Harry Potter and the Secret Treasures

242. Chapter 242 Planning and Design of Stores

    Under the concerted efforts of everyone, Sirius finally agreed to replace a wand.

    He sighed and walked into the wand shop behind Mr. Ollivander, groaning his messy hair, like a young wizard.

    "He used to be like this. It looks very stubborn, but as long as it is a reasonable suggestion, it will be adopted most…"

    Looking at Sirius' back, Lupin spoke to Ivan, Harry, and Hermione about some of the anecdotes of the Sirius student era, making everyone laugh.

    In the laughter, they came to the Diagon Alley 36, a shop belonging to the Black family.

    This is a three-storey street shop located on the corner of the other side of the street, just across the street from the Ollivander wand shop, next to a potion material store, passing through a dark alley to the north. Owl shop.

    Harry's pet Hedwig, which was given to him by Hagrid after it was purchased.

    In addition to the pet shop, even this potion store is very famous on Diagon Alley. Because of the cheap price, Ivan mailed a lot of potion materials in their home.

    The walls outside the potion store are brown-black bricks with only a small window. There is a row of barrels of sticky material on the ground, near the wall, a variety of cans of powder, herbs, bundles of feathers, fangs and claws hanging from the ceiling.

    The goods inside look fascinating, but because of the potion material, the store exudes an unpleasant smell, like the mixed smell of rotten eggs and rotten vegetables.

    Even worse than this is the Diagon Alley 36 next to it.

    The old bricks are not missing, and they look extremely desolate and worn. The two semi-circular windows were covered with thick dust, and the inside was not visible from the outside. The window between the windows is a scarred black wooden door filled with insect eyes and traces of sharp objects, which radiate a rotten taste.

    Ivan wiped the dust off the window and picked up his foot and looked inside.

    Through a piece of Doxy filled with money, he saw the wreckage of the furniture scattered everywhere and the rubbish everywhere. In the gap at the top corner of the window, there was a brown spider like a tea tray. The whole house looked. It is a haunted house.

    “In my impression, this shop has been idle for more than a decade and has never been used.”Lupin explained, “Many people have guessed if there is any problem here, so they have been idle, but they didn’t expect it to be the property of the Black family!”

    He pulled out wand and knocked on the wooden door of the shop, slamming, and the door opened.

    At the moment of opening the door, a lot of dust splashed.

    Everyone hurriedly grabbed his nose and stepped back a few steps.

    Seeing the accidental intruder, in the store, a frightened mouse ran across the house and made a squeaking noise.

    They walked in and left a clear footprint on the sly floor.

    The decoration of this shop continues the luxury style of the Black family, and the dilapidated furniture is made of precious mahogany and teak.

    Perhaps because of this, this is also the object of thieves' concentration.

    Everything that is of little value in the store disappears or is destroyed, and the ruins of various gorgeous decorations and furniture are scattered on the ground.

    The back few windows were also shattered, blowing in the cold wind, no accident, the thieves climbed in from there.

    From the outside, this shop is bad enough; you can feel it in the distance and feel it is so bad.

    If you want to use it and open it, you have to buy something new.

    "I want to clean up this place, it takes a lot of work!"Hermione wrinkled her nose and took out wand and said softly to a carpet, "Scourgify!"

    Pink soap bubbles appeared on the carpet immediately, but it was useless. There was too much dust, and the bright soap bubbles turned into black viscous instantly.

    Hermione was not willing to wave wand and read the spell several times.

    "Don't waste your efforts, Hermione, throw the carpet away."Ivan said with his forehead, "Furniture and office supplies can buy new ones, but you just said yes, this place really needs a big cleaning, this workload is not small!"

    “The house has been empty for many years, and there are many things that breed in it. You must be careful when cleaning.”Lupin squatted in front of a cupboard and slid inside through the keyhole. "It looks like a Boggart. It's best to let him out before cleaning the cabinet."

    “It’s crazy to clean up a house that has been abandoned for more than a decade. I don’t want to spend the rest of my Christmas holiday here.”Harry walked upstairs and gasped. "This shop looks much more spacious than it looks outside. It has a lot of space, and there is more garbage than here."

    "Do not worry, Harry! I estimate that three days should be enough. We can help Dobby and Kreacher. House elf is very good at doing this kind of thing. ”Ivan also looked up the stairs and nodded with satisfaction. "When you visit Ron's, you can also ask the entire Weasley family to help clean up. I have an idea. The second floor and the third floor are enough for the newspaper headquarters space. The first floor can be used for other things, such as selling Fred and George's joke products…"

    “The two of them will be happy. From the last semester, they started the owl mail order service in the school!”Harry said, “The products they developed are very interesting and very popular.”

    "It's also very dangerous, and disgusting!"Hermione didn't take it for granted. "Look at what they did last semester, and actually made a dungbomb that can be remotely controlled, making the entire corridor full of stench, and the big dung is hard to clean."

    "That was what Filch needed to worry about, and they didn't use that kind of thing in other parts of the school except Slytherin."Ivan said guilty.

    He did not dare to tell Hermione that the birth of the remote dungbomb was actually his advice. And the theory used, how to let Dungbomb activation listen to the command of the user, he was Hermione to the newspaper to contribute to a paper on the Transfiguration study inspired after the Thought.

    "there's plenty of room for a lot of counters, and besides Fred and George's joke products, you can sell what other young wizards have researched." ”Seeing that Hermione still wants to continue on the joke product, Ivan hurriedly said, "For example, our Potions refining potion, except for taking a point for Snape to score, all the rest is dumped, it is too wasteful. It can be sold here completely, and the price is much lower than the normal market price."

    "This idea is good, provided that Snape can agree to do this."Harry interjected.

    "He will agree. Those potions are originally refining by the students themselves. He has no reason to refuse."Ivan walked down and carefully observed the first floor of the store, contemplating the future planning and design. "In addition to the potion, everything that the young wizards made can be sold here, and more is better. This event can be promoted through "Hogwarts Magic" and should attract a lot of attention. ”