Chapter 301: Unofficial holiday

Chapter 301: Unofficial holiday

This wasn't some spur of the moment thing either on Nick's part as he had long been aware of the fact he would come into possession of the resurrection stone and thus had been planning what to do with it for quite some time. While the stone was quite the useful item in that it let you summon the spirits of the dead there was a catch that made it nearly useless to Nick. See the stone had a limitation in that it could only summon those who were personally known by the person using it.-

The reason this was useless to Nick was that he couldn't summon say the soul of Chronos or Merlin in order to learn from them. That limitation meant that besides torturing himself by summoning the soul of a friend or family member the stone held no value. Besides that Nick was a firm believer that the dead have no place in the land of the living and the description of the torment the souls brought by the stone felt proved it. Even when angry Nick was never one to purposefully torment others in any meaningful way.-

The owner of the sweet shop at the moment was Ambrosius Flume and his wife who both didn't ask Nick a single question about why he was there during the week since he spent close to seven galleons on various sweets. He got some chocolate frogs , every flavor beans , lemon drops and even a blood flavored lollipop that was apparently an experimental product of theirs. Nick helpfully tried the scarlet candy while in the store and admitted that minus the sweetness it held it did indeed taste like blood.-

He even added that if they added a touch of cinnamon to the lollipop it might prove fairly popular. Mr. Flume was grateful for the input and wished Nick well as he left the shop still sucking on the sucker for no reason other than he hated wasting food. He offered it to Nazgul but she smelt the bloody smell of it and literally turned her nose up at it. Helpless he could only eat it himself as he stopped by scrivenshaft's to collect some more ink and parchment for Hermione and Daphne who went through the stuff very quickly with their rune practice.-

While he was there he also grabbed another engraving pen since his was also starting to wear down from all the sharpening's it's gotten. After that he moved over to the three broomsticks inn to indulge himself in a bit of butterbeer that was honestly closer to butterscotch soda than any proper alcohol. It was horribly sweet and had a very low alcohol content meaning it was damn near impossible to actually get drunk off it. The owner of the inn Madam Rosmerta questioned Nick on why he was there during the week but Nick explained how he was left here by Dumbledore which plenty of people saw.