Hogwarts becomes host

Time passed quickly, and today was the day that Ron and I agreed to go to Diagon Alley to buy school supplies.

In the original book, the Grangers would also take Hermione there because they had to exchange pounds for Galleons, but last year Elaine gave Hermione a gold vault full of gold to repay her for the popularity she provided, so this year the Grangers Then he stopped following Hermione.

They left the matter to Elaine and Lupine and went to work with confidence, although if they insisted on going, Elaine would stop them.

Because Adair is planning to cause trouble, and I don’t know what he wants to do, it’s best to avoid the Grangers who don’t know magic. It’s too dangerous.

If you use magic in a place where people come and go, the ghost will believe that it will not affect the masses.

After breakfast, Elaine, Hermione and Daphne reached Diagon Alley easily through the Floo Network.

The three of them went to Gringotts to withdraw money. Daphne showed a strange interest in the Shafiq family's treasury and insisted on going in to admire it.

"I don't think there's anything interesting about that, isn't it just Galleons?" Elaine complained. "It takes more than half an hour to get money by car and show the token to the goblins. It only takes three to five minutes to ask them to collect it on your behalf. Of course, it is faster if you choose to collect it on your behalf."

"I think so," Daphne insisted. "That's my future property, so I should take a look."

"Nonsense, that's mine."

"We will get married anyway, and what's yours is still mine."

"How thick-skinned do you have to be to say such things without changing your expression?"

They walked towards the pure white marble building noisily, and suddenly Hermione raised her arms, waved in the distance and shouted. "Harry Hagrid hey here"

Within a few seconds, Hagrid used his huge body to separate the crowd, and appeared in front of the three of them with Harry covered in soot.

Harry's glasses were crooked and had cracks on the lenses. He seemed to suffer from floo powder and could not keep his balance during the transfer.

Although it won't be too much trouble, it's a bit uncomfortable every time I use floo powder and I have to spin around and get bruises all over my body.

Then the Weasley family also appeared. Mrs. Weasley thanked Elaine very gratefully for the large sum of gold she provided. Mr. Weasley held Elaine's hand tightly and smiled. She told her that Weasley would support the Shafik family against the Malfoy family and that she could always send him a letter for help if needed.

When Mrs. Weasley thanked Hagrid for finding Harry from Knockturn Alley and bringing him out, Ron greeted Elaine cheerfully and introduced Ginny to them, while Fred and George asked Elaine jokingly Lian, how was your cuddle holiday? It seems like Lupine and Harry were talking too much about certain things.

"It's nothing, just a normal vacation." Elaine replied calmly with no expression on her face. "There is no such mess as you think─"

"Elaine is very nice. She took me to buy new clothes, cooked the food herself, and provided a room for me to stay in." Daphne said with a smile. "It was a very delicious lunch. To thank her, I sneaked into her room that night and lay on her bed and waited──"

"Oh"

The twin brothers looked at Elaine with weird smiles, Ron and Harry looked at Elaine with disbelief, and Elaine rolled her eyes helplessly.

"Elaine pressed on me and told me that sooner or later I will be a member of the Shafiq family." Daphne continued with a shy look. "So there's no problem with whatever she wants to do, even if it's a bit rough─"

"Oh oh oh──"

"Then I was beaten by Hermione." Elaine said angrily, "She asked Hermione to wear an invisibility cloak and stand beside her, deliberately tempting me to say those words, so nothing happened, and there was nothing you wanted to hear. Gossip"

After hearing the whole story, Fred and George laughed shamelessly, Ron couldn't help laughing, and most of the people laughed except Elaine who made a bad face.

"Stop talking." Elaine sighed, "By the way, where's Remus?"

"Mr. Lupin said he was going to see an old friend." Harry wiped his glasses, which Mr. Weasley had just repaired with his wand. "It seems that Professor Dumbledore asked him to send a message. You must not know who I saw in Knockturn Alley, the Malfoy family."

Elaine sighed, what is supposed to come will still come, Malfoy has indeed come, what will Adair plan to do?

After Hagrid waved goodbye to them, the group entered Gringotts to collect the money. Elaine couldn't leave Daphne and the Weasley family alone, so she had to get on the cart again and go to the vault.

First it was Hermione's vault, then the Weasley family's. Elaine glanced at it and found that at least two-thirds of the gold she gave to the Weasley family had been used up. This place was not as eye-catching as Hermione's vault. .

It seems that there is no reason why the Weasley family is poor. In addition to the low salary from work, there are also problems with money. However, Elaine has no position to speak out. This is their family's own choice.

The train descended quickly and entered Harry's vault, and finally the Shafiq family's. Hermione quickly answered the Sphinx's question as usual, and then the group of people walked into the Shafiq family's vault. Blinded by that crazy pile of golden light.

