Chapter 698 Gringotts' Dragon Roar(1/2)
At the headquarters of Future World Company, Felix, Sirius and Lupin were scattered on three corners of the office. Felix was half lying on the sofa and flipping through newspapers. Sirius leaned against the door frame and kept throwing a ball of yarn. Lupin sat behind the desk, facing a thick stack of documents.
"So she said?" Felix read a newspaper more than a dozen days ago with an obituary written by Efias Dorge, whose fingers stopped in the middle.
"You gave her inspiration." Sirius said absent-mindedly, staring out the window. "That public appearance made Amelia realize the role of the students in school. She thought she could give it a try--last time with a group of Aurors, the goblins almost released the dragons in the underground of the vault."
"Is the situation so serious?" Lupin asked seriously with his head raised.
"I judged that they dare not, but the appearance of the Fairy Brotherhood made things complicated." Sirius said with a gloomy expression. He participated in the negotiation last time, and the two sides were at a loss. "Their spokespersons, called Cross-eyed Bord, demanded the formulation of a new Fairy Bill of Rights, and also talked about the great history of the Fairy Kingdom in negotiations. A certain king beat the wizard to pieces."
Fairy Kingdom? Felix thought about it and it was basically a noun that only exists in books and test papers.
Because of its different appearance from humans, goblins actually appeared in groups earlier than wizards. Although it was a kingdom, it was not much different from the horseman tribe and the mermaid tribe. In ancient times, there might have been more than a dozen goblin kingdoms.
But unlike other magical races, the fairies are more enterprising. Not only have they developed their own language and magic system, they also appear as superb metal smiths, communicating with wizards, learning and imitating the excellence of wizards.
It is not smooth for wizards to have their current dominance in the magic world. They have faced challenges from various races, and some even disappeared forever in the long river of history. Among them, the fairies have fought for the longest time, and rebellions broke out until the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and they did not stop until nearly a hundred years.
Therefore, in general, wizards have not had an absolute advantage over fairies for a long time, and they have a lot to do with the non-magical world. As productivity increases, ordinary people have experienced several population outbreaks in recent hundreds of years, and the number of wizards has naturally increased.
"…There are many such organizations in the magic world, and many of them are established by wizards." Luping said calmly: "For example, a witch named Heliotop Willis came to the door to promote her troll security services. She is also the leader of a troll rights organization."
"Trolley rights organization?" Felix asked curiously, "Can they understand the organization's constitution?"
"Obviously, that woman did it for her," Sirius laughed like a dog barking, "the trolls just need to stand behind her with wooden sticks."
"Or stand behind the fairy." Lupin continued, "I rejected her. We have our own defense system. She revealed that she would talk to Guling to discuss cooperation in the next step."
"Good luck to her," said Felix, who raised the newspaper, light blue, penetrating eyes shifted toward the direction where Gringott was. His eyes seemed to be the same color as the sky.
A few streets away from them, in the Gringott, far opposite the sword castle, Ms. Bones and several students sat on one side of a long large table, and on the other side were twelve goblins in suits and ties.
One of the fairies was holding a magnifying glass and carefully looking at a quaint and rough plate.
Ms. Bones's expression was flat, and Hermione sat on her left hand. Her hands under the table were slightly shaking because of her nervousness. Her eyes were moving back and forth between the goblin and the thick information in front of her. Ms. Bones's right was Harry, and Draco Malfoy was the other position. Ms. Bones chose him against the crowd when she came to school in the morning.
Her reason was that Malfoy's ancestors had facilitated negotiations between goblins and wizards, and Lucius Malfoy knew many secrets that might work.
Their backs were facing the window-like area. The place where there should have been windows is now empty, and it was even dark outside. A faint roar surged up from the ground, making people feel numb when they heard it.
"The workmanship is a mess, without any beauty," the fairy holding the magnifying glass kept picking up the faults, "It is incomparable to the silverware we have carefully made. However, there is no doubt that this is a very old antique, and the clay used seems to be a bit special. Gulingo is willing to buy it for fifty Gallons."
“This is not a sale.”
Ms. Bones said with relief, and then she realized something, the plate was real, and the wizard ruins were real. She suddenly added countless courage to her heart.
"… Strangely, I couldn't tell the source," said the goblin in confusion: "The goblin has records of soil around the world, but the soil used in this pottery dish contains certain special ingredients, and it is not yet certain its role in forging - where did you get it?"
Ms. Bones smiled slightly, "You're right, Nagnok. This was brought back by Felix Happ from the moon, and he was lucky enough to discover the remains of ancient wizards."
