362 Diagon Alley, Knockturn Alley, Borgin-Bock

362 Diagon Alley, Knockturn Alley, Borgin-Bock

Did Dobby come to his own house to steal something, or was he following the orders of Abraxas Malfoy, a fugitive from Azkaban?

What is he looking for?

Karan thought for a long time, but still couldn't figure out why the other party suddenly targeted him.

He doesn't have much contact with the Malfoy family - he happened to ruin Lucius' Acromantula sneak attack plan in the first year, and he took the opportunity to hint that Moody and Meadows had a relationship in Malfoy Manor. Something about a secret room.

But these two things have nothing to do with the items Dobby is looking for. After all, the culprit is Callan himself, and what Dobby should really do is to capture him.

In the next few days, Regulus wrote back to Karan saying that Kreacher did not remember his experience in Potter Manor. It seemed that Kreacher had no chance to betray them, and Dobby's purpose would not be Jumping pot.

As for Cat Leopard, it is even more impossible to reveal this information. It has been comatose in Potter Manor for too long due to injuries, let alone that it was brought back to the United States by Mr. Newt as soon as the incident was over.

Why?

Outside Florin Fusco's ice cream shop in Diagon Alley, four children gathered together to ponder this question.

Or to be precise, only three people were thinking - Steve was devouring the chocolate nut ice cream in front of him, the suitcase had been returned to his feet, and Lily silently watched him open the suitcase, as if I want to secretly send an ice cream to Wolf in the suitcase.

"wrong!"

Lily suddenly woke up. Why did she suddenly think about Dobby's purpose?

"Let me ask you, do you two understand how dangerous that is?"

She tapped her spoon up and down on the edge of the cup and narrowed her eyes slightly: "I haven't been around you two for a long time before I made such an impulsive decision. What if it was a Death Eater?"

This is not completely impossible. Callan showed up early in the werewolf attack and was taken to the secret room by the fishnet door key. In the end, the three Death Eaters who also went there allowed Bellatrix to escape. .

Snape lowered his head silently. This was not the scene he had imagined when the two sides met.

Steve secretly opened the suitcase and took a look. Wolf hadn't finished his share of ice cream yet, so he closed the suitcase again.

Karan stuffed a strawberry from the top of his mouth into his mouth, and Lily stared at him with evil eyes, supporting the table with both hands, almost crossing the table.

"Stop reading it, Master, stop reading it!"

Kahlan suddenly held his head in his hands, and Snape was stunned.Lily didn't understand why Karan was so crazy, so she snorted coldly.

"Remember to be careful in the future." She finally warned, and Karan and Snape nodded quickly.Steve looked around and nodded blankly.

"But you did a good job with Remus."

Lily then praised: "There is also a jumping cauldron. Is it really that magical? Can you use it to prepare a magic potion to cure werewolves?"

The kind-hearted little girl is already thinking about how to use the jumping cauldron to help Remus, so as not to have Karan face an out-of-control werewolf on a full moon night. What if he misses?

It was a werewolf after all, and they couldn't afford the consequences of even one mistake.

"We'll find out after we try it together after school starts."

Karan returned to normal, and while mashing the fruit crisps, he said: "Now I have hidden the jumping cauldron. Under the cover of the Deathly Hallows invisibility cloak, no one will find it. I can bring it again when the time comes. This can be easily done in the potion preparation room behind the mirror on the fifth floor."

The more Lily heard about it, the weirder she felt - until now, she still didn't want to believe that Karan could borrow James' Deathly Hallows Invisibility Cloak, and that James actually lent it to him.

"So you've reconciled?"

Lily frowned nicely, feeling a little reluctant in her heart - not only did Snape hate James, but Lily also didn't like those arrogant and proud guys.

She then asked: "Will they also go to the potion preparation room? That is our secret base."

"No." Karan replied directly: "There are already a lot of people looking for magicians, and it is even more impossible for people to come in casually in the potion preparation room, and then there are people like James..."

When he said this, Karan's voice suddenly became softer: "They also suddenly changed their temper. Maybe they are no longer so annoying, but I don't necessarily know."

This is what Regulus confided in the letter - after the incident in the Potter Manor Chamber of Secrets, his brother had undergone some changes, and he also found that James had become different when he occasionally used the double-sided mirror.This startled Regulus at first, fearing that the two of them had been brain-damaged, or that Bagot's influence had not been completely eliminated.Fortunately, they didn't do anything extraordinary, which made Regulus gradually feel relieved.

The adults went to Gringotts to withdraw money and had not returned yet, so the four children gradually turned the conversation to elective courses.

Lily clapped her fingers and said: "Muggle Studies - I wanted to take it as soon as I heard about this course. It will definitely be interesting. In addition, there is the Divination course that you said you must take, and -"

"Care of Magical Creatures Lesson!"

Steve finally looked up from the ice cream in front of him, and he quickly reminded: "You will take Care of Magical Creatures, right?"

"Well..." Lily hesitated for a while, but under Steve's attentive eyes she finally nodded: "But then I can't choose arithmetic and divination, and the class schedule can't be arranged. I can't ignore it. But since Cassandra the Prophet is here, I guess there won't be too many people taking this course. She is so famous. I really don't understand how Principal Dumbledore managed to ask her to be a professor. of......."

