6. Diagon Lane Gringotts
"Remember, Mr. Will, this requires a few taps on this wall with a wand, and when you enter Diagon Alley, you can buy a wand first, so that you can come over yourself later, see."
"Count three pieces upβand two more miles awayββγ Alright, you guys go back to the site. β
With that, he tapped his wand on the wall three times.
The brick he had knocked shook and began to move, and a small hole appeared in the middle, which grew larger and larger, and in a short time a wide archway appeared in front of them, large enough for two adults to pass through at the same time, leading to a cobblestone street that winded and had no end in sight.
"Welcome," said Tom, "to Diagon Alley. β
Seeing that Will and his son were surprised, Tom grinned at them.
"I'll send you here, just walk along the archway. I'm still needed there at the bar. When the time comes, you will go straight ahead and you will see the wizarding bank 'Gringotts' where you can exchange Galleons, and then you can wander around, be careful, don't go into the Tumbledown Alley next door to Diagon Alley, if you don't want to be a specimen. Well, have a great trip. β
After listening to Tom's words, Will and his son walked along the archway, and then suddenly heard a noise behind them and hurriedly looked sideways, only to see that the archway suddenly narrowed, and then turned into the original solid wall.
Magos couldn't help but turn around and touch the wall with his hand, there was not a single gap, if it wasn't for the fact that they had just walked over the wall, no one would have believed that the wall would become an archway.
Is this the power of magic! McGoth was excited about the journey ahead.
It was close to noon, and the sun was shining on a stack of pots outside the door of the nearest shop.
Above the pot hangs a plaque: copper - brass - tin - silver cauldron, complete in models, automatic stirring - foldable.
McGoth and Earl Will were intrigued by these things that were different from modern society. Walking over here and there, it was exactly the appearance of a hillbilly entering the city.
They looked around as they went, and anyway, Tom, the owner of the bar, said that if they kept walking, they would see Gringotts, and they weren't worried about getting lost.
Maybe it's because it's early, or maybe there aren't many wizards in the first place, although there are wizards walking around them, but there aren't many people, occasionally one or two wizards look at them with curious eyes, but they don't come over to talk, just walk and look, there are a lot of interesting looking shops on the side of the road, because there is no money now, all resist the urge to go in until the gate of Gringotts.
It was a snow-white building towering above the surrounding shops, and by the gleaming bronze gate, a figure dressed in a scarlet and gold uniform stood.
"What then?" Count Will asked nervously as he looked at the creature not far away with a swarthy face, a pointed beard, and particularly long hands and feet.
"That's supposed to be a goblin, Gringotts is their race's own." McGoth whispered back.
When they entered, the elf bowed to them. Then a second door appeared in front of them, silver, with the following inscriptions engraved on both doors:
Come in, stranger, but beware of the fate of insatiable greed, and the severest punishment will be upon taking and ungained, and therefore if you wish to take from our underground vaults a fortune that has never been yours, O thief, you have been warned, and beware of the retribution that is not a treasure, but a retribution.
"I wonder if anyone in the wizarding world will rob a bank, it's really interesting." Count Will looked at the warning engraved on the door and said with some curiosity.
"I think so." McGoth couldn't help but smile when he thought of the incident two years later.
Two elves approached and bowed, leading them into a tall marble hall. About a hundred or so elves sat on high stools behind a long row of counters, some weighing coins with copper scales, others examining gems with eyepieces, and hastily registering them in large ledgers. There were countless doors in the hall, leading to different places, and many elves pointed bows to attract people in and out of these doors. Earl Will and Magos walked towards the counter.
"Good morning, we want to exchange pounds for some magic gold." Count Will said to the goblin behind the counter with some embarrassment.
"How much do you need to exchange?" The goblin asked very flatly.
"Ten thousand pounds." Earl Will put the suitcase in his hand on the counter.
"Oh, big customers, the ratio of gold galleons to pounds is one to five. It's 2,000 gold galleons in total, and I don't think you're going to exchange it for just that. All I suggest you open a private vault so that you don't have to carry a large pile of gold galleons in your arms. β
"Yes, we just don't know how to open a vault." Count Will asked with some hesitation.
"You don't have to worry about this, this is the key, and when the time comes, you only need to carry this key to withdraw the golden Galleons. Still have any questions? So saying, the goblin took out a small key from behind the counter and handed it to Count Will.
