"The terminal, London-Paddington Station, has arrived. Passengers please get off the train in order."
The swaying train finally stopped, and the conductor rang the bell to remind the passengers that they had arrived at their destination.
Elena looked at the "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" in her hand, closed it gently with satisfaction, twisted her stiff neck, raised her head and looked out the window.
Night has completely enveloped the entire London. London at the end of the 20th century was not as brightly lit as in later generations. Pedestrians in dark coats hurried about under the dim yellow street lights.
"Then, the next step is to go to Diagon Alley through the passage of the Leaky Cauldron... Well, by the way, how do you get to the Leaky Cauldron?"
Sitting alone on a bench at the train station with two books in her arms, the smile on Elena's face gradually disappeared.
Although her earliest memory was of being on the streets of London, in fact, she was picked up by the kind-hearted Benitez after wandering for a few hours.
Therefore, Elena can be said to be completely unfamiliar with this huge city, not to mention that 99% of the time the exact location of the Leaky Cauldron will not be plotted on a Muggle map.
Elena realized for the first time that without a guide, the magic world's concealment ability was too powerful.
Just these two spells, the Unplottable Curse and the Muggle Expelling Curse, are enough to hide any magic passage in any city under low-intensity search conditions.
"It seems that we can only find a way to go to the Ministry of Magic for help first..."
A train station at night is definitely not a suitable place for a little girl to stay for a long time. The warm lobby and comfortable benches will soon attract many wanderers wandering around the city.
If the original description is correct, Elena still remembers that the guest entrance of the British Ministry of Magic is an abandoned red phone box that has been casted with the [Muggle Expelling Curse] near the British Ministry of Defense. Dial the number 62442 from the phone box ("
MAGIC”).
Following the operator's prompts, the issued pass will fall out of the coin return slot, and at the same time, the phone booth will lower to the ground and reach the main hall on the eighth floor of the Ministry of Magic.
As a mixed-blood Veela, the [Muggle Expelling Curse] will naturally not have any effect on Elena. The only problem is that the original novel does not describe the location of this abandoned red phone booth in too much detail, and she is not sure
How big is the so-called "nearby" range?
"Anyway, let's go take a look first."
Elena quickly made up her mind and was about to stand up and leave the train station.
After all, as long as she enters the Ministry of Magic, Elena can use the power of gold galleons to successfully reach Diagon Alley.
Guguguha~
At this time, a strange owl hooted in the air.
Immediately afterwards, Elena felt a small furry thing bump into her arms from mid-air, rubbing against her body fawningly.
"Reserve food? Why are you here?"
Elena grabbed the little owl in front of her with both hands and asked curiously. In her mind, it should stay in Benitez's orphanage at this time.
Gu~
The little owl stood on Elena's knees and spread its wings excitedly and flapped twice. Only then did Elena notice that it was carrying a thick envelope at its feet.
[Be safe and keep in touch every day. If I don’t receive a reply before dinner tomorrow, I will inform Mr. Burley, the elf who provides the catering.——Benitez]
In addition to this, the envelope also contained an additional two thousand pounds, as well as several blank sheets of letter paper and a small pencil.
"I have to report my itinerary every day. What a troublesome uncle. He obviously doesn't understand anything." Elena complained in a low voice, slightly curved her mouth, folded the envelope carefully and put it in her arms.
The problems she is facing now cannot be solved by relying on pounds.
Wait, besides going to the Ministry of Magic for help, there seems to be another way?
The silver-haired little Luoli's eyes fell on the reserve grain on his knees. At this time, the little laughing owl was flapping its wings excitedly for the success of its first long-distance mailing. Speaking of which, how did it find itself accurately across such a long distance?
?
Elena's eyes lit up, she picked up the reserve grain and kissed it happily, looking at the little owl in her hand with bright eyes.
"Reserve food, I love you so much!"
Gu?⊙▽⊙!
In Elena's view, in addition to being able to deliver messages and make their meat more delicious, owls in the magical world also have a lot of derivative uses that can be developed.