This is also a doubt in the minds of others. Cassandra the Seer is only slightly younger than Principal Dumbledore, but she is also the second oldest among all the professors at Hogwarts. In addition, she is not very mobile. A convenient blind person is not suitable for imparting knowledge related to divination to students.

Snape secretly compared it with Lily's class schedule, and finally showed an imperceptible smile.Steve was still happy that he had found more friends to take the Care of Magical Creatures class with, but Karan was thinking about another thing.

time converter.

He didn't know whether it was because of his own reasons (the influence of the jumping cauldron), or because Hermione was a special case, or because the Department of Mysteries had not thoroughly studied the power of time. In short, neither Lily nor Snape had obtained it. Regarding the time-turner-related permissions, they seemed to be unaware of the existence of this class cheating device.

[Hope it can continue forever. 】

Karan secretly hoped that he did not want people with the power to travel through time to appear around his life - the possibility of causing trouble was too great.

"You don't seem to have considered the rune class?" Steve suddenly asked in confusion: "Why is that?"

Among the five elective courses, Lily considered all the other courses except the runes course.

"Should Gaspard take this course?" Lily asked, "He likes alchemy so much, so he will definitely not let this course go."

After getting a positive answer from Steve, Lily immediately said: "Then I have no choice. I have to try to avoid the opportunity of contact with him, so as not to be led astray by him - just like Karan .”

"Is this happening?" Steve blinked blankly. Among the Hufflepuff trio, he seemed to be the only one who was gradually being led astray. When did Callan suddenly become innocent?

"By the way, why didn't Guspard come to Diagon Alley today?" Snape asked, changing the subject. He had a good impression of this crazy inventor, and he was sure that when he was studying the jumping cauldron. Need his help.

"I don't know." Steve opened the suitcase and quietly took out the empty ice cream cup: "But he has been very busy during the entire holiday and has no extra time to write to me. He probably has reached a critical juncture in his research. I just don’t know what he is studying.”

"Could it be because the basilisk sheds its skin?" Lily lowered her voice and asked curiously: "That is something that even the mysterious man wants. I remember that he was taken away by Gaspard's parents in the end, right? , Karan, don’t you still have that Marauder land—Karan? Karan?”

Karan suddenly disappeared, and the empty ice cream cup was still on the table.

"He went to buy Floo powder." Snape explained: "He just told me about it, and then he left. He must have spent all the money on himself."

Lily stared at him suspiciously, and Snape raised his head in confusion, not understanding why Lily would do this.

"Karan just walked away without saying a word?" She said angrily, her green eyes narrowed again: "At this time last year, he went to buy Floo powder with us."

Snape was stunned.

He suddenly realized that this time last year, Karan was still talking about missing the location in the fireplace, and mistakenly called Diagon Alley Knockturn Alley.

"No...it can't be."

Snape murmured that he had not been to Knockturn Alley himself.

"Would you like another one? What flavor do you want? Strawberry? Karan won't lead you astray, will he?"

Steve raised his head from the suitcase he had quietly opened. He immediately noticed the strangeness of the two of them, as well as the inexplicable disappearance of Karan.

"Let's see who leads who." He muttered in a low voice, and then he reacted in the same way: "Eh?"

"It seems Karan hasn't returned the invisibility cloak to me yet..."

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Karan did sneak into Knockturn Alley.

But this time, in order to avoid causing any trouble, he put on Steve's invisibility cloak early.

When he walked into the gloomy alley again, Karan felt inexplicably emotional - the last time he came here, he met Professor Kettleburn disguised as Voldemort, who saved Karan from being surrounded by malicious werewolves. out.

Now that I think about it, there are actually a lot of doubts about the other party - his attitude towards werewolves (if you want to deal with these beasts, you have to be more ruthless than them); the sickly fire crab he took out of his pocket (because He is not a professional professor in the first place, so naturally he cannot take good care of those little guys); even asking Karan to join the Fire Crab Club may have his own considerations (because of the Acromantula incident at the end of the first grade) There are several students involved, which is no secret among professors. Voldemort wants to know who is ruining his good deeds, so he wants to observe Karan up close.)

Fortunately, there was no real problem with Callan, and Lily and Snape were not seriously injured. This is really a blessing among misfortunes.

With a heavy heart in mind, Karan, under the invisibility cloak, quickly walked around a stall full of skeletons and came to a familiar shop again.

【Bojin-Bok】

Karan has always been thinking about the Vanishing Cabinet connected to the Room of Requirement. Now that he has come to Diagon Alley, of course he will not miss this opportunity.

However, due to the last unpleasant experience and the confrontation between Mr. Leal and Bock on the Knight Bus, Karan was not able to show up openly in the store.

Not to mention that Callan always suspected that Bork was the one who helped Abraxas Malfoy escape from prison. Although he still didn't understand how the two met and how Bork became a Death Eater, he suddenly went to Nice. Lake's behavior is still too suspicious.

Karan stood at the door of the store and waited patiently for a while. When a customer who was wrapped up tightly came over, he immediately saw the opportunity and sneaked in.

