52 Gringotts Fiasco' and Gnar Chen
As Moses said that, the boy in question slowly opened the black cabinet for him to peek at Moses and slowly revealed himself to him.
"You knew?" Harry questioned.
"Why do you think I was here? Mrs. Weasley was looking all over for you, y'know," Moses explained with a tired look. He then composed himself and acted like he had pocketed the wand that he had created from thin air only for it to become ashes in his pocket. Considering the situation that they were in, bluffing was the only thing that he could do if he didn't want to escalate things from bad to worse.
"The spell that you used... what spell was it..." Harry asked while looking at him with a scrutinizing look.
"... It was a modified lighting charm. We're not really in a nice place, Harry, and I doubt that man would just leave us alone peacefully, I had to resort to... let's just say a negotiation." Moses explained while looking at Harry with the same cold look that he had before. Before Harry could respond to what he said, Moses immediately changed the topic by saying,
"Just wait there for a minute; I have to buy something," Moses said,
"In here? I don't think we should even be in here, and —"
"Quit whining, Harry, just a minute will do~" Moses cut Harry off as he continued approaching the man behind the counter.
"Mr. Borgin, right?" Moses inquired the man behind the counter.
"Y— Ye —Could I be of help, sir?" Borgin spoke while stuttering. What happened between the boy in front of him and Mr. Malfoy was still engraved on his little head of his, and he doubted he would ever forget about it.
'Am I seeing the birth of the new Dark Lord...?" He thought to himself, with cold sweat pouring out at the back of his neck.
"Occlumency and Legilimency Book?" You have that, right?" Moses asked while looking inside the room from the darkest corner of the place. He saw the two books when his passively enhanced eyes landed on this store. It was inside a glass-cased cabinet with protective runes around it. There were only two inside the glass case, and they both looked very old.
"Occl— Occlumency and Legilimency book, sir? Y—Yes we have those, but... It could be a bit costly."
"The price doesn't matter, just sell it to me."
"Of course, sir." Borgin immediately did as he was ordered and took the two books from the back of his place and placed them in front of Moses and Harry to see.
[The Metaphysical Study of the Mind- Legilimency Edition. —Q.W.]
[The Metaphysical Study of the Mind- Occlumency Edition. —Q.W.]
"1500 galleons for the Legilimency, sir. While 2000 galleons for the Occlumency. But! I could make them a total of 3000 galleons for you... I just wish for sir, to visit my shop sometime again if he has any needs." The man spoke in a submissive tone while handing the two books to Moses.
'If I can become his first follower, my shop would be able to achieve the riches and power that I rightfully deserve... like during the time that He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named was in reign.' Borgin thought to himself with a hidden look of mad glee.
"Okayyyy..." Moses answered, his answer, however, was completely different from what he was currently thinking,
'Like hell, I would visit this place again, just nearing that box makes me want to vomit, it's like I'm inside that damned Gringotts again, but much worse.'
With that thought on his mind, he paid Borgin all the galleons that he currently has and walked away from the shop while dragging Harry, leaving behind an elated creep. Once they were outside the store, a bunch of shady people looked at them with interesting glints in their eyes, and Moses wasn't having any of it. He's too stressed out right now, and he just wants to get out of this place with Harry, fast!
"Not lost are you, my dea —" A voice crept behind them, but before the speaker of the voice could finish her greetings,
"Shut up, HAG!" Moses shouted as he did a 360-roundhouse kick that pounded the Hag's skull, causing her to be tossed away to the previous store that Moses broke someone into.
"Oh, man! I just reparo'ed this shit!" complained the clerk of the shady store.
"Moses, did you just kill her?"
"Nah, are you mad? That Hag could take two punches from Hagrid and still live to tell the tale. Besides, that hag eats children for breakfast, and do you think I would care if she's d—"
"HARRY! MOSES! What do the two of ya' think yer doin' down there?"
"Finally, some good bloody news," Moses said as he sighed in relief.
"Hagrid!" Harry croaked in relief as he continued,
"I was lost... Floo powder," he explained,
Hagrid seized Harry and Moses by the scruff of the neck and pulled them away from the shady place until the two boys saw a familiar, snow-white marble building in the distance: Gringotts Bank. Hagrid had steered him right into Diagon Alley.
Hagrid then looked at Moses and raised an eyebrow.
