Egypt
Mr. Ollivander is the most diligent shopkeeper in Diagon Alley. He opens the door at six every day, cleans the shops, cleans the streets, and greets every wand.
Today he opened the door early as usual and found that the street had been cleaned up, the facade was also quite clean, and the most diligent customer in the world stood in front of the store.
"Did you do all that?"
"Yeah, I've been waiting for you for more than an hour, I got bored."
Mr. Ollivander felt inexplicably guilty, and quickly let the customer in. It was Ginny who was crying and begging yesterday.
"I've finished it for you, wait here… " The old man went back to the room and took out a silver-white wand. The workmanship was very fine, it was coated with a thin layer of silver powder, and it was flashing with a mysterious color. "Actually I don't like to make it too fancy, it doesn't match the personality of the wands, but since you want it like this… "
"Looks exactly like it! Thank you so much!" Ginny felt saved but immediately became worried again. "How much should I give you… "
"Forget the money, that is no good wood anyway, some leftovers. Besides, you just helped me clean the store." Mr. Ollivander could see that the other party was ashamed at a glance. "I'm just a little curious, why are you so nervous about a fake wand?"
"Because it's… what do you mean a fake wand?"
"The broken one you gave me yesterday, here, look," He took out another wand. "I repaired it, but the color was bad and there were some cracks, so I made a new one for you. But this one is not a real wand, it's hollow inside."
"Hollow?"
"Let's put it this way, it's just a piece of wood. I didn't find any material other than wood inside the wand. You said this is your sister's, right? I think she hasn't reached the age of school yet, of course, your parents won't give her a real one. You were nervous over nothing yesterday, really."
Mr. Ollivander let out an amused expression and handed the wand to Ginny.
Ginny thanked the old gentleman for his help, hurried back to the Burrow, and put the new wand back in time before the sister woke up. She watched her sister's reaction nervously, but she didn't seem to notice it. Ginny felt that there was no need to be frightened anymore. It was forbidden to use magic when minors were not in school. When school started, when Aquamarine eventually found out that something was wrong, she wouldn't be able to blame Ginny anymore.
After the pressure was released, all the fatigue came up at once. Ginny dozed groggily on the sofa and was forcibly dragged to the table during lunch. She didn't know what she was eating, and she didn't know what everyone else was saying; her consciousness was switching between clear and vague, and she jumped suddenly when a word floated into her ears.
"Has anyone touched the silver coins in the basement?"
Basement? Silver coins? Ginny did remember seeing half of a silver coin back there.
"How much did you lose?" Mom asked.
"A dozen of them."
"It's okay." Mum didn't think it was a big sum.
"It's not a question of how much money, those silver coins are very important to me. And… " Aquamarine looked around "I don't want my family to do some corrupt things."
It does not make sense. Ginny didn't understand. I have only seen half a piece of a silver coin, how could there be a dozen coins… it is impossible for all of them to be burned by the fire… is it? Furthermore, this girl is so rich, why does she even care about this little amount of silver coins?
At this time, she found her sister's eyes stopped on her face.
"What… what's wrong… "
"You look a little pale."
"Who is pale? I am ruddy alright!"
"Why are you so excited?"
A mocking smile appeared on Aquamarine's face, Ginny replied with an angry look, and the atmosphere on the dining table went extremely intense.
Fortunately, there was a sound of footsteps in the hall in time, which distracted everyone. Dad jumped into the kitchen with a cheerful dance.
He pulled the mother up, turned his arms around her waist, and said as if singing: "Children, guess what I got?"
"Drunk?"
"Beaten?"
"A heatstroke!"
"You guys… '' Dad felt slightly attacked, resting his hands on the table, and started talking like the president announcing a very important decision, "I got a prize for our family!" Daily Prophet's annual Grand Prize! Seven hundred gallons!"
"Seven hundred gallons! Then can we eat, drink, play, and be corrupted for a lifetime!" Ginny's words attracted the contempt of the whole family.
"It's not that exaggerated… But it can afford us for a trip during the summer holiday."
Dad's words seemed to have stabbed a hornet's nest. Everyone immediately expressed their wishes in a buzzing manner. From East Asia to South Africa, from the equator to the North Pole, every place on the earth where people can stand has been called out, but no consensus was reached. Finally, they agreed to use darts to decide where to travel, and the executor was the father who contributed to this trip.
Everyone put the world map on the wall, blindfolded Dad, and then turned him around three times on the spot. Dozens of darts were thrown, not a single dart landed on the earth.
"Dad, are we going to outer space?" Fred pulled out a dart from the windowsill.
"Or we're going to the ceiling?" Ginny looked at the other one on the ceiling. How did Dad throw it exactly 90 degrees upwards?
"No more talking, kids!"
The last dart that Dad shot with resentment finally landed on the earth, right at the South Pole!
"Antarctica… we can go to see penguins… "
"You know what, let's go somewhere near the equator instead of the South Pole. How about Egypt?"
Mum can always solve problems in a timely manner, and everyone agreed.
"Rome!" Aquamarine cheered, "We can go to visit Bill~~~"
"Cairo, Rome is in Italy."
Ginny regretted it right after she said it. Everyone knows that but why do you have to speak, Ginny, look, she's eyeing you all resentful now!