Chinese students at Hogwarts

How rich is the Black family?

As the only remaining male member of the Black family, the wealth of the entire Black family is almost concentrated in his hands.

In addition to the inheritance left by his mother, Lady Black, his uncle Alphard also left him a considerable amount of gold.

In particular, the mansion at 12 Grimmauld Place may not be comparable to the Malfoy family manor in terms of size.

But its location - a bustling area of ​​London!

Black himself is not interested in things like wealth and family honor at all. If he was interested, he would not join Gryffindor and run away from home.

In the original plot, when Dumbledore reconvened the Order of the Phoenix, Sirius immediately took out the old house in Grimmauld Place as the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix.

Zhang Xiao fell into deep thought. He did not lack a house, and Sirius was right. If he wanted to build a reputation, it would be a good idea for the Black family's old house to serve as their headquarters.

The largest group of house elves are those pure-blood families. As the 'oldest and most noble' pure-blood family, the Black family can at least help offset a lot of public opinion.

Next is one of Voldemort's Horcruxes, Slytherin's Locket.

Can Taoist fortune-telling calculate the location? Actually no, because of the special nature of Horcruxes, it would probably be nice to have a location.

Zhang Xiao’s original plan was to pretend that Daomen had figured out the location, but in fact it was a direct spoiler.

Dumbledore doesn't know how to tell fortunes anyway.

Seeing Zhang Xiao's hesitation, Sirius smiled and added:

"Zhang, to be honest, I don't have a good impression of that old house at all, and I even hate it very much.

Even if it's in my hands, I won't live in it. It's better to give it to you to maximize its value. "

"Sirius, how about this." Zhang Xiao finally made up his mind:

"I won't want the house at No. 12 Grimmauld Place. I will rent it instead. This will kill two birds with one stone."

Blake thought for a moment:

"That's okay, there's no rent required, you can use it as long as you want!"

This time Zhang Xiao did not refuse his kindness. Sometimes simply refusing to reciprocate will not make the relationship better. On the contrary, it may alienate you.

What comes and goes is the right path.

Harry over there suddenly raised a book and smiled very happily:

"Hey! Sirius, come and see, it's almost exactly the same as you!"

Sirius smiled at Harry: "Okay Harry, here you go!"

He turned around and patted Zhang Xiao's shoulder and squeezed hard:

"Zhang, thank you very much."

The two walked over together and saw several children gathered around the table.

It was a book on the small table: "Omen of Death" - What to do when you know the worst is coming.

Hermione glanced at the book with disgust. For her who loved books, this expression was very rare.

"Oh, I know this book has a very bad reputation. If you read this book, you will see that omens of death are everywhere. This book will scare people to death."

Harry didn't care at all. He pointed at the cover and smiled very happily.

It was a dog, about the size of a bear, with glowing eyes.

The fur is black.

Ron's face turned pale: "I hate this dog. My uncle Biliers saw a black dog - and he died twenty-four hours later."

"Although sometimes it is absurd, we should indeed be in awe of these ominous omens." Malfoy rarely agreed with Ron's opinion.

His expression was also a little ugly, obviously he was thinking of those scary and strange stories spread among pure-blood families.

"Children, what are you looking at?" Sirius stretched his head to look at the black dog, touched his mustache and suddenly smiled:

"Harry, don't tell me, they really look alike!"

"What does it look like?" The four little ones raised their heads together and looked at Harry and Sirius curiously.

Harry pursed his lips and was very moved, but he still held it back. Sirius was an illegal Animagus. How could he say such things?

"It's okay Harry, they are your best friends. There is no secret that you can't share with your friends - when James and I were still Lupin -"

Sirius shut his mouth again and pretended to look for books that interested him.

Nonsense, I have a lot of secrets that I can’t share with others, Zhang Xiao complained in his heart, but picked up the book to see what ominous stories there were.

Harry stretched his head forward and whispered mysteriously:

"Sirius - is an Animagus! His animal form is a big black dog~!"

