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Published at 17th of May 2022 10:08:35 AM


Chapter 696: Gringotts' Roar

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At the headquarters of Future World, Felix, Sirius and Lupin were scattered in three corners of the office. Felix was lying on the sofa and flipping through the newspaper. Sirius leaned against the door frame and kept throwing a ball of wool. Lupin Sitting behind a desk, facing a thick stack of papers.

"That's what she said?" Felix was reading a newspaper from a dozen days ago with an obituary signed by Elphias Dorje, his fingers resting in the middle.

"The inspiration you gave her." Sirius said absently, staring out the window, "that public appearance made Amelia realize the role of school students, and she thought she could give it a try - last time she took A bunch of Aurors, goblins nearly set the dragon out of the vault."

"Is the situation so serious?" Lupin asked solemnly, raising his head.

"I judge they don't dare, but the appearance of the Goblin Brotherhood complicates things." Sirius said with a gloomy expression, the last time he participated in the negotiation, the two sides were at war with each other. "Their spokesman, the cross-eyed Bode What, calling for a new Goblin Bill of Rights, and negotiating the great history of the Goblin Kingdom, where a certain king beat wizards to pieces."

Fairy Kingdom? Felix thought about it, it was basically a term that only existed in books and exam papers.

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

But unlike other magical races, goblins are more aggressive. They not only developed their own language and magic system, but also appeared as master metalsmiths, communicated with wizards, and learned and imitated the excellence of wizards.

It is not easy for wizards to have their current dominance in the magical world. They have faced challenges from many races, and some have even disappeared forever in history. Among them, the goblins have been fighting for the longest time, and rebellions broke out in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and they did not subside until nearly a hundred years ago.

Therefore, in general, wizards have an absolute advantage over goblins for a short period of time, and they have a great relationship with the non-magical world. With the improvement of productivity, ordinary people have experienced several population explosions in the past few hundred years, and the number of wizards has increased. Naturally, the tide is rising.

"...There are many such organizations in the magic world, and many of them are founded by wizards." Lupin said calmly: "For example, a witch named Heliotrope Willis came to the door and promoted her troll security. Service. She's also the leader of a troll rights group."

"Troll rights organization?" Felix asked curiously. "Can they read the articles of association?\"

"Obviously, the woman did it for you," Sirius barked with a sneer. "The trolls just need to stand behind her with sticks."

"Or stand behind the goblin." Lupin replied, "I rejected her, we have our own defense system, and she revealed that the next step will be to find Gringotts for cooperation."

"Good luck to her," Felix said, holding up the newspaper, his pale blue, penetrating eyes moving in the direction of Gringotts. His eyes seemed to be the same color as the sky.

A few streets away from them, in Gringotts, which is far from the 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. the leprechaun.

One of the goblins was holding a magnifying glass and scrutinizing a dish with a simple and rough shape.

Ms. Burns had a flat expression, Hermione was sitting on her left hand, her hand under the table was trembling slightly with nervousness, and her eyes kept moving back and forth between the goblin and the thick document in front of her. To Ms. Burns' right was Harry, and the next position turned out to be Draco Malfoy, whom Mrs. Burns had chosen against all odds when she came to school in the morning.

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

Their backs were to the window-like area. The place where there should have been windows was now empty.

"The workmanship is messed up, there is no sense of beauty," said the goblin holding a magnifying glass, "it is incomparable with our elaborate silverware. The clay that arrived seems to be something special Gringotts is willing to offer fifty Galleons to buy."

"This is not for sale."

Ms. Burns said with a sigh of relief, and then she realized something, the saucer was real, the wizard relic was real. There was a lot of courage in her heart.

"...Strange, I can't tell the source," the goblin said suspiciously: "There are records of soils all over the world inside the goblin, but the soil used in this pottery dish contains some special ingredients, and it is still uncertain whether it is in the forging process. Function - where did you get it?"

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

The goblin Nagnok stared at her, "You mean this thing is from the moon?\"

Ms. Burns nodded reservedly.

The fairies murmured.

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 extremely long, and the moment his nails touched the saucer , Harry, who was sitting opposite, suddenly stretched out his hand, and the plate was away from the goblin.

"Boderick, don't make trouble!" A goblin reprimanded angrily.

Cross-eyed Bodrick caught a ball of air and sat back in his chair reluctantly.

"Mr. Harry Potter," greeted the goblin coldly, "the first time you came to Gringotts seems like yesterday.

Harry carefully discerned the face of the goblin. In his opinion, the goblins were similar in appearance, except for the beard and hair. It was a bit like the dolls sold in Weasley's Witchcraft and Wizardry. Well, no The semi-finished product with glued hair...

