From Hogwarts to Strixhaven
Chapter 225 Gringotts
Diagon Alley is hidden in a tavern on a busy street in London, and Gringotts Wizarding Bank occupies the most conspicuous location in Diagon Alley.
It is a tall snow-white marble building, but some of its designers and builders must have worked after drinking. Because many of the stone pillars supporting the building are crooked, neither symmetrical nor regular.
However, considering that most of the buildings in the alley are in this crooked style, maybe goblins and wizards prefer it.
The door of Gringotts is cast in bronze and polished by cleaning magic to be shiny enough to be used as a mirror.
The goblin in scarlet uniform was responsible for welcoming guests at the door. Seeing the Malfoys coming, he bowed deeply.
Behind the bronze door is the silver door, which is also cast in one piece. The two silver-white door panels are engraved with a very famous warning:
Come in, stranger, but beware of the consequences of greed. If you only ask for things that never belong to you, you will be punished most severely. Therefore, if you want to take a fortune from our underground vault that never belonged to you, thief, you have been warned. Be careful not to bring back treasure, but bad retribution.
After passing through the silver door, you will enter the main hall of Gringotts. Unlike the stereotype that "gold must be after bronze and silver", the goblins did not cast another golden door. Because they put all the wizards' gold underground and vowed to keep it forever.
The ceiling in the marble hall is very high. God knows whether these dwarfs are still planning to do business with giants.
There are very long counters on both sides of the hall. Hundreds of goblins sit on high stools behind the counters, weighing coins with scales, examining gems with eyepieces, and hastily recording in the account book with feather pens.
In addition, there are many doors leading to the underground in the hall, and each door leads to different levels of the vault. The older the wizard family, the deeper and more secure the underground vault.
Of course, this also means that their vaults are more likely to be forgotten, especially after the wizard family is extinct, the gold and treasures inside belong to the goblins.
However, the goblins will certainly not make their biggest profit-making means public. They publicize that the underground vault is a more thorough security measure. Not only dragons but also dangerous magical animals such as sphinxes guard the vault.
And the wizards bought into this thing, and even helped the goblins to promote Gringotts as the second safest place besides Hogwarts. Even Voldemort hid the golden cup as his Horcrux in the deepest Lestrange family vault.
Of course, we all know that Hogwarts is not actually the safest place, because it has more or less accidents every year, especially after Ivy came.
In the first year, a Quirrell died and Umbridge went crazy.
In the second year, a bunch of students and professors were injured, Lockhart was disfigured, Snape did a sit-up on the desk in the headmaster's office, and a mouse was thrown into Azkaban, waiting for him to be kissed by the Dementors.
But isn't this more civilized than more than a hundred years ago?
At that time, Ivy slaughtered hundreds of wizards and goblins, but now he is very restrained.
So Ivy never liked goblins, not only because he slaughtered a large number of goblins more than a hundred years ago.
These greedy and ugly little guys always reminded him of the goblins and goblins in the fantasy world, and he always believed that only dead goblins were good goblins.
However, the banking system of the wizarding society depends entirely on these goblins. Even if Ivy really killed them all, rebuilding the banking industry would be a laborious task.
Ivy hated all the troubles that hindered his research on magic, so it was better to keep them as they were.
The Malfoys, with the vault key, came to a counter, and the idle goblin behind them immediately smiled flatteringly: "How much gold do you want to deposit today, Mr. Malfoy?"
"No," Narcissa put Bella's vault key on the counter, "We are going to the Lestrange family vault, this is my sister's key."
"Lestrange?" The goblin's wrinkled face showed a look of surprise, "But their family is already in Azkaban... It is said that the Lestrange family has no descendants..."
"Obviously, my sister left the entire vault to me." Narcissa's radiant face showed full of arrogance, almost with Nose pointed at the goblin and said, "Take us to the vault, don't make me say it again!"
"This is against the rules..." the goblin screamed, "very against the rules!"
