Chapter 353: Visiting the UK

The day before the Christmas vacation, the third-year students of Hogwarts and above rushed towards Hogsmeade like sheep out of the sheepfold, and the snow on the ground was trampled in a short time.

After leaving the campus, Charles found Fred and George, who were studying a list of things to buy for Ginny.

"Good morning, Mr. Weasleys." A strange smile appeared on Charles's face, "How were the results of the mock exam?"

next moment……

"Ah! Please don't mention this again!"

"We will definitely work hard next semester!"

Charles looked at these two crazy guys and shook his head helplessly, too lazy to care about them anymore.

Many people felt that they did not do well in this mock test, so many fifth- and seventh-grade students did not dare to go home during the Christmas holidays, including the twins.

Percy stayed because Penello didn't come home. When Ginny saw that her brothers didn't reply, she didn't even return. So Percy asked Charles to book a private room at Dancing Grass Restaurant, and the Weasley family stayed at Ping An The whole family gathered there that night.

Charles has received a lot of orders in the past two days, and he is considering whether to give Hogwarts some rebates.

Fred and George told Charles that they planned to optimize Magic Tetris to the size of an ordinary book this holiday season, and then optimize it into the magic cassette that Charles mentioned.

Charles thought that after making it into a book size, he would try to sell it in Zuko's Joke Shop. Maybe it could be in time for the Quidditch World Cup finals next year, when it could be sold to wizards from all over the world.

However, he also pointed out that while making money, you should not neglect your studies.

Fred and George said they would balance their relationship.

Charles breathed a sigh of relief, and finally diverted their attention away from the bag, so he didn't have to give them his own bag for reference. There was something in the bag that was not suitable for them to see.

The three chatted for a while, and when Hogsmeade arrived, someone suddenly rushed over to the roadside.

"Charles!!!"

A cute little girl dressed like a bear ran over, holding a flowerpot with a transparent cover in her right hand, and a plastic parrot standing on her left shoulder.

Charles lifted Gabrielle and spun her around twice in the air, then put her down.

Fred and George pressed Charles' shoulders on the left and right and asked: "Mr. Smith, won't you introduce us to this beautiful lady?"

Charles introduced: "This is Gabrielle Delacour, the daughter of Professor Delacour."

Fred and George looked at each other. They learned from Hermione that Professor Delacour had a daughter. They also learned that Charles once took Professor Delacour's daughter out to play and stayed up all night. The two looked at each other again. A glance at Gabrielle.

"What are you going to do!"

Fred and George ignored Charles's shouts, holding his arms on the left and right and dragging him towards the train station, where Aurors were on duty.

Gabrielle tilted her head and watched curiously as the two red-haired elder brothers were dragging Charles away, thinking it was some British custom.

Charles finally solved the misunderstanding, gave each of the twins a kick, and then took Gabrielle to play in the village.

Gabrielle saw Charles looking around and asked him, "Are you looking for your sister?"

Charles replied: "Yeah, I'm going to take you to buy a lot of candies. She will be very angry if she sees it."

"Really?" Gabrielle shook Charles's hand, "Then go quickly, Beauxbatons won't have a holiday until tomorrow, and my sister won't come until she has a holiday."

Charles thought to himself that it was like this. Gabrielle and his Beauxbatons affiliated primary school had an earlier holiday, so they came over yesterday afternoon.

Honeydukes was full of students today, especially those who helped Charles work in the greenhouse. Everyone had extra change and naturally wanted to increase consumption.

Ambrosio Froome's hand cramped when he was collecting money. When he saw Charles dragging a cute little girl through the door, he took some time to go over and say hello: "Good morning, Charles, is this beautiful lady your sister?" Choose what you want.”

The translation parrot on Gabrielle's shoulder translated Froome's words and said to him: "Hello, sir, I am not Charles's sister, I am his friend."

Now the Ministry of Magic has installed an alarm bell in every shop in Hogsmeade. If Black is found, the Aurors can be notified immediately. Frum's eyes were looking over there.

Charles said hurriedly: "She is the daughter of Professor Delacour."

Frum understood that after Henry Delacour came to work at Hogwarts, he often mentioned his family while drinking with the shopkeepers at the Three Broomsticks.

Charles said to Gabrielle: "You can choose what you want to eat."

"Okay!" Gabrielle cheered and began to rattle off her names, "I want candle candies, bee candies, butterfly candies, volcano cake, strawberry-flavored chocolate frogs..."

