novelraw Chapter 165 The Wand and the Two-way Mirror
Chapter 165 The Wand and the Two-way Mirror
At this moment, Harley and Queenie were in a small courtyard surrounded by walls, and Professor Snape took out his wand and silently counted the bricks on the wall above the dustbin.
"Remember, count three bricks up from the dustbin - count two bricks down, and tap the wall three times with your wand, you guys - and you're in Diagon Alley."
As he explained to the two girls, he manipulated his wand at the same time.As soon as he finished speaking, the wall brick he knocked on started to shake and began to move, and a hole that became bigger and bigger appeared, and then a cobblestone road that meandered and had no end appeared. before their eyes. *
Snape looked at the condition of the street—there were not too many pedestrians, but at least it wasn't crowded. He nodded, and Harry understood that this was his gesture of satisfaction.
"Hmph, as expected, there will be fewer people after school starts...it's really comforting." He had already lifted his foot and stepped into Diagon Alley, and Harry and Queenie quickly followed.
There are similar gathering places for wizards in the United States, where they entertain, make friends and shop. *But they are more hidden and scattered, unlike Diagon Alley, which consists of a whole long street.
On both sides of the quaint long street paved with cobblestones, there were row upon row of shops of various colors, some selling potion ingredients, pets, and even broomsticks. Harry just took a second look at the latter.
Queenie was very interested, but Professor Snape didn't stop at all - he had already bought everything for Harry, and Queenie's school supplies were also purchased by her grandmother's sister, a magizoologist. Scamander's wife, Porpontina Scamander, did it for her.
From Professor Snape's point of view, of course he didn't come here for shopping today.So he had a clear goal, no matter how attached the two girls were to certain shops, he still firmly led them towards a tall snow-white building in the distance.
"According to your request, the bank." He stopped in front of the white stone steps of the building, and pointed to Harry's door with the big "Gringotts" signboard.
Obviously, Professor Snape wasn't going to take her in...
"I have no interest in visiting your Potter treasures," he said.
Of course Snape would not tell Harry the real reason - besides the mountains of wealth in that vault, there must also be Lily's relics, and he didn't want to...see it, because he probably couldn't resist taking it away .
Harley and Queenie looked at each other, and Queenie shrugged and led the way into the bank run by a goblin.
After a roller coaster of money withdrawals (Queenie was about to throw up, but Harry, who often flew on a broom, was okay), now Harry’s pockets are full of heavy gold and silver coins, and she has always felt that wizards don’t use paper money. Getting used to it... is very troublesome.
This is the first time Halle has used money that is truly her own.Previously in the United States, all her expenses in the wizarding school and the wizarding world had been exchanged for dollars by Uncle Bruce.
Professor Snape seemed very satisfied with their efficiency, he nodded, and led the way to the wand shop - this was the main task for today.
Most of the shops they passed were themed and specialized in a specific magical item.Occasionally, there were a few comprehensive shops, all of which were ignored by Harry, who was just looking at the flowers. Only one shop with a small wooden plaque hung on it, which attracted Harry's attention.
A small plaque reads: "Magic Little Miscellaneous - Making Life Easier."
But what attracted her attention was not this inconspicuous brand, but the "new products of the season" displayed on purple silk in the window - two seemingly ordinary small mirrors.
The caption below it is emphasized in capital letters: "Double Mirror - Instant Messenger for Wizards".
Harry ignored Professor Snape's disapproving voice and walked over quickly.
"Why are you buying this?" Seeing Harley who was decisively picking up Galleons in the store without even lowering the price, Queenie rushed over and looked at the description in the mirror with her head tilted.
"Oh—I see!" Queenie curled her lips, "I can't stand you...it must be because of Damian!"
Snape, who finally arrived at the shop, only heard the word "Damian".
"'Damian' what?" He looked at Queenie from Harry, his eyes were as alert as a bald eagle.
"Uh...it's nothing." Queenie scratched her head and winked at Harry quietly.
Harley, who had just walked out of the shop, sensed Queenie's signal, and she quickly hid the mirror in the pocket of her windbreaker.
"I...I think 'instant messaging tool' is very necessary..." She didn't say it was very necessary for "falling in love"... Her technique of "using ambiguous words to avoid lying skillfully" has become more and more perfect ...
Snape narrowed his eyes, stared at Harry for a while, then walked away, shaking his black robe.
"Quick, catch up! We're running out of time."
