Harry Potter’s Raven’s Claw

"Welcome to Ring Lane!"

The unclothed statue moved, she stretched her waist, and weakly greeted Mike and the others.

Mike gave her a nod in return, while the Weasleys looked around as if they didn't hear them at all, stunned and surprised.

This is the first time they have seen a wizard's market other than Diagon Alley, and it is not surprising to have such a reaction.

Mike quietly waited for them to recover, but the statue seemed angry with his hands on his hips and glared at Mike and the others:

"It's time for you to leave, don't block the way, there are still people coming!"

As soon as these words came out, the Weasleys finally reacted and moved out of the way.

Immediately, a space-distorting wave rippled, and a pair of girls wearing Beauxbatons School of Witchcraft and Wizardry uniforms appeared in front of everyone.

The girls didn't stay in the same place. After saying thank you to the statue, they left laughing and talking, and looking at the direction they left, their destination should be the magic beauty shop not far away. .

Mike was slightly startled. Today is Thursday. It stands to reason that the school has not closed yet, so there should be no students in this place.

However, he didn't delve into it, and turned to look at the Weasleys again - nothing more than a drama of students skipping class.

At this time, Mr. Weasley pointed to a store and shouted as if he had found something surprising:

"Aha! The souvenir shop for the French national team! I really don't understand why they still have the face to open a souvenir shop, knowing that they didn't even qualify for the group stage at the last Quidditch World Cup!"

Looking in the direction pointed by Mr. Weasley, a shop was being surrounded by people, which made Mike unable to see the scene in the shop. The only thing he could see was the light blue sign hanging on the door of the shop. It had some words written in French that Mike couldn't understand.

"Mike, are George and Fred right here?" Mrs. Weasley gave Mr. Weasley a blank look, then turned to Mike and said, "Take me there, I can't wait to see them!"

"Okay, ma'am."

Mike nodded, and then led the Weasleys forward.

However, Mr. Weasley now seems to be completely immersed in the atmosphere of foreign travel. He suddenly grabbed Mike and asked excitedly:

"Mike, why do you say it's called the Ring Lane? Can I understand that this is the Diagon Alley in Paris?"

"It is accurate to say that this is a large wizard market like Diagon Alley, but the styles of the two are completely different. I believe you should have discovered this."

Mr. Weasley nodded, and he had already noticed by a rough look along the way. Compared with Diagon Alley, there are much more luxury stores, whether costume jewelry or cosmetics.

"As for why this place is called Ring Alley, I can also answer you." Mike continued, "This is because this market presents a very strange ring shape, centered on the square where we are now. , no matter which direction you go, eventually you will come back to this square."

"Oh!~"

Mr. Weasley responded with a lengthened tone, and then pointed to a store in the distance, but before he could say anything, Mrs. Weasley snorted coldly.

Mr. Weasley stopped talking now, and walked with his head down like a frosted vegetable.

Mike forced back his smile and continued to lead the way.

Speechless all the way, after ten minutes of trekking, everyone finally came to a relatively remote shop.

The door of this shop is locked, and there is not even a signboard. It seems that it has not yet opened.

"We have arrived."

Mike said softly, and Mrs. Weasley frowned upon hearing this.

"George and Fred are planning to open a shop here?" Mrs. Weasley looked around, frowning even more, "They're really crazy, look around, it's full of bars and drunks! If you open a shop in a place like this, let’s not talk about the business, and even they themselves will definitely be brought into alcoholics in the end!”

Mr. Weasley, who was next to him, muttered a few words, as if to refute, but the volume was too low, and Mike couldn't hear what he was saying.

But that didn't stop him from laughing out loud, because he knew very well that, in fact, most of the alcoholics in the world were in the country.

Even Mrs. Weasley herself liked to have a few drinks when she was fine.

If there is any other country that can be compared with the country in terms of wine culture, then there is only the ancient eastern country far away.

As for those fighting tribes in the Goose country who are said to drink vodka as water, let me tell you the truth, they just dare to drink it. If you really want to talk about the amount of alcohol, most of them even carry shoes for the people of the country and the ancient country of the East. capital is not available.

Taking advantage of Mike's snickering, Mrs. Weasley couldn't wait to knock on the closed door of the store in front of her, knocking on her and shouting:

"Anyone? Open the door!"

Her voice was so loud that several drunken men around the road who had been drunk during the day were awakened.

And not long after she shouted, there was a sound of ding dong bang bang banging all the boxes and cabinets in that store.

"Damn it! Who would come to us at a time like this, we're all too busy! Oh! Who put this damn dung bomb here? If I accidentally step on it, I don't need to live here! "

"Not me! I swear!"

"It's not who else you can have, it's just the two of us here!"

...

The constant chatter from the shop got into Mrs. Weasley's ears, which made her even more excited. She was banging on the door frantically, while constantly shouting the names of the Weasley brothers.

"Damn it, I think I heard my mother's voice. No, it must be a hallucination, this is France! Fred! Go open the door!"

"Why don't you go?"

"Don't you see I'm still busy?"

"No, it's not fair!"

"Then let's guess."

"Ha! You lost, let's go!"

"It's not fair! You're cheating!"

...

There was another silence, and then the door of the shop opened under everyone's attention.

Appearing in front of everyone was one of the Weasley brothers (Mike couldn't tell which of them was), and he looked extremely embarrassed at the moment, the brown sweater he was wearing was tattered and stained.

He stared blankly at the Weasleys in front of him, and then shouted loudly without looking back:

"George, I seem to have hallucinations too! I actually saw my parents standing in front of me!"

He had just finished speaking, and the excited Mrs. Weasley rushed up and hugged him tightly.

Mrs. Weasley seemed to be crying, her body was shaking constantly, and Mike faintly heard a vague whimper.

