Chapter 8: The Secret of Voldemort's Might
Noticing Zhang Ming and Lin Zhengyang's gaze, the goblin smiled, although his smile was a little funny.
"This is a list of our Gringotts businesses, which every manager has, and every time a business is added or removed, it is written on this piece of paper."
He showed it to the two of them, and a line of words scrolled on it, written in ornate font:
"Gringotts fixed deposit interest rate revised to reduce the one-year fixed deposit interest rate by three percentage points starting from August 1········"
"The restriction on the exchange of gold Galleons for large users is discussed at half past seven tomorrow night, all managers must be present accurately, and 20 gold galleons will be deducted for absentees·····"
The Golden Galleon is a magical currency made by Gringotts, which itself uses the minting process of the goblin clan, and the Golden Galleon is stamped with a number, as well as a special anti-counterfeiting magic, and the amount of Golden Galleon that flows out each year is limited.
Of course, the gold gallons can't be pure gold, otherwise how would the goblins make money by issuing currency?
In any era, the minting industry was a profiteering···········
"I'm sorry, this is an internal announcement."
The goblin said embarrassedly, and then shook again, this time it was replaced by a business list, densely filled with the front and most of the negative.
"You can choose any business, whether it's a regular account, a fund investment, or something else, we can do it for you."
Lin Zhengyang picked up the parchment paper and saw it from the beginning to the end.
Now he can be sure of one thing········
There must have been goblins infiltrating Muggle society and manipulating finances in the shadows.
Otherwise, it is impossible to explain the considerable number of funds, insurance products, and familiar terms here.
"It seems that the predecessors who stirred up trouble in the world of Harry Potter ignored this detail?"
In any case, he must not be able to put so much cash on the books.
"Well, I'm going to buy 30% of my assets into Coca-Cola Company, Boston Globe and The Washington Post, which I believe will appreciate in value over the next five years."
"Muggle securities trading? This is a new area for us. You know, in the past two hundred years, the world of Muggles has changed very quickly, the half-blood wizards are getting stronger and stronger, and the pure-blood nobles are in decline a little, oh, I heard that the Muggle nobility is also declining, and now it's the world of capital! ”
The goblin took a small fry from his suit pocket, took the automatic writing quill, and quickly recorded it, while he himself chatted.
"If you put one-third of your capital into Buffett's partners, you won't be able to use up the money, but I ask to occupy at least 40% of the company's shares, and the excess will be returned to the account."
"Yes, sir! Anything else? ”
"I'm going to use the rest to buy property in the wizarding world, do you have any recommendations?"
"Sir, I recommend ··········"
It took more than two hours to negotiate one by one, and when it comes to such a large amount of money, each one is a large transaction.
Finally, at the suggestion of the goblin, Lin Zhengyang booked a third-rate tabloid, a magic prop shop, and several shops selling potions.
Of course, they're not located in a prime location like Diagon Alley, but on another magical commercial street.
Diagon Alley is the most prosperous and hittable pure wizard shopping street in the UK, but that doesn't mean there are no magic shops in other parts of the UK, it's impossible!
The construction of each enchanted street requires the approval of the Ministry of Magic, and then in the process, a lot of secret magic is required, as well as communication with the Muggle Prime Minister········
Even if MI7 has long been eyeing wizards, successive prime ministers may not have no idea about it, but on the surface, everyone is in the UK.
Incidentally, one of the points of disagreement between pure-blood wizards and Muggle wizards is the difference between countries and regions.
Muggle wizards still subconsciously believe that the wizarding world belongs to the United Kingdom, while pure-blood wizards recognize this territory.
One is the identification of the concept of the country and the other is the identification of the concept of the region, which is a very subtle difference.
"The goblins don't feel good, and the current situation is really not optimistic······"
Walking on the cobblestone road, Lin Zhengyang thought about the information that the goblin had revealed intentionally or unintentionally during the exchange just now.
The current British wizarding world is harmonious on the surface, but there is an undercurrent in private.
Why was Voldemort able to grow from an orphan to a powerful wizard in just over a dozen years, and to pull up a team to sweep across Britain?
Is it just because he's gifted and smart?
He's not the only one who is smart!
Take Snape, for example, who was born in a half-blood, was inspired by magic since he was a child, and was able to create his own powerful magic such as Shadowless Blade during his school days, and was able to point out the inadequacies of the Potions textbooks that Hogwarts had used for thousands of years, and created many improved prescriptions, and later Harry the little milk cat got an old book from his time and was praised by another Potions master············ This shows that in more than twenty years, no one has broken Snape's record in potions! In addition, Snape is also a contemporary master of Occlumency, and has been between Dumbledore and Voldemort for many years·········· All of this is evident in the abundance of talent.
