The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 142 Departure (Please subscribe, collect, and recommend)

When everything was almost bought, Hermione took out his wallet and said, "You know my birthday is in September. This time I have to leave early for Brazil, so my parents gave me some money to buy myself a birthday present. The total budget is fifteen Galleons."

"That's a pretty generous budget," Ryan said. "You're not going to give yourself a book as a birthday present, are you?"

"No, of course not." Hermione denied: "I decided to buy a pet. After all, after two school years, my school life has been on the right track. It's time to consider buying a pet to accompany me."

So the three of them crossed the street and came to the pet store called the Magic Zoo. The space in the store was very small, and cages were hung on every inch of the wall, making the store smelly and noisy. The sounds of various animals mixed together and made people feel headache.

Because a witch had bought a rare bird of paradise, the shop owner was explaining to the witch how to raise it. In this case, the three people could only look at the cages in the store bored.

There are many kinds of pets here, the most common ones are owls and cats, but there are also some uncommon animals, such as a big turtle with a back shell covered with jewels, a fire crab that constantly spews flames from its buttocks, and a blue bird that can constantly transform itself into various flowers.

Finally, the shop owner sent the witch who raised the bird of paradise away, and then found Ryan and his friends waiting there. "What do you need?" the shop owner asked.

After some selection, Hermione bought an owl that looked huge with black and brown feathers. The most special thing about it was that it had long ear feathers on both sides of its head.

"This is an eagle owl." When walking out of the pet shop, Hermione held up the cage to show Ryan and the others. "I thought for a long time between a big orange cat and this one, but I thought about going to a faraway place to study this year. For the convenience of communication, I finally chose this big owl that the owner said can fly intercontinentally."

"Ah, the eagle owl. I know this bird. Some people believe that soaking its bones in wine can heal fractures, so they hunt them." Ryan said as he thought of something.

"That's terrible." Hermione shook her head.

"Of course, in most countries in the Muggle world, there are laws making it illegal to capture them," Ryan added.

After chatting all the way, everyone returned to the Leaky Cauldron and met Neville and his grandmother in the Leaky Cauldron. After seeing them, Mrs. Longbottom came forward to shake their hands and thanked them for helping Longbottom with his lessons last semester, so that Neville's final exam results last semester were relatively satisfactory.

After exchanging pleasantries, Mrs. Longbottom took Nawi to Diagon Alley to buy things, while Ryan and Hermione said goodbye to Harry and took the subway home.

Walking on the road after leaving the subway station, Hermione asked curiously: "What was that magic you used in the bookstore? Why have I never seen it before?"

"That was a centaur's magic, taught to me by Wolfe. At that time, I discovered that these books contained some of the characteristics of living creatures, so I wondered if I could use this magic to soothe life. Anyway, even if this magic fails, it won't cause any harm. In the end, you see, I succeeded." Ryan attributed this magic to the centaur. Anyway, apart from himself, Ryan couldn't find a wizard who could gain the centaur's complete trust.

Hermione accepted Ryan's explanation and said enviously, "Centaurs, a race that can coexist with wizards to this day. I believe they must have their own specialties." "In fact, this is an application of ancient magic. With the birth of modern magic, these spells have gradually become rare among human wizards. But they are still intact in some ancient races."

"So that's how it is. It seems I need more channels to acquire knowledge instead of just staring at books." Hermione nodded in sudden enlightenment.

In the next few days, Ryan packed his luggage at home and wrote to several pure-blood classmates he knew to ask about the news of Castellobruch School of Magic. Soon, these good classmates wrote back, and Neville's letter was the most detailed, which carefully introduced the history of the school and the current specialty subjects. However, these detailed and organized contents did not seem to be summarized by Neville himself, but more like the handwriting of old lady Longbottom.

Think about how old Madam Longbottom is, and how she has to take care of Neville, who is both a father and a mother. She even wrote these things herself to help her grandson build good relationships with his friends. Ryan couldn't help but sigh at her love for her grandson.

On August 27, after a hearty breakfast, Ryan's family set out in their SUV. As soon as they turned the first corner out of the house, they saw Granger's blue Volkswagen SUV parked at the intersection. Yesterday, the two families agreed to set out together today.

At half past nine, Ryan and his friends arrived at King's Cross Station. They sat in the coffee shop at the train station for a while. Until the clock reached a quarter past ten, Ryan and Hermione pushed the luggage cart into Platform Nine and Three Quarters one after the other after listening to their parents' instructions and hugging each other reluctantly.

Maybe because we arrived a little early, on Platform 9 3/4, apart from an old guard, there were only two or three students walking around or sitting on the benches.

However, Ryan found out that they were all senior Slytherin students, so he and Hermione found a bench away from them to sit down, and took out the ancient magic textbook and began to read.

After reading for a while, Ryan discovered that the ancient magic textbooks had the writing and pronunciation of magic, but the most important part of infusing spirits was missing.

No wonder fewer and fewer people are taking this course. Magic words that cannot be infused with spirits can only be said to be a special language and text, and have no magical effect at all. This kind of magic words without the means of infusing spirits have no practical effect after being completed. Naturally, this subject has gradually become a less popular course from one of the basics of magic.

Ryan felt that the current situation was probably a means for the pure-blood families to maintain their family status. If you think about it, you will know that those families are likely to have various ancient magic spells and methods of infusing spirits. The young wizards who can only learn knowledge from school can only rely on simple introductions to explore the methods of infusing spirits. Except for some geniuses, most people's methods are far inferior to the methods summarized by the predecessors of the pure-blood families. This naturally achieves the purpose of the pure-bloods monopolizing knowledge and confirming the advantages of the pure-blood families.

This is the same reason why you rarely learn combat spells in Hogwarts; pure-blood families maintain their status in the wizarding world through control of knowledge.

Half an hour passed as I thought about all these things. Students arrived at the platform one after another. Finally, a humming sound came from afar, and the red steam engine of the Hogwarts Express appeared on the track at the corner.

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