Chapter 238: Hogsmeade Village Trip

Snape is petty and stupid, which can be seen from his constant use of small tricks to punish Harry.

Although Snape's pettiness and stupidity seem cute to us readers who look down from a God's perspective, this cannot cover up the stupid nature of Snape.

In fact, most people in the entire wizarding world have a sense of pettiness.

Like Lucius, the head of the Malfoy family, he is a petty person.

Any successful person in the Muggle world who has built a family business to his level would not do the stupid things he did to the Weasley family.

The real big people only look at the benefits when doing things.

In order to gain more benefits, personal honor and disgrace are really irrelevant.

Mike firmly believes that the fundamental reason for the pettiness of wizards is that the wizarding society is too small and too backward.

This is how a lot of bumpkins like Snape and Lucius are bred!

But no matter how much Mike despises these people in private, he cannot deny that Snape, a stupid person, has indeed caused him trouble.

The result of his drinking binge with Cedric and Harry yesterday was a deduction of points and grounding. Mike didn't care about the deduction of points. As long as his plan this year could succeed, he no longer needed the House Cup to improve his reputation.

But grounding was different.

Although the spatial restriction of Hogwarts was ineffective against Shuke and Beta, since the two little guys had never been to Hogwarts, they could not appear directly in Hogwarts with a whoosh, and Mike had to take them in person.

So, Mike planned to take the opportunity of going to Hogsmeade Village to familiarize the two little guys with Hogwarts, and by the way, he could also get the knowledge scrolls about "Unbreakable Vow", "Apparition" and "End of All Curses" that they bought outside.

But now it's all gone, just because of the stingy Snape.

But Mike is not without a way out, of course, he still has the Marauder's Map. Last year, the Weasley brothers didn't dare to ask Mike for it because of Percy, so it was given to him by default.

And Mike naturally didn't mean to return it.

Just kidding, the Marauder's Map can display people's names in real time. What if you accidentally find that there is a person named Peter Pettigrew next to your brother? Will

Mike still carry out his own plan?

In fact, Mike thinks that this plot should be a bug in the original work. Imagine that two mischievous teenagers got a prank weapon like the Marauder's Map. Will they use it to spy on the movements of their classmates or even relatives? The Marauder's Map

has been in their hands for such a long time, it is basically impossible for Peter Pettigrew not to be exposed.

On the other hand, Mike, who holds the Marauder's Map, naturally knows most of the secret passages in Hogwarts, and there are naturally some leading to Hogsmeade Village.

Out of sympathy, Mike also took Harry with him when he set out for Hogsmeade. As for Cedric, he was tired of Hogsmeade, and his homework burden became heavier after he entered the sixth grade, so he naturally had no desire to go shopping.

For the same reason, Penelope did not choose to leave Hogwarts.

When Harry, panting, came to the secret passage, Mike was tired of waiting.

Harry knew he was late, and he raised his empty hand a little embarrassedly and explained, "I'm going to get the invisibility cloak. You know it, it's..."

Mike naturally knew where the invisibility cloak in Harry's hand came from, and he waved his hand to interrupt Harry's words, turned around and took out his wand and pointed it at the statue of the one-eyed witch.

"Left and right separated."

Under Harry's astonished gaze, the hunchback of the statue opened, revealing a passage that could accommodate a thin person.

"Wow!"

Harry shouted excitedly, but then he looked around vigilantly, fearing that someone would suddenly appear.

Seeing that Harry had not forgotten that they were going to Hogsmeade Village privately in violation of Professor McGonagall's house arrest order, Mike nodded with satisfaction and took the lead in entering the passage.

The beginning of the passage was a long slide. Mike felt that he slid down the slide for a long time before falling on the cold and wet mud.

Mike stood up and half-bent over to release the fluorescent flash.

When the soft light filled the surroundings, Harry fell off the slide.

"This is so cool! How did you know about this secret passage!"

Harry, who was using the secret passage for the first time, was obviously very excited and asked Mike excitedly.

Mike naturally did not tell Harry the truth, so he perfunctorily said: "Don't forget that I did the Dolphin Magic Drink smuggling business with George and Fred for a year last year. It's not surprising that they know this secret passage."

