Today, however, she was going to different locations. She went to some nearly empty office and spoke into a stick attached to a wireless with a grumpy-looking couple, who handed her a few Galleons for her time before she went and spent some of it gambling on a horse race. It was difficult for Crookshanks to get into Knockturn Alley, since some shops there put spikes up on their building to repel birds from perching there. It was evening, and shops were starting to close up for the night so he knew that Rita wasn't about to do more shopping.