Raven's Claw at Hogwarts

Chapter 395 The Weasley Brothers' Shop
"Welcome to Circular Alley!"

The unclothed statue moved, she stretched herself, and spoke a welcome speech to Mike and others weakly.

Mike nodded to her in return, and the Weasleys looked around as if they hadn't heard at all, with surprised and surprised expressions.

This was the first time they had seen a wizard's bazaar other than Diagon Alley, so it was not surprising to have such a reaction.

Mike waited quietly for them to recover, but the statue glared at Mike and the others with his hands on his hips as if angry:
"It's time for you to leave, don't get in the way, there are still people coming from behind!"

As soon as this remark came out, the Weasleys finally reacted and moved out of the way.

Immediately, a wave of space distortion rippled away, and a pair of girls wearing Beauxbaton School of Magic uniforms appeared in front of everyone.

The girls didn't stay where they were, and left talking and laughing after saying thank you to the statue. Looking at the direction they left, their destination should be the magic beauty shop not far away. .

Mike was slightly taken aback. Today is Thursday. It stands to reason that the school is not on holiday yet, so no students should appear in this place.

However, he didn't delve into it, turned around and looked at the Weasleys again - it was nothing more than a play of students skipping class.

At this time, Mr. Weasley pointed at a shop as if he had discovered something amazing and shouted:

"Aha! The souvenir shop of the French representative team! I really don't understand why they have the nerve to open a souvenir shop. You know, they didn't even qualify for the group stage in the last Quidditch World Cup!"

Looking in the direction Mr. Weasley pointed, a shop was surrounded by people, which made Mike unable to see the scene inside the shop clearly. The only thing he could see was the light blue sign hanging at the door of the shop. It had words in French that Mike couldn't understand.

"Mike, George and Fred are right here?" Mrs. Weasley gave Mr. Weasley a blank look, then turned to Mike and said, "Take me there quickly, I can't wait to see them!"

"Okay, ma'am."

Mike nodded, and then led the Weasleys forward.

However, the current Mr. Weasley seems to be completely immersed in the atmosphere of traveling in a foreign country. He suddenly grabbed Mike and asked excitedly:

"Mike, why do you say this place is called Circular Alley? Can I understand that this is Diagon Alley in Paris?"

"To be precise, this is the same large-scale wizarding market as Diagon Alley, but the styles of the two are completely different. I believe you should have discovered this."

Mr. Weasley nodded. He had already noticed through a rough look along the way. Compared with Diagon Alley, there are much more luxury stores here, whether it is clothing, jewelry or cosmetics.

"As for why this place is called Circular Alley, I can also answer you." Mike continued, "This is because this market presents a very strange circular shape, centered on the square where we are now. , no matter which direction you go, eventually you will come back to this square.”

"Oh!~"

Mr. Weasley responded in a drawn-out tone, and then pointed to a shop in the distance. However, before he could say a word, Mrs. Weasley snorted coldly.

Now Mr. Weasley stopped talking, and he walked with his head down like a frost-beaten vegetable.

Mike suppressed a smile and continued to lead the way.

All the way was silent, after 10 minutes of trekking, everyone finally came to a relatively remote shop.

The door of this store is locked, there is not even a signboard, it seems that it has not opened yet.

"We have arrived."

Mike spoke softly, and Mrs. Weasley frowned upon hearing this.

"George and Fred are going to open a shop here?" Mrs. Weasley looked around, her brows furrowed even more, "They are really crazy, look around here, there are all bars and drunks! Setting up shop in this kind of place let alone business, even they themselves will be turned into drunkards in the end!"

Mr. Weasley next to him muttered a few words, as if refuting, but the volume was so low that Mike couldn't hear what he was saying clearly.

But this didn't stop him from laughing out loud, because he knew very well that, in fact, the vast majority of alcoholics in this world are in China.

Even Mrs. Weasley herself always liked to have a few drinks when she was fine.

If there is any country that can be compared with the country in terms of wine culture, then there is only the ancient oriental country far away in the sky.