Harry Potter's father, James Potter, Sirius Black, Peter the Wormtail, and Lupin the Werewolf, completed the advanced Animagus Transfiguration before the seventh grade during their school years, and also teamed up to make the powerful prop of the Living Point Map, and the geniuses of these four people are far beyond their peers.
In the same year as Snape, Harry Potter's mother, Lily, had fought off Voldemort three times with James Potter, and also created the protective spell that finally defeated Voldemort, which even Dumbledore was amazed.
All of them were from Snape's generation.
I have to say that that generation did produce a lot of elites.
It's 1942, Voldemort is 16 years old, and if nothing else, this year he should ask his teacher about Horcruxes, after which he found the Slytherin Chamber of Secrets and unleashed a basilisk to kill Ravenclaw's myrtle, causing Hogwarts to face suspension for a time.
However, he was an orphan, and when Hogwarts closed down, he could only be sent back to the orphanage or wander around, and he found out that Hagrid, a junior in the lower grades, was secretly raising a high-risk species, the eight-eyed spider, so he pushed all this to the half-giant Hagrid, causing the latter to be expelled.
This year, too, was not quiet.
"Tom Riddle is now preaching wizarding supremacy and rejecting pure Muggles; After that, Tom preached pure-bloodism and suppressed half-blood wizards and Muggle-born wizards; Eventually, he evolved into the notorious Death Eater, whose power was unprecedentedly large after the addition of a large number of pure-blood nobles, who unscrupulously persecuted all those who disobeyed. ”
At this time, there are about twenty years left.
"In those twenty years, Tom Riddle went from a gifted wizard to Voldemort. On the surface, his strength comes from all kinds of dangerous magical transformations and experiments, which have allowed him to obtain magic far beyond ordinary people, and everyone seems to think so. ”
But where did he get all this magical knowledge? Is it the Dark Magic book that contains Horcruxes in the Forbidden Book section of Hogwarts? Not enough, it's not enough, Hogwarts professors are also eligible to watch forbidden books, including Snape later consulted, but he is still not a late Voldemort's opponent. Who, then, supplied his forbidden knowledge, offered the high cost of his studies? ”
"The answer is simple, snatch! His followers, some pure-bloods unwilling to be defeated, gave up their ancestral magic books and followed him in all his blatant persecution of half-blood wizards and Muggle wizards, and then seized their inheritance·········· Everyone made a fortune, and Voldemort obtained blood-stained gold gallons from them, and there were many treasured knowledge and magic materials that money could not buy at all. ”
"This is the truth, at least partially."
"The blatant plundering of his property in the name of discrimination is the truth of the so-called Death Eaters and the source of most of his followers. All doctrines are illusory, and what remains unchanged is interests. The pure-bloods involved in it almost all made a lot of money, changing the decline of the past.
For example, the Malfoy family, which was originally only a mere medium family, after Abraxas Malfoy became friends with Voldemort, jumped to the top of the British wizarding world in just 60 years, relying on two generations of Voldemort's life, secretly killing people and taking money, and annexing the property of half-blood and Muggle wizards. ”
"Relying on this bloody accumulation, Voldemort has all the magical knowledge inherited by many ancient families, and a large number of precious magic materials that have money and nowhere to buy, which can support him to carry out many dangerous magic experiments, so that his power far exceeds that of ordinary wizards."
"Otherwise, why would he, an orphan with no money and no background, be able to suppress so many talented wizards and compete with Dumbledore?"
Refusing to sell ancestral magic books?
Refuse to sell the tears of the phoenix?
Won't transfer your shop?
The heart mantra repeatedly tortures you, threatens you with your relatives and friends, and asks you if you are afraid!
Organizing a group to rob and sharing the spoils together, this is the original truth of the Death Eaters interest group.
It was also the initial motivation for most purebloods to join the mix!
Otherwise, do you really think that Voldemort relied on ideas to "convince" them?
The air was a little damp, and when I looked up, I could see small rains falling in the air.
It's hard to imagine that London, known as the "fog capital", also has such clean air, perhaps because of the filtering effect of the magic enchantment?
Took Zhang Ming to walk around the streets, and the curious little guy looked around.
Owl shop, automatic mixing crucibles, all kinds of magical creatures that have never been seen before········· The exoticism is really fascinating.