A certain Hogwarts rune professor

Chapter 698 The Dragon Roar of Gringotts
Future World Company headquarters, Felix, Sirius and Lupine are scattered in the three corners of the office, Felix is ​​half lying on the sofa and reading the newspaper, Sirius leans against the door frame and keeps throwing a ball of yarn, Lupine Sitting behind the desk, facing a thick stack of documents.

"That's what she said?" Felix was reading a newspaper more than ten days ago, which had an obituary signed by Elphias Dorji, and his fingers rested in the middle.

"You inspired her." Sirius said absently, staring out the window, "That public appearance made Amelia realize the role of students in school, and she thought she could give it a try—the last time with A bunch of Aurors, goblins almost set the dragon out of the vault."

"Is it that serious?" Lupine asked gravely, looking up.

"I think they don't dare, but the appearance of the Goblin Brotherhood complicates things." Sirius said with a gloomy expression. He participated in the negotiation last time, and the two sides were at war with each other. "Their spokesperson—the one called Cross-eyed Bird What, demanded a new "Goblin Bill of Rights", and talked about the great history of the goblin kingdom in the negotiations, a certain king beat the wizard to death..."

Fairy Kingdom?Felix thought for a while, this is basically a noun that only exists in books and test papers.

Because of their different appearance from humans, goblins actually appeared in groups earlier than wizards.Although it is a kingdom, it is similar to the horse tribe and the mermaid tribe. There may have been more than a dozen goblin kingdoms in the same period of ancient times.

But unlike other magical races, goblins are more aggressive.Not only have they developed their own language and magic system, but they also appear as skilled metalsmiths, communicating with wizards, learning and imitating the excellence of wizards.

It is not all smooth sailing for wizards to have the current dominance in the magic world. They have also faced challenges from many races, and some of them even disappeared forever in the long river of history.Among them, goblins have been fighting the longest. Rebellions broke out until the [-]th and [-]th centuries, and they did not subside until the past century.

Therefore, in general, wizards have not had an absolute advantage over goblins for a long time, and they have a great relationship with the non-magic world-with the improvement of productivity, ordinary people have experienced several population explosions in the past few hundred years. Naturally, a rising tide lifts all boats.

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"... There are many such organizations in the magic world, and many of them were founded by wizards." Lupine said calmly, "For example, a witch named Heliotop Willis came to her door to sell her trolls. Security service. She's also the leader of a troll rights group."

"Troll rights organization?" Felix asked curiously. "Can they read the constitution of the organization?"

"Obviously, that woman did it for me." Sirius sneered like a dog barking, "The trolls just need to stand behind her with a stick."

"Or stand behind the goblin." Lupine continued, "I rejected her. We have our own defense system. She revealed that the next step will be to discuss cooperation with Gringotts."

"Wish her luck," said Felix, erecting the newspaper, his light blue, piercing eyes cast in the direction of Gringotts.His eyes seemed to be the same color as the sky.

A few streets away from them, in Gringotts, facing Sword Castle, Ms. Burns and several students sat on one side of a long table, and on the other side were twelve students in suits and ties. leprechaun.

One of the goblins was holding a magnifying glass to carefully examine a simple and rough plate.

Ms. Bones had a flat expression. Hermione was sitting on the left. Her hands under the table were trembling slightly due to nervousness. Her eyes kept moving back and forth between the goblin and the thick documents in front of her.To Ms. Burns's right was Harry, and next to him was Draco Malfoy, who Ms. Burns had defiantly picked when she came to school this morning.

Her reasoning was that Malfoy's ancestors had facilitated the negotiations between goblins and wizards, and Lucius Malfoy knew a lot of secrets that might play a role.

Their backs were facing the window-like area. The place where there should have been a window was now empty, and the outside was even darker. There was a low growl coming up from the ground, which made people's scalp tingle.

"The workmanship is a mess, without any sense of beauty," the goblin holding a magnifying glass continued to pick on the fault, "it is even more incomparable to our elaborate silverware-but, there is no doubt that this is a very old antique, and The clay used seems a bit special... Gringotts is willing to pay fifty Galleons for it."

"This is not for sale."

Ms. Bones said with a sigh of relief, and then she realized what, the plate is real, the wizard relics are real.Countless courage suddenly filled her heart.