Every time she said something, Charles took something off the shelf. After a while, a small mountain was piled up on the counter, and Mrs. Froom, who was doing the accounting behind, couldn't even see it.

Harry said to Hermione from the side: "Charles has never bought you so many snacks."

Hermione pouted and replied, "He doesn't give me snacks."

Ron sighed: "It's great to have money."

After paying, Charles put all the candies and snacks into the bag, greeted Harry and the others, and then headed to Zuko's Joke Shop.

He told Gabrielle at Zuko's Joke Shop: "Just buy whatever toys you want."

Gabrielle asked him in a low voice: "Isn't it a waste of your money?"

Charles replied: "It's okay, this little money is nothing to me."

"Well..." Gabrielle thought for a while, "Then I'll buy one."

Bilmes immediately took out a yellow oriole standing on a branch to promote: "Miss Delacour, this is the singing bird you wanted just now."

Gabrielle's eyes lit up, but she said embarrassedly: "This... Mom said it's too expensive."

Charles understood that Lady Delacour had brought Gabrielle here once before, but he didn't know whether Bilmes was overcharging foreigners or Lady Delacour really didn't want to buy it because it was too expensive.

Since it was Gabrielle who wanted it, Charles immediately took out two Galleons and put them on the counter, winked at Bilmes, and said: "Sell it to me at a lower price."

Bilmes immediately understood, and after receiving the gold coins, he said: "Okay, I'll sell it to you."

Gabrielle jumped up with joy, put the flower pot with dancing grass on the counter, opened the cover and put the magic oriole in it.

When the oriole began to sing, the dancing grass shivered and swayed. It was cold, so Gabrielle immediately covered the cover, and the dancing grass returned to normal.

Charles chatted with Bilmes for a few words. The work period of the things ordered before was fine. They agreed to meet tomorrow and left.

Gabrielle held the flower pot and pulled Charles and said, "Come on, I'll take you to a place."

Charles was puzzled. What else attracted her here?

"Boss with big beard, two glasses of juice like last night."

Gabrielle pulled Charles to the Pig's Head Bar, and after ordering drinks, she said to him, "I'll buy you a drink."

Charles asked with a black line, "Who brought you here?"

The Pig's Head Bar is not a good place. It is a mixed place. It is not a good thing for a little girl to come here.

Gabrielle replied, "My grandmother brought me here last night. She asked the boss with big beard about a wizard many years ago."

Charles was speechless. Lady Angelina did not miss the opportunity to inquire about the old man's news.

Aberforth brought two glasses of mixed juice and placed a small plate of gingerbread in front of Gabrielle.

Charles looked at him and asked with his eyes, where is his share?

Aberforth pretended not to see it, took a few coins handed over by Gabrielle and turned away.

Charles didn't know Aberforth could make juice yet, so he took a sip. It tasted like apple, orange and blueberry. Gabrielle liked it and he thought it was okay.

Charles and Gabrielle chatted for a while. When they talked about Fleur, Gabrielle said, "My sister wrote to say that their sixth-grade students are now studying hard and have to finish the seventh-grade courses this school year."

Charles wondered if Dumbledore had decided on the Triwizard Tournament in advance, and the same was true for Durmstrang. Erica wrote a few days ago saying that she had recently started to select top students for remedial classes.

Hogwarts also saw some signs, but the focus is currently on next year's Potions Championship, and the selection of materials can be interspersed in it.

Charles was too lazy to care about this matter. He could just write "Peeves" on a piece of paper and throw it into the Goblet of Fire.

After they finished their juice, they walked around again. Charles bought Gabrielle a beautiful white swan quill pen at the quill pen shop in Wenrenju, and bought a picture book at the big book and scroll bookstore, and then walked to the Dancing Grass Restaurant.

Unexpectedly, when Gabrielle was about to walk to the restaurant, she pointed to the building next door with pink windows and doors and said, "Shall we go there?"

Charles broke out in a cold sweat. That was Mrs. Puddifoot's Tea House, where couples dated.

He hurriedly said to Gabrielle, "No, um... you are still young, you can't go there yet."

"Is that so?" Gabrielle said, "Then let's go there when I grow up, okay?"

Charles thought to himself, what does a seven-year-old girl know? How can she remember it after N years? He said perfunctorily, "Let's talk about it then. Let's go to lunch now."