Chapter 109 Closure

Astoria didn’t tell her mother about it right away. After a night’s sleep, she seemed to have come to her senses and realized that even if she went to her mother to complain about Lu Yunkai and Daphne, she couldn’t make her mother believe such sensational words as “I was almost killed by my sister and brother-in-law”…

In fact, just like the uncle who was one of the owners of Sluggiggs Prescriptions invited by Lu Yunkai said, just trying to use Floo powder to teleport into a house without entry permission would not cause any substantial damage.

If Daphne hadn’t panicked at the time and made Lu Yunkai nervous, Astoria would have been able to be alive and kicking with just a sobering spell.

Of course, Lu Yunkai and Daphne didn’t take it seriously, but Astoria wouldn’t.

Even though she had only slept there for a day and had not felt any discomfort after drinking the potion that Lu Yunkai bought from the system for four gold galleons to cure the errors of Apparition and Floo powder, Astoria still did not want to forgive her sister and brother-in-law.

In the next two days, she tried every way to pester Lu Yunkai (she knew that she could not pester Daphne, and she did not have the courage to do so), asking Lu Yunkai to take her to the place where he and Daphne went to play every day.

But Daphne was there, and Astoria could not come up with any way to make Lu Yunkai submit.

"Don't worry about her! If she has the guts, she will go to her mother to complain!"

With just one sentence, Astoria hid aside and drew circles.

However, after seeing Daphne's anxious look that day, Lu Yunkai did not believe that she really hated her sister so much.

Sure enough, seeing Astoria's aggrieved look, she soon softened her heart.

Two days later, after breakfast, the three of them came to the reception room together.

Each of them had a cup of breakfast tea and enjoyed a little leisure in the morning.

Lu Yunkai continued to study his mirror. He was trying to add the "message group" function to it, but he had not figured out how to identify the messages sent by different people. Astoria was flipping through a book.

Daphne, on the other hand, had nothing to do except looking at Lu Yunkai.

She learned the spells and magic that Lu Yunkai studied after just following him for half a day.

The spells themselves were not difficult, but the difficulty was how to fix these spells on the mirror and prevent them from wearing out even after a long time.

Lu Yunkai was very enthusiastic about this kind of thing, but Daphne was really not interested.

Bored, her attention shifted to her sister who was holding a thick book and reading it with relish.

"What book are you reading?"

"Here." Astoria raised the thick book.

Daphne was happy.

"Hogwarts, a History of the School"

Except for Hermione and Lu Yunkai, there are other people reading this boring book!

"Why do you read this kind of thing?"

"What else? I will become a student of Hogwarts this year!" Astoria snorted, "So you don't have to say that I am the only Muggle in the family."

"At least you are now! By the way, when are you going to Knockturn Alley?"

"Mom hasn't arranged it yet. She said she would wait until the notice arrives. Didn't you do the same?"

"That's different! I went there because my mother decided to do it on a whim, but you followed my example... Is my mother afraid that you won't receive the notice?" Daphne habitually quarreled with her sister.

"Ah! What are you talking about!" Astoria glared at Daphne angrily, "My name has been on the Hogwarts admission list since I was born!"

"Hehe." Seeing that her sister was angry with her, Daphne laughed happily.

"......I'll tell mom right now!!" Seeing Daphne's naughty smile, Astoria became more and more angry. She threw the book on the chair in anger and ran out of the living room.

"Why are you teasing her?" Lu Yunkai, who was waving his wand at the mirror, nagged Daphne.

"Who made her an eyesore here!" Daphne said confidently, "Yunkai, when are we going to play at your house again?"

"......Is that why you want your sister to go to Borgin and Burke?" Lu Yunkai came back to his senses.

Daphne's words just now were clearly meant to stimulate her sister, so that Astoria would quickly pester Helin so that she could go to Borgin and Burke to "gain experience".

"Otherwise! Find something for her to do, so that she won't always pester me." Daphne nodded.

"I think you will shoot yourself in the foot sooner or later." Lu Yunkai smiled and continued his research.

"What do you mean?"

"I think your mother might ask you to stay with her in Borgin and Burke."

"...Shut up! You crow!" Daphne's smiling face changed instantly.

However... Lu Yunkai seemed to be right.

After lunch, Hailin, who was a little annoyed by Astoria's pestering, planned to take her to Knockturn Alley.

Daphne, who originally thought that there was no one at home, could go with Lu Yunkai to see the sea view and enjoy the sea breeze, but she was also dragged by her mother to the Leaky Cauldron.

