Hogwarts and the Atypical Wizard

Chapter 434 From Diagon Alley to Knockturn Alley

Through the glass of the window, Sainz looked at the sparse crowd outside, and suddenly his eyes focused, "How is things at home?"

"What?" Alia asked in a daze, then suddenly realized, "What did you say last time?"

"almost."

Sainz didn't say it directly, but his eyes followed a figure away. Alia understood what he meant and confirmed with him in surprise, "Did you see it?

How did you recognize them... By the way, you fought them face to face."

He did not tell Arya about the battle with the Death Eaters. He must have learned it from the twins. As for where the twins knew it, there were too many channels, such as Harry, Ron, and even the Order of the Phoenix.

Although Arya had misunderstood a little, it was not wrong. What Sainz saw just now were not Death Eaters, but dark wizards. They used to only appear in Knockturn Alley, but now they began to appear in Diagon Alley.

Alia said with some difficulty, "My parents didn't quite understand the harm that person could do. At first, they were reluctant to leave. Besides, my brother was still in school, and they didn't want to delay his studies."

"So you finally convinced them."

"Yes," Alia said with a little pride, "Then I changed my mind and told them that there is a group of murderers in the magic world who are planning to kill indiscriminately, and people like us will happen to be their first targets.

They immediately became concerned for my safety and urged me to go with them.”

"These are parents," Sainz said with emotion. "They may not care about their own safety, but they will definitely worry about the safety of their children."

"My brother will be ten soon. I don't know if he will receive a letter of admission to Hogwarts in the future." Alia said worriedly, "He envies me for having an owl."

“Who knows? Everyone is different.”

Although Sainz said words of comfort, he felt in his heart that the possibility of Alia's brother becoming a wizard was very small. Most little wizards' magic power erupted between the ages of seven and ten, and those who awakened before entering school were extremely rare.

A very special case is Neville Longbottom, who was unable to exert magical power, so much so that his family almost thought he was a Squib until he was thrown from a high place.

Alia said carefully, "Do you think we should let them go now, or?"

"Now that we've made the decision," Sainz continued to look out the window, searching for possible figures. Alia also followed his gaze and tried her best to look outside, as if she also knew those people. "It's better to do it sooner rather than later."

Alia looked around at the colorful lights with regret. "Here, things are just starting to pick up, and people are already liking them..."

"We don't need to close the store. We can just use the method we agreed on before, and let customers leave their needs and use mail order."

"Postage is another huge expense, and we don't make much to begin with!"

Sainz thought to himself, "You don't know how easy it is to make Sai-san." But he said without blushing, "Small profits but quick turnover. Our aim is to serve the public. It's OK as long as we make money and don't lose money!"

Alia finally decided to hold out. "I don't think it's that bad yet. Let's reduce the opening hours as I said before. If it doesn't work, we can try mail order."

"That's fine too." Alia is an independent individual. She only provides suggestions and won't force others to act according to her own ideas. "I believe you will not joke about your own life. If things go wrong, just retreat immediately."

"You don't have to tell me, I'm not stupid!"

Having said what needed to be said, Sainz left the shop and walked onto the streets of Diagon Alley. From the beginning to the end of the alley, there were many dark wizards, but the number of patrolling Aurors was less than during the summer vacation.

Dark wizards do not indicate their identities on their faces before committing crimes. Sai had been to Knockturn Alley before and knew some of them. Others were probably new.

Now that these people have begun to spread to Diagon Alley, it shows that the Ministry of Magic's control is gradually declining.

"Hey, Padgetson, how's it going?"

"Hi, Sainz!" The manager of Flourish and Blotts Bookstore greeted Sainz enthusiastically, "That's amazing, Professor Autumn! I still clearly remember the first time you came to buy books!"

Padgetson enthusiastically took Sainz and introduced him to the customer next to him, "This is Mr. Sainz Autumn, the professor of Care of Magical Creatures at Hogwarts!

I have personally witnessed him grow from a freshman to such an amazing figure, and the thing he did most was reading!"

The customer was probably a parent of a student. Seeing that Sainz was a professor at such a young age, he thought that Padgettsson’s deception made sense. He was about to pay the bill, but turned back and picked up a huge stack of bills.

"Good fellow!" Sainz said in mock anger, "How dare you lie to me?"

Padgetson disagreed with this statement and said cunningly: "Are you sure I said something that was false? I didn't say that all the books you read came from the bookshelf here!"

Hey! Don't say it, don't say it!

"Forget it, I won't bother you with your business anymore. I have something else to do, so I won't talk nonsense with you anymore!"

"I understand. I've also been in the castle for seven years," Padgetson said without trying to persuade him to stay. "I know every professor is very busy."

After saying goodbye to Padgetson, Sainz went to Knockturn Alley in stealth and took a walk around. Compared with the gradually depressed Diagon Alley, Knockturn Alley was prospering.

He found that there were many Aurors guarding in the dark at the intersection of the two alleys, but they were all lurking on the Diagon Alley side, and none of them entered Knockturn Alley.

This is probably the attitude of the Ministry of Magic?

As long as you don't come out to cause trouble, I'll let you fight with your pig brains in there?

Tom and Jerry have many picture frames in Knockturn Alley. Sainz had received reports about the situation here from them before, but relaying it is never as clear as experiencing it in person.

After walking around inside, Sainz felt that the time for the dark wizard to come out would not be far away. There were too many people crowded in this small alley.

Humans are also animals and have some animal characteristics. When too many people are crowded together, friction is bound to occur sooner or later.

Since they are dark wizards, they certainly don't care much about public order and morality. Once these people are detonated, a small Knockturn Alley probably won't be able to restrain them.

The Ministry of Magic probably has similar concerns as well, and may be trying not to provoke them as much as possible, which can be seen from the attitude of the Aurors.

Sainz did not judge this. After all, the Ministry of Magic was not a real government and could not have an army like a real national organization.

Compared with the dark wizards, the Ministry of Magic does not have an absolute advantage in military force. Wizards are not Muggles, and any one of them possesses powerful military force.

In this situation, the Ministry of Magic probably has no choice but to adopt some appeasement strategy.