The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

Chapter 442 Caractacus Bock

"Ahhhhhh! Bojin, I'm going to kill you!" Bojin-Bokri let out a shrill roar, and a gray-haired old man lay on the floor, beating the ground angrily.

If anyone could identify the old man, they would be surprised: they had never seen the famous Mr. Bock lose his temper like this.

Bok was older than Bojin, and he had not paid much attention to things in the store in recent years, but what happened today was so big and shocking that he was shocked.

In addition to Mr. Bock, there are two young men in the store. They are the salesmen of the Bockin-Bock store. Their main task is to go to the homes of wizards with collectibles across the UK to discuss business with them, hoping that they can sell their own. Collection sold to Borgin-Bock. Of course, if there is a willingness to buy, that is also great.

The reason why Bock was so gloomy was naturally because of the empty store. It was as clean as if it had been cleaned by a moving company. Except for the secret room where he hid his things, there was nothing left.

Seeing this scene, Bock understood that this was definitely not the Ministry of Magic's problem - no matter how strict the Ministry of Magic was, they would not confiscate the tables, chairs and counters. The culprit responsible for turning this place into a white land is his partner Bo Jin.

It's no wonder that Bok is so angry at Bojin.

But after the anger, Bock came to his senses in an instant, and he had the same reaction as his partner: run away! He had to run away because the things stored in the store were also confiscated and swept away.

Unfortunately, Bock was a step too late.

At this time, Operation "Tornado" has ended, and the Ministry of Magic has achieved great success. The items involving black magic in Knockturn Alley have been almost wiped out, and more than a dozen wizard vendors have been arrested. In addition to these wizards selling black magic items, This operation also destroyed a werewolf den entrenched in Knockturn Alley and cleared out hundreds of foreign suspicious persons.

Although the magical world does not have institutions and systems such as passports, visas, and customs like the non-magical world to strictly distinguish domestic citizens from foreigners, foreign wizards are also obliged to report to the British Ministry of Magic when entering the UK.

These foreign wizards in Knockturn Alley have not reported to the Ministry of Magic. What awaits them is fines and reporting. If they cannot pay the fines, they will have no choice but to be deported.

Now that the people from the Ministry of Magic have evacuated Knockturn Alley, the entire alley is empty like a ghost. Only the shopkeepers are sitting in the shop with their eyes blank, waiting for the big boss behind them to deal with it.

Snapped! Snapped!

Several explosions exploded in the air one after another. After the people from the Ministry of Magic and the dementors evacuated, the people behind Knockturn Alley also arrived.

"Bock!" The door to Borgin-Bock was pushed open, and Lucius Malfoy walked in with a gloomy expression. But before he could continue speaking, several more people poured in outside the door. They were all well-known pure-blood nobles in the wizarding world, including Torquill Travers, the head of the Travers family, and members of the Flint family. The person in charge, and...

"Mr. Bork," after chatting with a few old acquaintances, Lucius Malfoy looked at Bork expressionlessly, "I intend to redeem the family property I have deposited with you. Here are the contracts and money. , you take inventory."

Bock:…

He took a deep breath, as if he had made up his mind.

"Of course, Mr. Malfoy, please allow me to take a look at your contract..." Mr. Burke took out a pair of glasses from his pocket, put them on and studied the contract brought by Lucius Malfoy very carefully.

Lucius Malfoy felt a little surprised in his heart. He thought that Burke would have suffered heavy losses and would not be able to get anything out, but who would have thought that he could actually get it out?

It's very interesting. All the pure-blood nobles who come here are here to take advantage of the situation. They wanted to replenish their health by eating Borgin-Bock's fallen body. That's all they've got.

After reading the contract, Bock nodded to Malfoy, "Yes, it is the contract issued by our store, but according to the provisions of the contract, if you take them away now, a certain fee will be deducted..."

"No problem!" Lucius Malfoy waved his hand inadvertently, and he muttered to himself: I want to see what you have planned. He felt that Bock was completely deceiving himself by doing this. In fact, he couldn't get out the items he had pledged here at all.

"Very good, please wait a moment, I will deal with the contracts one by one for you." Burke bowed to Lucius Malfoy seriously, his gray hair hanging on his forehead, and the beard on his face. Trembling.

Lucius Malfoy wanted to let Bork solve his own problems first, but he didn't want to offend anyone else, so he could only suppress his dissatisfaction and stood quietly waiting, watching Bork walk towards the next pure-blood wizard. .

"Let me see, you are the same, don't you care about the deduction? Okay... You mortgaged four items in our store, among which the Cursed Eye is missing, and the remaining three items are intact. According to the contract, the deduction will be deducted After the expenses, I should compensate you three hundred and seventy-one galleons, and I will go to Gringotts to withdraw the money later——"

"Can I pay my money first?" the wizard asked hurriedly, causing everyone around to roll their eyes and secretly hate in their hearts: Why couldn't I calm down and say this first?

"Of course, Mr. Bursted." Bock nodded slightly, and then left his contract to the next wizard.

Behind Bursted was Torquill Travers. When it was his turn, he said with a smile that he was not retrieving the treasures that his family had stored here. He just saw many "old friends" in the store. So come join in the fun.

No one believed this. Everyone just thought that Torquill Travers was intimidated by Burke.

About a quarter of an hour later, Bock had processed all the contracts. Except for Tokil, all the wizards wanted to get back their own collections. There were about a dozen missing collections. Bock had to pay thousands of galleons for this—if If you really only lost a dozen treasures. This amount of money is not a small amount for Bock, it is almost all the cash on hand.

"Our store has been hiding valuable collections in secret rooms. Please come with me to retrieve the collections," Bock said, walking towards the basement of the store, with several pure-blood wizards following him dubiously.

Only Torquill Travers stood there thoughtfully. The old wizard had experienced too many things, and his intuition told him that things were not that simple.

As an old man who has completely experienced the disaster of Grindelwald and the Wizarding War initiated by Voldemort, Torquill Travers believes that everything must be stable and must not be reckless.

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