Hogwarts: I Really Don't Want to Be a Wizard - Chapter 123

c123 Drive away tigers and devour wolves

However, this time Voldemort fell faster, so that just as they started to explode, the British magic world was pacified.

The headquarters of Gringotts in England was naturally not disturbed too much.

After Grete disclosed the matter to Senny and others according to his own guess, everyone began to think about it thoughtfully.

What the leader said might not be a fantasy.

If it is true, they might be able to play a trick of driving the tiger to swallow the wolf.

Wizards fighting goblins may cause a backlash.

However, if goblins fight themselves, there should be no signs of war.

If this can still burn on wizards, Grete doesn’t have to think about anything else. Just pull up a team and fight a war until either side dies and the clan is destroyed.

There is no need to think about how to unite all wizards peacefully.

Fighting against aggression and massacre is always the only way to unite everyone.

Grete believes that goblins will not be so unwise. War means casualties. As immortal goblins, they will never be so reckless.

A few hundred years of life can last several generations of wizards.

It is easy to say that a tiger will swallow a wolf, but it is much more difficult to do it in practice.

If there is a choice, Grete thinks that if possible, he would rather let Dawn face the goblins of England in the future.

Although the goblins in England and even the whole of Europe discriminate against wizards, they have lived together for centuries.

There is still a little fusion between them.

For example, the goblins in Gringotts in England will generally solve things within the rules as long as they can save face.

This is the pride that belongs only to the old nobles.

The goblins who think they are more noble than wizards, under the influence of what they see and hear, naturally also learn this pride.

The goblins on the other side of the ocean are different.

The people who first went to that uncivilized land, whether they were Muggles or wizards, were all unable to make it in the local area, so they crossed the ocean to fight for a new future.

The goblins were naturally the same. The first ones sent there were also people who had a bad life in the goblin community.

Their role was to open up the market.

But who would have thought that the uncivilized land full of gold could develop so rapidly, and the power they held in their hands was getting bigger and bigger, which also made their ambitions more and more inflated.

Not to mention anything else, all the wizards in the whole of Britain added up to only tens of thousands of people.

But in America, there are millions of wizards, and the daily turnover is simply immeasurable.

The monthly business volume of Gringotts in America, if Gringotts in Britain wants to achieve the same turnover, it will take two to three years.

But in fact, the goblins of Gringotts in Britain, relying on their status as the headquarters, take away more than half of the profits of Gringotts in America every month.

It would be fine if they had no ability to resist, but now Britain, and even the whole of Europe, is obviously sinking.

The goblins in America are growing vigorously like the rising sun, which makes them unable to tolerate such exploitation.

This is one of the reasons why Shuguang thinks that the plan of driving tigers to swallow wolves is feasible.

The goblins in America, regardless of their identities, have long surpassed the old “nobles” in Europe in terms of strength.

Grete knew that if he really succeeded in driving tigers to swallow wolves, Shuguang would have to face more difficult American goblins in the future.

But he had to do it.

You have to take risks in life, and not everything can be done one step at a time.

All along, Shuguang has been developing smoothly, and basically has not encountered any difficult problems.

If it weren’t for the fact that the research had stagnated and the information in the hands of the goblins was urgently needed, he would not choose to take action against the goblins now.

The oriental wisdom in his bones clearly told him that lying dormant is not a bad thing, and he knew this very well.

But now it’s no longer possible, even if it may be a tiger that will cause trouble, they must try to do it.

As Penelope said in the financial report.

This time, Gringotts was able to delay them for three hours, and next time it might be three days or three months.

As the only financial institution with a monopoly in the magic world, they have plenty of ways to hold the necks of wizards.

Money bags are more important than imagined at certain times.

Even the Ministry of Magic has to rely on the financial system established by Gringotts to operate.

No one can imagine what will happen to the magic world if Gringotts stops working.

The magic world that has crossed time and entered the civilized society has long been inseparable from the financial order.

