Chapter 241 I, Zhang Xiao, Have Come This Far Thanks to My Talent and Hard Work (2 in 1)

How rich is the Black family?

As the only remaining male in the Black family, almost all the wealth of the entire Black family is concentrated in his hands.

In addition to the inheritance left by his mother, Mrs. Black, his uncle Alphard also left him a considerable amount of gold.

Especially the mansion at No. 12 Grimmauld Place, which may not be as big as the Malfoy family's manor.

But its location - a prosperous area in London!

Black himself is not interested in wealth, family honor and other things. If he is interested, he would not enter Gryffindor and run away from home.

In the original plot, when Dumbledore reconvened the Order of the Phoenix, Sirius immediately took out the old house at Grimmauld Place as the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix.

Zhang Xiao fell into deep thought. He did not lack houses, and Sirius was right. If he wanted to make a name for himself, it would be a good idea to use the old house of the Black family as the headquarters.

The pure-blood families have the most house-elves. As the "oldest and noblest" pure-blood family, the Black family can at least help offset a lot of discussion from the public opinion level.

The second is one of Voldemort's Horcruxes, Slytherin's locket.

Can the Taoist fortune-telling calculate the location? Actually, it can't, because of the special nature of the Horcruxes, it's probably good to have a direction.

Zhang Xiao's original plan was to pretend that the Taoists calculated the location, but in fact it was not a spoiler.

Anyway, Dumbledore doesn't know how to tell fortunes.

Seeing Zhang Xiao's hesitation, Sirius smiled and added:

"Zhang, to be honest, I don't like that old house at all, and I even hate it very much.

Even if it's in my hands, I won't live there. It's better to give it to you, so that it can play its value better."

"Sirius, how about this." Zhang Xiao finally made up his mind:

"I won't take the house at No. 12 Grimmauld Place. I will rent it instead, so that I can kill two birds with one stone."

Black thought for a while:

"That's fine, no rent, you can use it as long as you want!"

This time Zhang Xiao didn't reject his kindness. Sometimes blindly refusing to return the favor will not make the relationship better, on the contrary, it may make people alienate you.

The right way is to give and take.

Harry over there suddenly held up a book and laughed happily:

"Hey! Sirius, come and have a look, it's almost exactly like you!"

Sirius smiled at Harry: "Okay Harry, I'll be right there!"

He turned around and patted Zhang Xiao's shoulder, squeezing it hard:

"Zhang, thank you."

The two walked over together, and saw several children gathered around the table.

It was a book on the small table: "Death Omen"-what should you do when you know the worst is coming.

Hermione looked at the book with disgust. For her who loves books like her life, this expression is very rare.

"Oh, I know this book, it has a very bad reputation. If you read this book, you will see the omen of death everywhere. This book will scare people to death."

Harry didn't care at all. He pointed to the cover and laughed very happily.

It was a dog, about the size of a bear, with glowing eyes.

The fur was black.

Ron's face turned pale: "I hate this dog. My uncle Billyrs saw a black dog - and he died 24 hours later."

"Although it is absurd sometimes, we should be full of awe for these ominous omens." Malfoy rarely agreed with Ron's opinion.

His expression was also a little ugly, obviously thinking of those horrible and weird stories circulating among pure-blood families.

"Children, what are you looking at?" Sirius stretched his head to look at the black dog, touched his mustache and suddenly laughed:

"Harry, don't say, it really looks like it!"

"Like what?" The four little ones raised their heads together and looked at Harry and Sirius curiously.

Harry pursed his lips and was very tempted, but he still held back. Sirius was an illegal Animagus, how could he say such things casually?

"It's okay, Harry, they are your best friends, there is no secret that can't be shared with friends - when James and I were Lupin -"

Sirius closed his mouth again and pretended to look for books that interested him.

Nonsense, I have many secrets that I cannot share with others, Zhang Xiao complained in his heart, but he picked up the book to see what ominous stories were inside.

