From Azkaban to Hogwarts

From Azkaban to Hogwarts Chapter 19

2021-04-05

Chapter 19 Gringotts and wand shop

Diagon Alley is almost a financial center in the British magic circle , the whole country only one magic bank Gringotts is located here.

But Diagon Alley is not tall, Leaky Cauldron as the entrance of Diagon Alley can provide sufficient evidence for this conclusion.

The financial model of the entire magic circle is crude and savage, and there are loopholes in every frame. Any college student who has studied finance systematically can find loopholes in this network and make a lot of money from it. money.

But simple does not mean it is inappropriate. An imperfect system not only means that there are loopholes that can be exploited, but also means that the means to deal with it are almost unlimited. William saw a bunch of economic prisoners in Azkaban, Each is an expert who thinks he has discovered a loophole in the system.

A little clever? nonexistent.

Because the laws related to finance are not perfect, so how long is the sentence when arresting is entirely a matter of mood - Ministry of Magic dares to pluck the wool, is it really when Azkaban is built as a prestige building?

William remembers very clearly that in the felon prison, a guy used digital divination to successfully predict the great changes in the Far East, and then set up a large amount of muggle money in muggle world. When the Gringotts was about to convert the money into gold, the Ministry of Magic directly confiscated all of the guy's property on a series of charges such as violating the secrecy law and disrupting financial order, and sent the person to Azkaban for 20 years as a gift to future generations. Lessons.

Imperfect laws are the greatest right of Ministry of Magic. Everything is stipulated. How does Ministry of Magic fight against pure-blood family?
But William has nothing to complain about now, he just looks at the gate of Gringotts and thinks of the prisoners in Azkaban, the power of the Ministry of Magic is not something he can interfere with, staying in Azkaban for so long, a year Unifying the Ministry of Magic, the ambition to reform the magic circle in two years simply no longer exists, although he still has ambitions for the future, but it is impossible to float like that.

"If I remember correctly, I still have less than thirty Galleons in the bank, but the more important thing is the set of custom-made potion potions, although they are rebuilt. No more than twenty Galleon sets, but it takes too much time to customize, and I don't have that much money."

But unfortunately, today seems to be a payday in many places, Gringotts There was a long queue, and the wizards lined up with small bags of gold and chatted all over the bank the day before.

What's more terrible is that the Goblins did not speed up their preparations because of their busy business. There are only a few Goblins who guide people to the underground vault that belongs to them alone, and go down to the underground cart. The bank is full of queues, and it is convenient to dispatch people to the bank.

After waiting in line for a long time and the line was not shortened, William simply gave up his plan to take out the things he had put in the Gringotts Vault, and went directly to the second destination - Ollivander's wand shop,

Gringotts Vault should be called a vault more. When William was going to smuggle before he was imprisoned, he simply stuffed all the more important things into it, but Gringotts was busy with business, so he had to go to the wand shop to see himself What happened to that disobedient wand?

It was easy to find on the street. William finally found this dilapidated and small shop after passing by twice. The sign at the door was faded. William thought it was a closed shop twice earlier. , and then patiently flipped through the signboard before deciding that this was the target he was looking for.

“Ollivander——Makers of Fine Wands since 382 BC”

A thousand-year-old shop, still the kind with word-of-mouth guarantee.

William groaned inwardly, then pushed open the door of the shop directly.

The storefront is not spacious, which is not at all sorry for the millennium signboard, but there is no furniture outside except for chairs, and it does not seem so narrow.

The first thing I can see is the boxes piled up to the ceiling. In the background of the boxes that reach the ceiling, an old man is busy with his head down. Beside him, an empty box that is exactly the same as the background is playing. open there.

"New guest?" The other party raised his head, his voice soft.

He looked towards William's pocket, which made William almost subconsciously protect his wallet - he knew a lot of thieves back in Azkaban, and Jiuzhi did this because he was chopped off every day. One finger was nine fingers before drinking potion, so it got such a nickname.

But the other party's eyes did not look towards William's purse, but fixed on William's half-exposed wand.

"Oh, it was, sold eight years ago, twelve inch, red willow, very strong to swing, very few young wizards get their wand at nine, this It's not Japan (Note 1), your name is William, right?"

"Yes, it's me."

William is surprised that what happened eight years ago, this The old man can still remember through a sold wand - this extraordinary memory is too far-fetched to explain even with magic, the amount of information comparable to 3,000 books of Liu Bei has not made this person forget it once a year. It's so rare.

"What's wrong with it?"

"I think so, don't know why, after I left Azkaban it became resistant."

William honestly didn't do anything to hide, he was really afraid of what the walking large storage would find on the wand, although Azkaban might sound far-fetched, it was an excuse anyway.

"Azkaban?"

Ollivander took out William's wand, stroked it, carefully wiped the fingerprints and sweat on it, and regretfully handed the wand to William.

"Normally, a wizard's wand will follow his master for the rest of his life, unless the master's will changes drastically."

"Keep it away and put it away. , Mr. William, now you don't need it for courage anymore, a new wand will keep you going as a partner."

William followed Ollivander's command without any slights. Get up - for a wand production master who can recognize the owner based on the wand sold eight years ago, it is worth abide by even the wand that he babbles on. Probably he can think of the wand in this room at a glance. This root wand comes out of all history from birth to preservation.

The so-called skill close to Dao probably has this level, and the liar impossible has this level.

Thinking of this, William simply inquired about the price of the empty box, and spent three xikes to buy one, wiped the disobedient wand well, and cautiously put it in and fixed it, Then put the box away.

This kind of work is worth doing. Even if the wand that William wants to use at the moment has no shadow, he has already dared to guarantee that no matter which wand is strong or weak, it must be the most suitable for him.

(end of this chapter)