The years of welding at Hogwarts

In addition to the decoration, the biggest difference between the new Leaky Cauldron and the previous one is that there is a gorgeously decorated dance floor in the center of the bar. The spotlight shining from above the dance floor makes the three girls swaying on the dance floor the focus of the entire bar.

The three girls were all wearing wizard robes with a strong Japanese style. The floral patterns on them looked delicate and elegant, and the wide sleeves made them look ethereal.

The thick-soled black boots on their feet made them look much taller.

Harry's eyes were focused on their faces, and even the three pairs of white legs that were exposed because of the short wizard robes did not attract his attention.

Harry swore that those three girls were the most beautiful women he had ever seen in his life.

Their skin glowed softly like the moon under the spotlight.

"When the bright moon rises."

"I carry a lantern with a burning candle"

"..."

Harry had no idea what the song surrounding his ears was singing. His mind became completely blank, filled with only an extreme joy.

It was as if nothing in the world mattered to him anymore, as long as he could keep watching those three girls dancing, because if they stopped dancing, something terrible would happen.

As the tempo of the music quickened, the three girls' dazzling dance steps, like butterflies flying through flowers, also gradually quickened.

Crazy, unformed thoughts began to whirl through Harry's dizzy mind.

until……

"Hey, Harry, wake up."

A slap in the face brought Harry out of his trance.

The music stopped at some point, and the three girls on the dance floor disappeared. Harry came to his senses and found a familiar face standing in front of him.

The man who bought half of Diagon Alley so generously, Noah Shafrin!

After sitting down in the booth of the bar in a daze, it was a long time before Harry recovered from the state as if he had been cast under the Imperius Curse, but his speech was still a little slurred.

"That was just now..."

Noah raised his eyebrows. "That's the Veela, a magical race with human appearance. The entire tribe is female, and they are all women with extremely outstanding looks. They have an innate ability to seduce."

Old Tom came over with two cups of butter beer and they sat down.

Next to the booth.

He grinned, his toothless mouth. "This was Mr. Shafrin's idea."

"Thanks to Mr. Toshaforin, the business of the Leaky Cauldron is now more than ten times better than before. It's just that the salary expenses for hiring these veela are a bit high."

"Come on, old Tom."

Noah waved his hand like a fly to drive away the ugly old walnut who would affect the guests' mood for drinking, "If you think it's too expensive, you can fire them. When my entertainment city is built, I will invite them to work as receptionists over there."

Tom Abbott perfectly explains what a master of face-changing is, "I mean, they totally deserve the salary."

"Okay, stop talking. I really think you should hire someone who looks decent to stand at the bar in your place. You'll only drive away the customers they attract by standing there."

Even though Noah mercilessly belittled his appearance, Tom didn't feel angry at all. He still had that extremely flattering smile on his face, "Enjoy your meal, both of you."

Then he quietly returned to his original position and continued with his never-ending job of wiping wine glasses.

"Noah, this..."

Before Harry could ask his doubts, Noah raised his hand and said, "Professor McGonagall asked me to keep an eye on you during the holidays."

"Why, are you not feeling comfortable staying at your uncle's house?"

Before Harry could complain to Noah, Noah, who was not interested in or wanted to care about the trivial matters in Vernon's family, waved his hand to stop Harry from saying anything.

"Where do you want to go now? The Leaky Cauldron no longer provides accommodation services. I can send someone to take you there."

Harry gave the answer almost without thinking, "I want to stay at Ron's house for a while."

With Harry's extremely simple interpersonal relationships, he had nowhere else to go except the Weasley family.

Although he has the title of savior, Harry, Ron, Seamus and Dean are the best in Gryffindor House.

The entire Gryffindor house score was dragged down by these four of them, so the reputation of the four people in their dormitory in Hogwarts can be said to be so bad that it would be infamous even for ten miles away.

The four smart kids who couldn't make any friends in Gryffindor house could only huddle together for warmth.

So the only places Harry could stay were the homes of his three roommates.

Compared with Seamus Finnigan and Dean Thomas, Harry and Ron have a better relationship, and Ron's mother Molly Weasley usually takes good care of Harry.

