Hogwarts: Wizards of Eternity

According to regulations, students are not allowed to use magic during the summer holidays.

However, there are actually some ambiguous boundaries between regulations.

Just like seeking prostitutes or supporting young sugar babies, although there are differences in wording, the essence is the same: trading in sexual resources, but the sentencing can be different.

The wizarding world is the same. They don't tell students the details of the International Statute of Secrecy in detail, but instead choose a one-size-fits-all ban on using magic during the holidays.

However, in addition to being a student, Roger also holds the position of Director of the Virtual Reality Industry Office. For him, compared to the regulations issued by the Ministry of Magic to Hogwarts, he is actually more subject to the real International Statute of Secrecy.

That is, he cannot cast spells in front of Muggles who don't know about magic, and he cannot expose the existence of magic.

And Vernon, as one of Harry's guardians, is obviously not within the scope of the International Statute of Secrecy.

Recently, Roger has been busy with time magic. Vernon is the first Muggle to have face-to-face contact with him after the Time Plague research.

"This should be fine now." Roger raised his wand and performed some magic on himself.

Afterwards, Vernon's condition returned to normal.

Then, Roger and Vernon discussed the matter of taking Harry on a trip together.

Vernon was of course willing, as he wouldn't have to see Harry for a long time.

However—

"I disagree," Harry's Aunt Petunia said blankly.

The commotion at the door caught the attention of the whole family. Dudley hid behind the door frame, peeking out half his head to observe, while Petunia walked to her husband Vernon's side and rejected Roger.

Looking at the family in front of him, Roger understood why this was happening.

Harry's family environment is actually a bit complicated.

Harry's maternal grandparents had two children, his mother Lily and his aunt Petunia. In Petunia's childhood memories, her parents always favored Lily, who could use magic, and ignored her.

It's not about scarcity but unfairness. Jealousy of this favoritism made her have a big opinion on Lily.

She once thought that if she had magic, she would also be loved, but her letter to Dumbledore was rejected, and then all sorts of things happened, which turned her admiration for magic into disgust.

It was this lack of love that made Petunia, after growing up, always yearn for love, until she met someone who loved her wholeheartedly, Vernon Dursley.

And just when her body and mind were slowly being healed by her new family, Lily died.

Petunia didn't like Lily, but Lily was still her relative. The death of a close relative turned Petunia's aversion to magic into fear. She began to think that magic was a terrible thing.

She didn't like Harry, but after all, he was related to her by blood and was her relative. Petunia decided to raise him to adulthood.

As for Vernon, his situation can be explained in one sentence: he loves Petunia, and Petunia doesn't like Harry, so he also hates Harry Potter.

Vernon would 100% respect the opinion of his beloved wife, so Roger only needed to convince Petunia.

This is very simple.

"You don't need to worry about our safety. We have the ability to protect ourselves." As he spoke, Roger transmitted some memories to her.

Petunia's dislike of Harry was only an emotional dislike, stemming from the continuation of past experiences, but it didn't reach the point of hoping that Harry would encounter danger.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have tried to stop Harry from contacting the magic that she considered very dangerous.

Just like parents seeing their disappointing children and grandchildren, they will be very angry and scold them, but they don't really want their children to be missing arms and legs.

"This, this is magic?!" Petunia widened her eyes after receiving a trace of Roger's memory, her pupils full of horror.

Growing up with Lily since childhood, she didn't know much about magic, but she wasn't completely ignorant. She knew Snape, and had even been injured by Snape's spellcasting errors.

And Roger's magic, compared to the magic in her impression, can be said to be completely unrelated.

Can something that makes the brilliance and heat of the sun bloom on the ocean also be called magic?

"My magic is like this." With a gentle wave of the wand, a little light appeared, just like what Petunia saw in the 'memory'.

The sesame-sized power of fusion was constrained at the front end of the wand. Under Roger's protection, no people or objects were injured, but the air twisted to the extreme under the heat told everyone that this was not an illusion.

Just like Petunia's complex feelings for Harry, Harry's feelings for the Dursley family are also complex. He doesn't like it here, but it shelters him. Here are his only blood relatives.

Harry knew a lot of things from Snape, knowing what adopting himself meant to his Muggle aunt, who was only in her twenties at the time.

Harry sometimes wrote letters back from Hogwarts. Petunia had read those letters. He said that he had met a very extraordinary friend at Hogwarts, but Petunia didn't expect it to be extraordinary on this level.

Harry dragged his suitcase and looked back at Number Four, Privet Drive, where he had lived for ten years. The Dursley family stood at the door.

Uncle Vernon pursed his lips, with no expression. Dudley's gaze was even more fearful than before.

And Aunt Petunia opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but in the end, she didn't say anything.

"Harry?" Roger's voice came from another direction.

