Chapter 631 New Connection

Entrance to Diagon Alley.

Gently tapping the brick wall with the magic wand, a wide and straight archway appeared in front of him. It looked no different from previous years. The archway led to the backyard of the Leaky Cauldron. There was nothing but a trash can and some weeds.

Occasionally, pedestrians would come from the other side, while Loren and Hermione would walk out.

Passing through the small patio in the backyard and entering the front hall, the bar counter that used to be bustling seemed particularly deserted. Loren looked around and saw that the bustling crowd in weird clothes in the past had disappeared. Only the owner Tom, who was frowning and depressed, was left in the room.

Hearing someone enter the store, the bar owner immediately looked up and looked over with hope. He found that it was two young wizards who had finished shopping. His turbid eyes became dim again, and he lowered his head again, wiping the table absent-mindedly.

When they passed by in the past few years, old Tom always looked energetic. They were only now surprised to find that old Tom's teeth had fallen out.

The two of them did not disturb Old Tom, but walked silently through the front hall and left quietly.

When they reached the corner of the street, Hermione looked back.

The storefront was still so small and dirty. Compared with the bookstore and record store next to it, the sign of the Leaky Cauldron was covered with mud, dust and sticky dirt due to years of wind and sun. People who hurried past would not notice this wizard pub, and wizards in special times did not have the leisure to chat in the pub.

It can be predicted that the desertedness will continue for a while.

It won’t be too long.

Retracting her gaze, Hermione put her hand into his hand: "Loren, can the transformation of the fireplace floo network you just mentioned be implemented on a large scale?"

"Yes, it can be..."

Loren suddenly remembered something, turned his head and looked at her in surprise: "Are you really planning to transform the Transportation Department and then soak the Knight Bus in water?"

"I just think the current Floo network is indeed flawed."

"I don't believe it, you just want to soak the bus in water!"

"You say it is so..."

"We have such a good relationship, I will definitely be the first to support you, let alone the Knight Bus, even if I soak the Ministry of Magic in water, I support it!" Loren said to himself, "It's more troublesome to transform them one by one. If it is transformed on the existing system of the Transportation Department, it may be simpler. It depends on how Minister Granger chooses..."

...

At the end of August.

The temperature in London began to cool down.

Wendell has been muttering these days that the temperature this summer is a bit low, and the weather is not suitable for going out fishing. It is warmer at this time of year in previous years. According to Hermione's guess, the temperature drop may be caused by Dementors. The thick fog formed by the gathering and reproduction of dark magic creatures swallowed up some heat, and this winter may be colder.

During the days at home, Loren simulated the reconstruction of the fireplace in the fantasy book, and had a deeper understanding of spatial magic, and was more confident about this reconstruction.

Just last night, Harry called Loren through an anonymous phone call from the Burrow, telling Loren that Arthur and Sirius had prepared all the materials, and Mad-Eye Moody also persuaded Scrimgeour to completely cancel the Floo network of the Burrow. In short, everything is ready.

Loren plans to go there today and complete the reconstruction work before school starts, so as to avoid leaving school for field work after arriving at Hogwarts.

Hampstead, a suburb, 8 or 9 in the morning.

Just after breakfast, the dentist couple is preparing to start a busy day. Students and retired elderly people on summer vacation have nothing to do, so they get together to kill time.

Loren and Grandpa Bates sat on the sofa, listening to the sound of water splashing in the kitchen. It was Hermione washing the dishes for breakfast. Loren made breakfast, so the cleaning work naturally fell on the girl, as it was not good to trouble the old man.

The TV program was the old-fashioned morning news: "Britain and France jointly build the largest missile company in Europe. British Aerospace and French Matra officially signed an agreement in London to jointly establish the largest missile company in Europe. According to the agreement, British Aerospace and Matra will merge their missile production companies to form a joint Matra British Aerospace. In a joint statement issued after the signing of the agreement, the two companies emphasized that the establishment of the joint enterprise marks that the joint revitalization strategy of the EU arms industry has entered the concrete implementation stage..."

"Grandpa Bates..." Loren leaned lazily on the sofa cushion: "Hermione and I are going out later."

"Where to go?" Bates stared at the TV screen intently without looking back.

