When they arrived at the entrance of Flourish and Blotts Bookstore, Lane and the others found that the door of the bookstore was crowded with people. The banner on the door said that today was Lockhart's new book signing event.
"This is much more fanatical than Dad's fans." Ryan muttered to himself as he looked at the large crowd of middle-aged witches.
"We can meet him in person!" Hermione said to Ryan, "After all, almost all the books on the list were written by him!"
"He may be really good, but this behavior of using novels as textbooks is a bit too..."
"What you said makes sense. Mr. Lambert's novels are also good, but they can never be used as textbooks." Hermione seemed to wake up.
Ryan saw Harry and Ron standing in the front of the queue, holding books and waiting for autographs, while Mrs. Weasley was a little nervously arranging her hair and queued at the back, with Ginny following her.
Of course, when Ryan and Hermione walked to Mrs. Weasley, they heard Mrs. Weasley whisper to Ginny: "Oh, I'm sorry, dear, most of the things can only be bought second-hand for you, because of Lockhart's novels."
It’s not cheap.”
"It's okay, Mom, textbooks are still very important. I don't mind these." Ginny replied in a low voice.
At this time, a group of people squeezed over and pushed Ryan to the door. The twins happened to walk through the door. Ryan said to the twins: "How about I brought something this time? I brought it right?"
"The stuff is very good," Fred said. "But can I pay you later? Money is a little tight recently." George continued.
"It's okay. You can give it to me whenever you have money. But I think your family is a bit patriarchal. Ron had a new robe when he went to school last year. Why did a girl buy Ginny one for her this year?
Old robe."
"Hey, this is not because of Lockhart's new book. We have to buy five sets at once, so we can only buy old robes for Ginny. This is why the payment to you is delayed. We want to give Ginny
Send some new quills and ink."
"Wait, why do you want five sets of books?" Ryan asked.
"With five people in our family going to school, of course we have five sets of books," Fred said.
"No, what I mean is that since the books you need this year are the same. You are not in the same grade, so you will not take Defense Against the Dark Arts classes at the same time. Why don't you brothers use them interchangeably? If you want to take notes, just use a notebook.
Now, only one or two sets of books are enough." Ryan said, looking at the twins.
"Yeah, why didn't we think of that?" The twins looked at each other and squeezed into the store as hard as they could, seemingly looking for their mother.
Ryan stood at the door of the store and saw Lockhart hugging Harry and taking photos to gain popularity. This was exactly the same as the way Ryan's father, Mr. Lambert, took photos to gain popularity when he met members of the U2 band at a book signing.
No wonder Lockhart has so many fans. The level of this kind of management and character management is comparable to that of the Internet hype team decades later. It can be said to be decades ahead of the times. Not to mention that Lockhart is indeed quite handsome. If
If you don't know the details of what a idiot he is, it's really easy to be fascinated by him.
Ryan finally squeezed into the shop and saw Harry's famous scene of flirting with a girl: he placed a complete set of Lockhart's new novels in Ginny's cauldron.
Then there was a fight caused by the personal grudge between Mr. Malfoy and Mr. Weasley. In this chaos, Ryan dragged Mr. and Mrs. Granger to a safe corner of the bookstore to avoid the chaos.
Standing at the corner, Mr. Granger asked a little worriedly: "Is the wizarding world always so chaotic? Is that kind of discrimination also common?"
Ryan knew that they were worried about their daughter's life here, so he said with relief: "There are not too many people who are similar to racism, and in the wizarding world, knowledge equals power. Hermione studies very well, so generally no one messes with her.
"
After listening to Ryan's explanation, Mr. Granger seemed to be relieved. At this time, the fight between Weasley and Malfoy was stopped by Hagrid who arrived. Ryan, Granger and his wife also followed the crowd out of the bookstore.
, Mrs. Granger still looked a little scared, and Mr. Granger was always beside her to comfort her.
At the door, Ryan met the Weasley family and Hermione. Hermione quickly ran up to ask about her parents and thanked Ryan: "Thank you for helping me comfort my parents. I'm really afraid that they will be too worried about me because of seeing this."
"You're welcome, we are friends." Ryan replied. Afterwards, a group of people walked towards the Leaky Cauldron. Ryan deliberately stayed at the end and walked with Ginny. Then he pretended to have just discovered the old book in Ginny's cauldron and told her
Said: "Do you also know how to appreciate the knowledge contained in old books?"
Ginny was startled and turned to look at Ryan. She recognized Ryan as a friend of his brothers.
"Hello, my name is Ryan Liang, you can call me Ryan. Every time I come to Diagon Alley, I will look for all kinds of interesting or useful old books in the second-hand goods store. I have gained a lot of useful knowledge from them.
.It’s just that this kind of behavior is generally not understood by others, so I saw that what you bought today were all used books, so I came here to look for my colleagues. I’m sorry if it bothered you.”
"I know you." Ginny raised her head and said, "Ron said you were second in the grade last year and one of his best friends. He also told me that he didn't understand why you bought new books when you clearly had money.
I’m going to the used bookstore to look through it.”
Afterwards, Ryan and Ginny chatted for a while. As they approached the Leaky Cauldron, Ryan slapped his forehead and said, "You are going to Hogwarts this year. As your brother's friend, I should give you a gift."
After saying that, he took out the old notebook full of notes he had prepared from last year from his backpack and handed it to Ginny.
"These are the notes I compiled. I hope they can help you." Ginny happily took the gift and put it into the crucible.
At this time, Ryan saw the black notebook sandwiched in the old Transfiguration textbook in Ginny's cauldron. He pointed at the notebook and pretended to be surprised and said: "Oh my God, you started taking notes before going to school. It's really amazing.
"
Ginny took out the notebook and looked at it, then shook her head and said, "This doesn't seem to be my notebook." Then she opened it and saw that there was no word in it.
Lane looked at the faded date on the cover of the book, indicating that it was fifty years old. On the first page, only a name written in blurry ink could be made out: Tom Riddle. On the back cover was London Walker.
The name of a newsagent in Scholl Road appears to be an antique notebook.
"Who is Tom Riddle?" Ginny said curiously. "Maybe the people at the thrift store added this to the book without looking carefully."
Seeing Ryan staring at the notebook intently, Ginny handed the notebook to Ryan and said, "Since you like it, I'll give it to you as a gift in return for my gift from you."
After expressing his gratitude, Ryan put the book in his school bag and told Ginny that it was rare for an ordinary notebook from fifty years ago to be so well-preserved. He could just give this to his father who loves antiques.