Mr. Weasley, on the other hand, pursed his lips and quietly looked at the mother and son hugging each other, and his eyes were also red.

"Oh! This familiar sausage smell, this familiar hug! George, Mom and Dad really showed up!"

Fred shouted excitedly, and then there was another sound of rummaging in the store, and then a young man who was almost as embarrassed as Fred but with a yellow sweater appeared at the door.

"Oh! Dad! How are you..."

Before George could finish speaking, Mr. Weasley took him into his arms.

For a time, the scene in front of the store was extremely warm, and even Mike on the side had a smile on his face.

But unfortunately, such a scene did not last long.

I saw that the expression on Mrs. Weasley's face changed after hugging for a while, and with a flick of her black face, she swept her hand to Fred's head.

"Fred, why are you doing this? Your dad and I are about to die of worry! Your little sister Ginny almost cried when she found out about you!"

Fred covered his head and looked at his mother who was still moved just now with a shocked expression, while George's body shook violently, and then he quickly released the hand holding Mr. Weasley, vigilant. the back.

"I'm sorry, Mom, but we have to do it because the persecution of us by Umbridge has reached the limit of what we can endure. If we continue to stay at Hogwarts, we will die!"

Fred, who was wearing a brown sweater, said aggrievedly.

George, who was wearing a yellow sweater on the side, rolled his eyes when he heard this, put on a distraught expression and stepped forward and said:

"Yeah, that's it, Mom. But I have to say, I'm Fred. Mom, you just confused the two of us again."

Mrs. Weasley was pissed off, even though the twin brothers George and Fred did look so alike that sometimes even her own mother would admit it wrong.

But in this situation, she will never admit it wrong, because the two of them are wearing sweaters that she sewed for them by herself!

They usually liked the two sweaters very much, and Mrs. Weasley didn't think they would let each other wear their own.

"You still want to quibble!"

Mrs. Weasley roared and grabbed George and Fred's ears one by one. When George saw that his plan to divert his attention was unsuccessful, he immediately shouted for help to Mike and Mr. Weasley.

However, in the face of this situation, how could Mike and Mr. Weasley have the courage to stop it? At best, they can only persuade a few words on the side.

As a result, the Weasley brothers could only rescue themselves, and all kinds of flattering words were sprayed out like machine gun bullets fired.

After half an hour, maybe the flattery of the Weasley brothers worked, or maybe Mrs. Weasley was tired of scolding. In short, Mrs. Weasley finally stopped continuing to educate the children.

"Mom, you are tired, come in and sit!"

"That's right! When you're at home, don't you often complain that your father doesn't take you shopping? You take a rest first, we'll be the masters today, and we'll take you out for a walk later!"

"Yeah! In the early years, you didn't go shopping because your family didn't allow it, but now it's different. Your son is rich! Just say something when you go out and see something, and we both will buy it for you!"

"You don't know! The cosmetics and maintenance potions in Round Alley are so much better than Diagon Alley! Why are French witches so beautiful? It's because they use these things so often! You You have paid so much for us and this family over the years, let us do our best today!"

"Oh! By the way! And wands! You mustn't know? The wand makers here are not as famous as Ollivanders, but their craftsmanship is not much worse. And they are more creative than Ollivanders, they They even accept custom services. As long as you have the money, they can make a wand in the shape of a microphone for you! I remember your wand is very old, right? We will order one later and use it as a spare for you Wand!"

...

The Weasley brothers, one on the left and one on the other, helped Mrs. Weasley into the shop while talking flattery.

Mike was a little helpless, he shook his head, and turned his head to ask Mr. Weasley to go in with him.

But he was surprised to find that Mr. Weasley at the moment turned out to be excited, as if he was very interested in the magic wands that the two Weasley brothers mentioned just now!

With a long sigh, Mike shook his head and walked into the store alone. He was really speechless to the family.

It wasn't until he entered the store that Mike realized that the store, which looked small from the outside, was actually huge and scary.

It's just that the store has not been sorted out yet, and the huge space is full of various cardboard boxes. According to the words of the Weasley brothers before going out, these cardboard boxes should contain all kinds of magic joke props.

Although the shop is messy, it is not dirty at all. It can be seen that the Weasley brothers should have cleaned the place.

As soon as he entered the room, George took the first step out of the pile of various furniture and objects, and took out three chairs of different shapes and distributed them to the three of them.

Mrs. Weasley was given a graceful high queen chair, with a large ruby ​​inlaid on the top of the backrest. And the chair as a whole looks ancient, it should be an antique.

And Mr. Weasley was given an ordinary sofa chair. As for Mike, he only got a tattered low chair.

The Weasleys took their seats one after another under the service of George and Fred. At this time, Mrs. Weasley seemed to have completely calmed down, and a smile appeared on her face.

Mike stood there and watched the happy family of four. He didn't move, and he didn't mean to sit down at all.

Seeing this, George said a little embarrassedly:

"Mike, I'm sorry, there are only three chairs in the store, I can only aggrieved you to sit on this one."

Fred also echoed:

"Yeah, there's no way out, so sit down quickly. Are you despising us for being dirty and looking down on us if you don't sit down?"

As soon as these words came out, the Weasleys' eyes also fell on Mike.

However, Mike still had no intention of sitting down, because he knew very well that there must be something wrong with the chair in front of him.

He couldn't understand the personalities of the Weasley brothers. When they were in school, they were the kind of characters who would pay for anything. Anyone who messed with them would end up being devastated by their pranks.

Now that he has brought their parents here and made them suffer such a big crime, the other party will definitely find a way to prank him.

Thinking like this, Mike didn't answer, but flicked his wand and placed an empty cardboard box on the side of the chair.

The next moment, with a loud bang, the chair flew at a speed almost invisible to the naked eye, and finally embedded in the ceiling.