Connor's Hogwarts

Wednesday, August 1, 1990.

Diagon Alley is a bit lively today because a new store is about to open in Diagon Alley.

Opening a new store in Diagon Alley is nothing new, but this store is a little special...

Opposite Flourish and Blotts Bookstore in Diagon Alley, a new store is about to open here. There are already circles of wizards here, waiting for the store to open.

In fact, starting a month ago, the building where this store is located has been emptied out and hung with bright red satin. People come here one after another every day... I don’t know what they are doing.

Later, someone couldn't help but curious and inquired about it, and found out that the Lake family wanted to open a store here.

I see, the Lake family, the Lake... family? ! ? !

Then it was spread to ten, and soon all the wizards who paid attention to monster cards knew that the Lake family was going to open a store in Diagon Alley.

After many inquiries, the Lake family is going to open a "Magic Chess and Cards Experience Store" here. The store will open at 9 a.m. on August 1 and is currently being renovated.

Although the wizards don't know what an experience store is, and they don't know why it is necessary to decorate a store, it is enough to know that the latest monster cards can be purchased here.

So every day, many fanatical fans squat here to "spy on the enemy," but the big red satin covering from the roof to the bottom is somehow enchanted, and they can't see what's going on inside.

Although the wizards are very curious, they can't just rush in just to take a look in advance, right? So they can only endure it and wait for August 1st to arrive.

Then... they learned to be curious more and more through patience, and the more curious they were, the less they could see it, so they talked about it with others to arouse others' curiosity, and finally everyone endured it together...

Although the Lake family did not do any publicity, the news of today's opening of the store was almost known to everyone in the British wizarding community. No, the place was full of people early in the morning.

They were all waiting to see the excitement. People were all curious about what novelty the Lake family had come up with.

…

Dio Joestar is a loyal fan of Monster cards.

He used to be a hardcore chess player who loved wizard chess and won third place in the international wizard chess competition.

After graduating from Hogwarts, he is still obsessed with playing chess and has no intention of working. His goal is to win the wizard chess competition!

Until four years ago, when his friend Jonathan Brando visited him, he brought a deck of monster cards...

Only then did he realize that there was a more interesting game than wizard chess!

The combinations between different cards are ever-changing and full of countless possibilities! This is completely incomparable to wizard chess, which has a fixed pattern.

And...there are so many people who like to play monster cards! He no longer has to catch Jonathan playing cards every day. He can go to the wizard bar and find someone to play with.

Sure enough, the game is fun only if you play it with more friends!

Dio soon became a loyal fan of Pokemon cards. Every time a new card was released, he would rush forward. He would not give up until he drew all the new cards. Anyway, his family is not bad at it. How much money!

As for wizard chess? What is that?

As a loyal fan of the Monster Card, Dior naturally knew its creators, the Lake family, and their family seemed to have business dealings with the Lake family.

Dio was overjoyed when he heard that the Lake family was going to open a store in Diagon Alley. He no longer wanted to buy cards in the store next door that was filled with all kinds of messy toys.

And if a new store is opened, new cards will definitely be released...right?

Dior and his friend Jonathan squatted here at the new store early in the morning. He wanted to get first-hand access to the new cards!

…if so.

Most of the wizards present had the same idea as Dio, hoping to grab the first-hand new cards so they could go back and show off to their friends.

Finally, the time came to nine o'clock, and at this moment, a house elf emerged from the red satin.

The elf bowed politely to the wizards in front of him, then grabbed the red cloth behind him with one hand, snapped his fingers, and disappeared together with the red silk in front of everyone, thus unveiling the mysterious shop.

"Ah! It's so bright!" the wizards shouted.

Dior squinted his eyes and saw that the exterior walls of the four-story store in front of him had been replaced with floor-to-ceiling windows, and the solid walls were painted with bright paint. The whole house looked like a glowing castle. .

This is indeed eye-catching, Dio was about to say this... suddenly, he felt something was wrong.

It turns out that the upper three floors of this building are not windows!

But three huge mirrors!

From top to bottom, the contents on the three mirrors are constantly changing! !

