Chapter 5 Come, Rob the Bank!
Hagrid was a regular at the bar.
As soon as the three of them entered, the chatter suddenly stopped, and everyone smiled and waved at Hagrid.
Especially the old women who sat in the corner of the room and drank sherry with small glasses were even more enthusiastic about Hagrid.
One of them handed Hagrid the long cigarette pouch in his hand, trying to get him to take a puff as well.
Hagrid was pestered for a few moments before he could get out.
Yes, I didn't expect Hagrid to be a friend of middle-aged and elderly women!
The barkeeper, who looked like a deflated walnut, picked up a cup, wiped it, and asked, "Hagrid, would you like another drink?" ”
"No, Tom, I'm running an errand for Hogwarts, and I can't drink."
Hagrid refuses with a serious face, as if whoever stands in his way is his enemy.
But a man in a top hat next to him, squinting his cloudy eyes, wondered, "Really?" But when I came in the morning, I saw you......"
"Ahem...... I'm going to take William to Diagon Alley, goodbye everybody. Hagrid hurriedly interrupted.
But before leaving, he still glanced at the boss Tom and asked, "Hasn't that old Greek man come back yet?" ”
Tom shrugged his shoulders and said, "He hasn't shown up since I had a drink with you in the morning." ”
Hagrid was disappointed.
Across the bar, Hagrid led the two to a small, walled patio. There was nothing left here but a garbage can and some weeds.
Roy stopped and couldn't help but ask, "Hagrid, you said that there was something delayed in the morning, and you are drinking here?" ”
Hagrid scratched his beard and said dryly, "Dear Roy, I can explain! ”
He coughed and said, "You see, I came to London from Hogwarts and walked such a long way, it's not too much to sit here and rest for a few minutes, right?" ”
Roy nodded: "Reasonable." ”
Hagrid continued: "This is the bar, I can't sit still, I have to take care of Tom's business, so buy a few eggnog glasses to moisten my throat, isn't it too much?" ”
Roy held his chin: "Reasonable." ”
"So, you're drinking too much?" William interjected.
"No, it's not." Hagrid hesitated for a moment, glanced around, and whispered, "I was about to leave, but I ran into a Greek.
The Greek talked to me and said that he had a three-headed dog, but the three-headed dog was too big for him to raise.
William, you don't know how rare and adorable three-headed dogs are.
I can't just watch this little furry creature wander the streets and be sent to the Department of Magical Creatures Management and Control......"
Hagrid lowered his head like a child who had made a mistake.
"Well, we're not going to tell anyone." Roy reassured.
Hagrid laughed, "Thank you so much, Roy, you are my best Muggle friend."
You can rest assured that William will be handed over to me, no one will dare to bully him at Hogwarts! ”
Hagrid slapped Roy on the shoulder with his giant palm, nearly failing to knock him down.
"Hagrid, is the three-headed dog really that cute?" William couldn't help but ask.
"Really cute!"
With a "aim", an orange cat's head emerged from William's backpack, and Bobocha glanced at Hagrid suspiciously, as if he had just heard someone complimenting him on his handsomeness.
"You and that little guy will become good friends." Hagrid chuckled twice and touched Bobotea's head.
Bobo Tea "meowed" and drilled his head back again.
At this time, William's mind inexplicably appeared with the three stupid dog heads of the sled.
He began to brainstorm a three-headed dog with a Samoyed, a husky, and an Alaskan head...... That's really cute enough!
Only in the near future, William will understand how too young, too simple Tucson he is today!
Hagrid counted the bricks on the top of the dumpster, and he had to bend over and pout his ass because he was so tall.
"Count three up—two more horizontally—" he whispered. "Alright, stand back."
He tapped the wall three times with his umbrella head.
The brick he had knocked shook and began to move, and a small hole appeared in the middle.
The entrance to the cave grew larger and larger, and soon a wide archway large enough for Hagrid to pass through appeared in front of them, leading to a cobbled street that winds and has no end in sight.
"Welcome." Hagrid opened his arms and announced loudly, "Welcome to Diagon Alley." ”
They walked down the archway, the dazzling sunlight casting on a stack of pots outside the door of the nearest shop.
Above the pot hangs a cauldron made of copper-brass-tin-silver, complete in models, automatically stirring and foldable.
"Oh, William, you need to buy one," Hagrid glanced at the sky, "but the sun is going down, and we'll have to get the money first." ”
They came to a snow-white building that towered above the surrounding shops, and by the gleaming bronze gate, stood a figure in a scarlet and gold uniform—a swarthy face with a sharp beard that was full of intelligence.
"That's what I told you about goblins." Hagrid whispered as they walked up the white stone steps toward the man.
Roy's occupational illness was back in place, and he couldn't help but look at the goblin's smiling and grinning mouth, as if to check the health of his teeth.
William felt that he would not be able to let his family come to Diagon Alley alone in the future.
Roy was fine, at most he would have taken a look at someone else's teeth, and his mother, Lyanna, would probably have pulled a scalpel out of her pocket on the spot to dissect and see the species differences.
As for Annie, there is a high probability that she will treat the goblin as a pet and ask to buy it back.
Oh my God, what a strange family this is, William suddenly found that he was the only normal person!
He doesn't have so many strange thoughts, at most...... I also moved the idea of robbery.
William stood in front of the second gate of Gringotts, his figure, half shrouded in sunlight and half shrouded in shadow.
On the two doors before him were engraved the following words: Come in, stranger, but beware of the fate of insatiable greed, and the most severe punishment will be imposed if you take it for nothing, so if you want to take a treasure from our underground vaults that has never belonged to you, thief, you have been warned, beware that it is not a treasure but a bad retribution.
I don't know why, at this moment, looking at those rows of words, William really had the idea of robbing Gringotts.
Well, looking at those cash trucks in his previous life, he would have had this urge too.
But the soldiers who are loaded with guns will always extinguish his desires in the shortest possible time.
There's never going to be that strong defense here, right?
William looked up at Hagrid and asked in a low voice, "Hagrid, is the defense here strong?" ”
Hagrid nodded: "Of course it's strong, this is the safest place in the wizarding world except for Hogwarts." ”
"How?" William raised an eyebrow.
Hagrid bent down and said mysteriously in a fiery tone that William had never heard before, "Here...... There are dragons! ”
"Dragons?"
Hagrid's eyes lit up, and he said enviously, "Yes, I really want to raise one, and I'm willing to give everything for it!" ”
Hagrid immediately deflated: "But twenty years after the promulgation of the International Secrecy Law, in order to promote this law, the Wizards' Conference officially passed a bill prohibiting dragon breeding.
He gritted his teeth and said, "I dare say, this is the stupidest decision ever made by the International Federation of Wizards!" ”
Hagrid's description gave William the most intuitive picture.
The most important thing is that he has the big black dragon Zhuo Geng of the dragon mother in his mind...... If the wizarding world is also such a forced dragon, he doesn't think he can rob it.
Well, William's desires, once again, were extinguished, this time with Hagrid's scattered spit.
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