A day at Hogwarts.

Chapter 548 Let's Do Business

Following Hogsmeade, Diagon Alley (excluding Gringotts) quickly followed suit, appointing Seamus's mother as their representative to speak with Charles.

On the last day of the Easter holiday, Gringotts finally realized the problem and sent a goblin to Farbatton Castle to talk to Charles.

Gringotts took this negotiation very seriously. They found out that Charles and Jack were received by Rapunzel on their first and only visit to Gringotts, so they sent him this time.

When Pull-Hook arrived at Charles's office, he suddenly shuddered, and the greetings he had prepared for so long were thrown back to the Frankish Islands in fright.

Charles was maintaining his wand, preparing to wax it, and gestured for Rapunzel to sit casually on the sofa.

She carefully sat down, trying her best to appear calm.

In Britain, an extra-long wand is to a fairy what Voldemort is to a wizard. Charles maintaining his 460mm long wand while talking to fairies is like fairies applying skin cream to Voldemort's head while talking to wizards.

Charles asked, "What does Gringotts want with me?"

After calming himself down, Rapunzel said, "Mr. Smith, on behalf of Gringotts, I would like to invite you to open a treasure vault in Gringotts."

Charles shook his head and said, "No need, Gringotts has been robbed before."

Pulling ring paused, thinking to himself that this matter had been suppressed, but said aloud, "There were indeed such rumors a long time ago, but they were just people talking nonsense when they were drunk."

Charles smiled and said, "The way you put it makes Gringotts seem insincere."

Gripping thought to himself, "This is bad. With Charles's connections, it shouldn't be difficult for him to find out the truth." So he changed the subject: "Gringotts' vault is now more heavily guarded, with more fire dragons protecting it."

Charles smiled and said, "The Dancing Grass Restaurant also has a fire dragon."

Pull-ring realized that Charles was absolutely unwilling to set up a vault in Gringotts.

This time, Gringotts' top brass issued a strict order.

Gringotts must be the only place where wizards store their money and treasures; there can be no other place, not even Hogwarts, let alone Far Button Castle.

Business at Farbatton Castle is going to grow rapidly, and many wizards have already started withdrawing money from Gringotts and depositing it into Dancing Grass Restaurant. It is foreseeable that this money will continue to grow in the future.

If Farbatton Castle is allowed to keep its enormous amount of currency, Gringotts' authority and reputation will suffer a fatal blow, and it may even replace Gringotts in the future.

This is intolerable to fairies.

Therefore, Rapunzel had to persuade Charles to open a vault in Gringotts and deposit the currency there, offering many favorable terms in return.

The pull ring spent a considerable amount of time explaining Gringotts' special offers in detail, such as convenient ATM lanes, dedicated service personnel, and a free Caribbean vacation...

"Gringotts was robbed."

Pull-Ring was talking until his throat was dry, but Charles once again retorted with the same phrase.

“Mr. Smith,” Rapunzel tried to maintain a professional smile, “protecting so many Galleons would cost a lot of Galleons, and Gringotts is willing to save you a large sum of money.”

He felt a little helpless. Charles was indeed still a fourth-grade child. He held onto everything and didn't understand how to weigh the pros and cons.

Pull-ring was thinking again. He had heard that Charles had been raised by his grandfather since he was a child. Maybe he could take a roundabout approach and persuade Mr. Smith first, and then have him persuade Charles.

The moment the thought crossed his mind, a wave of fear, which he didn't know where it came from, surged through his heart.

"have a guest?"

Just as Pull-Up was thinking of looking for Old Smith, Jack arrived.

Recently, Jack has been frequently visiting Farbatton Castle to arrange filming locations for "Titanic." Today, after finishing his work, he came to see Charles. Charles said, "Grandpa, this is Gringotts' pull ring; he's here to discuss business."

Jack said, "Gringotts, what kind of business are you planning to do with us?"

The pull ring immediately said, "Gringotts is willing to safeguard Mr. Smith's gold coins."

“I see.” Jack nodded and then looked at Charles. “Was Gringotts robbed a few years ago?”

Charles pursed his lips, "You know best whether it's true or not."

Gripping immediately said, "Gringotts has strengthened its defenses and can specifically assign fire dragons to guard the vault."

Jack said to Charles, "The Dancing Grass Restaurant has dragons too, right?"

The pull ring's expression froze instantly; these grandfather and grandson were really troublesome.

He reiterated, "Storing gold coins is very costly, and you can save that cost by storing the money in Gringotts."

Jack said in surprise, "You don't know about the business here?"

"Security work is one of our important jobs. Last time someone tried to break into my house, we caught them immediately."

Pull Ring then realized where the problem lay: Farbatton Castle's security business was huge, and keeping the vault inside the castle was the best advertisement.

He said, "I'm worried that dark wizards might use this treasure vault to their advantage against Farbatton Castle."

Charles said confidently, "We're not worried even if Grindelwald comes."

Rapunzel felt that the negotiations could not continue until Charles's confidence was undermined, so after exchanging pleasantries for a while, he took his leave.

Charles said to Jack, "Grandpa, why do I feel like you're challenging the fairies?"

He felt that the old man deliberately brought up his security business to provoke Gripper. Just now, Gripper kept emphasizing how well Gringotts' security was done, and this provocation might hurt the goblins' pride.

Jack said matter-of-factly, "Fairies are nothing special. Instead of using your skills to challenge them, you should eat more different kinds of tiramisu."

Charles said somewhat helplessly, "Tiramisu isn't very hygienic, so it's better to eat less of it. It's quite dangerous for someone your age to get diarrhea."

Jack said nonchalantly, "It's nothing, I disinfected it with the Avada Kedavra curse before eating."

Charles went along with it.

Jack asked, "Do you think the fairies might force themselves on you as you're thinking?"

Charles sneered, "If fairies were so easy to talk to, there wouldn't be so many fairy rebellions. They wouldn't be rebelling just to make us memorize more in the history of magic class, would they?"

Jack sighed and said, "Now that I think about it, the goblin rebellion was a way for them to protect themselves; otherwise, they might have become a different kind of house-elves."

Charles thought he made sense. If house-elves also rebelled once every hundred years, so that wizards would not dare to underestimate them, they would not be in the current state.

Jack then asked, "So how do you plan to deal with the fairy? Will you do it yourself, or use some other method?"

Charles replied seriously, "I plan to close the door and let Voldemort out."

Jack asked with some curiosity, "How do you plan to manipulate him, with all that blood?"

Charles nodded.

(End of this chapter)