Harry Potter: Reunion with the Enemy

Harry had a short vacation after his last assignment in the Auror Office.

Although most of the Aurors' work is related to combating the Dark Arts and capturing Dark wizards, a small number of them are assigned longer-term and secret tasks because of their outstanding talents and personality traits.

Therefore, half of the seats in the Auror Office on the second floor of the Ministry of Magic are often empty, and colleagues are scattered everywhere with different work progress.

Previously, because Harry had relatively rich combat experience, the current Minister of Magic, Kingsley, who was also the former Head of the Auror Office, always assigned Harry to urgent and short-term tasks.

For example, they are woken up in the middle of the night to capture murderous dark wizards, temporarily assigned to go deep into illegal potion-making dens to destroy them, fight off magical creatures that have lost control due to various factors, and airdrop into various battle scenes to help control the situation.

In the peer evaluation at the Auror's annual meeting, the most common comments Harry made were the following.

"Little expert in disarming spells. Spells are always cast quickly and well."

"Lion cub style."

“Agile and reliable.”

"We have worked together countless times! A timely and versatile close combat wizard genius!"

Harry cherishes the friendly and kind colleagues he met in the Ministry of Magic office, which is his second home after graduating from Hogwarts.

That morning, Max, Harry's colleague who was also the temporary office director, said to Harry, "Harry, maybe you can also apply to Kingsley for a longer-term assignment, or in other words, don't refuse long-term assignments anymore."

"Oh? Why?" Harry looked up from the piles of forms, which were the boring filing work of the Aurors after completing their mission.

"You have been admitted to St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Sins more times than 90% of your colleagues in a year." Max explained, "Although the execution of emergency missions is very glorious and great, you will be transferred to the next mission before you can even heal your wounds."

"It's okay. I'm happy working with you all. I'm fine the way I am now." Harry said gratefully. "It was Kingsley and I who took the initiative and asked for the emergency mission. I think this way I can play a better role."

"Long-term missions require a higher level of comprehensive quality from an Auror. Your current combat ability is already very good, but to grow into a mature Auror, other experiences are also essential, such as stealth, tracking, and disguise."

Harry seemed impressed.

"Is that so?" Max beamed with joy. "Besides, the time arrangement for long-term missions is relatively flexible, so you can have a good rest."

"If the Auror Office needs it next time - I can consider it." Harry nodded.

Max looked relieved, "Okay. Maybe it will be available soon. Kingsley just talked to me about the latest Auror task list."

"I'm always here." Harry went back to filling out the form on the parchment.

Seeing that Harry had agreed, Max casually called up a Ministry of Magic communication paper plane, hurriedly wrote a few words, and sent the paper plane to the Minister's office.

"He agreed." There was only this short sentence on the paper plane.

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Two days later.

Harry took out a quill and wrote a letter to Ron and Hermione at the desk. The two were newly married and on their honeymoon.

"Dear Ron and Hermione,

I hope you have a happy honeymoon. I'm sorry that I had to leave the wedding immediately due to an emergency..."

While teaching at the school, Neville discovered that Salvia miltiorrhiza and Devil's Snare could be combined to make a powerful anesthetic for dragons. The related paper caused quite a stir after it was published in "Introduction to Herbal Research".

Wizards around the world have found that raising dragons is much easier. Considering that dragon blood, dragon core, dragon skin, and dragon scales have high utilization value, the phenomenon of raising dragons privately and conducting underground transactions has gradually increased. Accidents have also occurred in various places. Harry's last mission was to go to Algeria to deal with illegal transactions related to dragons.

Generally, purchasing dragon eggs or raising dragons in bulk involves underground transactions, and the source of the funds is likely unknown. It takes a long time to investigate the source of the funds. Gringotts also needs a specialist to participate.

"Let's have dinner together after your honeymoon..." After Harry finished writing the letter, he asked an owl to be sent to Ron and Hermione immediately. He was about to open a Quidditch magazine to kill time, but he saw the Ministry of Magic's mission owl flew to the window.

"Murder? Illegal merchants? Or another dragon?" Harry muttered, but he didn't seem very unhappy.

Harry took the red-bordered letter paper exclusive to the mission from the owl's leg and read it attentively.

