The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 382 Plan (Please subscribe, collect, and vote)
After Ryan returned to 12 Grimmauld Place, he saw Hermione writing a letter.

"Who is this letter for?" "It's for Harry, but Dumbledore doesn't allow us to tell him what's happening in the wizarding world. Even if it's his birthday, I can only send him a simple gift with a greeting card. I don't think he would want to receive this-"

"Damn it, I forgot about Harry's birthday." Ryan suddenly realized. "I was busy making a batch of defense bracelets those days and actually forgot about it."

"Don't worry," said Hermione. "When you were busy at the workbench, I asked if I would like you to send a gift to Harry, and you agreed straight away. So I've sent yours along."

"I forgot about it. I was so busy a while ago." After all, this happened more than a year ago for Ryan, so it was natural that he couldn't remember it clearly. "Thank you, Hermione. If it weren't for you, I would definitely be in a mess this time."

"No, nothing more. Since everyone is so busy, I want to do my part." At this point, Hermione changed the subject a little abruptly. "The headmaster didn't allow us to send a letter to Harry, saying that he was worried that the owl might be hijacked along the way. But I think the core problem is that Harry can see the You-Know-Who's every move, and Dumbledore is worried that the You-Know-Who will see our plan through Harry."

Ryan looked disapproving: "I think Dumbledore's approach of isolating Harry from the wizarding world is wrong."

Seeing Hermione want to refute, Ryan continued: "It is true that the headmaster is a great man, but that does not mean that everything he does is right. As far as I know, Dumbledore has roughly told Harry about the connection between him and the mysterious man last time. But what he said was a bit vague, which made Harry not very clear about the specific situation of himself."

Ryan shrugged his shoulders at this point. "The headmaster may not want to tell Harry this news for his own reasons, but given that the You-Know-Who is so powerful, I'm worried that he will one day discover the spiritual connection between Harry and him, and in this case, the You-Know-Who is likely to use this to set a trap for Harry. In this case, Harry, who knows nothing, is very likely to fall into the trap impulsively. After all, the You-Know-Who is good at grasping people's weaknesses, and countless powerful wizards in that era fell for him. I don't think Harry can see through the You-Know-Who's conspiracy."

"You're right." After listening to Ryan's analysis, Hermione also thought of another aspect of the problem. "The headmaster always wanted to protect Harry out of love for his students, but he is too old and has forgotten the feeling of being young. He didn't take into account that Harry has been staying in the Dursleys' house, who hate him, for a month and is already in a bad mood. If he doesn't hear from us at this time, he will probably feel abandoned by the whole world. In this case, he will be more easily manipulated by the You-Know-Who with too many negative emotions accumulated, which will make the situation worse."

After saying that, Hermione threw the quill aside in annoyance. "What should we do then? We can't just go against Dumbledore's ban, right?"

"It's not good to violate the ban directly, and Professor Dumbledore has been very busy recently, so he probably doesn't have much time to care about these issues." Ryan nodded. "But we can use some roundabout ways, such as going directly to Harry. Anyway, the headmaster only forbids us to write to Harry to tell him about recent events, but he didn't forbid us to go to him."

"You're trying to find a loophole, but now I think this is the only way." Hermione thought about it and nodded helplessly. "The problem is how do we get there? We can't just tell everyone that we're going to look for Harry."

"This is easy, leave it to me." Ryan said confidently. "I have a way to get us through this fair and square."

The solution was simple. Ryan just told Mrs. Weasley that he needed to go out to buy some materials and wanted to go out with Hermione. Mrs. Weasley thought about it and quickly agreed. She just asked the two to tell her before going out and try to get back before the sun sets. "Just tell her? As far as I know, Ron applied to his mother for permission for a long time but didn't get it." After knowing that Ryan could take her out now, Hermione looked at him in surprise.

"Wizards are like this, power comes first. The reason I'm allowed here is that as an alchemist, I play a role no less than other adult wizards, so they naturally treat me as an adult. This means they can't set up all kinds of access restrictions for me like they would for a child. The same goes for the Weasley twins, they already have their own jobs, so Mrs. Weasley naturally won't lock them in the house all day." Ryan explained the problem to Hermione.

"So it's because of you that I, a minor, can go out?" Hermione said with a smile, and playfully lifted her skirt.

"Don't be ridiculous. If a fight breaks out, I estimate that at least one-third of the Death Eaters or members of the Order of the Phoenix would not be your match." Ryan raised his eyebrows. "Okay, let's get ready. We'll go to Diagon Alley twice in the next two days, and then we'll go to Harry's place together next week to take a look."

During the rest of the week, Ryan and Hermione went out twice, each time bringing back a lot of materials from Diagon Alley. Because of this, Dumbledore found Ryan once and told him that he could reimburse him for the money he spent on the materials. However, Ryan refused his kindness and told Dumbledore that he charged according to the finished product, so as to avoid the risk of the Order of the Phoenix bearing the failure of refining.

In fact, the real reason is that Ryan himself has a high success rate when refining these low-level props. If he reimburses the material costs, he would feel embarrassed to ask for a high price for his labor later, so he simply sells the finished products to avoid that kind of entanglement. After all, according to his calculations, if he sells the finished products directly, he can make more money than reimbursing the raw material costs plus processing fees.

It has to be said that a great wizard like Dumbledore has accumulated an astonishing amount of wealth in his more than 100 years of life. Even if Ryan only offered a price of % or % of the market price for the things he made, the price of the alchemical products he made would still be very expensive. But Dumbledore waved his hand and paid for all the alchemical products himself.

By August, when most people in the Order of the Phoenix were accustomed to Ryan and Hermione going out in the afternoon and returning slowly after dinner, Ryan and Hermione took the time to take a bus to Surrey, west of London one afternoon.

"Privet Drive, Little Whinging." After leaving the Leaky Cauldron, Ryan and his friends called a taxi and rushed to Harry's aunt's house. Since his aunt's family didn't like anything related to magic, Ryan and his friends tried their best to make themselves look less like wizards. Fortunately, both of them were born as Muggles, so there would be no mistakes in their dress.

"I hope our visit will make Harry happier this time." Hermione said after getting in the car, "It must be unbearable for a person to live in an environment that is hostile to him, but he has to live there. Harry must have had a terrible time in the past month."

"That's why we have to visit him." Ryan said. "Otherwise I'm worried that he will really go crazy."

(End of this chapter)