Harry Potter and the Secret Treasure

Chapter 238 A Treasure Beyond Imagination

Thousands of years ago, the structure of the magic world was different from what it is now. At that time, the British social background was very chaotic, the territory was not unified, and the entire European continent was also in wildness and darkness.

In addition to wizards, many races of magical creatures flourished.

They don't live in seclusion like they are now. On the contrary, they frequently appear in the wizarding world, have frequent exchanges and transactions with wizards, and even accept the employment of wizards to directly participate in Muggle wars.

Among the many magical creatures, goblins are definitely extremely special.

Because of their natural greed and liking for gold, they have the closest connection with humans. They directly set up shops in the wizarding society and provided wizards with a large number of well-made magic props, weapons, armor and other services.

But the inherent pride and cunning in their characters made them not trust humans.

In the eyes of goblins, they and human wizards are just equal cooperation and have the same status.To put it more bluntly, it is completely a relationship between using money and being used.

As long as they are slightly dissatisfied, they will launch a rebellion and make trouble for a while.

In this environment, many powerful wizards and pure-blood wizard families do not believe in goblins, and they are skeptical of Gringotts established by goblins.

In their view, they would rather bury their family treasures in their own castle or in a hidden place than Gringotts, whose security is questionable.

This kind of ethos was very popular in the Middle Ages and the previous period, which is the main reason why many precious magical relics can be found in later generations.

After centuries of excavation, these magical relics have become very rare, and the rest that have not been found or successfully excavated are all relics left by very powerful wizards.For example, in the pyramids of Egypt, Gringotts has a long-term cooperation with the Egyptian wizarding authorities. They have jointly excavated and deciphered this ancient magical relic for a long time. Ron's brother Bill Weasley was there as a spellbreaker. Work.

The rulers of Egypt thousands of years ago, those powerful pharaohs and wizards arranged countless powerful magics and curses in the pyramids, and the cracking work was progressing very slowly.

Like the pyramids, the same is true of the once-prominent Gryffindor and Hufflepuff families. They did not keep their family wealth in Gringotts like Slytherin and Ravenclaw, but hid it in other places. place, so far undiscovered.

How much property Godric Gryffindor has, Ivan can't be sure.

However, the description of Helga Hufflepuff in the relevant magic history books clearly states that besides cooking, her hobby is collecting gold.

With Hufflepuff's strength, the property she left behind is definitely an astonishing astronomical figure, but she doesn't know where she will hide it, and even the descendants of the Hufflepuff family don't know.An idea suddenly popped up in Ivan's mind, she wouldn't hide all those things in the Hogwarts Chamber of Secrets, that's really...

Wait until he pays all kinds of hardships to open the secret treasure left by the Big Four, and then finds that Hufflepuff left him a whole house of gold!

Ivan smiled bitterly, and hurriedly removed this thought from his mind. Although gold is good, it is useless in defeating Voldemort, and he cannot directly use gold to smash Voldemort to death.

Ivan observed for a while, and he found that in addition to the statues of these family emblems, there were many strange utensils on the islands above the lava in the distance.

They are all made of metal, and they look extremely majestic, with strange shapes and shapes, like weapons left by some ancient civilization.

Aiwen knew that those things were not weapons, but tools used by fairies to forge and refine magic items.

As we all know, apart from being greedy and stingy, goblins are also famous for being good at crafting sophisticated monster equipment.

Historically, many legendary magic items have been crafted by goblins.

Among them, the most famous one is the Sword in the Stone jointly produced by the Archmage Merlin and the Fairy. This most famous magic sword in history determined the ownership of the British throne and the future direction of the magic world at that time.

It was also after that that many non-human magical creatures gradually withdrew from the stage of history.

Of course, there is also Gryffindor's sword made by goblins, a sword that Godric Gryffindor bought from goblins when he was alive.He put magic on it, only real Gryffindors can find it, Harry used this sword to kill the basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets last semester.

Ivan withdrew his gaze, beside him, Harry was still looking around and exclaimed loudly, "It's unbelievable, how did they do it!"

"The goblins have strong magic power, and they have their own unique magic civilization." Hermione followed with admiration, "Observe carefully, you will find that all these islands are floating on the lava, but they are not melted by the magma. Only powerful magic can do it. To be honest, I don't know how the goblins built such a huge project. In my opinion, it is impossible to complete..."

"Nothing is impossible!" Griphook said proudly, "Fairies have their own special magic, which is much more advanced than human wizards."

He took the key from Sirius, and walked to the engraving that marked No. 68, which was the family crest of the Black family. The most striking thing on it were two leaping black dogs, all carved from obsidian.

There was a narrow opening in the bronze gate below the statue, and Griphook went to put the key in and turned it gently.

His action seemed to have touched a certain mechanism, and there was a loud rumbling sound from the ground.

The door was slowly opened, and a stone staircase appeared in front of everyone.The Black family's vault revealed its true colors, with a large rectangular room in front of it.

