Daily Life at Hogwarts Chapter 4: Diagon Alley

"Albert, are you sure we didn't go to the wrong place?" Herb was comparing the map in his hand, but couldn't find the bar that Professor McGonagall said.

"We need to find a bookstore first. Next to the bookstore is a record store." Albert raised his finger and pointed to the big bookstore in front of him, and there was a record store next door.

"That's it? But I..."

"...Can't see where the bar is?" Albert finished speaking for him,

If he hadn't made a special observation, he wouldn't have paid attention to the small bar next to the big bookstore.

People passing by in a hurry don't even look at it, including, of course, his father Herb.

"I've seen the bar, remember what Ms. McGonagall said?"

"Muggles can't find bars?" Herb muttered, "I hate the word Muggle."

Heb held his son's hand and was pulled forward by Albert. A few seconds later, he saw the legendary Leaky Cauldron,

It was a dirty little bar.

"I hate this place, it's so dirty."

"Me too, come in!"

Restraining the look of disgust on their faces, the father and son pushed open the door and walked into the bar one after the other.

Dirty, messy, dark.

This is the evaluation of the two people on this bar. There are some men and women who don't look normal, most of them are old people. They also wear ridiculous top hats on their heads, which look very funny.

If this group of people walked outside the street, they would definitely attract the attention of countless people, but now they are even more alien here, as dazzling as a ray of fire in the dark.

Heb calmed down immediately, walked towards the counter, looked at the bald old man and asked tentatively, "Mr. Tom?"

"A little wizard from a Muggle family?" Tom looked at Albert, then looked up at Herb and smiled, "You want to ask how to get to Diagon Alley?"

"Yes, Mr. Tom, Professor McGonagall said you can take us to Diagon Alley." Albert also looked at the old man in front of him, and forced a polite smile on his face.

"Come with me, of course." Tom came out from behind the bar and beckoned the two to follow.

The trio came to the backyard of the bar, where there was nothing but a brick wall, a garbage can and a few empty wine barrels.

"This trash can will always be here. You need to count three pieces on the top, and then two pieces in the horizontal direction. This is this brick." Tom pointed to the place he just tapped with his hand, Then he drew his wand and tapped the brick three times, then turned to Albert and said, "When you have your wand, you can open the entrance to Diagon Alley yourself. Remember to tap three times with your wand."

The brick that Old Tom had knocked began to vibrate. The brick wall moved very strangely. There was a small hole in the middle. An archway large enough for them to pass.

A cobblestone-paved street stretches forward from the foot, flanked by shops on both sides, and there are many wizards and hawking stalls on the street.

"Welcome to Diagon Alley." Tom smiled at the two.

"Mr. Tom, how shall we get back later?" Herb asked.

"When you're done shopping, you can open the door as I just did." Tom answered Herb's question patiently, not forgetting to remind: "By the way, you'd better go to Guling first. Go to the Goblin to exchange for Galleons. Muggle coins cannot be used here, go ahead from here, the white building is Gringotts Wizarding Bank."

"Thank you for your suggestion, Mr. Tom."

"Have a nice day." Tom smiled and waved at the two of them, turning back to the bar, he liked the job.

After Tom leaves, the entrance disappears and reverts back to the wall.

"Let's go and change the money." Herb took a deep breath.

"It feels very different here." Albert looked at the surrounding shops and said to Herb with a smile: "It gives me a feeling that the times have gone back a century."

"To be honest, I have a little doubt about the correctness of letting you go to Hogwarts. Maybe Daisy's insistence is right." Herb sighed lightly. Although the wizarding world is magical, it always gives him a chance. An illusion that is out of date.

"Dad, I don't necessarily have to live in the wizarding world." Albert couldn't help rolling his eyes and reminded, "I went to Hogwarts to study mainly to master this magical power. "

"Oh, you're right." Herb's mood improved a little, and the two walked through the crowd to Gringotts.

As Tom said, this is a white building with a small figure standing beside the bronze gate, that is... a goblin.

"They're so special." Herb's facial expression was a little stiff. This was the first time he'd seen a humanoid other than a human.

Albert didn't care, and looked at the goblin's appearance, a short man with a sharp beard, long fingers and a dark face, a creature with no beauty at all.

As they entered, Albert noticed the goblin bowing to them.

There is a second door in the back, silver, with engraving on the two doors. After Herb approached, he took a closer look and said aloud: "Come in, stranger, but you have to be greedy. What will happen, blindly asking for nothing, will be punished the most severe..."

"I really don't understand, how diligently wizards need to rob a bank before they need to carve a warning sign on the door?" Herb couldn't help muttering after reading it.

Albert wanted to laugh a little after hearing this, and quickly cleared his throat and asked. "How much are you going to exchange?"

"This?" Herb thought for a while, then whispered ~IndoMTL.com~ a thousand pounds, if it's not enough, change it. "

A thousand pounds is equivalent to a month's salary for most people.

Albert estimated that it was about 200 Galleons. He nodded and said, "I think it should be enough."

After entering, the two goblins bowed to them and led them into a tall marble hall. Herb said he needed to change some Galleons.

The goblin led them to the counter on the right again, and handed a piece of parchment to Herb. The parchment was about the exchange rate of pounds and Galleons and the concept of money in the magical world.

1 Galleon equals £4.95.

1 Galleon is equal to 17 Cic, and 1 Cic is equal to 29 Nat.

Herb handed the parchment to his son and asked, "How much is 200 Galleons in pounds?"

"£990."

"Please help me exchange 200 Galleons." Herb took out £990 from his wallet and asked the goblins to exchange them for Galleons.

"Okay, wait a minute." The goblin took the pound and began to count.

"Excuse me, Mr. Goblin, can I exchange any British pounds for Galleons here?" Albert curiously asked his doubts in his previous life.

"That's right in theory, but we won't accept too much Muggle money." The goblin rang the bell and summoned another goblin to give an order. The goblin took a bag of gold coins and handed it to the goblin. Herb, then led them aside to verify the number of Galleons.

"I didn't expect it to be a gold coin." Herb fiddled with Garen with his fingertips and couldn't help but sigh.

After checking Garen and making sure it was correct, the two left Gringotts with Garen.

Walking on the sunny street, the gold coins in their pockets collided and made a pleasant jingle sound, as if urging them to spend the gold coins quickly.