Fairy Nagnock stared at her, "You mean this thing is from the moon?"
Ms. Bones nodded reservedly.
The goblins whispered.
A fairy with cross-eyed eyes said with an ugly expression: "I don't believe it! Let me check it again!" He jumped up from the chair. Although the fairy was short, her fingers were particularly long. Just as the nails reached the level of the disc, Harry, who was sitting opposite, suddenly stretched out his hand, and the disc was far away from the fairy.
"Bodric, don't make trouble!" a fairy scolded angrily.
Cross-eyed Boderick caught a ball of air and sat back into the chair unwillingly.
"Mr. Harry Potter," said the fairy who had just stopped him indifferently, "You first came to Gringott as if it was yesterday.
Harry carefully distinguished the fairy's face. In his opinion, the fairy looked similar, only different from their beards and hair. It was a bit like the doll sold in Weasley's Magic Tricks Store. Well, it was a semi-finished product that did not stick to hair...
Since this fairy mentioned that when he first came to Guling Pavilion, he said "Mr. Pull the ring?" Harry scowled his stomach and said tentatively.
Pull the ring nodded.
Ms. Borns turned a blind eye to the scene that just happened and said calmly: "We can talk about the serious matters, you should know what I want,
Although the fairy and the wizard are of different races and have occasional disputes, the two sides are actually interdependent and are both part of the magic world.”
"Hmph! Who knows if you have come up with new tricks?" Boderick shouted.
"It's not impossible." said the fairy sitting in the center. He seemed to be the oldest. For the fairy, the older he was, the stronger the casting ability and the higher the status - this may be one of the few fairies inherited from the fairy kingdom.
"But we require the wizard to face up to the rights of the goblins. Including that the goblins must be absolutely equal to the wizards in all occasions. The goblins have the right to carry and use wands, as well as settle the right to participate in the subsequent Muggle negotiations." The old goblins said for a full ten minutes before stopping.
"By the way, there is also the cancellation of that stupid goblin contact office!
Ms. Bones raised her eyebrows.
"I don't know when you added more than a dozen new requirements, and I think you are satisfied with Dirk Claysway's ability to work." Dirk Claysway is the director of the Fairy Liaison Office, responsible for communicating with the Fairy. He was responsible for the last negotiation.
"The goblin doesn't need a wizard to make trouble in economic terms." The goblin said for granted.
Draco Malfoy made a loud "swish".
"Boy, I don't care about Malfoy," Boderick immediately threatened: "Be careful I'll feed you to the dragon."
Draco's face turned pale. He narrowed his eyes and said slowly in a long voice: "My father once said that there was a blind Ukrainian iron belly locked in the ground of Gringott...but you would never dare to release it."
"I'll wait for you to say something." The goblin said provocatively.
"Sit across from you is the Minister of the Ministry of Magic. If you do this, it means that the wizards and goblins are fighting," Draco Malfoy's face showed a gloomy smile. "I hope you do this, I can guarantee that within an hour, the goblins here will immediately become history."
The goblins shouted angrily, and several goblins stretched out their fingers to Draco, and his face turned paler. Harry recalled the way the house-raising elf Dobby was about to cast a spell from the goblin's movements. He pulled out his wand "swoosh" and the spell was ready to go.
Although he did not assign tasks when he came, his positioning was a negotiating guard.
Hermione looked through a lot of collected information in the Ministry of Magic in the morning and talked with Ms. Borns all the way. The specific details of the negotiations were hardly required for Harry to intervene. He was very self-aware. Judging from the results of the O.W.Ls exam, he basically answered the questions related to the goblins incorrectly. Therefore, Harry was very surprised that Malfoy, who had always been timid and cowardly, dared to provoke on this occasion. He stood up and approached the goblins talking, looking fearless. But the next second, Harry suddenly realized.
"Felix Hepp." Spit out a name from Draco's mouth.
This name seems to have magic power. The light on the elves' slender fingers became a little weaker. Seeing this scene, Draco showed a smile of winning on his face. He bet right, dad was right! These arrogant long-eared elves are afraid of the professor.
In the eyes of others, Professor Haypu is an extremely alternative being. He rises like a star, but there are almost no one who truly understands him.
The broken window behind them still faintly heard the dragon roar, but the roar could no longer move them. Draco's words seemed to have produced a magical chemical reaction.
Ms. Bones restrained the smile that was about to show on her face. She had long been unable to stand the arrogant attitude of the fairies, but she had to bear it for the sake of the overall situation. Who knew that these fairies were actually taking advantage of her humility as a condition for negotiation, which could be seen from their additional dozens of requests.
