Harry Potter and the Secret Treasure

"Greedy and stupid goblin!" Ivan waved his wand lightly, and Zuo Sai fainted, his body stopped twitching.

A goblin dared to take the initiative to attack the wizard, even if Ivan killed him, there would be no problem.

As long as today's events are announced, public opinion in the entire magic world will be on his side, and it will even trigger a new round of control of goblins by the Ministry of Magic and the International Federation of Wizards, further suppressing the rights of Gringotts.

Of course, Aiwen would not be so stupid as to tell the secrets of "The Jade Record" and "The Book of Abraham".

Another point, he had to consider, after all, Zuo Sai was one of the heads of Gringotts in Egypt, and Aiwen didn't want to be caught in the whirlpool of public opinion.

Especially the current situation is very unfavorable to him, Fudge and the Ministry of Magic sent people to watch Dumbledore and a few of them.He was looking for any excuse to fight them, no matter whether Aiwen's reasons were good or not, if he dared to kill a goblin at this time, he would definitely be wanted by the Ministry of Magic and be arrested by the Wizengamot for trial.

There was no doubt that Fudge would indiscriminately expel him from Hogwarts and send him to Azkaban.

Since Zuo Sai couldn't be killed, he should think about what to do next.

It must be troublesome to let him go. The attack just now made Aiwen realize that the goblin, a greedy species that only has treasure in its eyes, will not give up the temptation of the Sorcerer's Stone.

As long as he remembers this incident, he will try every means to get the Philosopher's Stone from Ivan.

Although Aiwen didn't think he would pose too much threat to him, he didn't want to devote his energy to guarding against a goblin at any time.

"Maybe you can use the Forgetting Curse!" Ivan thought for a while, and pointed the wand firmly at Zuo Sai, "Forget nothing!"

The blue curse light flashed past, and Zuo Sai, who was in a coma, trembled violently, and then gradually calmed down.

A powerful forgetting spell is enough to make Zuo Sai forget everything that happened today.

Ai Wen frowned and looked at the goblin on the ground. It was not foolproof to do so.

For powerful wizards, they can still get what they want from Zuo Sai's head.

Moreover, no one can guarantee whether this goblin will have evil thoughts towards Aiwen, greed is one of the original sins.

Even if he forgets about Aiwen and "Jade Record", as long as he knows that Aiwen is proficient in alchemy and that Aiwen was recommended by Nicole Flamel, Aiwen and the people around them may still become the goblin. prey.

Ai Wen decided to add an insurance to completely solve this trouble, and he whispered another spell.

……

After Aiwen and Zuo Sai left, Bill, Fleur, Hermione, Gabriel, and Lavier, who had just met, were waiting in the hall.

Under Bill's introduction, the four girls got to know each other again.

"I didn't expect to have the opportunity to work together so soon." Lavier said with a smile, his eyes fell on Fleur, Hermione, and Gabriel, "Are you Hogwarts students like Mr. Weasley?" ? That is a very good magic school..."

"Irving and I are from Hogwarts, and Gabriel and Fleur are students of Beauxbatons," Hermione said.

"Ah, Beauxbatons, one of the three major magic schools in Europe." Lavier said, with a look of longing, "France is my favorite country, and I have also traveled to Paris, which is a veritable romantic capital, unfortunately No visit to Beauxbatons."

"Except for Aiwen, no outsiders have been to our school for many years!" Furong said, remembering what happened last summer, "That kid made a mess of the whole school in less than one night... ..."

"I don't blame Ivan, it's all those guys who provoked him." Gabriel said, and suddenly stopped, "Speaking of that incident, I remembered the black cat. After that night, it didn't know Wherever it went, I still want to adopt it."

"Black cat?!" Hermione looked at Gabriel, but she knew that Ivan's Animagus was a black cat.

"Yeah, a very cute cat. On the day Ivan came to our school, it suddenly appeared out of nowhere. I fed it milk. I wanted to take it to take a bath, but who knew it It ran away suddenly and never appeared again." Gabriel said worriedly, sighing, "I asked everyone afterwards, but no one saw it, and it was not anyone's pet..."

"It must have run into the woods. It was a wild cat." Fu Rong said disapprovingly.

Hermione nodded and was basically sure that the black cat was Ivan.

She was ready to ask what was going on, what was taking a shower with Gabriel? !

"But……"

"It's just a black cat. I'll give you one for your next birthday!" Furong said, rubbing Gabriel's face.

"Wait, let Ivan deliver it." Hermione said suddenly, "That guy is very rich, so you don't have to be polite to him."

Ivan, who was watching "The Jade Record" deep underground, didn't know that he was betrayed by Hermione, and he had to answer the question about taking a bath.

If it weren't for the restrictions on Beauxbaton's girls' dormitory, Aiwen might really have gone in with her!

This is good, Ivan may never dare to let Gabriel see his Animagus form again, otherwise he will be ravaged again.

Lavier smiled and watched the three of them discussing Aiwen, and his clever eyes rolled around a few times.

After a short contact, she realized that the boy was the core of the team, and he seemed to be a very strong guy.

