To be honest, Daisy totally disapproved of Albert staying at someone else's place for a few days and was unhappy that her son was going to be out of her sight during the summer vacation.
However, Albert finally succeeded in convincing the Andersons, and Grandpa Luke "coincidentally" invited Nia to stay over for a few days.
Sansa welcomed her granddaughter, but she was actually a little unhappy about Albert going to Hogwarts. After all, in the eyes of the old lady, a genius like Albert would have a better future in a good middle school.
Sansa was very happy that Nia was admitted to a good middle school. In fact, not only her, but also Herb and Daisy were very satisfied. It was probably only Nia who was not satisfied.
"Don't give Tom too many snacks!"
Albert reminded Nia as she carried Tom out of the car.
Nia pouted and said, "Remember to buy gifts."
"knew!"
"Take care of yourself." Daisy kissed Herb's cheek and looked at Albert and warned him.
"I will."
More than an hour later, they finally arrived at the Leaky Cauldron in London. Albert took Herb into the bar, and they both noticed that there were fewer customers in the bar.
Albert's eyes fell on the wall of the bar, where the Gringotts goblins had posted a wanted poster for a thief.
In fact, the goblins had no idea who broke into Gringotts. They could only judge that it was a dark wizard who did it based on the vault door that was burned through by the Fiendfyre.
This wanted poster is completely insincere. You have to know that the wanted warrants for Harry Potter and Black are both worth 10,000 Galleons, while the wanted warrant on the wall in front of Albert is only worth 1,000 Galleons.
The goblins in Gringotts are a bunch of cheapskates.
However, Diagon Alley was as lively as ever, and Herb and Albert planned to go to Gringotts to exchange Galleons first.
Although Albert had a sum of Galleons, he did not intend to use his own small treasury. After all, that was the start-up capital for the future.
As for the pound issue, after he learns how to tell fortunes with the crystal ball, he can try to see if his family can win a prize or something, and then the family will not be short of pounds.
Perhaps because it had just been invaded and robbed by dark wizards, Gringotts had a few more wizard security guards holding metal bars. They were very unfriendly to the customers passing by, and it took the two of them some time to get inside and exchange the pounds for Galleons.
"I feel like they treat every guest as a robber?" Herb muttered. He hated the way the goblins looked at them.
"In fact, this is really possible. It is said that there is a potion that can temporarily turn a person into another person." Albert blinked and whispered, "However, I think the goblins probably just want to save their reputation. After all, if a bunch of dark wizards can break into Gringotts and steal, who would dare to store money here?"
In Albert's eyes, Gringotts' security system was not considered safe.
Frankly speaking, the biggest problem of Gringotts is the terrain. The inability to Apparate is extremely fatal to intruders. Even if they can really steal the money, they cannot escape from the complex caves, let alone escape from the pursuit of wizards and goblins in a complex environment. However... Gringotts has a fatal loophole.
The Apparition of house-elves is not restricted here because the three magic systems are different. The magic that prevents wizards from Apparition cannot prevent house-elves from Apparition. Hogwarts School is the best example.
However, this point is always forgotten by people.
As soon as he left Gringotts, Albert saw the Weasley family preparing to enter Gringotts to withdraw money.
"This is Albert Anderson, the one we mentioned before." Fred introduced Albert to his father, "my father, mother, and Ron, who we mentioned before."
Albert's gaze rested on Ron for a moment. He was a tall, thin boy with freckles who looked a little clumsy.
"Hello." Albert introduced, "This is my father."
"Hello, Mr. Anderson." Mr. Weasley shook hands with Herb happily. "Are you a wizard?"
"No." Herber shook hands with Mr. Weasley calmly. After spending several days with the Delacour family, he didn't have much feeling towards wizards. After all, as a lawyer, Herber was very good at handling interpersonal relationships.
Mr. Weasley insisted on taking Herbert to the Leaky Cauldron for a drink, leaving the responsibility of shopping and getting the money to Mrs. Weasley.
After the adults left, the original sense of restraint disappeared for the most part.
"Congratulations, Percy. I heard that you became a class monitor." Albert greeted Percy with a smile.
"Thank you!" Percy solemnly extended his hand and shook his.
Albert had to hold back his laughter at the deputy leader's arrogance.
"Oh, Percy, you're a prefect?" Fred said in a deliberately surprised tone. "You should have told us earlier. I had no idea."
"I think he said that," said George. "Once—twice?"
"No, no, he's been talking about it all summer!"
Fred and George both laughed happily.
"Shut up," Percy snapped.
Not long after, Mrs. Weasley came back and prepared to take Ron to buy the items on the shopping list. Before they separated in Gringotts, Percy received ten Galleons from Mrs. Weasley, which made the others envious.
"Would you like me to buy you a new book, dear?" asked Mrs. Weasley.
"Thank you, Mrs. Weasley." Albert handed Mrs. Weasley the list of books and a small bag of Galleons.
"so much!"
Mrs. Weasley was startled when she saw the row of book titles on the parchment.
"Well, like Percy, I plan to take all the courses in my third year," Albert explained casually. "Thank you for your help."
"You're welcome. Keep an eye on them for me and don't let Fred and George run around."
"We don't need anyone watching us." Fred and George couldn't help but complain.
"See you later!" Albert turned to the twins and said, "Okay, let's go, I have a lot of things to buy."
Passing by Florin's ice cream shop, Albert bought three strawberry chocolate ice creams and ate them while walking. Fred and George enthusiastically introduced the interesting places in Diagon Alley to Albert. They soon turned into a shop selling Dr. Filibal's fireworks, and Albert bought some fireworks as a gift for Nia.
Albert re-ordered robes from Madam Malkin's robe shop, went to the pharmacy to replenish medicine, and bought a crystal ball from the magic goods store. Then he turned into an old shop that was full of tattered wands, copper scales and old cloaks.
"Don't you already have a wand?" Fred asked in confusion when he saw Albert rummaging through his old wand.
"Well, I'm a little interested in wand learning." Albert picked out a wand that he was more comfortable using and paid a Galleon for it.
"I don't know what you're thinking," George muttered.
"Never complain about not having enough wands. It never hurts to have an extra one." Albert said mysteriously, "Even if you never need to use it."