A day at Hogwarts

"Hahahaha, I have a gift too!"

Dean smiled broadly.

Before leaving the cafeteria, the seventh-year Gryffindor brothers and sisters gave a beautifully wrapped candy to the junior sisters and brothers in the house who did not get any gifts.

A wonderful day started with receiving gifts, except for Charles and Professor McGonagall. They were all unprepared for the gifts they received today and seemed a little dazed.

There was another person who was also in a trance - Draco Malfoy.

Many people did not read the Daily Prophet immediately. Malfoy read it and was dumbfounded.

Today's newspapers are full of news about the disappearance of Lucius Malfoy and the disappearance of Narcissa Malfoy with Majia Zhuang.

There was a photo on the front page of the newspaper. A group of wizards who were rebuilding the Malfoy family's mansion held high slogans such as "Black-hearted Malfoy, return my hard-earned money!", "We want to live, we want to eat!", "Uphold law and order and oppose fraudulent wizards." Blood and Sweat!" slogans were demonstrated in front of the gate of Majiazhuang, and then the entire Majiazhuang suddenly shrank and disappeared.

After breakfast time, students began to leave the cafeteria, and several students from different houses blocked Malfoy in a corner.

The monk ran away and also ran away from the temple. He could only hold on to the pony Tongxue to find a way.

One student said to Malfoy: "From now on, you are not allowed to leave our sight unless your family pays back our parents' salary."

Another senior Slytherin student took out the magic spell and pointed it at Malfoy and said: "As long as you can pay back the money, you will be free immediately."

Malfoy trembled and said, "I...I don't have any money..."

At this time, Dumbledore came over. He was really afraid that the students would do something, and said to them: "Everyone, I have a suggestion. It is better to let Malfoy open the Gringotts vault to get the money and return it to your parents."

Dumbledore's proposal was reasonable, and the students agreed.

Malfoy had already entered the vibration mode and agreed with a cry: "Okay... okay... let's go to Gringotts now."

His IQ was not completely lost, so he immediately asked Dumbledore to be a witness.

Dumbledore agreed, but if the matter was not handled well today, Malfoy would just jump into the lake with a stone in hand.

Those students immediately informed their families that when the group arrived at the gate of Gringotts, the wizards who were owed wages had already gathered together.

Then Dumbledore saw two unexpected people.

"Jack?" Dumbledore looked at this gentleman-dressed old man in disbelief, "Why are you here? Does this matter have anything to do with you?"

Jack replied seriously: "Some of my drinking friends have been in some trouble recently, so I gave them some advice."

The old man has never experienced being unpaid in his entire life. He is the only one who owes others, and no one can owe him. But there are a lot of cases in Charles' memory.

So here Dumbledore meets someone who has a bit of a headache of his own.

Rita Skeeter brought her assistant over and asked Dumbledore: "Sir Dumbledore, are you going to use your savings to help the Malfoy family repay the money today?"

Dumbledore immediately shook his head and denied: "My salary is spent on helping students, and there is not that much money in the treasury."

After Rita's assistant took a photo, Rita asked again: "Lucius Malfoy is a member of the Hogwarts School Board. Did he ask you to use Hogwarts' public funds to repay the money?"

Dumbledore replied seriously: "This is impossible. Hogwarts' public funds cannot be used for private matters, and neither can the school directors."

"Today we are here to ask Draco Malfoy to withdraw money from the Malfoy family vault and return it to you."

Rita asked again: "Your Excellency Dumbledore, do you think Lucius Malfoy can still serve as the school director of Hogwarts after doing such a thing?"

Dumbledore replied: "This is a collective decision by the Board of Directors."

Then he interrupted Rita's next question and said, "It's time for us to enter Gringotts. Don't keep everyone waiting."

Rita stopped questioning and followed Dumbledore and others into Gringotts.

Jack followed in and saw that the goblins' security work was much stricter than before. He pretended not to know and asked Dumbledore: "The goblins are very nervous. Did something happen?"

Previously, the fact that Gringotts had been robbed was only known to senior officials of the Ministry of Magic and was not announced. Dumbledore replied: "Charles knows about it."

The goblin inspected Malfoy's wand and gave him permission to open the Malfoy family vault.

The wizard who was owed wages asked to follow him, for fear that Malfoy would jump out of the car and run away.

There were so many people sharing several cars. While waiting for the car, Rita asked Jack: "Mr. Smith, don't you feel scared as a Muggle with so many wizards?"

Jack replied calmly: "How can I be afraid? Everyone is very friendly to me and we get along very well."

"I also want to go to Hogwarts soon. I wonder if Mr. Dumbledore will agree."

At this time, Dumbledore and Malfoy took the first car and drove underground along the track. Rita was unable to interview Dumbledore.

The group soon arrived at the Malfoy family's treasury. Malfoy and the goblin who guarded the place worked together to open the treasury door.

Everyone in front of the door gasped. This was the largest vault they had ever seen. The ceiling was like the sky outside, enough to play a game of Quidditch.

But it was empty inside, just dull air.

Rita's eyes are shining, this is big news!

Dumbledore, who had seen a lot over the years, was stunned when he saw this situation.

In such a moment of confusion, several curses hit Malfoy.

He's still alive, but he'll have to stay in St. Mungo's Hospital for a while.

At noon that day, after finishing lunch, Charles was called to the principal's office by Dumbledore.

Charles put aside the gifts this morning, wondering what the principal wanted to do with him.

Dumbledore recounted what happened in Gringotts this morning when the Malfoy family ran away due to unpaid wages, the wizards blocked Malfoy in order to ask for wages, and what happened in Gringotts later.

Charles just listened quietly, and when he heard that the Malfoy family's treasury was empty at the end, he asked: "Do you think Grindelwald stole the Malfoy family's treasury?"

"No." Dumbledore shook his head helplessly, "All the money in it was taken away by Lucius Malfoy before Christmas last year."

Charles just curled his lips. Lao Ma had a dark heart, but he didn't know what this matter had to do with him.

Dumbledore continued: "Jack lent Malfoy a sum of money and paid off the wizards."

Charles was speechless. The old man's good deeds would not be blamed on the Malfoy family, and there would definitely be back-up plans.

Dumbledore placed a roll of parchment in front of Charles. Charles opened it and saw that it was an IOU signed by Draco Malfoy. He sighed and said: "Headmaster, it is a reason why Hogwarts does not offer Chinese classes and mathematics classes." An extremely serious mistake."

Dumbledore asked him doubtfully: "What's the problem?"

Charles frowned. The old man was very serious. Behind a series of gorgeous rhetoric, the IOU stated a compound interest rate of 15% per month, or a monthly settlement.

"Forget it." He put away the IOU, "If there is a problem now, it is also a problem of the Malfoy family."

He always felt that what happened today was a bit strange, much like a certain move in a game of chess.

"I'm going to the Charms class." Charles stood up and said goodbye to Dumbledore, grabbing the desserts on the table.