Hogwarts: Wizards of Eternity.

Chapter 109 The First Stop is Knockturn Alley
According to the rules, students cannot perform magic during the summer vacation.

But there are actually some vague boundaries between regulations.

Just like whether it is looking for a prostitute or keeping a sweet girl, although there are differences in the wording, the essence is the transaction of sexual resources, but the sentencing is different.

The same is true in the wizarding world. Instead of explaining the details of the International Statute of Secrecy to students, they choose a one-size-fits-all approach of not allowing the use of magic during holidays.

In addition to being a student, Roger is also the director of the Virtual Reality Industry Office. Compared to the regulations issued by the Ministry of Magic to Hogwarts, he is actually more applicable to the real international confidentiality law.

That is, you cannot cast spells in front of Muggles who don't know about magic, and you cannot reveal the existence of magic.

As one of Harry's guardians, Vernon is obviously not covered by the International Statute of Secrecy.

Roger had been busy with time magic in recent days, and Vernon was the first Muggle he had come into face-to-face contact with after his research on the Time Plague.

"That should be fine." Roger raised his wand and did something to himself.

Vernon's condition then returned to normal.

Afterwards, Roger discussed with Vernon about taking Harry on a trip.

Of course Vernon was willing, so that he wouldn't have to see Harry for a long time.

but……

"I disagree." Harry's Aunt Petunia said expressionlessly.

The movement of several people at the door attracted the attention of the whole family. Dudley huddled behind the door and stuck half of his head out to observe, while Petunia walked to her husband Vernon and rejected Roger.

Looking at the family in front of him, Roger understood why it was like this.

Harry's family environment is actually a bit complicated.

Harry's grandparents had two children, his mother Lily and his aunt Petunia. In Petunia's childhood memory, her parents always favored Lily, who was a magician, and ignored her.

What is worrying is not the lack of wealth but the inequality. The jealousy of this favoritism made her very dissatisfied with Lily.

She once thought that if she had magic, she would be loved, but her letter to Dumbledore was rejected, and various things happened afterwards, which made her admiration for magic turn into disgust.

It was this lack of love that made Petunia yearn for love when she grew up, until she met a man who loved her wholeheartedly, Vernon Dursley.

And just as her body and mind were slowly being healed by her new family, Lily died.

Penny doesn't like Lily, but Lily is her relative after all. The death of her loved one turned Penny's disgust for magic into fear, and she began to think that magic is a terrible thing.

She couldn't like Harry, but after all, he was her blood and her family member, so Petunia decided to raise him.

As for Vernon, his situation can be summed up in one sentence: he loves Petunia, Petunia doesn't like Harry, so he also hates Harry Potter.

Vernon would respect the opinion of his beloved wife 100%, so Roger just had to convince Petunia.

this is very simple.

"You don't need to worry about our safety. We have the ability to protect ourselves." As he spoke, Roger transmitted some memories.

Petunia's dislike for Harry is only on an emotional level, stemming from the continuation of past experiences, but it does not reach the point where she hopes Harry will be in danger.

Otherwise she would not have tried to stop Harry from coming into contact with magic, which she considered very dangerous.

Just like parents will get angry and beat and scold their unpromising children, but they don’t really want their children to be missing limbs.

"This, is this magic?!" After receiving a trace of Roger's memory, Penny widened her eyes, her pupils full of horror.

Having grown up with Lily, she didn't know much about magic, but she was not completely ignorant. She knew Snape and had been hurt by Snape's spellcasting mistakes.

Roger's magic had nothing to do with the magic she had in mind.

Can something that makes the sun's radiance and heat bloom on the ocean be called magic?
"My magic is like this." With a slight wave of the wand, a little light appeared, just like what Penny saw in her 'memory'.

The fusion force the size of a sesame seed was confined to the front end of the wand. Under Roger's protection, no one and no object was injured, but the air that was distorted to the extreme under the heat told everyone that this was not an illusion.

Just like Petunia's complicated feelings towards Harry, Harry's feelings towards the Dursleys are also complicated. He doesn't like this place, but this place protects him and has his only blood relatives here.

Harry learned a lot from Snape and knew what adopting him meant to his Muggle aunt, who was only in her twenties at the time.

Harry would sometimes write letters back from Hogwarts, and Petunia had read those letters. He said that he had met an extraordinary friend at Hogwarts, but Petunia had not expected that the friend to be so extraordinary would be of this level.

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Harry dragged his suitcase and looked back at Number 4 Privet Drive, where he had lived for ten years. The Dursleys were standing at the door.

Uncle Vernon's lips were curled up, expressionless.

Cousin Dudley looked at her with more fear than before, and Aunt Petunia opened her mouth to say something, but in the end no words came out.

"Harry?" Roger's voice came from another direction.

