The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

v4 Chapter 128: awkward meeting

Remember [New] in a second! Goblins may be arrogant, greedy, and obnoxious, but one thing that even the most extreme wizarding supremacists can't get over is that they're genuinely dedicated when it comes to money.

In the non-magical world, the regular storage period for bank settlement account management files is 10 or 30 years, and some important files will be kept forever. However, in Gringotts, perhaps due to the small number of customers, or the overwhelming spirit of craftsmanship, the goblins said that all deposit and withdrawal records and the list of kept items are kept!

This is outrageous.

What the goblins mean is that from the day the ancestors of the Lestrange family opened their accounts in Gringotts to the day the descendants of the Lestrange family were imprisoned in Azkaban, they kept records for hundreds of years with.

Not only Scrimgeour, but even Tom was shocked to hear the goblins say such words with pride.

If what the goblins say is true, then Gringotts must have dug several huge archives underground, which does not seem impossible considering that the underground vaults of Gringotts can go all the way deep into the ground for miles.

Tom, Scrimgeour, and the Aurors watched as the goblins pushed cart after cart through the door behind them, piled high with dusty files.

It looks like the goblins are planning to roll up their sleeves and prove their innocence.

But at this moment, in the deepest part of Gringotts, in front of the vault of the Lestrange family, a sneaky figure appeared. This guy was Ragueno who had just slipped out of a board meeting. The reason why he appeared here was simple, he needed to get the cart of gold behind him in as soon as possible.

The reason why the greedy goblin appeared here and offered to send money is also very simple: he really embezzled the gold in Lestrange's vault.

Not that he was bold. In fact, who would have thought that the vault would ever be opened again? The Lestrange family has already entered Azkaban, no one is qualified to open it!

To open the vault, the heir of the Lestrange family needs to go to Gringotts in person. However, all the heirs of this family have been imprisoned in Azkaban, so theoretically the vault is locked. Is there anything wrong with Ragnol taking the vacant gold inside and investing it?

The deputy director of investment at Gringotts once said this in an internal meeting: "Flexible investment is an effective supplement to traditional formal investment. It’s also a way of earning income.”

After hearing this, Raguenor took it for granted, suddenly realized, and directly enlightened and sublimated, and then he took out the idle gold in the Lestrange family's treasury and invested it flexibly.

As a result, it is suddenly necessary to check the accounts! To him, this was simply earth-shattering news. If his misappropriation of depositors' assets is exposed, it will be designated that he will suffer no good.

As for destroying records, it is simply not realistic in a short period of time. The archives of Gringotts are extremely tightly guarded, and even Ragnol, as a director, cannot enter and destroy the materials. Fortunately, every time he went in to "withdraw money", he was very careful and remembered the accounts clearly, so it was not difficult to temporarily transfer some money to fill the hole.

He stretched out his hand and placed it on the wooden door of the vault. The slightly old door disappeared immediately, revealing a hole. The hole was filled with gold coins, gold and silver armor, furs of strange animals, and treasured potions—— In the true sense, it was full, leaving only a narrow path.

Looking at the mountain of gold and silver in front of him, a greedy look flashed in Ragueno's eyes. Sooner or later, these treasures belong to their goblins! Now he forbears it for the time being, after all the heirs of the Lestrange family pass away, won't all the money belong to the goblin?

Ragnou dragged the car in with great effort, found a gap by the door, and dumped the Jin Gallon on the car onto the open space.

During this period, he has been carefully controlling his figure to avoid touching anything in the vault. He knew that all the items in the vault had been cast with the Fire Curse and the Duplication Curse, and if touched by mistake, it would trigger an extremely dangerous chain reaction.

"I didn't expect you to actually steal the gold from the vault!" A voice sounded from behind Ragueno, making him break out in a cold sweat.

"Who!" He turned around quickly, and almost touched a pair of golden armor because of this.

After seeing the identity of the visitor, a trace of despair appeared in his heart: it was his old enemy Bogrod who appeared outside the vault.

But soon he was relieved, because he saw that his old enemy Bogorod also had a small cart behind him! There are more gold coins piled on it than he brought!

The two old goblins looked at each other, and both were a little embarrassed.

Bogrod coughed dryly, "I'm not the only one, the other directors are more or less involved too... I knew you were coming, so I asked you to bring them along."

Ragnol: …

The atmosphere was a little awkward.

"Excuse me." Bogrod signaled Ragnol to make way, his fat body almost completely blocking the way.

"Oh, ok." Ragueno hurried out of the vault, watching Bogrod pour the gold into the vault.

After dealing with the shortfall, the two goblins hurriedly pushed the cart and left the ground.

The wizards on the ground are watching the goblins count their accounts.

"Could you bring some instruments for detecting black magic?" Tom turned to Scrimgeour.

Scrimgeour glanced at the dementors crowded in the hall, and the corners of his mouth twitched.

"The interference is too strong, it is estimated that it will not work properly."

Tom: ...

"They won't follow." He suppressed his desire to complain, and firmly asked Scrimgeour to get some black magic detectors.

"Okay ~lightnovelpub.net~ Scrimgeour shrugged. That's nothing to the Aurors. He quickly dispatched a group of dark magic detectors.

At this time, a goblin came to the two of them with a roll of parchment.

"We've already counted. There are a total of 24,762 Galleons in Lestrange's treasury, 13 pairs of gold armor, and gold cups..."

The goblin announced a long list of numbers like the name of a dish, which shocked Tom and Scrimgeour. Scrimgeour quickly calculated how long it would take to save such a sum of money based on his own salary, and then found out in despair that he estimated that he would not be able to save twenty million Galleons since the time of Merlin.

"Director, the car is ready. We can go down and take stock of the Lestrange family's vault at any time." The goblin holding the list bowed to Tom and Scrimgeour, indicating that Gringotts is ready. .

Scrimgeour's face twitched, more than 20 million Galleons, when will this count? But Tom, who was standing next to him, agreed without hesitation - anyway, his purpose was not to count Garen's numbers at all.

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Ask for a monthly ticket! The emperor will not ask for leave next month after reaching 1,000!