Chapter 665： France trip

Chapter 665: Trip to France

 A few days later, Albert visited the McDougal house and picked up Isobel.

“Where are we going next?” Isobel asked after watching Albert stuff the suitcase into a bag.

"Diagon Alley." Albert said without thinking: "We have to meet Mr. Bard first. He has a private cross-border floo network that can secretly travel to France."

 “Transnational Floo Network?” Isobel stepped forward and took Albert’s arm.

“It’s almost ten o’clock, we should leave.” Albert put his pocket watch into his pocket and used Apparition to leave from the door of Isobel’s house.

The two appeared in Diagon Alley and soon found Professor Bard chatting with Tom at the bar of the Leaky Cauldron.

 “I hope we didn’t keep you waiting too long.”

 Albert stepped forward to say hello to Professor Bard.

 “No, I just arrived too.”

Bard finished the glass of wine, paid the money, and left the Leaky Cauldron with Albert and Isobel. They walked along the street and came to an old apartment.

"Wizards usually don't focus on the Muggle world. As long as they don't cause trouble, they don't even notice these problems." Professor Bard led the two people into the room and greeted an old administrator. He took them into a room. The room was full of dust. It looked like no one had cleaned it for a long time, but there were too many bookshelves.

 “What if the apartment is demolished?” Albert asked with a smile.

"No, this apartment is currently hanging under my door. No one will demolish it without my consent." Professor Bard opened the bookshelf with pulleys and said with a smile, "You can see that it is hidden Have you gotten up in the secret room?"

“Well, you see, those bookshelves are used to hide traces of magic?” Albert immediately guessed the reason.

 “Where is Isobel?”

The girl stared at the wall carefully and touched it with her hands, but found nothing unusual.

"You are progressing faster than I thought." Professor Bard sighed with emotion, and then comforted, "It is normal not to notice traces of magic. Usually only a very small number of superb wizards will notice these details."

 “This is not like words of comfort to others.” Isobel muttered.

 I saw Bard raising his wand, tapping three times rhythmically on the wall, and whispering something in his mouth.

 A door similar to the one leading to Diagon Alley appeared in front of them out of thin air. When the three of them pushed the door open and walked in, they found themselves in a room filled with blue firelight. There were seven fireplaces on the walls, with the countries to which the fireplaces lead were marked in English.

“When we were building the international floo network for the Ministry of Magic, we secretly built such a place for ourselves,” Professor Bard said calmly. "Some secrets of the Wildsmith family will gradually be revealed to you, but these need to be kept secret from the outside world."

 “Is it okay if I know?”

"You are the successor, so it's okay to know, but others can't, and they can't tell anyone. Of course, you need a password to open this place, and I will tell you later." With that, Bard took out a Muggle weapon from his pocket. The matchbox was thrown to Albert, "You should know how to use this!"

"Oh, by the way, Albert is not yet an adult." The girl was stunned for a moment, as if she had thought of something, and muttered in a low voice, "It's troublesome not being able to use magic."

 It took Albert a lot of effort to light the firewood in the fireplace.

"Your destination is: No. 93 Wizard Street." Professor Bard reminded, "Say hello to Mr. Kenner for me."

 “I’ll go first.”

Albert said as he grabbed a handful of floo powder and threw it into the fireplace, then stepped into the rising green flames.

 After a long spin, Albert felt like he fell heavily into the fireplace.

 “I hate this feeling!”

 The prolonged spinning made him dizzy and nauseated.

After Albert got up from the ground in embarrassment, he quickly moved to the empty seat next to him to make room for Isobel.

 The cross-border floo network is indeed very convenient, but it has some side effects.

Isobel quickly fell into the fireplace. She had passed the Apparition test, but she still couldn't adapt to the dizziness caused by the long journey.

"Are you okay?" Albert stretched out his hand to help Isobel up, and at the same time looked at the surrounding environment. They came to a slightly dim room, perhaps Wild Smith's stronghold in France.

At this time, the door to the room was opened, and an old bald wizard walked in, looked at the young man and woman in front of him, and said in fluent English: "Welcome to France."

 “Mr. Kenner?” Albert asked tentatively.

"Yes, I received news that someone will use the transnational floo network to come here." The old wizard Kenna pointed to the sofa next to him and suggested: "You can rest there for a while. Using the transnational floo network is nothing. Something enjoyable.”

"I totally agree."

"Speaking of which, no one has used this place for a long time." The old bald wizard looked Albert up and down and asked suspiciously, "Are you Bud's grandson?"

"I am his student." Albert thought for a moment and then added, "He is considered a relative of mine."

"Oh, I remembered, you are Albert Anderson." The bald wizard muttered, "I didn't expect that you are actually related. The newspaper also said that you are a Muggle wizard. Damn it, I knew the newspaper was unreliable."

After the two of them recovered from their Floo network trip, Kenna took them out of the secret room. The entrance to the secret room was a cabinet. When they walked out of it, the walls returned to their original appearance and the cabinet was moved back to its original position. Location.

“You can use the floo network here to travel to various parts of France. I would like to ask, where are you going?” Kenna handed the box containing floo powder to Albert.

　　"Nicola Village!" Albert handed the box containing Floo powder to Isobel, and joked with a smile, "Don't call me wrong, if you disappear, I don't know where to find you."

Isobel couldn't help rolling her eyes, walked to the fireplace, and threw the floo powder into the flames. After rolling up the green flames in the fireplace, he walked straight into the fire, shouted "Nicholas Village" and disappeared.

“I have to go, excuse me!” Albert nodded slightly towards the old man, also grabbed the flying powder and threw it into the fireplace, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

“What a polite little guy.” Kenner put away the powder and took out a double-sided mirror from his pocket to contact Bud.

After Isobel walked out of the fireplace, her attention was immediately attracted by the town in front of her.

Not far in front of them was a square with a statue of the young Flamel couple.

“Welcome to Nicola Village!” Albert said to Isobel with a smile, “This is a famous wizard town in France.”

 “It’s quite nice here.” Isobel said, looking around.

 “Let’s go.”

Albert took out a silver card from his pocket, glanced at the address on it, and scanned the street again, then took Isobel's hand and walked along the location of Nico's house in his memory.

When the two appeared on the street, no one looked at them curiously. What made Albert feel incredible was that there was actually a young man and woman running over to shake hands with him, saying that they were fans of Albert. He was a little embarrassed.

Albert looked at Isobel who was snickering next to him, and said angrily: "Stop laughing, keep up!"

The two came to a house. Albert knocked on the door. After a house elf opened the door, he handed a silver card full of lines to the house elf.

“You two, please come in!”

 The house elf took the card and opened the hidden door for the two of them.

“No matter how many times I see it, it’s still so magical.” Albert took Isobel’s hand and walked into the door.

 This hidden door is the real residence of the Flamel couple.

Albert decided to ask Mr. Nico to learn how to arrange a safe residence.

"Long time no see, Albert, and this one, I think he must be Miss Isobel you mentioned!" Nico appeared in front of Albert without any warning, and introduced the two of them with a smile. Entrance.

“Those two pairs of glasses last time really helped me a lot!” Albert introduced to Isobel with a smile, “This is Mr. Nico Flamel, the greatest alchemist in history.”

 “It’s an honor to meet you.” Isobel nodded slightly towards Nico Flamel.

“Oh, don’t be so unfamiliar, Perenal is making you your favorite black tea.” Nico asked again: “You must have brought your luggage, right?”

 “Bring it,” said Albert.

"That's good." Nico nodded with satisfaction, "Then stay here for a while and chat with us two old people. No guests have come for a long time."

 (End of this chapter)