As for the fighting people in Goose Country who are said to drink vodka as water, let me tell you the truth, they just dare to drink it. When it comes to drinking capacity, most of them even give shoes to people from the country of Ying and the ancient east. None of the capital.

Taking advantage of Mike's snickering, Mrs. Weasley couldn't wait to knock on the closed door of the shop in front of her. While knocking on her, she shouted:
"Is anyone there? Open the door!"

Her voice was so loud that the drunks around her who had passed out on the side of the road in broad daylight were all awakened.

And not long after she shouted, there was also a sound of ding dong bang bang and rummaging of boxes and cabinets in the shop.

"Damn it! Who would come to us at a time like this, we are so busy! Oh! Who put this damn dung bomb here? If I accidentally step on it, no one will live here! "

"Not me! I swear!"

"If it's not you, who else can we have? Here are just the two of us!"

……

The constant chatter from the shop penetrated into Mrs. Weasley's ears, which made her even more excited. She knocked on the door frantically, and kept calling the names of the two Weasley brothers.

"Damn it, I think I heard my mother's voice. No, it must be a hallucination, this is France! Fred! Go and open the door!"

"Why don't you go?"

"Don't you see I'm still busy?"

"No, it's not fair!"

"Then let's guess punches."

"Ha! You lost, go!"

"It's not fair! You're cheating!"

……

There was another silence, and then the door of the shop opened under the gaze of everyone.

Appearing in front of everyone was one of the two Weasley brothers (Mike couldn't tell which of them was which), at the moment he looked extremely embarrassed, and the brown sweater he was wearing was tattered and stained.

He stared blankly at the Weasleys in front of him, and then shouted loudly without looking back:

"George, I seem to be hallucinating too! I actually saw Mom and Dad standing in front of me!"

He had just finished speaking when the excited Mrs. Weasley rushed up and hugged him tightly.

Mrs. Weasley seemed to be crying, her body was trembling constantly, and Mike could even vaguely hear a faint whimper.

And Mr. Weasley looked at the mother and child hugging each other quietly with his lips pursed, his eyes were also red.

"Oh! This familiar sausage smell, this familiar hug! George, Mom and Dad really appeared!"

Fred shouted excitedly, and then there was another sound of rummaging through boxes and cabinets in the shop, and then a boy who was almost as embarrassed as Fred, but with a yellow sweater, appeared at the door.

"Oh! Dad! How do you..."

Before George finished speaking, Mr. Weasley also took him into his arms.

For a moment, the scene in front of the store was extremely warm, and even Mike on the side showed a smile on his face.

Unfortunately, such scenes did not last long.

After embracing for a while, the expression on Mrs. Weasley's face changed, and with a black face, she waved her hand and pointed at Fred's head.

"Fred, why are you doing this? Your dad and I are almost dying of worry! Your little sister, Ginny, almost cried to death when she found out about you!"

Fred covered his head and looked at his mother who was still moved just now in shock, while George's body shook violently, and then he quickly let go of Mr. Weasley's hand, vigilant step back.

"I'm sorry, Mom, but we have to do this, because Umbridge's persecution has reached the bottom of our tolerance. If we continue to stay in Hogwarts, we will definitely die!"

Fred, who was wearing a brown sweater, said aggrievedly.

George, who was wearing a yellow sweater at the side, rolled his eyes when he heard this, and pretended to be devastated. He stepped forward and said:

"Yes, that's what it is, Mom. But I have to say, it's Fred. Mom, you got us confused again just now."

Mrs. Weasley laughed angrily, although the twin brothers George and Fred did look super-like, sometimes even her biological mother would admit it wrong.

But in this situation, she would never admit it wrong, because the two of them are wearing the sweaters she sewed for them!

They usually liked the two sweaters very much, and Mrs. Weasley didn't think they would let each other wear their own sweaters.

"You still want to quibble!"

Mrs. Weasley roared and grabbed George and Fred's ears one by one. Seeing that his plan to divert attention failed, George immediately shouted for help to Mike and Mr. Weasley.

