Ted used pounds to buy some underwear, daily necessities, notebooks, pens, ink and the like in the Muggle world.
I also bought some mice, locusts, crickets and other bugs for Ansu as his snacks.
At first, Ansu could only eat mealworms, but now the mealworms are no longer enough to fill the gap between his teeth. It has begun to eat big bugs and small white mice!
The bird's beak can peck the head of a white mouse to pieces in one go, and then press it with its paws to tear it into several pieces and eat it.
The big brother of the Corvid family, with amazing fighting prowess.
Ted returned to Diagon Alley and went to Gringotts with the cash.
"Sir, I want to exchange gold Galleons." He raised his head and said to the old goblin behind the high counter.
The old goblin pushed up his glasses indifferently and looked at Ted carefully, "Have you brought your admission notice?"
Ted handed over the admission letter.
The old goblin looked at it carefully and then returned it: "The maximum one-year quota is only 50 gold galleons. How much do you want to exchange?"
"What's the exchange rate?" Ted asked.
"Five pounds to a galleone."
Ted counted out 250 pounds and handed it to the leprechaun.
The old goblin was quite surprised. She probably didn't expect this boy in a second-hand robe to be able to come up with so much money. But after all, he had seen the world, so he didn't say anything and gave him a bag of gold galleons in exchange.
After leaving Gringotts, Ted weighed the money bag in his hand and a smile appeared on his face.
It seems that I won’t need to take out another loan next year, and I will try to pay off this year’s loan as well.
Debt-free and light-hearted~
…
The day to start school at Hogwarts is getting closer and closer.
Ted had never been so eager to start school.
The anxious feeling is like sitting on a train going to a long-distance girlfriend - impatient and anxious.
What? I don't have a girlfriend! Oh, forget it, pretend I didn’t say it.
Because the first day of school is approaching, the flow of people in Diagon Alley has obviously increased a lot.
Many wizarding parents bring their children to Diagon Alley to buy necessities for school.
Places like Flourish and Blotts Bookstore and Madam Malkin's Robe Store are always packed with people almost all day long.
Ted's work is also much busier.
Just a few days before school started, Ted was at Flourish and Blotts sorting through books.
Suddenly I heard a voice: "Dad! It's that, that little singing magician! And his raven!"
Ted followed the sound and saw a father and daughter walking in at the door of the bookstore. They turned out to be his "regular customers"!
This... I didn’t expect London to be so small!
Ted took the initiative to say hello, "Hello, my name is Ted Epiphany, and I am a young wizard who will enter school this year. Thank you for enjoying my performance."
The man stretched out his hand: "Hello, I am Chris Granger, and I am a dentist. You should know what a dentist does, right?"
Granger? ! Unexpectedly, it was one of the Iron Triangle.
Ted shook hands with Mr. Granger without changing his expression, "Oh, of course, but I'd rather not know what a dentist does. I'm most afraid of dentists." He looked like a little patient about to lie down on the dental chair.
Granger was amused by Ted and laughed heartily: "Hahaha, haha, cough~Sorry, I didn't expect the little wizard to be so humorous."
He pointed to the little girl next to him, "This is my daughter Hermione Granger, who is also a young wizard who will enter school this year. She clamored to buy some more books, so we came again."
Ted: I guessed it. When I saw the little bunny teeth, I should have thought they belonged to Miss Beaver!
Hermione is not black, and the world is not too deviant to accept it.
"Hello Hermione, if you need any books, you can tell me. I work part-time here and can help you find them..." he said.
Hermione had always admired this boy who could sing, play guitar, do tricks, and have an obedient raven. After learning that Ted actually used the two months before school started to work in Diagon Alley, When learning magic, I was so impressed that I was so impressed that my eyes widened.
She looked at Mr. Granger.
Mr. Granger waved his hand quickly: "Oh, no. Hermione, think about mother, she won't agree."
He and Mrs. Granger were already very reluctant to let their daughter go to a boarding magic school, so how could they let Hermione use the short reunion time before school started to work part-time.
