Days wandering around Hogwarts

Chapter 403 He is working for that person
Mafalda ordered an ice cream for Harry and they ate and chatted.

Most of the questions were asked by curious little girls, who mainly wanted to verify the content of "Hogwarts: A History".

After finishing the ice cream, Seamus said, "Let's go buy a wand first."

Mafalda shook her head and said, "No need to buy a wand, I use my grandfather's wand."

From an old crocodile-skin wallet she pulled out an equally old wand, with an elm shaft and a dragon's heart nerve core.

Elm favors owners with style, deft magic, and a natural sense of dignity. They are sophisticated wands, capable of high magic in the right hands.

The heart nerves of a fire dragon can make the most powerful wands and perform the most magnificent magic.

Mafalda said: "It's Grandpa's wand. It suits me very well."

After she finished speaking, she performed a "Wingardium Leviosa" on the empty ice cream cup in front of her, and the cup floated to a height of her palm.

"Amazing!" Seamus exclaimed, "This is the first time I've seen someone use this spell before entering school."

Harry also nodded and sighed, "Hermione can't do that either."

Mafalda was so excited to receive the praise from the two great men that her face and hair turned red. She said a little embarrassedly, "This was taught to me by my father's colleague in Farbaton Castle. I'm stupid and it took me more than ten attempts before I succeeded."

Seamus and Harry decided to talk about something else.

Mafalda continued, "Mos Jeff taught me an American Muggle Repelling Charm the other day."

After she finished speaking, she chanted the spell and waved her wand, and the tip of the wand made a series of "bang bang" and "click" sounds.

A group of wizards who happened to be passing by on the road nearby reflexively cast spells such as the Armor Spell on themselves in the blink of an eye, and at the same time lay prone on the ground, which surprised wizards from various countries.

Seamus and Harry recognized the sound, which was similar to the gunshots on TV.

The group of wizards realized that this was Britain and they all got up.

A young wizard came over following the sound and recognized Harry, whom he had met during the Potions Tournament a few months ago. He chatted with him for a few words and was relieved to find that it was a false alarm.

Harry explained, "They are students from Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the United States. They are here to participate in the second decryption challenge."

Mafalda immediately said, "I know about the decryption challenge. It's jointly organized by my father's company and Hogwarts."

"I heard that last year's firewall was quickly unlocked. This year, many excellent wizards from all over the world came to the company, and everyone came up with ideas together. It is said that it has been very successful."

Seamus said, "I heard about it from Charles."

He then pointed to a store not far away and said, "Let's go to Madam Malkin's robe shop to order robes. We'll get our measurements first, and the robes will be ready after we buy the items."

The three of them came to Madam Malkin's robe shop. Mafalda went in to measure her size by herself, while Seamus and Harry waited outside.

Then they went to Flourish and Blotts.

Harry said, "That's great. I bought the textbooks too."

Seamus said, "I already bought it, as well as Charles's."

His mother had a shop in Diagon Alley, so it was very convenient for him to come and buy things.

Harry asked him, "I heard we added a new required course."

Seamus said with a bitter face, "Yeah, luckily it's a self-study course."

"I thought it would be easy, but I found it's not that easy. It's a headache."

Harry decided not to ask about the new courses. Although he had not received a list of books from the Hogwarts owl, Flourish and Blotts had already prepared it. The books for the required courses for each grade were all packed. He only needed to tell them the names of the elective courses.

It was convenient for Mafalda because they only had compulsory courses in the first grade, and the clerk directly brought a bundle of books over.

She put the books into her crocodile leather wallet, took out a long list, handed it to the waiter and said, "I want to buy these books."

Seamus and Harry leaned over and saw dozens or even hundreds of books densely written on the list. Judging from the names, they almost covered all areas of magical learning. They had only seen the names of some of the books in Hermione's pile of books.

The clerk took ten minutes to read through the list and said with some embarrassment, "Most of the books are available, but some are not available in bookstores right now, and some can only be found in second-hand bookstores."

Mafalda thought for a moment and said, "Can I leave the money for you to buy all the books for me?"

The clerk called for the manager, who said it was no problem.

Mafalda signed a contract with the bookstore, gave a check from Gringotts, and asked the bookstore to deliver all the books to Farbottom Castle.

As they left the bookstore, she said to Seamus, "Charles left a dormitory for my father in Falbatten Castle. My father preferred to live at home, so he gave it to me. Now I live in the castle."

Harry felt that it was a bit bad for her parents to leave her alone in Farbottom Castle, but he vaguely felt that something was wrong.

When he suddenly figured it out one day, his son had already gone to Hogwarts.

The group went to buy crucibles, scales, stationery and other things. Mafalda seemed to have no shortage of money and bought the most expensive things.

Before receiving the robes, they came to the Magical Creatures Shop.

There are pets for sale here, such as turtles, mice, and toads. Mafalda looked at them for a long time and finally bought a parrot whose whole body was as green as emerald green, except for its beak which was yellow.

When she looked back, she found that only Seamus was there, and Harry was nowhere to be seen.

"Harry's been busy," Seamus said.

At this time, Harry came to Knockturn Alley. He just spent two minutes buying a hooded cloak that covered his face in a second-hand robe shop. The cloak exuded an unpleasant smell of potion.

Not far ahead, Draco Malfoy was walking anxiously, also wearing a cloak and a hood, and Harry could see his face when he looked back from time to time.

Harry hunched over, lowered his head so that he could barely see the ground, and let his hands hang limply down. He pretended that his right leg was unable to move, and moved forward step by step.

There were many strange-looking wizards in Knockturn Alley, and Malfoy didn't recognize that this person was Harry.

He came to an empty stall and tapped it rhythmically with his wand. A moment later, a wizard wearing a dog-head mask appeared.

Malfoy took out an envelope and said to the wizard expressionlessly, "The big shot was quite satisfied with the last business and decided to further cooperate this time."

Just as the dog-headed wizard was about to take the envelope, Malfoy pulled his hand back and said, "The big shot thinks that if you show more sincerity, there will be another cooperation."

"Okay." The dog-headed wizard took the envelope and ignored the ray of light that penetrated from the envelope into his hand. He turned around and disappeared without a trace.

Malfoy also produced a portkey, activated it, and disappeared into Knockturn Alley.

Such conversations were not uncommon in Knockturn Alley. Those wizards who came here were not good people. This was how some grey area businesses were discussed. Without revealing the specific business, no one knew whether they were smuggling Indian flying carpets or American mushroom powder.

Harry passed by across the street and overheard Malfoy's conversation.

His heart was shaken at this moment, as Malfoy's words revealed that he was working for "that big shot", and the only big shot related to Malfoy, without mentioning his name, seemed to be Voldemort.

Harry thought of the Malfoy family, whose house and parents were missing. Black said that all the Death Eaters in Azkaban escaped at the end of last year. Combined with what happened today, it seemed that the whole thing could be connected.

Without stopping, he walked out of Knockturn Alley, looked for Black, and went back to report to Dumbledore.

(End of this chapter)