When Annie left Ollivander's Wand Shop and started wandering around, planning to complete her trip to Diagon Alley, a crisp voice from behind interrupted her, forcing her to stop what she was about to do. Look around for strange movements.
"Hello! My name is Hermione Granger! Little sister, are you alone?" Hermione's main mission in Diagon Alley today was to go to Flourish and Blotts Bookstore to buy the textbooks she needed for second grade! In addition to these necessary things, some extracurricular readings that interest her are also indispensable!
Of course, the premise is to go to Gringotts first to exchange for some Galleons! After all, she only has pounds left on her now, and pounds cannot be used directly in Diagon Alley! And after her father, Mr. Granger, brought her here, he left her to wander alone! It's also known as: training Hermione's autonomy, but in fact it's just looking for opportunities to be lazy!
On the way to Gringotts, Hermione immediately spotted this curious little girl standing in the street looking around! She originally thought this was a little girl who accidentally got separated from her parents, because she looked several years younger than herself!
Since this is the case, then of course the kind-hearted Miss Granger will volunteer to help when she sees this situation! So she took advantage of the situation and said hello to the little girl to see if she could be of some help.
"Huh? Were you talking to me just now? Ah! Hello! My name is Anne, Anne Hastur. Nice to meet you!" Seeing someone greeting her, Anne didn't have any stage fright and came back to her senses. Finally, he said generously.
"I'm glad to see you too! By the way, Anne, why are you here alone? Are you separated from your parents? Do you want my help?" Hermione looked around and found no suspicious person. The people from Anne's parents began to ask.
"No! No! I actually came here alone!" Parents and so on, in fact, Annie also wants to find them! But she can't go back! That useless little space gem will probably take a long time to be fully charged!
"It's actually a person?!" Hermione was a little surprised now!
How dare such a young girl come to Diagon Alley alone? And that’s without parents accompanying you? Her parents are really irresponsible! Just like Hermione's father, Mr. Granger! He just left himself alone and didn't care! What irresponsible parents! How abominable!
"Hey! Wait for me, Annie!" Hermione saw that Annie had just said a few words to her and then turned around and walked towards the pet store. After learning that Annie had sneaked into Diagon Alley alone, she felt love for a moment. Hermione wanted to spend some time with her, so she hurried after her.
"Annie, do you... want to buy a pet of your choice?" Walking into the pet store, she saw Annie staring at the pets in the store. Hermione thought the little girl was I want to buy a pet to play with! But speaking of pets, Hermione doesn't have any pets now! Maybe, it’s time to pick one up for yourself?
"Welcome to the Magical Animals Pet Shop! Two beautiful ladies, what can I do for you?" Seeing the business coming, the owner of the pet shop quickly stepped forward to entertain them attentively, "We have all kinds of pets here! We have all kinds of pets here! As long as it’s what you want! Just ask!”
"Oh? Really?" When the shopkeeper said she had any pets here, Annie turned back and didn't look any further. As for pets, although she has the best Tibbers, she still wants another one to play with! "So, do you have any fire dragons here?"
"Ah? Fire, fire dragon?! I'm so sorry! Dear guest, the Ministry of Magic prohibits the sale of fire dragons! We really don't have any here! Absolutely not!" The shop owner paused and swallowed! Then secretly wiped the cold sweat on his forehead!
Her eyes began to become wandering, and she secretly wondered, could it be that the two Charmanders she smuggled a while ago were discovered and reported? This shouldn't be the case! She is very secretive when doing things! There is a single line of contact with the buyer! How could it be discovered? Could these two kids be Aurors disguised as Polyjuice Potion? Ruined! Ruined! This might really be the end! You shouldn’t have been greedy for that little money in the first place!
"Well..., why don't you try to buy an owl? Look, they are not only beautiful and smart! They can also send you letters! How convenient! These! All of them! Each one only needs Three gold galleons! Can you choose one?" He was already prepared for the worst. Although he was still suspicious, the shop owner still forced himself to calmly introduce the products in the store. She knew that at times like this, she couldn't help herself!
"No!" Annie looked at the various owls hanging in the cage and curled her lips in disdain! "They poop randomly and it stinks! And they look stupid! I don't want these flat-haired beasts!"
"This..." Hearing Annie say that owls are stupid and stupid, the shop owner was about to say something, but the owls in the shop immediately exploded their nests and started fluttering in the cage.
