Chapter 234: Non-Existent Invasion
After being restricted by Rice, the broom finally became suitable for Daphne to ride.
But this time Daphne learned her lesson. She gave the broom to her sister Astoria, obviously with no good intentions.
Astoria: ...
My stupid sister, do you think I will make the same mistake as you? This broom has been adjusted by Rice, it is very stable!
She sat sideways on the broom, and then the broom slowly floated to the air about five feet above the ground, floating slowly, slower than a Muggle bicycle.
"The transformation was very successful." Rice nodded with satisfaction.
It's just a bit of a waste. This Firebolt fell into Daphne's hands and was wasted.
"If you want to unlock the performance restriction later, it's not difficult. I left a rune on the broom. You can use your wand to destroy the rune to release all the performance."
Daphne nodded, and at the same time made up her mind not to touch the rune.
What's wrong with flying slowly?
Perhaps because he felt sorry for such an excellent broom being "covered in dust", Les gave Daphne a suggestion.
"You can lend your broom to Harry to ride a few times, he will be very grateful to you."
"Does this count as aiding the enemy?" Astoria thought about the scene after Harry got the Firebolt, and immediately felt that the Slytherin team could go to bed, they would not be the opponent of the strengthened Gryffindor team.
"Anyway, those guys can't beat the Gryffindor team, so it's okay to lend it to Harry to ride." Daphne didn't care about the so-called "college honor" at all, she looked down on the people in the Slytherin Quidditch team.
However, although she looked down on Malfoy, Marcus and others, Daphne had no intention of lending the broom to Harry: what did she want Potter's gratitude for? Can his gratitude be eaten?
For her, apart from Les, no one was worthy of her initiative to show her kindness.
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When Les was playing with the broom at Greengrass's house, Diagon Alley was a mess.
The roof of Gringotts, a landmark building in the alley, collapsed in half, and a super-large fire dragon with a body length of nearly 70 feet was lying on the stone steps of the bank. It was not difficult to tell from its motionless body, the extremely hideous wounds on its body, and the stone steps dyed red with dragon blood that it was dead.
Under the stone steps, six rows of half-human-high body bags were placed, blocking half of the street.
It can be seen that Gringotts paid a very painful price to kill this fire dragon in Diagon Alley last night.
Minister of Magic Fudge stood beside the dragon corpse, his face livid - he got up early on Christmas morning and was called to work overtime before he had time to open the gifts. Anyone who encountered such a thing would not look good.
"I need an explanation, Elijah."
Elijah, the goblin supervisor of Gringotts, stood beside Fudge, smiling: "The results of the investigation have come out. After deduction, it was the aging of the chain that caused the fire dragon to escape."
Fudge's breathing became two points heavier.
"You are sensible and have stopped the dragon in Gringotts, otherwise I will definitely punish you severely."
After hearing Fudge's words, Elijah breathed a sigh of relief: This time he had fooled the Ministry of Magic. At the same time, he was a little unhappy with Fudge's remarks: Can't you see so many corpses? Can't you say something nice now? What an arrogant wizard!
Fudge really didn't take the goblins' sacrifice seriously. In his opinion, isn't this the mess you goblins made? What does it have to do with me how many goblins you die for this?
In his opinion, the goblins should make as many sacrifices as possible to stop the dragon in Diagon Alley, just don't cause trouble for the wizards. Oh, it's better not to die, he still needs the goblins to settle the accounts for him.
The four culprits of this accident, Elijah and other high-level people in Gringotts, very tacitly erased the traces of their existence.
They didn't want outsiders to know that only four wizards broke through their so-called "impregnable" defense and stole things from the Lestrange family's vault. This would cause extremely severe negative effects. If there were a few copycats, Gringotts would have a lot of fun - after all, the dark wizards didn't know the strength of those four people, they only knew that four people could break through Gringotts' defenses.
If the news of Gringotts' invasion last year was dug up again, combined with these negative news, it would probably cause a run on the bank. Wizards would not put their family's savings for generations in a bank that was not safe enough.
Fortunately, the top leaders of the Ministry of Magic went to Greengrass Manor for the Christmas dinner last night, and fortunately, the battle with the dragon caused the scene to be burned to a mess, and the goblins got a chance to bury the facts.
They attributed the goblin guards killed by the dark wizards to the dragon head. Anyway, they are goblins, and wizards will not ask about the cause of their death. Not many goblins died last night when suppressing the fire dragon. Nearly two-thirds of the deaths were caused by the wizards...
The goblins hated these uninvited guests, but they had no idea where they came from.
They had already mobilized their connections to investigate secretly, but there was no feedback - the goblins didn't even count what the four people took away, so it was difficult to find the murderer.
"Write a detailed accident report, and an emergency plan for similar accidents in the future, and a plan for daily maintenance and upkeep of Gringotts hardware. Submit these to the Ministry of Magic after you finish them. I need to give an explanation to the Ministry. Perhaps the Ministry will also arrange a few security guards at Gringotts... But this is just an idea, I need to think about it carefully." Fudge left the scene after a few simple explanations.
In his opinion, this was a happy scene: the goblins did not cause trouble to himself and the Ministry of Magic. Although there was some trouble, it was not incomprehensible. The most important thing was that no wizards were injured and no Muggles were disturbed.
This is really great! Nearly sixty goblins died... It's not a bad thing, right?
After he left, the goblin supervisor of Gringotts was so angry that his face turned the color of pig liver.
What is this? ! What "safety officer"? He knew as soon as he heard it that Fudge was asking for benefits! As long as this fat pig is fed, the establishment of safety officers will only remain at the "consideration" level. If there are not enough benefits, Gringotts will not have a day of peace in the future. The security inspection will disturb them all day long!
Hmm... If Fudge has a good enough relationship with his successor, he might give this special attack prop against Gringotts to the next Minister of Magic.
Thinking of this, Elijah felt a splitting headache.
These damn wizards!
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