Chapter 5 Welcome to Diagon Alley

After the deformed teapot incident fermented for three days, it was suppressed after not knowing what twists and turns were achieved behind the scenes. During this period, the Daily Prophet not only sprayed a Connelly Fudge, but also other wizards with the Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes were reprimanded by the newspaper. Even the Department of Magical Law Enforcement on a higher level did not escape, all of which were named by the Daily Prophet one by one. Carl's name was taken after only one appearance. The newspaper described him as saying, "A teapot created by a wizard who was idle at home poked out the fact that there are so many fools in the Ministry of Magic."

Good man, is this to praise him or put him on the fire?

However, Carl was eventually lifted from the ban, but he was fined 100 Galleons because he was the "initiator".

But when Carl was informed of the Ministry's punishment, before Collins could swallow the fried eggs in his mouth, he saw a disdainful expression on his face, skillfully kneading the parchment into a ball, accompanied by a familiar parabola, adding a few seconds of light to the fireplace.

"Dad, 100 galleons is a lot of money."

In my memory, it seems that Jin Jialong in the magical world is very valuable. The most obvious thing is that when the Weasleys went to their vault to withdraw money from the book in the Chamber of Secrets, Harry didn't see a few Jin Jialong, and in the third movie, their family won the grand prize in the Daily Prophet. The hundreds of Jin Jialong fully allowed their family of seven or eight to play in Egypt for a month, and the rest of the money basically solved their family's economic problems.

Although Collins watched the life of a family of three for ten years behind the scenes from childhood to adulthood, he seemed to be the owner of money, but most of the economic sources were brought about by the victory of his mother Catherine's lawyer lawsuits one after another.

As for his father Carl, Collins carefully recalled his memory over the years with the known information, and still found that he knew very little about him.

However, after several days of recollection, Collins finally remembered why he was very familiar with the surname Fawley.

"Don't worry, son, father, as a member of the sacred 28 family, you don't have to worry about money, let alone..."

Carl stopped hiding from his son these days. Many new words popped out of his mouth. After looking at his wife Catherine, the two smiled tacitly: "Besides, your mother made a note before and added a lot of Jin Jin Jialong to our family."

After listening to the story told by the husband and wife, Collins dropped his knife and fork on the table.

Mother Catherine had just married her father, When I came into contact with the magical world, at that time, the British pound had not been restricted from exchanging with Jin Jinjialong, and the price of gold was quite cheap. It coincided with inflation in the 1970s and the Great Depression of the global economy. Seeing that gold was going to rise rapidly, Catherine, who had a double master's degree in law and economics and was born in a businessman's family, put forward an idea.

That is, while the price of gold has not yet taken off, it is crazy to buy gold in various countries, and then exchange some of it for Jin Jin Jialong.

In fact, she was right, After Catherine's parents converted all their money into gold, Gold soon broke through the sky-high price. Not only did her parents make a lot of money, but Carl's side also made crazy money. You know, when goblins made a gold gallon, the gold added was less than 1 gram. When Catherine bought gold, the price of gold did not even exceed 50 pounds and 1 ounce (28 grams). (The price of gold did not exceed $100/ounce in the first half of 1973)

Carl didn't calculate how much he earned, but anyway, Carl bought two underground vaults in Gringotts, the large one.

Collins wasted half a day trying to make his throat swallow saliva, stunned at the mother who was cutting fruit for them in the kitchen, leaned to her father's side, and whispered, "Dad, how did you step on the dog luck and marry your mother?"

Carl raised his eyebrows at his son with pride, turned and picked up the Daily Prophet at hand, and read the news.

At nine o'clock in the morning, the Fawley family of three got into the car and headed for the Leaky Cauldron on Charing Cross Road in London.

Along the way, Carl told Collins a lot of interesting things about the Leaky Cauldron because he didn't drive the car. He even told him that in the Leaky Cauldron, he beat a fool named Lucius, who was also a member of the Holy 28 Pure Blood Family.

Hearing the name, Collins's brain knew who this man was without much consideration, Lucius Malfoy, Draco's father.

"Take my hand, dear."

Because of the secrecy law here, the Leaky Cauldron has been cast a lot of spells, and Muggles can't see it at all. Therefore, Catherine must be led by Carl to see it.

Collins locked his eyes on the famous pub as soon as he got off the bus.

Without him, just because compared with the shops with normal painting styles on both sides, this pub is really too unconventional.

But even so, standing under the dirty sign of Leaky Cauldron, his heart still couldn't help beating violently twice.

"Hey, Karl Fawley, here comes our man of the hour."

Looking at Carl, who was leading his wife and children, approaching the pub, Tom, the bar owner who was wiping his glass, couldn't help shouting and smiling at him and said, "Do you want to have a drink once in a while to celebrate your headlines?"

Carl smiled and waved his hand: "I have business today. My son is going to Hogwarts. I will take him to buy school supplies."

Old Tom turned his eyes to Collins, who had been looking in all directions. A kind smile appeared on his wrinkled face. "How time flies. Little Collins has grown so big. In two years, my granddaughter will go to Hogwarts."

With this, Tom took out a lollipop from under the counter and handed it to Collins. "Here, son."

Collins took over, thanked Tom, and walked with Carl to the intersection of Diagon Alley in the backyard of Leaky Cauldron.

Carl took out his wand and motioned in front of Collins: "Count three times above the dustbin, count two miles across, and knock three times with your wand..."

With his movements, the bricks he knocked on began to loosen and rotate, and soon turned the bare wall into an alley.

Looking at the bustling shops on both sides of the cobblestones that could not be seen in the corner, Carl coughed gently, attracted Collins' attention, and laughed, just like Hagrid said to Harry two years later: "Welcome to the first step into your magical world, Diagon Alley."

The dazzling sunshine just sprinkled at the moment, illuminating the cobblestone road in front of him, as if illuminating the reality before Collins.

The nearest shop is selling all kinds of pots and pans, and the front shop door is randomly placed with various buckets, which are randomly filled with various magic biological materials. Further away, there are several cages hanging at the shop door, in which owls of various colors are squatting.

Looking at his son's eyes staring at a black-and-white owl, Carl touched his head and said with a smile, "Son, if you like owls, Dad will buy you one later, but we have to go to Gringotts Wizard Bank first, where all our money is stored."