Even so, there was an awful lot of interesting stuff in Knockturn Alley. An apothecary carried hundreds of ingredients he hadn’t seen in the one on Diagon Alley, and some of them seemed to be merely rare, not revolting. A shop called Borgin and Burkes had a variety of apparently one-of-a-kind objects, including some rare books and a knife imbued with the venom of something called a basilisk. A small boutique, squeezed in next to a shop with a display of horrible giant spiders, displayed a set of vicious-looking, incredibly well-crafted daggers in the window that Harry gawked at for several moments; a sign in the window said: