Harry Potter and the Secret Treasures

72. Chapter 72 Diagon Alley and Leaky Cauldron

    In this way, Ivan and Harry lived in Leaky Cauldron for two weeks left in the summer.

    Ivan has more to do than Harry's excitement.

    In the next few days, he almost visited all the magic stores in Diagon Alley. He persuaded merchants to advertise in their own newspapers, thanks to the increasing sales of "Hogwarts Magic", many merchants are willing to do so, and the advertising costs paid are much higher than the original.

    This gave Ivan a lot of savings. He bought a lot of things for himself, such as pharmaceutical materials that far exceed the normal young wizard usage.

    When preparing for Polyjuice Potion last semester, he recorded the potion formula on the book "Most Potente Potions", which has a lot of practical potions, which is very helpful for improving combat ability. If you want to buy a finished product, you need a lot of gold Galleon, far less cost-effective than your own refining.

    In addition, he also bought a wonderful model of active constellation.

    With it, you don't have to go to astronomy classes anymore. Ivan is fed up every Wednesday night to go to the towering astronomical tower, especially considering that he has a strong fear of heights, which is even worse.

    Next, he went with Harry to buy something on the school list.

    They went to the Madam Malkin robe store to buy a new robe. Two people just came out of the store and saw a group of people crowded in front of a store.

    They curiously scraped together, and Ivan noticed that it was a Quiddich boutique, with a beautifully crafted broomstick in the shop window.

    “Firebolt, representing the current state of the art broomstick! Made from ash tree wood, it is streamlined and exquisite. It is treated with a hard diamond-like polish and has a hand-engraved registration number..."

    Ivan just had a glance and didn't have an interest, but Harry, who was next to him, almost put his face on the glass window.

    "Let's go, Harry! You already have a good broom, there is no need to buy one. ”Ivan thought that her parents gave her a Christmas present last year, a Nimbus 2001, which seemed to have been thrown under the school bed since she received it.

    "But this is Firebolt, the fastest broomstick in the world."

    "It's also the most expensive!"

    Harry nodded in agreement. He looked at the label and said that the price was negotiable. He didn't want to think about how much the Firebolt was worth. One thing is certain, it must not be the price that he can afford.

    Ivan took a lot of effort to pull Harry away, otherwise he would have been able to stand here for a whole day, so staring at a broomstick.

    After leaving the Quiddich store, they went to Flourish and Blotts to buy new textbooks.

    Ivan needed to buy a new Defense Against the Dark Arts book, and Harry added two new courses, Care of Magical Creatures and Divination.

    However, they were shocked when they first entered Flourish and Blotts. The bookstore was a mess. The original well-written spells were gone. Instead, there were several large iron cages, which contained about two hundred Monster Book. Of Monsters.

    These books are closed together, and they furiously compete in a fierce battle. They are fiercely biting and fighting, and the broken pages are flying everywhere.

    "Is it Hogwarts? Is it to buy a new book? ”The manager greeted him impatiently. When he saw Ivan, his face was only a smile. "Oh, it turned out to be you, Mr. Mason, what books do you need to buy? ”

    In just one year, Ivan bought more than two hundred magic books at Flourish and Blotts, making him almost the most popular customer of Flourish and Blotts.

    "Amount, what are these books?"Ivan pointed to the iron cage.

    "Don't mention, these "Monster Book of Monsters" are the worst books I've ever seen in my life, and worse than the "Invisible Book of Invisibility" that I've advanced. They're so troublesome. Unimaginable, I have been bitten five times this morning. ”

    His voice just fell, and there was a loud tearing sound in the cage. The two Monster Book of Monsters grabbed the third one and tried to tear it apart.

    "No! Stop, stop! ”The manager stretched his cane from the iron bars and opened the books. He shouted, "I don't store these books anymore, never!" It’s a nightmare. If I let me know which idiot has designated this book as a textbook, I must kill him. ”

    When he heard him, Harry hurriedly turned his head.

    Hagrid gave him a copy of the Monster Book of Monsters a few days ago, which gave him a strange sense of uneasiness. Intuition told Harry that Hagrid had designated these books as textbooks. No professor other than Hagrid would like a bite book.

    "It is actually very easy to deal with these books."Ivan saw the other person so pitiful, decided to tell him the trick, he said softly, "You just need to gently touch the spine, they will be quiet!"

    "What?"The manager is awkward.

    Ivan gestured to the other person to take out a Monster Book of Monsters from the cage. The book struggled to bite, but Ivan's index finger slid from top to bottom on the spine. The book shivered and then opened. Quiet lying quietly on his hand.

    "good heavens, Mr. Mason, incredible! ”The manager exclaimed, "You have helped me a lot!"

    He directed several clerk to take the Monster Book of Monsters in turn, calmed them down according to Ivan's method, and immediately tied them with a rope.

    "Bundle them, this is the right way to handle these books!"The manager gasped.

    He and Harry received the lowest discount because of Ivan's advice.

    Ivan took a few books very rudely, he thought about it, and took the textbook of the third grade new course one by one.

    The second-grade curriculum is exactly the same as the first grade. Most of the content, Ivan has self-study. Going to class was a waste of time. He decided to attend a few new classes in the third grade. At the end of the last semester, Professor McGonagall had agreed to his request.

    Harry bought "Intermediate Transfiguration" and "The Standard Book of Spells, Level 3", and an "Unfogging the Future" by Cassandra Vablatsky, which is an introductory textbook for Divination, which looks at palms, crystal balls, birds. The internal organs and other content have a strong guiding role.

    But Harry didn't look at his new book. His gaze fell on another book, a "Death of Death" on a small table, written in red letters: When you know the worst. What should you do when things are coming?

    "Oh, if I were you, I wouldn't read such a book."The bookstore clerk saw Harry's gaze on the book and said easily, "When you read this book, you will see that the signs of death are everywhere, and this book will scare people."

    But Harry still glared at the cover of the book: there was a dog on the cover, almost as big as a bear, and with two eyes shining. This dog looks surprisingly familiar...

    Harry pulled Ivan and motioned to see the cover.

    Ivan glanced at it. The black dog that represents the sign of death is a bit like the Sirius Black. No wonder Harry feels uneasy.

    "Ivan, you said that night was..."

    "Don't think about it, it's just a stray dog!"Ivan thought he was chased by the other side and ran across several streets. He added his teeth and added, "Yes, a very annoying stray dog."