v3 Chapter 7： Diagon South

Time quickly came to August 11th, 7 days before the 422nd Quidditch World Cup.

Schelling took out a peeping glass from the suitcase space. The peeping mirror is a mirror that releases phantom magic. It also involves some advanced space magic, which allows people to cross the limitation of space and peep into the distant picture.

Since the sight glass is a powerful surveillance tool and has the potential to be abused, it is strictly controlled by the Ministry of Magic. This sight glass was bought by Schelling with the Vanishing Cabinet when he went to the Bojinbok store last month, and it cost him a full 100 gallons.

Xie Lin is not the Nobita of Doraemon, he bought the sight glass for serious purposes. He asked Dobby to run errands for him, and set the sight glass image to Little Hangleton Town, Riddle House.

This old mansion is still called "Riddle House" by the townsfolk of Little Hangleton, even though the Riddle family has not lived here for many years. The house is located on a hillside, from here you can see the whole town. The windows of the house were sealed, the tiles on the roof were incomplete, and the creeper crawled all over the house with its teeth and claws.

Riddle House was originally a very beautiful mansion, and the most spacious and magnificent building within a few miles, but now it has become damp, desolate, and uninhabited all year round.

The current owner of the mansion is a rich man. The purpose of buying this building is to deduct taxes, and he didn't spend any effort to take care of the house, except for continuing to hire the original gardener of Riddle House.

In the courtyard of the ruined mansion, stands a small log cabin. The gardener of Riddle House, Frank Bryce, lived in it.

From the sight glass, Schelling could clearly see that Bryce, who was already lame, was working slowly in the flowerbed. Although the weeds were creeping towards him, he couldn’t stop him. . He also saw a few naughty little boys riding bicycles over the smooth grass that Bryce had hardly built. They also threw stones at the window of Riddle's House, and Old Bryce limped across the garden, brandishing a cane, and yelling at them in a hoarse voice.

If Schelling remembers correctly, there are still a few days left, to be precise, August 16th, this coming Saturday, old Bryce’s suffering days will end.

Today, Xie Lin is going to Dijiao Alley. He and the girls have arranged to meet in Dijiao Alley.

He has already reported with his parents, he will spend the rest of the summer at his friends' house, and then go directly to Devon with them to watch the Quidditch World Cup.

After knowing that the so-called friend is the daughter of the Greengrass family, the parents are happy to see it happen. After Lucius gave Schelling a few words to be careful and safe, he also explained that he and Draco would also be there by then, and maybe they could still touch them in the arena.

Xie Lin understands Lucius's hint-he knows that in this Quidditch World Cup, there will be many pure-blood families who have fallen silent and plan to make trouble under the banner of Death Eaters. As early as a month ago, he noticed that his father had close contacts with many pure-blood families, and seemed to be plotting something.

After stepping out of the fireplace in the Broken Cauldron Bar, Schelling released a clean up for himself, tidyed up his hair a little, and said hello to the old Tom, the bar owner, and then left.

Diagon Alley is the largest commercial area in the wizarding world of England. The entrance is the Broken Cauldron Bar on Charing Cross Street in London. The entire business is divided into three parts.

The first part is the "North District", which starts from the Broken Cauldron Bar at House No. 1 and goes all the way south until it reaches the Gringotts Bank. There will be a side road diagonally opposite the Gringotts Bank, which leads to a place called "Knockover Alley", which belongs to the second part of the business district. If you choose not to turn and move on, you will come to the third part of the business district, the "Southern District".

Diagon Alley is worthy of being one of the best wizarding shopping streets in Europe, and it is very prosperous. Even though Xie Lin has been reborn in this world for 14 years, he has never completely visited the entire street.

Excluding Knockover Alley, there are close to 300 shops in the north and south areas of Diagon Alley alone. Of course, Schelling had never counted the total number of stores carefully. He was not so boring. He only knew that the number of Ms. Pripinar's Beauty Potions was 275, and it was far from the last store in Diagon Alley.

As far as Schelling knows, the only place in Europe that can rival Diagon Alley in terms of prosperity is the Montmartre Secret Wizard Trail in Paris, France.

The north area of ​​Diagon Alley is dominated by shops for young children and students, such as pet shops, joke shops, bookstores, stationery shops, etc. This is why the protagonists in the original works generally wander in the north area, letting readers from previous lives It is easy to form the impression that there are no more than a dozen shops in Diagon Alley.

The commercial activities in the South District are much more exciting, targeting middle-class and above adult consumers. Poor boys like Harry and Ron may not have set foot here before the end of the original book.

Schelling came to the fork in front of the gate of Gringotts and saw Daphne, Astoria, and Meredith waiting there.

The girls were obviously well-dressed, Daphne was mature and beautiful, Astoria was pure and beautiful, Meredith was noble and elegant, and when they saw Schelling, they all smiled with joy and went to Schelling. come.

It is a rare trip to Dijiao Alley. The few people did not rush to Greengrass Manor in a hurry, but were led by Schelling to the south of Diagon Alley.

Passed a "magic shrinking house", but at Astoria's strong request, a few people walked in.

A magic is released at the door of the Magic Shrinking House. Everyone who comes in will be reduced to the size of a mouse. There is a sense of sight of the Muggle masterpiece "Alice in Wonderland" read in the previous life.

