harry potter book of crimes

On the counter, under Maka's control, two silver coins collided with each other, and then rolled in different directions.

The old goblin had already stretched out his hand, intending to hold them down, but after that collision, his judgment went wrong.

In line with the fairies' innate love for gold and silver...

In other words, in line with the natural miser character of goblins, the old goblin reacted extremely quickly.

I saw him quickly waving in the direction of one of them rolling down, and the power of magic made the silver coin fly towards his hand. At the same time, he bent down and stretched out his other hand, picking it up accurately.

There was another silver coin that just fell from the counter.

But when he straightened up again and touched the two silver coins in his hand with care, he didn't know that an invisible hummingbird had silently scurried to the back of his head and hovered steadily in the air.

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This is also the first time Maka has been behind the counter of Darkling Pavilion.

Although he has been here many times, the space behind the counter is not something that just anyone can run in and take a look around.

He could clearly feel that from here on, it was an area where Apparition was prohibited.

After entering here, the first thing Maka saw was that there were many fairies running back and forth on their short legs, busy.

From time to time, tellers sitting on high stools would pass small pieces of paper to the goblins on standby, and the goblins who received the pieces of paper would immediately run to the back aisle.

And those goblins who run out of the passage will use magic to control the floating packages or money bags behind the corresponding teller and put them on the counter board next to the teller.

It may seem a bit messy at first glance, but if you look closely, you will find that everything is going on in an orderly manner without any chaos.

As far as goblins and house elves are concerned, they are "distant relatives" whose blood relationship is already somewhat thin. At least their attitudes towards work are surprisingly similar - hard-working, rigorous, but sometimes quite stubborn and rigid.

Maka looked around, then glanced at the arched passage in the back, then flapped her wings at high speed and flew towards the counter on the right.

The staff-only passage located at the end of the right counter is the preferred entrance in this plan.

Other members of the Order of the Phoenix cannot borrow the small Animagus form to enter like him. Therefore, trying to open an entrance for sneaking in is his second task.

"Well...it's really very different from the wizard's magic!"

Maka quickly flew to the staff passage. He looked here and found that there were two wizard guards standing guard inside and outside. In the middle of the passage, not only were there two iron chains, but the detection magic set up was mostly goblins.

unique.

Although Maka can still sense the flow of magic power from it, it is still impossible to decipher it on the spot - not to mention whether it can be studied and understood, even if it can be deduced through the rules of magic flow, it will take a lot of time.

"It seems that this road is not feasible."

He thought about it quickly, made a decision in time, and decisively flapped his wings and flew back.

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On the other side, Hesijia finished the rental of the safe and left the counter as if nothing had happened. She glanced at it with her peripheral vision, straightened her collar, took out a small badge and pinned it in front of her body.

When she came out of the Dark Spirit Pavilion hall with a calm face and went around to the alley next to her, Lupine, disguised as a short wizard, also walked in.

"Did the first step succeed?"

"It should be successful, but... let's wait until the news about McClain comes out."

"Well, then you go shopping first and take a rest. I'll notify the next group to enter the hall."

Lupine leaned against the wall at the entrance of the alley, while Hestia huddled behind the pile of debris in the alley. The two lowered their voices and exchanged a few words, then they left separately.

However, not long after the two people walked away, a cloud of black smoke suddenly surged from the shadows on one side of the alley, and then a figure wrapped in a black cloak quietly walked out of the black smoke.

The figure looked left and right in the direction where Hestia and Lupine left, then turned into a puff of black smoke again, chose a direction and chased after it.

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Behind the counter of Darkling Pavilion, in the arched passage at the deepest part of the hall, Maka was moving quickly.

Just like goblins don't like sunlight, but only love dark caves, this passage is not only made of black bricks up, down, left and right, but even the brightness of the torches is not high.

Many goblins were coming and going in an orderly manner. In order to avoid unnecessary risks, Maka maintained her hummingbird form and flew above their heads.

Along the way, you can see that there are many door openings on both sides of the passage, and most of them are deep and dark. If you look in with the naked eye, you will not be able to see very far.

