Outside Harris Wizarding Bank, beside the gleaming Bronze Gate, guards stood straight-backed at the entrance, keeping watch. Numerous Mister Handies, their main bodies painted dark blue, their trim bronze, with bronze serial numbers painted on their backs, bowed politely to the wizards as they entered and offered simple directions.
Once inside the hall, the signs marking the different service areas could be clearly seen from the entrance.
This tall marble hall offered more than a hundred service windows for different kinds of business. Behind the long counters sat wizarding employees in matching uniforms. All the male employees wore their hair short or tied their long hair into ponytails, while the female employees had uniformly coiled their long hair at the back of their heads and worn matching hairnets, giving them all an energetic, polished look.
Today was not Sunday, but the students of Hogwarts had also been arranged to come to this spacious lobby. At breakfast, Allen had announced that the bank would open today, and every Hogwarts student would be given a free bank account—though many young wizards felt their headmaster was somewhat suspect of using public office for private gain.
In reality, aside from having accounts opened for them, the students had not been able to leave at this point. They had been seated in the hall, which had been cast with an advanced Undetectable Extension Charm, together with those Umbrella and pro-Harris wizards, helping fill out the numbers for today's press conference.
Harris Wizarding Television Station did not seem to have been affected by its recent ban in some foreign countries. Several live Video Cameras from different positions were aimed at Hermione and Fleur on the podium, and compared with the early days after the Television Station had first emerged, the station's media staff had also prepared