When Jim Baggins saw that Arthur had heard his words, his face did not show joy, but asked rhetorically about the conditions of the cooperation.

His greasy, fat-covered cheeks trembled slightly, and his heart was shocked by Arthur's mature performance.

If this were another depressed author, he would have nodded his head in agreement when he heard that Gringotts was willing to open an exclusive publishing house for him.

Dumbledore, who had been paying attention to the conversation between the two, nodded silently when he heard Arthur ask about the terms of cooperation, showing a look of praise to Arthur.

The goblins are a very money-hungry race, and he is afraid that Arthur will blindly cooperate with the goblins in order to make money.

"After all, we are funded by Gringotts, and we own 90% of the equity distribution of this publishing house, and the remaining 10% is Mr. Pendragon's."

Baggins stood for a little longer, and he sat back on the couch with his crutches in his hand.

"As for the profits made from Mr. Pendragon's novels, we divide fifty-fifty of the profits."

"And this publishing house publishes books specifically for you, so the copyright of your novel should also belong to the publishing house."

With that, Baggins looked at Arthur with a smile. His conditions are already very good, and I don't believe that this young man will not be tempted.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Baggins. If you Gringotts really want to work with me, you'd better be sincere. ”

Arthur shook his head in disappointment, then turned his gaze to Dumbledore.

"Headmaster Dumbledore, if nothing else, I'll leave first."

Seeing Dumbledore nod in agreement, Arthur turned and walked towards the spiral staircase. Didn't give goblin Baggins any detours.

Gringotts' cooperation conditions are obviously empty gloves white wolf.

This kind of overlord clause, how could Arthur agree.

When Arthur left the office on the spiral staircase, Dumbledore looked at Jim Baggins with a smile.

"Mr. Baggins, do you want to eat weird beans?"

"No, Gringotts, there's still something I need to deal with. See you next time, Mr. Dumbledore. ”

With that, Jim Baggins also walked towards the spiral staircase.

Dumbledore watched Baggins' departing back, and the smile on his face gradually retracted.

The terms of cooperation proposed by Baggins just now did not only make Arthur dissatisfied. Dumbledore heard about the elves' machinations.

They took a fancy to Arthur's writing talent and wanted to take advantage of Arthur's difficulties to make a move to the white wolf with empty gloves.

"It seems... I've got to help Arthur, it's a goblin today, will Gellert find it tomorrow......"

Dumbledore muttered for a moment, the newspaper in the corner of his desk catching his eye.

"Singing Against the Tune"

"The arrogant Ministry of Magic, the suppression of a teenage writer..."

......

In a conference room at Gringotts, two leprechauns with thin bodies and old faces looked embarrassed after listening to Jim Baggins' report.

After a long time, one of the old men opened his cloudy eyes and looked at his companion beside him.

"There's a lot of negative talk about us elves in the wizarding world right now. In particular, the Daily Prophet, under the instructions of the Ministry of Magic, will make a big report and discredit us when it catches a small matter. ”

"Yes, there is no newspaper that will report on our glorious deeds. Nor is there a writer who would write a novel with us goblins as a positive character... In their novels, we goblins are a bunch of cunning, treacherous, treacherous aliens..."

"Now the wizarding world has appeared, allowing wizards to control the voices of financial institutions. Although it doesn't affect us yet... But what about 10 years, 50 years, 100 years... The sound is getting stronger, and we're likely to lose Gringotts. When the time comes, will we goblins still have the strength to fight wizards like we did back then? ”

"Humanity is moving so fast, and while wizards are as conservative as ever, after many years, when those conservatives die, the new ones will surely absorb the power of the Muggle world. At that time, the other creatures of this magical world, us, centaurs, vampires, charms, giants, etc... It can't be like this anymore..."

"I'm afraid that our descendants will all become like those despicable house-elves..."

The two elf elves, with their words, filled the entire meeting with a desolate atmosphere.

"Grand Elder Barton, Patriarch Luke, in fact, we still have a chance. That teenager didn't work with us. It's that he is too greedy for money, and feels that the conditions we give are too harsh, so that he can't make money. ”

Jim Baggins thinks of the scene he saw at Hogwarts, where Arthur took out the gold galleons very carefully and counted them in order to confirm the amount of money.

"Let him have a 10% stake, how can he be so greedy!" Grand Elder Barton roared angrily, his ugly nose shaking up and down.

"Grand Elder Patton, we are working with him to make him useful to us. With us as the protagonists, write novels that glorify us, so that those young wizards can erase the bad impression of us before. ”

"In the words of the Muggle world, wizards are now fighting a war of public opinion with us, and they want to use newspaper novels to discredit us and exacerbate the hatred of the younger generation of wizards."

"Our own newspapers and novels are not accepted by wizards at all. None of the writers who are now famous want to work with us. ”

"Arthur Pendragon happens to have a bad relationship with the Ministry of Magic right now, and those publishers don't want to work with him. He is the only author we can win now, and the only chance that he will become a pawn in our fight back against this war of public opinion. ”

Jim Bagkinston paused, and after seeing that neither the Grand Elder nor the Patriarch had any objections to his views, he continued.

"He is greedy for money, even more so than we are. As long as you give enough benefits, let him be satisfied. He will be of use to us. ”

"Although he is mature and honest, he is still a child, a child with a crazy obsession with money."

"We are fairies, but we control the only bank in the wizarding world, and we are not short of money. Wealth is endless, but the future of the race is more important. It's time for us to learn to give up some of our wealth. ”

Baggins' words silenced the two old goblins.

"Whatever we make, it's ours. Money, no matter who owns it, always belongs to us. ”

Patriarch Luke played with a gold galleon with his long fingers, and he said in a sharp voice as he stared at the elf mark on it.

"Go ahead, Jim. The war of 20 years ago has already cost our people dearly. This time we can't afford to lose again. ”

Although there are many wizards in the wizarding world today who speak for goblins, their voices are so small that they fall into the water like dust without any waves.

"Yes, Patriarch."

Baggins bowed, turned his head and quietly walked out of the room.

......

"Ahh

Arthur, who was on his way to the cafeteria, had just passed by the corner of a corridor when he collided head-on with Pansy Parkinson, who was also a first-year Slytherin student!