Harry Potter’s Raven’s Claw

At the station, Mike, who had said goodbye to Penello, carried his suitcase on his way to the Leaky Cauldron Bar by himself.

At this time, London, as one of the world's largest metropolises, was very modern, and the transportation system was very good. Buses, subways and taxis had appeared, so even if Mike didn't pick him up, he could 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 this time, the taxi in London was still a black model similar to a classic car. This taxi called Cab was born in 1948. Like the taxis of later generations, this taxi is equipped with an odometer, which can Stop at any time.

In fact, at this time, black taxis in London were not mainstream. Because the price of such taxis was too expensive and the number of taxis was very small, and the driver often slaughtered people, everyone preferred to use a kind of taxi called mini taxi. Taxi (Mini Cab).

This kind of mini taxi requires you to call the taxi company. After reporting your departure and destination, 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 always on call, and the price is much cheaper than black taxis. If you are not satisfied with the price quoted by one taxi company, you can even negotiate with other companies to get a lower price.

Of course, a guy with good money like Mike would not choose this method, so he saw a black taxi parked on the side of the road beside the station waiting for business and got on the bus directly.

With only a small suitcase, Mike walked all the way to his destination in a relaxed and comfortable way. After giving a total of thirty pounds for the fare and tip, he got out of the car with the driver's respectful farewell and walked into the Leaky Cauldron. .

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

Mike even saw several people who were watching a good show when he had a conflict with the rude pure-blood wizard here, but although Mike still remembers them today, they don't remember Mike 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 little sigh, 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 busier than usual. Many students have been in school for a whole year, and after the vacation, they directly bring their families to come to the school. Corner Alley shopping. And their parents will try their best to meet all their requirements in the face of children they haven't seen for a long time. Of course, students who do poorly in exams are naturally exceptions.

Therefore, in today's Diagon Alley, the most popular shops are not the most popular pre-school Lishen bookstore and changing ink stationery store, but the bouncing and playful magic joke shop and Quidditch boutique specializing in all kinds of strange prank props. Of course, the business is also quite good for Mrs. Primpinier's Beauty Potions, Mrs. Morkin's Robe Store, and the Extraordinary Garment Store, which specializes in all kinds of high-end clothing. After all, women and children are always the best money in this world. of. Children may come only once because they have to go to school, but women are different, they come when 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 stepped on the cobblestone path to the front of Gringotts.

Looking at this towering white building and the gleaming bronze gate, Mike's heart was also touched, and he couldn't help but stop.

When I first came to the wizarding world two years ago, I was just a poor Muggle student, but I didn't expect that I had become a powerful wizard after revisiting my hometown in just two years.

Beside the bronze door, the goblin guard wearing a scarlet gold-inlaid uniform squinted at the boy who was standing and watching Gringotts in front of him, and the disdain in his eyes was not concealed.

He had seen people like Mike a lot, most of them were poor people from Muggle families, and they never took a straight look at such people.

This is not to say that this goblin guard is also a blood discriminator. In fact, all goblins treat the issue of blood and race equally. They discriminate against only one kind of person, and that is the pauper.

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

This is the goblin, a creature that is greedy and knows no bounds.

Gently exhaling a breath of foul breath, Mike came back to his senses and walked slowly into Gringotts.

Although the goblin guard despised Mike, his outstanding professionalism made it bow to Mike and open the door behind him.

After all, even if they are poor, as long as they come to Gringotts to do business, it can bring them benefits. Although the money is a little less, it is money, right?

The goblin guard opened the silver door engraved with the warning sentence. What appeared in front of Mike was a vast hall. There were many counters in the hall, and about a hundred goblins were busy receiving visitors on the counters. guest.

Some of them are scribbling something on large ledgers bigger than them, some are weighing gold with scales, and others are identifying gems with magic eyepieces.

Mike found a counter at random and sat up, and the goblin opposite immediately stopped his work and enthusiastically offered its worthless greeting with a trademark smirk.

"Sir! Good afternoon. Do you need me to do anything?"

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

After seeing Mike's suitcase, the goblin who received Mike's eyes flashed with contempt. Judging from his years of working experience, a young wizard of Mike's age couldn't bring out much gold Galleons at all, and Mike's suitcase It made it even more certain that, after all, such a small suitcase could not hold much gold Galleon at all.

But after Mike opened the suitcase, the smirk on the goblin's face couldn't be sustained any longer, because in front of it were more than a dozen Stretch Charm bags.