Several people passed through a mouse hole in the room, came to a flowerbed, crossed a small waterway on a leaf, climbed the dandelion flowers along the branches, and then drifted across a large grassland on the dandelion in the wind. Came to an inconspicuous tree hole, and while passing through the tree hole, several people regained their original size and left the shrinking house happily.

The next stop is the House of Illusion, which is actually a kind of entertainment that copied the Muggle movie theater concept. Illusion magic, as the name implies, is magic that uses crystal **** or skulls to present the images in the operator’s mind. The original intention of this magic is to let the fortune-telling masters who see the future share the results of the divination with the customers through the images in their minds. Watch.

Later, some clever wizards who knew about the Muggle world found business opportunities from it. They invited screenwriters to use illusion magic to transform the story into a dynamic picture to show to the audience. It was immediately popular, such as "Wizards vs. Aliens", "Let the Curse Fly", "How to Train Your Dragon" and so on. The works were born one by one.

Xie Lin walked to the ticket office. Sitting there was a sweet-looking young lady with a lovely smile. She looked at the Gringotts limited-edition entertainment VIP card that Xie Lin took out of her arms, and a smile suddenly appeared on her face. It's even more cute.

There are only five hundred black gold VIP cards made by pure black gold in the UK, and as far as Schelling knows, he is the only underage card holder in the UK. Use this card to spend in high-end restaurants or entertainment venues, not only enjoy a 20% discount, but also free upgrade to VIP seats. In addition to the seats are wider, softer and more comfortable, there are also services of ordering meals and ordering beverages to the seats. .

Xie Lin bought four tickets. Today, what a few people want to watch is the latest love movie "Time and Space Traveler".

The play tells the story of Tim, a man who has cracked the secret of time magic. Tim is 21 years old and he has discovered the secret of how to travel through time and can go back in time. So he tried it and returned to the summer, where he tried to change the relationship with his crush, but found that no one who does not love him can fall in love with him no matter how time travels through time and space. Later, he met another girl and fell in love with it, but it also triggered a series of butterfly effects, causing a series of disasters to the future world. In the end, he exhausted his whole magic power to clean up the traces of time travel, but also because of this. Lost this relationship. That girl never knew him, and finally remarried someone...

At the end of the film, the ending song of the sad melody sounded, awakening the sleeping Schelling. He opened his eyes, but he saw the three girls with red and swollen eyes, and put a whole big pack of "Parfitt tissues". "It's all used up. Astoria couldn't even cry herself, still sobbing intermittently.

Xie Lin was a little embarrassed, used a spell to help the girls clean up their faces, and then stuffed everyone with a gummy candy, just as the advert said, to keep them happy every day! Really, I said it a long time ago, isn't it good to watch "Doctor Strange vs. Ouagadou Panther Animagus"? Girls love to find guilt...

After having lunch in a high-end restaurant, Schelling took out his special pocket watch and checked the time. (Author: Old readers may have to reread the ninth chapter of the first volume before knowing the special pocket watch)

There are still many unexplored areas in the Diagonal South Area, such as the "Miaomiao Flying Heaven House" that simulates a gravity-free environment in the universe, the "magic plant aroma SPA" suitable for women, and the "beautiful girl dream massage club" suitable for men...Thanks Lin has one more place to go, and all these places can only be reserved for next time. (The last one, with a girlfriend by his side, he didn’t even dare to go.)

It's not that the wizarding world has no entertainment, or that my brother has no money, but that there is not enough time! Xie Lin couldn't help sighing.

Who said the entertainment of wizards is scarce? If someone says this, Schelling will tell him, it must be poverty limited by imagination!

Xie Lin led the three girls to today's last destination.

This is an inconspicuous small shop. Surprisingly, there is no sign on the shop front, only a pair of crossed silver spears are painted on the side of the door.

At the entrance is a young witch with a fiery figure wearing a leopard-print tight-fitting battle suit Seeing a few people come in, she clenched her wand, and looked at Schelling's eyes with strong vigilance. .

Schelling quickly took out from his arms the identity plate given to him by the Medieval Wizards’ Association and handed it over.

The witch still did not put down her guard, holding her wand tightly while checking the nameplate. After tossing and checking several times and confirming that there was no problem, she returned the nameplate to Schelling, with a smile on her face, and said, "You are the Malfoy who has been in the limelight in recent years? You are not as well-known as meeting, and she is so young. what!"

"Thank you for the absurd praise from this young lady. I was just a little lucky. I have been taken care of by many big people along the way. I came here today to take my friends to try to challenge the silver spear test level, and strengthen Actual combat ability." Xie Lin said clearly.

The witch swept across the four people with a scrutinizing gaze, "Oh, okay, please come with me."

The witch led the four people through the drawing room and into the inner hall. In the deepest part of the inner hall, there are five doors. The doors on the left and right sides are open, while the three doors in the middle are closed. These three wooden doors are very old, with mottled marks, they look ages, exuding a simple atmosphere.

The witch explained: "The middle three doors require a warrant from one of the four great wizards of the Silver Spear to open. They represent hell-level difficulty. The door on the left represents easy, and the door on the right represents medium. You want Which one to challenge?"

"Medium, can the four of us go in together?" If we can't go in together, Schelling doesn't plan to let Astoria take the risk.

"Yes." Then she took out a key and opened the wooden door on the right, reaching out to make a gesture of inviting to enter.