Chapter 429 Chapter 427 Take Action if You Can

Chapter 429 427. Do it if you can

Lily's two counterattacks limited the trouble they might encounter in Knockturn Alley to this one time.

Other people who were ready to make a move saw that this mother and son were not easy to mess with.

The Unforgivable Curse is by no means a low-end magic. Not to mention that normal magic schools will not teach higher-level black magic at all. Learning channels are a big problem. Even if there is a way to learn it, there are very few wizards who can actually use it successfully and exert its effect, and most of these people are concentrated among Voldemort's Death Eaters.

Lily, on the other hand, fired the Cruciatus Curse twice without saying a word. Plus, at such an age, she dared to take her child to the notorious Knockturn Alley so boldly. A fool would have guessed that this was a difficult problem to deal with.

After that, Jon and Lily didn't encounter any more trouble in Knockturn Alley.

Until they came to one end of Knockturn Alley, they arrived at a section that was as dirty as the wooden shack area in front of them, but had several open shops.

Lily chose one of the most inconspicuous ones, which looked more like a simple wooden shed than a house.

She took Jon and opened the rag that served as the door and walked in. Inside was a small room filled with various bottles, cans, and strange things.

During his time in Durmstrang, in addition to the three unforgivable curses, Jon also studied a lot of other knowledge related to black magic. Coupled with the influence of many forbidden books in the ring, all he had to do after entering the door was , it can be seen at a glance that 80% of the things displayed in this shop are related to black magic.

The remaining 20% ​​is not without problems, but with Jon's current knowledge base, he still can't recognize it.

As he came in, Jon saw the old woman sitting behind the counter. She was wearing a big pointed hat to cover her face, holding a crutch full of knots in her hand, hunched over. Behind that crappy counter.

"A rare guest, a rare guest indeed."

She seemed to see who the visitor was through the gap in the wide brim of her hat, and let out a burst of admiration in that ugly voice.

"I didn't expect that you would come to me at this time. Now is your time of success. Why did you take the risk to come to Britain? Or is it what Dumbledore and the current Lord of Britain reached after the Triwizard Tournament? Is peace just a cover-up? Are you planning a new move?"

Lily frowned, looked at the hunched old witch, and said coldly.

"You'd better talk to me with your original voice and look, Tom. You should be able to tell that I'm in a bad mood right now."

Hearing the name Tom, Jon couldn't help but look slightly sideways.

In his impression, there are only two people named Tom mentioned in the original book. One is naturally the "Tom Riddle" who hates the name left by his mother, and the other is the normal one. In the world line, it was supposed to be "Old Tom", the owner of the Leaky Cauldron in Diagon Alley.

After hearing Lily's unkind words, the old witch laughed twice, then she pulled a rope hanging from the ceiling beside her, and then the rag that was used as the door seemed to be caught by the door frame. It was absorbed, sealing the only entrance and exit.

After doing all this, the old witch reached out and took off the pointed hat with a wide brim that she was wearing, and that was the moment the hat left her head.

The old hunched old witch changed her form instantly in front of Jon and Lily. A bald, thin but tall old man stood up from behind the counter.

Sure enough, as Jon expected, Tom, who pretended to be an old witch and was hiding in Knockturn Alley to open a shop, was the former owner of the Leaky Cauldron.

Now in the Leaky Cauldron under Voldemort's rule, Jon had gone there with Dumbledore during the summer vacation of his first year. The boss there had become Borgin Burke, Voldemort's boss when he was young, and the former Broken Cauldron had Old Tom, the owner of the Cauldron Bar, actually swapped with Borgin Burke and came to Knockturn Alley, which makes people sigh at the strangeness of fate.

"Long time no see, Mrs. Potter. I heard that you are having a good time in France?"

Old Tom's face was filled with a complimenting smile, and his wrinkled face was as bright as a blooming chrysanthemum. At the same time, he turned to look at Jon.

"Who is this? I've never heard of anyone in the Order of the Phoenix with a child this old?"

Jon stood behind Lily, still holding the corner of her clothes with one hand, pretending to be a scared little boy.

From the current point of view, this old Tom should have some relationship with the Order of the Phoenix, but the obvious relationship is not that deep.

Lily didn't have the slightest intention of greeting him or talking about anything else, and directly stated the reason for her visit.

"Don't worry about who he is. Check for me now. How many people came to Knockturn Alley through apparation between 9:20 and 9:30? And have these people left yet?"

Hearing Lily's request, the smile on Tom's face suddenly froze, but soon he smiled coquettishly again.

"Perhaps you don't understand. Since the end of the Triwizard Tournament and you won the game, the British wizarding world has become a little restless. Just yesterday, Aurors came to Knockturn Alley for inspection, and they are still here permanently. A group of people, if I help you check, then"

Lily just looked at him indifferently and interrupted him.

"Don't forget who helped you get a foothold here, and don't forget the promise you made at that time. Or do you think some words can no longer count with the passage of time?"

"No, no, no, of course I don't mean that, but you have to consider my safety, right?" Old Tom said quickly.

However, Lily just stared at him.

"If you really want to be safe, you can go to France now. It may be difficult to go abroad in other parts of the UK, but it is not a difficult thing in Knockturn Alley. You have been hiding here, just thinking that the Dark Lord may not really rule all of Europe one day, and you have always fantasized about submitting a certificate for your bloodline, right?"

Tom seemed to have his mind exposed. His expression was very embarrassed and a little scared. He looked at Lily with an almost pleading look.