At Christmas, she knitted a sweater for Harry that was unique to their Weasley family and gave it to Harry, who had never experienced maternal love, as a Christmas gift, which deeply moved Harry.

So, Noah was not surprised by Harry's answer.

He pointed to the fireplace with a roaring fire nearby, "You know how to use Floo powder, right? Just grab a handful of Floo powder from the bowl on the counter next to you, throw it in, then walk in and say your destination."

"The Weasleys live at the Burrow. Remember, the Burrow. You must pronounce this place loud and clear, like a spell."

As Harry's back disappeared into the fireplace, Noah slowly withdrew his gaze.

The vibranium drill from Birmingham has been delivered to the construction site. Now all they have to do is wait patiently for the good guys from Hydra to dig the hole, no, the tunnel directly below the Gringotts vault.

Noah picked up the butterbeer in front of him and drank it all, leaving two gold galleons on the table, then turned and left the bar.

……

A week passed by in a flash.

With the dual blessing of magic and technology, it is no exaggeration to describe the construction progress of London Crown Casino as "advancing by leaps and bounds".

In just one day, the huge piece of land that Noah had spent a huge amount of money to buy was demolished from a group of connected buildings into a bare mud field.

After that, in just three days, a huge nine-story building completed its roofing work. All that remained was the interior decoration and other complicated matters such as the subsequent move-in of businesses.

Noah doesn't think much of the profits from London Crown Casino.

The British wizarding world has such a pitifully small population. So what if everyone in the wizarding world is upper-middle class with assets exceeding 10,000 gold Galleons?

From the beginning, Shamazi never thought of extorting money from those poor guys.

The London Crown Casino was just a target to attract attention. In fact, what Noah valued more was the long tunnel directly below Diagon Alley that led to the Gringotts vault.

When digging the tunnel, Noah was very cunning and chose the entrance of the tunnel near the Ministry of Magic several blocks away.

He really wanted to see the goblins' expressions when they discovered that their vault had been robbed, and the tunnel leading directly to the vault happened to lead in the direction of the Ministry of Magic, and ended up fighting with the Ministry of Magic.

I’m so high!

In the tunnel, Fox craned his neck and stared at the thick rock formation above him.

He tapped the sword of Gryffindor against the rock.

The sound coming back from the rock wall was not dull like a solid one, but rather a strangely empty echo.

Noah carefully compared the topographic map drawn by Hydra's agents after multiple explorations, and silently made some precise calculations of their current location in his mind.

After a moment, Noah raised an eyebrow at Snape, "It looks like we're right under one of the vaults."

The corners of his mouth were covered with an extremely happy smile, and he couldn't suppress the excitement from the bottom of his heart. "Would you like to have a prize-winning guessing game? Guess whose vault this is?"

Shirley raised her hand enthusiastically, "I bet a pack of licorice wands, this is Fudge's!"

Snape covered his face helplessly, looking like he had a headache.

Damn it, that damn Shafulin has led his well-behaved daughter astray!

He didn't want to take Shirley out in the first place. Shirley shouldn't have been allowed to get involved in such dangerous things. It was all the fault of that damn Shafulin. Why did he directly mention the robbery of Gringotts in front of Shirley?

Chapter 252: Gringotts Standard Job (VI)

A mine cart shaped like a large coffin sped along the track, whizzing and twisting out a winding path in the maze-like corridor.

Although the rails along the way always branch out into multiple different directions at some bends, this clattering cart seems to know the way by itself and does not need the fairy sitting in front to control it.

The cold air blew in his face, blowing Bucky's curly hair to the side and back of his cheek.

Because he didn't need to devote his attention to operating the cart, the goblin in the front was able to devote part of his attention to chatting with the strange guest sitting in the back.

The goblin Griphook stared intently at the metallic hand that was exposed from Bucky's sleeve, and the expression on his face was full of curiosity.

Finally, he couldn't help but blurt out, "How much is the arm?"

Bucky just gave him a cold look and ignored the dwarf in front of him.

Seeing that this mysterious guest had no intention of paying attention to him, Griphook did not feel angry. He cast his curious gaze on the long stick-like object wrapped in thick cloth behind Bucky.

"What is that? Some newfangled gadget for Muggles?"

