Chapter 4 Diagon Alley

In the early morning, two people, one large and one small, were walking on the road in North Yankton.

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

This strange combination walking on the road attracted the attention of the surrounding pedestrians. Some even suspected that the child had been abducted. After all, the "giant" did not look like a good person.

But no one was meddling, not even calling the police. After all, gang activities are not uncommon for the residents of North Yorkton, but it is rare to see them being as unscrupulous as they are.

These two people are Hagrid, the gamekeeper of Hogwarts, and Harry Potter, the new student at Hogwarts.

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

Mike looked at the giant outside the door and recognized the person at first sight as Hagrid from Harry Potter.

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

"Are you Mike Townley? Hmm...let me see." Hagrid seemed to have forgotten his words mid-sentence. He took out a piece of paper from the pocket of his thick coat and read it.

"Abandoned by his parents when he was 2 years old... escaped from the orphanage when he was 5 years old... and has been wandering in London ever since. Well, I'm sorry!"

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

"Well, to put it simply, I am the gamekeeper of Hogwarts. I am here to take you, Harry, to Diagon Alley."

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

"It's okay, Mr. Hagrid. Thank you for coming."

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

Harry was very nervous all the way and never took the initiative to speak.

He originally thought that Hagrid would use some magical method to take him to the wizarding world. Unexpectedly, Hagrid first took him to pick up a new student at Hogwarts named Mike, and then took the two of them to London by subway. urban area.

Harry had a good impression of Mike. After all, Harry had always felt that he could never find anyone more miserable than himself in this world, until he met Mike.

Compared with the other person's experience, the sufferings he has experienced seem to be nothing.

Of course, there was no denying that Harry still had a little bit of schadenfreude in his heart, but this feeling was quickly suppressed by Harry, followed by a strong sense of guilt. I have to say that Harry is still very innocent.

Mike was very talkative along the way, always looking for trouble to chat with Hagrid and Harry.

After talking along the way, Hagrid's embarrassment quickly disappeared, and Harry responded to Hagrid and Mike's topics word by word. He was still very nervous.

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

The Leaky Cauldron is obviously famous as a public entrance connecting the wizarding world of Britain and the Muggle world.

But for a place that's famous, it's just too dark and dirty. Several old women were sitting in the corner, drinking sherry from small glasses, and one of them was smoking a long pipe. A little man in a top hat was chatting with a bar owner who had almost all his hair removed.

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

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

"Oh my God! You're Harry Potter, right? I'm so honored!"

As Tom's words came to light, the whole bar was boiling, and everyone rushed to squeeze towards Harry, hoping that the famous Harry Potter could shake his hand.

Mike noticed one of them, who was dressed like an Indian Asan. He stuttered when he spoke. It was obvious that he was Quirrell, the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts this year.

Hagrid looked very proud, as if he was being forced to shake hands with everyone. However, he fulfilled his duty, drove away everyone, and led the two of them to a brick wall behind the Leaky Cauldron.

"Count three dollars upward... count two dollars horizontally..." He muttered softly. "Okay, stand back, little guys."

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

The brick he knocked on shook and began to move. A small hole appeared in the middle, and the hole became larger and larger. Soon, an archway wide enough for Hagrid to pass appeared in front of them, leading to a winding road. The winding cobbled streets have no end in sight.

Mike looked at everything in Diagon Alley excitedly, this is the magical world!

Mike and Harry wished they had eight eyes and kept looking around, trying to take in everything around them.

Hagrid laughed heartily when he saw the two of them looking like country bumpkins coming to town.

"Don't worry, let's go to Gringotts to get the money first, and we'll take you for a nice tour later, Harry." Hagrid noticed Mike next to Harry. "And you, Mike, don't worry. Your school supplies are all prepared for you at Hogwarts. We can just go to Gringotts to pick them up."

Mike smiled and nodded. He could clearly feel that Hagrid's attitude towards him and Harry was different.

While talking and laughing, they came to a snow-white building that towered high above the surrounding shops. Beside the shiny bronze door, a goblin wearing a scarlet and gold uniform bowed to them.

Harry was clearly curious and kept staring at the goblin.

Seeing the situation, Hagrid possessed him and said something to Harry. He was afraid that the goblin would hear him, so his voice was very low. Even Mike, who was standing next to the two of them, couldn't hear clearly.

Not long after walking, a silver door appeared in front of the three people, with words written on the door:

Come in, stranger, but beware of what will happen if you are greedy. Asking blindly and getting something for nothing will be severely punished, so if you want to take a piece of wealth from our underground vault that has never been yours, thief Ah, you have been warned, beware not of treasure but of evil.

Mike dismissed this. He was a bank robber in his previous life. Such bank warning signs can only scare simple-minded people like Hagrid and Harry.

Several people walked through the door and entered the hall. There were about a hundred goblins sitting on high stools behind a row of long counters. Some used copper scales to weigh coins, and some used eyepieces to inspect gems. Register in a hurry. There are countless doors in the hall, leading to different places, and many goblins use their bows to guide people in and out of these doors. Hagrid and Harry walked towards the counter.

Hagrid spoke a few words to one of the goblins at the counter, and said to Mike: "Mike, just give him the admission notice to Hogwarts. He will give you the things. Harry and I will return Gonna go get something from the vault.”

Mike nodded and watched them walk away, led by a goblin.

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

The goblin didn't speak to Mike. He took the notice and looked at it with a magnifying glass for a while, then 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 signs 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 black stains on it.

Mike even suspected that its previous user had cooked food in 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 gems.

"Can you exchange pounds for gold galleons?"

"Of course, 5 pounds is exchanged for 1 gold galleung, and the limit is 100 gold galleons."

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

"Keep it a secret." Mike threw out a small pocket with pounds in various currencies in it.

The little goblin opened the pocket and counted the coins inside, so fast that Mike was shocked.

After a while, the goblin put a bag of gold galleons in Mike's hand.

"We have regulations that require every transaction by Hogwarts students to exchange Muggle coins for gold galleons."

The little goblin spread his hands on the counter as if helpless, but the smile on his face betrayed him.

"What a greedy guy." Mike took out 5 gold coins from his pocket and placed them covertly in the goblin's hand on the counter. "Also, let me tell the guys who just came in that I'm going to have a look around and meet up at the Leaky Cauldron."

The little elf got the bribe and nodded like he was pounding garlic.

"Don't worry, sir, you have never exchanged gold galleons."

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