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Chapter 148 First Visit to the Ministry of Magic
Chapter 148 First Visit to the Ministry of Magic
Early the next morning,
Alice simply packed up a few clothes, and left Green Town with Charlie.
In Ron's letter, Alice only needs to go to a specific location in London, and Ron's father Arthur will pick her up at that time, which is much more convenient than her going directly.
After all, the location of Ron's house is near the village of Ottery St. Catchpole in Devon, which is a very remote place, and it is very far from the small town of Green, Surrey, where Alice is located.
Besides, it is now 1992, and the traffic is not so convenient. Even with the old driver Roman, it is quite difficult to drive directly from the orphanage to Ron's house.
Of course, if your car can fly, that's another story.
Knowing that Alice was going to play at a classmate's house for a few days, Roman specifically postponed the affairs that the police station had to deal with today, and then spared time to send Alice to London.
In fact, as the police chief of Surrey County, Roman doesn't really have too many things to deal with.
This era is relatively peaceful, and the incidents of bank robbery and child kidnapping like last time are only a few exceptions.
As for the usual small cases, the following people will naturally handle them.
About two hours later, Roman parked his car beside a street in central London,
"Hi, Alice, Charlie!"
"Hi, Hermione!"
"Meow!"
As soon as Alice and Charlie got out of the car, they saw Hermione standing on the side of the road, laughing loudly and waving to them. Standing next to her were her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Granger,
It turned out that Hermione's family lived in the suburbs of London. Compared to Surrey, where Alice lived, it was much more convenient for Hermione's family to come to London.
"Has Mr. Arthur not come yet?"
Ignoring Roman who was chatting with the Grangers, Alice looked around,
"No, the time agreed in the letter is ten o'clock, so it should be almost here!"
Hermione glanced at the Muggle watch in her hand, it was just past ten and five minutes.
And just as Hermione finished speaking, the door of a dilapidated red telephone booth next to the street was suddenly opened, and a middle-aged man wearing a long robe with a face similar to Ron's came out.
It was Arthur Weasley who had met once when he said goodbye to Ron and the others at King's Cross Station.
"I'm sorry, I'm really sorry, some unexpected situations happened in the ministry just now, so I wasted a little time!"
As soon as Arthur came out of the phone booth, he quickly apologized to everyone.
"No, it's okay!"
Seeing Arthur suddenly walk out of the empty phone booth was also very unexpected to everyone.
After chatting briefly with Arthur and expressing their thanks, Roman and Granger waved to Alice and Hermione, returned to their cars, and left reluctantly.
Arthur, on the other hand, took Alice and Hermione who were holding Charlie, helped them carry their suitcases, and walked into the phone booth again.
"To be honest, it's actually the first time I've walked through the visitor's entrance. I usually use Apparition to enter and leave the Ministry of Magic, but obviously you don't know it yet,
So when we enter the Ministry of Magic in a while, we will borrow some fireplaces from the Ministry of Magic that are connected to the Floo network, so that we can send you there directly! "
……
As Arthur closed the door, he began to dial the dial on the telephone booth:
"I remember it should be 62442"
The Burrow is far away from the city of London. It is obviously a very unwise choice to commute to get off work on a broomstick, because by the time you fly to London, you may have already been blown away.
The use of Floo powder also requires a certain cost. The Weasley family is a bit poor. In order to save money and not be late for work,
Arthur usually uses Apparation directly to and from get off work, which saves time and money except that it consumes more magic power.
However, it can also be seen from this that Arthur's magic level is relatively top-notch in the entire wizarding world, otherwise, at such a long distance, ordinary wizards really wouldn't be able to Apparate.
Of course, it is still far behind Dumbledore, who can apparate directly from Hogwarts to the Ministry of Magic, and can easily lead people to apparate.
"The Ministry of Magic?"
Charlie was still thinking about how to get to the Burrow when Ron asked Alice and Hermione to gather in London. It turned out that he asked Arthur to borrow the fireplace from the Ministry of Magic for space.
To be honest, although Charlie has learned a lot of spells now, he still doesn't really understand many strange things in the wizarding world.
