Raven's Claw at Hogwarts

Chapter 4 Diagon Alley

In the early morning, two people, one big and one small, were walking on the road in Beiyang Ketun.

Among them, the tall middle-aged man must be at least two meters tall, while the other is a child, with a thin build, wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses that cannot be repaired by tape, and his hair must have been uncut for a long time, like a child. A pile of weeds piled on the head, covering the forehead.

Walking on the road, this strange combination attracted the attention of passers-by. Some even suspected that the child had been trafficked. After all, the "giant" did not look like a good person.

But no one was nosy, not even the one who called the police.After all, gang activities are not uncommon for the residents of North Yangkton, but it is rare to see them as unscrupulous.

These two are Hogwarts gamekeeper - Hagrid and Hogwarts freshman - Harry Potter.

After a while, the two came to the door of a shed in the woods west of North Yangkton. Hagrid cleared his throat and was about to knock on the door, but the door opened suddenly.

Mike looked at the giant outside the door, and recognized at first sight that it was Hagrid from Harry Potter.

Before Mike could speak, Hagrid put down his hand that was about to knock on the door, and coughed to ease the embarrassment.

"Are you Mike Townley? Well...let me see." Hagrid seemed to have forgotten his words in the middle of speaking, and took out a note from the pocket of his thick coat and read it.

"Abandoned by parents when I was 2 years old... escaped from the orphanage when I was 5 years old... wandering in London until now. Um, sorry!"

Realizing that he had actually read the contents of the note, Hagrid was even more embarrassed, and hurriedly crumpled the note and stuffed it back into his pocket.

"Um, to put it simply, I'm the gamekeeper at Hogwarts, and I'm here to take you to Diagon Alley, Harry."

Mike didn't care about Hagrid's rudeness, and showed a sunny smile.

"It's all right, Mr. Hagrid, and thank you for coming here."

Hagrid didn't talk nonsense. Seeing that Mike knew his purpose, he took Mike and Harry to London.

Harry was nervous all the way and never offered to speak.

He originally thought that Hagrid would use some magical method to take him to the wizarding world, but he didn't expect that Hagrid first took him to pick up a Hogwarts freshman named Mike, and then took the two of them to London by subway urban area.

For Mike, Harry has a good impression.After all, Harry used to feel that there was no one more miserable than himself in this world until he met Mike.

Compared with the experience of the other party, the sufferings he experienced seemed nothing.

Of course, it is not denied that Harry still has a little bit of gloating in his heart, but this kind of thinking was quickly suppressed by Harry, and a strong sense of guilt followed.I have to say that Harry is still very simple.

And Mike was very talkative along the way, always chatting with Hagrid and Harry for nothing.

After talking along the way, Hagrid's embarrassment disappeared quickly, while Harry responded to Hagrid and Mike's topic without saying a word, and he was still very nervous.

Not long after, Hagrid led them into the Leaky Cauldron.

The Leaky Cauldron is clearly famous as a public gateway to the wizarding and Muggle worlds of Britain.

But as a famous place, it is too dark and dirty.Several old women were sitting in a corner drinking sherry from small glasses, and one of them was smoking a long pipe.A small man in a top hat was chatting with a bar owner who was nearly bareheaded.

The three of them attracted everyone's attention as soon as they entered the door.

Tom, the owner of the bar, was about to greet Hagrid when he noticed the two people behind Hagrid. After looking carefully for a while, he stepped forward excitedly and held Harry's hand.

"My God! Are you Harry Potter? I'm so honored!"

As Tom's words fell to the ground, the whole bar erupted, and everyone rushed to Harry's side, hoping that the famous Harry Potter could shake hands with him.

Mike noticed that one of them was dressed like an Indian Ah San, and he was stuttering. Obviously, he was Quirrell, the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts this year.

Hagrid looked very smug, as if he was being forced to shake everyone's hand.However, he still played his role, and after driving away the crowd, he led the two of them to a brick wall behind the Leaky Cauldron.