"Sorry to have kept you waiting." Harry took another step and followed Roger's direction.

Roger glanced at Harry and noticed the emotional fluctuations in his heart: "Why are you so sentimental? It's not like you won't be coming back."

"It's not that I'm sentimental, I just feel like something has changed." Harry shook his head.

"When you are different from your past self, the relationship between you and the outside world will naturally change. There will be many more such things in the future." Roger didn't think there was anything to worry about.

It has been almost two years since he traveled through time, and Roger has experienced too many things like this.

"When you grow up and have the power to change the fate of many people, you will find that the way the world works in your eyes is different from what it is now." Roger said casually.

"...Where are we going next?" Harry didn't really want to talk in depth about this topic.

"Go to Knockturn Alley." Harry tried to change the subject, but Roger followed suit with understanding.

Harry frowned. "Isn't that where dark wizards gather?"

Just as Roger received all the teachings from Professor McGonagall, Professor Snape also gave Harry everything he had.

While Harry has gained Snape's favor, he is also Snape's only hope to save Lily. Naturally, Snape will try his best to make Harry stronger.

Not only about magical skills, but also about all aspects of the secrets of the wizarding world, Snape began to tell Harry everything step by step.

"To be precise, Knockturn Alley is the largest underground trading place in the British wizarding world," Roger explained.

"Everything that is not allowed to be traded by the Ministry of Magic is sold there... Of course, there won't be anything too outrageous."

The reason why Knockturn Alley can exist is that a considerable number of wizards in the UK have related needs, so several pure-blood families and powerful wizards stand behind it and support the existence of this place.

They have some tacit understanding with the Ministry of Magic. Although many transactions within Knockturn Alley are not in compliance with regulations, they will not produce such things as "live Muggle human experiment materials" that would anger God and man.

Even if they are dark magic items, they are usually relics from ancient times, mainly made from corpse materials from cemeteries and organs of high-risk magical creatures.

The International Statute of Secrecy is a consensus among most wizards. Violating the Statute of Secrecy and committing the crime of illegal transactions are two different levels of enforcement.

"It's like prohibition. Although alcohol has many bad aspects, as long as the demand exists, the more you prohibit it, the worse things will get. It's better to centrally manage it and not give it a legal name so that it can be violently cleaned up at any time. This is the so-called Knockturn Alley," Roger continued.

It's not just Dark wizards who go to Knockturn Alley. Hagrid sometimes goes there to buy insect repellent poisons and dangerous magical creatures that are banned by the Ministry of Magic.

"So why are we going there?" Harry asked after his impression of Knockturn Alley changed a little.

Having suffered a loss at the hands of dark magic once, Snape naturally didn't want Harry to fall into the same trap as himself. He had told Harry about Knockturn Alley but didn't want Harry to go there, so Snape simply labeled that chaotic place as being full of dark wizards.

"We want to travel, so we need to make some money."

Although he had to Apparate all the way, eat the food he made by recombining matter himself, and live in a tent with a space-extension spell cast on it, he basically didn't spend any money.

But that would defeat the purpose of traveling.

The reason why Roger wanted to travel was to measure thousands of mountains and rivers with his own feet, to see the world, to read thousands of books and to travel thousands of miles. Isn't it putting the cart before the horse to use magic to clear the way?

"Normally, wizard currency and Muggle currency are not circulated or exchanged. The exchange at Gringotts is purely a welfare policy of the Ministry of Magic for young Muggle-born wizards."

Because people believe that the sun, moon and stars are special, they have special magical mystery. The same is true for other objects, such as gold.

But since the collapse of the Bretton Woods system in 1971, when the Muggle currency system broke away from the gold standard and became a pure credit currency, the wizards, who were already not interested in Muggle currency, have become even more disgusted with it.

Officially peg this randomly printed, inflated thing to wizard currency? Come on.

But Muggle currency is not completely meaningless.

Wizards are also human beings and need to eat and drink. In fact, the prices in the wizarding world have always been higher than those in the Muggle world... There are too few wizards and the labor costs are very high.

A cup of hot cocoa on the Wizard Knight bus costs two silver Sickles, which is about 9 yuan in RMB, while repairing a flying broom costs about 500 yuan.

And this was the price around 1992. In 1992, the price of commercial housing in the capital of the ancient oriental country was only 3000.

So some people who like to save money will exchange wizard currency for Muggle currency in the underground market, and then use Muggle currency to buy cheap Muggle industrial-grown food.

Not all wizards are wealthy and have inherited their father's family wealth like Harry.

Many wizards live frugally.

"Okay, we're here."

Roger explained the twists and turns to Harry along the way, and the others soon arrived outside Knockturn Alley.

"This place is really spooky." Harry muttered as the two of them walked in together.

(End of this chapter)