For things like floo powder, floo nets, fireplaces, and door keys, he still doesn't know how they work, how they are made, and so on.
Maybe it's because he hasn't been in contact with magic for long enough. After all, he has only studied magic for a year. Although he has read a lot of magic books,
But those are basically about transfiguration and some magic books related to combat, and he rarely touches magic books that have nothing to do with improving combat effectiveness.
He is like a top pilot who knows all the performances of combat, driving a fighter jet can kill all directions in the air,
But if you ask him to make a fighter jet, he'll be sitting on wax.
From this point, it can also be seen that the water in the wizarding world is still very deep. In addition to the spells learned in school, there are actually a lot of knowledge to learn in various aspects.
Now that Charlie, who has read so many magic books, has also discovered,
I don't know if it's because wizards are naturally overconfident in themselves, or because of something else. Most of the direction of research and invention of spells in the wizarding world is not based on combat or destructive power.
Instead, it focuses on life, in all kinds of weird directions.
If you pay attention, the spells of the wizarding world have actually involved the power of space and time. This is a very high-end power system, but the application of these power systems is basically in life.
For example: space tents, space boxes, Floo powder, time converters and the magical "knight bus" that can widen and narrow and slow down the flow of time.
After Arthur dialed the phone and briefly explained the situation to a witch on the other end, the red telephone box suddenly began to tremble.
Then Charlie saw that the entire phone booth began to sink slowly, as if it had passed through the barrier of space, gradually moved away from the ground, and fell into darkness.
This feeling is somewhat similar to passing through the wall of Nine and Three-quarters Station.
At this moment, Charlie clearly felt Alice's arms holding him tightly. Obviously, the sudden darkness made Alice feel a little nervous.
However, the darkness was not too long. In less than a minute, a thin golden light shone into the telephone booth, and then the golden light gradually widened, and the entire telephone booth became brighter in an instant.
"Welcome to the Ministry of Magic and have a nice day!"
When the phone booth stopped steadily, a loud and clear female voice rang in Charlie's ear.
(End of this chapter)
Early the next morning,
Alice simply packed up a few clothes, and left Green Town with Charlie.
In Ron's letter, Alice only needs to go to a specific location in London, and Ron's father Arthur will pick her up at that time, which is much more convenient than her going directly.
After all, the location of Ron's house is near the village of Ottery St. Catchpole in Devon, which is a very remote place, and it is very far from the small town of Green, Surrey, where Alice is located.
Besides, it is now 1992, and the traffic is not so convenient. Even with the old driver Roman, it is quite difficult to drive directly from the orphanage to Ron's house.
Of course, if your car can fly, that's another story.
Knowing that Alice was going to play at a classmate's house for a few days, Roman specifically postponed the affairs that the police station had to deal with today, and then spared time to send Alice to London.
In fact, as the police chief of Surrey County, Roman doesn't really have too many things to deal with.
This era is relatively peaceful, and the incidents of bank robbery and child kidnapping like last time are only a few exceptions.
As for the usual small cases, the following people will naturally handle them.
About two hours later, Roman parked his car beside a street in central London,
"Hi, Alice, Charlie!"
"Hi, Hermione!"
"Meow!"
As soon as Alice and Charlie got out of the car, they saw Hermione standing on the side of the road, laughing loudly and waving to them. Standing next to her were her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Granger,
It turned out that Hermione's family lived in the suburbs of London. Compared to Surrey, where Alice lived, it was much more convenient for Hermione's family to come to London.
"Has Mr. Arthur not come yet?"
Ignoring Roman who was chatting with the Grangers, Alice looked around,
"No, the time agreed in the letter is ten o'clock, so it should be almost here!"
Hermione glanced at the Muggle watch in her hand, it was just past ten and five minutes.
And just as Hermione finished speaking, the door of a dilapidated red telephone booth next to the street was suddenly opened, and a middle-aged man wearing a long robe with a face similar to Ron's came out.
It was Arthur Weasley who had met once when he said goodbye to Ron and the others at King's Cross Station.
