The Strongest Badger at Hogwarts

Pig Head Bar is located in a remote corner of Hogsmeade Village.

As soon as Harry and the others arrived, it became clear why this small bar was called a pig's head bar.

The pig's head, which serves as the shop's signboard, is hung on a rusty bracket on the door. A cut-off pig's head is painted on it. The blood stains penetrate the white cloth covering it.

The Harry trio who saw this scene for the first time had an ominous premonition.

They don't think there is much business in a bar with such a weird sign, especially since the location here is still so remote.

And when they really entered the bar with a sense of anxiety, this idea became more determined.

Because the inside of the pig's head bar is completely different from the three broomsticks bar in the same village of Hogsmeade.

The big bar in the Three Sao Broomsticks always makes people feel bright, clean and warm, while the Pig’s Head Bar has only one small, dark and very dirty room, and the whole room is also exuding a thick sheep. Smelly.

The few bay windows on the wall were thick with dirt, so light could barely penetrate, and some candles were lit on the rough wooden table.

The most outrageous thing is that the ground that should have been paved with stones in the bar is completely invisible at this moment.

The dirt accumulated over the centuries has raised the ground more than ten centimeters!

However, when Harry resisted the nausea and lifted his feet from the slightly sticky'floor', he unexpectedly discovered that this'authentic' medieval-style bar actually still has this Quite a few customers.

For example, at the bar, the weird guy who covered his entire head with gray-black bandages, but was still able to pour a smoking or burning thing through a gap in the bandage in his mouth cup after cup.

There are also figures with hoods sitting at the table by the bed.

Or the old witch with a pointed nose by the fireplace.

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Harry and the three keenly discovered that the first time they came in, these people stopped what they were doing, and instead looked at them with a weird, unkind look.

Obviously, this was caused by the school gowns on the three of them.

Of course, it could also be because the three of them are not as weird as the group of people in the bar right now.

After all, when a normal person enters an environment full of weird people, then that normal person becomes the weirdest person among them.

Watching so many eyes, Harry felt his body stiffer a lot.

His forehead was sweating constantly, which diverted his attention to a large extent and made him less concerned about the bad sanitary environment around him.

On the contrary, the two brothers George and Fred performed well here.

They greeted everyone in the bar very naturally.

He even surreptitiously drank the wine in his glass while greeted the bandage man.

This scene made Harry's cold hair stand up.

He felt that the bandager might be angrily stripped off his bandage, and then exposed his mummy-like face and swallowed George and Fred in one bite.

However, to Harry's surprise, the bandaged man didn't seem to be angry at being drunk.

Not only that, the other party even chatted with George and Fred for a while and laughed, and then he pressed the reminder bell in front of him to signal that he needed another drink.

"Don't put on that expression, Bud is a good guy!" Fred returned to the team and reminded the three of Harry in a low voice, "He was cursed and disfigured to save his teammates during a ruin expedition. , The anti-curse of this ancient curse had long been lost, so now he could only wear a bandage all day long, and didn't dare to go to the normal bar, so he could only stay in the pig's head bar to have fun.

Most of the guests in this bar have similar experiences and they are not bad guys.

So quickly adjust your expressions and eyes.

You make them feel very uncomfortable like this! "

All three of Harry were shocked when they heard this.

They didn't expect it to be such a thing.

But if you think about it carefully, it can actually make sense.

After all, Hogsmeade Village is the only remaining pure wizard village in the entire country, and it is also close to Hogwarts.

In such a key position, the Ministry of Magic would not allow any gathering of dark wizards.

It's just that the expression management ability of Harry's trio is basically out of control in this environment.

Therefore, they can only press their heads lower so that the customers around them can't see their faces.

George and Fred were also a little helpless when they saw this, they could only constantly explain to the surrounding customers.

Fortunately, at this time the bar owner finally came out from a back door sideways.

He is a grumpy-looking old man with a lot of long gray hair and beard.

He was tall and thin, and Harry always found this man very familiar from the outline of his face, which was mostly obscured by the thick beard.

"Why are you **** ugly guy drinking so fast?"

The bar owner said to the bandage man angrily.

This made Hermione raise her head sharply, staring at him angrily.

Never mind before.

Now that the story of this bandage man is known, the words of the bar owner just now seem too much.

This look was undoubtedly spotted by the bar owner.

He just glanced at George, Fred and the others, and then he understood the whole thing. He stopped talking to the bandager, and just made another glass of the same drink.

It's not over yet, he soon got back into the back room.

When he came out again, there was already a huge wooden box in his arms.

The expressions of Harry's trio turned ugly in an instant.

Because the surface of this wooden box is covered with a thick layer of dust, there are many pitted rat tooth marks, and the tooth marks in some places are so deep that you can even see the butter beer directly through the gap.

And these are obviously the "provisional goods" mentioned by George and Fred before!

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The wooden box was placed on the bar with a layer of oil, and there was a muffled noise.

The bar owner clapped his hands and said:

"Old rules, three Jin Jialong."

The price of a bottle of butter beer is two silver sikes, and there are 24 bottles in a box, that is to say, the total should be forty-eight silver sikes, but the boss in front of him has to collect a full fifty. A silver Si Ke, it can be said that it is quite pitted.

However, considering the even more exaggerated prices of these butterbeers after the brothers George and Fred shipped them back to Hogwarts, it is not unacceptable.

