Chapter 362: Returning from the Fire

After a brief hesitation, Harry immediately said loudly: "Everyone scatter and dodge the dragon! Luo En, let's go catch them."

"Fine." Luo En looked at him with a strange expression, and then the two rode their brooms and flew above the dragon.

Relying on the excellent sense of distance and aerial skills brought by his Seeker career, Harry grabbed Elina's hand without any effort and pulled her up. Just at this moment, he noticed another girl on the dragon, Hermione, who was clutching a rope, her expression tense, trying hard to control the dragon's direction.

"Give me your hand," Luo En shouted, "forget about it!"

Harry put Elina on his broom, and then he noticed Zhang Qiu and Marietta flying over, so he said softly: "Mari, you take her and fly, can you?"

"Why do I have to get on a Ravenclaw broom?" Elina said dissatisfiedly.

"It's fine if you lie to Tang Tang Nade, don't lie to yourself." Zhang Qiu stared at her.

"Fine." She shrugged, and crawled onto another broom carefully in the air.

Just at this moment, Luo En also successfully brought out Hermione, and that Horntail dragon was no longer crooked; it flew straight in one direction, looking roughly like the direction of Hogwarts.

"Too crazy, what did you go do?" The students began to surround them, asking one after another what happened.

"I mean, we uh..." Hermione stammered, her expression somewhat unnatural; she was clutching her chest tightly with one hand, clearly hiding something.

Elina announced loudly: "We went to rob Gringotts!"

Suddenly, the entire flight team was in chaos; the children were arguing as if they had exploded, and they all showed surprised and excited expressions, surrounding them and asking one after another: "Really or fake?"

Harry was stunned for a long time; he knew this was true, because Snape had told him, "Tang Tang Nade promised to handle Gringotts," but he never imagined that although Tang Tang Nade was both a wealthy businessman and a member of the Magical Congress, he stubbornly didn't send other available people, but insisted on handing his promise to two little girls to redeem.

Finally, after Neville poked him, Harry realized he should maintain order, so he said loudly: "Quiet, everyone quiet! After returning to school, we can let Elina tell her story slowly!"

But Elina was a lively girl anyway, and she had no interest in waiting until returning to school, immediately starting to tell: "That was our covert operation to cut off Voldemort's retreat..."

Harry hesitated whether to stop her, and then he realized that there was nothing to keep secret anymore, even the owner of the vault had been captured by them.

He deliberately fell behind a bit, letting himself be parallel with Luo En, then looked at Hermione sitting sideways on the broom, and asked softly: "Is the cup with you?"

"Yes." Hermione looked around cautiously, then admitted in a low voice.

"That's good, this is truly a great victory." Harry gave her an encouraging and comforting smile, and then focused his attention on Elina's story.

"... Just like that, we obtained the help of a goblin friend; he said his name was Griphook, he was very familiar with the operating system of Gringotts, and came up with a good idea for us."

"Hermione and I walked in swaggeringly; what we said was that we wanted to take a look at our vault, which of course is nothing, anyone can look at their vault, right? But the cleverness lies right here; all the vaults in Gringotts are connected!"

"The Lestrange family vault is located almost at the very bottom; Gringotts will send a dragon to guard it. These dragons are specially trained; they must use a special sound to calm them down, which is the clinking piece. Unfortunately, Hermione and I couldn't afford the innermost vault, and the goblin who took us to our vault wouldn't prepare clinking pieces."

"However, they absolutely never expected that we knew that dragon responsible for guarding!"

"Yeah, Harry!" Elina turned her head and said, "Do you remember the Triwizard Tournament? Deng Buliduo saved the last dragon from Renata, right? And that dragon had long been poked blind by you."

"Uh, seems so." Harry nodded blankly.

"Headmaster Deng Buliduo helped us once again in the dark; that dragon was bought by Gringotts at a low price, because the dragon they originally used for guarding was already very old and not fierce enough—and this blind dragon happened to have no other use, so the price was very cheap."

"You guess who told me this news? Fleur! She works at Gringotts. When she told me Gringotts bought our old friend, I only felt it was interesting; who would have thought it would come in handy now. To make that dragon calm down, there is something much more effective than a clinking piece, and that is Harry's spell."

"Blood of the King, end with the sword!" Elina imitated Harry's voice and read powerfully.

A group of people began to look at Harry, and Harry struggled with facial expression management in extreme embarrassment.

