Deathstroke took the children and parents to exchange money and shop. During that time, Su Ming left Hermione next door at Ollivander's Wand Shop.
Why? Because the Ollivander family, for thirteen generations, had all been Ravenclaws!
This had been arranged before Su Ming bought his current shop, all so Hermione could see the difference between graduates of the two Houses.
A Gryffindor graduate could only be a slave at Wilson Automatic Wand Shop. A Ravenclaw graduate, meanwhile, could be the shop owner next door. Ollivander had nearly monopolized the entire British Wizarding World's wand business—even Voldemort's wand had been made by him.
In truth, it had little to do with which House one belonged to, since the wand shop was their ancestral property. But what would a child like Hermione know about that? It was enough for her to see the difference on the surface.
Besides that, Madam Primpernelle's Beautifying Potions across the street was the magical beauty salon every girl loved. Its owner was also a Ravenclaw graduate, who had become a top-tier millionaire simply by inventing the Pimple Cure Potion while at school.
Diagon Alley's property prices were no joke. Even with the wealth of several planets backing him, buying a shop like this had made Su Ming want to kill the goblin agent with a Neutron Bomb. That was enough to show just how outrageous the prices were.
Anyone who could open a flagship store here was, by any measure, equivalent to one of the top companies on other Earths.
As a neighbor, Ollivander did not think Su Ming's "Muggle wands" would affect his business. The strange old man was usually rather twitchy and taciturn, hiding in the workshop behind the shop to fiddle with wooden sticks and feathers.
Watching a child for a while was merely