Harry Potter and the Old Ones

"What?" Hermione stood up in surprise, so fast that she knocked over the glass in front of her.

The fragrant fruit wine spread all over the table.

But no one seemed to see it, or, no one was in the mood to clean up the escaping fruit wine.

"They... how could they be?" Hermione asked inexplicably, "I, I mean... how can the goblins at Gringotts have the ability to organize the Magic Alliance? They are not the magic world. the bank?"

"No, Hermione, you don't understand, they're not just banks of the wizarding world," Lupin said. "They're also creditors to the entire wizarding world."

"What's the meaning?"

"Although no one has counted...but it can be said that the fairies of Gringotts hold at least 60% of the wealth of the entire magical world." Mrs. Weasley came back to her senses and explained, "including but not Limited to gold coins, land deeds, production gardens for magical medicinal materials, farms for functional magical animals, and patents for the production of various potions and magical items."

"What?" Hermione said in surprise. "So much."

"Yes." Lupin nodded, "more precisely, the offices of the American Magic Association, the French Ministry of Magic, the German Ministry of Magic, the Hungarian Ministry of Magic, the Spanish Ministry of Magic, the Austrian Ministry of Magic and The underground offices of our British Ministry of Magic, these places are the property of Gringotts, and are leased by Gringotts to the Ministry of Magic of various countries, and only a symbolic charge of one gold Galleon, one silver sike and one copper nut is charged each year. rent."

"In addition, Gringotts is also responsible for producing 30 percent of the magical animal materials on the market today, 70 percent of the magical plant materials and 20 percent of the everyday magic items," Lupin said.

"So... as long as Gringotts wants... they can mess up the economy of a country's wizarding world anytime, anywhere?" Hermione said. "It's horrible."

"It sounds like something Tiera would do." At this time, Sirius Black also interjected, "Although I don't like the goblins at Gringotts either, but now Tiera has stabbed the big basket. already."

"So Arthur and Bill are busy with this?" Mrs. Weasley asked nervously. "Is Tierra really preparing for war? Does he really want to go to war?"

Mrs Weasley almost cried out in fear.

"No..." Lupin said strangely, "Tiera...Tiera's attitude is very strange...he...he is not preparing to fight."

"What's the meaning?"

"Mr Weasley has just been appointed Director of the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Bureau, but... but... Tierra plans to introduce some products to the wizarding world like cell phones, computers, typewriters... Mr Weasley is now Testing the performance of these Muggle products..." Lupin said helplessly, "and he seems to be very...very happy with it..."

"Of course he enjoyed it!" Mrs. Weasley roared, half amused and half angry, angrily tapping her hand holding the cake knife on the table, "If you look in our garage, you will know How much Arthur likes those Muggle things! It turns out that he is working overtime every day and not coming home for these things? Thankfully, I am still worried about his safety these days! I will not take care of him when he comes back!"

"And what about Bill?" asked Mrs. Weasley again. "Is Bill tinkering with Arthur too? After all, since Gringotts is going to war with us, they must have completely withdrawn from the British business. Bill must have no regular job now, and I knew Bill liked those Muggle gadgets as much as his father."

"Bill is the newly appointed Deputy Treasurer of the Magic Federation, he is helping Tiera Fourteen, Tiera Seventeen and Tiera Twenty-Three with the gold, and has taken over the Gringotts left in the UK. Factory." Lupin said with a complicated expression, "According to Tierra's 'Wolfman Employment Act', 'House Elf Job Act' and 'Dark Wizard's Reform through Labor Act', Bill also has a concubine named Dobby from Marr. The house-elves who defected from the Fook family are doing induction training for the dark wizards in Knockturn Alley, the werewolves that no one wants to accept, and the house-elves confiscated from the purebloods and the house-elves in Gringotts."

"Now some house-elves, werewolves and dark wizards have participated in the production, supporting some production factories for daily consumable magic items." Lupin shook his head helplessly, "Tiera these factories are not at all The purpose is to make profit, so Tiera lowered the price and also paid higher wages to the wizards and house-elves in the factory, gave them better treatment, and even provided them with free board and lodging, of course. Except for the house-elf named Dobby, the other house-elves refuse to accept wages."

"So Tiera changed house-elves' wages to a different form in order to make house-elves more acceptable," Lupin explained. "He converted house-elves' wages into 'work points', One work point is equal to the purchasing power of one Galleon, and the work points are described as rewards for the house-elves, and they are urged to use the work points for consumption."

"Fantastic! This is great!" Hermione was so excited that she almost burst into tears. "Tiera thought so well!"

"Hmph~www.NovelMTL.com~ means to buy people's hearts." Sirius said indifferently, "Because of this little favor, he caused the entire magic world to fall into turmoil."

"No, Sirius, you don't understand...you don't understand how miserable the werewolf wizards are who are struggling to survive in Knockturn Alley." Lupin sighed flatly, then said, "Alas ......To be honest, I am very grateful to Tiera for this point alone. In the past, the magic world discriminated against werewolves. The Ministry of Magic established a werewolf registry and monitored them all the time. We, Umbridge even had an anti-Wolfman law before, prohibiting any wizard who proved to be a werewolf from getting employment, and because of this law, most werewolf wizards lived in poverty all their lives."

Sirius frowned helplessly, but didn't say anything.

"What did Dumbledore say?" Mrs. Weasley asked. "It's impossible for Dumbledore to ignore such a big thing."

"Dumbledore..." Lupin said with a sigh, "Dumbledore just ignored it."

"What?" Almost everyone shouted in surprise.