The ancient bartering has little soil to maintain in this world where civilization is gradually developing and perfecting.

Once it is separated from the gold galleon financial system established by the goblins, wizards can’t find fair rules for bartering.

Therefore, Dawn must stir up the water of the entire goblin community so that they have no time to care about Dawn’s actions.

However, the means here must be controlled to a good scale, otherwise, once a mistake is made, driving the tiger to eat the wolf will become raising the tiger for harm, and the harm of the tiger is greater than the harm of the wolf, and there will be endless troubles.

First of all, we must establish a good cooperative relationship with the goblins in America.

I believe they must be very willing to see those Europeans who rely on their status to suppress their fellows become drowned dogs.

“Seni, when the meeting is over, send me a copy of the information from the American branch, and arrange a suitable identity for me. I want to go to America and meet these ‘guys’ who are under control.”

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Gretel prepared for three days, then took leave from Dumbledore and decided to set off for America.

The happiest person when Gretel left school was Snape, who had been thinking about this position for who knows how many years.

The last time I was a professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts, I was teaching for Remus Lupin, and I just got a little addicted.

He was so happy this time because Gretel was taking a long vacation, which meant that he would be able to roam around the Hogwarts campus as the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor for a long time to come. .

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“Bah, bah, bah.”

Gretel really didn’t expect that the wizards would place the door key in a desert area with no visible edges.

As a result, others did not recover from their dizziness, so they took a big mouthful of sand in the wind.

“Damn it, the portal needs to be stabilized soon.”

After looking around and identifying the direction, Gretel cast a disillusionment spell on himself, took out a magic broom, and flew up.

It’s not that he doesn’t want to use magic particles to move quickly, it’s just that his status here does not allow him to do such a high-profile thing.

Moreover, after landing, he felt a sense of rejection from the land of America.

Magic particles are not as close to him as those in Europe.

“It seems that the magic environment here is much worse than in Europe.”

The last time he came to America was four years ago, when he was still a first-year wizard with no ability to protect himself.

It wasn’t until he left America that he digested what Voldemort left in him and gained the precious ability to protect himself.

Returning to his old place, even he himself did not expect that in just four years, he would become a wizard who could be on par with Dumbledore.

If it hadn’t been for Dawn’s concealment of his information, he would probably have been on the wizard card in Chocolate Frog by now.

With his current strength, even in ancient times, he was a rising star among the crowd, and could be called the seed of a legendary wizard.

In four years, the magical world has not changed much, but the Muggle world seems to be changing with each passing day, with a new look every day.

The place where he landed was next to a Muggle town.

Members of the Dawn Branch parked for him a pickup truck, the most commonly used car among Muggles in America, in the garage of a private house on the edge of the town.

That was the house of a branch member, and the identity of Grete’s replacement was that of this member, Garnell Rouse.

As for Janel himself, he went to Dawn’s headquarters in Moldova through the portkey three days ago.

Although it is said to be a branch, in fact, until now, Suguang has not established a stronghold in the Americas.

Shuguang’s hand can’t stretch that far yet, and being able to develop some like-minded companions is already the limit of what they can do.

When they really need to perform tasks in the Americas, they still need to send people from Europe, pass the portkey, and travel thousands of miles to do the work here.

This is why Gretel needs to come in person.

America is a land with very deep water.

Not to mention the American Ministry of Magic as the administrator, just talking about the Muggle government in America is not something that ordinary members of Dawn can deal with casually.

Because this time we are going to Washington, the capital of the Muggle government.

So Gretel decided to be cautious and use Muggle means to get there.

After all, what he came here to do was not legal. Unfamiliar magic fluctuations could easily attract the attention of the authorities.

A pickup truck is great, and you can get there in no time along the interstate.

…

Even though he had already stood in front of the Gringotts America headquarters, Gretel still couldn’t imagine it.

