Irina Ivanovich raised her head and looked at the brightly colored sun umbrellas outside the coffee house and the various wizards walking through the streets of Diagon Alley, a trace of trance flashed in her emerald green eyes.
In the past, when her grandfather was still alive, she often sat in the cold drink shop in Moscow and listened to his stories.
As the favorite granddaughter of Professor Walter Ivanovich, old Walter can tell her whatever story she wants to hear, no matter where she wants to play or what she wants to eat - maybe because
Because her mother has been gone since she was a child, as long as she is obedient and reads carefully when she is at home, her father and grandfather will try their best to fulfill her wishes.
Whether it was books about Muggles or textbooks from magic schools, grandpa would find ways to find them for her.
Irina Ivanovich often dreams that when she enters Kodostoriz Magic School, she must strive to be the best in the school, win more awards to make her grandfather happy, and then enter the Ministry of Magic after graduation.
Working with my father.
However, on Irina's fifth birthday...
All the Ivanovich family's hopes for the future came to nothing.
At the dinner table that morning, my father and my grandfather had an unprecedented heated argument. That night, officials from the Russian Ministry of Magic and the International Confederation of Wizards came to the house and announced that my grandfather had become a criminal.
Immediately afterwards, my father also lost his job at the Ministry of Magic, and most of the family's savings were used to pay fines from the Ministry of Magic.
Those uncles and aunts who used to come to the house as guests never came again, and Irina's former playmates also avoided her like the plague. Old Ivanovich was placed under house arrest in a small wooden cabin behind the house, except for
Outside of the meal delivery time every day, Irina had almost no chance to see her grandfather, and her father's temper became even more irritable...
According to the magic world's decree on "The Sorrow of Wizards", as relatives of Walter Ivanovich, they cannot go to any place where wizards gather. Even if the old Ivanovich has been dead for several years, this prohibition still remains.
Not lifted.
She and her father seemed to have been exiled and forgotten by the entire Russian magical world.
until……
"Hey, what are you thinking about?"
A pleasant voice interrupted Irina's thoughts, and the girl came back to her senses.
Two large ice cream balls appeared in front of her. The snow-white cream ice cream balls were drizzled with red strawberry jam and sprinkled with some crushed rock sugar. Just looking at them made people feel that the summer heat was gone.
.
"Try it quickly. This is the specialty of Florin Dessert Shop - although his raspberry crumble ice cream tastes good, I still prefer the new strawberry cream ice cream..."
"Eh? Okay, thank you..."
Irina was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly took the ice cream cone in front of her.
I don't know why, but after they came out of the "Mrs. Malkin's Robe Store", the senior named Elena Kaslana was in a particularly good mood, and even offered to treat her to dessert.
Maybe...because the two of them have similar bodies?
Since most of the family's savings were used to pay fines, the Ivanovich family's financial situation has been quite bad in recent years, so that Irina is thinner and smaller than most of her peers.
Eleven-year-old Irina is now only 118 centimeters tall, which is a little shorter than Elena.
However, Irina will not look down upon her because of her height.
While buying the powder on the list in a pharmacy in Diagon Alley, Irina Ivanovich heard the store manager call Elena "Professor Kaslana" and the two talked for a while.
Regarding the supply of basic materials for this year’s Potions class at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
There is no doubt that Elena did not lie about her self-introduction. She is indeed a professor at Hogwarts.
As for why the girl looked so small, Irina wasn't too surprised.
As the granddaughter of the vice-principal of Kodos Doriz Magic School, Irina heard many wonderful magic stories from her grandfather. Although mixed-race wizards are rare, it is not a shocking thing in the magic world.
However, after a little comparison with Elena, Irina suddenly felt a little less confident again.
In the legendary Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry where monsters gather, is it really possible for her to become the best student in the school as her grandfather expected - even if she is only the first in grade...
"What's wrong?" Elena asked.
"nothing……"
Irina shook her head slightly, turned her head to look at the street opposite, and quickly changed the topic.
"By the way, Elena, what store is over there?"
Not far from Florin's Dessert Shop, dozens of young wizards of both sexes gathered at the entrance of a shop, discussing something with excitement. Even from a street away, you could faintly hear the discussion.
"Well, if it's in that direction, it should be..."
After Elena pondered for a few seconds, her eyes casually glanced at the goblin Douglas standing next to her.
