Hogwarts Card System.

Chapter 13 School is about to start~
Ted used pounds to buy some underwear, daily necessities, notebooks, pens, ink and other things in the Muggle world.

I also bought some white mice, locusts, crickets and other insects for Ansu as snacks.

At first, Ansu could only eat mealworms, but now mealworms are no longer enough to fill his stomach. He has started eating big bugs and mice!

The bird's beak could peck the mouse's skull to pieces in one go, and then it would use its claws to tear it into pieces and eat it.

The big boss of Corvidae, with amazing fighting power.

Ted returned to Diagon Alley and went to Gringotts with the cash.

"Sir, I want to exchange gold Galleons." He looked up and said to the old goblin behind the high counter.

The old goblin pushed his glasses up indifferently and looked at Ted carefully. "Did you bring the acceptance letter?"

Ted handed over the acceptance letter.

The old goblin looked at it carefully, then returned it: "The maximum annual quota is only 50 gold galleons. How much do you want to exchange?"

"What's the exchange rate?" Ted asked.

"Five pounds to the Galleon."

Ted counted out £250 and handed it to the leprechaun.

The old goblin was quite surprised, probably because he didn't expect that this kid in second-hand robes could come up with so much money. But after all, he had seen a lot of things, so he said nothing and gave him a bag of gold galleons.

After leaving Gringotts, Ted weighed the purse in his hand and a smile appeared on his face.

It looks like I won’t need to take out another loan next year, and I’ll try to pay off this year’s loan as well.

Debt-free is a relief~
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The day when school starts at Hogwarts is getting closer.

Ted had never been so eager for school to start.

That anxious feeling is like sitting on a train to visit my long-distance girlfriend - impatient and anxious.

What? I don't have a girlfriend! Oh, forget it, just pretend I didn't say that.

As the school starts soon, the flow of people in Diagon Alley has obviously increased a lot.

Many wizarding parents bring their children to Diagon Alley to purchase school necessities.

Places like Flourish and Blotts Bookstore and Madam Malkin's Robe Shop are always crowded with people all day long.

Ted's work has also become much busier.

Just a few days before school started, Ted was sorting books at Flourish and Blotts.

Suddenly, a voice was heard: "Dad! It's the singing little magician! And his raven!"

Ted looked in the direction of the voice and saw a father and daughter walking into the bookstore. They turned out to be his "old customers"!
This... I didn't expect London to be so small!

Ted took the initiative to step forward and greeted them, "Hello, my name is Ted Epifani, and I'm a young wizard who will be attending school this year. Thank you for appreciating my performance."

The man held out his hand. "Hello, I'm Chris Granger, a dentist. You should know what a dentist does, right?"

Granger?! I didn’t expect him to be one of the three.

Ted shook hands with Mr. Granger without changing his expression. "Oh, of course, but I'd rather not know what a dentist does. I'm most afraid of dentists." He looked like a little patient who was about to lie in the dental chair.

Granger was amused by Ted and laughed heartily: "Hahaha, haha, ahem ~ sorry, I didn't expect the little wizard to be so humorous."

He pointed to the little girl next to him and said, "This is my daughter Hermione Granger, a little wizard who will be attending school this year. She was clamoring to buy a few more books, so we came again."

Ted: I guessed it. I should have thought it was Miss Beaver's when I saw the bunny teeth!

Hermione wasn't black, the world wasn't so distorted that it couldn't be accepted.

"Hello Hermione, if you need any books, you can tell me. I work part-time here and can help you find it..." he said.

Hermione had always admired this boy who could sing, play the guitar, perform magic tricks, and had an obedient raven. When she learned that Ted had used the two months before school started to work in Diagon Alley and learn magic, she was so impressed that her eyes widened.

Working in a magic shop in Diagon Alley! She looked at Mr. Granger.

Mr. Granger quickly waved his hand: "Oh, no. Hermione, think about your mother, she won't agree."

He and Mrs. Granger were already reluctant to let their daughter go to a boarding magic school, so how could they let Hermione use the brief reunion time before school started to work?

