Hogwarts: Bourne Returns from Warhammer

Chapter 14 Narlak’s fortune
This report uses Dr. Watson's tone throughout to describe how Sherlock skillfully used deduction to track down the entire process of finding "Spring-Heeled Jack" Narlac.

However, just looking at the words, it really makes people feel that Dr. Watson is actually telling a story.

"Look, it's like this." Sherlock in the portrait first blinked at Dr. Watson, who was floating behind a group of young wizards, and then fiddled with the beard on his lips.

"As long as we can follow one principle: cater to the prejudices of Muggles -

Dr. Watson uses the 'deductive method' that is more acceptable to Muggles to explain and replace the spells such as 'Tracing Trace' and 'Legilimency' that I used when investigating the case. People will automatically ignore the real information related to the magical world, and pay more attention to the partial real information we hope to convey to them——

That is to say, 'Spring Heeled Jack' Narlak has been captured. This is very important news for both Muggles and wizards.

In other words, this report is actually an announcement issued by the Ministry of Magic to Muggles. However, those Muggles at that time only regarded it as a novel story.

But in any case, without violating the "Confidentiality Act", Dr. Watson and I completed a feat of transmitting a large amount of information to the Muggle world. "

There should be applause here.

Bourne was the first little wizard to clap his hands.

The leader of the proper atmosphere group.

Following his lead, the other little wizards also responded with warm applause, regardless of whether they understood or not.

Just like a stage actor performing on stage to thank the audience, Sherlock also took off his hat, crossed his legs and squatted down, gracefully bowing to the little wizards.

Seeing that the atmosphere was tense, Bourne immediately asked from the audience: "What did Narlak do? Why did the wizards also reveal to the Muggles that he had been captured and brought to justice?"

To be honest, Bourne was not very interested in the first lesson of the [Grammar and Writing] course - how to write "fooling literature" to deal with Muggles.

Moreover, he estimated that Sherlock was not teaching these little wizards simply for the purpose of teaching.

How boring that is.

If the duo of Sherlock and Dr. Watson are, as they say, the prototypes of famous Muggle detective novels, Sherlock is definitely a person who hates boredom far more than others.

Sure enough, when Bourne asked this question, Sherlock in the portrait immediately gave him an approving look.

Your boy has a future.

……

Narrak really wanted to kill Sherlock.

If he really couldn't beat him, he would have rushed over and tore this guy's mouth apart. Narlak really felt a little disgusted with this guy for hitting people without slapping him in the face, and scolding people without exposing his shortcomings.

The NPC task that Sherlock assigned to Narlak before was just to intercept and tell a few fragments of his own story. But now, because someone (Bourne) is praising him, Sherlock simply gets too excited and brings out all his dark history and publicly executes him.

This allowed the goblin Narlak to directly break through the defense.

His life has been like a roller coaster. Being pulled out and forced to recall it is definitely not a good experience.

When he was young, like many smarter goblin boys, Narlak also went to Gringotts to become an apprentice.

Unfortunately, because he was found to have opened the customer's vault door without authorization, he was punished by the manager and had ten fingers permanently bent. When the "broken finger" mark appears on a goblin, it actually means that he has been expelled from the clan. No goblin would believe him.

With no other choice, Narlak could only wander alone outside the group, and even soon made a decision that all goblins would never dare to think of: to seek life in the Muggle society.

From the early 17th century to the 18th century, goblins launched a series of rebellious movements due to their opposition to wizards' discrimination and prejudice against them, especially the fact that wizards did not allow other humanoid creatures to hold wands.

Although the "Daily Prophet" still publishes several eye-catching news from time to time about "a goblin subversion group trying to oppose the rule of the Ministry of Magic", Ms. Bathilda Baschak has already published it in her book "A History of Magic". The final conclusion has been made on this period of history.

"...This bloody and thrilling past has completely become a piece of history with the complete suppression of the goblin tribe by wizards. Modern goblins are completely accustomed to abiding by the "Law of Secrecy" formulated by wizards, and they will even take the initiative to maintain this The implementation of the law is precisely the best proof of the above point of view."

The modern goblin tribe needs to rely on wizards to survive - whether it is Gringotts, which is responsible for minting and finance, or the goblin factory, which produces various magic equipment, the objects it serves are actually wizards.

Although a small number of goblins do enjoy some wealth privileges and are richer than ordinary wizards, in fact their assets have always been under the control of the ministries of magic and pure-blood wizard families in various countries. Through various layers of contracts and the cloak of the "Law of Secrecy", the wizard has firmly controlled the goblin group.

In addition, after more than two hundred years of subtle influence, even most goblins have adapted to this kind of rule.

