Chapter 212 A major historical turning point not written in the original work
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As the girl's declaration of overwhelming secondary attributes came down, the room fell into silence again.
It was as if someone suddenly told a bad joke that was not funny, and a slightly embarrassing atmosphere was slowly spreading.
Dumbledore still had the same warm smile on his face, sitting on the chair appropriately and politely, leaning forward slightly, as if waiting for Elena to continue to explain her point of view.
The sitting posture of Grindelwald, who was sitting next to the girl, was obviously much more casual. He was leaning on the edge of the bed in a comfortable posture. The first-generation Dark Lord poked his head and picked out what he wanted from the lunch box on the table with one hand.
The delicious food he ate was obviously not enough for him because of the meat-filled pizza just now.
Glancing at Dumbledore and Grindelwald, whose expressions were expressionless, Elena felt a hint of embarrassment in her heart - if she saw it right, Grindelwald's first reaction of puckering his lips was definitely mocking her.
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It was such a mistake. Facing these two old wizards who had been in the world for hundreds of years, she would actually imagine that she could arouse their emotions simply by relying on the Hot-Blooded Mouth Escape. Now that she calmed down and thought about it carefully, she suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of shame.
So, in the past life, those protagonists who were able to talk in front of the old monsters who had practiced for hundreds of thousands of years, and use their blood and ideals to influence and persuade each other, how did the protagonists view "preschoolers performing dramas" in this way?
Persistence in the loving eyes.
"Cough cough cough..."
Elena made a fist with her right hand and put it to her mouth, slightly hiding the embarrassment on her face, and gently cleared her throat, "Um, do you have any comments, questions or ideas?"
As she spoke, Elena secretly stretched out her foot and secretly kicked Grindelwald's calf, who was happily watching the show next to him. Eat, eat, eat. You know how to eat. At such a long age, how come you can't do anything basic?
He has no eyesight.
Snapped.
Snap, snap.
"Wow! What a great ambition."
Hearing Elena's words, Grindelwald raised his hands and clapped them casually in an exaggerated manner. Then he looked at Dumbledore with a serious face and said while suppressing a smile:
"Albus, I think what Elena just said is particularly instructive. Gringotts is indeed a serious problem for us. I am just a sick old man. The future of the human magical world depends on you two.
That’s it.”
He is really a child...
After leaving the topic and trouble to Dumbledore again, Grindelwald rubbed his calf and smiled silently in his heart, looking jokingly to see what good way his old friend could deal with it.
The emergence of Gringotts was not just because of the war between wizards and goblins. It later involved a very complicated exchange of interests and multiple compromises. However, if you look at the results purely, what Elena said is not wrong -
Goblins control the economic lifeline of human wizards, which has become a worry for most of the top officials of the Ministry of Magic.
Due to social system reasons, although we have entered modern society, facing the extremely lack of business activities and fragmentation of the wizarding world, the government department that manages and coordinates the resources of the entire wizarding world has always lacked an income that can supplement its self-operation and circulation.
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Whether it is to provide salaries and benefits to various Ministry of Magic employees in the Ministry, or to build or hold some policy facilities or activities, the Ministry of Magic needs to raise funds from various ancient pure-blood families and the goblins of Gringotts.
In exchange, the Ministry of Magic will sign a number of various licenses - undoubtedly, the biggest piece will naturally be borne by the goblins of Gringotts Wizarding Bank.
In other words, the Ministry of Magic, which is most hostile to the Gringotts Goblins, is also the most dependent on the existence of the Gringotts Goblins. Once Gringotts Wizarding Bank announces a strike, within three months, the Ministry of Magic in all countries will be in trouble.
The embarrassing situation of being unable to pay wages.
As for breaking through Gringotts by force and opening the vault to benefit all poor wizards? For pure-blood wizard families, it is much easier to replace a group of disobedient Ministry of Magic officials than to rebuild a Gringotts Wizarding Bank.
too much.
"It's a really great idea."
