The streets of London are always cold during Christmas. Unless necessary, most British people prefer to stay at home and enjoy the happy time of unpacking gifts with their families.
A Chinese teenager, wearing a rather strange robe from modern eyes, was walking on the streets of northwest London.
"Tiera", or Sirius, looked around as he walked, looking quite nervous——
"Stop looking."
When Sirius passed by a display window, the reflection in the window suddenly smiled and said:
"I'm right by your side. You can go directly to No. 12 Grimmauld Place. I've already taken care of it there."
Then the reflection in the window returned to normal.
Sirius Black was startled, and his hand holding the wand tightened a little tighter.
It was only a little over twenty minutes' walk from King's Cross Station to Number 12 Grimmauld Place, but it took Sirius forty minutes -
Because Sirius took a slight detour and walked around Grimmauld Place again, but——
No, not a single Auror. It was as if the Ministry of Magic suddenly had a sudden conscience and decided to give all Aurors a holiday. Except for Muggle children playing with each other and having snowball fights, Sirius Black could not see this entire block. Any wizard—
"How did you do it?" Sirius asked, standing in front of a window. "Why are there no Aurors?"
"This shouldn't be the scope of your consideration, right?" Tiera in the reflection said, and then Tiera in the reflection returned to normal, and then——
A door of light appeared in front of Sirius Black.
Tiera walked out of the light door, wearing a bright red dress and holding a huge mysterious book in her hand.
"Let's go, take me there." Tiera waved her hand——
Sirius Black felt a pain all over his body. The crackling sounds of bones changing and the sounds of flesh crawling came from Black's body. After a few seconds -
Sirius Black's reflection appeared in the window, wearing an oversized Hogwarts uniform.
"By the way, I used the transformation technique to help you make your clothes a little bigger." Tiera said, "Don't forget to change them for me when you return to Black's old house."
"How did you do it?" After overcoming the initial pain, Sirius Black straightened up and asked, "That mirror, and the potion you gave me to drink."
"This is not something you need to care about." Tiera said, "Times have changed, and you have no idea how far the technology in the magic world has developed."
"But as far as I know...the technology in the wizarding world has never changed." Sirius said reluctantly, "So I want to know how you did it?"
"This is not a problem you need to worry about." Tiera said, "Please, Mr. Black, it's time to fulfill your promise."
After Tiera said these words, the golden filaments on Sirius's right arm suddenly started to hurt as if they were burning with flames——
"Okay, follow closely." Sirius Black said, turning and walking towards the position between Nos. 11 and 14 of Grimmauld Place——
When the row of buildings was first established, there was no number 13, but it jumped directly from number 12 to number 14. After the Black family moved here, number 12 was hidden by the ancestors of the Black family using magic——
Therefore, most people can only see numbers 11 and 14.
Even Tiera is no exception.
This does not seem to be a pure loyalty spell, but mixed with other types of space and mind magic.
But when Tiera followed Sirius Black and walked directly towards Nos. 11 and 14 Grimmauld Place——
Tiera seemed to have penetrated a layer of vague fog and saw a door covered with scratches and painted black. The silver door handle was in the shape of a coiled snake. There was no keyhole or keyhole on the door. Mailbox, but with a doorbell that will wake up a portrait of Mrs. Walburga Black inside the house.
From the outside, the house looked dirty and messy, and the windows were even more filthy.
Sirius pulled out his wand and tapped it on the door.
"toujours pur" Sirius said disgustedly——
This is the motto engraved on the Black family coat of arms, which means "Forever Pure" in French.
Tiera heard a loud, metallic click from the door, which sounded like the sound of countless metal mechanisms turning. A few seconds later, the old door of No. 12 Grimmauld Place creaked slowly. Slowly opened——
Revealing a porch that's even more worn and grubby on the inside than it looks on the outside.
Tiera followed Sirius Black into the almost completely dark hallway, and was greeted by the thick smell of dust and rotting wood.
Tiera felt as if she had stepped into a tomb. The Black family's old mansion was full of staleness, decay and decay.
Sirius waved his wand lightly, and there was a soft hissing sound coming from nowhere, and then all the gas lamps on the walls lit up.
Beams of dim light cast on the mottled wallpaper, illuminating a corridor covered with shabby carpets. On the top of the corridor there is a tree-shaped decorative lamp covered with spider webs flashing, and there are also old and blackened lamps. Portraits hang on the curved walls.
"This is the old home of the Black family," Sirius said.
"Bang——"
The door to Black's old house was slammed shut behind Tiera, and Tiera heard the sound of countless metal mechanisms locking.
But Tiera didn't care much, but looked at this dilapidated old house——
This is a typical pure-blood family mansion, and the decorations everywhere around it are hundreds of years old——
It should be worth more than what I found in the Room of Requirement.
Tiera judged, and felt a little regretful at the same time. She should have just asked for everything in Blake's old house.
"Let's go and walk around." Sirius said hurriedly, "Take whatever you want. Let's complete the transaction as soon as possible."
Tiera passed Sirius Black, along the porch, around a large umbrella stand that looked like it was made from a broken leg of a troll, and came to a staircase leading upstairs. The worn floor beneath Tiera's feet There was a crunching sound that echoed in this ancient, empty house.
Just as Tiera was about to step onto the stairs covered with cobwebs——
An ugly, aging house elf emerged from the darkness next to the stairs, wearing only a dirty rag and hunched over the quilt. He looked at Sirius Black in surprise, and then used his pair of The big, bloodshot, gray eyes looked at Tiera.
Those big watery eyes were instantly filled with a trace of disgust——
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