Harry shrunk his neck to Queenie, and the two girls quickly chased after the black figure ahead.
Afterwards, when passing the "Mrs. Malkin's Robe Store", Harry had a thought, trotted a few steps and caught up with Professor Snape, "Do I still need to buy school uniforms?"
"I've already bought it." The Potions Professor kept walking.
"Uh...you know my size?"
"Is the size of your clothes higher than the precision required for measuring potions?" He glanced at Harry—well, he grew a little bit taller, anyway, he bought a bigger one.
Harry choked, she certainly didn't need to be accurate to the millimeter.
Harry took a few steps back, returned to Queenie, and poked the blond girl, "Did you buy it? A school uniform?"
"I bought it, Grandma Tina bought it," Queenie replied in a low voice, "Unlike Ilvermorny, the Hogwarts school uniform is black."
"What about the dress? We still need to prepare a dress this year, have you bought it too?"
Queenie nodded, "Grandma changed a dress she had when she was young and gave it to me—pink."
"Mine is pink too," Harry's eyes lit up. "Wait a minute, you said your grandma's dress when she was young? Is that... from the 20s?"
"It's about the same. Isn't retro popular now? It looks pretty good after changing it. You can't buy such a good material on the market."
The two girls were muttering, when Professor Snape in front suddenly stopped in his tracks.
Harry took a closer look, and they had already come to a small and dilapidated shop. The gold signboard on the door had peeled off, and it read: Ollivander: Well-made wands since 382 BC.
"Do you think this is true? BC...that's too exaggerated." Queenie asked Harry quietly.
"I don't know..." Harry shook his head.
Snape opened the door and walked in with the two girls.An old man with pale eyes raised his head behind the counter. Behind him were thousands of long and narrow boxes stacked almost to the ceiling—similar to Ilvermorny's wand selection room.
The difference is that this small shop looks more solemn.The sun shines in through the narrow windows, and even the dust in the air seems to be floating slightly in some magical way.
"Ah, good afternoon, Professor Snape..." The old man's soft voice drifted over, sounding mysterious.
"Good afternoon, Mr. Ollivander, I brought two students here to buy a wand..." He paused, "I am not the protagonist today, so don't tell me the story of me being chosen by the wand back then... ..."
Every year when he leads his students to buy wands, Ollivander reminisces about history.Merlin knew that his ears could hear cocoons.
"Oh, yes, yes, it was a sunny afternoon, you walked into my shop with Lily Evans..." Well, Snape shook his head helplessly, Ollivander Sure enough, it started again... *
"Wait, you..." Ollivander stopped suddenly-this was the first time-he turned to look at Harry, his light eyes widened, "You...you look a little like She...could it be?"
His eyes flicked to her smooth forehead.
"I'm Harry Potter," Harry answered generously. She had prepared herself psychologically before coming to the UK, and she would deal rationally with all eyes of blind worship or contempt. "Can you help me?" I choose a suitable wand."
Ollivander also seemed confused, because Harry didn't have the famous scar on his forehead, "Okay... okay, but, Miss Potter, it's not me who chooses the wand for you, but the wand chooses the wizard... ..."
Well, she forgot that statement again.
The next process of "being chosen by the wand" was also similar to that of Ilvermorny. After measuring the body data, Mr. Ollivander began to take different wands for Harry to try one by one.
Sure enough, the first few didn't fit.She already had the will to try for a few more hours...and even wanted to ask Queenie to come first.
Mr. Ollivander was not impatient, but showed excitement as if he had encountered some rare challenge,
"I thought..." the old man murmured, "of course it's it—a remarkable combination, holly, phoenix feathers, eleven inches long..."
Harley took the wand, which was praised by the old man as an "extraordinary combination", and the second she held the handle, she knew she had chosen the right one—the resonance was dozens of times stronger than that of the cat and leopard wand, and it also possessed a stronger resonance than that of her mother. The willow wand responded.
"I think that's it," murmured Harry, who didn't need to wave at all.
"This is really amazing..."
Harley was about to take out the money, but when she heard Ollivander talking to herself, her movements stopped, and she suddenly had a bad premonition, "Excuse me...how wonderful?"
The old man who was wrapping the wand into the gift box turned around, "I was going to say...the brother wand of this wand—that is, the core of the wand comes from the same phoenix—has left you with a scar...but you don't have a scar on your forehead now ..."
