The environment of Charing Cross Street in London is not very good. If it were not for the entrance to Diagon Alley, Charles feels that he would never come here in his life.
The letter said that we would meet here at 11 o'clock. An old man and a young man came here half an hour early and chatted with each other.
Jack asked Charles: "What pet do you want?"
Charles replied: "Vela."
Old Jack was silent for a moment, then pulled him and said, "Let's go to Azkaban. I'll book an apartment for you, and I'll ask the dementors to prepare a sheep for you."
Charles's face suddenly darkened, because the old man picked him up in Wales.
"Yeah! Charles!"
At this time, several people came over. The one who greeted Charles was a buck-toothed girl, followed by Mr. and Mrs. Granger, and Professor Meowg.
Hermione ran over and said happily to Charles: "I didn't expect that you are also a witch... and you go to the same middle school with me!"
She recalled that when Dumbledore said the name Charles Smith that day, she and her parents were shocked.
Charles looked surprised and said with a smile: "I didn't expect that it would be you who would be waiting for us. We can be classmates again."
At this time, he heard the old man say solemnly: "Hello, beautiful lady, I am Jack Smith, Charles's grandfather. May I be lucky enough to know your name?"
Charles raised his head and was surprised to see the old man greeting Professor McGonagall like a gentleman from the last century. He had never been so enthusiastic when getting close to voters before.
Meowing, what's going on?
Professor McGonagall seemed a little embarrassed. Charles gave the old man a gentle kick, and then asked her: "Hello, are you a professor at Hogwarts?"
With his interruption, Professor McGonagall calmly introduced herself: "Hello, Mr. Smith, Charles, I am Minerva McGonagall, the vice-principal of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and also the Head of Gryffindor and Transfiguration.
Professor."
"Oh, transfiguration?" Jack looked surprised, "Does it turn one thing into another? If Charles is disobedient, you can turn him into a sheep and let him eat only grass for three meals a day.
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He thought what he said was humorous, but it frightened Mr. and Mrs. Granger, fearing that he was sending a daughter out and returning home a white sheep.
Professor McGonagall replied seriously: "Hogwarts no longer uses transfiguration as a means of punishing students."
"Really?" Jack seemed disappointed, "What a pity."
Charles rolled his eyes as he listened.
Everyone got to know each other, and Professor McGonagall took them to the Leaky Cauldron. On the way, Jack and Mr. Granger made an appointment to take Charles to have his teeth checked tomorrow.
The Leaky Cauldron is dark and dirty, and the decoration style and the clothing of the guests are very primitive, making visitors who come here for the first time feel like they have traveled through time and returned to the Middle Ages.
Sitting at a table was a pale man with a thick turban on his head, nervously nodding hello to Professor McGonagall.
The Grangers just glanced at him indifferently. Charles and Jack looked at him for a little longer, with meaningless smiles on their faces.
As everyone walked through the Leaky Cauldron, Professor McGonagall tapped a brick on the wall three times with her wand. As the brick moved by itself, a street appeared in front of everyone.
"Welcome to Diagon Alley." Professor McGonagall said to everyone.
Perhaps because the Smith family came with them, although the Grangers were a little nervous, they seemed relatively calm and whispered about the cauldrons, owls and broomsticks sold in the store.
Charles looked around curiously and said a few words to Hermione from time to time.
Jack and Professor McGonagall walked side by side and asked her if he had any questions.
"No, no!" Professor McGonagall shook her head in response to Jack's question, "First-year students cannot bring their own broomsticks to school."
Jack said emotionally: "It will be Charles's birthday in a few days. I will never forget the night I took him out of the trash can on the roadside. He was so thin and small, and it felt like he had no breath."
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"This child finally survived and has not been separated from me for so many years. I regard him as my own grandson. Now that he is leaving me, I want to give him a gift."
"He has loved airplanes since he was a child and wants to be a pilot when he grows up. I think he will definitely like the flying broom."
"I have no intention of challenging the school rules. How about I leave this broom to you for safekeeping? You can give it to him when he can sit and fly."
Charles heard a black line from behind.
After hearing what he said, Professor McGonagall thought for a moment and said, "Okay, this broom will be stored with the dean of his college during his first year."
At this time they came to a snow-white building, and Professor McGonagall said: "Gringotts has arrived."
When everyone saw a goblin in red and gold clothes standing next to the bronze door, they couldn't help but look at it a few more times and started discussing in a low voice. Only Jack turned a blind eye.
Professor McGonagall asked him strangely: "Have you seen goblins before?"
Jack replied: "After meeting you, I won't be surprised even if I see a fire-breathing dragon."
Professor McGonagall was stunned for a moment and said calmly: "Sorry."
After saying that, she went over and took the Granger family into the bronze door.
Charles and Jack, who was pulling behind him, whispered: "Respect yourself."
As a result, he was glared at by the old man.
With the help of Professor McGonagall, the two families quickly exchanged pounds for Galleons, Sickles and Nats.
The old man took out a few stacks of pounds from his vest and put them on the table. As a result, Charles was very tired from holding the gold coins.
After exchanging good money, the first thing to do is to buy a magic wand.
Jack wanted to carry out his business of pretending to be a Muggle to the end, so he didn't bring out his wand. Anyway, it didn't matter to him whether he had a wand or not.
Everyone walked into Ollivander's Wand Store, and Ollivander immediately came out from behind the counter to pick up the customers.
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Here two newbies are choosing wands. Jack is asking Professor McGonagall about various knowledge about wands. He looks like a diligent and inquisitive student.
This time, even the Grangers noticed the problem and consciously stepped aside.
Jack asked so seriously that he had to end the conversation until Charles came over and told him that he had bought the wand.
"Have you bought it?" Jack was stunned, "What kind of thing?"
Charles speechlessly raised his new wand to show him, which he had clearly called him just now.
The body of this wand is made of yew wood, and the core is phoenix feather. It is a little over 18 inches long, which is 460 mm when converted.
Ollivander came over to explain Charles's wand to Jack, as he would do when students from Muggle families buy wands: "Your grandson's wand is the longest wand in more than a hundred years. The previous one held a similar length wand."
The man...I dare not say his name, but he is a very powerful man. Yew wands are very rare, rarely used by wizards, and their ideal owners are unusual. They also grant the holder
The power to control life and death. The core of this wand is made of phoenix feathers. Phoenixes are very proud and they will not surrender easily to others. The feathers of this wand come from an extraordinary source. It is not the phoenix raised by Dumbledore.
It is said that a hundred years ago, a big shot asked my ancestor to make a wand with a phoenix feather core, which is another very long wand just mentioned. This feather was the reward."
"The master chooses the wand, and the wand also chooses the master. The characteristics of the two are the same. Your grandson will become a great wizard in the future!"
Jack had a bright smile on his face when he heard this, and gave a few more gold coins when he paid.