The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 675: Unexpected Harvest (Additional chapter for Youlan Yuehe)
"Meriam is pregnant? This is great news. It's a pity that I didn't prepare a suitable gift. You should have informed us earlier—" Hermione started to talk immediately after hearing the news, but was quickly interrupted by Sirius. "The gift you gave me when I got married last time was already very precious, and everyone is very nervous at this time. There is no need to affect everyone because of my personal affairs."

"How can this be said to affect everyone?" Ryan retorted. "In such a tense situation, any good news will boost everyone's morale. The birth of a new life is undoubtedly good news."

"Okay, okay, you are right after all. I will tell Remus and the others later. But seriously, Kreacher is around Meliam all day long, and she is well taken care of now." Sirius waved his hand helplessly. "Okay, let's not talk about this. What on earth did you come all the way to London to see me today for?"

"Don't worry, we didn't come to you today because we were short of manpower." Ryan waved his hand to indicate that he didn't intend to drag him to the battlefield and ask him to act with him. At least they didn't have such a plan before they came, not to mention that Sirius needed time to accompany his pregnant wife. "In fact, we have enough manpower for our plan now, but we are lacking some key intelligence."

"Information?" Sirius asked, and then his expression became much calmer. "If it is information I know, I promise to tell you everything and not hide even a little bit."

"That's good." Ryan smiled. "In fact, we now have enough manpower to carry out the next goal, but now we need to know the location of the manors and farms of the pure-blood families who stand on the side of the mysterious man."

"What do you want this information for?" Sirius asked in surprise. "As far as I know, those Death Eaters are either following Voldemort every day or working in the Ministry of Magic. They don't usually live in their own homes."

"You don't need to worry about that." Hermione said. After Ryan told her what he came here to find Sirius to do, the smart Hermione immediately guessed what Ryan was going to do next, so she helped persuade him. "Don't worry, we are not inhumane Death Eaters. We will not hurt those innocent people, even if those people are related to Death Eaters."

"If that's the case, then I'll trust you this time." Sirius walked up the stairs after he finished speaking. After a few seconds, he came down with a thick book with a green leather cover and silver patterns on it. "If you need to know the locations of the manors, farms and mines of British wizards, then this book is the only choice."

After that, Sirius came to the table and put the book on it. Ryan realized at this time that the silver patterns on the cover were not all patterns. In the center of the cover, the patterns formed some letters. However, the words spelled out by these letters were not common English, but ancient Latin.

"The Holy Family, 1936 edition." Hermione read the words on the cover quietly, and then asked, "Is this a magic book? It can't be one of those books that only pure-bloods can open."

"Of course not." Sirius laughed. "It's good to be cautious, but there's no need to be overly cautious. This is just an ordinary book, no different from the textbooks you usually read at school. To be precise, this book is actually like the telephone directory used by Muggles, which is used by pure-blood families to communicate with each other."

"You know the telephone directory?" Hermione was a little unbelievable. "I always thought wizards didn't care about the lives of Muggles. From what I've seen before, even Muggle wizards in the UK will gradually become out of touch with the Muggle world and fall behind the times after living in the wizarding world for a long time."

"Maybe others are like this, but I'm not." Sirius shrugged his shoulders. "If it weren't for this damn war, I would have to live in this old and dilapidated house for the safety of my wife and future children. I would have rented a house in the Muggle community outside. At least there is plenty of sunshine, a beautiful little garden, and a TV to watch when I get home."

Ryan was not surprised by Sirius' words. When Sirius was young, he deliberately approached the world of ordinary people out of rebellion against his family. He even covered his house with various posters of the time and bought a motorcycle to race on the street. In this subtle way, some things slowly become real hobbies. Thinking about these things, Ryan opened the "Holy Family" in front of him. This book lists more than 70 wizard families according to the first letter of the surname, basically covering all the families with a little history in the British wizarding world. After roughly looking through the catalog, Ryan can be sure that at least the families of the wizards from pure-blood families he met in school are all recorded here.

Ryan found the Potter family and the Weasley family, but these two families did not seem to be given much attention by the editor. Of course, it may be because these two families have nothing to say about power and money. For example, the Weasley family only recorded that they had a large but barren wasteland. And the Potter family was noted behind that the head of the family, Henry Potter, was a retired person from the Wizengamot, and because he stood on the side of Muggles, he had a conflict with the previous Minister of Magic.

"Well, Sirius." After taking a quick look at the book, Ryan asked Sirius, who was discussing the latest trends in the Muggle world with Hermione. "Are the things recorded here still valid? I mean, after all, this thing was recorded more than 60 years ago. Will there be any changes in such a long time?"

"There will be some changes." Sirius stopped chatting with Hermione and turned around to say after hearing Ryan's question. "Some of the mines may have changed, but the houses and plantations will not change."

Seeing Ryan and Hermione's attention drawn to this sentence, Sirius cleared his throat and said, "Sixty years is enough time for some mines that mine magical metals or magical gems to be completely exhausted, so they will naturally move away. But the houses and plantations will not."

Sirius finished his detailed explanation, "For a magic plantation, there must be enough magic power to provide those magic plants with everything they need for their growth, while also meeting some harsh natural requirements, and such places are always limited. For many wizarding families, the number of magic plantations they own is directly related to how powerful they are. So it is impossible for them to be abandoned."

"As for the residence, I think you have seen it." Sirius smiled bitterly and spread his hands. "For example, the magic on the building we are in now is the accumulation of several generations. Even Voldemort cannot break through the magical defense here in a short time. The same is true for the mansions of other pure-blood families. This is our last fortress and trump card."

"So compared to the plantation, the ancestral home is the place that pure-blood families cannot give up. Once they give up their ancestral home, they are equivalent to exiling themselves from the circle of pure-blood families. So if the pure-blood families in this book have not completely disappeared, then their current ancestral homes should be in the same place as in the past."

"Sirius, why don't most of the families in this book hide their home addresses?" Hermione asked curiously after flipping through a few pages. "I thought all ancestral homes were the same as this one."

"No, it's absolutely different." Sirius smiled sarcastically. "Normally, people like my grandfather who always think that others want to harm him are in the absolute minority. Normal wizards don't hide their ancestral homes. Some families even welcome those who are useful to them to visit them and are willing to show off their families. The most famous of these is the Malfoy family's manor."

"That would be great." Hermione said, closing the book. "Can we make a copy of this book? Because for us, the next step is to use this information."

"If you need it, I can give it to you directly." Sirius seemed very generous. "This thing is of no use to me anyway. It would be great if it can be useful in your hands."

(End of this chapter)