Harry Potter’s Book of Sin

Chapter 52: A Cold Beginning

As time goes by day by day, those crises lurking in the dark will not be noticed yet.

The relaxed and free summer vacation is like a refreshing breeze that quietly smoothed the critical events of the last semester without leaving too many waves.

Everything seems to be calm, but no one knows how many undercurrents are entangled in this calm.

In any case, Hogwarts will soon start school.

On the eve of semester, Diagon Alley has always been quite lively, because most students need to come here to buy what they need for the new semester.

At this time, Lihen Bookstore was even more crowded and overcrowded.Of course it was all because of the star writer in the magic world named "Gidro Lockhart".

"We can see him in person!" Hermione cried, "I mean, he wrote almost all the books on the list!"

Although most of the crowd are middle-aged women, it is clear that the charm of this Mr. Lockhart is also very useful in the circle of little girls.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione got in through the cracks.

There was already a long line in the bookstore, curving to the street outside the door.They each grabbed a book for signing and ran to the place where the Weasleys and Grangers lined up.

And just outside the door of Lihen Bookstore, a large banner is hung, and the line on it is not only bright and eye-catching, it can even move-Gildro Lockhart signed the autobiography "I Can Magic" today 12:30-16:30 in the afternoon.

"Oh, you are here, great!" Mrs. Weasley said.

She was breathing fast, and kept stroking her hair, trying to make them smoother. "We'll see him in a moment..."

As the team moved forward, they finally saw the protagonist of Lihen Bookstore today.

He was sitting behind the table, surrounded by photos of different sizes. The faces in the photos were all blinking at the crowd, showing dazzling white teeth.

The real Lockhart wore a robe as blue as forget-me-not—matching his blue eyes, and the pointed wizard hat was slanted playfully on one of his curled hot hair.

In front of him, there was a short man holding a camera, he was jumping around, looking for photos from various angles.The flash was almost joined together, and bursts of purple smoke kept coming out of the camera.

"Get out of the way," the short man obviously had a bad temper. He yelled to Ron, who was blocking his angle, and took a few steps back to choose a better angle. "This is for the Daily Prophet."

"It's amazing." Ron said with difficulty raising his foot in the crowd, rubbing the sore instep of the man.

Lockhart obviously heard this sentence.He raised his head and looked at Ron first, but immediately saw Harry again.Suddenly his eyes lit up and he happily said, "Isn't this Harry Potter?"

The crowd stepped aside, and amidst the whispers of the crowd, Lockhart rushed up and grabbed Harry's hand, pulling him to the front.

"Come on, take some pictures for us," Lockhart showed his neat white teeth. "Guidero Lockhart and Harry Potter, this must make the headlines!"

There was a burst of enthusiastic applause from the audience, but Harry was flushed by the scene.

When he finally let go of Harry's hand, Harry felt that his fingers were pinched by him.He wanted to sneak back to the Weasleys, but Lockhart's arm was still on his shoulder, holding him firmly beside him.

"Ladies and gentlemen," Lockhart said loudly, waving his hands to silence everyone, "what an extraordinary moment! I want to use this wonderful occasion to announce a small thing, which I suppressed for a while. Never said..."

Lockhart took advantage of this opportunity,

Suddenly, the applause of the crowd intensified.

But in the crowd behind, two little wizards were squeezing out of the crowd.Hermione, who happened to hear Mrs. Weasley speaking, turned her head and glanced at it accidentally.

"That's... Maca?" Hermione said in surprise. "Who is the girl he is holding?"

She turned her head and pulled Ron in front of him, but when she looked back, the person had disappeared in the crowd.

"Maca? Where is it?" Ron stood on tiptoe and looked at him, then wondered, "Are you wrong? There are so many people..."

Hermione poked her head for a while, and finally shook her head, "I don't know... it's possible, right?"

In fact, Hermione actually saw it clearly.It's just that the Maca she saw made her a little skeptical-she wondered if she had really read it wrong.

"No, Maca's eyes will be softer, it can't be that way..." Hermione muttered softly, "It can't be that cold."

"Besides, who is the girl with long light blonde hair next to her? She looks weirdly dressed."

She thought for a while, and shook her head again, "Maybe I was really wrong?"

Hermione was thinking about it, but heard a nasty voice coming from behind.

