Chapter 3: The Safest Place to Keep Your Treasure
It was
already the end of August. Jason had
just finished all his catching up for Hogwarts. A few weeks ago, Mr. Frek reluctantly acquiesced to let Jason go
to Hogwarts. Martha got over the
boggart incident, and Jason told her about his dreams, the strange wand, and
his tennis racket.
Nevertheless,
these two still have no clue what is going on, and they have other things to
worry about as well. Hogwarts is
starting very soon, and Jason decided to meet Martha at Diagon Alley with his
mom today to buy school supplies.
Mrs.
Frek and Jason floo powdered to Diagon Alley and saw Martha already there
waiting for them.
"Hello
Jason. Hello Mrs. Frek," she smiled.
"Hey."
"I need
to get some money from Gringotts," said Martha.
"Well,
then I'll this year's books for you two," said Mrs. Frek as she walked away,
"meet me here in half an hour, bye!"
"Cya
mom"
"Bye
Mrs. Frek."
When
Jason's mom left, he asked Martha, "What is Gringotts?"
"Oh,
it's the wizard bank, it's suppose to be the safest place to keep your
treasures," replied Martha. She led him
into a white building. Inside there
were many little green creatures.
"They
are goblins, they guard this place," explained Martha.
"How
does the wizard money work," inquired Jason.
"The
gold ones are Galleons. Seventeen
silver Stickles to a Galleon, twenty-nine Knuts to a Stickle," explained
Martha.
She
walked over to a goblin and said, "Vault 349 please."
The
goblin led them to a cart sorta thing on tracks.
"This
might be a pretty intense ride, so be ware," said the goblin.
The
cart started to accelerate. It was just
like a roller coaster, said Jason, but only cooler. At last, they reached a secured door. Martha got out, somehow opened the door.
She
gasped when the door opened.
"I had
a whole pile of money here! But no-no-now it's gone! There's only twenty
Galleons left!"
Jason
got out of the cart and exclaimed, "Who and how can you steal the money!"
"Well,
this back account can only be opened by my family members. I don't know, mom would've told me if she
was going to most of out family fortune!"
"Look,
there's a note!" pointed Jason.
Dear
Martha,
I am sorry for taking the
money. I will return the money soon
with some interest.
Please
forgive me.
"Well..."
said Jason.
"Well
what?"
"Well
he said he'd return the money."
"For
all we know, we don't even know if it's a he!" cried Martha.
"Dude,
Martha, calm down, we have to get our school supplies. We're already late for mom. That train ride takes a long time, my mom
will be worried."
"I
guess so, but but but but...."
"I
know, we'll talk to the goblin after we meet my mom, but I bet she's worried
sick."
They
took the cart back up and found Jason's mom.
Martha explained the whole thing to Mrs. Frek. Mrs. Frek went to talk to the goblin manager of the bank.
"Me
sorry Mrs. Frek. Me can do nothing bout
tis. Probably sum one from Miz Worly
family took it."
Crestfallen,
Martha now started crying, "We have no more money left..."
"Shhh...
Let's just go and get our stuff, I'm sure my mom can lend you some if you need
any money..." said Jason as he hugged Martha.
The
three walked to a broom shop so Jason can get a broom.
One of
the brooms that were on display was a very sleek looking broom named the Firebolt. Jason picked it up, he felt the weight of
it, and thought it was the broom he wants.
"Mom,
how about this one?" asked Jason.
"The Firebolt?!"
exclaimed Martha, "That must be at least seventy Galleons!"
"Actually,
it's only fifty," said the storeowner.
"So
mom, can I get it?"
"It is
a bit expensive, we're not as rich in the wizard world as we are in the Muggle,
Jason," said Mrs. Frek.
"PLEEEEZ."
"Alright,
but you're not getting another broom for awhile then." Mrs. Frek reluctantly pulled out fifty
galleons from her bag.
"Now we
need to buy dress robes," said Mrs. Frek.
"What
about regular robes?" asked Jason.
"Well,
when I was waiting for you guys, I got them for you... they only had one color
so it doesn't matter, we can go again if Martha needs to buy some, do you
Martha?"
Martha
shook her head.
They
walked to brick store called Dress Correctly with Fashious Dress Robes.
Jason
waked into the store and saw many odd looking articles.
"I'll
look for one for me," said Martha.
"Okay,"
acknowledged Mrs. Frek.
"Um, mom, I have no idea what is
'fasionious'," said Jason.
Mrs. Frek went through a few robes;
she stopped on a dark blue robe. It was
made from some fluffy material. "Here,
try this on."
Jason put on the robe.
"Accio Mirror!" said Mrs.
Frek as she waved her wand. Suddenly, a
mirror just flew in front of Jason.
"Um. I'm not sure how this looks on
me..."
"Ohhh, Jason my boy, you look
absolutely handsome!" exclaimed Mrs. Frek.
Just then, Martha walked up to Mrs.
Frek holding a red dress robe for her.
"Martha, don't you think Jason
looks handsome in this?" asked Mrs. Frek.
Jason and Martha both blushed.
"Mom!"
After the robe shop, Jason, Martha,
and Mrs. Frek all went together to get the remaining of the items. Then the floo powdered back to Jason's huge
Muggle house.
"Martha, you wanna sleep over
tonight? You know we can play some tennis after dinner and watch a movie or
something.. It's probably going to be the last time I can play tennis until
next summer. Then my parents can take
us to Hogwarts tomorrow." asked Jason.
"Only if you two sleep in separate
rooms." said Mrs. Frek.
"I know mom." blushed Jason.
"Sure why not, I'll get my stuff
and I'll be back in half an hour," said Martha.
While Martha was gone, Jason
started to muse about the Gringott incident.
Does this have anything to do with that strange man?
Author's Note:
Well, that's the third chapter. I hope you enjoyed it! No, I respect my characters and they will
not do anything tonight.. so don't even think about it! Well, I guess the
safest place isn't so safe after all huh? Please review and thank you my
readers!