[Warm congratulations to Lake Magic Chess and Cards Workshop, the Diagon Alley brand experience store, on its grand opening! ! 】

[In the first week of opening, if you spend more than 100 gold galleons in our store, you can get generous gift coupons, if you spend more than 1,000 gold galleons, you can get a membership card, and if you spend more than 10,000 gold galleons, you can get a Lake gold card! ! 】

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"This! What the hell??!" At this time, the wizards in the whole street were attracted by the three huge mirrors on the building, and various messages were constantly scrolling on these three mirrors.

Some messages were electrocuted by Pikachu, some messages were dragged out by a little fox, and some messages were read out by familiar monster card characters...

The concept is clever, the special effects are gorgeous, and the design is novel and refreshing!

"Is this... is this an advertisement?" Dio's eyes were full of surprise, and he pulled Jonathan and said.

"Ah, obviously, the Lake family can always bring surprises to people. Is this a double-sided mirror? Can a double-sided mirror still be used in this way?" Jonathan nodded and said, he was also amazed.

"Stop talking, let's go in and take a look first. I believe the things inside will be more interesting." Dio pulled Jonathan and went straight to the store door.

Crossing the door with the sign "Lake's Magic Chess and Cards Workshop Diagon Alley Brand Experience Store", Dio and Jonathan squeezed into the store.

As soon as I walked in, I found that the place was surprisingly spacious. The dozens of people who had just been crowded outside the door came in and found that the place was much larger than the street outside, and there was no feeling of crowding at all.

"Huh? Where's the counter?" Dio was stunned, because he found that it didn't look like a store at all, but more like... a Muggle cafe?

Soothing music was playing in the store. Looking around the store, there were several counters, but they didn't look like they were selling cards!

Isn’t that the bar counter over there? ? That waiter...is shaking the bar! I go! Why are you just sitting on the sofa and playing cards happily? Aren't you here to buy a new card? Hey, it turns out these tables are chessboards! Then I also...

Dio couldn't help but wanted to go over and fight for 300 rounds. At this time, a handsome young man wearing a well-dressed suit and a slightly fat body came over: "Hello, gentlemen, I am the tour guide here, Ansel. Norman, how can I help you?"

"Oh, eh, are you a squib? Oh! Sorry, no offense intended." Dio said looking at the tour guide in front of him who was similar in age but whom he did not recognize.

"It's okay, it's okay, I am indeed a squib." Norman waved his hand and said nonchalantly. He had long been used to this kind of thing: "I'm just an ordinary tour guide at Lake's workshop. The two gentlemen have If you don’t understand anything, you can ask me.”

Dio and Jonathan looked at each other. Both of them felt that the Squib was indeed suitable for this kind of work. Dio said: "Well, I actually wanted to buy new Yokai cards...but...I don't seem to see the Yokai card counter?"

"It's like this. If you want to buy cards, you need to go to the second or third floor. The first floor is only for customers to experience our new products and have rest and entertainment." Norman pointed to the elevator next to him and said:

"Also, we have no new cards for sale today."

"Ah? Not really?" Dio said in frustration.

"Want to take this up? Then... if a new card is released... won't it be crowded?" Jonathan paid attention to this.

"This... is actually an elevator that is only used to limit the flow of people. In fact, when the new cards are released, our products can also be purchased in other stores. Ours is just an experience store here, and sales are not our main business." Man explained with a smile.

Dior and Jonathan looked at each other again, with one meaning expressed in their eyes: Are there any stores that don't want to make money?

At this time, Dior noticed that a counter was crowded with people, and some people screamed from time to time.

He pointed over there and asked, "What are you doing there?"

"That's the exhibition counter for our new product Facebook. Do you want to know about it? In fact, there is also an exhibition counter for Facebook on the third floor. There are too many people here. How about we... go upstairs and have a look?" Norman kept smiling. , put his palm towards the elevator door, making a "please" gesture.

Dio looked at Jonathan again and said, "I don't know why, but I always feel that the elevator door is full of temptation."

"I think so too."

"Jonathan..."

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"Although there are no new cards for sale today..."

"But I feel...I'm going to get high..."