Ivan, Harry, and Hermione rushed in excitedly. They all wanted to see what it looked like inside the vault, and how shocking the wealth of the Black family was!

Just take a look at the environment where the vault is located, the dangerous hot magma and the horrifying emblem of the ancient pure-blood wizard family on the island.

All of this is enough to arouse everyone's interest.

They all wanted to know what was hidden in the Black family vault, although Sirius had said before that it was boring and full of gold objects.But being able to fill an entire room with gold is, in some ways, a remarkable achievement.

Ivan, Harry, and Hermione rushed in, expecting to see mountains of gold coins, silver bars, and other valuable antiques.

But there was nothing in front of them, the vault was very empty, as if it had just been robbed, and there was not a single gold product in sight.

It is indeed shocking enough, but it is completely opposite to what I imagined before.

This place is not so much a vault, but more accurately, it looks like a storage room of an evil dark wizard.

The shelves on both sides are full of strange and strange black magic items whose specific uses are unknown.

For example, on the shelf to the left of Ivan is a black skull with a crown.

This slightly sunken bone is carved with ornate decorations, exuding a strange aura, which looks terrifying and disgusting.

In the corner of the room, there is a huge white skeleton of an unknown type of fire dragon. It has been reassembled by magic and stands there. Each bone is engraved with the family crest of the Black family. I don’t know if it is the history of the Black family. A collection of bad tastes left by our ancestors.

What is going on here, what about the treasured wealth of the Black family? !

Everyone turned their heads in unison to look at Sirius who had just walked in, waiting for his explanation.

Chapter 239 The House Deed of the Black Family

"Sirius, what the hell is going on?" Harry asked in surprise.

"I don't know, it's different from when I came here 16 years ago!" Sirius looked around and said doubtfully, "In my impression, mountains of gold coins and gold products filled the whole room, and even the place where people settled There is nowhere..."

Now, in the empty vault, except for all kinds of strange treasures and black magic items that are very evil at first glance, there is no shadow of gold.

"Griph?!"

"We can't reveal the secrets of customers, but it seems that there is nothing to hide." Griphook gloated, "This vault was opened 13 years ago, according to the owner of the vault at the time, Mrs. Walburga Black. Instructed, we sent people to transfer all the gold and valuables here to the personal vaults of Mrs. Bellatrix Lestrange and Mrs. Narcissa Malfoy. Because there is too much gold, we It's been a busy two days."

Hearing Griphook's description, Ivan could imagine the scene at that time.

The goblins lined up in and out of the Black family's vault, their arms full of gold, and they were transported by trolley to the personal vault above.

"Not surprisingly, after Regulus' death, my dear old mother redistributed the family property." Sirius said sarcastically, "My two cousins ​​each have a share, one of them Married to a Death Eater, one of the craziest Death Eaters in her own right, my mum is definitely proud of them. Not surprising, I should have guessed she would, she sure doesn't want to keep anything give me."

Sirius walked up to a skull and lifted it aside.

The ancient cracked skull rolled on the floor, grunting, grunting, and rolling into the dark corner of the room.

Ivan, Harry, and Hermione looked at each other and saw the worry in each other's eyes.

As if noticing that something was wrong with the atmosphere, Sirius immediately raised his head and said, "Okay, don't be downcast, you three, no one cares about the gold, we are here to find the deeds. In my opinion, they should still be there here."

He went to a cabinet and rummaged through it, and Ivan and the others hurried over to help.

Sirius was right, all the dark magic items that looked dangerous and things that clearly had the Black family crest were left here, unmoved.

There is a lot of mess besides no gold.

There are plenty of simply eccentric decorations that belonged to the personal collections of former members of the Black family.There are still many items with magic power, and Ivan even felt a strong magic power reaction from several items.Unfortunately, most of them are black magic items, and it is impossible to take them out and use them.

In front of a spacious, dark red stone table, Ivan saw a simple card.

The card shows that all the items on this table belong to Artus Black. Ivan still remembers the genealogy of the Black family that he saw yesterday. This guy is the great-grandfather of Sirius, a character who probably lived about three or four years ago.

On the stone platform, the most eye-catching thing is a cushion in a glass box, inside which is a glass eyeball that is motionless and bloodstained.

It looked as if it had been picked out alive directly from someone's eyes.

There are various bones placed inside the stone platform, most of which are bones of magical creatures, but there are also many bones that can be seen as human bones just by looking at their shapes.

There can't be a deed on it, and Ivan walked to the side to open another closed cabinet.

Under the thick cover of dust, he saw dozens of large glass bottles filled with unknown liquids of yellow and green liquid.

Ivan narrowed his eyes, moved a little closer, and observed curiously.

The glass bottle closest to him contained a gray snake with a very slender body, about the size of a thicker thread.It is bent at a weird angle, very similar to the pattern of the ash snake in the book.

The Ash Snake is a rare magical creature born of magic.

Ash snakes are created when a mass of fel fire burns uncontrollably for an extended period of time.It was a thin, gray-white snake with glowing red eyes that emerged from the flames and swam into the shadows of the surrounding dwellings.