"Can you let us go in and have a look, I mean I want to see what the vault looks like here, I'm curious, it's my first time here." McGoth suddenly interjected on tiptoe, and turned to Earl Will.
"What do you think, father?"
"Well, this, well, actually, I want to see it too." Count Will looked at Magos's longing eyes, and at the same time wondered what the vault in the wizarding bank looked like.
The goblin looked at the Muggle father and the young wizard for a moment before saying, "It's troublesome, that's why I hate curious wizards and Muggles, okay I'll have someone show you your vault." Cogs! β
Gear is another goblin. McGoth carefully put away the keys his father had given him, and Van Lundin. Lance put the fangs he had given him and put about 300 gold Galleons into his bag, and put the rest away for the gears, and when the gears were put away, Count Will and McGoth followed him out of the hall through one of the doors.
The gears opened the door for both of them. In front of you is a narrow stone corridor, illuminated by burning torches. The stone corridor is a steep downhill slope with a small railway underneath. The gears whistled, and a small cart slammed down the railroad tracks towards them. Earl Will was astonished at what he saw, and he thought there would be a corridor behind the door.
Earl Will and McGoth followed the gears into the cart, which sped along a maze of winding paths. McGoth had no interest in remembering the road, and he showed his head slightly out of the cart, knowing that there was a fiery dragon underneath.
Dragon, although the cold air is whistling, he is still excited to see the legendary creature Magos. Trying to block out the cold wind with his clothes, Magos tried his best to look down.
Suddenly, he saw a fiery red at the end of the passage, and in order to see more clearly, he had to stretch his head farther, and Count Will saw McGoss's dangerous move and immediately dragged him back into the car, and at the moment Magos was dragged back, he saw a huge red head and turned his head to look at him, and those eyes felt that McGoth was bigger than his head.
"What are you doing? Do you know how dangerous it was just now, and I really don't want you to be left here alone if it weren't for your insistence. Earl Will roared in some anger.
"I'm sorry father, I'm just too curious, I've never seen a place that can be as beautiful as here, I can't help it for a while, I promise there will be no next time." McGoth was so excited to see his father that he didn't say anything about seeing the dragon, otherwise he might not let his father go to Hogwarts.
"Oh, well, it's incredible, but you need to restrain your curiosity and stay safe, there's no protection here, and I honestly don't want you to go to that school." Earl Will muttered.
"It's Hogwarts, Daddy." McGoth felt that the cart was about to rush to the depths of the earth, and he looked at the stalagmites and stalactites on the top and continued,
"Dad, do you think we're almost to the center of the earth?"
"It's not that exaggerated, it's only a few hundred meters at best." Earl Will cautiously exposed his head to the cart and looked at it,
"It's amazing, it's so deep, it's so steep, it's still on the tracks, and the car doesn't shake at such a fast speed, it's a miracle." Count Will looked at everything in amazement.
As they spoke, the trolley slowly stopped. Finally, stop in front of a small door in the corridor.
"Here we are, gentlemen." Saying that, the fairy gear went straight down the cart, and Magos climbed out of the trolley station and looked down at the wall next to it, which was still unfathomable.
"How deep is this?" McGoth asked as he handed the key to the gears.
"I don't know, we never waste time on this, time is money, my friend."
McGoth watched as the gear put the key into the small hole in the middle of the door, and the door more than 2 meters high slowly opened, and a puff of green smoke floated out of it, and Will and his son quickly dodged it.
"How long has it been since this door has been opened?"
"It's not long, it's been hundreds of years."
McGoth is *** galloping in his heart, how thin are the personnel in this wizarding world, and the goblin still said that it hasn't been long, this lifespan is really enviable, looking at the vault in front of him hundreds of years ago...... McGoth's only emotion is that this vault can already enter the Louvre......
"Now that you've seen it, we're going back. Wait, by the way, since this is your first time here, you need to know that the seventeen silver sicos are a gold Galleon, and the twenty-nine copper nats are a silver sico, and there is a circle of numbers on the edge of the gold galleons, which are the numbers engraved by the Gringotts coinage goblins. Pay attention to this and don't be deceived. β
Gear said as he put more than a thousand gold galleons into the vault and closed the door.