novelraw Chapter 221 The Vault and the Gold Cup
Chapter 221 The Vault and the Gold Cup
In Diagon Alley, in front of the tall snow-white Gringotts building, Lucius waited for the belated "Narcissa".
Bellatrix didn't even bother to hide her identity.Lucius looked at the well-dressed "Mrs. Malfoy" in front of him. It was true that his elegant wife occasionally looked down upon him as arrogantly as he did, but no matter what, the cold murderous look in her eyes would not make people as frightened as Bella.
Or maybe, Bellatrix is so crazy that even if she pretends, she can no longer pretend to be a normal person.
She straightened the cuffs of the robe trimmed with silver, and put it on Lucius' stiff arm. Lucius could only swallow his nausea as best he could, and let the other party manipulate him as he wished.
"Honey," came her sweet accent, and her wife never spoke like this. Bella was obviously in a good mood today, "I'm flattered that you arrived so early."
"Is Narcissa okay?" Lucius stopped in front of the white steps of Gringotts, ignoring the slight tugging from the other side, and asked in a low voice.A posture that Bella will not go on without explaining.
"At least Sissy's Polyjuice Potion is still working, isn't it?" Bellatrix shook off Lucius' arm and walked towards the gate of Gringotts alone, "It means at least she's still alive .”
Lucius grabbed the arm of "Narcissa", "Considering that we are on the same boat now, Mrs. Lestrange. It is also time to share with me, what treasures are in your vault that can make the Dark Lord Get another chance to come back?"
"A thing he left me in the early days...a very precious item," Bella said proudly, two flights up the steps. "The master told me before the first setback at the Potter house... , an item that could bring him back to life, but only in hopeless situations."
"Of course I later heard that you also have one in your hand, but I'm sure, our things are different, and I am different to the master." Lucius had a feeling that the purpose of her saying this was actually More to convince herself...
The Dark Lord doesn't value anyone except himself, Bella... In his eyes, he is nothing more than an obedient pet.
"You claim that the treasure was confiscated by the Ministry of Magic. After the trip to Gringotts, you must get that treasure back from the Ministry of Magic." She said to Lucius. "Well, Malfoy, these far-sighted arrangements Does it make you believe in the master's greatness again? It's too late to rejoin me now."
"Do I have any other options?"
"No." Bella sneered.
Behind the long counter, a row of goblins sat on stools—most wizards didn't like goblins, because they were too shrewd, too greedy, and deep down they weren't friendly to wizards.
But Lucius, and even his father and grandfather, who had represented Malfoy for generations, didn't see it that way.In fact, goblins are much more predictable than humans if you get the hang of them.Among the wizards, there may be Dumbledore and old Crouch who stick to a certain principle, but there are no such hypocritical and unpredictable personalities among the goblins.Moreover, shrewdness and greed, such consistent character traits, are precisely the flaws that are easy to be exploited.
This is not difficult to understand, if the goblins are really as powerful as they think they are.So many goblin rebellions would not end in being brutally suppressed by wizards.It is not goblins who are now in the dominant position in the magical society.
Lucius handed over the key to Bella's vault to an old goblin—it's name was Bogorod, and it was fairly reliable, so Lucius often took the initiative to ask it to receive him.
Bogrod lowered his head to check the key, and then carefully observed Lucius and Bellatrix with Narcissa's face through his wrinkled eyelids.
"Is there a problem?" Bella asked coldly.
"It's not really...the exact question, Mrs. Malfoy, it's just that this is the first time you have come to check this vault on your own initiative since you inherited this key...I remember when I handed this key to you, you And quite unwilling to accept it. Because you and your husband are resolutely denying all connections with the Dark Lord's forces." Bogrod said respectfully.
"I thought that as a bank, Gringotts would have at least 'respect for customer privacy' as one of the most basic principles?" Lucius interjected.
"Of course," said Bogrod, "but..."
"There is nothing but, we have the key, and my wife is also the legal heir, we are just checking this time," Lucius tapped his cane, "The Malfoy family and the Lestrange family are both your oldest A group of clients, that’s not what our huge annual hosting fees buy.”
Bogrod hesitated for a second, as if he really couldn't find a reason to refuse the request of the Malfoys to check the vault,
After getting a pack of jingle tablets from another goblin, Bogorod began to lead the way, and the three of them entered the winding and dark underground vault area.
Lucius is quite familiar with this process—the Malfoy family's vault and Lestrange's are both located in the deepest part of the Gringotts underground, belonging to the second of the four or five families with the highest security.Those jingle pieces were meant to scare away a blind dragon guarding these four or five vaults—after a long period of domestication, it had formed a conditioned reflex to special jingle sounds.
But the only problem is the Thieves Waterfall in front of the dragon, the stream of water that annoys the wife every time will wash away all pretense, including the Polyjuice Potion on Bella.
But Bella didn't seem to have any concerns, even after riding in the Gringotts cart, and Lucius chose to trust that she had a plan.