In fact, as an important link between the magical world and the real world, the owl that serves as a postman can also be regarded as a magical animal in a broad sense - although it does not possess magic power itself, it can sense magic power and enter some parts of the world.
A place hidden by magic.
As long as there is no wizard deliberately hiding or interfering, the owl can always accurately deliver the letter to the recipient. Therefore, it is obvious that the owl as a postman can identify, or more accurately, lock a specific natural person within a certain range
coordinate of.
Another practical issue that can arise from this is that, in a sense, owls in the magical world can be used as pathfinding elves or even searchers.
After all, you only need to write a letter and follow the owl, and it has a high probability of helping you find the target. Especially when the target is at fixed coordinates, such as Hogwarts, or the Leaky Cauldron.
.
Holding a small reserve of food, Elena walked through ordinary streets one after another, passing bookstores, record stores, burger shops, movie theaters, and finally stopped in front of a large bookstore and a record store on the other side.
There was a small, dirty bar sandwiched between them, and people rushing past didn't even glance at it, as if they couldn't see it at all.
"Thank you for your hard work in stocking up on food. Ahem, there's no need to send this letter."
Looking at the little owl holding a piece of paper in its arms and flapping its wings excitedly to fly into the bar, Elena smiled slightly and pulled out the piece of paper from its beak. It read: [London
-The Leaky Cauldron-Collected by Tom Abbott].
Elena can remember the name of the owner of the Leaky Cauldron, thanks to the many writers who wrote Harry Potter fan fiction in the previous life, who took the trouble to mention (actually copying the number of words) Hannah E.
Bo was such a character that she went to search for information about "Hardcore Hannah" before she found out about such an unpopular piece of news. (For more details, click here)
Otherwise, her last resort was to let the reserve take the gold galleons to find the goblin Gallywix of Gringotts to help lead the way, but this would definitely have an uncontrollable impact on the subsequent plans.
Shaking her head, Elena didn't hesitate anymore, pushed open the door of the Leaky Cauldron and walked straight in.
Contrary to the deserted and quiet scene on the outside, the bar is extremely crowded and noisy. Obviously, for the wizards who have been busy for a day, it is a very pleasant thing to sit down and have a drink. The dark and dirty small space is very hot.
, filled with smoke, a bar owner Tom Abbott, who had almost all his hair taken off and looked like a shriveled walnut, was working hard to greet the customers.
No one noticed that a little girl came in at the door, and Elena was so happy that she walked directly through the bar and came to the small patio with walls on all sides. There was nothing here except a trash can and some weeds.
The silver-haired little Luoli raised his head and counted carefully, "Start from the wall tiles on top of the trash can, count three tiles upwards - and then count two tiles sideways - that should be almost there."
At first, she was a little worried about whether there was something wrong with this primitive counting method, but from the moment she raised her head, she understood that within that area, there was obviously a wall tile that was more worn than the surrounding ones.
It's much taller and seems to be knocked and touched frequently.
"one two three……"
Elena put the two books in her hands under her feet, stood on tiptoes, leaned on the wall, stretched out her hand and tapped the brick three times with great effort, then hurried down and looked nervously
wall.
The next moment, the brick she knocked suddenly started to shake and start to move. A small hole appeared in the middle, and the hole became bigger and bigger. After a while, a wide archway appeared, leading to a winding road.
Endless cobbled streets.
"Phew, we're finally here. The most important goal in the new year is to grow taller."
Elena breathed a sigh of relief, with an expression of joy on her face. She picked up the book with her left hand, and pressed the food reserve standing on her shoulder with her right hand inside the collar, leaving only a small head exposed, and hurriedly put it inside
Run away.
"I wish Gringotts was open 24 hours a day..."
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Adorable Elena, I beg for your recommendation votes and encouragement. Recently, the collection and recommendation have been in a slump, 嘤嘤嘤~~
If you vote for recommendation, I will lend you a small reserve of food!