The reason I didn't say it was because I was afraid of irritating Ted.

Unlike Hermione, Mr. Granger was more concerned about Ted's status as an orphan.

Such independence and diligence are probably related to this aspect. Such a child is really pitiful and admirable.

Ted greeted the clerk and offered to guide his "friend" around Diagon Alley.

Ted introduced the products and styles of each store to the father and daughter and told them some interesting stories.

Mr. Granger listened with great interest, while Hermione asked many questions about Ted's self-taught magic.

She finally found someone with whom she could communicate magic.

"This is Giggs Giggs Pharmacy. The ingredients used in the prescriptions are genuine and of good quality. Mr. Giggs is a good man. He gave me my first part-time job..."

"If you want to have a pet one day, the Magical Animals Pet Shop is the best choice. The animals here are all magical creatures. They are stronger and smarter, and they are good companions. I help with the cleaning here and take care of their diet..."

Finally, Mr. Granger decided to buy Hermione an owl.

Originally Hermione didn't want to buy an owl because she felt that taking care of an owl might affect her study time.

But Ted told her about the owl - that owls were actually very easy to take care of and didn't need any care at all.

Moreover, Hermione wanted to write to Ted to learn magic after returning home, but she couldn't do that without an owl.

Mr. Granger even hoped that his daughter would write home frequently after she went to school.

Finally, at Eeyore Owl Shop, Hermione picked out a long-eared owl with two "ears" on its head and beautiful patterns on its body, and named it Magic, which means "magic".

In Great Britain, dentists earn very high salaries, much higher than ordinary doctors.

Given the British people's love of sweets, the demand for dentists is particularly high.

Granger and his wife are both dentists and have their own dental clinic. Those lonely pure-blood families in the wizarding world may not be as rich as Hermione's family.

Finally, Ted had a drink with the Grangers at the Leaky Cauldron.

He and Hermione drank butter beer, of course, and Granger, who was curious about butter beer because he had to drive, also ordered a "children's drink". He praised it highly.

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Time passed quickly, and the last few days slipped away quietly.

Ted quit his part-time job these days and devoted himself to studying magic in his own small utility room in the Leaky Cauldron.

Just after sending the Grangers away, Ted made some progress in his research on psychic powers.

He possesses a special "ability"!
Everyone must have had this experience: when you are doing something you particularly like, you become particularly focused, without any distractions, and don't want to be disturbed.

Forget time, forget hunger and thirst, forget sorrow, immerse yourself completely in it and enter a state of ecstasy.

There will be a high sense of excitement and fulfillment in this process.

For example, when I am playing my favorite game, I often fall into a trance and play it for several hours.

Ted has mastered this mental state that Muggle psychologists call "flow".

He is able to use the flow state to immerse himself completely in learning and research, a powerful positive feedback that greatly improves his learning efficiency.

Of course, this behavior takes a lot of energy, and Ted usually doesn't do it for more than four hours a day to avoid hurting himself.

Apart from that, I communicated with Hermione.

Hermione's owl Magic is really not just for show. He comes back and forth almost every day.

Ted could fully understand Hermione's curiosity and excitement about the wizarding world.

He would tell Hermione about some of the living habits and interesting stories he encountered in Diagon Alley that were different from those of Muggles, and explain to her some of his understanding of magic.

In a blink of an eye, it is already the end of August.

Anzu can now fly very high and far, it has grown up and even rushed to deliver letters to Hermione.

Ted: "Can you find Hermione? Can you? It's not that close."

Ansu held his head high, chest puffed out, opened his beak, flapped his wings to make a chest-beating gesture, and shouted, "It's a small matter! It's a small matter! Quack~"

It has learned some words.

Ted tied the letter to its leg and watched it fly away.

In the letter, he agreed with Hermione to meet on the train tomorrow.

Tomorrow is September 9st, the day school starts at Hogwarts!

It's finally here!
Thanks to book friend "戚刀sky" for the reward of 1500!
Thanks to book friend “炁1” for the reward of 100!
Thank you~
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(End of this chapter)