Chapter 1354 ? The Leaky Cauldron Bar
The Leaky Cauldron, a dingy tavern that fell into disrepair due to the run-down of Diagon Alley High Street, is now revitalized by Diagon Alley's transformation.
Since it was used as a logistics center, the wizards working here will choose to have a drink here to relieve the fatigue of the day and solve their own lunch and dinner. These wild-looking wizards made the small bar smoky and noisy.
Compared with the wizards who walked through the city gate and went shopping in Diagon Alley with various unknown sources, the current customers are more in line with the original style of the Leaky Cauldron, and the food with sufficient portions and cheap prices is more in line with these The needs of working-class wizards.
"Those stingy goblins have suffered heavy losses this time. Seeing the gold coins that belonged to them being moved out box after box to compensate the surrounding warehouses, the faces of these little dwarves turned blue, and they all drooped their heads. ” said Doris Crockford, a frequent visitor to the Leaky Cauldron, with a big grin.
"Just losing money is considered lucky for them... They are actually lucky. Now this is a transit station for delivering supplies to Muggles, and there are not many magic items... and it happens that no one dies during off-duty hours, otherwise it is not a problem that can be solved by losing money Already." Seeing that his words attracted the attention of many wizards, Dedalus Diggle shook his head triumphantly, and the top hat on his head shook more and more.
"Yeah, it's a heavy loss... It is estimated that these goblins will not come to my bar for consumption in a short time." Old Tom, the bar owner with almost stripped hair and a shape like a sunken walnut, said a little dejectedly, "The umbrella snails they like probably It's going to stink."
"These stingy guys have made the fire dragon crazy by themselves, and they can only bear the bitter fruit they didn't catch." Dedalus Diggle said indifferently, "Think about it, if there is no Ms. Josephine Harris , How much harm will this fire-breathing dragon cause."
"I should thank Sirius, he looks so majestic standing on the dragon's back..." Doris Crockford put her hands together on her chest, and said with great admiration, "I bet you If it wasn't for his efforts, how could that Josephine Harris send that live fire dragon to the dragon farm on the floating city so easily?"
Tom shook his head at the arguments of the two regulars: "The dragon is sickly raised...but the wizards from these families are indeed capable of subduing a dragon so easily."
Then the brick wall of the bar facing Diagon Alley turned into an archway, and the chattering of the shop suddenly stopped--Alan and Hermione walked into the dirty, small bar, still hugging each other. A baby with a giant snake.
"My God, it's His Excellency Alan Harris!"
Seeing Allen, Dedalus Diggle stood up, and his hat fell off with excitement. He squatted down shyly to pick it up, but the hat fell on the wavy strip that was at least twelve feet long. Climbing up and down next to the giant snake in the bar, he froze all of a sudden.
Doris Crockford also put her legs on top of the chair in horror and restraint,
It seems that this way it will not be attacked by the giant snake.
Although on weekdays in the floating city, many wizards have seen the whereabouts of this giant snake, but they are all passing by in the distance, and the route is relatively fixed. Nagini usually only stays in the middle of the lake. Between the island and Granger's house. At this time, many wizards are unavoidably afraid to come into contact with this giant snake at such a close distance in such a small space, and try to shrink their sense of existence—many people here have heard of another regular visitor here, namely Mr. Arthur Weasley of the Ministry of Magic's love story told after drinking that he was attacked by this giant snake, and the venom of this poisonous snake would cause the wound to not heal.
At this time, Old Tom had already come out from behind the bar and trotted towards Allen: "Oh! Principal Harris, Miss Granger... It's an honor, what do you want to drink? Raw gills juice and butter beer?"
Seeing that the wrinkled, toothless but familiar bar owner seemed to be getting older, Allen's voice was slightly higher than usual: "Uh...Tom, the main reason is that this kid is hungry and didn't come out. Bring milk powder... so come here to ask for some goat milk or something..."
"Okay, please sit down for a moment, Principal Harris, I'll get it right away." Tang Lao Tom's attention was also attracted by the kicking little guy, and he smiled kindly, "It's your first time to come to me. They were just two little ones when we were in the store... In a blink of an eye, the children of Principal Harris and Miss Granger have grown up so much?"
