The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 744 Newborn (Please subscribe, please bookmark, please vote)
Ryan was a little confused as to why someone came to visit at this time. After all, almost everyone was ready to join the war that could break out at any time, so it seemed a little abnormal to visit at this time.

But no matter how inopportune the arrival of this guest seemed, it was always inappropriate to let the guest wait at the door. So Ryan quickly returned to the manor with Hermione to greet the guest.

After the door of the manor opened, Ryan found that it was Lupin standing at the door. However, unlike the calmness he had always shown after becoming the werewolf leader, Lupin's face was red with excitement at this time. He was wearing a black velvet travel robe embroidered with silver thread, and his gray hair was unusually messy.

After walking in the door and making sure it was Len and Hermione who greeted him, he excitedly shook Len's hand and said "It's a girl! We named her Andromeda, after Dora's mother! A healthy, beautiful child."

"This is - "Tonks - Tonks gave birth?" Hermione screamed, then clasped her hands over her face and stared wide-eyed.

"It's born, it's born! A baby is born!" Lupin shouted. His voice attracted Rose Crystal and the little dolls who came to visit today. Soon, cheers and sighs of relief were heard in front of the door.

"Let's go inside and talk. Don't stand at the door." Ryan said as he led everyone into the living room of the manor. Along the way, Lupin seemed to be drunk and the blush on his face was more obvious.

"Yes, it's a girl. Dora started having labor pains early this morning, and after Qiu Zhang got the news, he quickly came over and gave her some analgesic and nerve-soothing potions - but he didn't dare to give her too much for fear of affecting the fetus. Taylor and I waited at the door for five or six hours, and finally the baby was born smoothly, and both mother and daughter are safe. Now they are both resting at home."

"Congratulations!" "Oh my god, a new baby, a new life is born." "Is this the greatness of life?" The little dolls chirped. For these special lives, the birth of any new life is a happy thing, even a miracle. So now they look more excited than Lupin himself.

Ryan was a little surprised when he first heard the news, because he remembered clearly that Lupin's first and only child in the original story was a boy. But thinking that things have changed so much, it should be normal for the gender of a newborn to change.

"By the way, Hermione." After calming down with a cup of black tea, Lupin turned to look at Hermione, "Would you like to be the godmother?"

"Me?" Hermione pointed at herself in disbelief, because in her impression, godmothers were usually mature, older women, not young people like her who were less than 20 years old.

"Yes, it's you," Lupin nodded vigorously at this point: "Of course - in the discussion before departure, Dora and her parents fully agreed to this matter, and everyone thought that no one was more suitable -"

"That's great - God, it's unbelievable." Hermione looked very excited and happy. "We should celebrate a little and relax a little."

After that, she ordered the robot to take out a bottle of non-intoxicating elven honey wine from the wine cellar downstairs, and then filled each person's goblet with wine. After the last goblet was filled, everyone stood up, and the little dolls flew in the air to the same level as everyone's shoulders. Then everyone raised their glasses and began to celebrate.

"For Andromeda Dora Lupin," said Lupin, "a great witch in the making!" As he finished speaking, everyone said together, "For Andromeda Dora Lupin," and drank the wine in their glasses.

"By the way, who does she look like?" After sitting down after the toast, Rose Crystal clasped her hands together in front of her chest and looked at Lupin with wide eyes and asked, "I read in books before that human children will look like their father or mother after they are born." "I think she looks like Dora, but Dora thinks she looks like me. She doesn't have much hair. She looked black when she was born, but I swear it turned ginger after an hour, and it will probably be golden by the time I go back. The child's grandmother said that Tonks' hair started to change color on the first day she was born." Lupin drank the wine in one gulp, "Oh, another glass." He added with a smile, and soon the robot floated over and filled his glass again.

Then the little dolls asked all kinds of questions curiously, and Lupin answered them one by one with a smile. After some refreshments were brought by the robots to attract the little guys away, Lupin said to Ryan in surprise: "They are actually real living beings? This is incredible."

In fact, there are many products with certain intelligence in the magic world. The Sorting Hat at Hogwarts is one of them. In addition, there are ancient portraits of Hogwarts and some pure-blood families, and the mirror in the Weasleys' Burrow that comments on people's clothes. But the core of these things is just memory, not soul.

This also means that the intelligence of these things depends on how much knowledge the people who made them at the time instilled into them. For example, the sorting hat carefully made by the four giants sometimes looks like a human being, and the portraits trained by successive headmasters can also provide experience for later generations. But like the mirror, at most it can point out whether each person's outfit is suitable.

But they have one thing in common, that is, they have no soul. As a result, their biggest external feature is that the knowledge they have acquired has been limited at the moment they were created, and all feedback is based on this knowledge. They will never update their knowledge and have a true self.

And this is why Lupin was shocked. He had seen Rose Crystal fighting alongside Ryan and the others before, but he always thought that she was just an intelligent magic puppet like the Sorting Hat, so he didn't pay too much attention to her.

But after chatting with them out of curiosity for a while, he was surprised to find that these dolls actually had self-awareness, which meant that they had souls. This really shocked Professor Lupin.

"Of course, they are all living beings like you and me, but they look a little different from us. The one who usually follows me in purple clothes is my sister, and the others are my teacher's daughters." Ryan explained after seeing Lupin's surprised expression.

"This is really magical!" After marveling at the magic of these little dolls for a while, Lupin said goodbye to Ryan and the others, "I think I should go back now. This time I've been out for a long time. I'm worried that my family will be anxious waiting for me now."

Lupin put on the robe he had just taken off, and then said to Ryan and the others, "Goodbye, goodbye - I'll try to bring some photos in a few days - they will be very happy to know that I have seen you -"

After he tied the belt of his robe, he began to say goodbye to Ryan and the others, especially shaking hands with the flying puppets one by one very seriously. Then, with Ryan and Hermione watching him, he walked out of the courtyard and disappeared.

"The birth of a new life at this time should be good news." Watching Lupin disappear from the gate of the yard, Hermione whispered, "Why do I suddenly feel that the burden on my shoulders is heavier now?"

"Maybe it's because you became a godmother to a child and you developed an elder mentality." Ryan said slowly, "Humans are always like this. After having offspring, they will consider them. And now we are in the middle of a war, so you naturally feel that for the sake of the children, we should quickly end this war and create a better space for them."

"Yes, you are right." Hermione thought for a moment and nodded, "I just don't know when this decisive battle will really break out."

(End of this chapter)