"Go to Ron's house to do an experiment."

"The kind that explodes?"

"No."

"Oh..." Grandpa Bates nodded, obviously not taking it seriously, "Will you come back for lunch?"

"Probably not, Mrs. Weasley is very welcoming."

"What about in the evening?"

"Got home for dinner in the evening."

"Take good care of Hermione."

"Got it."

After Hermione finished packing and came out, she said goodbye to Grandpa Bates briefly, and the two of them waved their wands and disappeared.

The Burrow is located on the outskirts of Ottery St. Catchpole Village in Devonshire. The two had lived there for a while. Remembering the location, Apparition is the most convenient way to get around.

Surrounded by rolling hills and fertile grasslands, it is well hidden from Muggles. Only when you get close can you see the four or five chimneys on the red roof, and then you will find a big crooked house here. In front of the house are chicken coops, utility rooms and garages, and behind the house is a weedy garden. At the back door, there are still many old boots and rusty crucibles piled up in a mess as before.

The grass rustled, and the goblin hiding inside secretly glanced at the two guests.

Boom, boom, boom.

Dong dong dong...

There were dull knocks on the door from both sides, and the footsteps in the room gradually became clearer. With the creaking sound of the door shaft turning, a smiling Molly appeared in front of them: "Oh, welcome back here, my dear——"

"cough!"

A sudden cough interrupted her, and Mad-Eye Moody's rough voice came from behind: "Stay alert! Molly, we have to make sure they are not Death Eaters in disguise!"

"Okay..." Molly asked helplessly, "Sorry, Loren and Hermione, I have to ask you a question that only you know...let me think about it..."

Loren and Hermione waited quietly outside the door, somewhat dumbfounded.

"Your test scores, no, it's not a secret..."

While Molly was thinking hard, Moody, holding a wand, squeezed in from the side and asked viciously: "Little witch, when did we first meet?"

This question does indeed verify identity. Ordinary students and those who don't know the inside story may answer that at Hogwarts, only the real Hermione knows: "At the Ministry of Magic, Professor."

"Come in." Moody limped and opened the door.

"Dear, don't mind." Molly welcomed the two of them in and poured hot tea.

As soon as Loren and Hermione sat down, there were clattering footsteps on the stairs, and Harry and the others jumped out quickly, chattering about the recent things that Moody had done to them.

"Everyone in the Burrow will be questioned when they come back from outside. I originally wanted to remind you on the phone..." Harry glanced at Moody quietly and lowered his voice slightly, "But he stopped him and said something stupid. Phone calls are not safe and are at risk of being monitored.”

Ron nodded and complained angrily: "Yesterday evening, I was delayed for a few minutes feeding chickens in the yard, and he actually asked me how many slices of fried bacon I had for breakfast. Who in the right mind would remember how many slices of bacon I had for breakfast? Just because This, he wants to cast a spell on me!"

Ginny deadpanned: "Because mom didn't fry bacon at all for breakfast yesterday."

"I eat whatever my mother makes. Who in the right mind would remember a day without bacon or a day without fried eggs!"

"We all remember except you!"

"I don't believe it!"

Ron screamed in anger, everyone burst into laughter, and the room was filled with a happy atmosphere. The Weasley family is still the Weasley family. No matter what time, this family can live a happy life.

While a few people were chatting, Moody glanced at the clock on the wall and said in a muffled voice: "Let's chat later, little guys, let's get down to business first."

Before Loren could speak, he heard the Mad-Eye man talking to himself: "At this time, Mrs. Acmore of the Floo Network Administration was holding a morning meeting to report yesterday's situation. Before they could Let's go to work, let's move quickly..."

In fact, the fireplace in the Burrow has been disconnected from the Floo network, and the Department of Transportation Administration cannot monitor the place regardless of whether it is working or not, but the small talk always ends, and it is really time to start working.

Loren didn't mind listening to the retired Auror's chatter. Moody was like that. Although he was a little neurotic, and although he didn't understand the floo network and space magic, he would do all the work he could with due diligence.

Loren stood up and walked to the place where the living room and the kitchen of the Burrow were connected. The fireplace was there. Next to it stood the grandfather clock with nine hands on it. Each hand was engraved with a Weasley family member, Arthur. And Percy is currently working at the Ministry of Magic, Bill is at Gringotts, George and Fred are at the shop, and the others are at home.

