From Azkaban To Hogwarts

Greece was an almost completely foreign land to William.

But close means just a little bit different - in recent years, the Greek Ministry of Magic has been relatively weak, and its control over the black market and smuggling is not very strong. In other words, their personnel who are similar to strikers are themselves involved. Got to this line.

'As expected of a place where even dangerous creatures like three-headed dogs can escape...'

William looked at the market that was far larger than the British black market and couldn't help but sigh - the black market here was different from the disgusting terrain around Knockturn Alley, it was so clean that it looked like a regular place...

Dirtyness is actually a natural disguise. Whether they are wizards or Muggles, they all tend to have a clean environment. Making the environment extremely dirty will naturally reduce the number of uninvited guests - which is why the Leaky Cauldron has to be in that state. The reason for the messy streets.

'But, it's a bit too much to be cleaner and neater than a regular commercial street...'

While William was complaining, he looked at the surrounding environment unobtrusively to avoid unnecessary trouble - for example, vendors selling fake medicines, fake materials and even fake magic props.

After skillfully dispatching the third vendor who tried to use grass roots disguised as valuable potions, the merchants on the street naturally gave up their sales promotion and began to look for new fat sheep. Although it was a black market, the foot traffic of this street was not It's generally large, so there's no need to compete with customers.

'According to the rules of the British black market, there is still a shop on this street where the goods are not black...'

"professor!"

? ? ?

William was stunned for a moment, and then the voice on the other side suddenly became determined, "Professor!!!"

Just when William had drawn out his wand and was about to take action, he saw several students running over with surprise on their faces, "Professor! Huh? Ah, it's the professor!"

William looked at the student opposite, and then at the wand he pulled out - no need to pretend, the wand's appearance had not changed, and the student opposite had obviously noticed this.

That’s outrageous…

"Professor, it's really you - let's just say that the posture of observing passersby is very similar to yours. A normal wizard would not be so careful to protect the wand from being exposed..."

Okay... stop talking, I know you have excellent grades and have integrated what you learned in class...

It's normal for wizards to carelessly leave their wands outside - even if it's not right...

"It's amazing, you have completely changed your face, Professor!"

"It doesn't look like Polyjuice Potion. If you look carefully, you can still notice the original appearance. Is this the modification you are talking about?"

Enough…

Wearing makeup to travel is to prevent unfamiliar people from knowing the route of action through prying, not to deceive acquaintances all the time...

"Have a nice holiday, Professor, are you traveling during the holidays too?"

Do you students believe that I am hiding from the Dark Lord?

William sighed inwardly, but had to pretend to be happy to meet the students, "Well, after a busy school year, I always have to give myself a holiday - are you on a graduation trip?"

"Yes, Professor! Originally we planned to visit France, but didn't they lose the game? We were afraid that they would secretly curse us, so we switched to Greece!"

A group of four or five students chatted non-stop, completely losing the nervousness they felt at school - after all, they had graduated.

'Misstep...'

William raised his head slightly and felt a headache - this is the trouble with Professor Hogwarts. All the wizards in the UK who choose to travel after graduation are his students. Last year, the probability of going to Africa was a little lower. This year, Europe This way…

This was a problem that he had not considered at all in advance, and it was also an important reason why he was discovered.

They are all taught by him, and the probability of not being discovered is too low - especially since the results of the students in front of them are relatively good, which makes the probability of being discovered even more... well, it has already been discovered.

"Why did you end up shopping here at the black market?"

"The tour guide introduced it. She said that the black market is an important part of the Greek magic world. It is extremely prosperous. Although it is easy to be fooled, there are many exquisite products that are not found in other places!"

"Yes, we have learned a lot over the years, so I wanted to come and take a look!"

Which tour guide introduces people to the black market - isn't this pushing people into a pit of fire?

William was about to complain when two other students shook their heads and came over. While rejecting the vendors selling sales on the roadside, they complained in a low voice, "The fakes are so careless. The fakes the professor brought out back then were even worse." They are very careful and don’t cover up the traces of the transformation spell, let alone those who use weeds instead of precious herbs. Don’t they know how to use similar herbs to defraud?”

"This method is too bad. This is also the largest black market, and there are those who make fake excavated magic props. None of those things are new!"

"We came back, but that store still refused to lower the price!"

The girl who didn't care about the surrounding environment and complained saw the figure here, grabbed her partner and started to run. However, after running a few steps, Nancy, who was walking with her, took her hand and walked over in small steps.

"Ah, you, you didn't buy it if you didn't buy it. Really - is this the new guide you are looking for? Or is it the guy who came here to strike up a conversation?"

The girl named Mandy pulled Nancy up, looked at William carelessly, and then asked the other companions, "He won't be like the previous guide, deliberately taking us to those deceptive shops, right? "

While she was talking carelessly, Nancy secretly pulled her companion over and whispered in her ear.

"ah?"

"Professor, hello, professor..."

"Professor? What professor - do we have different elective courses... Hey, professor... Hello, professor..."

Being recognized by the student he taught defense skills in disguise - William really didn't know whether to be happy or embarrassed about this...

But it actually happened, more than once, which makes people want to complain...

"Professor, our previous guide was a liar. How about you be our guide? There are too many fake things here, some are very rough, and some are almost the same as the real thing!"

"Yes, Professor, you are here for the holiday anyway. If you don't bring a companion, we will go together. It is not convenient to use English in many places here, but we have people who are proficient in Greek! "

…

Why should I tell them that I am traveling on vacation?

William felt dizzy for a while - he had subconsciously weaved an imperfect lie, and now it was really difficult to patch it up.

Say you are waiting for your companion?

Impossible - although the students present have just left school, they have all learned very well in self-defense skills. He is not very confident in deceiving his own students.