"Speaking of which, Ivan is really amazing." Lavier said, "You are not as old as me, but you are proficient in the most difficult alchemy. I have never seen Mr. Zuo Sai being so polite to others, and he took the initiative Lead him to the underground vault to watch "Jade Record", which has never happened before."

Chapter 837 Lavier's Thoughts

The topic shifted to the goblin Zuo Sai, because of Bill's introduction, Fleur, Hermione, and Gabriel didn't have a good impression of him.

"I don't like that goblin," said Gabriel, wrinkling his nose. "He looks cunning."

"Most goblins are like this, they are not worthy of trust..." Fleur said.

In the history of magic, goblins have been trying to resist the rule of human wizards. They rebelled or rebelled for various reasons, causing a lot of trouble to the magic world. They are very smart and good at dealing with wizards. They are two extremes with house elves.

Although nominally still subject to the management of the Ministry of Magic, there is no freedom, but in fact this kind of control has existed in name only.

Hermione once hoped that the house elves could learn from the goblins and protect their own rights.

"Mr. Zuo Sai's temper may not be very good, but he has a lot of research on Egyptian history and ancient magic relics, and he is also very good at cracking various curses. You can learn a lot from him." Lavie said, "So I decided to join his excavation team.”

"Have you heard those rumors?" Hermione hesitated, then continued, "It's about the fact that someone in his digging team always dies or goes missing..."

"Have you guys heard about this too?" Lavier froze for a moment, the smile on his face gradually disappeared, "Yes, there have been such rumors, and the Ministry of Magic has investigated him many times, but there has been no evidence."

"He did it very carefully, and no one else knew." Bill said, looking away from the sun ruins excavation drawings, and joined their conversation, "The work of the curse breaker itself is very dangerous, and casualties are very common. Zuo Sai is also good at picking himself out of various troubles, but these things did happen..."

"I know what you said, Mr. Weasley, many people have reminded me." Lavier said, his voice became lower and lower, "I have a very good friend who joined Zuo Sai's excavation back then. In the team, never came back."

No one spoke, and it seemed that it was not that simple for Laviere to join the Zuo Sai digging team.

She seems to want to collect evidence to avenge her friend, but she has found nothing until now.

"I hope you don't tell this matter. I won't give up until I investigate the truth." Lavier said again, clenching his fists, "This exploration of the sun ruins is an opportunity. Seeing the portrait of Anubis on the wall..."

Anubis is the guide and guardian of the undead, and its appearance often indicates the need for sacrifices of living souls.

If Zuo Sai wanted to obtain the ultimate treasure, he would definitely attack other people, and there would be evidence at that time.

Hermione looked at Lavier in surprise, she didn't expect this girl with a smile on her face to have such an idea, to risk herself to collect evidence of Zuo Sai...

"If there is anything that needs help, just speak up, and we will help you." Bill sighed and said, "In short, you must remember that Zuo Sai is a dangerous guy. The excavation of the sun ruins this time, You guys have to be careful and don't separate."

After they discussed various rumors about Zuo Sai for a while, the topic finally turned to the sun ruins being excavated.

"The Ruins of the Sun are located in the center of the city of Peer-Ramesses. It is a large building that has been buried under thick gravel. For thousands of years, whenever people tried to dig it out, the sand quickly filled it. Back to the dug bunker, the excavation project has been unsuccessful." Lavier said, "In Egypt, the wizards called the yellow sand the impenetrable shadow of oblivion."

"Why not use magic to remove the grit?" Gabriel asked.

"Because the yellow sand itself has been enchanted, as a natural barrier to stop intruders." Bill said, "until those explorers discovered a passage into it not long ago, this ancient ruins can be displayed in the In front of the world."

"Look at this picture. The first floor of the Sun Ruins is very large, and the buildings inside are intricate. Various precious ancient relics, terrible curses, and automatic defense systems can be seen everywhere." Lavier's finger slid across the drawing, pointing Looking at the narrow line on the edge, "After some exploration, we found a secret passage full of scarabs. Mr. Zossay speculated that it might lead to the central area."

"Central region?!"

"Yes, this secret passage is under a statue of Isis, she is the goddess who protects the dead." Lavier said, lowering his voice, "Through that passage, we enter the underground area of ​​​​the sun ruins, where we find Many valuable antiquities were recovered, and a stone gate and three huge obelisks, representing the sun, moon and stars, were also found."

The obelisk is the most distinctive ancient Egyptian building except the pyramid.

Its shape is in the shape of a pointed square column, gradually shrinking from bottom to top, and the top is shaped like a pyramid tip. The spire is often wrapped with gold, copper or gold-silver alloy. Some magical obelisks also use strange crystals and gemstones on the top. And all kinds of mithril ore.

Generally speaking, obelisks are built in the most prominent places.

Carved from a single block of granite, it weighed several hundred tons and was carved on all four sides with intricate hieroglyphs or spell runes praising the gods and pharaohs.

When the rising sun shines on the tip of the monument, it will shine like a dazzling sun.

It was the first time Hermione, Fleur, and Gabriel had heard of the construction of an obelisk deep underground, and Bill also became interested.

