The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 250 Invitation (Please subscribe, please collect, please vote)
"Ryan, come down quickly, your classmate Granger is waiting for you downstairs." When Ryan was disassembling and studying a wand, the voice of his mother, Ms. Sally, came from downstairs.

"Got it, I'll be down right now." Ryan put down the half-opened wand in his hand and went downstairs. This wand was the loot from the last time he turned over to the alley and killed the enemy. In addition to more than 30 silver Sickles, more than a dozen copper Knuts and a gold tooth, the only valuable thing Ryan got from the two gangsters was the wands on them.

Ryan got a magic wand after killing the dark wizard disguised as a professor in Brazil, but he didn't disassemble it to study it because he only had this one magic wand without any traces. Now he finally got two more magic wands, so he naturally disassembled them to study the most common, popular and mysterious magic prop in this world. But he had to make other things before, so he took the time to study this now.

When he went downstairs, he found Hermione sitting on the sofa in the living room chatting with her mother. A letter in a parchment envelope was placed on the coffee table in the middle of the living room.

After seeing Ryan coming down the stairs, his mother Sally stood up and said, "Miss Granger is looking for you, you two can chat here." Then she went out to prepare lunch.

Watching Ms. Sally walk into the kitchen, Hermione handed the envelope on the coffee table to Ryan: "Mr. Weasley said that he will come here to pick us up in the afternoon of two days, and he invited us to stay at their house until the end of the summer vacation if we have nothing to do."

"It sounds great to live with a wizarding family for a while. Do your parents agree?"

"Of course I agreed. They are always worried that I don't have enough friends in school, so they encourage me to get along well with my classmates." Hermione shrugged. "Besides, there are many people who need dental treatment during the summer vacation, so they don't have much time to communicate with me."

"I think it's OK for me, because my father is going to China to do some work and visit my grandfather next month, so my mother will go with him. Because they plan to stay in China for two months, they can't take me with them. I was worried about how I would spend this time alone at home."

After saying that, Ryan went to the kitchen to ask his mother. After carefully inquiring about his classmates' situation, his mother approved Ryan's plan to live in the Weasley house until school started.

"Okay, then I'll write a letter and have Hermes take it to Mr. Weasley when I get back." After getting Ryan's affirmative response, Hermione chatted for a while and then said goodbye and left.

The next day, after lunch and a short rest, Ryan said goodbye to his parents. Then he dragged his suitcase to the street garden. After a while, he saw Hermione also dragging a suitcase over.

"Good afternoon." Ryan said hello. "Do you know how Mr. Weasley picked us up?"

"I don't know, but Mr. Weasley said it's a convenient method that we haven't seen before." Hermione looked a little worried. After all, most of the methods of traveling in the wizarding world are not very pleasant.

After sitting on the bench and chatting for a while, a slight snapping sound suddenly came from the woods behind them. Ryan turned his head and looked in the direction of the sound, and saw a thin, tall, bald man in an old suit standing there with a newspaper in his hand.

"Good afternoon, Mr. Weasley." Ryan and Hermione quickly stood up and greeted him.

"Ah, hello." Mr. Weasley said kindly. "I wanted to pick you up by car, but the distance is too far, and Ryan's house doesn't have a fireplace, so I can't use the Floo Network. So I can only use Apparition to take you there."

"Apparition, what is that?" Hermione asked curiously when she heard a word she had never heard before.

"It is a kind of magic that can make wizards disappear from one place and reappear in another place in the blink of an eye. You can also learn it when you are an adult, but only half of the adult wizards can pass the exam and get a license. It is not a simple magic. Every year, there are unlucky people who use this magic before they have mastered it thoroughly and end up hurting themselves." Mr. Weasley shook his head. "But, but we don't know this magic now. Let alone pass the exam to get a license." Hermione thought of something and said.

"Oh, I forgot to mention this. You can Apparate with me. Just hold onto my arm. I'll take you there when I Apparate. Now, which of you two will go first?"

"Me." Ryan dragged his suitcase towards Mr. Weasley.

"This is a very gentlemanly behavior, Ryan. It may be a little uncomfortable when the entourage appears, but it will pass soon if you bear with it. By the way, put the luggage here first, I will come back to get the suitcase after I drop you two off." Mr. Weasley said gently. "Okay, now hold my left arm, remember to hold it tightly."

Ryan grasped Mr. Weasley's outstretched left forearm.

"Let's go." As soon as he finished speaking, Ryan felt that Mr. Weasley's arm seemed to be trying to break free from his hand, so he quickly grabbed it more tightly as instructed. Then he found that the surroundings became pitch black. He was strongly squeezed from all directions and couldn't breathe at all. However, this was much less than the pressure after the escape route was activated last time.

Soon he felt his feet on the ground, and a crooked building that could have made Newton climb out of his coffin stood in front of him. There were four or five chimneys on the red roof, and a sign was inserted diagonally in front of the house, which read "The Burrow". A few fat brown chickens were pecking at food in the yard.

"We're here. It's really great that you've made your first appearance as a follower." Mr. Weasley said to Ryan, whose face was only slightly pale. "Wait here for a moment. I'll bring Hermione over right away."

After everyone arrived, Ryan and the others pulled their suitcases and walked towards the Burrow. After knocking on the door, a fat middle-aged woman opened the door.

"Ryan, Hermione, welcome. Thanks to you for your help with Fred and George's OWLs exams this time, otherwise I can imagine how badly they would have done."

"This is actually mainly due to their own efforts. It's just that they have never been able to give themselves a reason why they should study. The most we can do is to help them find the motivation to study." Ryan said modestly to Mrs. Weasley.

As they talked, they walked into the house. The house was not big. There was a small kitchen after the door. A clean wooden table and a few chairs were squeezed in the open space in the middle. On the wall opposite the kitchen, there was a clock with only one needle and no numbers. The clock face read "make tea", "feed the chickens", "you're going to be late" and so on. There were three layers of books on the mantelpiece. Judging from the titles on the spines, they were all magic books related to housework.

"It's amazing." Ryan heard Hermione say beside him.

"Our house, um - maybe a little cramped. It's not as spacious as yours." Mr. Weasley said a little embarrassedly.

"But it's warm here, and you can tell it's a real home. That's good enough," Ryan replied.

This is not Ryan's flattery, but his sincere praise. After all, among the many families in the original book, the Weasley family is definitely one of the good families.

(End of this chapter)