Harry Potter’s Raven’s Claw

In the splendid Gringotts, Mike came to a stone door under the guidance of Griphook.

When Griphook opened the stone door, what appeared in front of Mike was not a majestic and luxurious scene like the Gringotts Hall, but a narrow stone corridor with torches hanging on the left and right walls of the stone corridor, which were crackling and burning. .

This stone corridor is a steep downhill, not surprisingly, Gringotts' vault is located directly below Gringotts. In fact, according to the description of the Gringotts vaults in the original book, the entire underground of Diagon Alley should be empty.

Mike and Griphook walked down the wall carefully, and after a while, a winding railway appeared in front of them.

Griphook got into a small minecart that could only seat two adults, and waved to Mike to get on too.

Looking at the minecart without any protective measures in front of him, Mike hesitated in his heart, so he asked:

"Don't you have a better way of transportation here?"

"I'm sorry Mr. Townley, even if Mr. Fudge (the current Minister of Magic) comes, he can only sit here." Griphook spread his hands and made a helpless gesture.

Now that Mike has no other choice, he can only reluctantly step onto the small minecart, but in his heart, he has already scolded the goblins.

Mama Heatfack! As the only bank in the entire British wizarding world, it still has the right to mint coins. The means of transporting customers to the vault to withdraw money is so backward! If you were not a monopoly, your service attitude would have gone bankrupt long ago.

Although his heart was turbulent, on the surface Mike was still calm, but before driving, he took out his wand and put on an armor for himself just in case.

That's right, he only put it on himself, not on the pull ring.

Griphook didn't care about Mike's cautious actions, and he still had a respectful look on his face.

"Are you ready? Mr. Townley."

"drive……."

Mike started the minecart before he could say the last word. The moment the minecart was started, Mike only felt a strong push on his back, and he directly pressed his whole body on the minecart. on the mine bucket.

Fortunately, with the protection of the armor body, Mike didn't feel any discomfort except the feeling of pushing his back. Even the hurricane caused by high-speed movement was perfectly resisted by the transparent shield of the armor body.

Mike originally wanted to accuse Griphook of his bad behavior of driving ahead of schedule, but when he saw Griphook sitting in front of Mike, his face was distorted and deformed by the wind because he was not protected by armor. Much better.

This underground passage with railways is like a labyrinth. The minecart that Mike and Griphook are riding on is galloping, turning right, turning left, and crossing a fork in the road. This small minecart seems to be its own. Just like recognizing the road, driving at an extremely fast speed, there is no need for a pull ring to control it.

These repeated turns made Mike unable to hold onto the handle of the minecart, but even so, Mike was still thrown into a daze.

I don't know how long it took, but Mike's eyes suddenly brightened. It turned out that they finally drove out of the narrow underground passage and came to a wide underground space.

Mike's out-of-the-way vision saw a fire coming from under him, so he instinctively looked towards the source of the fire.

It's okay not to look at it, as soon as I saw Mike's arm, a layer of goosebumps arose.

I saw that there was an abyss beneath them. At this moment, they were driving on a steep rock wall. The trembling track in front of them made Mike very worried that the minecart they were in would suddenly fall.

And the source of that firelight turned out to be a fire dragon, a scrawny, pale fire dragon covered in scales.

This unnamed fire dragon is now being locked by six thick chains, one end of which is linked to the rock wall,

The other end was tied to the dragon's limbs, tail and neck.

The chains should have bound him when he was a child, so it has grown directly into his flesh now.

In addition, Mike also noticed that the eyes of this fire dragon also showed an extremely unhealthy pale white like the body, which was obviously due to the degeneration of the eyes after staying in the dark environment for too long.

Perhaps due to deteriorating eyesight, this fire dragon's hearing is very developed. After hearing the infrastructural sound of the minecart that Mike and Griphook were riding on the track, Huolong immediately reacted.

Because the distance was too far, and the fire dragon was very weak, the flames dissipated not long after it spewed out.

"These goddamn beasts!"

Griphook in front also found that the underground fire dragon was trying to attack them. After cursing, he took out two pieces of iron that were worn together from his arms and shook it wildly at the fire dragon below.

These two iron pieces should also be magic props. The sound they made when they were shaken was extremely penetrating, and it was still transmitted to the ear of the fire dragon below.

And this fire dragon was like a convulsion after hearing the crisp sound, roaring and struggling to struggle, a look of extreme pain.

The six thick iron chains were danced by the fire dragon, twitching frantically for a while, and then pulled straight again, making a dull sound.

After a while, bloodstains appeared on the place where the fire dragon was bound by iron chains, and large strands of dragon blood flowed down its limbs, gradually forming a small stream under it. But the fire dragon didn't seem to feel any pain, and was still struggling frantically.

It was not until Griphook stopped the movement in his hand and put away the iron piece that the fire dragon became quiet.

"I made you laugh, Mr. Townley, these fire dragons are always unruly."

Griphook forced a smile and explained to Mike against the strong wind, but Mike didn't reply. The way the Gringotts fairies dealt with the fire dragon was really shocking, leaving him speechless.

Seeing that Mike didn't answer, Griphook didn't get angry either, he turned his head and continued to look ahead.

After a while, the pull ring pulled a switch on the minecart, the minecart suddenly slowed down, and the metal wheels wiped the sky full of fire on the rails.

Finally, the minecart stopped on a small platform, and Mike and Griphook got off the car and stepped on the platform one after another.

"Mr. Tangley, the vault numbered 688 is our second-class vault with the best location." He said enthusiastically as soon as he got off the car pull ring, "Look, the fire dragon as guard is right below this vault. , I believe you have just seen the fire dragon, once an intruder wants to harm your treasury, the fire dragon will burn him to ashes."