"Merlin! Animagus, man, you said Sirius is an animagus?

This is so cool! "

Ron was the first to react. He glanced in awe at Blake, who was still pretending to buy a few books to relieve his boredom, but was actually listening quietly to the children's chat with his ears raised.

Well, Blake is indeed the king of children, and the upturned corners of his mouth have revealed his inner thoughts.

Hermione's response was a little slow, but the data was detailed:

"Amazing! There are only seven Animagus registered with the Ministry of Magic this century. I know this transformation technique, and I can only say that it is very, very, very difficult!"

However, Malfoy's reaction was different from others. He glanced at Zhang Xiao subconsciously and said unconsciously:

"Uncle Black too?"

He suddenly reacted and hurriedly closed his mouth.

But Malfoy has obviously attracted everyone's attention.

Hermione's eyes seemed to be automatically locked, staring directly at Zhang Xiao:

"Zhang, have you learned the animagus transformation?"

Zhang Xiao put down that boring book. He was quite bored and classified almost all the low-probability events in daily life as omens of death. It would be weird if he didn't.

"Yes, I can transform. But I shouldn't call it Animagus. It's a transformation technique unique to the East, so the Animagus Management Office can't control me."

Even so, the little wizards are envious.

When they left the bookstore happily (the books were all in Malfoy's small satchel).

Blake asked in a low voice: "Is it difficult to transform? We failed for a long time, and finally we did it with the help of some external force."

Recalling the process of learning the Eight-Nine Mysterious Skills and constantly experiencing the life of a peregrine falcon, I felt terrible, especially when eating.

Zhang Xiao's face wrinkled, but he was curious about how Blake and the others completed the Animagus transformation when they were students.

Still fifth grade!

Blake showed a "rich and talented" smile and said in a nostalgic tone:

"Ah, that's really not an easy task. James and I paid for it and spent a lot of effort to buy a bottle of Felixir.

It was barely enough for four people, and I drank it on the day of my true transformation.

Even so, there was almost trouble. "

It's really yours, Sirius!

The price of Fuling Elixir is no longer the reason. Its materials are actually not very expensive.

The most important thing is to find someone who brews it and is willing to spend half a year staring at the potion crucible without making any mistakes.

There are only a handful of Potions Masters who can do it, and almost all of them are in the Potions Association and Hogwarts. They are very popular and are sought after beyond imagination.

There are almost endless high-end orders. Who has the time to make a fortune elixir? Wouldn’t it be good to make some profitable Bafei awakening potions if you have the time?

So it is quite rare and will be bought at a high price almost as soon as it appears.

It can only be said that the power of krypton gold is really powerful.

Unlike myself, getting to where I am today is all due to my own hard work and talent.

I have never used krypton for gold, and I have only tried the magical power of entering dreams with my own hands a few times.

Well, as expected, people still have to struggle on their own.

Zhang Xiao touched his Qiankun bag, and his father gave him another 20,000 Galleons, which was great.

After that, when they passed by the pet store, they went in and took a look around.

Mainly Ron and Hermione need to buy new pets.

The fact that Scabbers the mouse was Peter Pettigrew made Ron "depressed for a long time" and almost collapsed. (Oh my gosh, I even sleep with him! He’s in the shower too!)

Flourish and Blott's lifetime membership discounts and trade-in benefits saved Mrs. Molly a lot of money, and she even had enough money to buy Ron a new pet.

After everyone's suggestions, Ron finally chose to buy an owl, not a 'piggy', but a beautiful owl.

Hermione is similar to the original work, buying the big ginger cat Crookshanks with catnivet blood.

The reason is also very simple. The owner of the pet store said that Crookshanks has been in the store for a very, very long time, and no one wants to buy an ugly cat with sloping legs and a big pie face.

The delicate and sensitive little witch immediately decided to give it a home, but Crookshanks was very gentle to Hermione and did not have the extremely bad temper that the boss said.

