Aaron felt like he had arrived in a magical land, a completely different feeling than watching a movie.
"Welcome to Diagon Alley."
Seeing Aaron's astonishment, Dumbledore smiled.
Aaron felt a little overwhelmed.
As the commercial center of the wizarding world, this place seems very lively. Many wizards wear robes and wander from shop to shop or negotiate prices with stall owners.
The buildings here are full of steam and medieval styles. They are crooked, yet they stand tall.
The rows of buildings combine the heaviness of the Baroque, the mystery of the Gothic, and the blackened Rococo style.
New and old collide, and the Renaissance blends with Romanesque, Tudor, Elizabethan, and Italianate styles.
It's no exaggeration to describe Diagon Alley as a hodgepodge.
While there, Aaron followed Dumbledore in "Walking the Streets." He could smell all kinds of odors: sweat, bird droppings, bitter or unpleasant potions…
The shops on either side were even more peculiar, with convex semicircular windows divided by lattices, strangely shaped houses, pointed roofs, and grayish-brown tones.
Very Victorian.
He saw many familiar shops along the way.
The Crucible Shop with a pile of crucibles outside the door, but Aaron didn't need it; his alchemy was more advanced.
The pharmacy that sold materials, the Doraemon Owl Shop where all kinds of owls could be seen through the window.
A banner hung on the door of a shop: New Nimbus 2000 - Top Speed.
There were also some things Aaron had never seen in the original book or even in the movie.
"We're here, kid." "I think you're fascinated by what you see."
Dumbledore reminded the fascinated teenager.
Aaron stepped out of the wizarding world and looked up. What caught his eye was a snow-white building that stood out from its surroundings.
It seemed to be separated from the surrounding buildings by two centuries.
What a shiny bronze door! Aaron unconsciously had an idea.
This is the only bank in the wizarding world run by goblins. It was founded in 1474 by a goblin named Gringotts.
That's why it's also called the "Gringotts Wizarding Bank."
They passed through the bronze door and walked down the white stone steps. At the door, a goblin wearing a scarlet uniform and gold studs bowed to them.
When Aaron saw the real goblin face to face, he discovered that he was uglier than he had imagined.
The goblins in the movies and TV shows of his previous life were more handsome than they were. As he crossed the second silver door, there was Warnings were engraved on both sides, but Aaron subconsciously ignored them.
A goblin led them to a tall marble hall and left.
There were many goblins guiding countless wizards.
Aaron had to look up because of the tall cabinets on both sides. Hundreds of fairies sat on high stools at the back.
Some were weighing coins with copper scales, others were checking gems with eyepieces or making notes in the ledger.
Aaron couldn't help but sneer. Sitting so high can't hide your weakness. The more you lack something, the more you emphasize it.
It's like a certain island country in his previous life, which always emphasized its courtesy and cleanliness.
When he was at the top of this world, the first thing he would do was promulgate: "The Code that Fairies are not superior to Humans."
His neck ached from looking up so much. "Good morning," Dumbledore said to the idle goblin indifferently, "I'll take this "I'm going to change some gold galleons."
Then he lowered his head and said to Aaron, "Boy, take out the money you want to change."
Seeing Aaron's head sticking out over the counter, Dumbledore cast a Flying Charm and placed a stool at his feet.
Aaron climbed onto the stool and took palm-sized gold coins from the satchel behind him, a total of ten one-pound pieces each.
Dumbledore looked at Aaron in surprise.
Such a small body was carrying such heavy gold, but it showed no heaviness along the way.
Seeing the gold, Aaron noticed that the goblin in front of him had a light in his eyes.
Sure enough, gold is hard currency everywhere, and its inability to synthesize determines its value.
However, it is said that an alchemist named Nicolas Flamel created a magic stone and successfully turned mercury into gold. And now this Philosopher's Stone is hidden in the underground treasury of the Goblin Bank.
The greed in the goblin's eyes disappeared as For an instant, he regained his cold demeanor.
Although the little wizard in front of him was guided by Dumbledore, the goblins' greed was enough to make them ignore the greatest wizard of this century.
Furthermore, throughout history, goblins have rebelled more than once, though they were all suppressed.
But the aliens' desire to kill witches will never be erased.
Putting the gold on the copper scale, the goblin began to say:"A total of ten pounds, one pound now is about 7.32238 grams of gold, but your gold is not of good quality, count it as one pound and five grams of gold."
"The current exchange rate of pounds to gold galleons is five to one, so 1,000 pounds is equivalent to 200 gold galleons."
Hearing the offer from the goblin, Dumbledore frowned, but did not speak.
He didn't think that the little wizard would suffer a loss in silence.
After hearing this, Aaron pondered for a moment, and then said lightly:
"I'll give you a chance to re-quote!"