Raven's Claw at Hogwarts

Chapter 200 Reentering Gringotts
At the station, Mike, who had bid farewell to Penello, carried his suitcase and set foot on the way to the Leaky Cauldron by himself.

At this time, London, as one of the best metropolises in the world, is already very modernized. The transportation system is very good. Buses, subways and taxis have appeared, so even if Mike has no one to pick him up, he can find him alone. The Leaky Cauldron.

Standing in the crowded King's Cross station, Mike walked out of the majestic station without much hesitation, stopped a taxi, gave the driver a place name, and sat in the back row.

At that time, London taxis were still a kind of black car similar to classic cars. This kind of taxi called Black Cab was born in 1948. Like the taxis of later generations, this taxi was equipped with an odometer. You can stop at any time.

In fact, this kind of black taxi in London is not the mainstream at this time. Because the price of this kind of taxi is too expensive and the number is very small, and the driver often kills people, so everyone prefers to use a kind of taxi called mini taxi. taxi (Mini Cab).

This kind of mini taxi requires you to call the taxi company, report your departure and destination, and the other party will directly quote a price. If you can accept it, the taxi company will send a car to pick you up.

The advantage of this kind of car is that it is on call, and the price is much cheaper than black taxis.If you are not satisfied with the price quoted by a certain taxi company, you can even negotiate with other companies to get a lower price.

Of course, a guy like Mike who is not short of money would naturally not choose this method, so he saw a black taxi parked on the side of the road next to the station waiting for business, so he got in the car directly.

Mike, who only brought a small suitcase, arrived at his destination comfortably all the way. After paying a total of thirty pounds for the fare and tip, he got out of the car amidst the driver's respectful farewell sound, and walked into the Leaky Cauldron .

I came to the Leaky Cauldron again after a year, and the people drinking and chatting here have not changed much.

Mike even saw a few people who were watching the show when he had a conflict with the outrageous pure-blood wizard here, but even though Mike still remembers them today, they don't remember him anymore.

It's not that their memory is too bad. In fact, the memory of wizards is much better than that of ordinary people. It's just because Mike's development speed is too fast this year, both in temperament and appearance. It was very different two years ago.

After a few sighs, Mike didn't have too much contact with the people in the bar, and went directly to the backyard and entered Diagon Alley through the passage on the wall.

Since today is the day of Hogwarts' summer vacation, Diagon Alley is much more lively than usual. Many students have been in school for a whole year, and after the holiday, they directly drag their families to deal with it. Corner Alley shopping.And their parents will try their best to meet all their requirements for the children they haven't seen for a long time, of course, the students who are too poor in the exam are naturally an exception.

Therefore, in today's Diagon Alley, the most popular shops are not the Lihen Bookstore and Changing Ink Stationery Store, which were the most popular before school, but the jumping, frolic, magic joke store and Quidditch boutique that specialize in all kinds of weird prank props.Of course, the business of Mrs. Primpney's beauty and potion store, Mrs. Malkin's robe store, and the out-of-the-ordinary clothing store specializing in all kinds of high-end clothing is also quite good. After all, women and children are always the best earners in this world. of.Children may come only once in a while because they have to go to school, but women come whenever they have money.

The purpose of Mike's trip was completely different from those of the children of the same age, so he did not stop in front of those shops, but came to Gringotts on a path paved with soft stones.

Looking at the towering white building and the gleaming bronze gate, Mike's heart was also touched, and he stopped involuntarily.

When I first came to the wizarding world two years ago, I was just a poor and white Muggle student. I didn't expect that I would become a powerful wizard when I revisited my old place just two years later.

Beside the bronze door, the goblin guards in scarlet and gold-inlaid uniforms squinted at the young man who was standing in front of him and watched Gringotts, and the disdain in his eyes was not concealed at all.

He had seen a lot of people like Mike, mostly poor guys from Muggle families, and they never gave this kind of people a serious look.

This is not to say that this goblin guard is also a bloodline discriminator. In fact, all goblins are treated equally on the issue of bloodline and even race. They only discriminate against one kind of person, that is, the poor.

In other words, if you are rich enough, even if you just killed their whole family with their front feet, they can hug your thigh with their back feet and want to recognize you as a godfather.

This is the goblin, a greedy creature with no bottom line.

Gently exhaling a breath of turbid air, Mike, who came back to his senses, walked slowly into Gringotts.

Although the goblin guard despised Mike, his excellent professionalism made him bow to Mike and opened the door behind him.

After all, even if they are poor, as long as they come to Gringotts to do business, it will bring them benefits. Although the money is a little less, it is still money, isn't it?
The goblin guard opened the silver door engraved with warning words, and what appeared in front of Mike was a vast hall with many counters, and about a hundred goblins were busy receiving visitors on the counters. guest.

Some of them are scribbling on large ledgers larger than their own, some are weighing gold with a scale, while others are using magic eyepieces to identify gems.

Mike found a counter at random and sat up. The goblin opposite immediately stopped what he was doing, and warmly offered its worthless greeting with a signature smirk.

"Sir! Good afternoon. What can I do?"

"I want to save money." Mike said lightly, putting the suitcase in his hand on the counter in front of him.

The goblin who received Mike's eyes flashed contempt when he saw Mike's suitcase. Judging from his years of work experience, a little wizard at Mike's age can't produce much Galleon at all, and Mike's suitcase It even made it confirm this point. After all, such a small suitcase couldn't fit a lot of Galleons.

But after Mike opened the suitcase, the smirk on the goblin's face could no longer be maintained, because what appeared in front of it were more than a dozen traceless stretching spell bags.

The goblin naturally knew the price of the Wuhen Stretching Curse bag, so its attitude immediately became more sincere, and it rubbed its hands and asked wretchedly:

"Sir, how much Galleon do you want to deposit!"

