The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 73 Successful Return to School
Finally, the clock on the train station reached the departure time. It looked like I would miss this train.

"That's it," said Ron dully. "The train's gone. What if Mum and Dad can't come get us? Do you have any Muggle money on you?"

Harry laughed dryly, "The Dursleys haven't given me pocket money in six years."

"I'm fine," Ryan said. "I still have more than 30 pounds on me."

Ron relaxed a little after hearing Ryan's answer, then put his ear to the cold partition wall.

"There's no sound," he said nervously, "What should we do? I don't know how long it will take for Mom and Dad to come back to find us."

Since Harry's owl kept calling and attracted too much attention, Harry suggested waiting for the Weasleys by the car.

At this time, Ron seemed to think of something because of the word "car", and said excitedly to Ryan and Harry:

"We can fly to Hogwarts!" We're trapped, aren't we? We have to get back to school, right? In a real emergency, young wizards can use magic. Article 19 or something of the Regulations stipulates..."

"Stop!" Ryan waved his hand to Ron. "Don't forget that we are only 12 years old. Do you think it is really appropriate for someone who has not learned to drive to drive a flying car across the whole of Britain? If it falls, my levitation spell can't save three people."

Harry also shook his head after hearing what Ryan said. He found that Ron's method was not appropriate. After all, even in the Muggle world, driving a car requires learning in a driving school and obtaining a driver's license. According to what he observed when living in the Weasley family, Mrs. Weasley would never allow Ron to drive around. Harry didn't want to put his life in the hands of such a novice driver.

"Then what do you think we should do? We can't go to Hogwarts now." Ron saw that Harry did not support his point of view, so he said anxiously.

"Let's get out quickly. I think my father hasn't left yet. He can help us go to the Leaky Cauldron. Once there, we should be able to find someone who can help us." Ryan said to Harry and the others.

"You're such a genius. You deserve to be the one with the highest test score among us." Ron patted Ryan on the shoulder, and then the three of them pushed the cart quickly towards the parking lot.

When Ryan arrived at the parking lot, he found that his father, Mr. Lambert, had not left yet. He was surprised to see his child and two other classmates pushing strollers towards him.

"Aren't you supposed to take the train to school? Why are you back so soon?" Mr. Lambert asked in confusion.

"Well, there's something wrong with the entrance and we can't get in now. So I hope you can take us to the Leaky Cauldron where we shopped last time, and we can go back to school from there."

After listening to them, Mr. Lambert asked the three of them to load all their luggage into his car. Then he called a taxi and asked the three of them to sit in the taxi, and then told the taxi driver to follow him.

Ten minutes later, they finally arrived at the Leaky Cauldron. After saying goodbye to Mr. Lambert, Ryan and his friends walked into the Leaky Cauldron with their luggage. The bar was not doing well today, and there were not many customers drinking inside.

The boss, Tom, was sitting behind the bar cleaning glasses. He was surprised when he saw them coming in: "Kids, today should be the first day of school. Why are you here?" "It seems that there is a problem with the wall of Platform 9 and 3/4, blocking us outside, so we can only come here to see if there is anyone who can help us."

"Then you sit here for a while, I'll pass a letter to your professor." After saying that, Tom took out a feather pen and wrote something on the parchment, then sent the parchment away through the Floo Network.

Ryan went to the counter and bought three bottles of pumpkin juice, then he and Harry drank one each while sitting at the table waiting for news. As soon as they finished the pumpkin juice, they saw a green flame flash in the fireplace of the Leaky Cauldron, and Professor McGonagall came out of the fireplace in a dark green robe, and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Ryan and the others.

"Thank God you're all right. The Ministry said there was something wrong with the wall. I was really worried that you would do something stupid and hurt yourselves because you couldn't catch the Hogwarts Express. Fortunately, you knew to go to the Leaky Cauldron for help."

"Now that the train has left, how are we going to get to school?" Harry asked Professor McGonagall.

"Don't worry, kids. We'll go directly to Hogsmeade Station via Floo. Ryan, you've never used Floo before, so just watch me and learn how to use it."

Then Professor McGonagall threw a pinch of Floo powder into the fire, and the flames turned green. She walked in and said, "Hogsmeade Station," and then disappeared.

"You go first, don't panic and don't move around. Just recite the location correctly. It's not dangerous." Ron said to Ryan.

Ryan took a pinch of powder from the basin and threw it into the fire, then dragged his luggage into the fireplace. The fireplace felt as hot as being next to the fire, and Ryan read out his destination: "Hogsmeade Station."

He felt as if he was thrown into a washing machine and was spinning around, and the vortex of green flames made him feel a little dizzy. He had no choice but to close his eyes and listen to the wind whirring past his ears.

With a final thump, he and his luggage fell to the marble floor. Dizzy, Ryan used his arms to pull himself up, while Professor McGonagall used her wand to clean him off the soot.

Harry and Ron, who arrived later, were also treated the same way by Professor McGonagall. Professor McGonagall asked them to leave their luggage here (don't worry, someone will deliver your luggage to your dormitory later). Then he took them to the school carriage. There was nothing in front of the carriage, but Ryan knew that it was a carriage pulled by the Night Thestrals, and only people who had seen death could see them.

The carriage passed through a magnificent cast-iron gate along a rough dirt road, flanked on either side by stone pillars topped with winged boars.

Finally, after passing a long sloping driveway, the carriage stopped at the castle gate.

At this time, the system prompted Ryan in his mind:
- The Harry Potter Ride Across Britain event has been changed to gain 6 offset points.

This number of points is more than expected, and it is very likely that so many offset points were obtained because a series of subsequent events were changed at any time.

After getting off the car, Professor McGonagall said to Ryan and the other three, "Okay, we're at school. Your classmates won't be here until the afternoon, so the school isn't ready yet. So I hope you can stay quietly in the common room until the start of the term banquet. The password for the common room is 'honeybird', and I'll have someone bring you lunch."

(End of this chapter)