"You must like this, Potter?" It was Draco Malfoy, with the usual mocking smile on his face.

"Famous Harry Potter!" Malfoy said. "Even entering the bookstore will make the front page news."

"Don't talk nonsense, he doesn't want to be like that!" Ginny who was standing next to Harry said loudly.

This was the first time she took the initiative to speak in front of Harry, usually shyly silent.

"Potter—you found a girlfriend—" Malfoy said with a long tone.

Ginny's face turned red all at once.

Ron and Hermione squeezed in from behind, each holding a stack of Lockhart's books, separating her from Malfoy.

Ginny was the baby of the Weasley family, and Malfoy dared to bully her, so Ron naturally wouldn't buy it.He and Malfoy despised each other, and you made each other a mockery.

After a while, Ron was so excited that he wanted to rush and punch Malfoy twice in the face, and Harry and Hermione quickly grabbed the back of his clothes.

"Ron!" Mr. Weasley squeezed over with Fred and George, "What are you doing? The people here are crazy, let's go out--"

"Oh-Arthur Weasley."

Just as Mr. Weasley was trying to pull the children out, a person walked out of the crowd behind Malfoy.

"Lucius." Mr. Weasley looked at him coldly and nodded slightly.

It was Lucius Malfoy, with a hand on Draco's shoulder, and the sneers on the faces of the father and son were exactly the same.

"I heard that my man is very busy with business!" Mr. Malfoy said, "So many checks...I think they paid you for overtime?"

He reached into Ginny's crucible and pulled out a tattered "Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration" from among the new and bright Lockhart's books.

"Hmph, it doesn't seem to be there. My God-what good is it to be a scum among wizards if you can't get a good reward?" Mr. Weasley's face suddenly became stronger than Ron and Kim. Nihong is so powerful.

"We have very different views on what a scum among wizards is, Malfoy!" he said angrily.

"Of course!" Lucius raised his head in disdain.

His light-colored eyes rolled, and his gaze fell on the Grangers who looked at them with fear.

"Look at the friends you made, Weasley... I thought your family had fallen to the limit?"

Mr. Weasley leaped at Mr. Malfoy and slammed him into a bookshelf. Dozens of thick spell books fell on their heads. Even Ginny's crucible was flew out with a bang.

The twin brothers Fred and George yelled "Hit him, Dad!" and so on, while Mrs. Weasley screamed, "Don't be like this, Arthur, don't be like this!"

The crowd retreated in panic and knocked down more bookshelves, causing the shop assistants to have a bitter face.

At this time, a loud voice overwhelmed all the voices.

"Disperse, gentlemen, disperse!"

It was Hagrid. He strode over with books all over the floor and pulled Mr. Weasley and Mr. Malfoy away in the blink of an eye.U U Reading www.uukanshu.com

Mr. Weasley's lips were torn, Lucius's eye was smashed by a thick book, and Ginny's shabby Transfiguration textbook was still pinched in his hand.

Ginny next to her had already picked up the cauldron. Lucius saw it and stuffed the book into her cauldron with a vicious light in her eyes.

"Hey, little girl — take your book! This is the best thing your dad can give you." He broke free of Hagrid's arm, waved to Draco, and rushed out without looking back. Shop door.

"You shouldn't pay attention to him, Arthur," Hagrid reached out and smoothed Mr. Weasley's robe, but he was so strong that he almost lifted him up.

"This guy is terrible. They are all in the family. Everyone knows-what the Malfoys say is not worth listening to! The blood on their bodies is bad, that's the thing. Go, let's go out."

The clerk on one side seemed to want to stop them from making a claim, but with Hagrid's physique, ordinary people really didn't dare to stop him casually.After a while, they went out from the shop, leaving a group of shop assistants there, crying and staring at each other.

They walked quickly down the street. Hermione's parents were ordinary Muggles. They were shaking with fright at the moment, while Mrs. Weasley next to him was furious.

"A good head for the kids! Fight in public? What would Guidro Lockhart think—"

"He was very happy," Fred said. "Did you not hear when we came out? He asked the guy in the Daily Prophet if he could also include the fight in the report! He said it would cause a sensation... …"

And just in the crowd not far from them, a young man was looking indifferently there, a pair of deep black eyes staring at Ginny’s crucible intentionally or unconsciously—to be precise, a book in that crucible Black cover diary.