"Sorry, I kept you waiting." Harry took another step and followed Roger's direction.

Roger glanced at Harry, noticing the emotional fluctuations in his heart: "Why so sentimental? It's not like you're not coming back."

"It's not sentimental, it just feels like something has changed." Harry shook his head.

"When you are different from the you of the past, the relationship between the outside world and you will naturally change. There will be many more things like this in the future." Roger didn't think there was anything to pay attention to.

It's been almost two years since he crossed over, and Roger has experienced too many things like this.

"When you grow up and have the power to change the fate of many people, you will find that the way the world works in your eyes is different from now," Roger said casually.

"... Where are we going next?" Harry didn't want to talk about this topic in depth.

"To Knockturn Alley." Harry wanted to change the subject, and Roger readily followed suit.

Harry frowned: "Isn't that where dark wizards gather?"

Just like Roger received Professor McGonagall's wholehearted teaching, Professor Snape also did his best for Harry.

Harry, while gaining Snape's favor, was also Snape's only hope to save Lily.

Snape would naturally do his best to make Harry stronger.

Not only in magical skills, but also in various aspects of the wizarding world's secrets, Snape began to gradually tell Harry everything.

"To be precise, Knockturn Alley is the largest underground trading place in the British wizarding world." Roger explained, "It sells everything that is not allowed to be traded openly by the Ministry of Magic. Of course, there won't be too excessive items."

Knockturn Alley can exist because a considerable part of British wizards have relevant needs. Therefore, several pure-blood families and powerful wizards stand behind the scenes and support the existence of this place.

They have some tacit understanding with the Ministry of Magic. Although many transactions inside Knockturn Alley are not compliant, they will not create things like 'live Muggle human body experiment materials' that are condemned by both humans and gods.

Even dark magic items are generally relics of ancient times, corpse materials from tombs, and organs of high-risk magical creatures.

The International Statute of Secrecy is the consensus of most wizards. Violating the Statute of Secrecy and committing illegal trading crimes are two different levels of law enforcement.

"This is like prohibition. Although alcohol has many bad aspects, as long as the demand exists, the more you prohibit it, the more it will lead things in a worse direction. It's better to manage it centrally and not give it a legal name, so that it can be violently cleaned up at any time. This is the so-called Knockturn Alley," Roger continued.

It's not just dark wizards who go to Knockturn Alley. Hagrid sometimes goes to Knockturn Alley to buy some Ministry of Magic-banned insect repellent poison and dangerous magical creatures.

"So what are we going there for?" Harry asked after his impression of Knockturn Alley changed somewhat.

Having suffered a loss from dark magic once, Snape naturally didn't want Harry to step into the same pit as himself. He had told Harry about Knockturn Alley, but he didn't want Harry to go, so Snape directly labeled that chaotic place as full of dark wizards.

"We're going on a trip, so naturally we need to get some money."

Although we can apparate all the way, eat food made from material recombination, and live in tents with space extension charms, which basically doesn't cost money.

But that would lose the meaning of traveling.

The reason why Roger wants to travel is to measure thousands of mountains and rivers with his feet, see the hustle and bustle of the world, read ten thousand books and travel thousands of miles. Wouldn't it be putting the cart before the horse to open the way with magic?

Normally speaking, wizard currency and Muggle currency are not exchanged. Gringotts' exchange is purely a welfare policy of the Ministry of Magic for Muggle-born young wizards."

Because people think that the sun, moon, and stars are special, the sun, moon, and stars have special magical mystery. The same is true for other items, such as gold.

But since 1971, when the Bretton Woods system collapsed and the Muggle currency system broke away from the gold standard and became pure credit currency, wizards who were not interested in Muggle currency became even more disgusted with it.

Use this kind of thing that can be printed at will and inflated at any time to be linked to wizard currency at the official level? Don't be silly.

But Muggle currency is not completely meaningless.

Wizards are also human, and they also need to eat and drink. In fact, the prices in the wizarding world have always been higher than in the Muggle world—mainly because there are too few wizards, and labor costs are very high.

A cup of hot cocoa on the Knight Bus costs two Sickles, which is about 9 RMB. Repairing a flying broomstick costs about 500 RMB.

And this was around 1992. In 1992, the price of commercial housing in the ancient oriental capital was only 3,000.

So, some people who like to save money exchange wizard currency for Muggle currency on the black market, and then use Muggle currency to buy cheap, industrially grown Muggle grain.

Not all wizards are rich, like Harry, who can inherit his father's family wealth.

Many wizards have to be very careful with their money.

"Alright, we're here."

After explaining the ins and outs to Harry along the way, Roger and Hermione quickly arrived outside Knockturn Alley.

"This place is really gloomy enough." With Harry's grumbling, the two walked in together.