Where the fire ash snake swims, it will leave a trail of ashes.

Its lifespan is only one hour, during this one hour, it will find a hidden place to lay its eggs, and then its body will be fragmented and turned into dust.

Ash snake eggs are a brilliant red, with a fiery glow.

If the eggs are not found in time, they can set the residence on fire within minutes.These snake eggs have strong magic power. As long as they are frozen with magic, they can be used as materials for powerful potions, or swallowed whole to treat fever.

Because of the high requirements for fire, this kind of snake is actually very difficult to be born.

As for making a fire ash snake as a specimen and preserving it completely, it is even more impossible to do it. Except for the one in the bottle, Ivan has never seen any other similar ones.

Just when he was about to get closer to see what other interesting things were contained in the other bottles, he suddenly heard Hermione's voice.

"Come here, I found the deed!" she shouted.

Hermione took out a lot of yellow paper from a file cabinet, densely written on it, it was very difficult to read, and it was all grammar from a long time ago.At the back, there is the crest of the Black family and the seal of the Ministry of Magic, certifying that the deed is legally valid.

"This is No. 6 at Spider's End!" Hermione picked up the top deed and looked through it carefully. "I've never heard of this place. Where is Spider's End?"

"On the north side of Diagon Alley and Knockturn Alley, there is a large Muggle area in between." Sirius walked over and explained, "It is a very old wizarding area, about 500 years old, because there are many Less dark wizards, the house has been meaningless in the last few decades, it has been deserted."

Below this deed is the deed of 12 Grimmauld Place.It belonged to the Black family thousands of years ago. In addition to the house, it also includes a large piece of land around it. On the house deed are the emblems left by the predecessor of the Ministry of Magic, the "Presbyterian Church" and the Muggle king at that time.

The fourth deed is for a shop located in Knockturn Lane, and the two deeds each contain a long-term lease agreement.

Among them, No. 21 Knockturn Lane was leased to an old witch for a period of 40 years to sell things like poisoned apples and poisoned candles.As for No. 83, it was leased to the Mai Nai family for a period of 100 years to sell furs and heads of various magical creatures.

After that, the fifth deed was finally a shop on Diagon Alley, No. 36 Diagon Alley.

"36 Diagon Alley!" Hermione recalled carefully, "It seems to be between the Ella's Owl Shop and Ollivander's Wand Shop, where..."

In Ivan's memory, there was indeed a big house that had been idle for a long time.

If nothing else, it should be No. 36 Diagon Alley.Although the location is not the best, but there is a lot of traffic around.Especially when school is about to start every year, many little wizards have to buy wands or buy an owl as a pet.

It would be perfect for a newspaper headquarters. If the space is large enough, the first floor can be fully utilized to sell Weasley joke products and the like.

In the filing cabinet, the last deed is a manor in the countryside of the Black family. It covers a very large area, and there seems to be a deserted castle on it.

Chapter 240 Sirius' Wand

The house deed was successfully found, and the purpose of this trip has been achieved. Everyone did not touch those obviously dangerous black magic items and other weird collections.

Led by Griphook, they returned the same way.

After another half an hour, the car finally returned to the ground after running wildly.

Breathing the fresh air, looking at the familiar buildings on Diagon Alley and Professor Lupine who greeted him with a smile, Ivan, Harry, and Hermione all had a feeling of being reborn and returning to the world.Although I did not see the wealth of the Black family as expected, the location of the vault and the countless secrets deep underground in Gringotts are exciting enough.

The three of them discussed with Lupine what they had seen and heard in the depths of the ground, such as the chained fire dragon, the island in the rolling lava, the vault of the pure-blood wizard family thousands of years ago, and so on.

Among them, Ivan is most interested in the vault with the number one and the Slater family emblem.

He was sure there was some connection between the ornamentation on the vault door and the odd ornamentation on the Slytherin locket in his arms.

One more point, about the key to the secret treasure left by the Big Four.

Aiwen once speculated about the hints about the location of the key.

From the meaning of the text, since Gryffindor's treasure key is kept in the centaur tribe, then the Slytherin key is likely to be hidden in Gringotts by the goblins, in the mysterious vault I just saw in.

Now the question is how to confirm this and get the key out? !

It is impossible to ask the goblin for questioning, and breaking into Gringotts directly is even more courting death.

Ivan thought for a while, if the key to Slytherin's treasure is really in Gringotts, he still has to start with the vampire girl named Elaine and his family.

Even vampires are descendants of the Slytherin family.

Like Voldemort, they were both legal heirs to the vault by blood.

While Ivan was thinking about this matter, Lupine told Harry and Hermione about the magic that the goblin had arranged in Gringotts, and the weakness of the fire dragon that everyone had just seen.

Sirius followed, not participating in the conversation.

Whether it was the wildly bouncing cart or the empty vault, he didn't look too happy.

He stared at the front blankly, not knowing what he was thinking.