After Delphini had drunk her fill, Allen, Hermione—who was holding Delphini—and the giant serpent left the Leaky Cauldron. What he had said earlier made the wizards who had been paying attention to their conversation grow even quieter, and Doris clamped her mouth shut, not daring to ask any more questions. The situation was obvious: Harris was going to make trouble for Gringotts, and those Goblins were in for it.
Allen and the others strolled along Diagon Alley's cobblestone street, looking around idly. After a full day of repairs, the buildings in Diagon Alley had more or less returned to normal. Although the magical things inside them—magical portraits, enchanted shelves, and other such fixtures—would still need time to be slowly restored, at least from the outside, nothing seemed wrong anymore.
Gringotts itself was the same. The floor tiles in the hall, the ceiling that had been smashed open into a huge hole, the shattered crystal lamps, and so on had all been restored to their original state. As for the magical tracks leading to the vaults, those would probably still take several more days to be fully repaired.
At the moment, Gringotts was much livelier than usual. Aside from the wizards who had rushed over to check whether their vaults were intact, or who were handling withdrawals and had decided to enter the underground levels on foot or by Flying Broomstick, there were even more Goblins gathered inside Gringotts, along with wizards in Ministry of Magic uniforms.
Bank manager Nagnok, together with Griphook and the others, was settling with Ministry of Magic officials the Galleons they were supposed to pay as compensation for Diagon Alley. Piles upon piles of Galleons were laid out in plain sight to be counted, then placed into a trunk that had been cast with an Undetectable