Chapter 502 An unexpected invitation
Out of caution and prudence, before opening the letter, Albert poked the envelope a few times with the code controller and honesty detector to make sure there was nothing strange or black magic in the letter.
He usually does this with items sent by strangers.
Of course, before opening the envelope, you will remember to put on dragon skin gloves, God knows what will be inside.
This is a letter from the United States. The sender is a wizard named Nicholas. Albert certainly does not know the other person. This person should be an alchemist, because he mentioned Serra Harrichs in the letter.
The other party directly invited him to the United States, but did not explain the reason in detail, which made Albert a little confused when he read the letter.
Not only that, the sender also reminded Albert at the end of the letter not to use an owl to send a reply, because the use of owls to send letters is prohibited in the American wizarding community, and doing so is likely to attract the attention of No-Majs (Muggles).
Are American owls unemployed?
Are you joking?
Then how did this letter get here?
Albert said he was a little confused.
In the letter, in addition to the invitation letter, there were two tickets.
Yes, the ticket.
King's Cross station, platform 7 and a half tickets.
As far as Albert knows, Platform 7 and 1/2 is located between Platform 7 and Platform 8, from where you can take long-distance trains to wizard villages on the European continent.
That's right, go to Europe, not the United States.
Didn’t that guy invite me to the United States?
Why does it come with such a ticket?
What makes Albert even more confused is that in addition, there is another Floo Network ticket, a Floo Network permission ticket to the United States.
The specific time is 11:40 on July 18th, Fireplace No. 17.
Moreover, the ticket did not mention the specific location, nor did it tell Albert where to get off the bus or where to use the international floo network. It was not mentioned at all, which was simply suffocating.
All right!
Does this mean that Sera will take him there?
Albert opened the letter that Serra sent to him. It also said nothing. He just said that he was going to the United States to visit his friend Nicholas and invited Albert to go to the United States with him to meet this famous alchemist. The magician met.
Just a brief meeting?
Albert had doubts about this, and neither Serra nor Nicholas gave details in the letter.
Generally speaking, the shorter the letter and the more vague the content, the more important it is. Especially in this case, they should at least give themselves a brief explanation.
Otherwise, the situation would be very abnormal.
What is the reason?
Actually, it’s good to stay at home during the summer vacation. Running around in such hot weather is really no fun, and it’s not like going on vacation.
It’s just that whether it is Bud or others looking for him, they obviously have their own purpose.
Expand your network of contacts?
Or is it necessary to get to know Nicholas?
Albert wrote his doubts on the letter paper, then stuffed it into the envelope and sealed it.
Owl is a bit out of use.
Although it is not impossible to refuse directly, Albert still thinks it is better to ask, maybe it can trigger some tasks.
Outside of Hogwarts School, the probability of triggering panel tasks has always been low, and the difficulty of the tasks is also relatively high.
The next morning, Albert was awakened by the hoot of an owl.
When he opened his eyes and sat up, he found that there was a brown owl in his room. It was crowded on the owl stand with Sheila.
The two owls were glaring at each other, and Albert was surprised that they didn't start fighting.
Albert walked to the desk, first handed Hermione's letter to Sheila, then took out two more letters and placed both letters on the table.
I guess no one has such troubles as him!
The owl landed in front of the letter addressed to Bud Brod.
Albert picked up the letter and handed it to the owl, and it grabbed the envelope and left.
Putting the letter to Sierra back into the cabinet, when Albert washed up and went downstairs to have breakfast, he heard scratching on the door of Nia's room.
He raised his hand and knocked lightly on the door. When there was no other response in the room, Albert quietly opened the door and let Tom out of the room.
Nia is still sleeping, and her sleeping position is not very good.
Albert closed the door again, and one person and one cat went downstairs to have breakfast.
Daisy was frying bacon, while Herb was reading today's newspaper. After hearing footsteps, he raised his head and said hello to Albert.
“Last night, someone sent me a letter inviting me...”
"Are you invited...by those so-called experts and professors?"
Daisy, who had just put the fried bacon on the plate, stared at her son, obviously very sensitive to this matter.
Daisy didn’t really want her son running around. Although they believed in Albert’s ability, they were still uneasy about his young age.
“Well, I haven’t decided yet. I’ll tell you when it’s finalized.” Albert said vaguely. He doesn't really like bacon (salted meat), it's really salty, and he never eats it alone except for bacon sandwiches.
"Son, I believe in your ability, but you always running around still make us uneasy." Herb put down the newspaper and said seriously, "If you want to go out, take that mirror with you and remember to be on time every day. contact us."
Daisy put her hands on her hips and stared at her husband dissatisfied. She originally thought that Herb would stop Albert, but she didn't expect that he would actually indulge his son like this.
So, Albert likes to run around during the summer vacation.
“Don’t go out too long, mother will worry.” Herb added.
"Um."
Albert weighed the cat food and poured it into Tom's plate.
Tom looked at the food in his bowl, groaned twice dissatisfiedly, and began to eat.
Albert returned to his seat and was about to make himself a bacon sandwich when he suddenly saw an owl flying in from the window. This very old owl seemed to have exhausted all its energy during the journey. , almost fell down on the table and died.
“This owl is very old and they are abusing it.”
Herb picked up the food in time, looked at the tired old owl on the table and protested to Albert.
“It’s really time to retire.” Albert nodded in agreement.
Weasley's owl, what is it calling?
Albert no longer remembers.
He put the owl in a place to rest and prepared some water and food for it.
The letter was sent by the twins, reporting (showing off) the latest results to him, and also attached a few copies of the finished products. Finally, they asked Albert to take the time to help them solve some problems they encountered.
today's
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