Buggy still ignored the noisy goblin.

Griphook, who was ignored, grinned maliciously, and muttered silently in a voice too low for Bucky to hear, "I must get your arm."

Huge stalactites hang from the ceiling of the cave, and giant stalagmites grow on the ground.

They kept making sharp turns among the stalactites, speeding towards the depths of the earth.

When the cart suddenly turned a sharp corner at a speed of 80 miles per hour by inertia drift, a waterfall rushed onto the track in front.

There was almost no time for them to react. The waterfall pouring down from above soaked both Griphook and Buggy completely in an instant.

The fairy Griphook who was driving the car snapped his fingers and dried all the clothes on himself and Buggy. With a smug smile on his face, he turned around and said proudly, "Anti-thief waterfall, this is..."

Before he could finish his words, a fist shining with silver light rapidly enlarged in his field of vision, filling his entire field of vision in just a moment.

Accompanied by a dull sound similar to that of a stick hitting a gourd, Lahuan's brain went into a state of shutdown.

He slept very peacefully, and it felt like he was just an embryo, quietly wrapped in the amniotic fluid in his mother's womb.

Pulling the joystick on the cart, Bucky turned the cart in another direction and, following the route map drawn up by the Hydra agents, sped towards the direction of the Lestrange family vault.

Soon, Bucky was approaching his final destination.

The cart stopped steadily next to a stone platform. Before jumping off the cart, Buggy gave the goblin who was holding his arm another slap with his hand, allowing the other party to enjoy a deeper sleep.

Not long after walking along the stone platform, Bucky heard a series of clanging sounds.

As he turned a corner, the second obstacle he would face in this operation appeared before his eyes.

A huge fire dragon was tied to the open space in front with a heavy iron chain, preventing people from approaching the four or five vaults in the deepest part of Gringotts.

Due to being confined underground for too long, the scales on the fire dragon's body have become pale and loose.

Judging from the shape of its scales and various features of its body, this fire dragon is an Australian ophiurophosaur.

The Australian Opal-eyed Dragon is the most beautiful of all existing fire dragon species in the magical world. Logically speaking, its pearl-like scales should emit a beautiful colorful luster even in the dark as long as there is a little light.

Instead of being like now, with the whole body being an unhealthy pale color like albinism.

In addition, its beautiful pink eyes also showed an extremely unhealthy turbidity, as if it had cataracts.

Fire dragon

Both of his sturdy hind legs were shackled with heavy chains connected to huge stakes driven deep into the stone ground.

Its huge spiked wings were folded at its sides, and if they were spread out they would fill the entire basement.

A normal Australian Opisthodon should not look like this. The reason why it has become what it is now is entirely thanks to the goblins from Gringotts.

Decades of imprisonment in darkness underground have caused its eyes to degenerate. In such a lightless environment, vision is of no help to life.

The pale scales are largely related to the lack of adequate nutrition throughout the year.

In order to maintain the fire dragon's aggressiveness, this group of cruel goblins would only feed the poor fire dragon about once a month, just to keep it in a hungry hunting state most of the time.

Looking at the huge monster hidden in the darkness through the night vision goggles, there was no trace of pity in Bucky's eyes.

As if it heard Bucky's footsteps, the fire dragon turned its ugly head towards the Winter Soldier, let out a roar that made the stones tremble, and without any hesitation opened its bloody mouth and spewed out a stream of fire.

The vibranium round shield painted with a red and blue five-pointed star blocked the direct damage from the flames, but it could not block the burning sensation caused by the flames heating the surrounding air.

Under the pressure of the hot dragon's breath, Buggy had to retreat in the direction he came from and return to the range beyond the reach of the fire dragon's breath.

Then, he took off the long package that he had been carrying since he entered Gringotts, and with the sudden force of his Kirin Arm, he easily tore the cloth wrapped in it into pieces, revealing the secret weapon hidden inside -

It was a sniper rifle with a slightly strange shape.

The gun body is made entirely of silver without any fancy paint. The vibranium barrel is a full one and a half meters long and has an outrageous caliber of 125mm.

Who says 125mm caliber is not considered a sniper?

Look at the high-magnification precision sight mounted on the slide!

With mirror! Single shot!