"Damn it, they didn't tell me about this secret passage!"

"Stop complaining, let's go!"

Under Mike's command, Harry finally stopped complaining without any doubt and followed Mike into the depths of the passage.

This secret passage is very long and tortuous, more like a rat hole.

Harry and Mike walked for ten minutes before they reached the bottom of a dilapidated stone staircase.

Mike stopped here, first cast an illusion spell on himself, and then let Harry put on the invisibility cloak before stepping on the stairs.

The design of the stairs was unreasonable, and each step was very high, which made Mike and Harry very uncomfortable to step on.

Fortunately, since the passage started to go uphill from the middle, the stairs were not long, and Mike's head hit a trap door after climbing for a while.

After rubbing his painful head, Mike pushed open the trapdoor and climbed out.

This was a cellar, surrounded by crates and other wooden boxes.

Mike waited until Harry climbed out before carefully closing the trapdoor.

Two invisible people naturally couldn't see each other, which made Harry very uneasy. He called Mike in a low voice from time to time, fearing that Mike would abandon him here.

Helplessly, Mike could only respond to Harry in a low voice and let him go directly to the stairs.

At the end of the cellar stairs was a wooden door. When Mike and Harry carefully opened the wooden door, they saw the true appearance of the Bee Duke Candy Store.

The Bee Duke was now full of Hogwarts students. The clerks at the counter were so busy that they didn't notice Harry and Mike, the two invisible people.

Seeing this, Mike poked Harry and signaled him to get out quickly.

When the two carefully entered the store, they were almost stunned.

There were rows of huge shelves filled with the most delicious and juicy candies, large pieces of milky yellow butter almond candies, shiny pink coconut ice cream, honey-colored toffee, hundreds of neatly arranged chocolates, a large bucket of Bebe's multi-flavor beans and sizzling bees...

Mike even saw Dumbledore's favorite cockroach pile in the corner!

But Mike is not a child, and his resistance to candies is much stronger than Harry's.

Even though the other wall was filled with special effects candies like Super Bubble Gum (which can blow many bubbles that won't burst for days. There are many flavors, and the bubbles blown are different depending on the flavor. It is said that there are special bubble blowing competitions in some places, and the Weasley brothers want to participate because the bubbles they blow are big and solid) he couldn't stop.

"Let's go, you will have plenty of opportunities to come here in the future!"

Mike whispered in Harry's ear, who was stunned, and Harry came back to his senses and followed him out of the Honeybee Duke.

In a small alley outside the Honeybee Duke, Shuke and Beta were waiting eagerly.

When Mike's voice suddenly sounded in an empty corner, Shuke's face immediately showed joy, and a small suitcase appeared in his hand while he bowed.

Mike took the suitcase and opened it. He saw three rolls of parchment lying safely inside. He closed the box with satisfaction and carefully put it into the bag of wishes.

He couldn't be careless, because Mike bought this at a high price.

Unbreakable Vow, Apparition and End of All Curses, these three spells cost more than 30,000 gold Galleons in total, which means that each spell costs 10,000 on average!

Harry, who was standing aside, didn't care about the interaction between Mike and Shuke. In fact, he was staring at the people coming and going outside the alley, and his mind had already flown away.

Hogsmeade is the only remaining pure wizard village in the UK, and no Muggles are allowed to stay.

Therefore, the wizard atmosphere in the village is particularly strong, and almost everything is very different from the Muggle world. Harry can't wait to start his adventure in this wizard village.

Mike naturally wouldn't refuse Harry's request. He brought Harry out this time just to let Harry relax.

He winked at Shuke, and Shuke quickly took out two masks and handed them to Mike and Harry.

Mike's was a monkey with a cigar in his mouth, and Harry's was a chubby pig head.

Although he felt that his mask was much uglier than Mike's, Harry couldn't care less at this time. He hurriedly took off his invisibility cloak and quickly put on the pig-head mask.

Harry, who was ready, saw that Mike was still slow, and immediately became unhappy and began to urge him.

Half an hour later, two people wearing full-body masks walked out of the alley, followed by two house elves.

