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Chapter 280: Hogsmeade
Chapter 280: Hogsmeade
Perhaps influenced by Harris, Kyle decided to join others in visiting Hogsmeade during the first weekend of the new school year.
Although Kyle was familiar with the village, he had always sneaked there through secret passages in the past.
But now, as a third-year student, he could openly visit Hogsmeade... On the last Herbology class before the weekend, he had already submitted his permission form to Professor Sprout.
Filch, the caretaker, stood in the entrance hall, checking a long list and preventing anyone unauthorized from leaving the castle.
However, Kyle and his friends clearly didn't need to worry about this, as they walked out with confidence.
...
Unlike St. Crappol Village, Hogsmeade was a genuine wizarding village, and every resident was a wizard without exception.
However, the property prices here were not cheap either... Kyle had inquired that even building a house in the most remote corner would cost two thousand Galleons... and that was the current price.
Due to the existence of The Three Broomsticks, Hogsmeade always attracted some mysterious wizards, and these unstable factors significantly lowered the village's standards.
This also led to a severe decline in housing prices.
If it were a few decades ago, before The Three Broomsticks was established, even five thousand Galleons might not have been enough to live here, let alone two thousand.
It would have been a high-end magical villa area.
Although The Three Broomsticks was a potential hazard... Kyle and his friends didn't need to worry about it at all.
After all, they were accompanied by Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick, and no one dared to cause trouble during this time...
It was no exaggeration to say that this was the most harmonious time in Hogsmeade... Even the mysterious wizards would carefully consider the impact of their actions on the young witches and wizards before casually throwing away trash.
If they didn't consider it, the accompanying professors would do it for them.
At least, this was the case outside The Three Broomsticks.
As the most popular wizarding village, Hogsmeade was naturally very interesting... As they entered the village, they could see shops with various signs on both sides of the road.
The first one was Zonko's Joke Shop.
This was Fred and George's favorite shop, where they spent almost all their allowance.
Behind Zonko's was the Owl Post Office and Honeydukes Candy Shop...
"Although we can visit any time... but the visiting day is always special." Fred said with a smile.
"Yeah." George sighed, "It would be great if we could come every week."
Upon learning that it was a visiting day, they quickly ate a quick-effect skipping class candy, causing themselves to vomit and successfully skipping Quidditch practice.
"The professors don't have that much time."
Cedric, counting the Galleons in his pouch, looked up and said, "It's fine this way too. Don't forget that the first visiting day last year was in late October."
"Yeah, those days were tough." Fred smiled, "Kyle, you guys came at the right time."
"We're going to Zonko's... what about you guys?"
"Then let's go together." Kyle thought for a moment and replied.
The others didn't have any objections.
After all, it was a visiting day... They had plenty of time and could take their time to explore, so it didn't matter where they went.
They entered Zonko's.
Fred and George felt like they were home as they greeted a bespectacled shop assistant behind the counter.
"Hi, Zora, any new and exciting stuff?"
"Of course we do..." The shop assistant pushed up the circular glasses on his nose,
"This is it... the Maze Glasses. Anyone who wears them will get lost without even realizing it, even in the most familiar places."
"Sounds good..." Fred stroked his chin, "We can get a pair for Marcus, that big idiot. He'll probably throw the Quaffle into his own goal post."
"That's a great idea." George laughed, "But the design of these glasses is quite eye-catching. Although Marcus's mind is related to giants, I don't think he'd wear something like this."
"Don't worry, we've definitely thought about that..."
The assistant tapped the temple of the glasses, and the circular glasses instantly transformed into a pair of ordinary square-framed glasses.
With another tap, snake patterns appeared on the frame, followed by lions, badgers, eagles... round frames, rimless frames, single lenses...
"We have designed a total of thirty-nine styles."
The assistant pushed the glasses, "There's always a suitable one."
"We'll take it!" Fred and George said in unison.
"How much is it?"
"Five Galleons and ten Sickles."
"That's quite expensive."
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"It's a new product, so the price is the same." The assistant said, "But I can give you a discount."
"Ten Sickles?"
"No, it's five Galleons and nine Sickles!"
"..."
Fred and George still bought the Maze Glasses, and they also restocked their fireworks supply in the shop.
Unlike them, the others were mostly just browsing.
Conna and Qiu whispered to each other while pointing at a pile of biting hair clips, and Cedric stopped in front of a flying broomstick.
Of course, the broomstick was also fake. If someone rode it, it would spray glue onto their legs and then make a series of loud "pffft" sounds.
It was clear that Cedric wanted to buy it, but the price of twenty Galleons made him hesitate.
It was too expensive and not worth it.
When they left Zonko's, apart from Fred and George, only Kyle bought a box of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans.
Zonko's Every Flavor Beans were definitely different from those in the candy shop... None of them were sweet, all with terrible flavors, and there was almost no difference in the packaging.
Kyle planned to give it as a random Christmas gift to a lucky person.
After that, they went to Honeydukes Sweetshop, and here, their Galleons were about to disappear.
A row of shelves was filled with various delicious and tempting candies: large blocks of creamy yellow almond toffee, sparkling pink coconut jelly balls, golden-brown toffees, countless chocolates, and a big bucket of normal Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans...
On the other side of the wall were candies with "special effects."
Super Bubblegum (which could fill a room with bubbles that lasted for several days), tiny black Pepper Imps (which allowed one to breathe fire after eating them),
and also the Frog Mouthmint Ice Cream that would jump around in one's stomach, the Exploding Bonbons that truly exploded, and the Acid Pop-Ups that could burn a hole in one's tongue.
Kyle also saw Dumbledore's favorite Cockroach Clusters here, placed in a jar in the corner.
There were many students in Honeydukes, and people were crowded everywhere, except for that one spot.
But of course, no decent person would buy that stuff!
...
(End of Chapter)
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