The hearts of these goblins are really strong. The seat of Congress in Washington is in the same neighborhood as Gringotts.

Even walking from the Congress side, more than ten minutes is enough.

Gringotts in America is very different from the headquarters in Diagon Alley. Their place obviously looks much more modern.

It complements the surrounding buildings and seems to be of the same style.

However, the signboard at the door is formed in the same vein.

In addition to the name of Gringotts for wizards to see, the American branch is also specially marked in elf script below.

Gretel also noticed that a special nameplate covered by magic was nailed to the milky-white plaster pillar at the door.

Judging from the smooth finish on the nameplate, it must have been nailed on for a long time, and the mottled traces of time are very obvious.

Goblin International Bank, founded in the 16th century AD, is committed to serving all customers.

A bright light flashed in Gretel’s eyes. It seemed that the American goblin did have his own plan.

In fact, they had considered breaking away from Gringotts Europe’s control a long time ago.

Otherwise, they would not hang such a sign hidden by magic at the door of the bank.

To be honest, if Gretel hadn’t had silver eyes, he wouldn’t have noticed the magic fluctuations there at all.

For a moment, Grete felt certain.

Pushing open the door of Gringotts Americas, a goblin walked up to him with a smile on his face.

Based on this professional service attitude, Grete felt that the group of goblins in Gringotts, England, were just like the British wizarding world, and would be swept into the garbage sooner or later.

He still remembers the way the goblins looked at him when he first stepped into Gringotts in Diagon Alley.

It didn’t seem like they were welcoming customers, but more like they were looking at an item.

The Goblin International Bank was different, no matter what their purpose was.

Just based on their attitude when they first met, Grete had a much better impression of them.

Raven Case.

Tsk tsk tsk, Grete sighed in his heart.

No wonder the goblins in Gringotts in Diagon Alley teleported more than ten times last month before they solved the problem of Dawn’s redemption.

Has the rebellion of the goblins in Gringotts in America been so open and unconcealed?

It was also at this time that Grete understood why it took three hours to redeem Dawn even though Gringotts in Diagon Alley had mountains of gold Galleons in its vault.

There are two completely different meanings for Gringotts in Diagon Alley to pay money and Gringotts in America to pay money.

So, that day they were not dealing with the problem of Dawn, but fighting for the leadership between the two Gringotts.

If Diagon Alley Gringotts paid Dawn without receiving the money handed over by American Gringotts.

American Gringotts would dare to further test the Gringotts headquarters, and perhaps next time it would not only intercept the money of Dawn’s business in America.

If Diagon Alley Gringotts gave another step, the Gringotts America branch in the open, the Goblin International Bank in reality, would dare to further encroach on the leadership of the headquarters.

Diagon Alley Gringotts was of course keenly aware of this at the first time. The fluctuations felt by Peg must have been the actions of the old guys in the goblin clan.

Only these people can rely on the residual power of their status and seniority to suppress the rebellious consumables in the branch.

Raven Case, a name that is very different from the goblins of Diagon Alley Gringotts, cannot but arouse Grete’s imagination.

After all, when the goblins in Gringotts were named, they always used Griphook, Copper Lock, Vault…

They gave names that were closely related to their work.

The only exception in the entire Diagon Alley Gringotts was Sherlock Grandet, who had dealt with Gretel before.

Gretel didn’t pay attention to it at the time, but later he collected a lot of information about the goblins, and now he saw that everyone in the Goblin International Bank had the same name as the wizards, with the first name first and the last name last, so he realized the problem in the name.

The names of goblins are not randomly given. There is a legend that their names are related to their heritage.

Names like Professor Flitwick and Filius Flitwick are generally only given by half-bloods.

Although they are goblins, their status within the goblins is not as high as that of pure goblins.

Positions such as managers can only be held by pure goblins with traditional goblin names.

This is also the reason why Professor Flitwick did not recommend Gretel to take refuge in the goblin tribe when he was in the first grade.