After living in Diagon Alley for a week, although the work here was hard, Jon had not encountered the trouble he originally suspected he might encounter.
The potion shop receives many customers every day, but most of the mixed-blood and pure-blood people don't even look at him and treat him as nothing. A few people already have disgust on their faces after entering the door.
Sometimes, Aikemo would take the initiative to ask him to escape in the cellar.
After all, Ikemo is a member of the Order of the Phoenix. Jon can feel that he is very sympathetic to the situation of the "Mudblood", but because this is in a bustling wizard street like Diagon Alley, he can't express his sympathy to "Mudblood" openly.
Smith is treated and respected as a normal person and can only be given some secret care in his daily life.
For example, the bed Jon sleeps on now at least has bedding, and the food he normally eats is the same as Acmo. When he senses that a wizard with obvious ill intentions towards the "Mudblood" has entered the store, Acmo will
Help him out in a subtle way.
In fact, Jon thought about leaving the potion shop several times and checking out other shops in Diagon Alley, but after much hesitation, he chose to give up.
After the end of July, there is only one month left before the new semester starts. The number of tourists in Diagon Alley is increasing every day. Many of them are parents who bring their children to buy textbooks and learning supplies for the new semester.
.
With his current identity, it is impossible for him to walk openly on the streets of Diagon Alley unless he steals a piece of hair from another wizard and turns into an adult wizard and goes out with a wand.
But the risk was too great. He was not sure of the identity of the wizard he had become. If he met someone he knew, the secret would be revealed easily.
In the end, Jon didn't try to take the risk. His original purpose of going out was just to browse the surrounding shops to see if there were any "mudbloods" like him who were sent here for forced labor during the summer vacation. There was no other reason.
Something important.
Just today, when Jon continued to clean the windows repeatedly every day after opening the store door in Aikemo as usual, a pair of father and son with light blond hair and well-dressed headed towards the potion store.
They didn't seem to notice Jon, and the conversation between them didn't turn down.
"... Not only did he accept an appointment at the Ministry of Magic and become the owner of the Leaky Cauldron, but his antique shop in Knockturn Alley still collects items. This old guy was really lucky. He was broken before.
The owner of the Cauldron Bar is Old Tom, but he moved to France with his family five years ago. Well, I heard that he could not accept the current changes in the wizarding world and did not have the courage to resist. In the end, this position was won by Borgin.
, he seems to have a lot of connections around that gentleman.”
"But you still have to bow your head when he sees dad!"
"We, the pure-blooded ones, are the most noble in the world. Draco, no matter how related he is, so what? He is just a half-blood bastard."
When they opened the door and prepared to enter the store, the father and son ended the conversation, especially when the blond middle-aged wizard lowered his voice deliberately when he said "half-blood bastard".
After living here for a week, Jon still learned some common sense in the current magical world.
Under Voldemort's rule, the status of half-blood wizards is naturally not as low as that of Muggle wizards. After all, if he really only combined the power of pure-blood wizards, it would be almost impossible for him to stabilize the rule of the magic world.
If classes were divided by blood, then he would have to win over the largest number of mixed-race wizards in the magic world, and at least give them an equal status.
Therefore, the current classes in the entire magical world are clear-pure blood>mixed blood>mudblood. This system can actually be said to be a replica of the four social classes during the slave society of ancient Rome.
Purebloods are nobles and knights, half-bloods are citizens, and mudbloods are slaves.
Although the status of mixed-bloods is not as good as that of pure-bloods, they still have human rights. The "mixed-blood bastard" mentioned by the middle-aged wizard just now is actually an insulting term used by pure-bloods for mixed-bloods. It is also strictly prohibited in today's magic world.
It's as bad as calling Muggle wizards "Mudbloods" in normal magical society.
Many of the shop owners in Diagon Alley are of mixed race, so no matter how arrogant and wanton the middle-aged wizard is, he would not dare to say the name "half-blood bastard" openly.
Jon heard the middle-aged wizard call the boy next to him who was about the same age as himself, and combined with their appearance, he certainly guessed who these two people were.
Lucius Malfoy and Draco Malfoy were pure-blooded people with a well-established background, and they were strong supporters who had stood with Voldemort since the beginning of his uprising.
Now he serves as the Chief of Staff of the Auror Command in the Ministry of Magic, and he seems to be highly regarded by Voldemort.
But Jon, who has read the original work, knows that the Malfoy family's loyalty to Voldemort is not absolute. They may support a certain side, but their main purpose is to seek benefits for their own family.
Watching them enter the potion shop, Jon continued to wipe the glass of the outside window in silence.
His shabby linen robe looked out of place with the adults and children wearing clean robes on the street, as if they were from two different worlds, but he did not pay attention to this, but observed with the corner of his eye.
Watch the movements of Malfoy and his son after entering the store.
Aikemo's attitude towards them was very enthusiastic. Even if he was a mixed-race citizen, he was still a far cry from the privileged "nobles" in terms of status.
At a young age, Draco also learned that arrogant attitude from his father. When he glanced at the potions on the shelves, his eyes clearly showed disgust.
They didn't stay in the store for long, but directly told Aikemo what they needed, then bought two bottles of potions that looked like enhancement pills, and walked out again within two minutes.
This time Jon was not as lucky as before. When Draco came out of the shop, he turned around and noticed Jon who was washing the rag, and his already arrogant face suddenly showed
A look of disgust.
"I actually met a mudblood."
Lucius heard what he said and looked at Jon, his brows obviously frowned.
"Did you enter the castle in the same year?"
"Yes, I have some impressions of this little bug. I have seen him several times in the castle. When Professor Crouch was punishing those daring Mudbloods, he was frightened and cried on the spot."
Regarding the unpleasant names in their mouths, Jon's face did not change at all. He still wiped the window without saying a word, and listened very carefully to what Draco said.
"The principal is too kind to these mudbloods. Last semester, he actually found these bugs holding meetings and organizations in the castle."