The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 647 Beauxbatons (Please subscribe, please bookmark, please vote)
After shaking hands with Ryan, Lucius seemed to relax a lot. In the following time, in order to show his sincerity in cooperation, he began to tell Ryan and Hermione some stories about European pure-blood families. As a family that constantly intermarried with various pure-blood families in Europe to avoid inbreeding, the Malfoy family did know a lot about the pure-blood wizards in Europe.

"——That's the general situation. This time when we go to Beauxbatons, we will mainly meet some French pure-blood family members. I will introduce them here first. As for the others, I will introduce them to you on the spot after we see them."

"That's enough. Thank you anyway." Ryan said seriously. Lucius Malfoy's explanation this time filled in the part that had the biggest problem for him. Before, he had no channels to figure out the grievances between the families in the wizarding world.

"You're welcome," Lucius stood up with the help of his cane. "This is also the value of my participation in this operation. It is within my scope of responsibility. Well, I'm going to take a rest now. You can come to me if you need anything." After saying that, he walked behind the sofa, opened the door of the lounge and walked in.

As expected of the head of a pure-blood family, after saying these things, he knew that he was not welcome by Ryan and the others, so he simply found an excuse to leave the space to Ryan and Hermione.

There was no conversation along the way. At 2 pm, after a four-hour flight, they finally arrived at the scheduled location near Perpignan: an open space in the forest in the mountains. After getting off the carriage, Ryan saw that there was already a small powder blue carriage pulled by two magic horses waiting here. A young wizard in a blue silk robe was waiting here.

"Welcome, guests from Hogwarts." The wizard said in French, and then extended a hand to make a gesture of invitation, "Please get in the carriage. The rest of the journey will be completed by the Rune Carriage. Beauxbatons will ensure that your carriage remains intact until you leave."

"It seems that not every school is willing to share its secrets with everyone like Hogwarts." After getting in the car, Hermione looked around the luxurious carriage curiously, and finally her eyes fell on the carriage that was completely covered by a lot of decorations. "You can't see the outside of this car at all."

"Of course." Ryan picked up a beautiful-looking cream pastry from the table and took a bite. "In fact, in the whole of Europe, only our Hogwarts is a special case. The founders of the school vowed to spread the knowledge they mastered. That's why the location of Hogwarts is public in the wizarding world, which expresses an open academic attitude."

The distance between the scheduled location and Beauxbatons was not far, and they arrived at their destination after just over ten minutes of flying. After the carriage landed and stopped, the door opened automatically, and Beauxbatons School of Magic appeared in front of them.

Unlike the castle-like buildings of Hogwarts, Beauxbatons is made up of more than a dozen palace-like buildings. The main bodies of these buildings are made of red bricks and gray granite, with many exquisite sculptures and gilded iron railings. The top roof is dark blue with a lot of gilded decorations, giving people a sense of magnificence as a whole.

Now they were standing in a square in the middle of a concave building. The entire square was paved with black and white marble tiles. In the center of the square was a small fountain made of white marble. In the middle, a dozen golden mythological sculptures were placed on a bronze gilded base with exquisite reliefs.

"Presented by Nicolas Flamel and his wife, 1427." Ryan whispered the words on the gold-inlaid bronze plaque on the marble.

"Yes, this is the fountain donated by Nicolas Flamel, one of our most famous alumni." After hearing Ryan's muttering, the senior student of Beauxbatons who was in charge of leading the way straightened his chest and said, "To this day, we also have the best alchemy courses in the whole of Europe. Even in the world, only the Eye of Horus in Egypt, the Palace of Wisdom in Babylon, and the Tianchao Alchemist Academy in the Celestial Empire can be compared with us."

At this point, the young man paused and looked at Ryan and said, "I heard that as a Hogwarts school director, you are also good at alchemy, so you can spare some time to communicate with everyone."

"Of course." Ryan nodded. "By the way, where are we going now?" "The principal's office, Madam Maxime is waiting for you there." After following the young wizard down the white marble staircase to the fourth floor, Ryan and the other two walked into the principal's office of Beauxbatons.

Ryan and his friends have been to Dumbledore's office many times. If the first impression of Headmaster Dumbledore's office is mystery, then the first impression of Madame Maxime's office is that it is simply huge.

Yes, the most intuitive feeling of this office is that it is large, for example, the high-back chair that can accommodate two people and the huge desk that matches it, as well as the elegant but slightly huge woman.

"Nice to meet you, Ryan." As the champion of the last Triwizard Tournament, Ryan left a deep impression on Madam Maxime. So she recognized Ryan at once, "I didn't expect that in just over two years, you would have grown to this point."

"It's just a special situation." Ryan said directly without any politeness. "It should be said that this is a very bad situation. I would rather be an ordinary student to complete my studies, worry about the NEWT exam, and occasionally walk by the lake with my lover. Instead of having to take on such an important task like now."

"Yes, the situation is indeed very bad now." Madam Maxime immediately sat up straight and said seriously. "That is why I am talking to you alone, and I specifically avoided the representative of the British Ministry of Magic who is downstairs now."

"I'm glad you made your choice now." Ryan said. "But what can we do when the French Ministry of Magic decides to remain neutral? At least since the first day of school, we have been fighting alone except for the very few supplies from the Celestial Empire."

"I'm sorry, because the first priority of the French Ministry of Magic is to protect our people." Madame Maxime said calmly. "So in order to avoid the war from spreading to this land, sometimes we have to make certain compromises."

"Of course, I understand your traditional approach," Ryan nodded. "After all, this war is ours. But I need to point out that the mysterious man's ambitions are definitely not limited to Britain. Once we can't hold on, their next expansion goal will be very obvious."
"Of course we understand this, at least I understand this." Madam Maxime raised her voice slightly and said seriously. "So I hope that now a connection and cooperation can be established between Beauxbatons and Hogwarts."

"Thank you!" Ryan and the others bowed to Madame Maxime again from the bottom of their hearts. They knew that although this behavior was not that of the Ministry of Magic, as the only magic school in France, Beauxbatons' actions could also represent France's point of view on both sides of the current war in Britain.

Although the French Ministry of Magic acquiesced to the British Ministry of Magic in London because it did not want to be involved in the war, in order to avoid Voldemort's ambition to expand further, the French magic community decided to provide some assistance to Hogwarts through the connection between Beauxbatons and Hogwarts School.

For the next 20 minutes, the four of them argued over the content of the assistance. Fortunately, they finally reached an agreement that satisfied both parties before leaving.

(End of this chapter)