"I'm sorry, I'm really sorry, some unexpected situations happened in the ministry just now, so I wasted a little time!"
As soon as Arthur came out of the phone booth, he quickly apologized to everyone.
"No, it's okay!"
Seeing Arthur suddenly walk out of the empty phone booth was also very unexpected to everyone.
After chatting briefly with Arthur and expressing their thanks, Roman and Granger waved to Alice and Hermione, returned to their cars, and left reluctantly.
Arthur, on the other hand, took Alice and Hermione who were holding Charlie, helped them carry their suitcases, and walked into the phone booth again.
"To be honest, it's actually the first time I've walked through the visitor's entrance. I usually use Apparition to enter and leave the Ministry of Magic, but obviously you don't know it yet,
So when we enter the Ministry of Magic in a while, we will borrow some fireplaces from the Ministry of Magic that are connected to the Floo network, so that we can send you there directly! "
……
As Arthur closed the door, he began to dial the dial on the telephone booth:
"I remember it should be 62442"
The Burrow is far away from the city of London. It is obviously a very unwise choice to commute to get off work on a broomstick, because by the time you fly to London, you may have already been blown away.
The use of Floo powder also requires a certain cost. The Weasley family is a bit poor. In order to save money and not be late for work,
Arthur usually uses Apparation directly to and from get off work, which saves time and money except that it consumes more magic power.
However, it can also be seen from this that Arthur's magic level is relatively top-notch in the entire wizarding world, otherwise, at such a long distance, ordinary wizards really wouldn't be able to Apparate.
Of course, it is still far behind Dumbledore, who can apparate directly from Hogwarts to the Ministry of Magic, and can easily lead people to apparate.
"The Ministry of Magic?"
Charlie was still thinking about how to get to the Burrow when Ron asked Alice and Hermione to gather in London. It turned out that he asked Arthur to borrow the fireplace from the Ministry of Magic for space.
To be honest, although Charlie has learned a lot of spells now, he still doesn't really understand many strange things in the wizarding world.
For things like floo powder, floo nets, fireplaces, and door keys, he still doesn't know how they work, how they are made, and so on.
Maybe it's because he hasn't been in contact with magic for long enough. After all, he has only studied magic for a year. Although he has read a lot of magic books,
But those are basically about transfiguration and some magic books related to combat, and he rarely touches magic books that have nothing to do with improving combat effectiveness.
He is like a top pilot who knows all the performances of combat, driving a fighter jet can kill all directions in the air,
But if you ask him to make a fighter jet, he'll be sitting on wax.
From this point, it can also be seen that the water in the wizarding world is still very deep. In addition to the spells learned in school, there are actually a lot of knowledge to learn in various aspects.
Now that Charlie, who has read so many magic books, has also discovered,
I don't know if it's because wizards are naturally overconfident in themselves, or because of something else. Most of the direction of research and invention of spells in the wizarding world is not based on combat or destructive power.
Instead, it focuses on life, in all kinds of weird directions.
If you pay attention, the spells of the wizarding world have actually involved the power of space and time. This is a very high-end power system, but the application of these power systems is basically in life.
For example: space tents, space boxes, Floo powder, time converters and the magical "knight bus" that can widen and narrow and slow down the flow of time.
After Arthur dialed the phone and briefly explained the situation to a witch on the other end, the red telephone box suddenly began to tremble.
Then Charlie saw that the entire phone booth began to sink slowly, as if it had passed through the barrier of space, gradually moved away from the ground, and fell into darkness.
This feeling is somewhat similar to passing through the wall of Nine and Three-quarters Station.
At this moment, Charlie clearly felt Alice's arms holding him tightly. Obviously, the sudden darkness made Alice feel a little nervous.
However, the darkness was not too long. In less than a minute, a thin golden light shone into the telephone booth, and then the golden light gradually widened, and the entire telephone booth became brighter in an instant.
"Welcome to the Ministry of Magic and have a nice day!"
When the phone booth stopped steadily, a loud and clear female voice rang in Charlie's ear.
(End of this chapter)
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