The trolley turned and rushed down the labyrinth of dimly lit passages, only illuminated by the flickering torches along the way, and they kept making sharp turns among the stalactites.
After passing a curtain of water pouring on the track, a spell suddenly came from the direction of Bellatrix, "The soul is out of the body!" Finally, before he could utter a scream, he was controlled by the Imperius Curse.
"So your counter plan is the Imperius Curse?" Lucius hissed.
"We won't trigger the alarm, did you see this cart overturned?" Bella's long black hair was drenched with water, and she gave Lucius an impatient look, "I'm the one who owns the vault." Lord, this waterfall will only recognize me more. You are so cowardly, how did Sissy fall in love with you."
Lucius didn't speak anymore, using the Imperius Curse to control the goblins in Gringotts?Is it robbing a bank?He didn't even think about it.
After passing the blind dragon, the three of them successfully reached Bella's vault in the deepest part of Gringotts. Under Bella's control, Bogrod pressed his palm on the wood, and the door of the vault disappeared, revealing a hole.
No ancient and wealthy pure-blood family will only have Garon and Sickle in their vaults, and Lestrange's vault is no exception-the hole is filled from floor to ceiling with gold coins and gold goblets, silver armor, and long swords. Hair of all sorts of exotic animals with spines or wings, potions in vases, and a skull still wearing a crown. *
"Don't touch anything here just out of curiosity, they'll heat up and reproduce if anyone but a direct descendant of Black and Lestrange touches them."
"The rags here really don't interest a Malfoy." Lucius sneered.
Until... Bellatrix took a gold cup from the heights.
Made of pure gold, very small, with a badger carved on it, with two handles.
Collecting magical antiques is almost the pursuit of any pure-blood family, so Lucius saw the extraordinaryness of this golden cup at a glance.
"This is..." Malfoy gripped his cane tightly, "Helga Hufflepuff's golden cup?"
The treasures of the founders of the four major academies, it is a great honor to receive any of them, even if it belongs to Hufflepuff.
"That's right," Bellatrix showed a maniacal grin, "The master left it to me. As I said, I am special."
Lucius, who was standing by the vault door, was deep in thought, comparing the tattered diary left by the Dark Lord, maybe Bellatrix is indeed the special one?
Although the seemingly blank diary looked dilapidated, Lucius knew that there was some kind of black magic that he could not master. Irritable or listless, since then, he has never touched that book again, locked it in the strictest magic safe, and even threw it directly into the cauldron of the Weasley family's youngest daughter when the search season came.
He had been suspecting that the Ravenclaw girl who died three years ago had something to do with the diary, and the timing was too coincidental.But since then, there has been no news about the book, and Lucius sincerely hopes that it has been burned in some kind of flame.
He glanced at Bogrod, the goblin was still under the control of Bella's Imperius Curse, standing blankly by the door.Lucius was always worried that there would be trouble during this trip, so he didn't go into the vault with Bella.Bogorod did not close the vault door as was customary.
He had thought that after Bella won the gold cup, they would be able to embark on the return journey immediately.However, the black-haired witch didn't turn around for a long time, and even knelt on the floor of the vault. "What are you doing?" Lucius hissed, "Aren't you leaving yet?"
She took out a small knife hidden in her robe, "I will complete the task my master entrusted to me here, and then dedicate the wealth of Lestrange and Malfoy to him!"
Before Lucius had time to ask the next sentence, Bella resolutely cut the palm of her hand with a knife, and the blood flowed into the golden cup drop by drop. The dark red viscous liquid gathered at the bottom of the cup, and the liquid level rose slowly.
Even Lucius knew that all magic that involved blood was no good!
"You are... are you sure that this is what the master asked you to do?" Lucius almost jumped into the vault in a hurry, "Stop it, Bella! We can go back to the manor and continue! This is Gringotts!" This is just Delaying the attack, he actually hoped to find an opportunity to take the golden cup, and the process of casting this magic made his hair stand on end.
He drew his wand and decided to intervene, even at the risk of being spotted by the Gringotts goblin.
But Bella's body began to be surrounded by a thin layer of smoke at this time. These smoke seemed to be alive and even magical. Any magic of Lucius - even the Imperius Curse couldn't penetrate it.
Blood flowed continuously into the golden cup, and under Malfoy's horrified gaze, the golden cup seemed to have gained life, absorbing all of Bella's blood.
The cloud of smoke began to rise, detached from Bella's body, and even gradually materialized, condensing into a vague human form.The wound on Bella's hand seemed to have lost the basic human blood coagulation ability, and the blood flow became more and more continuous.The black-haired witch's lips began to turn pale, and she finally showed a puzzled expression.
Lucius threw a petrifying spell on Bogrod and jumped into the vault.
"Tell me! Where is Narcissa!" He anxiously tried to get close to Bella, avoiding the gold objects that would be duplicated on the ground at any time, "You are going to die! Tell me quickly!"
"I...I..." Bella couldn't speak, her eyes were wide open, looking upwards, as if she could communicate with the smoke.Lucius couldn't tell whether her eyes were fear or madness, "Master...you..."