"Boss, we are not here to buy goods this time."

George and Fred said to the boss mysteriously, "We want to borrow the Floo net fireplace in your shop."

The barkeeper glanced at George and Fred, and said lightly:

"no."

"Why?" George said with his eyes wide open. "We have been partners for so many years! Are you unwilling to help even if you are so busy?"

"First of all, the business between us is not a cooperation at all. If you insist on investigating it, you should thank me for seeing you pitifully, so I give you a chance to make money." The bar owner said calmly, "Secondly, It’s still school time, right? Hogwarts students skip class and come to Hogsmeade to stroll around. They still want to go outside? Do you really think you are great?

The last and most important point is that in this bar of mine, there is no Floo net fireplace at all. "

After the bar owner finished speaking, the surrounding guests burst into laughter, and the whole bar was filled with a joyous atmosphere.

George and Fred were flushed with anger, and they were about to leave with Harry's trio.

But they had just turned around, but the bar owner grabbed them by the back of their necks one by one.

"What are you going to do? You two brats are really getting better and better, and you have learned to kidnap lower grade students!" The bar owner's eyes suddenly became severe, "Where do you have to prepare to go today? What? Explain everything clearly, or don't blame us for being rude!"

Just as the barkeeper had just finished speaking, the two hooded guests in the corner and the old witch by the fireplace stood up.

They directly separated the Harry trio from George and Fred.

George and Fred became angry instantly when they saw this scene, and shouted:

"We are not traffickers! We really have important things to do!"

The Harry trio finally understood what was going on.

They really didn't expect the people in the bar to think about human trafficking. Hermione couldn't help but explain:

"George and Fred are telling the truth, we were not trafficked!"

"Oh? Really?" the bar owner said unmovedly, "then tell us your ‘important’ things."

"This matter is very important, it's about the life and death of the entire Hogwarts, I can't talk about it in front of so many people!"

George said angrily, but he was greeted by more fierce ridicule.

Fortunately, the bar owner seemed to believe their words, and went on to say:

"Then you can come in with me and speak alone. If things make sense, then I will let you go. But if I find out that you are lying, then...hehe, someone who wanted to come to me to find something and was sent to Azkaban It’s not like that."

After that, the bar owner took George and Fred to the back door, and the Harry trio followed, and the guests who had protected them did not stop them.

Behind the bar is obviously where the boss lives.

The bar here is much cleaner than the outside bar, but it is definitely not clean.

The random furniture and wine bottles are the best proof.

The cleanest place in this room is probably on the innermost wall.

A magical portrait of a young girl hung on that wall. The young girl in the painting was dressed in a blue dress. Although she seemed to be smiling, her smile could not hide a deep melancholy.

The owner of the bar probably often takes the painting down and wipes it off, and the painting and the surrounding walls are all spotless.

"Let's talk about it, what the **** is going on?"

The bar owner sat on a dirty sofa and said.

Hearing that, George and Fred looked at each other in a tangled way, and finally gritted their teeth and told most of the things they knew.

Of course, among them, they have done a lot of rationalization in order to make this matter understandable and acceptable to ordinary people.

"So, what you mean is that now Dumbledore and his party members are likely to be besieged by Voldemort and Death Eaters at the Ministry of Magic." The expression on the bar owner's face was very strange, "and now he holds Hogwar. It’s a young man named Link. This young man might deliberately delay time and not save Dumbledore because he wanted to completely seize control of Hogwarts?"

Just seeing the expression of the barkeeper, the hearts of Harry's trio sank.

Ron complained bitterly:

"George, Fred, what you are saying is really ridiculous! Although this is the case, but... alas! I knew no one would believe it! I..."

"No, I believe it."

Before Ron finished speaking, the bar owner said lightly.

Hearing that Ron and the three were stunned, including George and Fred.

But the bar owner went on to say:

"So you are now going directly to the Ministry of Magic to rescue Dumbledore and them, right?"

George and Fred nodded in a daze. They still haven't reacted from their stunned state.

"Then don't waste any more time, I'll go with you too." The barkeeper drew out his wand expressionlessly, "Come on, grab me, I'll take you to the Ministry of Magic."

"But... why?"

George said with a confused look.

The appearance of the bar owner in front of him was too abnormal, which made him instinctively wary.

Moreover, he also thinks of words such as trafficking just like his previous customers and bar owners.

After all, the price of a little wizard at their age on the black market in Knockdown Alley is quite outrageous.

The bar owner wasn't used to it, he snorted coldly after hearing this:

"You guys love to go or not! If you don't want to be with me, just get out."

After speaking, the barkeeper already started to wave his magic wand.

The space around him quickly became distorted.

Upon seeing this, Harry gritted his teeth and directly reached out and grabbed the shoulder of the barkeeper.

"Harry!"

Ron and Hermione exclaimed when they saw this, and they also caught Harry.

Then, George and Fred.

Crackling—

After a burst of firecrackers, Harry and the others disappeared instantly.

When they were down to earth again, they found that they were already in a dark alley.

The innermost part of the alley is a mountain of garbage, and several wild cats are searching for food on the mountain of garbage.

The appearance of Harry and the others made them scream and fled the alley quickly.

But looking in the direction they left, it was a busy road.

On the other side of the road, a bright red instantly caught Harry's eyes.

That is a slightly worn red phone booth!