"After I read it like that, it immediately lay on the ground, protecting its head with its wings, as quiet as a chick, and we just sneaked into the Lestrange family vault like that. My God, you really can't imagine how rich these old-school capitalists are; the whole vault, from the floor to the ceiling, was filled with gold coins and gold wine cups..."

Harry felt somewhat puzzled and asked Hermione in a low voice: "Is it that easy? Are there no keys to the vault?"

Hermione answered in a voice like a mosquito, and Harry didn't hear anything, so he turned his head and asked: "What did you say?"

"Elina used the Imperius Curse to control the staff there." Luo En repeated in a moderate volume.

Hermione immediately showed a terrified expression. She found that the people around were immersed in Elina's description of wealth, and only then did she breathe a sigh of relief, then hit Luo En on the shoulder.

"... Among the flashing jewels, I saw at a glance a wine cup that was different from the others. Of course, things weren't that simple; I thought it was what we wanted, but actually it wasn't. I only noticed later that there was no Hufflepuff logo on it. What's worse, the cunning Lestrange put a Fiendfyre Curse and a Duplication Curse on every item in their vault: as soon as I touched it, it burned me, and it fell to the ground, instantly falling out a dozen identical wine cups."

"We didn't dare to move at all, we could only look with our eyes, but when moving the wand to illuminate, Hermione accidentally made a large pile of fake Galleons fall like a waterfall, so we had to clamp our arms tightly, and could only turn our wrists when moving the wand."

"However, how should I put it, if you say the Lestrange family cleverly added anti-theft measures, then they clearly weren't that clever. It didn't take us long to discover a very stupid thing: that little wine cup was actually placed on top of the gold mountain; they never thought of mixing it with other things, or covering it in a pile of Galleons."

"However, with these hateful Fiendfyre Curses and Duplication Curses, we encountered another problem: how should we obtain it?"

Elina told the story quite grippingly, but Harry soon thought of a way: use a stick or something to touch it; if it would duplicate when touched by an object, the gold coins would have long ago supported the vault to explode because of contact with the ground.

"And, Griphook told us an even worse piece of news: the Fiendfyre Curse and the Duplication Curse were bound to another alert spell at the same time; if the goblins discovered that someone triggered the anti-theft measures set by the vault owner, they would come to check—in other words, we had already been discovered."

"Yes, at this anxious moment, our clever Hermione thought of a good idea; she used the move Tang Tang Nade taught: she turned her wizard robe into a sword, and she tried to touch a silver wine pot on the side with the sword, and that thing didn't duplicate."

"At this time, there was another problem; even with the sword, we couldn't reach it; that wine cup was placed too high, there was no way. There wasn't much time left for us; outside, the clinking sound had already begun to be heard vaguely, which meant the goblins were starting to come over."

"Time didn't allow us to continue hesitating; I was prepared to use the Incarcerous spell to hang Hermione up, but she was worried about hitting another suit of armor. At this critical moment—Griphook, that goblin, suddenly said something shocking."

"He said, can't you make that sword fly? Yes, this immediately opened up our thinking; use the Levitation Charm to make the sword fly, and then, gently fork the handle of the wine cup and pick it up on the blade. We obtained the cup just like that, and Hermione put it in a pocket."

"Next was our escape plan; I mean, you probably already guessed what we did? Hey, yes, we climbed onto the dragon's back, and then untied its shackles. Since it helped us so much, we returned it a piece of freedom to soar in the sky."

"Of course, there was also a finishing work, which would be completed by our goblin friend: just as we rushed out of the vault, he raised his hands and shouted 'Thief! Help!' We all know goblins hate wizards very much, to the point of being extra tolerant of themselves in front of wizards; this is called them eating their own bitter fruit, because not half a sentence in Griphook's mouth is true."

"He will say that it was two Death Eaters who coerced him; the goblins still thought it was an internal strife among Death Eaters, and the Ministry of Magic would also investigate in this direction—no one could guess it was done by us, no one could guess, this was another great victory for the Order of the Phoenix."

"She just said it all so triumphantly; what if someone among the students betrays her—" Neville leaned over worriedly.

"It's fine, there are also our people in the Ministry of Magic; they will say this is just internal strife among Death Eaters, and will deliberately describe Elina as a little girl blowing her own horn to gain attention." Harry wasn't worried about this point, because strictly speaking, this really was an internal strife among Death Eaters. ===== CHAPTER 363 =====