It seems that they just understood what Anne said and wanted to break out of the cage and come out to peck Anne! They are magic pets, but they are all intelligent! How dare this little human brat call them stupid, stupid, and smelly? As long as you let them out, they will definitely peck her all over the head!
"So, how about you two take a look at these cats? They are considerate, well-behaved and obedient! Each one... costs 2 gold Galleons and 10 Sickles each! If you each buy one, I can also give it to you for free. Go to those twenty Sickles!" After the shopkeeper lady took a lot of effort to calm the owls down, she turned around and introduced the cats.
"This cat looks very nice!" Hermione took a fancy to a big ginger cat!
Its fur was golden and brilliant, and it had a flat face, as if it had rushed into a wall and crushed it! And that fat, exploding tail like a bottle brush! Hermione felt like she had fallen in love with this cat at first sight! Because this cat is different from other cats, it stays there quietly, looking like it has a sense of loneliness and vicissitudes of life. It looks very pitiful! Hermione's love strikes again! She immediately decided to save two months of pocket money to buy it!
"I don't want it! Cats shed hair! They also have lice! They're so dirty!" Annie doesn't want this kind of thing! Huh? As soon as Annie finished speaking, she discovered that one of the black cats in the group of cats actually dared to stare at her? He seems to be unconvinced!
Anne immediately stared back! Say with your eyes: What are you looking at? Look again! I'll buy you and eat you! Then the black cat seemed to sense Anne's malice, and suddenly got scared! His ears also began to droop, and his head turned to the side.
"Okay! In that case, how about the toad? It's only 1 gold galleon!" The shop owner was a little discouraged and didn't seem to have much hope for the toad! Except for the other older girl who looks like she wants to buy a cat, this little one is so high maintenance!
"It's so disgusting! I really want to crush it!" Looking at the slimy toad covered with tumors lying on the table, Annie quickly took two steps back! How could she buy such a disgusting thing?
"You don't have anything decent here?" Annie looked around, and there seemed to be nothing worth buying here! Not to mention the mice over there! How could anyone keep a rat as a pet? The thought of someone holding a mouse as a pet all day gave Anne a chill! The person who does that must be a pervert, right?
"Oh! It seems to be gone!" The shopkeeper reluctantly took off the reading glasses she wore on the bridge of her nose and wiped them, feeling extremely frustrated for a moment.
She has already introduced all the mainstream pets in her store, but unfortunately the other party didn't like any of them, and the others who haven't been introduced are probably even less interested! She even somewhat confirmed what she was thinking. I'm afraid these two little ancestors were really here to investigate the situation in disguise, right? Could it be that they really received some kind of report? Merlin's fat boy! She had only done two smuggling jobs in total. How could she be discovered so quickly?
"Don't you have any special pets? Big ones like fire dragons?" Annie asked again without giving up! You don't even have a dragon, how dare you open a magic pet shop?
"Fire dragon?! Our store will not do that kind of illegal business! There is no fire dragon! If there is no fire dragon, there is no! Absolutely not!" The female shop owner was almost scared to death again! This little girl is still thinking about the fire dragon! really! She must have come here in disguise to collect evidence, right? It must be! She was about to chase them away, but suddenly she remembered that she seemed to have a good thing! And the key is not breaking the law!
"Wait, I have a pet here! You may be interested! Please wait! I'll be back soon!" After saying that, he hurried to the back of the store, seeming to be rummaging for something.
At the moment, the shop owner doesn't want to worry about the real purpose of these two people! If the two of them were really here to investigate in disguise, she might just chase them away, which might make them think she has a guilty conscience! Something fishy! Then it will probably be even more troublesome in the future! In this case, she might as well just take out the treasure of the store and scare them away with a high price!
After a while, the shopkeeper took out a box. This made Anne, who had been looking forward to it, immediately feel discouraged. It must be a small thing that can be packed in such a small box! She doesn't like these little things! At least he must be as tall and mighty as Tibbers! A fire dragon would be great! It can fly and breathe fire! It looks ferocious and big! It’s a pity that this pet store doesn’t sell it!
"Take a look! Do you know what this is? Let me tell you! This is a phoenix egg! Isn't it amazing?" The shop owner opened the box carefully and handed it to the two of them like a treasure. If she hadn't driven away these two guys who were suspected of being disguised as Aurors, she wouldn't have taken out this treasure of her store so easily!
