Harry Potter: I started signing in from Diagon Alley

Further up, curses and curses belong to the more harmful black magic.

Of course, in real life, the division of spells is generally not so clear-cut.

It's not uncommon for a single enchantment to fall into both categories.

The last thing Eric paid attention to was his skills column.

In the skill of Muggle research, he directly obtained the ultimate rating.

Maybe it's because of his two lives, when it comes to the understanding of Muggles, in the wizarding world, it is really impossible for anyone to be better than him.

As for the elementary history of magic, it is probably because Eric is familiar with the plot.

He still knows a thing or two about some famous historical events in the wizarding world, at least much better than Harry Potter who doesn't know anything about magic.

……

Seeing Eric standing still, Old Tom felt a little thumping in his heart, and asked, "What's the matter, Mr. Clapton?"

Eric quickly reacted, put away the personal panel, and said, "It's okay, let's go shopping."

After speaking, Eric took out his admission notice and walked towards the nearest shop.

Along with the admission letter, there is also a list of items that every student will receive.

On this list, the items that need to be prepared at the time of enrollment are listed in great detail.

Including wands, school gowns, textbooks, etc., all of which need to be purchased by yourself.

While walking and watching, Eric found that Diagon Alley was a bit different from the scenes he saw in the Harry Potter movies.

To be precise, the scope of Diagon Alley in reality seems to be much larger, with no end in sight.

Eric remembered that in the original book, Diagon Alley was just a small commercial street.

In the original book, there are not many wizards in the whole of England. Correspondingly, as the only commercial street in the country, Diagon Alley is naturally not big.

But it doesn't look like that now.

As far as Eric sees now, Diagon Alley is far more than the size of a street.

Together with several surrounding streets, a community like a commercial center is formed here, full of people.

Eric asked curiously, "How many wizards are there in London?"

Old Tom was taken aback, obviously he was not prepared for Eric to ask such a question.

After thinking for a while, he replied: "No one knows the exact number, not even the Ministry of Magic, but as far as I know, Hogwarts accepts at least 150 students every year."

This number is clear to old Tom, because every year, almost all the freshmen go to Diagon Alley to buy items through his Leaky Cauldron.

Even if the parents are wizards, it is inevitable to take the children to the Leaky Cauldron to find their way afterward.

The Leaky Cauldron is not only a base for foreign exchanges, but also the location of the Floo network in Diagon Alley. Every wizard who travels to Diagon Alley through the Floo network will land at the Leaky Cauldron.

Eric nodded. Sure enough, in the real world, the number of wizards was different from the number he knew.

Hogwarts is a seven-year school that accepts about 150 students a year, so Hogwarts has more than 1000 students.

Eric combined the population ratio of middle school students in society, and taking into account the birth rate of wizards, a rough calculation shows that there are about 5 to 7 wizards in the entire UK.

No wonder the scale of Diagon Alley is much bigger than he imagined.

With Old Tom around, Eric doesn't need to worry about all kinds of trivial matters, and Old Tom is responsible for paying the money, anyway, he will keep the account in the end.

Old Tom took Eric, and bought the cauldron, dragon leather gloves, and school robes one by one according to the contents of the list.

Eric followed Old Tom to Flourish and Blotts Bookstore, the most popular bookstore in Diagon Alley, where Eric had to buy all his textbooks.

You can see from the outside window that the shelves of the bookstore are full of books. Walking in the bookstore is like being surrounded by books.

But it was not a coincidence that they came here at this time, because the bookstore was in chaos at this time.

The owner of the bookstore and a few employees were standing at the door, holding a feather duster or other stick-shaped objects in their hands, waving them around.

The targets they attacked turned out to be some books that could move by themselves.

In front of them, there were many books covered with hair flying in the air. Unlike ordinary books, these books actually had two rows of sharp teeth on them.

At this time, they were biting each other, some biting each other, and some violently attacking the covers and covers of other books.

For a while, scraps of paper flew around, scattered, and the door of Lihen Bookstore seemed to be snowing.

These books flew around and were so persistent in biting that they couldn't stop even if the boss and the clerk kept hitting them with sticks.

Old Tom took Eric to see this lively scene from a distance, and he approached and asked, "Merkel! What's going on?"

The bookstore owner Merkel responded angrily: "Don't mention it! It's all because of these textbooks requested by some idiot professor. They are destroying all other books in my store."

As he spoke, another book was torn in two.

There was a sound of "tearing", and Merkel's face was ashen when he heard this sound, and his heart seemed to be bleeding.

Chapter 4 Just need to gently stroke its back...

This scene looked very familiar to Eric, of course he knew what was going on.

It was 1993, and if he remembered correctly, this year's Hogwarts Professor of Protection of Magical Creatures was Hagrid, and these bite books were the textbooks that Hagrid ordered.

