The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 410 Return to London
Hermione also felt a little regretful about this trip, but she comforted Ryan that there would be plenty of opportunities to go out together in the future. This comfort made Ryan feel much more comfortable.

After booking a flight back to the UK for the next day at the hotel front desk, the two went to bed early. At 12 noon the next day, they showed up at London Heathrow Airport with tired faces.

"You can sleep on my shoulder for a while." Ryan said to Hermione next to him after getting on the subway to King's Cross. Hermione naturally leaned over and rested her head on Ryan's shoulder. They got up at five o'clock this morning because the heavy snow in Moscow blocked the road, so they had to leave early to avoid being stuck on the road and missing the plane.

The subway was quiet and running smoothly. Hermione fell asleep quickly until Ryan woke her up.

"Are we at our stop?" Hermione asked, rubbing her eyes.

"Yes, we're at King's Cross Station. We'll take the subway directly to Sirius' ancestral home. The Weasleys and Harry all live there." Ryan saw that Hermione was a little confused, so he handed her a wet wipe and asked her to wipe her face to wake up.

After they walked up the steps to Room 12 in Isolation Square and knocked on the door, Mrs. Weasley soon opened the door for them. "Oh, dear, you should have a good time in Russia. There is no need to rush back at this time. Arthur's injury is not fatal, and the healer said that he has found a solution to the snake venom."

After saying that, Mrs. Weasley looked at Ryan and said, "This time, it was all thanks to the defensive bracelet you sold to the Order of the Phoenix. Arthur said that the defensive bracelet helped him block the most fatal first blow and prevented the snake from biting his chest. Thank you so much for saving him."

"This is what I should do. I made these things and sold them to them so that they could be useful in times like this." Ryan said after hugging Mrs. Weasley, "Can you show me the bracelet? I want to know how the python broke the defense on the bracelet with one blow."

"You've come all the way here and you're going straight to work without even a rest. It's really..." Mrs. Weasley seemed a little embarrassed, but at Ryan's insistence she took the bracelet out of the cabinet in the living room.

Unlike the copper bracelets sold in the store before, the defensive function of this batch of bracelets for the Order of the Phoenix has been strengthened. To achieve this goal, Ryan chose to mix refined silver with a little bit of goblin-refined silver to make silver wire, and then twisted it with Valyrian steel wire and used the filigree process to weld the runes woven from these metal wires to the silver bracelet body. There are also many purple crystals on it to power the defensive magic.

The defense of the bracelet made in this way is not weak. Even if a one-ton iron block falls from a five-story building, it will not destroy the pop-up protective shield. Ryan really couldn't figure out how the snake of ordinary size could bite through the defense.

But when Mrs. Weasley handed over the bracelet wrapped in a handkerchief, the problem became more complicated. Ryan opened the handkerchief and saw that the entire silver bracelet was pitch black, and the previously transparent crystal became turbid. Theoretically, the bracelet would not become like this if the physical defense was destroyed. There must be something he didn't know.

"It was like this when I took it off Arthur's hand," Mrs. Weasley said as Ryan examined the bracelet. "And Arthur told me that he felt it get very hot when the protective barrier was broken."

"Thank you, this information is very useful to me." After that, Ryan asked Mrs. Weasley: "Is the laboratory I built here during the previous summer vacation still there?"

"Of course." Mrs. Weasley nodded. "Since no one knows what some of the things you put there are for, Sirius simply sealed the room with magic. I'll ask him to open the seal." After saying that, Mrs. Weasley left in a hurry. "You must be tired from running around these days, so go and rest. See you at dinner." Looking at Mrs. Weasley's back as she left, Ryan turned his head and said to Hermione.

"Ha--yawn--" Hermione yawned, looking exhausted. "Okay, I'm going back to my room upstairs to sleep now. Don't make yourself too tired. See you this afternoon." After saying that, she went upstairs with her luggage. Ryan went to the alchemy laboratory that was converted from the food storage room in the basement.

After greeting Sirius at the door of the laboratory, Ryan went straight into the laboratory. The sealing magic used by Sirius was very effective. After three or four months, there was not even a speck of dust on the equipment.

"Oh Thoth, God of Wisdom, let everything before you show the truth, and show the traces left on this bracelet." Ryan began to recite an alchemical spell he had learned from the Hogwarts library in ancient Coptic. At the same time, he used his magic wand to write ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic runes in the air.

Under the effect of magic, the bracelet on the table projected a shadow upwards. Then the shadow moved and began to restore how it was destroyed bit by bit. Ryan was shocked to find that the bracelet was severely overloaded at the moment the protective shield was destroyed, and then it burned up as a whole.

"It seems that Nagini's venom is not just a simple biological weapon, it also contains powerful magical damage. Now the question is, is this an ability that the snake itself possesses or is it produced after Voldemort placed his own soul fragment on it?" Ryan thought after looking at the experimental results.

Unfortunately, there is probably only one snake like Nagini in the world, so there is no data to support Ryan's conjecture. But Ryan also figured out why Snape gave up treatment after being bitten by Nagini in the original text: on the one hand, he really didn't have much survival consciousness at the time, and on the other hand, it might be because Nagini injected more venom after Snape was bitten. As a potion master, he immediately judged that the antidote he had on hand could not remove the snake venom, and it would definitely be too late to prepare it now.

Otherwise, as a master of potions, Snape must have a lot of advanced antidotes on him. In this case, if the venom was easy to deal with, Snape would not have died in the end.

However, because of this incident, Ryan also found that his previous design was still a bit conservative, so he began to design a new generation of protective props with stronger defense power directly in front of the alchemy table. However, it is a very difficult challenge to integrate more powerful defense on a bracelet while suppressing the price to a suitable level. Ryan devoted himself to it all afternoon. It was not until dinner time that he was awakened from his deep thoughts by Mrs. Weasley's knock on the door.

"Anyway, this thing can't be done overnight, so let's go eat first." Ryan thought about it, packed up the things in front of him, went out, turned left and walked towards the kitchen.

At the kitchen door, the Weasley boys all ran over to hug Ryan, thanking him for the defense bracelet he had made earlier and saving their father.

Dinner was prepared by Mrs. Weasley and Krecher together. It was delicious, especially the homely taste of the meal, which touched Ryan and Hermione a lot as their parents were not around.

In short, although Ryan was very tired after today's journey, this dinner made all his tiredness disappear. Looking at everyone chatting and laughing at the table, he felt that this might be the power of home.

(End of this chapter)