Maka did not rush in to investigate, but planned to first take a quick look at this largest main road.

But probably because it was a bit dark inside, the main road was not as long as he thought. After flying for only a short time, he found that he had reached the bottom.

At the end of this main passage is a black wall.

The wall was bare, with nothing on it. However, there was a rather large descending cave on the ground in front of the wall.

Looking at the goblins coming in and out of the cave, the entrance to the underground vault of the Dark Spirit Pavilion is probably below.

Maka flew to the cave and took a look, and even saw the minecart-style track inside, which was like the underground of Gringotts. Just looking at the neat row of tracks, you can understand that the scale here is probably larger than the ancient one.

Lingge's treasury is much larger.

After confirming the next infiltration route, Maka turned around and flew back again.

"As for the private room, it should be in this direction..."

He hurriedly checked the door openings on both sides of the main passage, and compared the location of the private rooms in his memory, he found a secondary passage with a track extension.

In this spiraling upward passage, there will occasionally be a car controlled by a goblin whizzing past very fast on those tracks, making a loud clanking noise.

On both sides of this winding passage, there are thick metal doors.

Compared to the Dark Spirit Pavilion, this is only the "above ground" part, and is obviously not the scope of the vault.

Once we think about the situation in the private rooms outside, it is not difficult to guess what is behind these not-so-large metal doors.

Each private room for handling personal business is divided into an outer waiting room and an inner business room. The innermost part of the business room is this kind of solid metal door that is not large but is particularly thick.

Maka randomly selected a metal door and gently lowered it, transforming back into the image of a goblin. After taking out the kettle and taking a sip of the polyjuice potion, he carefully looked at the door in front of him.

"Well... there are only protection and reinforcement magic here, and there are no other magic flows, so it should be independent."

After careful judgment, he took out his staff and knocked quickly on the metal door. With a slight breaking sound, he violently destroyed the magic on it.

After waiting for a while and seeing no movement around him, he waved his staff again to open the metal door, and then quickly put the staff away again.

"The magic text on this staff is too conspicuous. I have to think of a way back!"

While Maka was thinking about it, she opened the slightly heavy metal door and slipped in through the small crack of the door.

As soon as he entered, he knew that his judgment was not wrong. Outside these metal doors were private rooms used for large deposits and withdrawals and personal transactions.

Occasionally before and after the auction, these private rooms will also be used to handle the sending and picking up of auction items.

Maka did not stay here longer. After glancing at the private room number, he immediately walked along the corridor towards the hall.

To be on the safe side, although the invisibility effect would not end for a while, he still applied a magic spell on himself halfway through.

More than twenty minutes later, Maka, Lupin, Hestia, Tonks and Mrs. Weasley arrived in the private room one after another while being invisible.

"The back of that metal door can lead all the way to the passage of the underground vault." Maka waved her staff and locked the door of the private room. "Is everything okay?"

Because Moody and Kingsley were involved in accidents, the main combat strength of the Order of the Phoenix was actually somewhat insufficient. Because of this, Mrs. Weasley was also among the candidates to infiltrate this time.

Of course, although Mrs. Weasley is always noisy on weekdays, she also plays the role of a good wife and mother at home. However, it would be a big mistake to underestimate her magical power because of this.

Just Molly Weasley...no, when she was still called "Molly Prewett", she was a Gryffindor with excellent academic performance.

Whether it is Defense Against the Dark Arts or Charms, she is better than her husband Arthur Weasley, and not even a little bit better.

Just like what Lupine said about her - if Molly were serious, she would definitely be no worse than me. She was the top student in Gryffindor House back then!

Seeing that everyone gave her a positive look, Maka took out four flying broomsticks, and after handing them to everyone, attached a disembodiment spell to the brooms to make them invisible.

"There are only minecart tracks behind - we have to use flying ones!" He instructed carefully, "After entering, go down directly, and then to the right... Just follow me and fly. It's not far to go down to the underground vault.

, but the route is a bit complicated, be careful not to lose track!"

Having said that, he pushed open the metal door, stepped on an invisible magic book, and fell straight down...