The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 485: Depressed Diagon Alley
Ten minutes later, the colorful mist surrounding Jill gradually faded as she absorbed it and then disappeared. Jill quickly regained consciousness, but the moment she regained consciousness, she hugged Rose Crystal tightly with her eyes blank and burst into tears. "I swear I have never done anything bad, don't throw me away."

After hearing Ryan's explanation, Rose Crystal immediately knew that Jill's counterpart in this world might not be a good person. She struggled out of Jill's arms with some difficulty, and then flew to a place where she could look Jill in the eye and said seriously word by word: "What you see is only the history of another you in this world. Don't confuse her with yourself. In my eyes, you are just my daughter. You don't need to bear the sin that does not belong to you."

Ryan and Hermione also smiled and nodded to Jill. Seeing all this, Jill smiled with tears on her face. She now truly felt that this was her real home.

After everyone calmed down, Ryan and his friends packed up and used Apparition to come to London. Fortunately, the Apparition learned in China was somewhat different from that in the UK, so the Ministry of Magic could not track them. Before leaving, Hermione wanted to change Jill's clothes, but Jill declined. She showed a smile that suited her age and spun around in place. The ragged cloak turned into a beautiful black windbreaker with simple silver patterns.

After arriving in London, they decided to have lunch first and then go out to play on the street. In the afternoon, they went to Diagon Alley to have dinner. Jill was full of curiosity about this modern London. Whether eating or shopping, she kept asking Rose Crystal about this and that. And Rose Crystal patiently answered them one by one.

The four of them walked around Oxford Street and then left for Diagon Alley. There were still about ten days left before the start of school. On August 8, they had already received a list of books mailed from the school. Now they could take advantage of today to buy everything they needed.

After passing the Leaky Cauldron and arriving at Diagon Alley, they were surprised to find that it was completely different from before. The colorful spell books, potion ingredients and cauldrons that were originally displayed in the windows were no longer visible. They were covered tightly by large notices posted by the Ministry of Magic. Most of these intimidating purple notices were enlarged versions of the safety warnings in the pamphlets distributed by the Ministry of Magic during the summer vacation. Some notices were printed with black and white photos of wanted Death Eaters.

There were several shops with broken wooden boards on their windows, such as Florin Fosco's ice cream shop and Ollivander's wand shop. The whole street looked run down, and the many shabby stalls that suddenly popped up on both sides of the street only exacerbated this feeling.

"To ward off evil spirits?" Ryan looked at the long string of silver mascots on chains placed under the sign on the stall. "There are people who try to take advantage of the situation everywhere. I guarantee that these things—"

"It has absolutely no effect," Jill added confidently, picking up a mascot.

The people on the street also showed a certain uneasiness, just like the surrounding street scenes. Many passers-by had worried and anxious expressions on their faces, and no one stopped to talk. The shoppers were in groups of three or five, rushing straight to what they wanted to buy. It seemed that no one was shopping alone.

"No wonder Ginny said that Diagon Alley is not as attractive as it used to be. It's like there are 100 Dementors here. I can't feel any happiness at all." Hermione muttered as she looked at the bleak street scene. Ginny had written a letter to Ryan and his friends after she went shopping. Ryan and his friends thought that as the only commercial street in the British wizarding world, it shouldn't be as bad as what was written in the letter. But now it seems that the situation of Diagon Alley is even worse than what was written in the letter.

Under such circumstances, they were naturally in no mood to go shopping. After hastily buying the robes, potions, textbooks and even owl food they needed, the four of them left Diagon Alley as quickly as possible. However, just as they were passing the Leaky Cauldron, a man in a black robe who was drinking stood up and followed them.

"Someone is following us." Jill came over and whispered after getting on the bus. Ryan nodded. Before getting on the bus, he noticed a sneaky guy trying to follow them. "Pretend that we didn't notice him. It's too easy to hurt innocent people if we take action in this place. Let's try to lead him away and capture him to see what we can get out of him."

So Ryan and the other three pretended they saw nothing and drove towards the East End. When the sun was about to set, they arrived at the South Asian immigrant community in East London. This place was chaotic enough for Ryan and his friends to catch the stalker without attracting attention.

The man behind them obviously also wanted to find a chaotic place to catch Ryan and his friends. He followed quietly all the way, and only stood up from his seat and followed them when Ryan and his friends got off the bus. There were not many people on the streets in this area after dark. Ryan and his friends hurriedly walked along the main road for a distance and suddenly turned to a small alley. The man in black robes behind them was stunned for a moment and then hurriedly caught up with them. When he rushed into the alley, he found that the four preys he had been tracking were gone. He thought it was not good and was about to retreat when he felt something hit the back of his head. Then his eyes went black and he lost consciousness.

"Well done." Ryan gave Jill a thumbs up, and Jill looked down shyly. Just now, they used the ghosts' ability to transform from real to virtual to allow Jill to transform into a virtual body and hide in the wall, and then jump out of the wall to attack the pursuer after he catches up. Now it seems that this tactic is very good.

The next step was interrogation time. The four men dragged the stalker to an empty corner, set up necessary magical defenses around him, and then began interrogating him. They had originally planned to ask him gently, but after removing the clothes on the stalker's left arm and seeing the Death Eater mark, they immediately decided to torture him to extract information as quickly as possible.

Jill volunteered to take over the task. After she conjured cold water to wake the man up, she used a short dagger to chop off the Death Eater's fingers one by one. This Death Eater was much more fragile than expected, and he had no will to remain steadfast. He confessed everything after only three fingers on his left hand were cut off along the joints.

It turned out that he followed them because of the Muggle clothes Ryan and his friends were wearing. Seeing Ryan and his friends wearing these clothes but without their parents in the Leaky Cauldron, the Death Eater planned to punish these dirty Mudbloods in his eyes, or even do something worse. But he never expected that these young people who looked like students were so good at fighting.

In addition, Ryan and the others knew that this stalker was a dark wizard from Albania, who had followed Voldemort in the last war, but was only a peripheral figure back then. This time, he came to kiss Voldemort's shoes after hearing that Voldemort had returned. Voldemort gave him a Death Eater brand because he was an old follower.

After becoming an official Death Eater, he suddenly released the evil desires in his heart that had been suppressed for more than ten years. He was present in the last Brockdale Bridge attack.

"Okay, let's clean up here. We're going to move on to the next step." Ryan gestured to Jill who was eager to try. He found that this kind of collective action would help Jill integrate into the family.

Jill cut the guy's throat without saying anything. From her skillful technique and the smile on her face, it was clear that she had been looking forward to this for a long time. As a ghost, her values ​​on some things are completely different from those of humans. Hermione frowned when she saw this scene. She was not against killing terrorists, but she was a little uncomfortable with the simple pleasure of killing people.

The sensitive Jill felt Hermione's emotions. When Rose Crystal opened the door to transport the bodies and clean up the ground, she assured Hermione that she would only take someone's life when the three of them gave the order.

"Let's go rescue them." Ryan said after all this was done. From the interrogation just now, they learned that there was a Death Eater's den nearby, which held several unimportant hostages and many Muggles that the Death Eaters used to torture for fun. Now they planned to rescue them before the news leaked out.

Thanks for the reward from Youlan Yuehe. The author of Xianyu is out of town, so the update will be added at noon after he returns on Saturday. Thank you for your understanding.

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