It would be too unfair to say that Diagon Alley is useless. After buying all the teaching materials, Harry took Dudley to Gringotts in a shameless manner. The goblin's orbital speed car still had no changes from last year. , Dudley, who had been clinging to the handrail the whole time, swayed down with his weak legs after the racing.
"Well, this is more exciting than a roller coaster, right?"
"Don't talk to me, you stinky brother!"
Although the pale-faced Dudley performed much better than Hagrid last year, he still had a deep psychological shadow on this 'amusement ride' without a seat belt or any protective measures.
"There will be no next time! I, Dudley Dursley, even if I die at home, I will never come to this ghost place for the second time!"
"Fortlin's Ice Cream Shop is here. They have a new product. The Piao Piao Ghost Ice Cream Cone can make you float several inches high. Do you want to try it?"
"Huh? Is there such a thing?"
Dudley, who immediately became energetic, quickly looked forward. He saw a little girl holding an ice cream cone and taking a small lick. Then she steadily floated up a few inches. After a while of yelling, , she was held by her father's hand and floated away like a balloon.
"Yes! I have to try this!"
"Then you go get in line."
Harry stuffed a money bag, which contained a bag of gold galleons. He had already told Dudley the exchange rate of the wizarding world's currency, but he had reasonable doubts that Dudley could easily calculate the accurate amount. Mathematics has always been Dudley's troubled subjects, the abstract exchange rates in the wizarding world, would probably overload his CPU instantly, and he could count them on his fingers.
Harry continued walking and went to other snack shops and bought a lot of weird snacks from the wizarding world. He packed up all these messy things such as Pepper Naughty, Voice Changing Toffee, Bibi's Multi-flavored Beans, and Cockroach Piles. Some, after all, Dudley was scared just now and needed to replenish his body. Look at that pale face, how pitiful it is.
"Hey! Harry, look, I'm floating!"
Dudley, who was holding four ice cream cones in his left and right hands, was extremely happy at the moment. Although the floating height was only a few inches and he could not take steps, the feeling of floating like this was simply great for him!
"Don't just eat ice cream. You'll have diarrhea after eating too much. Come on, come on. At this time, you need to add some of the best sugar. How about a piece of chocolate?"
"Okay." Dudley nodded without hesitation. He was still in the excitement and didn't realize that Harry took out a glass jar with unknown contents, which was densely packed with energetic little ones. Xiaoqiang, although they are made of chocolate, the enchanted cockroaches will crawl around like real cockroaches when thrown into the mouth.
"Open your mouth."
Harry, who could no longer control the evil smile on his face, tried his best to speak in a nonchalant tone. At this time, Dudley was still holding on to the ice cream cone and couldn't free his hands at all.
Just when Dudley opened his mouth honestly, Harry stuffed a handful of the sweet cutie directly into Dudley's mouth.
The chocolate cockroach immediately began to twist wildly and used its thin steps to step on the soft tongue and the inner wall of the mouth. Dudley, who was happy one second, turned completely green the next moment.
With his brain shut down, Dudley opened his mouth stupidly and didn't know what to do, but his caring cousin gave him a little help when he needed it most.
Harry lifted Dudley's chin and helped him shut his mouth.
At the moment when the teeth bite, the brittle chocolate makes a slight crackling sound, which is like the sound of some kind of carapace being crushed by teeth. A pair of frightened eyes are bigger than a cowbell at this moment, and their faces Before Dudley could make a move with the words 'I'll kill you bastard' written all over it, he saw Harry holding up a half-empty jar and shaking it in front of him.
"Tastes good, right?"
"Ugh~"
Dudley, who hadn't vomited on the Gringotts underground train, instantly broke his guard when he saw the cockroaches piling up the jars, especially after witnessing himself vomiting out several cute little black ones that had not been bitten to pieces and were still jumping around.
"Don't you like it?"
When Dudley looked up, he saw Harry holding a cockroach and stuffing it into his mouth, chewing it loudly.
His trembling fingers hung in the air without moving for a long time. His overloaded mind went blank at this moment, and he had no idea what to do or say.
That Harry couldn't feed him cockroaches even if he was joking? But Harry ate it all himself, and was still enjoying it.
"This crispy chocolate tastes really good, why did you vomit on the floor?
"What? What do you think this is?"
"Choco-late." Harry, who had a serious face on his face, taught the pronunciation of the word on the spot, "It's just the kind that can move. Look, this little guy is so serious about his work and he's so lively."
Seeing the chocolate cockroach that Harry held on his fingertips and kept jumping around, Dudley, who suffered a terrible mental challenge, shook violently and dropped the ice cream cone in his hand.
"Hey, don't waste food."
With a light hook of his fingers, Harry caught the fallen ice cream with quick eyes and hands, "How about it, some snacks from the wizarding world are good, right?"
"To be honest, this is my first time eating cockroach pile, but unexpectedly, it tastes really good."
After seeing Harry stuffing another chocolate cockroach into his mouth, Dudley showed a look of deep pity on his face.
"You are such a good person, why have you gone crazy after being here for one year?"
Dudley, who had already tasted the sweetness of the chocolate left in his mouth, was sure that what Harry said was true, but it was precisely because of this that he had such an idea.
"Harry." He spoke earnestly, rarely acting like an elder brother, "It's okay if you don't stay in the wizarding world. If you continue, I feel that you are really going to be transformed into a little lunatic by these lunatics. "
"Ha ha ha ha!"
Overjoyed, Harry threw the jar filled with cockroaches into the corner of Diagon Alley, then pulled Dudley and patted him on the shoulder.
"No serious person would eat this stuff. Cockroaches are piles of candies specially prepared for people with pica. You can think of it as a prank prop. For example, you can launch a macho challenge. You eat chocolate cockroaches and then fool the unlucky fool. The child eats it for real.”
"Can you still play like this?"
For some reason, Dudley, who started laughing mischievously for no apparent reason, caught up with Harry's thoughts and said, "Tell me, if I told Dad that I would eat this thing if he didn't give me more pocket money, would he agree?" ?”
Dudley, who made his abacus crackle, immediately found a new way to cheat his father after being raised. Dudley, who went to school in Smelting, got a girlfriend early. Li could only go home during the summer vacation and Christmas. At this hormonal age, falling in love was not a problem at all. The pocket money that was originally quite generous became a bit stretched at this time.
"I have an idea, a lot of ideas!"
The two brothers, who were arm-in-arm, returned to their good-natured state in an instant. After Harry took out Bibi's multi-flavor beans and ate them while walking, the two grinning along the way were unlucky enough to not eat a few beans that tasted normal. But the happy smiles lasted until they returned home.
(End of chapter)
