The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 71 Lihen Bookstore
When they reached the entrance of Lihen Bookstore, Ryan and the others found that the entrance of the bookstore was crowded with people.A banner on the store door said today was Lockhart's book signing.

"This is much more fanatical than Papa's fans." Ryan murmured to himself looking at the crowd of middle-aged witches.

"We can see him in person!" Hermione said to Ryan. "After all, he wrote almost all the books on the list!"

"He may be really powerful, but this kind of behavior of using novels as textbooks is a bit too..."

"What you said makes sense. Mr. Lambert's novels are not bad, but they can never be used as textbooks." Hermione seemed to wake up.

Ryan saw Harry and Ron standing at the front of the queue holding books and waiting to be signed, while Mrs. Weasley was a little nervously arranging her hair and was at the back of the queue, with Ginny following her.

Of course, when Ryan and Hermione walked up to Mrs. Weasley, they heard Mrs. Weasley whispering to Ginny: "Oh, sorry dear, most things can only be bought second-hand for you, because Lockhart's novel Not cheap."

"It's okay, Mom, textbooks are still very important. I don't mind these." Ginny also replied in a low voice.

At this time, a group of people squeezed Ryan to the door, and the twins just walked over from the door. Ryan said to the twins: "How about I bring something this time, right?"

"It's fine," said Fred. "But can I pay you later? Money is a little tight recently." George continued.

"It's okay, you can give me money whenever you have money. It's just that I think your family is a bit patriarchal. Last year when Ron went to school, he had new robes anyway. Why did a girl named Ginny buy her a robe this year?" Old robe."

"Hey, it's not because of Lockhart's new book. We have to buy five sets at a time, so we can only buy old robes for Ginny. That's why the payment for you is a little later. We want to give Ginny Send some new quills and ink."

"Wait, why do you want five sets of books?" Ryan asked.

"There are five sets of books in our family, of course," said Fred.

"No, I mean, since you need the same books this year. You are not in the same grade, and you don't take Defense Against the Dark Arts at the same time. Why don't you brothers use each other? Just take a notebook if you want to take notes Now, this way, only one or two sets of books are enough." Ryan looked at the twins and said.

"That's right, why didn't we think of that." The twins looked at each other, then squeezed into the store desperately, looking for their mother.

Ryan stood at the door of the shop and saw Lockhart taking pictures with Harry in his arms.This is exactly the same as Ryan's father, Mr. Lambert, who took photos with members of the u2 band at the signing party.

No wonder Lockhart has so many fans. The level of this kind of management is close to that of the Internet hype team decades later.It can be said to be decades ahead of the times.Not to mention that Lockhart is really handsome. If you don't know the details of his idiot, it's really easy to be fascinated by him.

Ryan managed to squeeze into the store and saw the famous scene of Harry's flirting: he put a whole set of Lockhart's new novels in Ginny's cauldron.

Then there was the personal feud between Mr. Malfoy and Mr. Weasley, which resulted in a fight.Ryan dragged the Grangers to a safe corner of the bookstore amidst the chaos.

Standing around the corner, Mr. Granger asked a little worriedly: "Has the wizarding world always been this chaotic, and is that kind of discrimination common?"

Ryan knew that they were worried about their daughter's life here, so he relieved: "There are not too many people who are similar to racism, but in the world of wizards, knowledge equals power, and Hermione studies well, so generally no one messes with her. "

After listening to Ryan's explanation, Mr. Granger seemed relieved.At this time, the fight between Weasley and Malfoy was stopped by Hagrid who rushed over.Ryan, Mr. and Mrs. Granger also walked out of the bookstore with the flow of people. Mrs. Granger still looked a little scared, and Mr. Granger has been comforting her.

At the door, Ryan ran into the Weasley family and Hermione. Hermione quickly ran up to ask her parents and thanked Ryan: "Thank you for helping me comfort my parents. I am really afraid that they will be too worried about me because they saw this."

"You're welcome, we're friends." Ryan replied.Afterwards, a group of people walked towards the location of the Leaky Cauldron, and Ryan deliberately stayed behind and walked with Ginny.Then he pretended to have just discovered the old book in Ginny's cauldron and said to her, "Do you also know how to appreciate the knowledge contained in old books?"

Startled, Ginny turned to look at Ryan, who she recognized as a friend of his older brothers.

"Hello, my name is Ryan Liang, you can call me Ryan. Every time I come to Diagon Alley, I will look for all kinds of interesting or useful notes in the second-hand goods store. Old books, I have gained a lot of useful knowledge from them It's just that this kind of behavior is generally not understood by others, so today I saw that all you bought were second-hand books, so I came here to find my friends, and I apologize if I disturb you."

"I know you." Ginny raised her head and said, "Ron said that you were No.2 in the whole grade last year and one of his best friends. You also told me that you don't understand that you have money to buy new books. Why are you still Going to the second-hand bookstore to rummage."

After that, Ryan and Ginny chatted for a while, and when they were about to arrive at the Leaky Cauldron, Ryan patted his forehead and said, "You are going to Hogwarts this year, and as your brother's friend, I should give you a present." After speaking, he took out the old notebook full of notes that he had prepared in advance from his backpack and handed it to Ginny.

"Here are the notes I compiled. I hope they can help you." Ginny happily took the gift and put it into the cauldron.

At this time, Ryan saw the black notebook in the old transfiguration textbook in Ginny's cauldron, he pointed to the notebook and pretended to be surprised and said: "Oh my god, you started to preview and take notes before school, it's amazing. "

Ginny took out the notebook and looked at it, then shook her head and said, "This doesn't seem to be my notebook." Then she opened it and saw that there was nothing in it.

Lane looked at the faded date on the cover of the book, indicating that it was fifty years ago.On the first page, only one name could be made out in blurred ink: Tom Riddle.On the back cover is the name of a newsagent in Vauxhall Road, London, which appears to be an antique notebook.

"Who is Tom Riddle?" Ginny asked curiously. "Maybe the thrift store didn't look carefully enough to add it to the book."

Seeing Ryan staring at the notebook intently, Ginny handed the notebook to Ryan and said, "Since you like it, I'll give it to you as a reward for receiving your gift."

Ryan expressed his thanks and put the book in his schoolbag, and told Ginny that it was rare for an ordinary notebook from 50 years ago to be preserved so well, and he could just give this to his father who likes antiques.

(End of this chapter)