"Count up to three yuan...and then count down to two yuan..." He muttered in a low voice. "Okay, stand back, little ones."

He tapped the wall three times with the head of his umbrella.

The brick he had knocked shuddered and began to move, and a small hole appeared in the middle. The hole became bigger and bigger. Before long, there was an archway wide enough for Hagrid to pass, leading to a winding The winding, unending cobblestone streets.

Mike looked at everything in Diagon Alley excitedly, this is the magical world!
Mike and Harry wished they had eight eyes, looking around constantly, trying to see everything around them clearly.

Hagrid laughed heartily when he saw the two of them looking like country bumpkins entering the city.

"Don't worry, we'll go to Gringotts to get the money first, and I'll show you around later, Harry." Hagrid noticed Mike beside Harry. "And you, Mike, don't worry. Your school supplies are ready for you at Hogwarts and we'll just pick them up at Gringotts.

Mike smiled and nodded, he could clearly feel that Hagrid treated him differently than Harry.

While chatting and laughing, they came to a snow-white building towering above the surrounding shops, and a goblin in a uniform of scarlet and gold by the shiny bronze gate bowed to them.

Harry was clearly curious, staring at the goblin.

Hagrid saw that he was possessing himself and said something to Harry. He was afraid that the goblin would hear him, so his voice was very low, and even Mike who was standing next to the two of them couldn't hear clearly.

Not long after they walked, a silver door appeared in front of the three of them, with words written on the door:

Come in, stranger, but beware of what happens to your insatiable greed, and you will be punished the most if you take it for nothing, so if you want to take from our underground vault a piece of wealth that was never yours, thief Ah, you have been warned, beware not treasure, but evil.

Mike dismissed this, because he was a bank robber in his previous life, and this kind of bank warning signs can only scare simple-minded people like Hagrid and Harry.

A few people passed through the gate and came to the hall. There were about a hundred goblins sitting on high stools behind a long counter. Register hastily.There are countless doors in the hall, which lead to different places, and many goblins point bows to draw people in and out of these doors.Hagrid and Harry walked towards the counter.

Hagrid had a few words with one of the goblins at the counter, and said to Mike: "Mike, just give him the Hogwarts admission letter, and he will give it to you. Go get something in the vault."

Mike nodded and watched them go away led by a goblin.

"Hello, sir." Mike turned around and handed the notice to the goblin.

The goblin didn't speak to Mike. After receiving the notice and looking at it with a magnifying glass for a while, he took out a large box from behind.

Mike opened the box, and saw that there were many learning items written on the notice in the box.

But there are traces of use, especially the crucible, the inner wall of the crucible is uneven, the bottom is obviously much thinner than other parts, and there are large groups of black stains on it.

Mike even suspected that its previous user had cooked shi with it, so that it still stinks to this day.

Mike closed the box and looked at the goblin who was looking down at the color of the gem.

"Can you exchange British pounds for Galleons here?"

"Of course, 5 British pounds can be exchanged for 1 gold galleon, and the limit is 100 gold galleons."

The goblin raised his head, a little surprised that Mike, a poor ghost, would ask this.

"Keep it a secret." Mike threw out a small pocket, which contained pounds of various currencies.

The goblin opened the pocket and counted the coins inside, the speed startled Mike.

After a while, the goblin put a pack of Galleons into Mike's hands.

"We have a rule that every exchange of Muggle coins for Galleons by Hogwarts students must be reported to Hogwarts."

The goblin spread his hands on the counter as if he could do nothing, but the smile on his face gave him away.

"What a greedy guy." Mike took out 5 gold coins from his pocket, and placed them concealedly in the hands of the goblin spread out on the counter. "Also, tell the big guy who just went in that I'm going to go shopping and meet up at the Leaky Cauldron by then."

The little goblin got a bribe and nodded as if she was pounding garlic.

"Don't worry sir, you have never exchanged for Galleons."

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(End of this chapter)