Chapter 16
The Leaky Cauldron has changed little over the years; it is small, dingy and welcoming, with a few bedrooms above the public bar for travellers who live a long way from London. It is the ideal spot to catch up with wizarding gossip if you happen to live a long way from the nearest magical neighbour. It was rather crowded today with the laughter of kids who just got their acceptance letters. Tom was behind the counter scrambling to fix lunches and hand out drinks he really should get a nice helper someday. we made our way to the back room where I saw it. the wall. the portal to the magical world. Dad, meanwhile, was counting bricks in the wall above the trash can.
Three up... two across... he muttered. He tapped the wall three times The brick he had touched quivered -- it wriggled -- in the middle, a small hole appeared -- it grew wider and wider -- a second later they were facing an archway They stepped through the archway. Ryan looked quickly over his shoulder and saw the archway shrink instantly back into solid wall.
The sun shone brightly on a stack of cauldrons outside the nearest shop. Cauldrons -- All Sizes -- Copper, Bra.s.s, Pewter, Silver -- Self-Stirring -- Collapsible, said a sign hanging over them. He turned his head in every direction as they walked up the street, trying to look at everything at once: the shops, the things outside them, the people doing their shopping. A low, soft hooting came from a dark shop with a sign saying Eeylops Owl Emporium -- Tawny, Screech, Barn, Brown, and Snowy. There were shops selling robes, shops selling telescopes and strange silver instruments Ryan
Dad: *cough* Gringotts first then.
They had reached a snowy white building that towered over the other little shops. Standing beside its burnished bronze doors, wearing a uniform of scarlet and gold, was --
Ryan:squeeeeeee!
Ryan let out a kingly squeal of absolute joy The goblin was about a head shorter than Ryan. He had a swarthy, clever face, a pointed beard and, Ryan noticed, very long fingers and feet. He bowed as they walked inside. Now they were facing a second pair of doors, silver this time, with words engraved upon them:
Enter, stranger, but take heed
Of what awaits the sin of greed,
For those who take, but do not earn,
Must pay most dearly in their turn.
So if you seek beneath our floors
A treasure that was never yours,
Thief, you have been warned, beware
Of finding more than treasure there.
I'll get a picture of it next time or maybe I can just buy the plaque A pair of goblins bowed them through the silver doors and they were in a vast marble hall. About a hundred more goblins were sitting on high stools behind a long counter, scribbling in large ledgers, weighing coins in bra.s.s scales, examining precious stones through eyegla.s.ses. There were too many doors to count leading off the hall, and yet more goblins were showing people in and out of these. we walked up to the counter and I finally got to see if what I heard was true.
I bowed to the goblin when he noticed me and said my greeting in what I believed was proper goblin ways.
Ryan: good afternoon master accountant may your ledgers always balance.
The goblin looked pun intended gobsmacked but quickly regained his demeanor.
Goblin: Good afternoon young wizard and may your enemies fall beneath your blade.
It worked the goblins respond like it the fanfiction we know what this means that they like quick and too the point deals their saying is time is money so don't waste their time they are ruthless and well honed in swordplay and other styles of combat and respond well to respect. This means it will be easy to get rid of the horcrux in the lestrange vault but that is for another time.
Ryan:me and my family would like to visit our vaults please.
Goblin: of course your key please.
my dad steps forward after giving me a strange look and hands him the key.
Goblin:That seems to be in order.I will have someone take you down to both vault. Bladefist!
I'm dissapointed it's not Griphook.
the lovegoods are at the teller next to us getting help Ryan followed Bladefist toward one of the doors leading off the hall. Bladefist held the door open for them. Ryan, who had expected more marble, was surprised. They were in a narrow stone pa.s.sageway lit with flaming torches. It sloped steeply downward and there were little railway tracks on the floor. Bladefist whistled and a small cart came hurtling up the tracks toward them. That's when it happened and Ryan realised he had messed up royally his palms got sweaty and his knees started to shake and he started squirming and then the panic set in. roller coaster in super high heights he mechanically turned his head around and asked in a very firm voice fit for a king.
Ryan:C..cccan one of you levitate me I can't seem to move.
he remembers nothing about the ride down he pa.s.sed out before he even made it to the cart. he woke up back in the lobby with his parents looking at him in shame.