"I've already come to this, Mrs. Potter, Professor Potter, I lost my pub and my home. The reason why I'm still here and staying in the UK is to get back what originally belonged to me, so proving that I'm a pureblood is the only way to fulfill my wish, not because I want to oppress Muggles or anyone else!"

"When you were kicked out of the Leaky Cauldron, your wand was broken and you were almost starving to death on the street. It was Dumbledore who saved you. You didn't want to mix with us, and it was he who helped you find a place to live in Knockturn Alley. Why didn't you say that you just wanted to get your things back? Why did you promise that you would not refuse anyone from the Order of the Phoenix who needed your help in the future?"

Lily pulled out her wand and pointed it at Old Tom's forehead.

"Now you only have two choices, either you come, or I find a way from your mind, and I find people myself!"

Old Tom was scared.

His pleading and sad face disappeared at this moment. He thought he had figured out the psychology of Dumbledore's people. These people are typical soft-hearted people. As long as he behaves softly, he won't have to take the risk.

But obviously Lily's current performance is completely beyond his expectations!

This "Mrs. Potter" doesn't act like a righteous person at all. Instead, she is more of a Death Eater than the Death Eaters. She turned her face and refused to recognize her after just a few words. Her wand was about to poke Tom's head!

Tom saw that the widow in front of him was not joking. She seemed to be suppressing something in her calm face. It was not strange for her to go crazy at any time!

"Don't get excited! I'll check! I'm checking!"

He trembled and didn't dare to hesitate. He reached out and searched in the broken cabinet behind him and took out a transparent round ball.

The glass ball looked very dirty, with dust all over the surface. Some places seemed to be chipped and covered with black mud.

Lily's wand was still pointed at Old Tom's head, staring at him and stroking the dirty ball, and then the whole ball lit up with a gray light.

"Three, there were three people who used Apparition to Knockturn Alley in those ten minutes."

Before Old Tom finished speaking, a red light flashed on the tip of Lily's wand, and the next moment Old Tom's body softened and he fell to the ground.

The glass ball in his hand also rolled down and rolled under the cabinet.

Jon blinked, and for a moment he couldn't figure out why Lily took action when Old Tom was about to tell the location of these three people, and then he saw Lily waving her wand again, her eyes were on Old Tom's greasy bald head.

"Lyrics."

The silver memory light thread followed Lily's wand as a bridge and appeared in her mind, and all the information that Old Tom had just obtained from the glass ball was obtained by her in a true and accurate way.

"For those who cannot be trusted, be suspicious of everything he says and does."

Lily's words were not sure whether she was teaching Jon or explaining her behavior. While she was speaking, she turned and walked towards the street outside, as if she had determined the location of all the people who came to Knockturn Alley through Apparition during this time period.

Jon glanced at the unconscious old Tom lying on the ground, and then he quickly followed Lily's pace.

After coming out of this old Tom's shop, Lily turned around and cast a spell with the effect of blocking the entrance.

This approach is certainly not simply to protect the safety of the unconscious old Tom, but also to protect their own whereabouts.

Lily didn't say much to Jon. After getting the information about the landing point of the Apparition that appeared in Knockturn Alley during the period when Snape escaped from France, she seemed to have made her own judgment in her heart, and walked quickly with Jon in another direction of the street.

Soon they crossed most of the street and came to a place that was obviously much cleaner and tidier than other places. This place was of course also within the scope of Knockturn Alley, but the wizards who could open a shop here were obviously more capable or had better background than those in other places.

They came to a store with "Hancock" on it, and then pushed the door and walked in.

This store looked like it specialized in selling some banned potions. Jon even saw the price of the love potion clearly marked on a sign hidden in the corner.

The shopkeeper was a tall black man. When Lily brought Jon in, he noticed Lily's extraordinaryness.

"Good morning, this elegant and beautiful lady, what can I do for you?"

He was very polite, which most wizards in Knockturn Alley did not have.

Even though Knockturn Alley had been reorganized and turned into a place for pure-blood families and some wealthy mixed-blood families to sell stolen goods and conduct some dirty transactions, it is possible that not all people served these noble people. The owner of this potion shop had obviously seen the world. Lily's dress and bringing such a young child to such a street that could be called the garbage dump of the magic world were obviously something that only some pure-blood crazy families could do.

"You can call me Mrs. Nott." Lily said in a cold and arrogant voice.

Jon also twisted his neck and pulled the bow tie that Lily had tied for him in front of him. He looked up proudly, pretending to be a little scoundrel from a noble pure-blood family, no, a young master.

"Mom, it's really smelly here, it's dirtying my nose and eyes! When can we go home?"

Seeing that Lily was going to take a detour, Jon also understood and showed a face full of disgust and disdain.

"Shut up! I told you to keep the Nott family's manners!"

She lowered her head and scolded Jon, then blinked her eyes and looked at the black shopkeeper again.

Hearing their conversation, the shop owner relaxed a little. He dealt with these pure-blooded masters all day long, and naturally knew that they had such bad tempers.

"Ah, it turned out to be the wife and young master of the Nott family, you..."

"All petrified!"

The shop owner's attention was always on Lily when he was talking, and he didn't expect that Jon, who looked only six years old, would suddenly take out a wand to cast a spell!

As expected, he stared with his eyes wide open and could no longer control his body that had become stiff.

After doing all this, Jon did not stop and immediately locked the door of the shop, while Lily had already begun to extract the memories of the wizard who had Apparated to the shop from the owner's mind.

Obviously, the action rules that both Jon and Lily follow now are to never talk too much when they can take action, and never cause more trouble to themselves when things can be solved with magic!