"Lu Yunkai is very familiar with Diagon Alley and Knockturn Alley! Let him help take care of Astoria? You are her sister after all! Otherwise, I will have to stay there every day this summer."

Helin's words confused Daphne.

The implication seemed to be that it was natural for a brother-in-law to take care of his sister-in-law, and it was even more natural to help his mother-in-law...

Seeing that Daphne wanted to help, but became a little timid because of the previous incident, Lu Yunkai, who had already reached a bottleneck in his research, could only take the initiative to express his willingness to take Astoria to Diagon Alley and Knockturn Alley to help explain to those shops and ask them to help take care of his sister-in-law.

In this way, both Helin and Daphne can be relieved from the heavy work of taking care of children.

Then the four of them came to Diagon Alley through the fireplace.

The originally lively Diagon Alley seemed a little unusually deserted, which made Lu Yunkai, who had not been there for a while, stunned.

And...

"Let's go." Helin, who was the last one to come to Diagon Alley with Floo powder, did not notice it. She just instinctively used the cleaning spell on the three young people who arrived at the bar before her, removed the fireplace ash on their bodies, and then said to Lu Yunkai.

"What happened?" Daphne followed Lu Yunkai's gaze and saw a sign at the intersection of Diagon Alley and Knockturn Alley, where two gloomy-looking people were standing guard.

Behind the sign was Zabini's Magical Supplies Store, with its doors locked.

"Something happened in Knockturn Alley?" Helin saw it too and was stunned.

"Go to the Leaky Cauldron and ask around!" Although Lu Yunkai had guessed roughly, he still said to Helin in a more serious tone.

"Okay." Helin glanced at Astoria, who seemed to be in a bad mood, and pulled her along, following Lu Yunkai to the Leaky Cauldron.

Through the back door, the four entered the Leaky Cauldron.

It was not the weekend, nor was it evening, and the lobby of the Leaky Cauldron was still empty as usual.

But the usual relaxed atmosphere seemed to have disappeared.

There were a few people sitting or standing in the bar, with slightly strange outfits and feelings.

They were exactly the same as the people Lu Yunkai had just seen at the entrance of Knockturn Alley.

"Tom?" Lu Yunkai motioned Hailin to follow him, and came to the bar counter. He pointed to the three wizards who were sitting there without eating or drinking, watching the people coming in and out of the bar with a vigilant look, and asked Tom in a low voice.

Today's Tom was not right either. Usually he would wipe the cups behind the counter, or calculate the bills or something, but today he was just standing there in a daze.

"Lu Yunkai! Are you back?" Tom seemed to be awakened from his distraction, looked at Lu Yunkai and nodded, and then saw the three people following him, "Oh! Mrs. Greengrass! Hello."

"Hello, Tom. What's going on? Why does Knockturn Alley seem to be closed?" Hailin smiled and nodded and asked Tom.

"Something happened..." Tom pointed to the parchment on the wall of the bar, then took out a copy of today's Daily Prophet from the counter and placed it in front of several people.

The front-page article, a prisoner-like person was roaring and struggling at the person reading the newspaper.

It was the same photo as the parchment on the wall.

Lu Yunkai glanced at the text and understood.

Wanted.

"Has this been exposed?" Lu Yunkai continued to ask Tom.

"Oh? You know... Well, it's not a secret." Tom was stunned at first, then nodded, "Sirius Black is an absolutely dangerous person."

"Are these people from the Ministry of Magic?" Helin asked Tom with worry on her face.

"Aurors from the Ministry of Magic. Specialized in catching dark wizards." Tom nodded, "They have been taking turns to guard here in the bar since last night."

"I think even if Sirius has lost his mind, he won't run to the Leaky Cauldron, right?" Lu Yunkai laughed, "What are they doing here?"

"To protect Harry Potter!"

"...Harry? Harry came to the bar?" Lu Yunkai was stunned.

"He arrived at midnight yesterday." Tom nodded, "Minister of Magic Fudge personally arranged it. Before coming, he got into a little trouble..."

"Get into trouble? What happened to Potter?" Daphne, who had been silent beside him, asked curiously.

"He turned his aunt or some other relative into a balloon, floating in the sky..." Tom pouted, "If it were normal times, he would definitely be in trouble, but now Black is wandering around the streets. If he kills Harry, no one in the Ministry of Magic will have a good time, so..."

"So it's just a small matter?" Lu Yunkai sighed with a smile.

It really deserves to be the Ministry of Magic!

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