However, in the face of this situation, how could Mike and Mr. Weasley have the courage to go up and stop it?At best, they can only persuade a few words on the sidelines.

As a result, the Weasley brothers could only save themselves, and all kinds of flattering words sprayed out like machine gun bullets being fired.

Half an hour later, maybe the Weasley brothers' flattery had worked, or maybe Mrs. Weasley was tired of scolding. In short, Mrs. Weasley finally stopped continuing to educate the children.

"Mom, are you tired, come in and sit down!"

"That's right! When you were at home, didn't you often complain that your father didn't take you to go shopping? You should rest for a while, today we will be the master, and we will take you out to go shopping later!"

"That's right! You didn't go shopping in the early years because your family conditions didn't allow it, but now it's different, your son has money! When you go out and see something later, just call and we'll buy it for you!"

"You don't know! The cosmetics and maintenance potions in Ring Alley are much better than those in Diagon Alley! Why are French witches so beautiful? It's because they often use these things! You You have paid so much for us and this family all these years, let us do our filial piety today!"

"Oh! By the way! There are also wands! Surely you don't know? Although the wand makers here are not as famous as Ollivander, their craftsmanship is not much different. And they are more creative than Ollivander. They They even accept custom service. As long as you have money, they can make you even a microphone-shaped wand! I remember your wand is very old, right? We will order one later, as a spare for you wand!"

……

The two Weasley brothers, one on the left and the other on the right, helped Mrs. Weasley into the shop while saying flattering words.

Mike was a little helpless, he shook his head, and turned his head to ask Mr. Weasley to go in with him.

But he was surprised to find that Mr. Weasley turned out to be excited at the moment, as if he was very interested in the wand that the two Weasley brothers just mentioned!
With a long sigh, Mike shook his head and walked into the shop alone. He was really speechless to this family.

It wasn't until he entered the store that Mike realized that the actual area of ​​the store, which didn't look big from the outside, was scary.

It's just that the shop hasn't been sorted out yet, and the huge space is filled with all kinds of cardboard boxes. According to what the Weasley brothers said before they went out, these cardboard boxes should contain all kinds of magical joke props.

Although the shop was messy, it was not dirty at all. It could be seen that the Weasley brothers should have cleaned the place.

As soon as he entered the room, George took the first step and moved out three chairs of different shapes from the messy pile of various furniture and objects, and distributed them to the three.

Mrs. Weasley was given an elegant high-legged queen's chair, and the top of the back of the chair was even inlaid with a large ruby.And the chair looks antique as a whole, it should be an antique.

And Mr. Weasley was allocated an ordinary sofa chair, as for Mike, he was only allocated a tattered low chair.

The Weasleys sat down one after another under the service of George and Fred. At this time, Mrs. Weasley seemed to have completely calmed down, and a smile appeared on her face.

Mike stood on the spot and looked at the happy family of four, motionless, and had no intention of sitting down.

Seeing this, George said with some embarrassment:

"Mike, I'm sorry, there are only three chairs in the store, so I can only wrong you to sit on this one."

Fred also echoed:
"Yeah, there is no way, so sit down quickly. If you don't sit down, is it because you think our place is dirty and look down on us?"

As soon as this remark came out, the eyes of the Weasleys also fell on Mike.

It's just that Mike still didn't have the slightest intention to sit down, because he knew very well that there must be something wrong with the chair in front of him.

He couldn't be more clear about the characters of the Weasley brothers. When they were in school, they were the kind of characters who must be punished. Anyone who provoked them would end up being burned by their pranks.

Now that I have brought their parents here and made them suffer so much, the other party will definitely find a way to play a prank on him.

Thinking of this, Mike didn't answer, but flicked his wand and put an empty cardboard box next to him on the chair.

The next moment, with a loud noise, the chair flew up at a speed that was almost invisible to the naked eye, and finally embedded itself in the ceiling.

(End of this chapter)