Chapter 241 Store Planning and Design

? After everyone's persuasion, Sirius finally agreed to replace a wand.

With a sigh, he followed Mr. Ollivander into the wand shop, rubbing his tousled hair feebly, like a young wizard who had just come of age.

"He was like this before. He looked very stubborn, but as long as it was a reasonable suggestion, he would most likely take it..."

Looking at the back of Sirius, Lupin told Ivan, Harry, and Hermione some embarrassing things about Sirius's student days, which made everyone laugh.

Amidst laughter, they came to 36 Diagon Alley, a shop belonging to the Black family.

This is a three-storey street-front shop at the other end of the street, just across the street from Ollivander's wand shop, next to a potions material shop, and north of it through a dark, small Lane, is the Eila Owl store.

Harry's pet, Hedwig, was bought there by Hagrid and given to him.

In addition to the pet store, even this potion shop is very famous on Diagon Alley. Because of the cheap price, Aiwen mailed a lot of potion materials at their house.

The outer wall of the potions store is made of brown-black bricks, with only one small window. Inside was a row of barrels of goo on the floor, and against the wall, jars of powder, herbs, and bundles of feathers, fangs, and claws hung from the ceiling.

The merchandise inside looked fascinating, but because of the potion ingredients, the shop emanated an unpleasant smell, like a mix of rotten eggs and rotten vegetables.

Worse than that is 36 Diagon Alley next to it.

The old bricks were all mutilated and looked extremely desolate and dilapidated. The two semi-circular windows were covered with thick dust, and the inside could not be seen from the outside at all. Between the windows is a black wooden door with scars, full of bug eyes and marks scratched by people with sharp objects, exuding the smell of decay.

Ai Wen wiped the dust off the window, tiptoed and glanced inside.

Through a drapery full of dense foxes, he saw furniture debris and rubbish scattered everywhere. A brown spider the size of a saucer was hidden in the crevice in the uppermost corner of the window. The house looks like a haunted house.

"In my impression, this store has been idle for more than ten years, and no one has ever used it." Lupin explained, "Many people speculated that there was a problem here, so it has been idle, but I didn't expect it to be Black. Family property!"

He pulled out his wand and knocked on the wooden door of the shop. With a thud, the door opened.

Almost as soon as the door was opened, a large amount of dust splashed.

Everyone hurriedly covered their noses and stepped back several steps in a row.

Seeing the unexpected intruder, inside the store, a frightened mouse scurried through the house, making a squeak.

They walked in, leaving clear footprints on the creaking floor.

The store is decorated in the usual luxurious style of the Black family, and the shabby furniture inside is all made of precious mahogany and teak.

Perhaps because of this, it is also the focus of thieves.

Anything of little value in the store has disappeared or been destroyed, and the remains of various ornate decorations and furniture are scattered on the ground.

The windows at the back were also smashed, and gusts of cold wind came in. Not surprisingly, the thieves climbed in from there.

From the outside, this store is bad enough; if you feel it up close, you can feel that it is extremely bad.

If you want to use it and open it to the outside world, you have to buy a new one for almost everything.

"It takes a lot of work to clean up here!" Hermione wrinkled her nose, took out her wand and said softly to a carpet, "Clean up!"

Pink soap bubbles appeared on the carpet immediately, but it was useless, there was too much dust, and the bright soap bubbles instantly turned into a black sticky substance.

Hermione waved her wand reluctantly and repeated the spell several times.

"Don't waste your energy, Hermione, throw that rug away." Ivan said while covering his forehead, "You can buy new furniture and office supplies, but you're right, this place does need a major cleaning. It's a lot of work!"

"This house has been empty for many years, and many things have grown in it. You must be careful when you clean it." Lupin was lying in front of a cabinet, looking inside through the keyhole and said, "There seems to be a blogger inside. Gert, you'd better get him out before you clear this closet."

"It's crazy to clean a house that's been abandoned for more than ten years. I don't want to spend the rest of Christmas here." Harry came downstairs, panting, "This shop is bigger than It looks much more spacious from the outside, there is a lot of space above, and there is a lot more rubbish than here.”

"Don't worry, Harry! I guess three days should be enough. We can ask Dobby and Kreacher for help. House elves are very good at doing this kind of thing." Ai Wen also went upstairs to look around and nodded with satisfaction , "When I go to visit Ron later, I can also ask the Weasleys to help clean up. I have an idea that the second and third floors are enough space for the newspaper headquarters, and the first floor can be used for other things. , like selling Fred and George joke products..."

"The two of them will be delighted, they've started the owl mail order service in the school since last term!" Harry said. "The products they've developed are very interesting and very popular."

"It's also very dangerous, and disgusting!" Hermione said disapprovingly, "Look at what they did last semester, they actually made a big dung egg that can be controlled by remote control, making the whole corridor smell bad, those big dung is very difficult cleaned."

"That's what Filch needs to worry about. Except for the Slytherin basement, they haven't used that kind of thing elsewhere in the school." Ivan said guilty.

He didn't dare tell Hermione that the creation of the remote-controlled dung egg was actually his suggestion. The theory used, how to make the big dung egg animate and obey the user's command, was inspired by Hermione's submission to the newspaper about a research article on Transfiguration.

"There is a lot of space here, and there are many counters. In addition to Fred and George's joke products, you can also sell other little wizards' researched things." Seeing that Hermione wanted to continue on the joke products , Ai Wen hurriedly said, "For example, the potions brewed in our potions class, except for taking out a little for Snape to score, the rest are all thrown away, it's too wasteful, it can be put here. The price is also much lower than the normal market price.”

"That's a good idea, provided Snape can agree to it," Harry interjected.

"He will agree, those potions were originally made by the students themselves, and he has no reason to refuse." Ai Wen walked down and carefully observed the first floor of the store, while thinking about future plans and designs, "In addition to potions, Anything made by the little wizards can be sold here, the more the better. This can be publicized through the "Hogwarts Ministry of Magic", which should attract a lot of attention." (To be continued.)