Magical Studies at Hogwarts

Chapter 42 Thoughts on the Robbery of Gringotts
After staying in Santa Maria for another week, Ike bid farewell to Julian and the beanbags in the orphanage, and went to London alone.

This was something that had been planned long ago, and Julian knew that even though she was still a little reluctant, she went with Ike.

After dragging a large luggage for a long distance, Ike took out his wand and held it forward when there was no one around until Santa Maria was no longer visible.

After a deafening noise, a three-story bus suddenly stopped in front of Ike.

The door opened, and a young, acne-prone youth leaned against the door frame without looking up, and said while pulling his ticket, "Welcome to the Knight Bus, it's for witches and wizards in trouble." Emergency passenger transport. Just stick out your wand and step in and we'll take you wherever you want. My name is Stan Sampak, your conductor."

"Eleven Sickles is the same price, wherever you go. Of course, if you pay fourteen Sikels, you get chocolates, and fifteen Sikels, you get a thermos and a toothbrush You can choose the color you want." Stan Sampak raised his head slightly and stretched out his right hand, "Pay first, get in the car later, we have very professional ethics."

Ike took out eleven Sickles from his pocket and handed it over. Sampak pouted and helped Ike carry all the luggage into the car.

"Hold up your things, the journey will be a little bumpy. By the way, where are you going?"

"The Leaky Cauldron, thank you." Ike sat on the bed with the suitcase leaning against it, sandwiched between the two beds.

"Oh, London, it's such a long journey." Sampak mumbled, "The Ministry of Magic should really raise the price. Like the Muggles, it costs one Galleon for such a long journey."

Tapping the glass, Sampak yelled, "Ern! The Leaky Cauldron!"

Hearing the sound, Ern Pullan put down the handbrake, stepped on the clutch and put his right hand into gear, and started off with his right foot on the floor. The third-floor bus rushed out, and the strong inertia made Ike fall backwards unconsciously.

Sitting up on the bed with both hands, outside the window is the scenery flashing backwards quickly, and I feel a little dizzy after watching it for only a few seconds.Sampak leaned over again, shaking a large bar of chocolate in his hand.

"Would you like a piece now?"

"No, thank you." Ike shook his head slightly and refused.

"Okay, but don't spit on the bed, it's very troublesome to clean up." Sampak shrugged, and knocked on the glass behind Ern, "Hurry up, there are people waiting for us in Manchester!"

As soon as the words fell, Ike felt his body lean forward suddenly, and the bus stopped.

The car door opened, and Sampak leaned against the door frame again: "The Leaky Cauldron is here, thanks for taking the Knight Bus!"

Ike waved his hand, saluted and floated out of the car behind.As soon as his feet touched the ground, there was another deafening sound, and the shadow of the Knight Bus disappeared behind him.

"Interesting, I have a chance to disassemble one and have a look." Ike sighed and included this matter in his future plan, then pushed open the door of the bar.

The Leaky Cauldron is still the same, as if it hasn't changed.Ike walked to the counter and said to old Tom who was always wiping his glass, "I want a room."

Old Tom glanced at Ike, put down his wine glass, and took out a key from under the table: "One gallon, you can stay until September [-]st. The room is upstairs, and the room number is on the key."

Ike picked up the key with 203 written on it, pushed a gold Galleon over, turned around and went upstairs.

The guest room of the Leaky Cauldron continues its overall style, very simple, with only a bed and a nightstand, not even a chair.The cleanliness of the room can be trusted, or trust the cleaning spell, it still looks very clean.

Opening the suitcase, Ike took out another small suitcase from it, changed his robe and left the room, heading straight to Gringotts.

The goblins in Gringotts are still like that, ignoring everyone, but when they see the gold objects in Ike's box, their attitude is much better.

"You need to exchange them for Galleons, don't you?" A goblin pushed the glasses on his nose and looked at Ike critically.

"Yes." Ike nodded.

The goblin took out the gold wares from the box one by one for inspection, and weighed them on the scale after inspection.After a while, he took out a bag and pushed it to Ike: "The gold utensils are 672 ounces in total, which can be exchanged for 1224 Galleons, 13 Sickles and 120 Nats. Please keep them safe."

Ike took the bag, poured out all the money in it, tapped the wand lightly on a Galleon, and the scattered coins were naturally arranged according to Galleon, Sickle, and Nat, and reported the number: "1224 Galleons 12 Sickles 100 Nats!"

Looking at the goblin in front of him with a half-smile, the goblin didn't change his face, and took out 1 Sickle 20 Nats and handed it over.Ike was about to put the money back into the bag when he took it, when the goblin said, "One Sickle 1 Nats for the money bag."

Looking up, the goblin didn't shy away, and stretched out his hand to signal Ike to give him the bag.Ike threw it over casually, took out his money bag from his robe, put the money away, and went to the place where the bursary was collected to collect 20 Galleons and put it in the money bag.

"Black, really black!" Leaving Gringotts, Ike couldn't help cursing secretly.

672 ounces of gold is equivalent to 19 kilograms, and the current gold price is almost 28000 pounds per kilogram of gold, and 19 kilograms is 532000 pounds.The current exchange rate between Galleons and British pounds is about 1:5, which means that these gold should be exchanged for 106400 Galleons. Even if the exchange rate is not so accurate, there are still 10 Galleons, but the result is only 1224 Galleons!

"I'll steal you sooner or later." Even though he knew it couldn't be converted in this way, it didn't affect Ike's plan.If it weren't for the trouble of taking these golds to London gold shops to exchange for pounds, Ike wouldn't want to find these money-greedy goblins.

With hard-earned money, Ike first bought a box that was cast with the No Trace Stretch Curse. The 3 cubic meters of space used up 20 Galleons from Ike, and then I bought the textbooks for the new semester. Will be 1200 galleons away.

It's like spending money like water.

Carrying the box back to the room of the Leaky Cauldron, Ike put all his things into the new box, and then cast a recognition magic on the box, which can recognize Ike's magic power. Only he can open the 3 cubic Meters of space, other people can only see things in Muggle mode.

That is, a few clothes.

"In the new semester, we must learn the Untraceable Stretching Curse." Ike made a new plan, not to mention making the box the same as Newt's portable zoo, at least the size of a house.

If possible, Ike even wants to cast the Untraceable Stretching Curse on a personal item, such as a watch or something, but that requires knowledge of alchemy, and now I can only think about it.

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