The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 569 Preparation
After the potions class, Ryan returned to the common room. He then took advantage of this free time to continue his research while waiting for Hermione and the others to return from the exam. However, this wait lasted for several hours until late in the afternoon when Hermione and Ron returned from outside.

"Ryan," Hermione said, waving to Ryan as she passed through the portrait hole. "I passed the test on my first try."

"I knew it." Ryan said happily after hugging Hermione. "I knew you would pass this test. By the way, where are the other people who went to Hogsmeade with you to take the test?"

"It's not that good." Hermione shrugged. "At most one-third of the people passed the exam, because the invigilators of the Ministry of Magic were much stricter than expected during the exam. Of course, I can understand this. After all, Apparition is a very dangerous magic. It would be a serious irresponsible practice to allow those who are not good enough to get a license, just like we give a driver's license to people who can't drive-"

"Oh, Hermione, I think those people are a little too strict." Ron said listlessly sitting next to him, and he has been in this state since he came in. "I am so unlucky, because of a small thing - the examiner happened to see that I had half an eyebrow missing, just half an eyebrow... By the way, how is Slughorn?"

"Very good, at least the first step of our plan is fine. Professor Slughorn has invited me to his office tonight to have a get-together with him." Harry said, and then comforted the frustrated Ron: "You just had bad luck this time. I think you will pass the next exam - and you can take the exam with me and Ryan."

"I think so." Ron felt much better after hearing the comfort, but he was still a little depressed. "I lost half an eyebrow in this exam! As if it's a big deal!"

"You can't say that." Hermione's expression became a little serious. "If something goes wrong during Apparition, it's completely uncontrollable what gets lost. Losing half of your eyebrow means you might also lose half of your thigh. So those people who didn't allow you to pass were also for your own good—"

"That's enough." Ron looked at Hermione helplessly, "Please stop talking. I'm already very upset that I failed the exam today."

"Okay, I won't say anything more." Hermione didn't talk about the exam anymore. Instead, she walked downstairs to the auditorium with everyone to have dinner and listen to her classmates' comments on today's exam.

Most of the people who took the exam today were cursing the Apparition examiner while eating, while the few who passed were expressing their sense of relief for surviving a disaster. After listening to what they said, Ryan almost thought that they were not facing the Apparition test, but just ran past a large group of fire dragons.

After finishing his meal and returning to the common room, Harry began to prepare for the evening. He sat on the sofa in the common room, took out the small bottle, looked at it and said, "I don't think it's necessary to finish this stuff. I shouldn't need 12 hours of luck tonight. Four or five hours will give us the final conclusion. I only need to drink one sip, and two or three hours should be enough."

Because they had seen Slughorn enter the Great Hall when they went upstairs before, and knew that he liked to enjoy himself and was very slow when eating, so Harry decided to rest in the common room now and go to his office after Slughorn returned.

When the sun cast its last rays of sunlight on Hogwarts Castle, Harry estimated that the time was up. So he and Ryan went to an empty classroom across the corridor from Slughorn's office and hid in it, then took out the bottle and took a sip at the right time.

"How does it feel?" Ryan asked curiously. Hermione had analyzed this potion thoroughly before, but he had never drunk this kind of thing. So he was more concerned about the feeling after using this potion. "Excellent, really excellent. I think it's a good idea to go straight to Slughorn's office in two minutes." Harry stood up with a smile, full of confidence. "By the way, Ryan. Can you lend me one of your top-notch defense bracelets? I feel that this thing will be helpful for this operation. Don't worry, I'm just borrowing it."

"How did you know I have a new product?" Ryan asked with a smile, and then took out a filigree bracelet made of mithril and gold from the space bag, which was inlaid with more than a dozen colorful gems. If you look carefully with a magnifying glass, you can see that there are a lot of translucent runes on these gems and gold wires that appear and disappear from time to time, just like stars in the night sky.

"This is absolutely beautiful." Harry and Ron exclaimed at the same time. No wonder they were so surprised, this bracelet designed by the elves in "The Lord of the Rings" was indeed beautiful, and it attracted everyone's attention as soon as it appeared.

"This is the most powerful alchemical defense item I have ever made." Ryan said to Harry and the others, "It can provide adequate protection against various physical and magical attacks. I can even proudly say that this bracelet can help you block almost all other evil curses except the Killing Curse."

"Wow..." Ron cried out in surprise. The Weasley family has always had a lot of experience in making magic props. From Mr. Weasley's flying car to the twins' creative creation of prank props, it can be seen that the Weasley family's family knowledge inheritance is about making magic props. So Ron, who was born in that kind of family, also knows something about this kind of thing, so he was so surprised.

"This must be very complicated to make, right? Otherwise we wouldn't have never seen this bracelet before." Harry asked after taking the bracelet and looking at it carefully. Even someone like him who didn't know much about magic props could feel the power contained in the bracelet in his hand.

"Yes." Ryan nodded. "This is a new product that I made recently after conducting in-depth research on various new threats. The protection it can provide to users is unprecedented. However, as a prototype, its cost is also higher than ever before."

"How much does a bracelet like this cost?" Ron asked weakly.

"The cost is 1750 Galleons, not including the labor cost." Ryan shrugged. Ron seemed shocked by the price. He opened his mouth and couldn't utter a word for a long time.

"No wonder you didn't give this thing to the members of the Order of the Phoenix. It's too expensive." Harry said seriously as he put the bracelet into the pocket of his robe. "I swear I will return this bracelet to you intact."

"It's okay. If necessary, this can be the price for you to obtain intelligence. The value of some information is far beyond the measurement of money." Ryan, as the maker of this prop, did not take this thing very seriously. Instead, he told Harry not to pay too much attention to the price of this thing and to use it when necessary.

"Thank you very much, but I don't think it will get to that point. I will be able to get that memory easily tonight." Harry stood up and said confidently. "Okay, I think I should go over now. You guys wait for my success!"

(End of this chapter)