Dumbledore glanced at Grindelwald, the smile on his face remained unchanged. He gently and calmly repeated a comment made by the first Dark Lord. His eyes lingered on Elena's nervous little face for a moment, and he continued with a smile.
said:
"In fact, as the Speaker of the International Federation of Magicians, I have the right and channels to secretly convene summits of the Ministry of Magic of various countries in urgent and important situations. However, the premise is that you need to convince me why you should do this.
?What are the benefits of letting wizards control the issuance and regulation of currency? The most important thing is, if I choose to do nothing, what impact will it have?"
"Because the goblins control the issuance of currency, this is not good for the entire magical world..." Elena opened her mouth and replied with some confusion.
Compared with Grindelwald's attitude towards watching the play, Dumbledore's behavior is undoubtedly much weirder.
The old wizard obviously threw out a super bait that he couldn't refuse, but he also threw out a few common sense questions that seemed to have been answered before - at least, it seemed that they didn't match his previous privileges at all.
Regarding this situation, according to Elena's experience in business negotiations in her previous life, there are only two meanings. One is that the other party made a stupid move, and the other is that the other party has almost no decent sincerity and has stood firm from the beginning.
A relatively high psychological expectation point, hoping that the other side can know how to retreat despite difficulties.
"Yes, they have been in control for thousands of years."
Grindelwald suddenly grinned at the side and let out a sneer, "Little guy, you don't think that in these thousands of years, you are the only one who has thought about taking back the right to issue currency from the goblins, right?"
"Gellert?" Dumbledore frowned slightly.
"Sorry, I just can't help it." Grindelwald shrugged, "Compared to your pretentious guessing, I think this little guy is more suitable to tell her the answer directly and let her figure it out later."
"Don't think too much, and don't constantly raise the banner of the magic world."
Grindelwald crossed his arms, turned to look at Elena, blinked, and chuckled.
"Albus has never been a compassionate saint. He is just a quail who is afraid of trouble. If you want to convince him, you'd better give him something that can really impress him, just like you did when you sold Hogwarts.
Interests... or threats will do. As for methods and opportunities, you only need to give a naive idea. This guy has more than a hundred years of experience and is much more powerful than you."
"Hey, is that so? I just think that for old wizards like you, it would be a little, a little bit..." for old wizards like you to directly talk about interests and relationships..." Elena gestured in surprise, Grindelwald's sudden helping hand,
It caught her off guard.
Grindelwald raised the corners of his mouth, shook his head and said:
"You can impress me with your childish ideals, but you can't impress Albus. In fact, the split in Gringotts, coupled with your deductions, is indeed an opportunity to give it a try, but you made two mistakes
Fatal mistake. First, you should use something more beneficial to force Dumbledore, such as Hogwarts. Second, the dominance of Gringotts Wizarding Bank must not be handed over to..."
"That's enough, Gellert, you've said too much today." Dumbledore's face turned cold, and he gave a rare snort, interrupting the old wizard's next words.
He quickly walked to Elena's bedside, blocked the line between Grindelwald and Elena with his body, and separated the two people from communicating with each other. He looked at the silver-haired little witch whose eyes were lost in thought, frowned and said:
"Frankly speaking, according to my original idea, no matter what you say, I will keep the entire Ministry of Magic quiet during this goblin battle and not participate in the confrontation with MACUSA. Because, only in this way can we guarantee
In this incident, the overall balance of everything will not be accidentally broken."
"But, since Gellert chose to bet on you, then I will give you a chance to sit on the edge of the chessboard in advance. As a principal of a magic school who trains students, why should I act like a politician?
Same, persuade the Ministry of Magic to join the war?"
He raised his head and looked at Dumbledore's azure eyes behind his half-moon lenses.
For the first time, Elena could clearly see from behind those gentle and kind eyes, a rational expression as calm and indifferent as the water at the bottom of a well - this may be some of Dumbledore's true emotions after stripping off his halo.
If she guessed correctly, the same incident of goblin splitting should have happened around this time in the previous life. However, without the interference of her unexpected little butterfly, Dumbledore naturally chose to let him go according to his heart.
The entire wizarding world stood idly by and allowed the Soviets and Americans to play games.
And what she is doing now is to change a major historical event that was not written in the book.
"Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry."
"If you do nothing, Ilvermorny will replace or even annex Hogwarts sooner or later."