The thrilling journey just now made Mike feel this desire to vomit in his throat. He waved his hand to signal Griphook not to speak. Mike stood there and slowed down for a while before suppressing this feeling.

"How often do you check the vault?"

"About 10 years!"

Wen Sheng Mike nodded. Due to occupational diseases, he has been paying attention to the security arrangements of this wizard bank since just now. Now it seems that, except for the goblins who are staff members, they are lazy and only come to check every 10 years. Beyond the vault This vault is simply impeccable.

However, these goblins are not without reason. With such excellent security measures, it is meaningless for them to artificially check the vault.

"Okay, that's it." Mike said with a long sigh of relief, "Hurry up and let's get out of here, I don't want to stay here for a moment."

"As you wish, sir!"

Griphook bowed again, turned around and took out a golden key to the door of the only vault on this small platform.

The golden key was inserted into the keyhole on the door and twisted lightly, and suddenly a dense sound of triggering the mechanism came out from the door, and as the sound came to an abrupt end, the vault door also opened automatically.

What appeared in front of Mike was a cave with a size of about 50 cubic meters. This cave was very dry and the air was very fresh. It didn't have a pungent sulfur smell like the outside.

"This vault is equipped with constant temperature magic and various protection magics. No matter what you put here, it will be well protected. Even the fragile parchment can stay intact here for tens of thousands of people. year."

Griphook once again introduced the situation of the vault to Mike, but Mike ignored him and directly opened the box and poured the gold coins in the bag of the Traceless Stretch Curse onto the ground of the vault.

As the crisp sound of gold coins colliding continued to sound, a hill made of gold coins was also piled up in the vault.

After doing all of this, Mike put all the traceless stretch spell bags back together, and turned around to leave.

However, when he turned around, he found that Griphook was staring straight at the pile of gold coins, almost drooling.

"Grip, Grip!"

Mike woke up after calling Griphook several times in a row, wiped the non-existent saliva, and Griphook took Mike out of the underground vault directly.

Mike, who finally came to Gringotts Hall again, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Mr. Mike, please come with me, you still have some documents to sign."

Griphook disappeared after taking Mike into the hall, but then another goblin greeted him, holding a document and asking Mike to sign.

Mike sat down on the counter, picked up the document and watched it.

In fact, there is nothing to see here, except for some procedures, it is the precautions for withdrawal.

If you want to withdraw money after depositing at Gringotts, you will need a voucher. These certificates can be your own face, keys or exclusive magic signatures, or even family crests with special magic marks if you have a family.

Mike naturally has no family, so he left a magic signature as a voucher for the use of checks later. In the end, Mike cashed the check Lockhart gave him and put the 1,500 Galleons back in his box as pocket money.

After finishing all this, Mike finally completed his task today and walked out of Gringotts with the goblins' farewell.

In the corner of the Gringotts hall, two middle-aged wizards saw Mike leaving Gringotts, and after looking at each other, they followed silently.

Because Mike's previous actions were too ostentatious, many people in the hall noticed this little wizard who carried a huge sum of money. And these two people just watched Mike exchange a check for 1,500 gold Galleons with their own eyes, so they became greedy.

After the two left, the muggle-born wizard in rags also gritted his teeth, hesitated and followed silently.

It was already dusk when Mike walked out of Gringotts, and he stayed in Gringotts for an entire afternoon.

At this time, Diagon Alley seemed very deserted. Most of the shops along the street were closed, and only a few shopkeepers who lived in the shop were still open. Feeling the hunger in his stomach, Mike quickened his pace.

He and Professor Flitwick had an appointment to go to the Raven's Nest meeting tomorrow morning, so he had to go to Professor Flitwick's house tonight.

Imagining the various delicacies made by the house-elf Lolo in his mind, Mike's saliva is rapidly secreting, and he can't wait to return to Professor Flitwick's house.

However, at this moment, the strange voice unique to Raven Papi suddenly sounded in Mike's mind.

'Three people followed us, two at 100m at 7 o'clock and one at 150m at 4 o'clock. ’

Wen Sheng Mike's movements suddenly froze, but soon returned to normal.

"There are people who are not afraid of death." Mike thought to himself, "I am a little wizard so you think I am easy to bully?"

Mike continued to walk quietly, but the direction of walking deviates from the main road and starts to walk in the direction of Knockturn Alley.

The two middle-aged wizards behind them were instantly overjoyed when they saw this. They didn't expect the little wizard Mike to be so stupid. If Mike went directly to the Leaky Cauldron and used the fireplace to leave them, he really couldn't do anything about him. Now that Mike ran into Knockturn Alley himself, he was just courting death.

And the heart of the young Muggle wizard who fell last was twitching.

Knockturn Alley is a dangerous and dark place. He and Diagon Alley are like light and shadow. Diagon Alley specializes in all kinds of ordinary magic items, while Knockturn Alley is full of black magic shops.

It is the place with the highest density of dark wizards in the entire wizarding world, and even the Aurors dare not enter rashly. Death is the norm here, and people who have no strength to enter here without authorization are courting death.

As time went by, Mike had entered Knockturn Alley, and the two middle-aged wizards also stepped up their pace, and the young wizards behind them could see clearly that they had pulled out their wands.

"If it's too late, they're going to shoot at that child!"

The youth's fists were clenched tightly, and the images of Mike being killed by the two middle-aged wizards kept flashing in his mind. In the end, he finally made a decision.

I saw him gather his hands around his mouth in a trumpet shape, and shouted with all his strength:

"The boy in front, run!"