By the time everyone finally finished buying what they needed, it was already afternoon.

They sat under an umbrella outside Florin's Soda Shop, eating ice cream and snacks.

Seeing the wizards coming and going on the street, the rookie Aurors finally couldn't stand it anymore. Some people chose to do the same as them, using transfiguration to conjure chairs and eat ice cream.

Occasionally, you can still hear their complaints, "These Death Eaters are like invisible, disappearing without a trace."

It made Zhang Xiao pay a little attention. With Bella's arrogant and domineering attitude, she should have killed a few Muggles first to add to the fun.

It's really not normal to disappear now.

In the Leaky Cauldron, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur were still chatting with Mr. and Mrs. Granger.

British writer Fowler once said: "More people drown in wine glasses than in the sea."

They drank for most of the day, but the two ladies didn't seem to care. Instead, they exchanged methods of knitting wool patterns over the snacks in front of them.

As for the two men, their faces were all red and they were talking about something they didn't know.

Mr. Arthur was talking loudly about his work:

"I think Muggle things are very interesting, such as shadowless lamps. By the way, do you know about super fluorescent flashes?"

Mr. Granger also opened his tongue and said drunkenly under the paralysis of alcohol:

"You're right, but I think fissure sealing is the best way to prevent dental caries."

Anyway, from Zhang Xiao's point of view, the two of them were just talking to each other, but they still had a lot of fun talking.

The two ladies pushed the dinner plates forward and greeted them with smiles. Mrs. Granger looked at the big ginger cat in Hermione's hand, her smile obviously a little stiff.

But he didn't say anything. Instead, he touched Hermione's little head and said softly:

"Hermione, you have to take care of it."

The arrival of these children completely made the entire bar lobby lively.

Percy didn't know what was coming. He was accompanied by the Weasley twins. On Percy's robe was a shiny silver badge, which was the badge of the Head Boy.

He seemed to have never seen these little wizards before. He straightened his back with a straight face and solemnly shook hands with everyone and said hello, as if he was conducting some kind of inspection.

George and Fred stood behind him, with equally serious faces, acting like clowns and bad ministers that often appeared around kings in the past.

They bowed rather exaggeratedly and spoke to Percy in an extremely flattering tone.

In the end, everyone couldn't help laughing. Percy was going crazy. He yelled at George and Fred, but he didn't realize that his student body president badge was missing.

Fred was quietly modifying the words on it: "HB (Big Head Boy)"

“Zhang, when do you plan to visit the Black family’s old house?

To be honest, I went back once before and it was already very messy. If you want to use it, I'm afraid you need to tidy it up. "

Sirius smiled and watched the children playing for a while, then suddenly remembered this incident.

Zhang Xiao thought for a moment. There were still a few days before school started, so it would be a good idea to go over and get the pendant in advance to avoid long nights and dreams.

However, he still asked Malfoy for his opinion:

"Draco, I plan to follow Sirius to the Black family mansion tomorrow. What are your plans?"

"Mansion?" Malfoy said without hesitation: "I also hope to be a guest in the oldest and most noble Black family mansion. In the past, it was a great honor to be invited to that mansion."

Sirius shrugged, obviously not interested in things like glory.

The three kids over there heard it and immediately gathered around and wanted to play together.

So the next day.

In Grimmauld Place, several children stood in a row, watching with their mouths wide open as if they were performing magic tricks.

I saw No. 11 and No. 13 shaking violently, but the residents inside seemed to have no feeling at all. It was a tremor in the space, and then it was like something was struggling to emerge from inside.

A tattered door squeezed out first, then grimy walls and grim windows, making it look as if an extra house had suddenly swelled, pushing everything away on either side.

Sirius shook his head at No. 12 Grimmauld Place, which had just appeared, and said in a complicated tone:

"This is one of the old houses of the Black family, and it is also the only remaining old house."

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In addition, the excessive chapter is over and the plot will officially start tomorrow