"No... no! This is not our child! Uh..." Hermione's cheeks flushed instantly, as if she felt that this statement would hurt Delphi and Nagini, she hurriedly said, "She is our child ...Huh? No, I mean, she's our adopted daughter...”
"Hermione, Tom is not foolish, he is deliberately teasing you." Allen looked at Hermione's reaction amusedly, he looked around, and pulled Hermione, who was a little shy and a little secretly happy, to sit on the empty seat Come down, "Also Tom, if you have cluck, can you help me get some for Nagini in a basin? You may not know that she is an American snake? At least the taste is over there..."
"Okay..." Tom, who had already returned to the bar over there, flicked his fingers and cast a spell without a stick to light a fire in the fireplace next to Nagini to ensure its body temperature, and the shop owner was also neatly holding a glass The goat milk was placed on the table in front of Aaron and Hermione, and then they began to prepare drinks for the giant snake who was spitting snake apricot by the stove.
"It seems that the business is good, and the income has returned to the previous level, right?" Allen said, pouring goat milk into the bottle and handing it to Hermione.
Hermione patted Delphi in her arms, and the bottle started to feed her. The drooping brown curly hair covered her and the corners of her upturned mouth, and Delphi had already hugged the bottle comfortably, looking like a A little squirrel eating pine nuts, with a small mouth and bulging cheeks.
"Miss Granger looks like she's going to be a good mother." Old Tom admired, and then complained to Allen with his toothless mouth open: "It's impossible to recover, business is divided into time slots, and it's still time at this time." Yes, once they go to work, this place will be very deserted..." He said with some nostalgia, "According to the previous rules, you children like to enter Diagon Alley from me before school, even if you don't buy things, you can go in and out. The bars out there are also lively... Now I can't even treat you to ice cream."
"The store I promised before is still counted, Tom, open the Leaky Cauldron Bar to the Floating City, and I will find you a place." Alan tapped his finger on the table, "It's okay to just move the whole house over there." No trouble."
"Thank you for your kindness, but after so many years, I am more used to this place." Old Tom refused with a smile, and he brought her a pot of wine without any fear of Nagini, "Since 1500, Daisy Dodridge founded the Leaky Cauldron, and after she became the first owner here, our successors have tried our best to make it a passage connecting the non-magical world and Diagon Alley... I can’t do anything Let the Leaky Cauldron disappear completely, and it will lose its meaning in other places and become a general pub."
"That's what you're talking about..." Allen nodded, "Just count the bricks on the dustbin up to three—and then count down two bricks, and tap the wall three times with your magic wand... This is our dream. The place to start..."
With a puff, the emotion here stopped, followed by another puff, puff, and a hiss.
Allen and Tom looked at the sources of the two voices, and saw that Delphi's small mouth and Nagini had been circled into an O-shape - the giant snake was because of the effect of giggling spirits to make people laugh loudly.
"She pulled it, Ellen, you hold the baby first, I have to find a piece of diaper..." Hermione skillfully stuffed Delphi into Ellen's arms, and hurriedly pulled into her pocket—it seemed that she was at home I took care of the child myself a lot.
"Miss Granger, let me hold it for you." Doris Crocker keenly captured Alan's frown looking at Delphi's diaper, knowing that the headmaster might be a bit of a clean freak, she volunteered to grab it. The opportunity to live this compliment came over.
"Thank you so much, lady..." Allen immediately breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that, and began to smile at the witch who was carefully avoiding the giant snake.
"This kid pulls it after eating, maybe he can become a straightforward Gryffindor in the future?" Seeing that the atmosphere was good, Dedalus Diggle took the opportunity to pick up his hat at this time, "Principal Harris, you have been waiting for a long time." I didn't come to Diagon Alley, what are you and Miss Granger doing here this time? If you need to run errands, I can help you."
"Thank you, Digg...but don't bother." Allen turned his gaze to Gringotts outside the window, "We are just here to fetch some things from Gringotts' family vault for Delphi."