The Hogwarts Emerald

Chapter 566: Vanishing Cabinet and the Hog's Head Bar
The Vanishing Cabinet, which was very popular when Voldemort was in power.

The reason is simple. If the Death Eaters come to your door, just hide in the cupboard and it will help you escape their attack in the blink of an eye.

The Vanishing Cabinet can take you to many places, but this life-saving item is very troublesome. It is not easy to control. Your landing point may be above the sea or on a cliff.

The twins once stuffed a Slytherin student into the Vanishing Cabinet, and the student reappeared in a locked toilet cubicle, but Fred and George didn't know it was the Vanishing Cabinet at the time.

Although the Vanishing Cabinet has many inconveniences, it is indeed a great tool for escaping for those who are not proficient in Apparition, although it is somewhat uncontrollable.

Borgin led Mr. Weasley to check the Vanishing Cabinet. As Borgin said, the tall, black Vanishing Cabinet was broken. The magic circle engraved in it was also worn out and could not support it to complete the transmission.

With Voldemort defeated by one-year-old Harry and the Death Eaters being sent to Azkaban, the Vanishing Cabinet gradually lost its market. Mr. Weasley hadn't seen this thing for a long time.

"Can it be fixed?" asked Mr. Weasley.

Mr. Weasley had no idea why Malfoy was interested in the Vanishing Cabinet, nor why he ended up buying the opal necklace. If he still had an interest in the Vanishing Cabinet, he would have returned to Borgin and Burke's.

Borgin shook his head in embarrassment. He said, "No one has used the Vanishing Cabinet for a long time. It is difficult to repair it. I am not even 10% sure."

The slippery Borgin still didn't tell the truth. He had the ability to repair the Vanishing Cabinet, otherwise why would he recycle a broken cabinet? Was it because he was kind-hearted?
Don't be ridiculous, this shop is a shady place that charges ten Galleons for Slytherin's locket!
Mr. Weasley did not ask any more questions, because he knew that he could not get anything out of him unless he tortured him severely. But the Ministry of Magic could not do this to Borgin. At this time, the Ministry of Magic could not push this group of people too much, in case they were desperate.

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Later that day, Hogsmeade welcomed several Hogwarts graduates.

The weather in Scotland was worse than in London. The strong wind felt like a knife scraping against the face. Fred and George bent over and walked against the wind. When they walked into the dirty Hog's Head Pub, their cheeks were numb from the cold.

The shabby Hog's Head Bar had no customers today, and Aberforth was still standing behind the counter wiping the cups, but the cloth he was using to wipe the cups had finally become clean.

There was a fire burning in the fireplace, and the twins walked straight there. They ordered two bottles of butter beer, the bottles were still dirty. They took out their own clean cups and drank the sweet drinks leisurely.

A moment later, Lee Jordan, with his hair full of braids, came in. He also ordered a bottle of butterbeer and brought his own cup.

"Hey! How's work?" Fred asked.

Lee Jordan shook his head and said, "There are no good opportunities. Every team has their own commentators, some of whom are retired celebrities. I can only wait for a vacancy, provided that I can wait."

"Don't be discouraged, brother!" George consoled him. "We are still here. The door to 93 Diagon Alley is always open to you!"

After chatting about work for a while, the three began to reminisce about their youth and their lives at Hogwarts.

For example, how the three of them played pranks on their classmates, and how Lee Jordan threw two Nifflers into Umbridge's office after the twins left school, and so on.

Just as the three were chatting animatedly, the door of the Hog's Head Bar was pushed open again, and Angelina and Alia walked in together.

As soon as they entered the door, the enthusiastic Angelina said, "I didn't see you guys at the Three Broomsticks, so I thought you would be here."

The three people by the fireplace responded to the two female classmates with equal enthusiasm and gentlemanly gave them the warmest seats.

The group sat down again and started talking again. This time, the topic shifted from Lee Jordan to Angelina and Alia, asking them about their tryouts with professional teams and whether they would be able to play in the upcoming Quidditch season.

Of course, the premise is that this year's Quidditch game will be held as scheduled and will not be affected by Voldemort's return. Although we haven't seen each other for only two or three months, everyone has a lot to say and chats non-stop. Happy times are always short-lived. Before we know it, the sky has darkened, but everyone is still chatting enthusiastically.

At dusk Cedric Diggory entered the Hog's Head, brushing off the rain as he approached his noisy companions.

"Hey! Our busy man is here!" Fred said jokingly, "It's so hard to see you."

Cedric smiled and said, "I'm not a busy man, it's you two. The joke shop is so popular, it's really not easy to see you."

"We don't want to tell you this," George said in a rude tone. "You are an official now. We dare not go against your words."

Cedric was no match for the twins when it came to bickering, but after studying in the club for a while, Cedric felt that he had made great progress, so he wanted to see if he would still suffer a loss when facing the twins.

"I'm no match for you two when it comes to being an official," Cedric said persistently. "The Minister came to see you in person for those cloaks. As for me, he probably doesn't even know my name."

Cedric said as he cleaned the rain stains off his body, then sat down next to George and took a big swig of George's butterbeer.

After chatting for a few more words, the six people began to fall silent. They came here today naturally for Katie Bell.

If they don’t show any reaction when their good friend is cursed and hospitalized with serious injuries, that would be ridiculous!

A kind man is often bullied, and a kind horse is often ridden. After graduating from Hogwarts, the six people had a deeper understanding of this sentence, whether it was Cedric who struggled in the Ministry of Magic, Lee Jordan who encountered setbacks everywhere, or Angelina and Alia who were relatively smooth.

Aberforth was still wiping the cup. He had maintained that posture for a long time. He was also silently watching the six people gathered together.

As Dumbledore of Hogsmeade, Aberforth still had an impression of these people and was not surprised by their arrival. Except for Cedric, when Cedric walked into the bar, Aberforth was stunned for a moment.

In the Dawn study group, Cedric was the only one who was not a Gryffindor, and they had only been together for a short time. Now that he was an employee of the Ministry of Magic, he returned to Hogwarts for Katie, which still surprised Aberforth.

Aberforth glanced at the six people who had stopped making noise. There was an empty seat between the seats of the Weasley twins. Aberforth knew who that seat was reserved for.

Once the biggest troublemaker at Hogwarts, the head girl of the student union, and now the devil from France, that is the position reserved for Ada.

As night fell, Aberforth walked out of the counter and lit the candlesticks in the store one by one, and the somewhat dirty and messy bar suddenly became bright. While Aberforth was busy, the six people who were dull began to talk again.

"Do you know what exactly happened?" George asked. He and Fred only got the news that Katie was cursed by the opal necklace, and they didn't know the details.

Angelina and Alia shook their heads. They knew the same thing as the twins. Lee Jordan was the same. He said angrily, "Don't let me know who it is. If I leave him a good bone, I lose!"

Cedric thought for a moment and said, "According to the information I have learned, Mr. Weasley took people to Borgin and Burke's this morning. I am not sure whether they found anything."

The expectations in the first half of the sentence equaled the disappointments in the second half. All the friends looked at him with disdain, which made Cedric feel guilty and he kept touching his excellent nose.

Just then, the door of the Hog's Head Bar was pushed open again, bringing in a cold October wind.

Looking at the figure walking in, Aberforth sighed in his heart: What is coming cannot be avoided, how could she not come.

(End of this chapter)