The goblin naturally knew the price of the Traceless Stretching Charm bag, so its attitude immediately became much more sincere, rubbing its hands and asking vulgarly:

"Sir, how much gold Galleon do you want to save!"

The subtle change in the elf's expression just now naturally couldn't escape Mike's eyes, so he did not answer the elf's question, but thought for a while pretending to be, and then said lightly:

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

The greedy goblin in Wen Sheng's eyes couldn't hold back his inner desire any longer. He couldn't wait to pounce on it, opened one bag after another, and began to count the Jin Galleon inside.

Since the currency of the wizarding world comes with the magic of quantitative statistics, the goblin did not spend too much time to count the gold coins that Mike carried this time.

"Sir, you need a treasury!" the goblin shouted in a high-pitched voice, "a total of thirty-five thousand six hundred and forty-three gold Galleons, enough for a second-level treasury, if you agree If so, I will give you the vault for free, free!"

The goblin didn't explain to Mike what a secondary vault was, because it seemed to him that someone who could have such a large fortune would definitely know what a secondary vault was.

In fact, it guessed very correctly. Because of occupational diseases, Mike did some in-depth research on Gringotts as soon as he came to the wizarding world. Not to mention his knowledge of Gringotts is better than that every day in ancient times. There are plenty of fairies working in the Spirit Pavilion, which definitely exceeds the average level of the wizarding world.

Gringotts' vaults are divided into three levels, and the security levels of these vaults vary according to the level.

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

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

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

Unlike in the movie, there is not only one fire dragon under Gringotts. No one knows the number of fire dragons owned by Gringotts, but it is certain that the number of these fire dragons must be more than double digits.

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

When British wizards rated this mythical creature as a beast when rating the world's magical creatures, the reason was 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 saw in his previous life did not appear in the pictures of Harry and others sneaking into Gringotts, that is because the Sphinx is a mythical beast in the eyes of the Egyptians and has a very high status. If If it is broadcast rashly, it will inevitably affect the box office of the Harry Potter movie in Egypt.

The sphinx in reality is so miserable, it is used as a watchdog by wizards, and there are not a few people who beat, scold and even kill.

Closer to home, the security level of the second-level vault is much weaker than that of the first-level vault, and its opening method is still the conventional key and door lock. Although it is also within the protection scope of the Fire Dragon and Sphinx, it is on the edge.

It is conceivable that if something happens to Gringotts, these vaults are definitely more dangerous than the first-level vaults.

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

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

In addition, the second-level vault is specially prepared by Gringotts for customers whose savings amount exceeds 10,000 Galleons, while the lower limit of the third-level vault is 1,000 Galleons. As for those customers with savings of less than 1,000 Galleons, there is no dedicated vault at all, and their money is stored in the public vault.

Then someone will ask why the Weasley family in the original book is so poor, why can 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 twenty-eight sacred families, and their status is quite noble, so it is not surprising to have a vault. After all, their ancestors were also rich, but now they are in decline.

This goblin's voice was very loud, so it attracted the attention of other goblins and wizards who were doing business around.

These people were originally dissatisfied with the goblin's loud voice, but when it reported the amount of money that Mike was carrying, the eyes they looked at Mike immediately changed from dissatisfaction to surprise.

Under everyone's attention, Mike closed his suitcase again and made a gesture with a blank face, indicating that the goblin would lead the way.

The goblin immediately understood, lowered his head and quickly wrote something on the ledger in front of him. After a while, he tore off a piece of parchment and shouted a goblin named Griphook, who handed the parchment over to him. it.

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

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

"Okay sir, please come with me."

Hearing that, Griphook bowed deeply to Mike, and then respectfully started to lead the way.

Its etiquette is very good. It gives up half of the body slightly to let Mike walk in the middle, which makes it easy for others to see that the Mike walking behind is the master, and the pull ring in front is just a guide. .

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

"What is the origin of that blond young man, a whole 30,000 gold Galleons!"

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

At this time, a young wizard dressed in old fashion suddenly joined the conversation, and said with certainty: "You are all wrong, he must be a wizard from Muggle, didn't you hear him just say he doesn't want Vault 666? 666 It's 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 thirty thousand Galleons?"

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

Everyone sneered in unison, but no one noticed that the hands of the young wizard in old clothes, which were placed under the counter and invisible to others, were tightly clenched into fists when he heard the three words "Mudblood".

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