The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 755 Finale - Nineteen Years Later

After the war, as time went by, the British wizarding world slowly healed the wounds brought by the war, and everything became prosperous again. In particular, this war dealt a heavy blow to the ancient pure-blood families that were once the upper echelons of the wizarding world. In a way, it actually prompted the British wizarding world to become much more active than before.

With the introduction of advanced schools, new banks, and many new things, the British wizarding world has also undergone rapid changes, and many new things have been introduced to this once stagnant country.

Of course, everyone has changed in this changing world. A few months after the war, when the Ministry of Magic returned to London and announced that the post-war reconstruction was completely completed, Ryan and Hermione first held their wedding on the floating fortress, followed by Cedric and Zhang Qiu, Percy and Penelope, and many other people who had delayed their weddings.

After marriage, Ryan and Hermione, in addition to handling work in other worlds, the most important work in this world is to build their own school. Unexpectedly, in the third year after the war, Professor Dumbledore handed over the position of Hogwarts principal to Professor McGonagall, who then gave Ryan a visiting professorship in their school.

"The war is over, and I am old. Some things should be handed over to the next generation." This is what Dumbledore told Ryan after he unexpectedly came to visit him that day. "So I retired, but I don't think I am too old to walk, so I came to you and hope to become a visiting professor at the new school."

Ryan thought that this was because Dumbledore was worried that he would become the next Dark Lord, after all, he was a little too cruel in the war. However, he still agreed to Dumbledore's request on the spot, because he did not want to rule the world like Voldemort, and Professor Dumbledore's joining would be very beneficial to the development of his school.

In this way, time passed day by day. Ryan's position in the British wizarding world became higher and higher, and more and more stable. One day, the now somewhat marginalized Daily Prophet published an article titled "The Age of Liang".

"...After the war, Ryan Liang, a wizard from an ordinary family, seized power in the British wizarding world, from finance to manufacturing, from education to media. His tentacles extended to every aspect of the British wizarding world..."

"Okay, Hermione, now the Daily Prophet has fallen to the point of relying on sensational headlines to attract attention." Ryan said while eating his breakfast, "By the way, are we going to send the two little guys to school today?"

"Yes." Hermione put down the newspaper and said, "I really admire the two people in Luna's family. They can't even get back in time for their daughter's school. They can only wait at Platform 9 3/4 tomorrow."

Ryan and Hermione did not have their own children, because immortality has a price. But this does not mean that their home is deserted now. For example, the children of friends such as Lupin, Sirius, Harry, Ron and Percy often come to visit them. Even after Luna got married, she and Rolf Scamander's twin daughters were fostered in the Ryan family for a long time.

Perhaps because of the butterfly effect, Luna's twin sons in the original story became twin daughters. Since the two little ones were one year old, Luna and her husband have embarked on a journey of exploration and discovery around the world. And their two daughters spend much more time at Ryan's house than at their own home.

Soon, two little girls with brown hair and a group of puppets came down from upstairs. After greeting Ryan and the others, they sat at the table and had breakfast together. In the ten years since the war, Ryan has also made six puppets in imitation of Mr. Luo Zhen, and named them Fluorescent Lamp, Garuda, Obsidian, Qingtianjing, Magenta, and Raspberry.

These puppets usually work as professors in the school and also work part-time as laboratory assistants. Due to the puppets' curiosity about life, they even took the initiative to take care of the two little guys.

After breakfast, everyone packed up and drove a magic SUV straight to the train station. They arrived at the train station early, so they could leisurely push the luggage cart from the parking lot to the huge, blackened train station.

The exhaust of cars and the breath of pedestrians shimmered like spider webs in the cool air. Two large cages rattled on top of the luggage cart that my parents pushed, and the owls in the cages hooted in dissatisfaction.

"Uncle, will my parents come to see us off today?" Lisa, the older twin sister, raised her little face and asked Ryan.

"Of course. Although they may be unreliable sometimes, they won't lie to you about things like this," Ryan said to her.

The family walked through the crowd towards the partition between platforms 9 and 10. Passengers stared at the owl curiously. After waiting for a few minutes, Ryan and his friends crossed the partition and arrived at platform nine and three-quarters while others were not paying attention. The platform was shrouded in a large amount of white mist sprayed by the Hogwarts Express, and blurred figures were surging in the mist.

"Hermione, Ryan, here." Just as Ryan and the others were looking around in the steam, a figure jumped and said hello to Ryan and the others. After Ryan and Hermione approached with the children, they saw that it was indeed Luna who was greeting them. Beside her, Rolf Scamander looked at his wife, who had a personality like a girl, with a mixed look of doting and helplessness.

"How was your trip to the Celestial Empire?" Ryan asked Rolf. For the previous eight months, Rolf and Luna had been traveling and conducting scientific research in the Celestial Empire.

"Very good." Rolf said with a smile, "We saw many magical creatures that we had only seen in books before, and also discovered a magical plant that had never been seen before. The wizards of the Celestial Empire later named the plant after his wife. And there was a surprise on this trip: we met the Phoenix Spirit who met my grandparents that year, and he also asked us to bring you a message to say hello."