"Your consciousness is that my wand and Voldemort's are brother wands?" Harry's face wrinkled.
Ollivander shuddered at the name...
Contrary to everyone's expectations, Harry took a few steps back and stood beside Snape, "Then I don't want... I don't want to buy a wand anymore, mom's is enough, I don't want to have any contact with Voldemort anymore .”
Maybe the old man is indeed a master of wands, but he really can't sell...Where is there a salesman who tells customers that your stuff has some natural connection with your old enemy's?
Anyone will feel unhappy.
Snape also looked troubled, and he didn't force Harry to accept it, "Are you...sure? The right wand can boost your magic a lot."
Harry shook his head firmly.
"Oh, come on, stop blah blah blah," Queenie stood between Harry and Ollivander's counter, waving her arms, "I don't believe that Phoenix can't make a few more wands. Phoenix Can't die?—that's what Grandpa Newt told me. So a phoenix must make a lot of wands!"
"Whose phoenix is this? Let's pull out some more ones and bring them back to make some more wands. So there are more brothers of the ghoul wand. Harley's one is not special."
Snape thought what Queenie said... actually made sense?He looked up at Ollivander.
"It's not that simple, Miss Kowalski, but I admire your experimental spirit. I know your Grandpa Newt, a perfect scholar..."
Then, the old man's light-colored eyes popped out again, and he looked at Queenie in surprise, "Oh...God...I thought there couldn't be more surprises today...you are...a natural legitiminator miss?"
Snape stepped forward, blocking the blonde girl behind, Ollivander's magic and knowledge... always beyond his expectations, "We want you to keep this secret to the four people present today Among them, Mr. Ollivander, there cannot be more people who know."
Queenie Kowalski... It can be considered as the secret weapon he specially won over and placed beside Harry.
Seeing that Ollivander nodded in agreement, he turned around and said to Harry, "During this dark time when you are about to move around, it will be crucial for you to use the most suitable wand for the entire battle; I can I understand how you feel, Harry, but a brother wand doesn't mean much..."
Perhaps it can only mean that you are indeed destined to destroy the darkness, this stressful sentence, Snape did not say.
Harry hesitated, that wand was indeed the most suitable for her, she only held it once, and now she was a little bit reluctant.
"Okay..." She decided to be a mature and sensible child, "I will use it."
After that, Queenie's wand selection process was slightly easier than Harley's - 10.4 inches, unicorn hair, mahogany.
"At least this one is much longer than Ilvermorny's. I'm very satisfied." Queenie smiled sweetly with satisfaction, and paid Ollivander together with Harry—a total of 14 Galleons.
Walking out of the mysterious wand shop that made Harry feel complicated, the sky had already begun to darken.Snape took a pocket watch out of his robes and looked at it.
"We're running out of time, so you're going to Apparate directly with me to Hogsmeade - a magical village next to Hogwarts, and from there we go to Hogwarts. If we're going right away, we should Made it in time for dinner.”
What he said next made Harry more vigilant, "You two will have a separate sorting ceremony during dinner."
"In front of the whole school?" Harry asked.
"Correct."
"Uh..." This is really... I can't keep a low profile.
The two girls landed in Hogsmeade after a burst of suffocation and dizziness like squeezing a hose.
"The way wizards travel is terrible..." Queenie rubbed her chest.
"Yeah..." Halle took a deep breath of the moist air, she had been here when she was 11 years old.
This time she could finally see the black thestrals in front of the carriage, and Queenie was also staring at the huge black skull-like Pegasus.
Snape followed their gazes, turned his head, and questioned, "I remember you couldn't see it when you were 11 when you first came here... have you seen death?"
"And what's the matter with you?" he asked Queenie too.
"I killed a werewolf," said Harry quietly.
"And I grew up in Gotham." Queenie shrugged.
Ok……
The author has something to say:
*The description of entering Diagon Alley is partially rewritten from the original text of Ha 1.
*Like that bar in Fantastic Beasts.
*Tina's full name is PorpentinaEstherGoldstein
*Queenie's dress is the blingbling pink 20s dress that Queenie wore at the bar in Fantastic Beasts.
*The chapter of the prince’s story in Ha 7 did not see the plot of Snape and Lily buying wands when they were young, so let’s assume that they are together. Even if the two adults will not come to Diagon Alley together, the two children may secretly date good?After all, the only wizard Lily knew back then was Snape.