章节_26（1/1）

mad....”

a low, soft hooting a dark shop with a sign

saying eeylops owl emporium -- tawny, scree, brown, and

snowy. several boys of about harrys age had their noses pressed

against a ith broomsti it. ”look,” harry heard

ohe new nimbus two thousand -- fastest ever --”

there were shops selling robes, shops selling telesd strange

silver is harry had never seen before, windows stacked with

barrels of bat spleens and eels eyes, t piles of spell

books, quills, and rolls of part, potion bottles, globes of

the moon....

”gringotts,” said hagrid.

they had reaowy white building that towered over the

other little shops. stas burnished bronze doors,

wearing a uniform old, was -

”yeah, thats a goblin,” said hagrid quietly as they walked

up the white stooward him. the goblin was about a head

shorter than harry. he had a swarthy, clever fated beard

and, harry noticed, very long fingers a. he bowed as they

walked ihey were fag a sed pair of doors, silver

this time, with wraved upon them:

eraake heed

of what awaits the sin of greed,

for those who take, but do not earn,

must pay most dearly iurn.

so if you seek beh our floors

a treasure that was never yours,

thief, you have been warned, beware

of fireasure there.

”like i said, yehd be mad ter try an rob it,” said hagrid.

a pair of goblihrough the silver doors and they

were in a vast marble hall. about a hundred m

on high stools behind a long ter, sg in large ledgers,

weighing brass scales, examih

eyeglasses. there were too many doors to t leading off the hall,

a m people in and out of these. hagrid

and harry made for the ter.

”m,” said hagrid toblin. ”weve e ter take

some moa mr. harry potters safe.”

”you have his key, sir?”

”got it here somewhere,” said hagrid, aed emptying

his poto the ter, sg a handful of moldy dog

biscuits oblins book oblin wrinkled

his nose. harry watched the gobli ile

of rubies as big as glowing coals.

”got it,” said hagrid at last, holding up a tiny golden key.

the gobli closely.

”that seems to be in order.”

”an ive also got a letter here from professor dumbledore,”

said hagrid importantly, throwing out his chest. ”its about the

youknow-what in vault sevehirteen.”

the goblier carefully.

”very well,” he said, handing it back to hagrid, ”i will have

someoake you down to both vaults. griphook!”

griphook was yet anoblin. once hagrid had crammed all

the dog biscuits baside his pockets, he and harry followed

griphook toward ohe d off the hall.

”whats the you-know-what in vault seven hundred and

thirteen?” harry asked.

”t tell yeh that,” said hagrid mysteriously. ”very

secret. hogwarts business. dumbledores trusted me. moren my jobs

worth ter tell yeh that.”

griphook held the door open for them. harry, ected

more marble, rised. they were in a narrow stone passageway

lit with flami sloped steeply downward and there were

little railway tra the flriphook whistled and a small

cart came hurtlioward them. they --

hagrid with some difficulty -- and were off.

at first they just hurtled through a maze of twisting

passages. harry tried to remember, left, right, right, left, middle

fht, left, but it ossible. the rattling cart seemed

to knoay, because griphook wasnt steering.

harrys eyes stung as the cold air rushed past them, but he kept

them wide opehought he saw a burst of fire at the end

of a passage and twisted arou was a dragon, but too

late