"Oh my God," said Ron dreamily, "could I live here?"

"If you plan to live on Galleons, I actually don't mind." Elaine was not going to play the piano, but took out the prepared Mark of the Head of the Shafiq Family. "But every piece of gold here has magic on it. Even if you live here, you can't touch them."

The mark floated on its own and played music in the air. Following the melody, the defensive magic attached to the vault disappeared briefly. Only then did Elaine fish out a few coins.

"I am becoming more and more determined to marry you." Daphne said to Elaine after walking out of the vault.

"So are we." The twin brothers nodded and said. "Can we hold a wedding as soon as you become an adult?"

"roll."

After leaving the underground vault and dividing the money, they separated on the marble steps outside Gringotts.

While Percy muttered about buying a new quill, Fred and George went to play with their school friend Lee Jordan;

Mrs. Weasley took Ginny to Mrs. Morse's robe shop; Mr. Weasley originally wanted to follow his wife and daughter, but a silver wolf suddenly appeared in front of him and spat out a small note.

After reading the note, Mr. Weasley hurriedly left without saying anything, and Elaine's face darkened.

The silver wolf is Lupine's guardian. This method of guardian communication is only used among members of the Order of the Phoenix. It seems that Dumbledore took his warning to heart.

Lupin, Mr. Weasley, an unknown old friend, and probably more.

At least three members of the Order of the Phoenix were on standby. Elaine originally thought that there would only be two people keeping watch.

It seemed that Adair was more dangerous than he thought, otherwise Dumbledore would not have sent so many people.

"Meet at the bookstore in one hour." Mrs. Weasley didn't seem to know the truth. She took Ginny to buy robes and shouted at the twins' backs before leaving. "Don't go to Knockturn Alley"

Ron showed off his new wand to Elaine and Hermione, 14 inches, willow wood, unicorn tail hair. Originally, he used his brother's old wand, but because Elaine provided a large sum of money, Mrs. Weasley So I bought him a new one.

"The new wand is really easier to use." Ron told them, "I feel like I've become stronger."

"So you broke the rules and secretly used magic?" Hermione asked, raising her eyebrows.

"Well, look, a full set of Chadley Artillery uniforms," ​​Ron immediately changed the subject and complained softly. "I don't believe you are useless."

"We have used it." Elaine shrugged and said nonchalantly, "We use it every day. If you don't use magic, you will get tired of it. That's why there is a rule not to use magic during the holidays."

"Are you wrong? It's not used by students, so it's not allowed for students to use it." Harry asked.

"That's right, this rule is a deliberate backdoor for pure-blood family students." Elaine explained, "The Ministry of Magic can only detect the presence of magic somewhere, but cannot identify the real user, so they can only rely on Rely on wizard parents to restrain their children’s behavior.”

"Then why do my parents still prevent me from using magic?" Ron said in shock. "They should have let me practice."

"Probably because they think you will blow up the house." Daphne analyzed rationally. "Practicing magic is risky. The Shafiq family has the money to put up multiple layers of defensive magic. Even so, Elaine and Hermione almost brought down the house."

"We didn't bring down the house," Hermione argued, raising her voice.

"Yes, you are wrong." Elaine also explained. "The explosion didn't destroy the house. At most it collapsed the basement. We just almost buried ourselves alive."

"I won't use magic at home anymore. I can still study at school."

The five of them casually visited a few shops, with Ron and Harry chatting side by side, while Hermione, Elaine, and Daphne walked behind.

Daphne persisted in holding Elaine's arm, but Elaine seemed nonchalant because of Adair and let her go.

Perhaps because she saw her friends in pairs and felt that she was being squeezed out when she was alone, Hermione looked dissatisfied and simply took Elaine's free right hand and took the two of them to her favorite shop.

Elaine continued to be in a daze, letting Hermione pull her back and forth, while Daphne snickered, not knowing what she was happy about.

After shopping for a while, they walked towards Flourish and Blotts Bookstore.

There were far more people going to the bookstore than them. A large group of people crowded outside the store. Different from last year when they came, today there was a large-character poster floating out of thin air above the bookstore: Gilderoy Lockhart Autograph Session, with " There was an enlarged photo of Lockhart's head. In the photo, Lockhart was winking at the crowd, flashing his dazzling white teeth. Elaine suddenly got goosebumps all over her body.

Ron read out the advertising note posted on the side: Signing event for Lockhart's new autobiography, Magical Me, today at 12:30 4:30 pm.

Most of the crowd were witches of Mrs. Weasley's age. A tired-looking wizard stood at the door and repeatedly tried to dissuade her, but to no avail.

“Ladies, please be quiet, don’t be crowded, be careful with the books.”

"How can we go in and buy books?" Elaine was very happy because she found Hermione looking irritable. "There are too many people, Merlin, how should we get along with the others?"