"The rule of Gringotts is that customers are the top priority! My wife brought the key, you have to take us to the vault, otherwise the Malfoy family will have to consider Gringotts' service attitude. Hogwarts has recently planned to raise dragons, and I am also a Hogwarts board member. Maybe we can also set up a wizard bank and use fire dragons as security measures!" Unlike his radiant wife, Lucius's face looked much grayer, and even two thick dark bags appeared on his usually pale face.
Lucius's threat was simply digging up the roots of Gringotts. Although the goblin behind the counter understood that Lucius was probably just threatening, he didn't dare to gamble on the remaining possibility.
"Coming right now! Coming right now!" the goblin shouted behind him, "Griphook! You take these two guests... No! Griphook, you take my shift, I will personally take the two guests to the underground!"
The goblin named Griphook looked very happy, and couldn't wait to sit on the high stool that didn't belong to him. Perhaps the goblin in charge of reception at the front desk has a higher status than the goblin who leads customers to the vault.
The goblin at the counter first took out the jingle piece, then opened the door for the Malfoys, while constantly apologizing for his previous words.
The passage leading to the underground vault is no longer built with marble, but a very narrow stone corridor, and torches are used for lighting, as if there is no worry at all about burning out the oxygen and causing suffocation.
After the downhill of the stone corridor, you can see a very narrow railway at the end, which is very similar to the mine car railway used by Muggles in mines. Even the small carriages used by goblins to pull people are not much different from Muggle mine cars.
However, the goblin's carriage did not have a bed, but several seats without seat belts.
Lucius and Narcissa both swallowed their saliva and sat together nervously, while the counter goblin sat back to back with them.
As for Ivy, who had been following them with invisibility, he also sat next to the counter goblin.
To be honest, he was not worried about the anti-thief waterfall in Gringotts at all. After all, that thing was a defensive measure that would only be activated when someone was found to have invaded. The Malfoys, who had the key to the vault, had a legitimate relationship that could be verified, and they could not be identified as thieves in any case, so Ivy, who went underground with them, would certainly not encounter water pouring down on his head.
The vault car started suddenly, speeding up and down along the crooked corridors. The positions of these vaults were completely irregular, as if they were deliberately confusing the thieves who came to steal things so that he could not find the real way.
The wind whistled in his ears, and the constant clicking sounds on the car were like wailing, making people worry whether it would fall apart in the next second. After turning around countless stalactites and stalagmites, the car finally stopped in the darkness.
Two light red dots suddenly lit up in the darkness, and Lucius lit his wand, reflecting the shadow of a fire dragon.
Although its body was huge, it had been destroyed beyond recognition. Its scales no longer looked metallic, and began to loosen and fall off like human teeth. Its two thick hind legs were tied with even thicker shackles, and then nailed to the piles driven into the stone ground with iron chains.
The giant fire dragon folded its spiked wings on both sides of its body. If it decided to spread its wings, this narrow passage would definitely not be able to fit in.
The protective measures of the vault roared, and the sound shook the stones. Then there was a fierce flame, and Lucius and Narcissa couldn't help but step back a few steps.
Fortunately, the place where the car stopped was very level, just out of the range of the fire dragon's breath.
The goblin at the counter took out the jingle pieces in the bag calmly and distributed them to the Malfoys.
Jingle pieces are a metal device that looks very much like a hand-cranked tambourine. Many metal pieces are hung on an iron handle. Once shaken, it will make a crisp and loud metal collision sound.
"That dragon is very old and its eyesight is not very good." The goblin at the counter explained, "But this also makes it more brutal, but we have a way to control it. As long as we shake the jingle pieces in our hands, we can pass safely."
The dragon has no high intelligence, but is more like a primitive and ferocious beast. Although they can fly, breathe fire, and many parts of their bodies contain good magic, they cannot master magic like other intelligent magical creatures. They act only on instinct, which is not much different from dogs domesticated by Muggles.
Pavlov can make dogs associate the sound of bells with eating, and these goblins can also make dragons associate the sound of jingle pieces with pain.
The goblin at the counter and the Malfoys walked through the passage shaking the jingle piece. The noise reflected back and forth on the stone wall, and it became even louder when it overlapped with each other.
