On the Road

Before Harry lay buildings resembling the factories of the Muggle world, and figures in black wizarding robes, just like the man from before, standing on self-propelled skateboards heading in different directions.

"You've been here before?" Ron asked suspiciously, Harry's expression was too calm.

This wasn't him being paranoid; in his view, Harry could secretly travel to Atlantis without his knowledge.

Therefore, one more trip to Moon City would not be unreasonable.

"No, it's just that these things look pretty much like the Muggle factories I've seen in ads," Harry said disappointedly.

"Okay, let's leave it at that."

"But where are we going?"

"This doesn't seem to be a residential area," Ron said, still somewhat doubtful.

"Look at this." Harry pointed to three skateboards in the corner that were probably connected to electrical wires.

"How to use it—"

"Hey, this doesn't need any controls." Before Harry could finish speaking, Ron eagerly stood on one of the skateboards.

That skateboard was actually controlled by the thoughts of the person standing on it.

"It's just a charging skateboard. The most amazing thing is that after we stood on it, the skateboard became transparent."

"Ryan's magic is amazing," Harry exclaimed, staring in amazement at the skateboard beneath his feet.

"Boys, we should go."

"The wizard who just opened the door to our room was almost done spacing out when he came out."

Just as Harry and his friends were engrossed in their own world, spinning around in place on their skateboards, Ginny quickly reminded them.

So the three of them rode on skateboards and sped along the road paved with gray cement.

Meanwhile, Ned, the crazy Muggle who had finished slacking off, was dumbfounded.

Because he no longer had a means of transportation.

We've run out of the ones we need, the ones we have as backups, and the ones we have as backups.

This meant that he had to walk to the factory responsible for distributing supplies.

"I estimate I'll be off work at four o'clock today!"

"Is this even acceptable to a human being?!"

"I want to resign. Leaving get off work at 3 pm is late enough!"

"I want to find a job where I can leave at 1 a. m."

Mad Muggle Ned walked toward the factory not far away, where the department responsible for distributing supplies was located, while he grumbled.

"Hey ha!"

Wuhu!

Ron rampaged through the road, passing right through the black-robed wizards who were working.

"Harry, Ginny!"

"Hurry up, guys! Didn't you notice? Our skateboards are becoming ethereal too, they can pass through matter now!" Ron, still feeling exhilarated after his wild ride, looked at Harry Ginny, who seemed to be dodging pedestrians behind them.

"Nothing, I just felt something was off—passing through a person's body." Harry tried to remain calm, trying to hide the fact that he had kissed Ginny in a moment of passion.

"Yeah, Ron, don't you think this is a little strange?" Ginny lied with a normal expression, and when Ron turned his head, she looked at Harry with a mixture of reproach and delight.

"Hmm, okay."

"You two really don't know what's good for you," Ron muttered, continuing to glide forward.

"Where is this?" Ron rubbed his eyes in surprise.

After sliding for an unknown amount of time, they had left the factory that Harry had mentioned.

What appeared before them made Ron understand Harry's feelings.

"It really feels like Moon City now." Unlike Ron, Harry found the style, which was highly integrated with the moon, particularly refreshing.

"Isn't this just an ordinary wizard village?"

"Not much different from Hogsmeade Village," Ron said listlessly.

Having grown up in a magical world, he was more able to notice the wizarding elements in the scene before him.

As for the shops built against the crater, Ron didn't find them as interesting as the factories they had just visited.

"Why don't we turn back? It's much more interesting there." Ron said, preparing to turn back.

"Wait, Ron, look—" Ginny pointed to a wooden sign beside the cobblestone ground. It was shaped like an arrow and read: Thayer Library, 1 mile away.

"The library?" Ron immediately perked up.

In that instant, he envisioned finding the unique Magic Book in the library, returning to Hogwarts to achieve extraordinary success, receiving praise from professors and admiration from classmates, becoming Prefect, succeeding his father in the Ministry of Magic Department of Magical Law Enforcement, and then having a young secretary like Aunt Muriel.

"Ron, Ron!"

"What are you thinking about?" Harry nudged Ron.

"Aunt Muriel —it's nothing!" Ron wiped away the drool that had involuntarily dripped down his throat.

"I think I heard Aunt Muriel's name." Ginny looked at Ron suspiciously.

"Let's hurry on our way. Maybe Ryan will call us back soon." Ron turned his head awkwardly.

So, led by Ron, the three of them headed in the direction marked by the sign.

"The Thayer Library, it seems this city is indeed connected to the Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry." On the way to the library, Harry, unable to be affectionate with Ginny because of Ron, started looking for topics to talk about.

"What?" Unlike Harry, Ron was looking at each of the shops one by one.

He discovered that although these shops had a lot of wizarding elements and weren't particularly novel, the things they sold were quite unusual.

Each of these is a strange part that he only ever saw when his father was fixing cars and buying things from the Muggle world.

There were also some finished products that he had seen similar to in Riddle's book, but were clearly different.

These differences are clearly due to magic.

If Ron had ever been to Diagon Alley, he would have noticed that the items in those shops are similar to those found on the streets today.

This is because Britain and America magic originated from the same source, and in terms of modifying Muggle technology, these wizards on the moon were simply ahead of the curve.

"I only have one feeling, and that is that they are so idle, don't they all have jobs?" Ginny said, looking at the wizards who were clearly strolling around the street using all sorts of strange vehicles.

Even in those shops, there were no owners watching over them.

"Maybe they work at night and rest during the day," Harry said after a moment's thought.

He thought this was very likely, after all, this was on the moon.

Perhaps it is because of the moon's unique environment that the wizards living on it have different biological clocks.

Ginny nodded upon hearing this.

"Harry, what did you just say?" Ron asked, snapping out of his daze. After Harry repeated himself, "Oh, I always thought Hogwarts was the best magic school in the world."

"But look, the Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry has Moon City."

"And what about Hogwarts?" Ron said.

"You forgot about Atlantis. Among the wizards who founded that Underwater City and were known as sages, some were graduates of Hogwarts, and most of them Ravenclaw!" Harry said proudly.