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

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 purpose,

Although fairies and wizards belong to different races, and there are occasional disputes, they are in fact interdependent and part of the magic world. "

"Humph! Who knows if you've 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, the older the age, the stronger the casting ability and the higher the status. This may be the number of goblins. There are not many systems inherited from the fairy kingdom.

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

"By the way, and cancel 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 Claysway's ability to work." Dirk Claysway is the director of the Goblin Liaison Office, Responsible for communicating with fairies, he was in charge of the last negotiation.

"The goblin doesn't need a wizard to dictate the economy," the goblin said of course.

Draco Malfoy made a loud snort.

"Boy, I don't care about Malfoy," cross-eyed Boderick immediately threatened. "Watch out I feed you to dragons."

Draco paled. He narrowed his eyes and said slowly in a long voice: "My dad once said that there is a blind Ukrainian iron belly locked in the bottom of Gringotts...but you would never dare to let it go."

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

"Sit across from you is the Minister of Magic, and if you do, it means wizards and goblins go to war," Draco Malfoy said with a gloomy smile on his face. "I hope you do this. I can guarantee that within an hour, the goblins here will immediately become history."

The goblins shouted angrily, a few goblins pointed their fingers at Draco, his face paled even more, Harry reminiscent of Dobby the house-elf about to cast a spell from the goblins' movements, he "whoosh" With a single pull of the wand, the spell is ready to go.

Although there was no assignment assigned when he came, he positioned himself to be the **** of the negotiation.

Hermione had gone through a lot of collected materials at the Ministry of Magic in the morning, and talked with Ms. Burns all the way. The details of the negotiation hardly require Harry to intervene - he is very self-aware, and from the results of the History of Magic O.W.Ls exam, he basically answered all the questions related to goblins wrong, so Harry was very surprised by the always timid and cowardly Mal. How dare Fu dare to take the initiative to provoke on this occasion, he stood up and approached the talking goblin, with a fearless look. But the next second, Harry suddenly realized.

"Felix Hepper." A name spat out of Draco's mouth.

This name seems to have magic power, and the light on the slender fingers of the fairies is a little weaker. Seeing this scene, Draco has a winning smile on his face. He bet right, Dad is right! These arrogant long-eared goblins are afraid of the professor.

In the eyes of others, Professor Hepp is an extremely different existence, he has risen like a star, but there are few people who really know him.

There was still a faint dragon roar from the broken window behind them, but the roar could no longer move them. Draco's words seemed to have a magical chemistry.

Ms. Burns restrained the smile that was about to appear on her face. She could not stand the arrogance of the goblin for a long time, but she had to endure it for the sake of the overall situation. Who knew that these goblins would go so far as to take her modesty as a condition of negotiation. , which can be seen from the fact that they added a dozen additional requirements.

"Mr. Hepp has a lot to do," Ms. Burns said softly. "I won't bother him with these little things unless it's necessary. As you said, negotiations are on the way, and we don't have much time left. "

She turned to look at Hermione.

Hermione cleared the noise and said, "Mister goblins, why don't you listen to the regulations of the Pan-Magic Alliance? Although the obligations of all parties are regulated, there are more rights and interests. Once the alliance is established, magic The power of the world will be twisted together, and not only will it increase cooperation, but if the wizard negotiates with the Muggle government successfully, the goblin will enjoy a series of benefits. Oh, I have reliable sources, and the silverware made by goblins is even in the non-magical world. Also very popular"

The fairies looked at each other.

Negotiations continued, and for the next two hours, as Hermione gushed about the benefits of the Pan-Magic Alliance to the goblins, some goblins loosened up. Hermione took a breath and continued:

"The goblin didn't lose anything. This unprecedented crisis has instead acted as an opportunity, giving wizards and goblins a reason to talk. No one wants an accident at this juncture, so both parties will definitely show the greatest sincerity one by one. But if someone or a goblin is stubborn and won't compromise at all for their own interests," Hermione raised her eyebrows and said sternly: "Goblins are not afraid of war, and wizards are even less afraid of war."

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

Hermione looked at Ms. Burns, she was leaning back in the chair, and she had no intention of speaking, so Hermione said solemnly: "Maybe the wizarding world will be in chaos for a while, but the trouble will be resolved soon, for example, Future World Corporation There are more than 2,000 employees around the world who are ready to replace Gringotts."

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

The fairies yelled at her.

"Goblins don't have the status of wizard slaves!" cried another goblin.

But Ms. Burns was not surprised, which meant the negotiations had entered a substantive stage.