In an objective evaluation, Hagrid is rather careless, and this is also reflected in his teaching style.

As a professor, he asked to order the books because he thought it would be "interesting."

No consideration was given to the user experience of the students.

Except for Eric and Old Tom, the front of Lihen Bookstore was crowded with people, almost all of them were wizards and students who came to the bookstore to buy books.

The bookstore was in chaos at this time, and the wizards passing by formed a semicircle, and came to watch this rare scene in several years.

"Is this "The Monster Book of Monsters"?" Eric stepped forward and asked casually.

Hearing his words, Merkel hurriedly drove away the books that attacked each other, and said angrily: "That's right! That's the name!"

Snapped!

Without turning her head, Merkel waved the wooden stick in her hand vigorously, and broke up the two monster books that were biting each other. One of the books was firmly biting the pages of the other party, and was hit by the wooden stick. Separated, with a forceful pull, the other book was torn in half, the latter was torn apart, the pages were scattered on the ground, and it lost its movement.

"Oh no! Another copy destroyed!"

Seeing this, Merkel covered her head in despair.

The purchase price of these books is not cheap.

Before today, he didn't know such a thing would happen.

It hasn't even started selling yet, these monster books have digested a lot of each other internally.

He runs a bookstore, not charity.

If these monster books were allowed to go on like this, he would have to lose the profits of the past month.

A clerk took out his wand and tried to use magic to quiet the books, but he didn't expect that just as he raised his wand, a monster book jumped out from the side and bit him hard. He screamed, and the wand I don't know where I flew to.

Amidst the loud and angry shouts, Lihen Bookstore seemed even more chaotic at this time.

Eric looked amused, this is a book with magical powers, even in the magic world, compared with other books, "The Monster Book of Monsters" is too out of the ordinary.

To deal with this kind of books, there is no special magic that can quiet them down. The only way is as Hagrid demonstrated in the original book, gently stroking their backs can temporarily quiet them down for a while.

[Ding, limited time mission released. 】

[Within 15 minutes, personally help the owner of Lihen Bookstore to resolve the confusion caused by "The Monster Book of Monsters". 】

[Task reward: Freely choose a magic spell and raise its proficiency to intermediate level. 】

The sound of the system suddenly sounded in Eric's mind.

Oh?

A mission actually appeared at this time.

Even though the system didn't make a request, Eric was ready to step forward to help the bookstore owner solve this trouble.

After all, he didn't forget his purpose. He didn't come here to read the human book war, but to prepare the textbooks needed for the start of school.

But now the system has released this task, which coincides with Eric's idea.

That is to say, if you solve the textbook problems, you can also get rewards from the system.

"This...Mr. Clapton, why don't we go to Ollivander to buy a wand first? It seems that this place won't be resolved for a while." Old Tom looked at Eric and said.

Eric shook his head and said, "No, don't worry, I think I can make them quiet."

After saying that, Eric ignored Old Tom and walked out of the crowd of onlookers and walked to the pages scattered on the floor.

The clerks and the boss were too busy to take care of themselves. Except for Old Tom and a few wizards around him, no one noticed Eric's actions.

"What?" In a trance, Old Tom thought he had heard wrong, and looked at Eric in astonishment.

By the time he reacted, Eric had passed him, and Old Tom hurriedly reached out to stop Eric, but it was too late.

Old Tom watched helplessly as Eric walked into the middle of the crazy ghost books. A monster book sensed Eric's presence, opened its mouth wide, and bit Eric in the face.

This monster book is full of scars, and the cover is missing a corner. Its jagged teeth gleamed coldly in the sun, and there were still some scraps of parchment on it. It was obviously the winner of this melee. one……

And now, it's heading straight for Eric.

Old Tom was in a hurry, and shouted, "Come back! Eric!"

Although he was taken aback by Eric's substantive magic in the tavern just now, Old Tom quickly figured out Eric's basic situation after talking for a long time.

Eric didn't have his own wand yet, and he didn't know any magic at all. In other words, he was indeed a new student.

Old Tom couldn't understand where Eric got the confidence to push him to walk to these unruly books.

Didn't he see that several adult wizards couldn't do anything about it?

Who gave him the courage?Weird sisters?

At the moment when the monster book hit Eric, Old Tom seemed to have seen the scene where he had to accompany Eric to St. Mungo's Hospital for medical treatment a few hours later.

Arrogant brat!Old Tom couldn't help thinking angrily.

But the next second, what happened made him unwilling to believe his eyes.

Facing the ferocious flying book, Eric did not panic, turned sideways, and when he was about to be bitten, barely dodged the attack of the monster book. Just a few centimeters away in front of him, the monster book slammed Close the big mouth, the upper and lower gums collide with each other, making a metal-like knocking sound.