The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 687: Unexpected Guests (Please subscribe, please bookmark, please vote

After completing the purpose of coming here, Ryan talked to Harry about what happened recently. Everything in Hogwarts was not much different from usual recently, and teachers and students were completing their teaching tasks according to the previous plan. It seemed that under the protection of Professor Dumbledore, the chaos outside did not spread further into the school.

However, this did not mean that the storm outside had no impact on the castle. When people gathered together in private, they no longer talked about Quidditch or the gossip in Wizard Weekly, but about the specific situation outside. Students like Ron, whose families were fighting on the front line, often became the source of all kinds of reliable and unreliable news in the castle.

"Now people keep asking me about the outside world every day." Ron said. He looked much more stable than before. If it were a few years ago, he might be excited to be the focus of everyone. But now the most common expression on his face is worry. "From the letter, I can see that Bill, Percy, and my two twin brothers have encountered a lot of things recently, some of which are quite dangerous. To be honest, I am worried about them."

After Ron finished speaking, Ginny nodded in agreement. "As for Dad, Fred and George are safer now, after all, they are mainly dealing with some logistical work, but Bill and Percy are too worrying."

"I know Percy has become a part-time striker now, and that job is indeed somewhat dangerous. But doesn't Bill work in Gringotts? What is Bill doing now that our people can't go to London?" Ryan asked Harry and the others.

"Now he is a member of the mobile brigade directly under the Auror Office, under the direct command of Moody." Harry said, "Because there are too many defensive spells, runes, and magical traps in the places where those pure-blood Death Eaters are. As an excellent curse breaker, Bill has an advantage in dealing with these things and can be of great help."

"By the way, Bill said in his last letter to me that he wanted to thank you. Thank you - thank you for what?" Ron made a baboon scratching his head gesture. "How could I forget? Bill specifically reminded me of this in his letter yesterday."

"Thank you Ryan for the batch of universal curse-breaking tools you gave to the Ministry of Magic last time." Ginny looked at Ron with a helpless look, "Ron, you may really need to improve your memory."

"Oh, it's that thing." As soon as Ginny said that, Ryan remembered what it was. He had been asking the Weasley twins to collect everyone's feedback and needs. It happened that the last time the Death Eaters tried to attack Hogsmeade, they collected a batch of feedback. Among these feedbacks, the Aurors complained that the magic defenses of the manors of the pure-blood families that served as the Death Eaters' bases were difficult to break, resulting in the Aurors sometimes rushing in and finding that the other party had already escaped or had reinforcements. So he asked if there was something that could quickly break the magic defense.

Ryan used the crystal ball that Professor Dumbledore had set up around the Goblet of Fire in his fourth grade as a model, and quickly developed a universal magic prop that could target the magic defenses on most buildings now. However, after delivering the batch of 10 crystal balls to the Ministry of Magic, he did not receive any feedback, so he put the matter behind him.

But he didn't expect Bill to write a special letter to thank him for this thing, so Ryan asked curiously. "I have never heard of the use of those magic tools before. Can you tell me why Bill came to thank you specially?"

"Because of an operation a few days ago," Ginny said after thinking about the contents of the letter, "they rushed into a pure-blood family's manor and rescued more than a dozen hostages. Bill said that if it weren't for your magic props that broke through a large number of defenses in a short period of time and allowed the Aurors to catch the Death Eaters inside by surprise, these hostages would have been transferred or killed."

"So that's how it is." Ryan thought of what George had said before, and he felt much better. It was always a pleasure to save innocent people through one's creations.

For more than an hour, Ryan and the others talked about their recent lives. It was not until the bell rang that Harry and the others stood up, put on their backpacks and said goodbye to Hagrid, because they had to attend the next Defense Against the Dark Arts class.

Ryan and the others also stood up and said goodbye and left Hagrid's hut with Harry and the others. After leaving, Harry took advantage of the time when Ginny and Hermione fell behind and whispered something to each other and came over. Then, he said in a grateful tone: "Ryan, thank you so much for everything you have done for me before."

"What...oh." Ryan was confused for a moment, then realized that Harry was talking about the last time he used a magic ritual to remove Voldemort's soul from Harry's body. "Has Professor Dumbledore told you about that?" "Yes, he told me what he had hidden from me before. Although I was a little angry at first, I can completely understand what you did before. After all, that soul is connected to Voldemort. If I knew what you had hidden, it is very likely that that soul would do something we don't want to happen." Harry said with a sincere expression.

"I'm glad you're okay." Ryan patted Harry's shoulder. "Also, don't take it too seriously. I did that to defeat the You-Know-Who, and saving you was just a coincidence."

"No, I know how difficult it is to exorcise that soul while keeping me alive." Harry seemed a little stubborn. It seemed that Professor Dumbledore did not hide anything in this regard. "So no matter what, I will remember that you saved my life."

"Relax, Harry." Looking at Harry's determined eyes, Ryan knew that people like him must feel that they owed him a life and hoped to repay him, so he quickly said, "Anyway, we are still in the war now. So let us survive this war first, and everything will be fine after the war is over."

"You're right." Harry nodded. "May we and everyone we know survive until the end of the war. I really hope this war can end soon."

Everyone Ryan knew hoped that the war would end as soon as possible, because it had brought too much disaster. Just as Ryan and his friends said goodbye to Harry and his friends at the entrance of the hall with a heavy heart, two tall and hairy figures walked out of the castle. The students in the hall parted ways like water at the bow of a ship, making way for them.

"The Chinese Pandas, what are they doing here?" Ryan and Hermione recognized the two upright giants, but they couldn't figure out why they appeared in the Hogwarts castle at this time.

"Ha, Mr. Liang and Miss Granger, nice to meet you today." The leading panda man, who was wearing a tuxedo, a tall silk hat and holding a gold-inlaid cane, spoke in Mandarin with some excitement after seeing Ryan and the others, and waved his empty left hand to greet Ryan and the others.

"Excuse me, who are you?" Ryan looked at the panda man standing in front of him in confusion. To him, all panda men looked the same, so he really couldn't recognize who the panda man in front of him was.

"Ah, you humans always can't tell our faces apart." The panda man in front of him showed a cute smile. "I'm Xiong Duosu, and the one next to me is my brother Xiong Guangcai."

"I remember now." After the panda man introduced himself, Ryan immediately remembered who the panda man in front of him was. "You are the lobby manager of the Tianchao Alchemist Bank in Songjiangji, the one who sold us funds when we exchanged currency last time."

"Yes, that's me." Xiong Duosu smiled gently, and then looked at the more and more curious students around him and said, "Let's go to Hogsmeade. I just want to talk to you about something. It's not convenient to talk here."

"Okay, let's go to my shop." Ryan made a gesture of invitation for the two pandas to follow him. "I have a shop in Hogsmeade, which is a good place to communicate."

(End of this chapter)