Harry stretched his head forward and whispered mysteriously:

"Sirius is an Animagus! His animal form is a big black dog~!"

"Merlin! Animagus, man, you said Sirius is an Animagus?

This is so cool!"

Ron was the first to react. He looked at Black in awe, who was still pretending to buy a few books to relieve his boredom, but was actually listening to the children's chat with his ears perked up.

Well, Black is worthy of being the king of children. His upturned mouth corners have exposed his inner thoughts.

Hermione's reaction was a little slower, but the data was detailed:

"Amazing! You know, there are only seven Animagus registered with the Ministry of Magic in this century. I know this Transfiguration, and I can only say that it is very, very, very difficult!"

Malfoy's reaction was different from others. He subconsciously glanced at Zhang Xiao and said unconsciously:

"Uncle Black too?"

He suddenly reacted and quickly shut his mouth.

But Malfoy had obviously attracted everyone's attention.

Hermione's eyes were like they had automatic locking, staring directly at Zhang Xiao:

"Zhang, have you learned the Animagus transformation?"

Zhang Xiao put down the boring book, which was quite boring. He attributed almost all the low-probability events in daily life to death omens. It would be strange if it was not accurate.

"Well, I can transform. But I shouldn't be called Animagus. That is a unique transformation in the East, so the Animagus Management Office can't control me."

Even so, the little wizards were envious.

When they left the bookstore happily (the books were all in Malfoy's small bag).

Black whispered: "Transformation is difficult, right? We failed for a long time, and finally did it with a little help."

Recalling the process of learning the Eight-Nine Mysterious Art, I kept experiencing the life of the peregrine falcon, which felt terrible, especially when eating.

Zhang Xiao's face wrinkled up, and he was curious about how Black and his friends completed the Animagus transformation when they were students.

They were in the fifth grade!

Black showed a "rich man has millions" smile, and said in a nostalgic tone:

"Ah, that was not an easy thing. James and I paid and spent a lot of effort to buy a bottle of Felix Felicis.

It was barely enough for four people, and we took it on the day of the actual transformation.

Even so, it almost went wrong."

You are really good, Sirius!

The Felix Felicis is not the reason for the price. Its materials are not very expensive.

The most important thing is to find someone who can brew it and is willing to spend half a year watching the potion crucible without making any mistakes.

There are only a handful of potion masters who can do it, and almost all of them are in the Potions Association and Hogwarts. They are very popular and are sought after beyond imagination.

There are almost endless high-end orders. Who has time to make Fuling potion? Wouldn't it be better to make some profitable Bafei brain-awakening potion?

So it is quite rare, and it will be bought at a high price almost as soon as it appears.

I can only say that the power of krypton gold is really strong

Unlike myself, I have come to this point today entirely by my own efforts and talents.

I have never krypton gold, and I have only tried the old master's dream-entering magic a few times.

Well, it turns out that people still have to fight for themselves.

Zhang Xiao touched his Qiankun bag, and his father gave him another 20,000 galleons, which was great.

After that, they went in and took a look at the pet store when they passed by.

Mainly, Ron and Hermione needed to buy new pets.

The fact that the mouse Scabbers was Peter Pettigrew made Ron "depressed for a long time" and almost collapsed. (Oh my god, I even took it to bed with me! It was there when I took a shower too!)

The lifetime membership discount and trade-in treatment of Flourish and Blotts saved Mrs. Molly a lot of money, and she even had enough money to buy Ron a new pet.

Under everyone's advice, Ron finally chose to buy an owl, not a 'pig', but a beautiful owl.

Hermione was similar to the original book, and bought the ginger cat Crookshanks, who was a cat-kneazle descent.

The reason was also very simple. The owner of the pet shop said that Crookshanks had been in the store for a very, very long time, and no one wanted to buy an ugly cat with a sloppy foot and a big face.