“Mission Background: A Chinese Fireball Dragon is suspected to be illegally kept at location (109.,31.0), which may involve the recycling of goblin items and illegal transactions. Auror (No.: ZY0092) Harry Potter is now specially assigned to investigate.

Mission objective: If a Fireball Dragon appears, bring it back to the Romanian Fire Dragon Reserve, and thoroughly investigate the source of funds for the breeder, dragon scale ornaments, and weapons manufacturers. If there are any illegal transactions exceeding the amount, report them for approval and enter the interrogation process.

In addition: This mission is in cooperation with Gringotts, and Gringotts consultant Mr. Draco Malfoy is dispatched to assist. "

Harry stared at the end of the letter for a long time.

Draco Malfoy?

After the war, Harry and Hermione made a lot of efforts to rehabilitate the Malfoy family, and eventually made most people believe that Draco was forced to do what he had done before.

Perhaps out of gratitude, Draco's attitude towards Harry changed a lot, and he even invited Harry to his birthday party last birthday.

In the end, Harry turned down the invitation because of his busy schedule.

Harry had heard about the restructuring of Gringotts.

When did Draco switch to Gringotts?

Or has Gringotts become one of the Malfoy family businesses? Harry shook his head and put this ridiculous idea aside.

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Private property is sacrosanct.

Gringotts, the wizarding bank that manages private property, has recently come under scrutiny from the wizarding community.

A massive, long-delayed questioning.

After the Daily Prophet reported on the deeds of the savior Harry Potter, various information about the past aroused the sensitive nerves of Gringotts' customers.

With the help of the goblin Griphook, the savior Harry Potter sneaked into Bellatrix Lestrange's vault and successfully took away the Horcrux.

After the war started by Voldemort, discussing the security of Gringotts gradually became one of the topics of conversation in the pub.

"Gringotts Wizarding Bank has no known competitors in the wizarding banking industry. Although Bellatrix Lestrange is notorious and has done bad things, it is still disturbing that a private vault could be easily broken into. Merlin's pants, are we to assume that goblins are simply unreliable?"

"The service attitude at Gringotts is also quite average. Last time I went to Gringotts wearing the silver jewelry my grandmother left me, the goblins kept looking at me with malicious eyes."

"...They have completely different values ​​from wizards, because they believe that the legitimate owner of any object is its maker, not the buyer. In the eyes of goblins, everything made by goblins should belong to them. They are in charge of the coinage! They don't think that all the gold coins belong to them."

"Greedy creatures! A little kindness can confuse them..."

“It looks like a fancy security line! But in fact, it is full of loopholes!”

The public opinion gradually aroused in the wizarding world forced the new Minister of Magic Kingsley to renegotiate with the goblins.

Because the relationship between goblins and wizards has always maintained a delicate balance, the final result of the negotiations was that the goblins agreed to add wizards to the senior positions in Gringotts, comprehensively upgrade the security of the vault, and add wizards to the voting seats when making major decisions.

Change the power structure of Gringotts to cooperate with the Ministry of Magic.

The price of the above compromise is that the wizarding world must replace the fountain in the Ministry of Magic and promise not to make any discriminatory remarks. Severe punishment for radical elements who hunt goblins.

The goblins seemed to be quite dissatisfied with this change, but in order to maintain superficial peace, they accepted the approach of each taking a step back from the wizards.

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Diagon Alley, London. Gringotts meeting room.

Gringotts wizard interview scene.

As Gringotts' first large-scale recruitment of new wizarding staff, goblins, the Minister of Magic, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer were all present.

"Well, Mr. Malfoy, congratulations on passing the previous rounds of magical ability tests and professional ability tests. Why do you think you are suitable for this position?" the goblin interviewer asked.

The young man with light blond hair wore a black suit and a dark green tie. "Under the premise of Gringotts' overall service reform, we must provide customized solutions for wizard customers. The Malfoy family has high requirements for quality of life. In addition, we also know wizard families in different industries. We can contact them to help Gringotts build service solutions."

Malfoy paused for a moment, surveying the decor of the meeting room with his grey eyes.

"The second part of my work is to find a way to put the Muggle currency generated by customers during currency exchange back into circulation in Muggle society. When helping Gringotts with currency circulation, I am sure I can choose the items with the most investment value."

"In other words, I think this position will help me maintain my elegance while earning a good return. I also hope to restore the reputation my family lost in the war."

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