After enlightening Percy, Ryan and Hermione went home eating raspberry jam ice cream. Early the next morning, the two of them threw their luggage into the space bag and left home for Sirius' ancestral home.
Grimmauld Place is in a declining neighborhood in London, so there are not many people coming and going. For safety reasons, Ryan and Hermione got off the bus one stop away from Grimmauld Place. The two previous
I used the ability of the Faceless Men to make up and become two ordinary middle school students with Eastern European looks.
Thanks to the rich variety of cosmetics in the modern world, they have unprecedented convenience in disguise, such as various foundations, colored contact lenses, etc., plus some strange potions similar to hair dyes. With the help of these things
No one can recognize this boy with brown hair, green eyes and a Caucasian face as Ryan.
"Your look is really unique." Hermione, who had blond hair on her head, said as she walked along the sidewalk, "Where did you learn that quick hair dye?"
"In a previous book," Ryan said, "it was originally a failed potion because it could only last for half an hour. But I thought it could be used to quickly disguise myself. After trying it, I found that it was better than faceless.
The potions we use are more convenient. Well, we should be here when we get there."
"This place looks quite rundown," Hermione said after looking around.
Her assessment was accurate. The houses around the square were in dilapidated condition. The windows of some houses were broken and shone dimly in the sunlight. The paint on many doors was peeling off. There were also piles outside the front steps of several houses.
It was full of garbage. A pungent smell of rotting garbage emanated from the bulging garbage bags in the dilapidated gate.
The two people began to recall the contents of Dumbledore's note. As soon as they thought of No. 12 Grimmauld Place, a shabby door appeared out of thin air between No. 11 and No. 13, followed by dirty walls.
And eerie windows also appeared, and it looked like an extra house suddenly expanded, pushing out everything on both sides. Finally, an ancient-looking house appeared there.
"Who?" When they walked up the shabby stone steps, grabbed the silver door knocker in the shape of a coiled snake, and knocked on this ancient door that even the black paint on the door had peeled off and was covered with scratches on the left and right.
A vigilant voice came from inside. Ryan recognized that it was Sirius's voice.
"Ryan Liang and Hermione Granger." Ryan said standing at the door.
"Ryan, tell me where you first saw me?" Sirius asked warily. It seems that this place, the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix, has entered a state of war.
"In the common room of Hogwarts." Ryan replied. "I knocked you unconscious while fighting."
"Correct, but you really don't need to go into that detail." Sirius opened the door, and what appeared in front of him were two unfamiliar faces wearing ordinary middle school uniforms.
"Don't worry, it's really us." Ryan said and took out the blue contact lenses from his eyes.
"Come in!" Sirius stepped aside. "It's good to be cautious. No wonder Moody praised you for being an Auror. By the way, you two follow me and don't touch anything." After that, Sirius led the way.
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When he first entered the dark hall, Ryan smelled a damp, dusty smell, as well as a sweet rotten smell. As Sirius walked further into the house, the smell became stronger, giving people the impression that
The place looks like an abandoned, empty house.
The entire foyer is very long, in a standard Victorian residential style. The past glory of this house can be vaguely seen from the peeling wallpaper and polished rugs. A spiderweb-shaped chandelier above the head flickers slightly.
There was no light, and some portraits blackened by age hung crookedly on the wall. Lane heard what seemed like some small animal scurrying behind the skirting board. The chandelier and a candelabra on a rickety table next to it.
They were all made in the shape of a big snake.
"You are here early, the Weasley family may not arrive until the afternoon." Sirius introduced as he led the two people to the room. "Because our family, except me, are all Slytherins, this residence
It’s such a pure-blood style thing. I don’t like it here very much. If Dumbledore didn’t need a safe place, I would never come back here.”
"By the way, is there anything we need to do?" Ryan asked, looking at the dilapidated house. It looked very bad, and there was not even a clean floor to be found.
"You just arrived, I think you may need to take a rest first." Sirius said a little embarrassedly. After all, this is his house, and it is really embarrassing to expose it to guests in such a messy condition.
"It's okay, we've all rested and can get back to work at any time." Hermione said in an energetic tone, "Okay, tell us what we need to do."
"Well, this" "Sirius, let the children clean the kitchen and guest room first. Everyone will move in gradually, and you have to give them a place to cook and sleep." At this time, a middle-aged man with gray hair started to move in.
The young man came down from upstairs.
"Professor Lupin." Ryan and Hermione immediately recognized who this person was and greeted him.
"I'm sorry to ask you to work as soon as you come here, but there's nothing we can do about it," Lupine said gently. "No one has lived here for ten years. There has been no one since Sirius's mother died. There is only one person left."
A crazy and very old house elf is in this house. We must at least tidy up the house to the point where it can be lived in. Of course, I will take you to tidy up the house, and you don’t have to worry about facing unknown things that will hurt you.
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"Okay, but you just said there are house elves?" Ryan asked, because the house elves he had seen before would clean up the place where they served, and their magic was enough to keep them clean even when they were very old.
Can complete most housework.
"Forget it." Sirius looked disgusted. "As long as Kreacher wants to, he will be able to do things that will surprise you. But he has been driven crazy by my mother and my mother's portrait. Now, in addition to madly cursing me and
I won’t do any housework except doing some weird things. In the past two days, Lupine has mainly done all the work at home.”
Ryan thought it was good that Lupine had moved in. As a real single, Lupine had extremely strong self-care ability and top-notch housework skills, which allowed Sirius to live normally these days.
"Okay, our first step is to clean up the kitchen. Two days ago, I cleared a small area for cooking, but it was not enough. Everyone will come here one after another today, and we must clean up the entire kitchen as soon as possible.
Only then can the kitchen welcome the guests who are coming." Lu Ping went downstairs and started assigning tasks directly. As a top student and prefect in the school back then, his organizational skills were much stronger than those of Sirius, the famous troublemaker back then.
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"No problem." Ryan and Hermione first took out their luggage from the space bag and put it in the living room, and then followed Lupine towards the kitchen.