"This trip is really great." Ryan nodded, and after they chatted for a few more words, Harry and Ron each walked out of the mist with their families. The four members of the Malfoy family in the distance did not move forward after seeing Harry and his family, but waved to Ryan from a distance.

Since Ryan solved the curse on Astoria at Malfoy's request, the two families have been communicating more and more. However, Harry and Ron still don't like the Malfoy family, which is why Malfoy only greeted them from a distance.

However, Harry and Ron, who had their backs to the Malfoy family, did not see this scene. They still greeted Ryan and the others enthusiastically. Especially Ron's movements were a bit exaggerated, and he almost hit his daughter Rose.

"Dad, calm down, everyone around is looking at you!" Rose looked at her father helplessly.

"Oh, yes, that's right," Ron said awkwardly, looking at the eyes of the people around him, "I'm just... too excited."

"He's always so funny," Lavender came over from behind Ron and kissed his cheek, "so cute." "Honey, please restrain yourself a little. We are outside and there are a lot of acquaintances around." Ron said with a red face. At this time, Rose made a face beside him, indicating that she was really fed up with her parents' behavior of showing off their love everywhere.

"Ah, let's find it easier." Percy walked out of the steam with his son, then looked at Ryan and said, "Penelope is working overtime again. The job of the joke shop manager is really busy."

"I remember clearly giving her a day off!" Hermione said somewhat puzzled.

"But she discovered this morning that there seemed to be some problems with a batch of goods imported from Brazil, and then she went straight to Rio de Janeiro." Percy shrugged helplessly. "It can obviously be dealt with in a few days."

"Hey!" Harry's son James came out, having unloaded the luggage, owl and cart, and obviously had a lot of news to tell.

"Andromeda's over there," he panted, pointing behind him into the rolling clouds of steam. "I just saw her! What do you think she was doing? Kissing Victoire!"

"What?" Harry and Ron widened their eyes, but Ryan said calmly: "Let young people do their own thing. We still have to adapt to some things. At least at the last party, Professor Lupin said that he and his wife could accept their daughter finding a girlfriend."

"You're right, there are some things I should learn to adapt to." Harry said, looking at his worn-out watch that once belonged to Fabian Prewett. "It's almost eleven o'clock, you guys should get in the car."

"Don't forget to send our letter and greetings to Neville," Hermione warned as she hugged Luna's daughter.

"Don't worry, we will go to Uncle Longbottom's office during the break on the first day of school. We have a lot of things to give him this time, your letters, and my parents' inspection notes--" The twins nodded and agreed seriously.

Soon, all the students were on the bus, and the red car began to close. The blurry figures of parents rushed forward to give their children last-minute kisses and instructions. Students leaned out of the nearest window, and many faces on and off the bus seemed to turn to Ryan and his group.

"Why are they all staring?" asked Harry's son Albus.

"Don't worry about it," said Ron dramatically, "it's me. I'm famous."

Everyone started laughing. The train started moving, and Ryan and Hermione followed the parents' steps forward. They smiled at the familiar faces of the children, waved their hands, and watched them go away.

"Ah, it seems I'm a little late." Just as Ryan and the others were about to go back, Professor Dumbledore appeared silently behind them in a travel robe, and then waved his wand to separate the three of them from the others. "I thought I could catch the Hogwarts Express, it's all my fault, I was chatting with an old German friend and forgot the time."

"Then you must have a very good relationship, right?" Hermione said. At this time, she and Ryan both returned to their 16- or 17-year-old appearance. After all, immortality is an irresistible temptation for most people. In order to avoid all kinds of troubles, Ryan and his friends usually maintain the transformation of middle-aged people. "Otherwise, you wouldn't be so fascinated by chatting with him. In fact, sometimes I envy you for having so many lifelong friends like you."

"Well, I don't know how to describe our relationship. Anyway - it's hard to put into words!" After hearing Hermione's words, Dumbledore showed a complicated expression, "Forget it, let's not talk about this. Ryan, I came to you today for one thing, that is, I hope to take a long vacation."

"Of course, you can take as much time off as you want." Ryan said, "But may I ask what you are going to do?"

"There is nothing to keep secret." Dumbledore chuckled. "Everything is on track now. Your school is doing very well, and the British wizarding world is also stable. I want to fulfill the boy's last promise with Elphias Doge while I can still move, and start a journey around the world."

"Your trip will be great," Ryan said seriously. "After all, you finally fulfilled the promise you made 100 years ago."

"Yes, so much time has passed." Dumbledore muttered and looked blankly, obviously entering the reminiscing mode again.

After a few minutes, Dumbledore came back to his senses and said, "I'm so sorry. As I get older, I start to like reminiscing. But I have to thank you for this. If you hadn't made the wizarding world so stable now, I wouldn't be able to travel with peace of mind."

"That's because of everyone's efforts, not just mine," Ryan said modestly.

"No matter what, the world has been prosperous in peace for 19 years. I think this is something worth celebrating."

"Yes!" Ryan said, moving closer to Hermione and holding her hand, then he looked at the trail of milky white steam left behind by the train as it went away and the golden sunlight surrounding the autumn day and said softly, "It's so nice to live in such a peaceful and stable world now."

(End of this chapter)