After Ryan returned to 12 Grimmauld Place, he saw Hermione writing a letter.
"This letter is for?" "It's for Harry, but Dumbledore won't let us tell him what's happening in the wizarding world. Even on his birthday, I can only send him a simple gift with a greeting card attached. I
I don’t think he would want to receive this.”
"Damn it, I forgot Harry's birthday." Ryan reacted suddenly. "I was busy making a batch of defense bracelets in those days, and I actually forgot about it."
"Don't worry." Hermione said. "When you were busy at the workbench, I asked you if you wanted to send Harry a gift, and you agreed directly. So I have sent your share for you.
Sent them together."
"I forgot. I was so busy a while ago." After all, this happened more than a year ago for Ryan, so it is natural that he can't remember clearly. "Thank you, Hermione, if you hadn't been like this
I will definitely be in a hurry this time.”
"No, it's nothing. Since everyone is so busy, I also want to do my part." At this point, Hermione changed the subject a little stiffly. "The principal didn't let us send a letter to Harry, saying he was worried.
The owl may be kidnapped along the way. But I think the core problem is that Harry can see every move of the mysterious man, and Dumbledore is worried that the mysterious man will in turn see our plans through Harry."
Ryan looked disapproving: "I think Dumbledore's approach of isolating Harry directly from the magical world is wrong."
Seeing Hermione want to refute, Ryan continued: "It is true that the principal is a great person, but it does not mean that everything about him is correct. As far as I know, Dumbledore roughly told Harry last time that he
The connection with the mysterious man. However, what he said was a bit vague, which made Harry unclear about the specific situation of his situation."
At this point, Ryan shrugged, "The principal may be unwilling to tell Harry this news for his own reasons, but given the strength of the mysterious man, I'm worried that one day he will discover the connection between Harry and his soul.
It is very likely that people will use this to set a trap for Harry. In this case, Harry, who is ignorant, is very likely to fall into the trap impulsively. After all, the mysterious man is good at seizing people's weaknesses. Countless powerful wizards in that era
They were all fooled by him, I don’t think Harry can see through the mysterious man’s conspiracy.”
"You're right." After listening to Ryan's analysis, Hermione also thought of another problem. "The principal always wants to protect Harry out of love for his students, but he is too old and has forgotten his youth.
I didn’t take into account that Harry had been staying at the Dursleys who hated him for the past month and was in a bad mood. If he didn’t receive any news from us at this time, he would probably feel abandoned by the whole world.
.In this case, he who has accumulated too much negative emotions should be more easily manipulated by the mysterious person, which will make the situation worse."
After finishing speaking, Hermione threw the quill aside angrily. "Then what should we do? We can't directly violate Dumbledore's prohibition, right?"
"It's really not good to directly violate the ban, and Professor Dumbledore is also very busy recently, so he probably doesn't have much time to care about these issues." Ryan nodded. "But we can use some roundabout methods, such as going to Harry directly. Anyway, we can use some roundabout methods.
The principal only prohibited us from writing to Harry about recent events, but did not prohibit us from going to him."
"You are exploiting a loophole, but now that I think about it, this is the only way." Hermione thought for a moment and nodded helplessly. "The problem is how we get there. We can't tell everyone that we are going to find Harry."
"This is simple, leave it to me to solve it." Ryan vowed. "I have a way for us to go through it openly."
To put it bluntly, the solution was very simple. Ryan just expressed to Mrs. Weasley that he needed to go out to purchase some materials and wanted to go out with Hermione for a while. Mrs. Weasley thought for a while and quickly agreed. However,
She asked the two of them to tell her before going out and try to get back before the sun sets.
"Is it enough to just say this? As far as I know, Ron applied for his mother's permission for a long time but didn't get permission." After knowing that Ryan could now take her out with him, Hermione looked at him in surprise.
"Wizards are like this, power is paramount. I am allowed because my role as an alchemist here is no less than that of other adult wizards, so they naturally regard me as an adult. This cannot be like a child.
They have also set up various access control for me. The same goes for the Weasley twins. They already have their own jobs, so Mrs. Weasley will not lock them in the house all day." Ryan explained this problem to Hermione.
"So it's because of you that I, a minor, can go out?" Hermione said with a smile, and at the same time made a naughty skirt-lifting ceremony.
"Don't be kidding me. In a real fight, I estimate that at least one-third of the Death Eaters or members of the Order of the Phoenix would not be your opponent." Ryan raised his eyebrows. "Okay, get ready. We'll go there in two days.
Diagon Alley twice, and then next week we will go to Harry's place to have a look."
In the rest of the week, Ryan and Hermione went out twice, each time bringing back a lot of materials from Diagon Alley. Because of this, Dumbledore even asked Ryan to tell him the money to buy these materials.
You can go to him for reimbursement. However, Ryan rejected his kindness. He told Dumbledore that he would charge according to the finished product, so as to avoid the Order of the Phoenix from bearing the risk of refining failure.
In fact, the real reason is that Ryan himself has a high success rate when refining these low-level props. If the material cost is reimbursed, he will feel embarrassed to ask for a high price for his labor later, so he simply sells the finished product to avoid that entanglement.
, after all, according to his calculations, the money earned by selling the finished product directly is more than reimbursing the raw material cost plus processing fee.
It has to be said that a great wizard like Dumbledore has accumulated an astonishing amount of wealth in his more than 100 years of life. Even if Ryan sets a price for the things he makes, it is only 70% or 80% of the market price.
The prices of alchemical products were still very expensive. But Dumbledore paid for them himself with a wave of his hand.
When the time came to August, when most people in the Order of the Phoenix were accustomed to Ryan and Hermione slowly returning after dinner after going out in the afternoon, Ryan and Hermione took the time to hitchhike to Surrey, west of London, one afternoon.
"Privet Drive, Little Whinging." After coming out of the Leaky Cauldron, Ryan and the others called a taxi and rushed to Harry's aunt's house. Since his aunt's family didn't like anything related to magic, Ryan and the others tried their best to
Make yourself look less like a wizard. Fortunately, both of them are Muggles, so there won't be any mistakes in dressing up.
"I hope we can make Harry happy this time." Hermione said after getting in the car. "It must be unbearable for a person to live in an environment that is full of hostility to him, but he has to live there. Think about it this way
Harry must have been having a terrible time in the past month."
"That's why we have to visit him," Ryan said. "Otherwise, I'm worried that he will really go crazy."