"It is said that as long as you wrap it with the flames of the phoenix, it can hatch quickly! Isn't it magical?" Now you can't say that I don't have anything decent here, can you? This thing is much rarer than the fire dragon! She accidentally stole this from an unknown nest on a sycamore tree! After she asked someone to help identify it, she found out it was a rare phoenix egg!
"Wow! It's actually a phoenix egg! Real or fake?" Of course Hermione knew about the legendary thing like the phoenix, and she had seen it with her own eyes several times! That's their headmaster Dumbledore's pet Fawkes! However, this was her first time seeing a phoenix egg! Very rare indeed!
"Phoenix egg?" Annie looked at the fiery red egg attentively, and used her magic power to peer inside for a while. After feeling the life energy with the hot magic breath inside, she nodded! I don’t think this shop owner is cheating on her, it does look like a good item!
"Okay! How much?" Anyway, there are no fire dragons here! Annie decided to buy the egg for now! You can’t come here in vain!
"Ah? This! Are you sure you really want to buy it?" The shop owner looked at Annie's clothes and behavior again. Did he really think bad about it just now? They are not agents sent by Auror?
The shop owner thought about it for a while and began to secretly calculate the possible affordability of the little girl's family in front of him. Now that it has reached this point, as long as she is willing to pay, she plans to sell the egg as soon as possible! This sudden surprise today really scared her! She urgently needs some gold coins to comfort her injured heart!
"Five thousand gold galleons! Do you want it?" The shop owner didn't think Annie could come up with the money. However, maybe her family couldn't bear the little girl's crying, and they might not be determined to buy it later.
You know, she has had this egg in her hand for a long time! She didn't even know if the egg had gone bad after being stored for a long time! It’s always good to take action now! This kind of thing is not only expensive, but it is not as easy to get rid of as a fire dragon! Ahem! I can't think about fire dragons or anything anymore! They don’t sell it in her store! There is absolutely no such thing as smuggling!
"Five thousand gold galleons!? This is too expensive!" Hermione was shocked!
How dare she say such an outrageous price! Five thousand gold galleons is enough to buy more than a thousand owls, right? Even if this is really a living phoenix, it shouldn't be worth this price, right? Hermione felt that she would never accept this price! What's more, it's just a phoenix egg! Not a real phoenix yet! Who knows if there is a phoenix inside? Maybe it will be just a cuckoo or a peacock when it hatches?
"Here!" To the surprise of both Hermione and the shopkeeper, Anne took out a large bag of gold coins from her space pocket without hesitation and threw it on the table with a bang. Anne just roughly grabbed a bunch of them with her pocket. , should be enough for five thousand, right? She has plenty of these things anyway! The space pockets are piled up like a mountain! These are all the collections of the old dragon in the Voodoo Land, and she won't feel any pain at all spending them!
Folding for expansion space? The shop owner didn't find it strange that Anne took out the gold coins from her pocket. He just sighed that children from rich families were different, carrying so much money with them when they went out! But when she opened the bag, she was stunned.
"This doesn't seem to be Gold Galleons, right?" The shop owner grabbed a few more and took a look. Sure enough, they were not Gold Galleons!
"What Galleons? These are gold coins! Is there any difference?" Annie didn't know what Galleons were. She used these gold coins to buy food at the Leaky Cauldron earlier! I haven’t seen anyone say it can’t be used!
"Sorry! Children, I'm afraid you have to go to Gringotts to redeem it first!" The pet shop owner's character is not as limitless as Old Tom's. Although these gold coins are more valuable than gold galleons, she still suggested to Anne. . Of course, smuggling fire dragons has nothing to do with character! That's just a way to make a living! Recently, the cash flow in her store has been difficult, and smuggling has been forced!
"Annie! I was going to Gringotts too! Why don't we go together!" Hermione finally remembered that she was also going to exchange pounds. When she came back later, she could also take a look at the one she liked. Buy the big-faced cat!
"Okay then!" Annie glanced at the phoenix egg in the box with some reluctance.
"Don't worry! Children! I will definitely keep it for you! I promise!" The shop owner saw Annie's worry and quickly spoke and promised with a smile.
It looks like she will definitely make a big deal today! Maybe you can give yourself a few days off to rest after that? Just taking a break from the limelight? As long as this deal is completed, maybe she will no longer have to lack funds and will never engage in the dangerous business of smuggling fire dragons, right?
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