As soon as the bell rang, the mysterious guest turned his head and glanced at the delayed door.Karan didn't dare to go too far immediately, nor did he make any noise - his purpose of coming this time was just to observe whether the disappearing cabinet was here, and if it was there, he would make other plans - such as buying it directly.

The mysterious guest stared for a while longer - this person seemed to be very wary, but this was nothing to be surprised about. Guys who are willing to come to Knockturn Alley are not good people.

Finally, the customer gave up his suspicion, and the mysterious man walked across the store, walked up to the counter, and rang the bell.

Karan finally breathed a sigh of relief. He looked past the glass box containing a bloody hand and looked around for a large cabinet.

The customers standing in front of the counter were waiting a little impatiently, and Karan also moved quietly, trying to see what was behind the glass boxes piled high.

After a while, a hunched man appeared behind the counter, stroking back his shiny hair with his hands.

This is Mr. Borgin, the other owner of this shop, and the shopkeeper who was often seen when little Harry was there.

"Mysterious guest." Mr. Borgin said in a tone as smooth as his hair: "I understand and understand that many guests here are inconvenient to see people, but they are still welcome. What can I do for you? ? Just bought a lot of goods today, the price is reasonable——"

"Stop talking nonsense, it's me!"

The mysterious guest suddenly pulled down his mask. Bo Jin's expression immediately became extremely shocked. Karan also immediately stopped his searching gaze and stopped stiffly.

"Bock, you-"

Mr. Bojin called out the other party's name in a low voice. He glanced cautiously at the street. First, he quickly put up the closure sign, and then turned around and asked, "Where have you been during this time? Why didn't you say anything?" Just leave? There is a lot of business in the store that I can’t take over——"

"Don't think about those stupid businesses!" Bock's half-exposed face twisted: "Big trouble! Now we are all in big trouble!"

Bo Jin, who had greasy hair, was stunned: "Trouble? What kind of trouble is it? What exactly did you do? Is it because of the goods? There was a problem with the acquisition of the goods?"

He seemed to have no knowledge of Bork's trip to Loch Ness, and had no idea that Bork might be involved in Abraxas Malfoy's escape.

"Are you kidding?" Bock seemed to be annoyed: "The little things you mentioned have never troubled me. No one knows how to do business better than me!"

"Then... what's the reason for that?" Bo Jin asked cringingly. He lost all his momentum in front of Bok, like a new apprentice.

Bock walked back and forth angrily. He suddenly became extremely crazy and wanted to vent, but refused to say anything.

"You don't want to know."

He finally said in a low voice: "You can never imagine how terrible it is unless you have seen it with your own eyes..."

It made him sound a little forced - from the fearsome Lord Voldemort, the feared Dark Lord.

"I'm here to get something."

Bock suddenly said, he took off a bag from his waist, strode to the display glass cabinet, grabbed the things inside and stuffed them into the bag without caring, including the bloody hand that Karan saw. .

After seeing Bok's actions, Bojin stopped him fearfully: "But, many of these things have been booked in advance——"

Bock suddenly turned back to look at him, his eyes fierce.

"Don't forget, who helped you open this store! And who helped you get a foothold in Knockturn Alley!"

Borgin's face immediately turned pale, but Bork still shouted angrily: "It's me! It's me, Caractacus Bork! If it weren't for my extraordinary foresight, you think you can do it just by yourself." With your despicable methods, you were able to obtain so many valuable collections?"

"Now, not only do I have to repay my debt, but you also have to repay it!"

Borgin immediately did not dare to stop him any more. Karan, who was quietly observing all this, narrowed his eyes slightly - he remembered that the future Principal Dumbledore told little Harry that Borkin helped to found [Bogin-Bock]. The store, now it seems that Bork is much more important than Borgin. No wonder Voldemort worked under Bork instead of Borkin when he worked here.

As for paying off debts—could it also be referring to part-time work?

Because Voldemort once worked for Bork, so now Bork wants to work for Voldemort?

Callan's eyes inevitably became a little weird - he really didn't know that Voldemort was so narrow-minded, and what happened to Tom in the Leaky Cauldron?Why didn't Voldemort take revenge on his namesake?Is it because there are too many people named Tom?

At this time, Bock had his pockets full, and Karan also observed that the disappearing cabinet was not in this store - now it seems that this is not surprising. After being coerced by Voldemort, Bock must have lost his mind to continue doing business. .

Karan silently prepared himself. He planned to continue to follow Bock to see if there would be any new discoveries.

But Bock didn't go toward the door.

"That's all for now..."

He didn't seem to be satisfied with what he had in his pocket, and then turned to Borgin and asked, "Where is the Floo powder?"

"Still the same place." Bo Jin said sadly, taking out a teacup filled with sparkling powder from under the counter.

Burke grabbed a handful of powder, walked to the fireplace where sparks still remained, and threw the floo powder in.

The sparks turned into green flames, rising higher than Bock's entire body.

"Don't tell anyone that I've been here, and handle the reserved goods yourself."

After the threatening instructions, Bock strode into the flames and shouted loudly.

"Malfoy Manor!"