"Oh...that's the Quidditch Boutique!"
Catching the look from Her Majesty the Queen, Douglas, as the chief financial officer of Gringotts Wizarding Bank, trembled, bowed gracefully, took Elena's words and continued speaking very naturally.
"Gringotts Wizarding Bank and the Destiny Group from Austria have launched a set of new concept high-speed broomsticks. Today is the first day of display of new broomstick samples..."
"Hey, can you fairies also make flying broomsticks?"
"Of course, there are many well-known wizards in history who have one or two tools made by goblins - in the field of smelting and forging magic items, we goblins are much more powerful than human wizards."
Douglas straightened his back, grinned and showed his sharp teeth, and said proudly.
With the introduction of Fairy Douglas, Elena and Irina left Florin Dessert Shop and walked towards Flourish and Blotts Bookstore. Irina still lacked some textbooks for school.
When passing by the Quidditch shop, they heard the owner introducing the shop in a very proud voice.
"This [SU91] developed by [G-H-Сухой Design Institute] can be said to be the fastest broom in the world. It combines the most advanced streamlined design in the world today and uses a mixed forging of metal and wood for the broom material.
Not only does its braking performance far exceed that of any other model, but its protection can also withstand the impact of a bludger with a speed of more than 150 miles per hour without causing body deformation."
"The British national team has just placed an order for a total of fourteen such brooms——"
"If nothing else, you should be able to see its performance on the field at the opening ceremony of the World Cup next week... For safety reasons, we will not accept orders from other than professional teams for the time being."
The fastest broomstick in the world... exclusive to the national team...
Irina stopped subconsciously, tried to stand on tiptoes, crossed the gap in the crowd, and looked curiously at the beautiful broomstick placed in the window of the Quidditch boutique. It was the most magnificent broomstick she had ever seen.
She remembered that her father loved Quidditch very much. If he were here, he would definitely be standing here unable to walk, right?
"Irina, first-year students are not allowed to carry broomsticks."
Elena glanced at Irina who had a longing and curious look on her face, raised her finger, and said quite seriously.
"If you have played Quidditch before, I can recommend you to join the Hogwarts first-year varsity team - as long as you pass the selection test, I can give you a pretty good broom."
"When I was very young, my grandfather gave me a toy broom..."
Irina replied subconsciously, her voice suddenly lowered a bit.
"However, when the Ministry of Magic came to search our house later, they took away all the broomsticks and Floo powder. I don't know if I can fly now... Everyone in the school is very good, right?
?”
"It's hard to say..."
Elena shrugged, "In fact, Hogwarts also has flightless wizards, and there are quite a lot of them who are powerful - in history, there have even been cases where first-year students swept across the college team and won the championship in the end."
"College team?"
"Well, you know, Hogwarts is divided into four houses: Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw - and then, starting in the second year, each house will form a separate
The college team participates in Quidditch matches for one school year in a cycle, and the winner is determined based on points and the relationship between victory and defeat."
"Are all first-year students in Hogwarts so powerful?"
Irina said in shock. With Elena's introduction, she became more and more nervous.
Current students serve as professors, underclassmen sweep across the college team, freshmen defeat upperclassmen in a magic duel with one enemy against many, study upperclassmen courses on their own and get full marks...
"Not all of them...but in the past two years, there seems to be some every year..."
Elena touched the little boy's fur with some guilt and explained casually.
I don't know how her "Seven People Under the Moon" were doing during this summer vacation, or whether they followed the study plan she made.
It would be very embarrassing if she aroused Irina's sense of crisis and the girl found that there was no one who could hit her when she arrived at school.
Fortunately, there is Luna Lovegood among the first-year students entering this year.
Although Little Moon is still a little confused after a year of tutoring, Luna Lovegood has undergone earth-shaking changes in terms of strength and family background compared to the original work.
It is conceivable that with the addition of Irina Ivanovich and other Russian little witches, the new semester at Hogwarts will become particularly exciting.
At least, in Elena's opinion...
When they face familiar Russian textbooks, they will definitely be moved to tears of happiness, which will then promote the learning of other Hogwarts students - the catfish effect, which is a very effective way.
And at the same time, on the other side...
In the families of some adult wizards, the atmosphere was not so happy, and an extremely tense atmosphere had been hanging over that land since the morning.