The Ancient Wizards of Hogwarts

Diagon Alley, Gringotts.

Percy stood in front of the gate of Gringotts, with indescribable mixed emotions in his eyes. Every wizard would want to have his own vault in Gringotts, which is a symbol of wealth and honor, and Percy is no exception.

But he wasn't old enough to graduate yet, and the Weasleys didn't have enough Galleons to put into the vault.

Ash saw the envious look in Percy's eyes and understood why he felt this way.

Among all pure-blood families, the Weasley family is an absolute outlier - not because they are poor, poverty is just a result, not a cause.

On the one hand, the Weasley family, as a well-deserved pure-blood family, not only does not have the sense of superiority of other pure-blood families over ordinary wizards and Muggles, but they openly claim that their ancestors also include Muggles, and are even among their ancestors. There are many Muggles to be proud of - even though they are related to almost all the old wizarding families in Britain!

This makes pure blood advocates feel ashamed of them and call them 'traitors'.

However, the Weasley family's move to get closer to Muggles did not bring them closer to ordinary wizards.

Because although those Muggle-born wizards will have a favorable impression of the Weasley family, these wizards are still a very small minority.

And the remaining wizards who are neither Muggles nor pure-blood families, most of them try their best to establish relationships with pure-blood families: some of them want to marry into wealthy families, some are willing to become wives, but most of them A person's place is to be a dog in a pure-blood family.

But even if they are dogs, the Weasley family is not among the choices of these wizards, because they are the 'pure-blood shame' - everyone hates pure-blood families, and everyone wants to become a pure-blood family.

Because what they hate is not the pure-blood family, but they hate why they are not a pure-blood family!

Serving as dogs for other pure-blood families, they can pretend to be powerful and look down on ordinary wizards like masters.

But if they work as dogs for the Weasley family, they will not enjoy such 'honor'. Instead, they will be ridiculed by other dogs.

On the other hand, the Weasley family is really too 'old-fashioned'.

Almost all wizards are old-fashioned, but the Weasley family is different in this regard.

The rigidity of other wizards is reflected in their insistence that "wizards are superior to men, and Muggles are inferior to men." However, the Weasley family is not at all rigid in this regard, but is very open-minded. The Weasley family Their rigidity is reflected in the fact that they always follow the rules - at least until Arthur Weasley's generation.

Because they abide by the rules, the Weasley family will not go out to make money, but will only work honestly to earn money. This makes the pure-blood family look down on the Weasley family even more - even if they have privileges, they will not use it. This is not pure blood. What is blood shame?

The combination of this series of factors resulted in the fact that Arthur Weasley was the only one in the entire Weasley family who worked at the Ministry of Magic, while Mrs. Weasley, like other traditional women, handled the complicated housework at home while also There are several children to take care of.

Imagine if the Weasleys were replaced with a regular family. The man's salary alone has to support a family of nine people, and seven of them are gold-eating beasts who need to go to school. If you are not poor, who is poor?

Of course, it is precisely because the Weasley family abides by the rules that such people are very suitable to be friends. At least they will not betray you because of interests.

And that's exactly what Ash did.

Ash walked to an empty counter, stepped forward and handed the key to the goblin, saying:

"Vault No. 542, this is the key."

The old goblin took off his glasses slightly and looked at Ash while looking at the key carefully. He quickly determined that the key was genuine and called another goblin to lead them to the vault.

It seemed that it was the first time for the three Percy brothers to ride the Gringotts' subway. Although they were very restrained and did not want to show that they had never seen the world, their excited expressions still betrayed them.

George whispered:

"It's a good thing Ron didn't come, otherwise we wouldn't be able to fit in this car."

Gringotts' cars are limited to four people, not counting the driver.

Fred gloated:

"He has to stay and help mom catch the goblins."

Percy said calmly:

"Mom must have known this to prevent him from coming."

The car moved along the railway track that snaked downwards, and finally stopped at a platform. At the end of the platform was a small door.

There are three numbers on it, 542.

"Please give me the key."

The goblin walked to the door and stretched out his hand to Ash, who was already prepared and handed it the key - all doors in Gringotts can only be opened by goblins, this is an iron rule.

Not just out of caution, but also because the doors are enchanted and only goblins can open them.

The goblin inserted the key into the keyhole and turned it slightly.

Click!

A burst of green smoke rolled out, covering the faces of those who could not dodge.

And when the smoke dissipated, a brilliant golden color almost blinded their eyes - the vault was filled with mountains of Galleons!

George opened his mouth wide and forgot his words for a moment.

Fred murmured:

"I have never seen so many galleons. Maybe our family will never earn so much in a lifetime of working!"

Percy looked away from the pile of gold coins with difficulty and whispered:

"A bit of an exaggeration, but not much."

Ash walked into the vault, while Percy and the others were still outside, swallowing hard and not daring to go in.

Ash walked around the mountains of gold galleons and frowned when he looked at the empty vault except for gold coins. But soon he remembered something and turned his gaze to the wall in front of him.

He took out his silver-white wand and waved it gently:

"Revelio!"

As the spell was cast, there was no change in the vault, but a familiar symbol appeared in front of Ash's eyes, like intertwined lightning and burning flames.

"really."

Ash silently stepped forward and reached out to gently touch the symbol.

The next moment, the wall suddenly shook violently.

Boom!

The surface slate moves downward to reveal a hidden space in the wall, a small storage cupboard.

Inside was a small cylindrical box that was beautifully decorated and had sharp ends. Its surface also had the symbols just seen.

Ding!

When Ash reached out to touch it, the box opened automatically and contained a key similar to the symbol.

Ash has seen this key, the key to vault 12.

Compared with the mountains of gold Galleons, this key is the real relic left to him by Professor Figo. The mechanism arranged by ancient magic can also ensure that the key will only appear in Ash's hands.

"Professor Figo, thank you." Ash murmured softly.

Professor Figo's wife was brutally murdered by Lanlock for exploring the secrets of ancient magic. He himself did not leave any descendants and has always treated Ash as his biological son. Ash also respected the professor, even though he had been doing some experiments that Professor Figo could not tolerate without telling him.

But as long as Professor Figo doesn't know that he did the experiment, it means he didn't do it.

If you don’t find it, you don’t have it. If you don’t say it, you have zero card!

The three Percys didn't dare to enter the vault, and the piles of gold Galleons blocked their view, so they couldn't see what Ash was doing.

Ash quietly put the box and key into his inventory, and at the same time grabbed a few handfuls of gold Galleons and stuffed them into his pocket. After all, in the eyes of the three Percys, this is the purpose of his coming here. If he takes nothing, it will arouse suspicion.