Harry Potter and the Old Ones

"Yes, that's a goblin," Hagrid whispered calmly as they walked up the white stone steps towards the man.

The goblin was about a head shorter than Harry, with a dark, intelligent face, a pointed beard, and Harry noticed that his hands and feet were unusually long.

The goblin bowed to them as they entered. After that, a second door appeared in front of them, it was silver, and the following words were engraved on the two doors:

Come in, stranger.

But beware of what happens when you are greedy.

Blindly demanding and getting something for nothing will be punished most severely.

So if you seek to take from our subterranean vaults a fortune that was never yours, you have been warned, O thief, that it will not be riches that will bring you evil, but evil.

"I'd say you'd be crazy if you tried to rob a bank," said Hagrid.

But Harry still robbed it once in seventh grade, Tierra said silently in her heart.

Two goblins bowed to them, and led them into a tall marble hall. A hundred or so goblins were sitting on stools behind a long counter, weighing coins with copper scales, examining gems with eyepieces, and scribbling entries in large ledgers. There are countless doors in the hall, leading to different places, and many goblins guide people to enter these doors. Hagrid and Harry walked towards the counter.

"Good morning." Hagrid greeted an idle goblin.

"We're going to take some money from Harry Potter's vault, and Tierra Wu's student loan."

"Your key and Hogwarts certificate." The goblin said proudly.

"Yes, yes, I remember I had it with me, um... where did I put it?" Hagrid groped in the deep pocket of his leather jacket for a while, took out everything in his pocket and put it on the counter, accidentally slipping a Scattered moldy dog ​​biscuits all over the leprechaun's ledger. The goblin wrinkled his nose. Harry watched as the goblin to the right was weighing a pile of rubies the size of hot coals.

"Aha, found it," said Hagrid at last, and handed the goblin a small key and a small note.

"It should be fine." The goblin said after carefully reading the letter, and then picked up the key and looked at it carefully.

"I still have a letter from Professor Dumbledore here." Hagrid put away all the debris scattered on the table. He took out another letter from the leather coat's heart pocket, and said solemnly, "It's about the thing about Vault 713."

Although Hagrid spoke very quietly, Tierra still keenly caught it, and at the same time pinched the things in his jacket pocket.

The goblin looked at the letter carefully.

"Very good." He said, and handed the letter back to Hagrid, then counted out a hundred gold Galleons from the counter, put them heavily into a dark brown leather bag, and then took the quill pen to Hagrid's first letter. He scratched a line on the letter paper he submitted for the first time, and then handed the leather bag and letter paper containing a hundred gold galleons to Tierra.

Tierra took the leather bag and letter paper, and saw the seven columns of Hogwarts review opinions on student loans on the letter paper.

The column representing the first grade has been crossed out by the goblin just now, in exchange for a hundred gold Galleons.

"You can come back to receive six more student loans in the future." The goblin sitting at the counter said, "If you have Muggle currency, we can also exchange it for you into gold Galleons, but you can only deal with one hundred gold Galleons a year .”

"Well, Mr. Fairy, please help me exchange one hundred gold Galleons." Tierra took out the pound sterling from her cowhide bag, counted 500 pounds from it, and handed it to the goblin.

"There is still a one percent handling fee." The goblin said again in a sharp voice.

Tierra had no choice but to take out another five pounds and hand it to the goblin.

After the goblin took the five pounds, he handed over another hundred Galleons to Tierra.

"Okay, your business here is over, I will find someone to take you to these two underground vaults. Griphook!"

Griphook was another goblin. Hagrid and Haritiera followed Griphook out of the hall through one of the doors.

"What is this kid doing here?" Griphook stared at Tiera with sharp eyes, "Just wait here."

"Well, I, I think, I want to go with you to see the vault of the Wizarding Bank, can I, Harry." Tiera seemed to be taken aback by Griphook, and stammered.

Tierra knew that as long as Harry opened his mouth about this kind of thing, it would be useless for the goblin to object.

"He's with us, do you have any questions, Griphook?" Hagrid stood between Griphook and Tierra, and said sarcastically at the same time, "This is our Hogwarts student, don't you think so?" Are you afraid that such a student will rob your bank?"

Harry nodded along.

Seeing that both Hagrid and Harry insisted, Griphook didn't say anything, turned around and continued to lead the three of them to the depths of Gringotts.

Griphook and Tiera didn't know each other at all, let alone a personal enmity, the goblin just instinctively hated anyone who took gold coins from them.

It's in their nature, like a greedy spider.

"What's the 'something' in vault 713?" Harry asked.

"I can't tell you that." Hagrid said mysteriously, "This is absolutely confidential. It's about Hogwarts. Dumbledore trusted me and gave it to me. It's my job. I can't Tell you."

Griphook opened the door for them both. Harry expected to see lots of marbles again, but he was taken aback. In front of him was a narrow stone corridor, brightly lit by burning torches. The stone corridor is a steep downhill slope with a small railway underneath. Griphook blew a whistle, and a cart sprinted down the track toward them. They climbed into the cart, but Hagrid had a hard time squeezing his much taller body into the narrow minecart.

Then they set off.

At first, they galloped along the maze of winding passages, Harry tried to remember the way they had traveled, and turned left. Turn right, turn right, turn left, at the fork in the middle, turn right again, turn left, I can't remember at all. The rattling cart seems to be conscious, knows its way, and doesn't need a pull ring to drive at all.

The icy air whizzed by, and Harry felt a little hurt from being blown through wearing glasses a few times, not to mention Tierra, who tightly hugged Hagrid's thick arms with his eyes closed, just like he did in his previous life. The roller coaster is just as exciting, but the protection this time can be called crude.

They turned left and right for a while, and finally stopped.

When the mine cart just stopped, Tierra almost vomited, but she held back, followed Griphook to an iron gate with a livid face.

The pull ring unlocks the door. A thick puff of green smoke billowed from the door, and when the smoke cleared, Harry gasped. Inside were piles of gold coins and silver bars and mountains of bronze nats.

"It's all yours," said Hagrid, laughing.

It's all Harry's! It's so enviable, Tierra's eyes straightened.

So does Harry.

Hagrid and Tierra helped Harry pack the Galleon into the bag.

Harry even wanted to give Tierra one on the spot.

But Tierra refused on the spot.