The subtle expression change of the goblin just now naturally couldn't escape Mike's eyes, so he didn't answer the goblin's question, but pretended to think for a while, and then said lightly:

"I can't remember either, you can count it yourself."

Hearing that the greedy goblin in his eyes could no longer restrain his inner desire, he rushed forward impatiently, opened one bag after another, and began to count the gold Galleons inside.

Since the currency in the wizarding world comes with the magic of quantity statistics, the goblin didn't spend too much time counting the gold coins that Mike was carrying this time.

"Sir, you need a vault!" the goblin shouted in a high-pitched voice, "a total of 640 three gold Galleons, which is enough for a second-level vault. If you agree, I will Your vault for free, for free!"

The goblin didn't explain to Mike what a secondary vault was, because in its view, someone who could own such a large amount of wealth would definitely know what a secondary vault was.

In fact, it guessed very correctly. Due to occupational diseases, Mike did an in-depth study of Gringotts when he first came to the wizarding world. There are many goblins working in the Ling Pavilion, which definitely exceeds the average level of the wizarding world.

The vaults of Gringotts are divided into three levels. According to different levels, the security level of these vaults is also different.

The first-level treasury is dedicated to those ancient families and has the highest level of security.

There is no so-called keyhole on the gates of these vaults, and there is only one way to open them, that is, a goblin knocks on the gates through a special technique, and each vault has its own knocking code, which is strictly kept secret , Only a few high-level goblins know about it.

At the same time, these vaults are protected by special guards, and those guards are dragons and sphinxes enslaved by goblins.

Different from the movie, there is not only one fire dragon underground in Gringotts. To be exact, no one knows the number of fire dragons in Gringotts, but what is certain is that the number of these fire dragons must be above double digits.

Needless to say, the fire dragon, the sphinx is a magical creature from Egypt. This kind of creature has a sphinx and loves to give people puzzles. If you can't answer it, it will eat you.

When the British wizards rated the magical creatures all over the world, they designated this mythical creature as a beast on the grounds that it could eat people.

And because of its characteristics, it is often caught as a guard of a secret room or a treasure house.

These creatures in the Harry Potter movies that Mike watched in his previous life did not appear in the picture of Harry and others sneaking into Gringotts. If it is broadcast rashly, it will definitely affect the box office of Harry Potter movies in Egypt.

The reality of the Sphinx is so miserable that it is used as a watchdog by the wizards, and there are not a few people who beat, scold or even kill them.

Closer to home, the security level of the second-level vault is much weaker than that of the first-level vault. Its opening method is still a conventional key and door lock. Although it is also within the protection range of the fire dragon and the sphinx, it is a at the edge.

It is conceivable that in case of any accident at Gringotts, these vaults must be much more dangerous than the first-level vaults.

And the third-level vault is the vault with the lowest security level.

It is not protected by dragons and sphinxes, and the only way to open it is a key.

In addition, the second-level vault is specially prepared by Gringotts for customers whose savings amount exceeds [-] Galleons, while the lower limit of the third-tier vault is [-] Galleons.As for those customers whose savings are less than one thousand galleons, they don't have their own treasury at all, and their money is stored in the public treasury.

Then someone will ask, why the Weasley family is so poor in the original book, why they still have their own treasury.

In fact, the reason is very simple. Although the Weasley family is poor, they are also one of the sacred 28 families, and their status is quite high, so it is not surprising that they have a treasury. After all, their ancestors were also rich, but now they have declined.

The voice of this goblin was very loud, so it attracted the attention of other goblins and wizards who were doing business around them.

These people were originally dissatisfied with the goblin's loud voice, but when it reported the amount Mike was carrying, their eyes on Mike immediately changed from dissatisfaction to surprise.

Under everyone's gaze, Mike closed his suitcase again, made a gesture with a blank face, and signaled the goblin to lead the way.

But the goblin immediately understood, lowered his head and quickly wrote something on the account book in front of him. After a while, he tore off a piece of parchment, and called out a goblin named Griphook, and handed over the parchment to it.

"Sir, please come to me, and I will take you to pick the vault." Griphook quickly glanced at the parchment, and then said flatteringly, "Do you have a favorite number between 600 and 700?" If there is, you can bring it up, and if the vault is empty, I can take you to see it first."

"I don't have a favorite number here, as long as it's not 666."

"Okay sir, please come with me."

Hearing this, Griphook bowed deeply to Mike, and then began to lead the way respectfully.

Its etiquette is very good, giving up half of its body to let Mike walk in the middle, so that others can see at a glance that Mike walking behind is the master, and the pull ring in front is just a guide. .

It wasn't until the two disappeared at the entrance of the vault that the wizards in the hall who were doing business began to discuss.

"What's the origin of that blond young man? A total of thirty thousand Galleons!"

"I don't know, I guess it's the young master of a big family."

At this time, a young wizard dressed in rather old clothes suddenly joined the conversation, and said in a firm tone: "You are all wrong, he must be a Muggle-born wizard, didn't you hear that he just said that he doesn't want Vault 666? 666 It is a very unlucky number in the Muggle world, so most Muggles don't like it."

"Who are you lying to? A Mudblood can have more than 3 Galleons?"

"Yeah, you're lying and you have to make a draft first!"

Everyone made sarcasm in unison, but no one noticed that when the old-fashioned young wizard heard the word Mudblood, his invisible hands under the counter clenched into fists.

He wasn't lying, because he was also a Muggle-born wizard.

　Boss Xu, you said that if you have the money to tip me, you might as well invite me to a barbecue. Isn’t the 200 yuan barbecue delicious?

　　
　
(End of this chapter)