The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 362 The Noble Born Black Family
After the kitchen was cleaned up, Lupine moved a lot of ingredients into the kitchen to prepare the ingredients and cooking utensils for lunch, while Hermione volunteered to stay and help in the kitchen.And Ryan, led by Sirius, went to clean up several guest rooms upstairs for themselves and the Weasley family who rushed over at night to prepare a place to live.

After cleaning up several guest rooms, Ryan found that the materials he used to draw the runes had bottomed out.More importantly, it was impossible for him to open the space door to pick up things from the grocery store at this time, so the work had to stop.

"It's okay, the work we did today has far exceeded our expectations." Sirius did not have the frustration of Ryan, he felt that today's workload has far exceeded the planned amount. "Don't be so busy this afternoon, you can take a good rest. I will go to Diagon Alley tomorrow morning and buy all the things you want."

"Lian, Sirius, come down for dinner." When Ryan and Sirius were talking in the guest room upstairs, they heard Hermione standing on the stairs beckoning them to dinner.

"Ah, let's go downstairs to eat. In fact, Lupine and I bought a lot of vegetables and seasonings two days ago. Unfortunately, the kitchen was not cleaned up when we set off, and the two of us could only eat the bad curry. With bread. I think there must be something delicious for lunch today."

Walking into the kitchen, there were already five or six shiny silver plates full of food on the long table in the kitchen.In addition, there are two gold-plated candlesticks placed at both ends of the table, and a few candles on the candlesticks bring enough light to the cave-like deep basement.

"Jean, this stew is hot when it's just made." Lupine used his wand to command a large saucepan to float over from one end of the table. "It's a pity that neither Sirius nor I are good at housework magic, so we can only cook by hand. I think if someone like Mrs. Weasley who is good at housework magic does it, the meal will take about ten minutes It will be done."

When the last stew was served, the four sat down at the table.Because everyone was hungry after a busy morning, everyone was immersed in eating in the first few minutes.No one spoke, only the clacking of plates and cutlery and the scraping of chairs as everyone sat down to eat.

After eating a whole piece of roast lamb on the plate, Sirius raised his head and said, "It's been almost a week since I moved here, and I'm finally eating seriously. Remus, your craftsmanship is really good." That's pretty good." Ryan and Hermione also nodded upon hearing that, although Lupine's skills are still a little bit behind professional chefs, as far as daily cooking is concerned, this level is already very high.In all fairness, neither Ryan nor Hermione's professional mothers cook as well as Lupin.

"Ah, if a person lives alone for a long time, he will naturally develop his cooking skills." Lupine said with bitterness, "But today I can be so fast thanks to Miss Granger's help. This magic can clean the blood and bones in the meat, and it can also soften the meat to make the meat taste better."

"This is what I suddenly thought of when I saw that you improved the death and decay magic and used it for housework in the morning." Hermione, who was sitting next to Ryan, leaned over and whispered after hearing Lupine's praise. "It turned out that the blood siphoning in blood magic, bone pulling spell and tendon breaking spell are really good for cooking meat. And no one can see that I use magic when I cast spells without a wand."

After eating, Lupine took over the task of cleaning the dishes. According to him, "at least I can do the magic of washing dishes." Sirius looked at the clean plates on the table in surprise. "You two have such a good appetite. I thought there might be leftovers from lunch. Looking at you, I realized that I am old and can't eat anymore."

"Maybe we have a better physique, so we should eat more." Ryan said that since he improved his physique, his appetite has gradually increased, and now his appetite is almost the same as that of an adult strong man.So when he went home this time, in order to avoid causing his parents to worry, he only ate sixty percent full when he ate, and then took time to go to other worlds to fill his stomach.

The same is true for Hermione, especially after acquiring certain characteristics of the dragon, her appetite is almost the same as that of an adult male.Fortunately, Ryan gave her several nutritional supplements before going home so that she did not starve at home.

"By the way, Sirius. Can you show us around this house? I've never seen such an ancient wizard's house." Ryan said to Sirius as he left the dining table.

"There's nothing in this house but the stink of dark magic and pure blood supremacy—" Having said that, Sirius still took Ryan and Hermione upstairs to tour the residence.According to him, although there is nothing worth mentioning about this house, it is always a good thing for young people to gain knowledge by looking at it.

Nothing important on the first floor, Sirius just highlighted the portrait of his mother under the curtain at the entrance.Once disturbed, they will yell and curse wildly, so it is best to be quiet when passing by.

Then the three of them came to the living room on the second floor, which was a long room with a high ceiling.The tapestries on the olive-green walls were still dirty from having not been cleaned.Every time someone put a foot on the carpet, a little cloud of dust was raised, and the long, chartreuse velvet curtains buzzed as though they were filled with unseen bees.

"I think it takes at least three times as much material to clean this house." Listening to the buzzing noises in the curtains, Ryan said with an ugly face. "The Humeizi here should be a disaster."

"No problem, I'll buy some special spray when I go to Diagon Alley tomorrow morning." Sirius replied.

"Sirius, your family has such a long history." Hermione exclaimed as she looked at the tapestry covering the entire wall across the room.The tapestry looked very old and worn, the color was dull, and it seemed that foxes had bitten it in several places.Still, the gold thread embroidered on it glistened, and they could clearly see a sprawling family tree, going all the way back to the Middle Ages.Embroidered on the top of the tapestry were large letters: Noble and Oldest of the House of Black Forever Pure.

Hermione was amazed because only nobles with a long history in Europe would record their histories, and family trees like this that can be traced back to the Middle Ages are very precious in the Muggle world.

"Yeah, it's a pity that there are only dark wizards in our family. Occasionally, one or two decent people will be expelled by them. For example-" At this point, Sirius pointed to a small blackened round hole in the tapestry, as if Cigarette burn marks.

"I used to be here, but after I ran away from home, my dear old mother destroyed me - Kreacher loved to whisper that story."

"You ran away from home?"

"I was about 16 years old," Sirius said. "I had enough, and luckily Harry's grandparents took me in. Then I lived with them during the school holidays. After graduation, I was also cleared." Uncle Alphad who went out left me a considerable amount of gold, so that I can just find a place to live."

Ryan took a closer look at the family tree and found that in many places, the gold lines representing marriage had disappeared inexplicably.

"I always feel that there is a lot missing in this picture." Ryan said, pointing to those missing places.

"Indeed, those bigots in the family are in favor of maintaining the purity of wizard blood. So they hide those marriages that make them feel a little unworthy. This is no way, if you only want your children to be pure If you marry a person of blood, then your options are very limited. So you can only marry some families that we may look down upon as a last resort, such as the Weasley family. Molly is my cousin who is related to me by marriage , Arthur is probably the great-grandson of my uncle and grandfather. But you will definitely not see them here, and here will only list some bloodlines that make them feel proud. For example, the Malfoy family."

"It looks like pure-blood families are related to each other," said Hermione after careful study. "As far as I know, when Muggles get married with close relatives, most of their offspring will show some kind of problem. Can wizards solve this kind of problem?"

"No." Sirius shook his head. "So there are very few people like us left. If you look carefully, you will find that many descendants of families who pursue extreme pure blood have some problems. Unfortunately, they still have to maintain the so-called pure blood. I think even if there was no such event back then War, the so-called noble-born Black family may not persist for too long." Finally Sirius said with a sigh.

(End of this chapter)