"... Strange, I can't tell the source," the goblin said puzzledly: "The goblin has records of soils from all over the world, but the soil used in this pottery dish contains some special ingredients, and it is not sure what is being used in the forging. role—where did you get it?"

Ms. Burns smiled slightly, "You're right, Nagnack. It was brought back from the moon by Felix Hep. He was lucky enough to find the ruins of an ancient wizard."

Nagnak the goblin stared at her. "You mean this thing came from the moon?"

Ms. Burns nodded reservedly.

The goblins whispered.

A goblin with cross-eyed eyes said with an ugly face: "I don't believe it! Let me check it again!" He jumped up from the chair. Although the goblin was short in stature, his fingers were very long. The moment his nails touched the saucer, Harry, who was sitting across from him, suddenly stretched out his hand, and the saucer moved away from the goblin.

"Bo Derek, don't make trouble!" a goblin reprimanded angrily.

Cross-eyed Balderick caught a cloud of air and sat back in his chair unwillingly.

"Mr. Harry Potter," the goblin who had just stopped him greeted coldly, "it seems like yesterday that you first came to Gringotts."

Harry carefully distinguished the face of the goblin. In his opinion, goblins all look alike, only differing in beard and hair. They look a bit like dolls sold in Weasley's Wizard Wheezes, um, no. A semi-finished product with hair glued on...

Since the goblin had mentioned his first visit to Gringotts - "Mr. Griphook?" said Harry tentatively, searching his guts.

Griphook nodded.

Ms. Burns turned a blind eye to what had just happened, and said calmly: "We can talk about business. You should know my reason for coming. Although goblins and wizards are of different races, and there are occasional disputes, the two sides are in fact Interdependent relationship, both part of the wizarding world."

"Hmph! Who knows if you guys have come up with new tricks?" Boderick shouted.

"It's not impossible." Said the goblin sitting in the center, he seems to be the oldest, for goblins, older means stronger casting ability and higher status - this may be the number of goblins Not many systems inherited from the Fairy Kingdom.

"But we ask wizards to face up to the rights of goblins. Including that goblins must be absolutely equal to wizards on all occasions, goblins have the right to carry and use magic wands, as well as the right to settle down and participate in the next Muggle negotiations..." said the old goblin It took a full 10 minutes to stop.

"By the way, there is also the cancellation of that stupid goblin liaison office!"

Ms. Burns raised her eyebrows.

"I don't know when you added more than a dozen requirements, and I thought you were satisfied with Dirk Cresswell's ability to work." Dirk Cresswell is the director of the Goblin Liaison Office, Responsible for communicating with goblins, he was in charge of the last negotiation.

"The goblin doesn't need a wizard to dictate the economy." The goblin said naturally.

Draco Malfoy let out a loud "chih".

"Boy, I don't care about Malfoy," the cross-eyed Baldrick immediately threatened, "Be careful I'll feed you to the dragon."

Draco paled.He narrowed his eyes and drawled, "My father once said there was a blind Ukrainian iron belly locked beneath Gringotts . . . but you would never dare to let it go."

"I'm waiting for you to say something," said the goblin defiantly.

"Sitting across from you is the Minister of Magic. If you do this, it will mean that wizards and goblins are at war," Draco Malfoy said with a sullen smile on his face. "I would like you to do this. I can guarantee that within an hour, the goblins here will become history."

The goblins yelled angrily, several goblins pointed at Draco, his face became even paler, from the goblin's movements, Harry thought of the way the house elf Dobby was about to cast a spell, and he "whoosh" With a single draw of the wand, the spell is ready to go.

Although he did not assign a task when he came, he positioned himself as the escort for the negotiation.

Hermione went through a lot of collected materials at the Ministry of Magic in the morning, and talked with Ms. Burns all the way.The specifics of the negotiations hardly required Harry's involvement - he was very self-aware, and judging by his History of Magic OWLs results, he basically got all the goblin-related questions wrong.

Therefore, Harry was very surprised that Malfoy, who had always been timid and cowardly, dared to take the initiative to provoke him on this occasion. He stood up and approached the talking goblin, looking confident.But in the next second, Harry suddenly realized.