No matter from which angle you look at it, the Sun Ruins are extraordinary, and there may really be important treasures hidden inside.

"We have investigated carefully, and the method to open the stone door is on the three obelisks." Lavier continued, "The above is not the magic we are familiar with, but alchemy, and alchemy skills must be used Only then can this mechanism be unlocked."

"That's why Zuo Sai found Ivan?" Hermione asked, staring carefully at the blueprint in front of her.

"It should be like this. We came back to Cairo for repairs this time, just to find alchemists or wizards who are proficient in alchemy. We have invited a few of them before." Lavier said hesitantly, "I didn't expect that, Zuo Sai Sir will invite Mr Mason..."

"He said it was because of Nicole Flamel's letter, but Ivan is really strong in this regard."

Hermione thought about it for a while, and said her conjecture last night, and listened to Lavier's opinion.

"You can draw these inferences just by looking at the materials?!" Lavier looked at Hermione with admiration, "The excavation team also speculated about what you said, because we didn't find the sun god in the sun ruins. Instead, they are all statues of gods guarding the dead, and the curses inside are also very powerful, and many people have died."

She told them a few more things, all cases of tragic deaths due to touching the curse.

When they passed through the secret passage full of scarabs, the first two people who went in were drilled into their bodies by worms. If they hadn't reacted quickly enough to dig out the flesh and worms together, they might be eaten by those scarabs. null.

In the end, they set fire to it for several days before they could get through the passage.

Lavier didn't care about the danger, she seemed to think that the more dangerous it was, the more Zuosai would be able to show his feet.

If Aiwen was here, he would definitely tell her that it doesn't need to be so troublesome, he has already solved the problem!

Under the effect of Veritaserum, Zuo Sai revealed all his past crimes, and now he just needs to make these things public.

Chapter 838 The Fairy's Vault

Deep underground, after modifying the goblin's memory, Ivan remembered the rumors that Bill told himself about Zuo Sai.

If those crimes can be proved, he will spend the rest of his life in prison, and naturally he will not come to trouble himself.

Do it thoroughly. Although Aiwen can't kill him directly, it's not bad to let him stay in the wizard prison.

Aiwen didn't know what monsters the Egyptian wizards used to guard the prison, but it was definitely not pleasant.

As for how to get Zuo Sai to confess frankly, it is not as complicated as Lavier thought, using Veritaserum and Imperius Curse.

Sometimes, simple methods are often more effective, and black magic can make many things a lot easier.

This process may not be legal, but as long as Ivan is careful and erases all traces of magic afterwards, no one will find out.

What's more, he is now legitimately fighting back in self-defense, and it was Zuo Sai who attacked him first.

If he could regret it, Zuo Sai would never attack Aiwen again, nor would he go deep underground with him alone.

"Speak out all the things you have done in the past that violated the law." Ivan ordered.

"Yes, the last one was a month ago..." Zuo Sai said in a dull voice, confessing all the crimes.

Listening to the other party's narration of the shocking crimes he had committed, Ivan almost couldn't help giving him a killing curse directly.

"It's really an unforgivable crime!"

What this goblin did was far beyond Ivan's imagination, and beyond the rumors he heard from Bill.

In addition to the identity of the person in charge of Gringotts in Egypt and the chief curse-breaker, Zuo Sai has many identities.

He is the largest illegal reseller of cultural relics in Egypt and even the entire North Africa and Southern Europe. He has been robbing pyramids, tombs, and ancient ruins in the past few decades. give them.

To Ivan's surprise, Lucius Malfoy was actually his partner.

They have a lot of contacts in reselling ancient Egyptian cultural relics, and Lucius also helped him gain more benefits and status at the headquarters of Gringotts in England, which is why he became one of the heads of Gringotts in Egypt.

To goblins, those powerful magic items that mean so much are worth nothing, the gold and wealth they need.

If there's anything else of interest, it's the weapons other goblins forge.

Of course, the goblins wouldn't mind selling these weapons to anyone who could afford enough Galleons.

The Malfoy family obviously has that strength, and they are probably one of the wealthiest pure-blood wizarding families in the wizarding world.

Ivan has heard Malfoy show off their family wealth more than once. They even have a manor in Romania dedicated to raising dragons as pets. This is not something ordinary wizards can play, which shows the luxury and wealth of their family.

Another thing that caught Ivan's attention was that not long ago, at the request of Lucius Malfoy, Zuo Sai sold all the excavated ancient magic items to him, and exchanged them for a lot of gold.

Ivan remembered that Keresis had told him that Voldemort had let vampires search for ancient magical relics all over the world.

Obviously, these things are what Voldemort needs, and he wants to find information related to evil gods from here.

Ivan pondered for a while, what exactly does Voldemort need? !

Things turned around and returned to Voldemort. He is Ivan's biggest enemy at present.

As for the evil gods, demons, and the final battle, catastrophe, etc. mentioned by the Titans, they are still far away from Ivan...

"Okay, take me to your personal vault to take a look." Ivan interrupted Zuo Sai who was still narrating his crimes.

He was no longer interested in hearing what the goblin continued, and left those things to the Aurors.