Lucius finally moved to Bella's side. The robe had been burnt with several holes. He wanted to kick the golden cup, but the powerful protective magic of the golden cup bounced him aside. All the property he touched were instantly copied and dropped Get down and burn his hands and face until it hurts.
He couldn't control that much anymore, and crawled to Bella's side again, she had already started to tremble due to excessive blood loss, and there was not much time... He kept shaking Bella, "Do you want La Narcissa to back up?! Tell me Where is she!"
The once mighty servant of the Dark Lord had come to the end of her life. She was speechless and looked at Lucius with wide eyes. This look... made Lucius suddenly return to the place where everything was not messed up. At that time, she and Narcissa were pure Black sisters...
Bella pointed to the inside of her robe, and Lucius took out a key with trembling hands.
"Where is this key, you have to tell me! Otherwise, where can I find it?!"
There was a gurgling sound in Bellatrix's throat. She tried to speak, but no sound came out...
Lucius looked up, and the cloud of smoke had begun to show different colors... The sense of physical reality was getting stronger and stronger.
Even knowing that this is the Dark Lord himself, Lucius found that he was tired of all this...
"Legiliency!" He hoped to see Bella's memory through this spell, but as a result, Bella's memory has become an indistinguishable fog.
Throwing down the black-haired witch who had lost its use value, Lucius endured the high temperature and quickly climbed out of the vault that had covered every inch of space with treasures.
Use the Imperius Curse to make Bogorod close the vault, take the goblin, jump on the trolley, and drive quickly to the first floor of Gringotts.
He knew that the Gringotts vault couldn't hold the Dark Lord at all, but fortunately, after the Dark Lord was resurrected, at least he needed time to recover before he could settle accounts with him.He would use these few short hours to find his wife, take his son with him, and escape from England on a Muggle plane together.
No matter how difficult it is, he will do it.
Sure enough, he was stopped by suspicious goblins in the lobby on the first floor, "Mr. Malfoy, Mr. Malfoy, I remember you came with Madam?"
"I have something urgent and I need to leave first. Bogorod will pick her up. Look, he has already gone." He waved his hand, and the goblin controlled by the Imperius Curse nodded numbly, and walked towards the passage of the underground vault.
Pushing away the half-convinced goblins who hesitated to speak, he covered the redness on his face with his long hair, and strode away from Gringotts.
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Having not played Quidditch for a whole year last year, Harry obviously felt that he was rusty.
But Angelina - the new Quidditch captain - made it a point on the first day of school that they must have the trophy this year, whatever the cost.
Dining at the long table in the Hogwarts Great Hall has become extremely difficult for Harry these days.
Being flanked by two "prospective couples", Harley didn't even have anyone to talk to.
She didn't want to be a light bulb and forcefully join their conversation.
Compared with the sticky period that is about to pierce the window paper, Harry would rather the two couples officially get together as soon as possible.Yet whenever she brought up the subject with Hermione and Queenie, the girls just giggled and said there was no such thing.
Hermione can still be confused, but Queenie can read minds!How could she not know... She was just waiting for George to tell him.
In a rage, Harry took out the double-sided mirror and placed it in front of her——
Ha, she also has a boyfriend to accompany her for breakfast.
It was two o'clock in the middle of the night in Gotham time, and Damian was still awake.He had just finished washing after returning from night patrol, and was leaning on the bedside to read the new quarterly financial report of Wayne Group.
The drops of water on the tips of the hair reflected the radiance under the warm yellow light, revealing the white vest with strong shoulders... It was more daydream than being naked.
"So, you want to be a Quidditch player in the future?" Damian turned the page. "Like Tom Brody?"*
"I haven't figured it out yet," Harry poked at the scrambled egg whites, "I'm just going to tell the career counseling professors that."
"You want...after graduation, at only 17 years old, to stay in the wizarding world completely?" Damian's green eyes looked over through the mirror, and Harry noticed that the time he stayed on this page of the financial report Also too long.
"Of course I don't want to," Harley leaned closer and whispered, "I'm going back to Gotham, is vigilante a profession? Of course I can't tell the career counseling teacher that way."
Damian nodded, moved his fingers, and turned a page.
The author has something to say:
*The description of Bellatrix's treasury is from the original text of Ha 7 and rewritten.
*The resurrection method of the Jinbei Soul Piece is just a rubbish author's nonsense, and there is no basis in the original book.The Gold Cup came too late and had very few scenes, and the Locket at least tormented the trio.The golden cup also made trouble when it was obtained, and then Ron imitated the Parseltongue, and directly stabbed him to death in the conversation with a basilisk fang that had been stored for 5 years.
Just for the sake of the plot of this article, [private design] Lao Fu gave two soul pieces with resurrection function to one of the most wealthy subordinates (diary) and one of the most heartfelt subordinates (golden cup) respectively, in order to have One day, use the lives of two people to resurrect.
*Tom Brody, American football star, husband of supermodel Gisele Bundchen.