Chapter 159 Can We Be Guests in Knockturn Alley?

Facing the angry Harry, Ivan calmly explained.

"Harry! Knockturn Alley is a very dangerous place, as you just saw.

The person I transformed into is young and has little intimidation. If I just take you with me, you will be easily spotted, so I might as well act more fierce and pretend to be a bad guy. "

"Is that so?" Harry asked dubiously.

"Of course" Ivan said confidently.

Harry vaguely felt that Ivan was deceiving him, but he couldn't find any evidence.

"By the way, Harry, why did you come to Knockturn Alley?" Ivan quickly changed the subject.

Naturally, Harry had no intention of hiding anything, and told him about the incident where he accidentally choked on soot and mispronounced a word while using floo powder.

Ivan nodded. It looked the same as in the original work. He just didn’t know why he didn’t meet Hagrid this time.

But after thinking about it, Ivan finally understood that Hagrid met Harry because he happened to be shopping in Knockturn Alley. As long as there was a slight mistake in time, the two parties' paths of action would diverge. This might be the reason he sent Harry. Letters to George and Fred triggered a bit of a butterfly effect.

Fortunately, Harry was lucky enough to meet him, otherwise, the savior of the wizarding world might really be in trouble.

Harry had countless questions in his mind, such as what Ivan was doing in Knockturn Alley and why he looked like that.

As the two of them walked along, Harry expressed the questions in his heart one by one.

"Why?" Ivan paused in his forward steps, and then said to Harry.

"Because my home is in Knockturn Alley! This time I went out to buy books for the next school year. I am too young to be safe, so I used Polyjuice Potion to make myself look more intimidating."

"You actually live in such a dangerous place? Why don't you move to another place?" Harry looked at Ivan in surprise. He really couldn't understand how Ivan could live in such a place.

He had only stayed there for a short while, but even so, he had already experienced the coldness and danger of Knockturn Alley. He was almost dragged away in the street, so he had some psychological shadow about Knockturn Alley.

"Of course it's because of poverty!" Ivan rolled his eyes and said, if he had earned enough gold galleons, the ghost would be willing to stay there.

Harry fell silent immediately, and looked at Ivan with a little pity in his eyes.

Before this, Harry had always thought that living in his uncle's house was the worst thing in the world.

But after meeting these people in Knockturn Alley, Harry suddenly felt that his living environment might not be too bad. At least no one would try to kidnap him there, and there was no need to be like Ivan, who had to become someone else's when traveling. It just looks good.

Remembering that he and his parents had left a large inheritance, Harry hesitated to use it to help his best friends, perhaps lending it to them first.

When Harry made up his mind to ask, Ivan shook his head funnyly and refused, then looked at Harry and spoke.

"Have you not read the Daily Prophet? I have developed a new type of magic potion and it is selling very well. My house has been flooded with orders received today. I will be able to move out soon."

Harry nodded, remembering that Mr. Weasley was so stunned when he read the Daily Prophet in the morning, and handed the newspaper to everyone to read.

Harry also saw the content of the newspaper. The front page was a photo of Ivan and the Minister of Magic. It said that Ivan had invented a potion that could cure werewolves and had made a significant contribution to the wizarding world.

Unfortunately, Harry didn't know much about the magical world and didn't quite understand the value of this potion.

However, he heard George and Fred insisting that Ivan would definitely be able to get something called the Order of Merlin. Mrs. Weasley thought it was impossible because Ivan was too young and no wizard had ever been able to get it before. Awarded the Order of Merlin in this grade.

The three of them argued about this for several hours, almost delaying their trip to Diagon Alley!

Along the way, Harry told Ivan interesting stories about his time at the Burrow while heading towards Flourish and Blotts Bookstore, and finally asked curiously.

"What is the Order of Merlin? I think everyone cares about it."

"That's just a symbolic thing, it's of little use!" Ivan said casually. He thought it had golden gallons before, but it turned out not to be the case.

Harry didn't quite believe it, because Mr. Weasley was very envious when he talked about the Order of Merlin, and Percy was even more jealous, threatening that he would definitely get it in a few years.

"Ivan Harry!"

Just when the two of them reached Gringotts, they unexpectedly saw a little witch with fluffy hair in front of them greeting them.

"Hermione!" Ivan changed his route and walked over. The little witch quickly ran down the steps where he was standing, stepped forward and hugged him, and then broke away, chattering non-stop. .

"I wrote you many letters throughout the summer vacation, but I didn't know where you lived. I wrote to Harry and wanted to ask him, but he didn't reply at all."

Speaking of this, Hermione was also a little angry, because Ivan didn't send her even a letter throughout the summer vacation, and neither did Harry. She clearly told her where her family lived.

Harry quickly explained and told Dobby about intercepting the envelope.

Ivan was speechless. There were too many things that happened during his summer vacation. He was too busy all day long and couldn't stop. Otherwise, he was addicted to alchemy and couldn't extricate himself, so he completely forgot about this matter.

But seeing Hermione's angry look, Ivan had to think of a reason. Fortunately, the Weasley family who were looking for Harry rushed over and diverted Hermione's attention.

"Harry, where were you just transported to?" Mr. Weasley said, breathing heavily. "We searched for you for a long time and couldn't find you. Molly was going crazy!"

George, Ron, Fred and others who came over noticed Ivan beside them and greeted him happily.

Harry also took advantage of this moment to talk about how he accidentally entered Knockturn Alley and was almost dragged away, but was finally rescued by Ivan.

In particular, it was mentioned that Ivan knocked down the hateful old witch in one fell swoop, scaring the other party so much that she could only run away in confusion.

"How cool! As expected of you!" George couldn't help but said as he looked at Ivan. He felt that this must be a wonderful adventure.

Fred also wanted to experience this exciting feeling, so he said to Ivan.

"We've always wanted to visit Knockturn Alley, but it's a pity that mom never lets us go near it. Can we go to your house to play then?"