Whenever any goblin dares to do something outrageous, even without the help of wizards, the vested interests among the goblins and the elites among the goblins will punish them out of "racial interests" and "traditional customs" .

In fact, with the exception of Narlak, those goblins who made similar attempts either failed or were punished to death for violating the Statute of Secrecy. It is not uncommon for the two to go hand in hand.

The smart thing about Narlak is that he had a deep understanding of "the immutability of the ancestral law" from the beginning.

He had never thought about violating the Statute of Secrecy, so he would not be like the previous losers who just hoped to make money by selling goods between the wizarding world and Muggle society.

He knew that doing so would offend the interests of some pure-blood wizard families, so they would be targeted.

After reviewing the experience of peers in the past, value transformation was achieved through simple reuse of potential energy accumulation. Through unique starting points, we found the vertical areas in which we are good at, achieving industry co-construction and carrier opening, through point-and-line combination. Focused efforts have found the tipping point of refinement in the Red Ocean industry...

To put it simply, he found a loophole in the "Law of Secrecy": this law only stipulates that wizards and Muggles cannot exchange supplies, but it does not stipulate that wizards cannot sell Muggle supplies to Muggles for profit.

This goblin customized a batch of high-quality and low-cost safes without using any magic, purely relying on handwork.

In the magical world, goblins are famous for their ability to process various metal materials, and every goblin has a talent in this area. Although Narlak is a deviant, his skills are indeed very different. He not only improved the locks with spring steel, replaced ordinary key locks with complex mechanical locks, but also covered those safes with a thick iron shell.

Although this modification will make the safe a lot heavier, it is just used as a publicity stunt: instead of buying something that can be carried away by a thief, it is better to buy a heavy one that is difficult for several people to move. .

Needless to say, the effect is really good.

In addition, Narlak priced his safes very cheaply, so as soon as the dozens of weighted safes he made were sold, they were quickly bought by some wealthy Muggles and moved back to their homes.

Then, those people's troubles came to their doorstep.

For management reasons, wizards' traditional attitude towards the goblins is to give them a stick but also a sweet date.

Although wizards designed harsh punishments for goblins, they also acquiesced in some of their traditions.

For example, goblins have many differences from humans (whether Muggles or wizards) in their values: in terms of property rights certification, they feel that only the maker of the item holds the ownership of the item, and the person who buys the item actually just spends money. Rented usage rights.

From the perspective of the goblin management of Gringotts, the gold Galleons, Silver Sickles and Copper Nuts issued by Gringotts are actually the things of their goblins themselves, and wizards hold them only as an equivalent. use.

Therefore, when a wizard opens an account and deposits money in Gringotts, he has to pay a custody fee, instead of Gringotts paying interest to the wizard who deposits the money.

In addition, the daily alchemy products produced in the goblin factory are purchased by wizards and used home. After a certain number of years, if they become damaged and are discarded, a special goblin will pick them up from the trash can and bring them back to the factory for scrapping. , or recycle some raw materials for reuse.

Many wizards just think that this is due to the money-grubbing nature of goblins, and they want to make a little money by purchasing scraps. But in fact, the goblins believe that their job is to take back the use rights of those items.

Also, Gryffindor, one of the four giants of Hogwarts, once asked the Goblin King to build a magic sword for himself. After Gryffindor's death, the descendants of the Goblin King who made that sword proposed more than once. I want to take back that sword.

However, because the goblins did not know where the sword was, and all the previous principals of Hogwarts were powerful wizards who were not easy to mess with, the Sword of Gryffindor had not been successfully recovered by the descendants of the goblin king after thousands of years.

However, the wealthy Muggles who bought the safe did not have the skills of the past principals of Hogwarts, and naturally they could not resist Narlak who came to collect the safe.

Each time, the goblin would step on stilts made of spring steel, put on a deer-hunting cloak - strictly complying with the requirements of the Statute of Secrecy that "make-up must be made when in necessary contact with Muggles" - and then take advantage of the situation. Sneak into the homes of wealthy Muggles at night and take away the safes.

Except for the safe and the contents of the safe (which is assumed to be rent), he will not touch any other valuable items in the homes of wealthy people.

In this set of business processes, Narlak neither leaked information about the wizarding world to Muggles nor sold items that might cause information leakage to Muggles.

Moreover, when exercising his right to recycle items, he paid special attention to disguise (dressing up as Spring-Heeled Jack) and choosing a time (midnight) when it was not easy to encounter Muggles.

Not only did Narlak's series of actions not violate the "Law of Secrecy", but they followed the magical world's interpretation of the law. He was even a typical law-abiding good elf!
It's too far off the mark.

(End of this chapter)