The fire dragon that blocked the way let out a hoarse roar again and retreated with trembling.
No mistake, one sentence, one post, one content, one 6, one 9, one book, one bar, take a look!
Lucius's raised wand reflected the scars on the dragon's face. Ivy knew at a glance that it was a masterpiece of goblin weapons. He had collected a lot of similar things in the past.
"Please! Mr. and Mrs. Malfoy." The goblin at the counter bowed, then put his hand on the door of the vault, and with the key in Narcissa's hand, finally opened the door of the vault.
Inside the vault were all kinds of treasures. Things like gold coins were only the most inconspicuous. In addition, there were wine glasses decorated with various gems, silver armor, many precious magical animal furs, potions in crystal bottles, and even skulls wearing crowns.
Narcissa walked in first, followed by Ivy, and then Lucius.
"I won't bother you any more, both of you. If you're done, just knock on the door and I'll open it and let you out." The counter goblin bowed again and closed the vault door again.
After a heavy metal collision, the only light source in the vault was the wand that Lucius had been holding in his hand.
"Lord Doom?" Narcissa called softly.
In the past, as long as her husband was present, this woman would not take the initiative to talk to Avi. Only by Avi asked, she would answer the question. However, after Ivey showed the ability to return to the old, the hostess of the Malfoy family also convinced Aiwei.
Several bright light balls suddenly appeared in the four corners of the vault, and suddenly dispeld the darkness in the vault.
The Malfoy and his wife looked in front of him, and Avi was standing there.
With a satisfactory smile on his face, he softly announced his victory: "It's a step closer to death, Tom."
"What exactly does the hill we are looking for? Lord Dum?" Lucius stepped forward.
"It's the golden cup of Herga Herchipkic." Avi said softly, "But don't help you, I have seen it."
In the innermost of the vault, above the hills piled up, the shelf of various fairy silverware is placed at the top of the shelf, and a lonely gold cup flashes inconspicuously.
"I'll take it for you!" Naxisa took out the wand and thought loudly, "The Golden Cup is flying!"
However, nothing happened, and the Gold Cup of Hitchpich was still at the highest point of the shelf, and the lines remained motionless.
"Obviously Voldemort has released a lot of protection magic." Avi said, "You must also be careful, these treasures have been applied to the fire spell and replication spell. Jinshan, the person who entered the vault alive "". "" "". "
Lucius, who was preparing to enter Jinshan, immediately paused his feet and returned to Avi without trace.
"Do you have anything to take away?" Ai Wei took out his own silver tree wand. "I can help you unlock the above spells."
"No, we don't need anything." Lucius shook his head and rejected Avi's proposal.
"Let's take a little bit, how strange you are going out of the vault." Aiwei waved the wand sharply, and made a high drink, "Stopping!"
The stunned magic fluttered in the vault, and many of the crumbling treasures rolled to the ground, making a bonding sound.
Lucius picked up a sword rolling to his feet, while Naxisa was equipped with a few exquisitely designed jewelry.
"Very good." Seeing both of them chose things, Avi released his own destruction magic.
As the pages of the book pages quickly flipped, a gust of wind blew in the vault without origin, and even rolled up the gold and silver treasures on the ground, as if it formed a Jinhe flying in the air, and the end of Jinhe floated in the air in the air in the air in the air in the air in the middle of the air. Destroyed Magic Code.
Under the strong suction of the Destroyed Magic Code, the Leistland family inherited the treasures of several generations, and soon disappeared, and the entire vault was left at the highest Hugpachen Cup at the highest place.
Avi took it down with the master's hand and carefully observed it in his hand.
The shape of the Golden Cup is very restrained, and the size is only as large as the palm of the normal adult. Except for the carving of the Herch Page on the cup, there is nothing that can prove its identity.
However, Avi can determine that this bad weight is indeed a Voldemort of Voldemort, and it also has the potential to become ancient items.
Think about the ancient ceremony of the Golden Cup, add more tomorrow!
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