"Search for Harry, and I found him."
"Yeh searched fer 'im in tha' place? Yeh, do know tha' at firs' glance, tha' place looks dodgy, righ'? An' ye still entered the Knockturn alley? Ye could've gotten hurt!"
"I found him here using magic. I had no idea what Knockturn Alley is, and even if it's as dangerous as you say, I would still enter it considering Harry was in there." Moses answered nonchalantly while looking at the noticeable building of Gringotts Bank.
Harry looked at Moses appreciatively, while Hagrid just shook his head in worry.
"Yer a mess!" said Hagrid gruffly as he brushed soot off Harry.
"Harry, Hagrid, you go first; I'll meet y'all later. I still need to take out some galleons at Gringotts," Moses informed them as he walked away from them while waving his hands.
"Don't take too long!" Harry shouted as he and Hagrid took off.
"By the way, Hagrid. What were you doing down there, anyway?"
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Entering the Gringotts bank, Moses was once again met by the unpleasant feeling that he gets from the goblins. He doesn't know why he gets them, but he's too busy to care. As long as the goblins don't do anything idiotic to him, he will just mind his own business.
"Business?" the goblin behind the counter asked Moses without looking at him.
"I'm here to sell some gold." Moses replied coolly. He just gave the command to isolate their conversation. The value of the money that he will convert is not ordinary after all.
"The value of gold currently is 343 pounds per oz." The goblin informed him, still busy with what he was writing.
"I see, and while we're at it, I also want to open another vault for me and an enchanted pouch connected to it. Could you do that?" Moses inquired, a little excited about what his vault would look like.
"It depends on who's asking—a boy..." The goblin finished in a stern tone as he finally found out who he was talking to.
'Sexist.' Moses thought, completely misinterpreting the situation.
"If you are here to waste my time, leave now, wizard boy, or I will let the guard fetch you out myself." The goblin spoke in a gruff tone as he continued his work.
'Ohhh, so he's not believing me before. I mean, why would a twelve-year-old kid have a gold, right? My bad, my bad.' Moses pondered, a little ashamed of himself.
He then took something from his pocket for normality's sake, when actually he was just making gold in his pocket out of thin air. After making the said gold, he tossed it at the goblin, which the goblin caught clumsily. Once the goblin saw the golden nugget that was in his hand clearly, a flash of greed became visible in his eyes.
"Well, you can sell it, but it won't be enough for you to own a vault." The goblin said this while looking at the boy before him, deep in his thoughts as he took a sip of his favorite root beer. A beer with literal roots in it...
"Will 100 kg of gold be enough...?" Moses asked unsurely.
"PPFFFT!"
"Don't lie to me, boy! Enough of this; you've wasted my time as it is; I will take this gold as compensation for your impudence!" The goblin shouted with venom as he pocketed the nugget of gold in his pocket.
"NANI!!" Moses shouted, "Give that back to me, you congoblin!" Moses exclaimed, a little angry at the angry goblin before him. The goblin before him didn't do anything, making Moses clench all his muscles, giving him a masculine look, and causing the goblin to have a bad feeling.
An imaginary lightning showdown happened between them, giving them the illusion of stillness and quietness. Then suddenly,
"You, where's your manager!?" Moses attacked.
"...You dare to evoke the unforgivable words..." The goblin muttered in defeat... he fell to his knees, causing the golden nugget to fall out of his pocket.
"HEHE!" Moses laughed madly at his complete victory. A devilish aura erupted from within him.
"You mons —" The goblin uttered, but, when he thought that all hope was lost, his savior came at the right time.
An old man interrupted them from behind.
"I seemed to have heard something absurd here. Can I ask what's your name, kid?" A man, with goblin-like ears and white colored hair, a broad-chested, muscular old man. He has a beard and a scar over his left eye, but contrary to the other goblins, this man has a tall height, a nearly 7-foot giant, and his face was more similar to a human's face, leading some to mistake him for a human, but his big, goblin-like ears said otherwise.
That's not all that was bizarre about Moses's current situation, the most bizarre thing is that behind the giant goblin, the whole goblin race was kneeling... respectfully to the giant goblin before him.
"How about we go to a private room and check your 100 kg of gold, huh? What do you say, brat?" The old giant goblin suggested with a wild smile.
"Yo — you — Your — your majesty..."
