Hearing Allen's report, the Aurors immediately walked over with their heads held high and their chests out. "The Ministry of Magic is always at wizards' service, and we saw the entire process as well... President Nagnok, do you have anything else to say?"
Allen did not continue arguing with them. Instead, he filed a complaint and reported the case to the Ministry of Magic. That display of going through proper channels made the goblins panic a little—could the Harris Family be trying to use this as a pretext to have the Ministry of Magic force its way in and help them enter the vault?
"We are not thieves, Headmaster Harris! Goblins do not covet wealth we have no right to possess!" Griphook shouted angrily.
"Calm down, sir," the young Auror said evenly, then reached out and pressed the bow tie on his H94 Uniform. "In fact, we don't have the authority to handle matters like this either. I will report it to my superiors at once so our colleagues in law enforcement can deal with it."
Nagnok's heart jolted. Before he could think of the right wording to refuse, he saw a group of wizards from the Ministry of Magic's Department of Magical Law Enforcement flood in through the entrance. The one at their head was none other than Lenn Harris, who had once had a dispute with him.
A group of reporters carrying long lenses and heavy cameras followed close behind them, looking as if they had planned this in advance and had been waiting outside all along, rushing in the moment they received notice. Aside from putting on an act and asking what had happened, the reporters were clearly just as ignorant beforehand of the baby's true identity, but apart from letting their lenses linger on Delphini for