The delicate and sensitive little witch immediately decided to give it a home, but Crookshanks was very gentle to Hermione, and did not have the extremely irritable temper that the owner said.

When everyone finally bought what they needed, it was already afternoon.

They sat under the parasol outside Florin's cold drink shop, eating ice cream and snacks.

Looking at the wizards coming and going on the street, the rookie Aurors finally couldn't stand it anymore. Some of them chose to do the same as them, using Transfiguration to conjure up chairs and eat ice cream.

Occasionally, you can hear their complaints, "These Death Eaters are like invisible, disappearing without a trace."

Zhang Xiao paid a little attention to it. According to Bella's arrogant attitude, she should have killed a few Muggles to add to the fun.

It's not normal to disappear now.

In the Leaky Cauldron, Arthur and his wife were still chatting with Granger and his wife.

British writer Fowler said: "More people drown in wine glasses than in the sea."

They drank for most of the day, and the two ladies didn't seem to care. Instead, they exchanged knitting methods with the snacks in front of them.

As for the two men, they were already talking about something with red faces.

Mr. Arthur was talking loudly about his work:

"I think Muggle things are very interesting, such as shadowless lamps. By the way, do you know super fluorescent flashes?"

Mr. Granger also said with a big tongue, drunkenly under the paralysis of alcohol:

"You are right, but I think fissure sealing is the best prevention for caries"

Anyway, in Zhang Xiao's opinion, the two of them were just talking at cross purposes, but they were still very happy chatting.

The two ladies pushed the plates forward and greeted them with a smile. Mrs. Granger looked at the ginger cat in Hermione's arms, and her smile was obviously a little stiff.

But she didn't say anything, but touched Hermione's little head and said gently:

"Hermione, you have to take good care of it."

The arrival of these children made the entire lobby of the bar lively.

Percy came for some reason, and with him came the Weasley twins. On Percy's robe was a shiny silver badge, which was the badge of the male student union president.

He seemed to have never seen these little wizards before. He straightened his back with a straight face and shook hands with everyone solemnly, as if he was conducting an inspection.

George and Fred stood behind him, also with a serious face, playing the clowns and bad ministers who often appeared around the king in the past.

They bowed rather exaggeratedly and spoke to Percy in an extremely flattering tone.

In the end, everyone couldn't help laughing, and Percy was almost mad. He yelled at George and Fred, but didn't notice when his student union president badge disappeared.

Fred was quietly modifying the words on it: "HB (Big Head Boy)"

"Zhang, when are you going to visit the Black family's old house?

To be honest, I went back once before, and it was already very dirty and messy. If you want to use it, I'm afraid you have to clean it up."

Sirius smiled and watched the children playing for a while, and suddenly remembered this.

Zhang Xiao thought about it for a while. There were still a few days before school started, so it would be better to go there in advance to get the pendant box, so as to avoid more trouble.

But he still asked Malfoy for his opinion:

"Draco, I plan to follow Sirius to visit the Black family's mansion tomorrow. What are your plans?"

"Mansion?" Malfoy said without hesitation: "I also hope to visit the oldest and most noble Black family mansion. In the past, it was a great honor to be invited to visit that mansion."

Sirius shrugged, obviously not interested in those honors and things.

The three little ones over there heard it and immediately surrounded them and wanted to play together.

So the next day.

At Grimmauld Place, several children stood in a row, staring with their mouths wide open as if it were a magic trick.

No. 11 and No. 13 were shaking violently, but the residents inside seemed to have no feeling at all. This was a tremor in space, and then it was as if something was struggling to emerge from it.

A tattered door squeezed out first, followed by dirty walls and gloomy windows. It looked like an extra house suddenly expanded and pushed away everything on both sides.

Sirius nodded at No. 12 Grimmauld Place, which had just appeared, and said in a complicated tone:

"This is one of the old houses of the Black family, and it is also the only old house left."

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In addition, the transition chapter is over, and the plot will officially start tomorrow