"House-elves are not slaves," said Hermione, "at least legally they are not. The house-elves of the future world and Hogwarts have agreed to join the Pan-Magic Alliance. Next, the Ministry of Magic will gradually clear the hands of the ancient families. house-elves, they will be freed from the drudgery and injustice of the chores, and they will be engaged in more meaningful things.”

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

"The idiots who don't know the times are in Azkaban," Draco sneered. "Those people will end up like their master Voldemort." Well, the Malfoys must be separated from the Death Eaters. It took him a good while to say the Dark Lord's name fluently.

"What if there are house-elves who don't want to be free?" asked the goblins, who knew a little about the state of house-elves.

"The Ministry of Magic won't be one-size-fits-all, and it'll be nice to people who are friendly," said Hermione, "but at least the new house-elves,

All will be sheltered by the Pan-Magic Alliance.

The goblins whispered, and they saw that the wizard's will to reform was very determined. The wizard gave up a large part of the interests. Although this part of the interests was still reserved in the magic world, the practice of taking food from the ancient family still shocked the goblins.

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

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

The cold wind behind him made his hair stand up.

Harry sidled closer to Ms. Burns, lips twitching, "There's a goblin missing.\"

Ms. Burns nodded cautiously.

Suddenly, an ear-piercing dragon roar reached their ears from the ground, and the room fell silent instantly. Harry stared carefully at the faces of the goblins,

They also don't seem to know what's going on. Immediately afterwards, the tabletop began to move, and the rumble of the collapsed stone pillar mixed with the dragon's hissing roar, which was horrifying.

Harry was the first to react, jumping up and taking the container on the table in his hand, which Hermione shoved into the beaded pouch. Then they quickly retreated to the corner, with Harry standing on the outer layer, propping up the magic barrier.

A sour crunch. Harry looked past the chair he was sitting in and saw a cloudy pink eye. "Dragon, dragon,

Dragon\" Draco stammered, as gray scales and spiked wings slid past their eyes, and the walls were squeezed out of shape,

Dust rose high.

From far away came the panicked screams of fairies,

The goblin in the room ran outside, followed by Harry and the others to Gringotts Hall. They were stunned by the sight in front of them

- A high, delicate ceiling pierced a large hole. From the hole, you could see a huge grey dragon flapping its wings and kicking half of the ceiling with a kick under its feet. With a loud roar, he spread his wings and rushed towards the light blue sky.

Some broken bricks and glass fell.

The goblins staggered about, like random potatoes on the table. There were more than a dozen sharp fairy daggers on the ground, and these daggers were 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?" a goblin who was involved in the negotiation grumbled.

"Boderick broke into the bottom of the vault privately, begged for the jingle piece that controlled the dragon, and wanted to untie it some restraints. But he was careless, the dragon rushed over and swallowed him, and then the giant The dragon broke free from the remaining chains and flew away." A Fairy Hui reported.

The elder fairy's face was so gloomy that it dripped with water.

He instantly realized that the cross-eyed Bodrick was planning to use the dragon to sabotage the peace talks. Of course Bodrick wouldn't be stupid enough to let the dragon attack the Minister of Magic, but it was entirely possible to cause riots, interrupt and delay the negotiations.

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

"Why did the dragon go mad all of a sudden? And how could it break free from the goblin's chain?" Ms. Burns asked loudly.

No one answered. Gringotts even closed the banking business today because of the need to receive people from the Ministry of Magic, and the door was completely blocked, which basically ruled out the possibility of outsiders sneaking in. The goblin elder finds himself in a very troublesome situation.

Fight, can't fight, can't fight, those threats are still vivid in my mind; telling the truth~www.novelhall.com~ is even more stupid. Thinking fast in the hall.

"If I'm not mistaken," she took a deep breath, "That monster accurately used the dragon to deal with us, but the dragon lost control and suffered the consequences?"

"Nothing!" The goblin elder flatly denied.

"Otherwise how did the chain break? Can't you control the guards guarding the vault? How does that make us believe that you can guard the wizarding property?" Ms. Burns pressed hard.

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

"This statement is completely insincere.

"At least it won't affect the next negotiation," said the elder fairy, pointing at the crowd watching and pointing from the street.

Felix put down the newspaper and got 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 negotiation." Felix said, he looked at Sirius and Lupin, "Help me, Severus will come to Sword Castle to preside over the potion in two days. Simplify work, I don't want to hear any of you fighting."

"You can't just tell us that!" Sirius called Qu Road.

Felix shrugged his shoulders, and at this time, the noise from the outside had reached the interior of the Sword Castle.

"Why don't I just stick 'No Fights' behind every door?"

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