mesbooks Chapter 190 Cosme Acacho's Wand Shop
Chapter 190 Cosme Acacho's Wand Shop
Chapter 190 Cosme Acacho's Wand Shop
They came to a street in Montmartre. There was a bronze statue at the end of the street. When Lu Ren and the others got close to the statue, the statue moved. It nodded slightly to Lu Ren, and then gently unscrewed the base , revealing a staircase.
When Lu Ren and the others walked through the stairs, they came to Diagon Alley in France: Hidden Square.Slightly different from Diagon Alley in the UK, Hidden Square in France is slightly larger.The architectural style of the entire square is the European architectural style from the end of the 19th century to the outbreak of the First World War.
This period is also known as the "Beautiful Age". Europeans plundered wealth from all over the world for their enjoyment. Art and economy developed rapidly under the water of gold and the heritage of other civilizations. Of course, after the outbreak of World War I All this is gone.The irony is that after the beginning of the First World War, as the good days of Europe came to naught in the flames of war, other semi-colonial societies started a "golden age". What an irony.
The Hidden Square is made up of three streets: Rue Richet, Rue Girard Constance and Avenue Voltaire.Walking into the square, Lu Ren felt the breath of the industrial revolution blowing in his face, and Diagon Alley has two different atmospheres, where it is more magical, and here is more industrial - there are even street lights around the Hidden Square!
Looking back, the stairs when they came had disappeared, and they were in the commercial center where people came and went.It was afternoon at this time, and the lazy French wizards had just finished their lunch and were walking in twos and threes in cafes and pedestrian streets.
Lu Ren and the others were standing by the window of a shop called "Flying Hats". There was really a hat flying inside, and a person dressed as a clerk was holding a net bag and trying to catch it.When they walked to the main entrance, Lu Ren saw a table at the entrance with a dirty... Sorting Hat?
Yes, Hogwarts has the same sorting hat.
Seeing someone passing by, the hat twisted, cracked a gap, and shouted: "Young people's first wizard hat, look for the 'flying hat'! It started in the 19th century!"
Lu Ren felt that it was necessary for Hogwarts to charge this store a little copyright fee.He even couldn't help thinking that if Fred was here, he might find a way to trade the hat and the Sorting Hat—it must be very interesting.
"You don't need to buy hats, you already have a closet of hats." Spurius grabbed Alice who was about to sneak in, and took her away without any explanation.
They walked on the street, and Lu Ren looked around all the way—just like when he went to Diagon Alley for the first time, there were fresh shops everywhere: there was a cafe facing the street, and many French wizards were sitting on the terrace sitting in a chair with the day's newspaper in hand, and a small cup of coffee on the table - a classic combination of newspaper and coffee that the French spend the whole afternoon with, and then look at the newspaper at dinner time content and chat with friends for hours.Yes, this group of people can eat a meal for two hours.Next to the cafe is a pharmacy, which is full of jars of strange medicinal materials and various brightly colored powders, and also sells small gadgets such as scales.Lu Ren also saw a unicorn horn in the window, with the words "Big discounted price, 20 galleons per piece" written on it.
"I don't know if a unicorn's horn can grow back after it's cut off..." Lu Ren came up with a bold idea, because just looking at this price, the only horn and a few tail hairs of a unicorn cost the same?I'm afraid this horn, like deer antler, is a renewable resource.
They soon came to the intersection of three streets, where the destination of this trip was: Cosme Acacho Wand Shop.Of course, along the way, Spurius was like a husky walker, holding his daughter's hand tightly, lest Alice would run away as soon as he let go, so he made a lot of promises , saying that after buying the wand, she would definitely go shopping with her.
Different from Ollivander's small workshop, Cosme Acajor's wand shop is decorated quite magnificently. On the black door, the name of the shop is written in bronzing characters: Cosme Acajor, and there is a sign beside it, It read: Cosme Acacho, ordering the most elegant wands for the French.There is also a line of small words below: the real shop that started making sticks in 1614.The "true" is still flickering.
Lu Ren suspected that it was implying a certain wand shop, but Lu Ren had no clear evidence.
It's funny that the word for wand in French is the word for baguette, so... the French wand literally translates to magic baguette.Instead, it responded to the joke: What is the real weapon of France?baguette.Many words in the magic world are very interesting to Lu Ren. They can maintain a high quality thanks to Zhongyuan's translation, such as magic wand, which should actually be called magic stick, such as Draco Malfoy, really If you want to disgust him, you can indeed call him Drago Horse Manure—it’s all transliteration anyway, I’ll give you a few bad words for the villain, what’s wrong?
Walking into the store, the light suddenly dimmed, and the windows in the store were covered with black curtains, causing the interior to have normal lighting.There are two tables on both sides of the door in the store, and there are stacks of wands on each of them.The wands were stacked neatly, forming a triangular cone shape.
A quill and a piece of parchment floated out and floated in front of them.Lu Ren glanced at it. It was a form with options such as date of birth, weight, zodiac sign, and gender.
"Master Acacho claims to be one of the three major wand makers in Europe, the remaining two being Master Ollivander in England and Master Grigovich in Germany. He is used to asking customers to fill out his exclusive questionnaire first , and then provide customers with a batch of wands to choose from according to their answers." Spulius introduced Lu Ren to this French wand master.
However, he lowered his voice again, and commented on his understanding of the reasons for the fame of the three to Lu Ren: "Ollivander in England is famous for his family being a wand maker for generations, Gregovich in Germany is because of He declared to the public that he was imitating the Elder Wand, and the French Acacho was only the top three wandmakers in France, and his status outside of France is somewhat controversial. But this master has always been the supply of wands for Beauxbaton's teachers and students Shang, and even under the tutelage of Shikoba Wolfe, one of the four major wand makers in North America, so his level is definitely top-notch, but there are a few less gimmicks.”
While he was giving Lu Ren the popular science, Alice had already filled out the questionnaire, and the questionnaire floated back by itself, disappearing into the shadows.After a while, a door on Lu Ren's left opened, and an old voice came: "Please come in, distinguished guest."
Alice took the lead and walked into the room.
(End of this chapter)