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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