curious cat."

A curious cat?

Amelia bit her lip. She was not sure if this was a joke, because in the short time they got together, she discovered that Amosta Blaine had a tendency to 'show off' humor.

Remus did not let down his guard. He had also been in the underground world for many years and knew the behavior of those wizards.

The three of us are strangers to the local snakes here, and we cannot rule out the possibility that a wizard and money-lover who wants to make some windfall will attack them.

The quiet streets deepened Amelia's fear. Suddenly, she realized that although Mr. Graves said that if she could keep an eye on Amosta Brain, she would have the opportunity to become an Auror. In fact, she had not experienced any 'pre-job training' at all.

The job of an Auror was much more dangerous, and not the same thing as working at Mandy's.

"arrive--"

Although he had never been here before, Amosta still found the place accurately. He stopped and faced a short and narrow alley beside the road. At the deepest part was a painted wall.

"We're going in."

Immediately afterwards, Amosta turned around, raised his head again and looked at the dark window hole opposite where the window sash had completely fallen off, and said with a smile,

"Want me to take you in for something to eat?"

Meow!

A cat whistle suddenly came from the dark window, and both Remus and Amelia widened their eyes in surprise. They did not expect that Amosta was not joking just now, there was really a cat following them.

Just when the two of them were surprised, a black shadow suddenly flashed out of the window they were looking at!

The black shadow was extremely fast, rising and falling on the messy external clothes hanger pole like lightning, and then suddenly pounced on Amosta.