Refusing to say something happened?

That doesn't work, and you can't be deceived either. If it was an urgent matter, you wouldn't have recognized the student just now and just left. If it wasn't urgent, then there would be no reason to refute.

Although he felt it was a bit troublesome, it was really not good to leave a group of students in the black market like this - let alone ordinary commercial streets. His own students haunted the black market in groups. He always felt a little worried, especially those who had just graduated. situation.

‘Forget it, not on this day. ’

Anyway, the rest of his work is all about seeing the special magic in Greece and exploring some magic legends. After today, he will quickly modify it so that no one will recognize it...

"Let's go. This will allow you to see the black market, and prevent you students from having the guts to run towards a place like this without knowing anything about it - this is not a place to broaden your horizons."

William reluctantly spread his hands, and then walked to the front of the students out of habit, "Let's talk first, I still have things to do. Today I will show you the black market here. Treating you to dinner tonight is my congratulations to you. I have to do my own thing tomorrow."

"Okay, Professor!"

"No problem, Professor!"

Miscellaneous sounds came from the mouths of these students, and then William simply identified the direction below, and started wandering around the black market with a group of students.

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"Professor, look at this, a handicraft!"

Not long after he started working as a tour guide, William felt a little regretful. After leaving the school environment, the activity and enthusiasm of these students seemed to have doubled.

"It's quite exquisite. It looks very good. It's about five sikhs, right?"

"Are you kidding? This is a handicraft made by a goblin!!!"

The vendor seemed to have been insulted, "Five Sickles, you don't even have the qualifications to see it!"

"There are indeed very few products produced by Muggle factories that are transferred to wizarding society." William nodded - in order to avoid causing trouble, he spoke in a low voice. "It is also a very innovative technology. For this, it is indeed five things." It’s not bad, some of them are profitable, and the supply of goods is so abundant, it’s more or less a business.”

"Take it, take it..."

The merchant looked around and saw that there was really no one around, and quickly concluded the business.

This decisive attitude made William couldn't help but give a thumbs up in his heart - if those guys in the British black market could learn eight points, they wouldn't end up in a dirty alley like Knockturn Alley.

It can only be said that people who can smuggle three-headed dogs do have their own background.

"Such a beautiful thing is actually produced by Muggles - are they losing money to make such a beautiful thing..."

How should I put it... In machine production, the gold content is mainly in the first part...

But to explain this, students must have a sufficient foundation in Muggle studies...but this is difficult...

'In the future, the courses must also include an introduction to the Muggle world... Otherwise, when students graduate, they will easily become derailed from the outside world...'

William silently took notes in his mind and concentrated for a while - Speaking of which, Hogwarts does not seem to have anything like a survey on students' post-leaving conditions to provide feedback on course projects...

There is no way, the wizarding world is so big. If the students from Hogwarts could easily compete with other wizards in the world after graduation, the wizarding world would be like a backwater.

Thinking of this, William's original intention of dealing with the students and taking them to play became lighter, and he became more serious, "Speaking of which, how do you feel after graduation?"

"Well, well - it feels like a new summer vacation, but it is much more nervous than summer vacation. Although I have been interning here and there for a while, I am still a little nervous to become a full-time employee after graduation..."

"Indeed, when I think about having to commute to and from get off work on time every day in the future, it does feel much more serious than in school."

"It's okay for you. I need to work in the countryside. It's so remote that I can't even get there by apparating..."

Speaking of work, the students suddenly had a lot of topics to talk about, but basically the students who were ready to join the workforce only had internship experience, which was roughly their expectations for future work.

"Speaking of which, professor, what do you think of work?"

"I'm more scared than you are - you are one-on-one after all. I went to school then," William recalled a little, "I was quite nervous facing so many students on the podium at once, for fear of making a joke. …”

"Eh? Are you nervous?"

The students suddenly started gossiping - the stern professor said he felt nervous. This kind of thing makes people want to know what happened next quickly.

"What happened next, how did you overcome it, Professor?"

"I simply took out some papers, picked out one I was satisfied with and threw it to the students."

"Ha ha ha ha…"

Almost all the students laughed, and some even laughed out loud - but after about half a minute, everyone stopped laughing.

Judging by the time, it seems that they were the first batch of students to write the papers...

"Okay, okay, let's not talk about the papers anymore. You have graduated. What are you talking about?"

William changed the topic back to the current black market, "Speaking of which, do you know why most wizards don't recommend you to go to Knockturn Alley?"

"Because it's a black market over there?"

"It's almost the same - more importantly, the reason why the black market is called a black market is not just because its prices are sometimes ridiculously high, but because it has rules other than the normal rules of the wizarding world."

"Muggles also have a black market, but their black market is more about trading contraband. And in the wizarding world's black market, we still can't count how many illegal transactions there are."

He lowered his voice, "Those ordinary illegal items are still trivial. Some are forced to consume, and then the sky-high prices are marked with very small words... Some are selling fakes, and there are all kinds of imitations... Some are cheating, yours Galleons can become other metals after a little trading... There are even illegal contracts used to trade various seriously prohibited items, and there are even contracts that deceive you into being free in the next life..."

"In a place like this," William pointed to the roadside in an obscure way, "Don't accept the kindness of strangers, don't listen to strangers' promises, don't help strangers at will, and it's best not to talk to strangers."

"especially--"

William raised his left hand, and a child who ran next to him and was about to fall was pushed aside with a telescopic rope. After making a face, he turned around and ran away when he found that he was not controlled.

"Be careful not to let strangers get too close to you."

He put down his left hand, and the child's rope was bent into the shape of his palm, and then he was slapped on the buttocks, causing him to yell and run away at a faster speed.

William smiled and turned to look at his students, "So, just this once, it's best not to come to a place like this in the future."