To be honest, Mike and Harry were dressed more like bank robbers than students and tourists. If they were walking on the streets of London, they would definitely be caught and questioned by patrolmen.

But walking in Hogsmeade is no problem. This is a wizard village, and there are many wizards dressed more strangely here.

Mike and Harry's situation is simply child's play.

Today is Halloween, and there will be a Halloween dinner in the evening. In order to prevent people from discovering their behavior of sneaking out, they must be back before three o'clock in the afternoon.

So there is not much time left for Mike and Harry.

In this case, Harry naturally would not waste time. As soon as he came out of the alley, he pulled Mike into the Honeybee Duke and started to sweep.

Due to time constraints, he did not carefully check the introduction of the candies. He just grabbed some of each and went to the counter to line up to pay.

Mike saw with his own eyes that there were many Pepper Urchins (a small black candy that tastes so spicy that it makes you breathe fire. It really breathes fire!) and Exploding Sandwich Gummies (which really explode!) in Harry's candy basket, and he couldn't help but mourn for Harry's stomach.

Mike thought his stomach was not as good as Harry's, so he bought a lot of Sizzling Bee Candies and Cockroach Pile.

As the signature candy of the Duke of Bees, the price of Sizzling Bee Candies is of course not cheap, but fortunately Mike is now a local tycoon, and the Dolphin Beverage Factory now brings him thousands of gold galleons every week, so naturally he doesn't think it's expensive.

He even paid Harry's bill.

"Thank you, Mike. But you don't need to do this. My parents left me a lot of money..."

"Okay, don't talk about this. The money your parents left you is for you to marry a wife and buy a house. Just keep it well." Mike pouted and said, "You spend all the money now, and you won't be able to marry a wife in the future! Or even if you marry a wife, you can only live with your wife at her parents' home!"

Harry was a child after all, and didn't really understand the meaning of Mike's words.

He just thought Mike was persuading him to save money. He wanted to say something to thank Mike, but when his eyes caught the big bottle of crawling cockroaches in Mike's basket, his words suddenly changed.

"Well, I understand the reason, but why do you want to buy a pile of cockroaches?"

Mike's face froze. He couldn't tell Harry that the cockroach pile was actually quite delicious, right?

So he perfunctorily said, "This is for Dumbledore. You know, he likes to eat this kind of weird candy the most."

Harry nodded to show his understanding, and Mike breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this.

Then the two continued to go shopping.

It has to be said that the wizard village of Hogsmeade is really interesting. Mike and Harry visited almost every store, from Zonko's Joke Shop, which specializes in prank props such as dung bombs, to the famous Three Broomsticks.

It is worth mentioning that they also met the Weasley brothers in the joke shop. According to Harry, the Weasley brothers' prank props were almost used up, so this time they came out to replenish the ammunition depot.

Harry originally wanted to go up and recognize them, but was stopped by Mike.

What a joke, you are a big celebrity, if others see you appear in Hogsmeade, then won't you implicate me?

Although this possibility is very small, it must be prevented.

The two of them were strolling happily, but when Harry saw a notice on a wall, his good mood was completely ruined.

'Ministry of Magic ordered... Dementors will patrol Hogsmeade every day from sunset... This order will be lifted after Sirius is arrested...'

Harry's smile disappeared after reading the above content.

Seeing this, Mike patted Harry's shoulder twice to comfort him, and said at the same time: "So Professor McGonagall actually didn't let you out because she loves you. After all, Black's target is likely to be you."

"I know, it's all because of that murderer Black that I can't come to Hogsmeade openly with everyone!" Harry cursed Black irritably, but then, as if he was afraid that Mike would worry, or that Mike would not bring him next time because of Black, he said, "But now the streets are full of Dementors, Black should have no chance to get close to here! So, Professor McGonagall is really making a fuss!" After that,

Harry turned and walked towards the Honeybee Duke. It was getting late, and it was time for them to rush back to Hogwarts.

Mike was looking at Harry's back with a strange look on his face.

Tonight was Halloween, and it was also the time when Black attacked for the first time!

If nothing unexpected happened, Harry would be slapped in the face tonight.