The reason why I didn't say anything was because I was afraid of irritating Ted.
Unlike Hermione, Mr. Granger was more concerned about Ted's identity as an orphan.
Such independence and diligence are probably inseparable from this aspect.
Such a child is really heartbreaking and admirable.
Ted said hello to the store clerk and wanted to be a guide for his "friend" to visit Diagon Alley.
Ted introduced the products and styles of each store to the father and daughter, and told some interesting stories.
Mr. Granger listened with great interest, and Hermione asked a lot of questions about Ted's self-taught magic.
She had finally found someone with whom she could communicate magic.
"This is Giggs Giggs Pharmacy, and the potion ingredients in the prescription are genuine. Mr. Giggs is a good man, and he gave me my first part-time job..."
"If you want to have a pet one day, the Magical Creatures Pet Shop is the best choice. The animals here are all magical creatures. They are stronger, smarter and are good companions. I am here to help clean. , take care of their diet..."
Finally, Mr. Granger decided to buy Hermione an owl.
Originally, Hermione didn't want to buy an owl. She felt that taking care of an owl might affect her study time.
But Ted told her about the owl - in fact, the owl is very easy to care for and does not need to be taken care of at all.
Moreover, Hermione wanted to write letters to Ted after returning home to communicate and learn magic, which would not be possible without an owl.
Mr. Granger even hopes that his daughter can write letters home often after she goes to school.
Finally, at the Eela Owl Store, Hermione chose a long-eared owl with two "ears" on its head and beautiful patterns on its body, and named it Majik, which means "magic".
In Great Britain, dentists' incomes are very high, much higher than those of ordinary doctors.
Given the British sweet tooth, dentists are in particularly high demand.
The Grangers are both dentists and have their own dental clinic. Those lonely pure-blood families in the wizarding world may not be as rich as Hermione's family.
In the end, Ted and the Grangers had a drink at the Leaky Cauldron.
Of course he and Hermione drank butterbeer. Granger had to drive and was curious about butterbeer, so he also had a "children's drink". Thumbs up for this.
…
Time flies by so fast, and the last few days slip away quietly through our fingers.
Ted has quit his part-time job these days and is peacefully studying magic in his own small utility room in the Leaky Cauldron.
Just after sending away the Grangers and his daughter, Ted's research on psychic powers made some progress.
He has a special "power"!
Everyone must have had that experience, that is, when doing something you particularly like, you will be particularly focused, undistracted, and unwilling to be disturbed.
Forget time, forget hunger and thirst, forget sorrow, completely immerse yourself in it and enter a state of selflessness.
There will be a high degree of excitement and fulfillment in this process.
For example, when playing a game that I particularly like, I will often be in a trance for several hours.
Ted mastered this mental state that Muggle psychologists call "flow."
He is able to use flow to completely immerse himself in learning and research, a powerful positive feedback that greatly improves learning efficiency.
Of course, this kind of behavior consumes mental energy, and Ted usually doesn't do it for more than four hours a day to avoid hurting himself.
Other than that, it was just correspondence with Hermione.
Hermione's owl Majik is really not a hard worker, coming and going almost every day.
Ted completely understood Hermione's curiosity and excitement about the wizarding world.
He would tell Hermione some living habits and anecdotes that were different from those of Muggles he encountered in Diagon Alley, and explain to her some of his understanding of magic.
In a blink of an eye, it’s already the end of August.
Ansu can fly very high and far. He has grown up. He even rushed to deliver a letter to Hermione.
Ted: "You can find Hermione? Can you really? It's not close."
Ansu held his head high, opened his beak, flapped his wings against his chest, and shouted: "Little things! Little things! Quack~"
It has learned some words.
Ted tied the letter to its leg and watched it fly away.
In the letter, he agreed to meet Hermione on the train tomorrow.
Tomorrow is September 1st, the first day of school at Hogwarts!
It's finally here!