"Felix Hemp." A name came out of Draco's mouth.

The name seemed to have magic power, and the light on the goblins' slender fingers was a little weaker. Seeing this scene, Draco showed a winning smile on his face. He was right, Dad was right!These arrogant goblins with long ears are afraid of the professor.

In the eyes of others, Professor Haipu is an extremely different existence. He rises like a comet, but few people really know him.

The dragon's roar still faintly came from the broken window behind them, but the roar could no longer move them.Draco's words seemed to have a magical chemical reaction.

Ms. Burns restrained the smile that was about to appear on her face. She had long been disgusted with the goblin's arrogance, but she had to bear with it for the sake of the overall situation. Who knew that these goblins went so far as to take her humility as a condition for negotiation , which can be seen from the fact that they added a dozen additional requirements.

"Mr. Hype has a lot to do," said Ms. Bones mildly. "I'm not going to bother him with these little things if it's not necessary. As you say, negotiations are imminent, and we don't have much time left. "

She turned to Hermione.

Hermione cleared her throat, "Mr. Goblins, everyone, why don't you listen to the charter of the Pan-Magical Alliance? Although it regulates the obligations of all parties, it is more about rights and interests. Once the alliance is established, magic The power of the world will be twisted into one, not only can strengthen cooperation, if wizards and the Muggle government successfully negotiate, goblins will also enjoy a series of benefits. Oh, I have reliable sources, even if the silverware made by goblins is in the non-magical world Very welcome too...”

The goblins glanced at each other.

Negotiations continued, and for the next two hours, Hermione rattled on about the benefits the pan-magic alliance had brought to goblins, and some goblins loosened their attitudes.Hermione took a breath and continued:

"The goblin didn't lose anything. Instead, this unprecedented crisis served as an opportunity for wizards and goblins to have a reason to talk. At this juncture, no one wants to have an accident, so both parties will definitely show the greatest sincerity—— But if someone, or a goblin is stubborn and won't compromise at all for their own interests," Hermione raised her eyebrows and said solemnly, "Goblins are not afraid of war, and wizards are even less afraid of war."

"Do wizards want to destroy their own economic system?" A goblin said with an ugly face.

Hermione looked at Ms. Burns, she leaned back in her chair, she didn't intend to speak, so Hermione said seriously: "Maybe there will be chaos in the wizarding world, but the troubles will be resolved soon, for example, Future World Corporation There are more than [-] employees around the world who could take Gringotts' place at any time."

"Not to mention, the currency forging technology and anti-counterfeiting technology that the goblin is proud of - for a real archmage, it is only a matter of time before he wants to crack it."

The goblins yelled at her.

"Goblins are not equal to wizard slaves!" cried another goblin.

But Ms. Burns was not surprised but pleased, which means that the negotiations have entered a substantive stage.

"House-elves are not slaves," said Hermione, "at least not legally. The house-elves in the future world and Hogwarts have unanimously agreed to join the Pan-Magic Alliance. Next, the Ministry of Magic will gradually clean up the old family's hand The house-elves in the house, they will be freed from the drudgery of housework and unfair treatment, and they will be engaged in more meaningful things."

"Which families are willing to hand over their servants?" cried a goblin, looking at Draco.

"Ignorant fools are in Azkaban," Draco sneered. "Those people will end up like their master Voldemort." Well, the Malfoy family must be separated from the Death Eaters.It took him a while to speak the Dark Lord's name fluently.

"What if there are house-elves who don't want to be free?" asked the goblin, who had some idea of ​​the state of the house-elves.

"The Ministry of Magic won't cut it across the board, and will be lenient towards those who are friendly," Hermione said, "but at least the new-born house-elves will be protected by the Pan-Magical Alliance."

The goblins whispered. They could see that the wizard's will to reform was very firm. The wizard gave up a large part of his interests. Although this part of the benefits still remained in the magic world, the goblins were still shocked by the practice of taking food from the mouth of the ancient family.

At this time, Draco stepped on Harry under the table, Harry turned his head sideways, and Draco pouted at an empty seat opposite.

The goblin with the strange name is missing?Harry thought to himself that he too had seen the cross-eyed Boderick leave halfway and didn't think anything was wrong, but Draco Malfoy reminded him.