The scale of the clock seemed to have changed, and the hands became unstable. The hands of Bill and others would occasionally point to fatal danger, but then quickly turn back, which seemed to be some kind of omen.

"It's been like this for a while..." Molly moved the prepared magic materials over. "It's been like this since the mysterious man made a public comeback. At least it's not pointing at the red area all the time. This means that most of the time we are Safe.”

The onlookers said nothing, and Loren didn't respond. He looked through the materials piled up in the carton: bird and snake eggshells, bicorn horns, fire dragon cheek pouches, floo powder...

Loren opened a brand new box of floo powder. The brand new powder was actually shiny silver, similar to the space magic power collected by the planet room, but the magic reaction in it was relatively weak.

After being exposed to fresh air, the surface powder visibly discolored and turned green. Loren suspected that it was some kind of oxidation reaction, similar to patina, which did not affect the effect.

He did not delve too much into the nature of Floo powder. Now was not the time to study this. After briefly feeling the magic of Floo powder, he approached the fireplace. The interior of the masonry had been cleaned, and the areas above it were blackened by flames. They all looked clean and smooth. He picked up a fingernail's worth of floo powder, tried to sprinkle it into the fireplace, and mobilized the magic power to erupt from his fingertips.

The golden fire flashed away, and then the floo powder was immediately ignited. A cluster of bright green flames bloomed and quickly turned into a vigorous fire.

Loren stuck his head into the emerald green flames, and a feeling of boundless emptiness came to his mind. His perception had a certain connection with the space that was usually difficult to detect. He could vaguely see some images outside the fireplace, even shabby objects. External images, such as gnomes walking in the backyard, frogs floating in the pond...

As a magic invention several centuries ago, the Floo Network has been improved by successive generations of wizards and has gradually become complete. It can build a stable and lasting space channel, and even solve the problem of splitting the Apparition. The body of a wizard can cross two places thousands of miles apart, with the body on this side and the head on the other side.

This is the result of disconnecting the Floo Network. If the Floo Network is connected, Loren may see more and more distant blurry pictures.

The transformation that Loren wants to do is more like a kind of restriction. In order to improve security, only directional transmission is allowed in two fixed places and the consent of the other party is required. Compared with the Floo Network, it is closer to another teleportation magic, the Portkey.

He doesn't know which one is better, the Floo Network or the Portkey, but at least under the current conditions, the Portkey is more in line with the connection needs of the Burrow and the Black Mansion.

In Loren's conception, this new connection can optimize the security and privacy of the Floo Network, solve the shortcomings of the Floo Network that cannot transmit over long distances, and reduce the impact of the Portkey transmission on passengers, which is more in line with his plan.

The Floo powder is exhausted and the emerald green flame gradually goes out.

Loren turned around and saw several people standing behind him, with obvious curiosity on their faces. Harry and Ron seemed eager to try the feeling of sticking their heads into the flames.

"How is the situation? Are you sure?" Moody stood in the outer circle, his magic eyes rolling, "If you are not sure, just maintain the status quo. We have prepared the door key, which can also avoid supervision..."

Loren nodded gently: "It should be done before lunch."

Loren took out the two horns of the two-horned beast, and pressed the magic wand against the cross section of the broken horn. He carefully controlled the power of the shadowless God, and the dry keratin turned into fragments and powder and fell off. After about three minutes, the medulla inside the two curved horns was hollowed out.

Then he used the magic wand to stimulate the magic power of the unicorn hair, and manipulated them to carve the base of the magic circle on the bird snake eggshell, fill the 17 groups of magic patterns connected by space, shrink them and embed them into the inner wall of the curved horn...

Then he filled the flying powder into the gill sac of the fire dragon and filled it into the hollow curved horn. The space magic in it was used as fuel to activate the magic pattern.

Each material is engraved with an alchemical array. When all the materials are assembled together, the arrays are connected to each other and become one. The secret connection between the two-horned beasts can mark each other's positions in space and establish a channel in the twisted space turbulence. The magic pattern is responsible for the carrier of transportation, maintaining the stability of the channel and protecting the safety of passengers.