“Mr. Hepp has a lot to be busy,” Ms. Bones said softly. “I would not disturb him with these little things unless necessary. As you said, negotiation is imminent, and we don’t have much time left.”
She turned to look at Hermione.
Hermione cleared the Qingji, "Everyone, yeah, yeah, leprechaun, why don't you listen to the constitution of the Pan-Magic Alliance? Although the obligations of all parties are regulated, more rights and interests are still. Once the alliance is established, the power of the magic world will be united. Not only can cooperation be strengthened, if the wizard and the Muggle government successfully negotiate, the fairy will also enjoy a series of benefits. Oh, I have a reliable source of information, and the silverware made by the fairy is very popular even in the non-magic world."
The goblins glanced at each other.
The negotiations continued, and in the next two hours, Hermione talked endlessly about the Pan-magic alliance bringing benefits to the goblins, and some goblins were relaxed. Hermione took a breath and continued:
"The fairy didn't lose anything. Instead, this unprecedented crisis was an opportunity to give the wizard and the fairy a reason to have to talk. At this critical moment, no one wants an accident. Therefore, both sides will inevitably show their greatest sincerity. But if someone, or the fairy is stubborn and holds their own interests, he will not compromise at all." Hermione raised her eyebrows and said with a stern attitude: "The fairy is not afraid of war, and the wizard is not afraid of war."
"Does the wizard want to destroy his economic system?" said a fairy with an ugly face.
Hermione looked at Ms. Bones, who leaned on the back of the chair, had no intention of speaking, so Hermione said seriously: "Maybe the wizarding world will be in chaos, but the trouble will be resolved soon. For example, in the future, the World Company has more than 2,000 employees around the world, and they can replace Gringott at any time."
"Not to mention, the currency forging technology and anti-counterfeiting technology that the fairy thinks are doing, one by one, is only a matter of time for real masters to crack it."
The goblins scolded her loudly.
"The goblin won't have the same status as a wizard slave!" another goblin shouted.
But Ms. Borns was not surprised but happy, which meant that the negotiations had entered a substantial stage.
"Domestic elves are not slaves," Hermione said, "at least it has not been legally unanimous. The future world and the domestic elves of Hogwarts agreed to join the Pan-Magic Alliance. In the next step, the Ministry of Magic will gradually clean up the domestic elves in the hands of ancient families. They will be freed from the heavy and trivial housework and unfair treatment and engage in more meaningful things."
"Those families are willing to hand over their slaves?" a fairy cried, looking at Draco.
"The idiots who are ignorant of the current affairs are all in Azkaban," Draco sneered, "the fate of those people will be the same as their master Voldemort." Well, the Malfoy family must be separated from the Death Eater. He practiced for a while before he could smoothly speak the name of the Dark Lord.
"What if there are house elves who are unwilling to be free?" asked the goblin, and they had some understanding of the state of house elves.
“The Ministry of Magic will not be a one-size-fits-all approach, and will be open to friendly families,” Hermione said, “but at least the newborn elves,
They will be protected by the Pan Magic Alliance.
The goblins whispered, and they saw that the wizard's will to reform was very firm, and the wizard gave up a large part of the interests. Although this part of the interests was still retained in the magic world, the practice of snatching food from the ancient family still shocked the goblins.
At this time, Draco stepped on Harry under the table. Harry turned his head and Draco whined at an empty seat opposite.
The goblin with a strange name disappeared? Harry thought, he also saw Boderick leaving halfway, and didn't think anything was wrong, but Draco Malfoy reminded him.
The cold wind behind him made his hair stand up.
Harry quietly approached Ms. Bones, his lips squirmed, "A goblin is gone."
Ms. Bones nodded cautiously.
Suddenly, a deafening dragon roar came from the ground to their ears, and the room suddenly became quiet. Harry stared at the faces of the goblins,
They didn't seem to know what was going on. Then the table began to move, and the rumbling of the collapse of the stone pillars and the roar of the dragon's hiss were mixed together, which was creepy.
Harry first reacted, jumped up and held the container on the table in his hand, and Hermione stuffed it into a beaded bag. Then they quickly retreated to the corner, and Harry stood on the outer layer, supporting the magic barrier.
A crunch of teeth. Harry's eyes passed over the chair he had sat before and saw a muddy pink eye. "Dragon, dragon,
Dragon "Draco stammered, gray scales and spiked wings slid past their eyes, and the walls were squeezed and deformed,
The dust rises high.
From a distant place, the panic screams of the goblins came.
To be continued...