The cold wind behind him made his hairs stand on end.

Harry sneaked closer to Ms. Burns, his lips twitched, "There's a goblin missing."

Ms. Burns nodded deliberately.

Suddenly, a deafening dragon's roar came from the ground to their ears, and the room fell silent instantly.Harry stared closely at the faces of the goblins, who didn't seem to know what was going on either.Immediately afterwards, the table began to tremble, and the rumble of the stone pillar collapsing and the roar of the dragon mixed together, making one's hair stand on end.

Harry was the first to react, jumping up and taking the container on the table in his hand, while Hermione stuffed it into the beaded pouch.Then they quickly retreated to the corner, and Harry stood on the outer layer, supporting the magic barrier.

There was a crunching of teeth.Harry looked over the chair he had been sitting in and saw a cloudy pink eye. "Dragon, dragon, dragon..." Draco stammered, as gray-white scales and spiked wings slid past their eyes, the walls were crushed and deformed, and dust was raised high.

From far away came the panicked screams of the goblins.

The goblin in the house ran out, followed by Harry and the others, and came to the Gringotts hall.They were stunned by the scene in front of them - a big hole was broken in the high and exquisite ceiling, and a huge gray dragon could be seen from the hole flapping its wings, kicking half of the ceiling with a kick, and then The dragon didn't stop, let out an extremely excited roar, spread its wings and rushed towards the light blue sky.

Some broken bricks and glass fell down.

The goblins are staggering here and there, like potatoes randomly placed on the dining table.There are more than a dozen sharp goblin daggers stuck on the ground, these daggers are enough to break through the dragon's defense.

A goblin was yelling in some strange language, which Harry realized was Goblin.

"What's going on?" one of the goblins involved in the negotiation asked grumblingly.

"Bo Derek broke into the bottom of the vault privately, and asked for the jingle piece that controlled the dragon, trying to loosen some of its restraints. But he was careless, the dragon rushed over and swallowed him in one gulp, and then the giant The dragon broke free from the remaining chains and flew away," a goblin reported.

The goblin elder's face was so gloomy that he could drip water.

He instantly realized that the cross-eyed Bo Derek was going to use the dragon to sabotage the peace talks. Of course, Bo Derek would not be stupid enough to let the dragon attack the Minister of Magic, but it was still possible to create disturbances, interrupt and postpone the negotiations.

At least on the bright side, wizards can't afford to delay.The longer the delay, the better for the goblin.

"Why did the dragon suddenly go berserk? And how could it break free from the chain made by the goblin?" Ms. Burns asked loudly.

No one answered.Gringotts even closed the banking business today because they had to receive people from the Ministry of Magic, and the door was completely sealed, which basically ruled out the possibility of outsiders sneaking in.Elder Goblin found himself in a very troublesome situation.

Fight, can't fight, can't fight, the previous threats are still vivid; telling the truth is even more stupid, goblins don't do stupid things.

Ms. Burns, also sullen, stood in the hall, calculating quickly.

"If I'm not mistaken—" She took a deep breath, "That monster dragon dealt with us, and the dragon got out of control and suffered the consequences?"

"Nothing!" Elder Goblin flatly denied.

"Otherwise, how did the chain break? Could it be that you still can't control the guards guarding the vault? How does this make us believe that you can protect wizard property?" Ms. Burns pressed on.

"The dragon is old, and we are planning to replace it with other creatures, so we may have neglected its management." The goblin elder said immediately, "but Gringotts is still the safest bank in the world."

"This rhetoric is completely insincere."

"...At least it won't affect the next negotiation." Elder Goblin said, staring at the crowd who came from the street and pointed.

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Felix put down the newspaper and stood up from the sofa, "I'm leaving."

"Amelia hasn't come out yet," said Sirius in surprise.

"There was an accident at Gringotts, but I don't think it will affect the negotiations." Felix said, looking at Sirius and Lupine, "Help me, Severus will come to Sword Castle in two days to preside over potions Simplify work, I don't want to hear any of you fighting."

"You can't just say that to us!" Sirius exclaimed.

Felix shrugged his shoulders. At this time, the noise outside had reached the inside of the sword castle.

"Why don't I just put 'No Fighting' behind every door?"

(End of this chapter)