Harry Potter and the Secret Treasures-Chapter 1191: Excavation Team

Not long ago, Rawya graduated from school and joined Gringotts as an official Curse-Breaker.

As an inexperienced newcomer, she typically wouldn’t be directly involved in field excavation and archaeology but would be assigned to relatively well-explored sites like the Great Pyramid or the Valley of the Kings, gradually advancing based on her performance and achievements.

Excavation of the ruins had been going on for centuries, ever since Gringotts had entered Egypt.

In other words, it was difficult to find anything new there, and the remaining unsolved curses were also very troublesome.

Last year, Evan, led by Bill, visited Curse-Breakers at work in the Great Pyramid. One particular curse-breaking effort left a deep impression on him: teams of five novice Curse-Breakers, divided into four groups, worked day and night using a specific spell on a stone wall to wear down the curse’s power.

This was the process of removing the curse. The whole process was quite tedious, boring and also very tiring.

Bill told Evan that, at the current pace, it would take another hundred years to deplete the curse’s power on that wall to get through to what lay behind it.

As for what was behind the wall, hopefully, it was undiscovered treasure.

But based on previous experience, it might still be another wall…

The boredom of this so-called curse-breaking work was unimaginable, but every novice got through it this way.

Fortunately, Rawya just happened to catch the craze of the Ruins of Amun Ra excavation.

She had previously been part of Goblin Zoser’s team, making her very familiar with the Ruins of Amun Ra. This experience allowed her to join the current team.

Just like what Rawya had always told Evan, this was her chance and she had to seize it.

If she failed, she would have to return to the monotonous curse-breaking work like everyone else!

The girl was probably ready to devote her entire life to Egyptian archaeology and was extremely eager to prove her abilities. As she often said, if she could find significant treasure in this excavation, she could stay with this team, continue to explore newly discovered important relics, and even form her own excavation team.

After comprehensive consideration, Evan decided that he should help Rawya to the best of his ability.

Although they had only known each other for a short time, Rawya had helped him a lot, and he couldn’t just stand by and watch her waste her life…

This was also the main reason why Evan did not join Paul’s Alchemy team, but finally accepted Rawya’s invitation to join her excavation team. This team was the official excavation team of the Egyptian Ministry of Magic and Gringotts, numbered nineteen, and was mainly responsible for the exploration of the eastern section of the second excavation route that Rawya and Evan talked about.

The excavation team consisted of about twenty-five people, including ten Curse-Breakers, five goblins, and ten logistics personnel.

There were also four Alchemists hired like Evan for this project, forming a thirty-person excavation team.

The team leader was a goblin with an unusual name, Pendulum.

Pendulum was a very typical goblin. He had worked at Gringotts headquarters in Britain for a long time and had rich experience in identifying jewelry and ancient artifacts. He was the one who tried hard to invite Evan to join their team. Perhaps because of his long-term work in Britain, he knew Dumbledore better than other Egyptian wizards and goblins. When he learned that Evan was recommended by Dumbledore and Nicolas Flamel, he became interested in Evan.

He hired Evan for a month and paid him one thousand Gold Galleons.

That was more than thirty Galleons a day, which seemed like a lot, but considering the current market standards, it was not very high.

After all, many private teams outside were offering even tens of thousands of Galleons to hire Alchemists.

However, considering the greed and stinginess of goblins, this was definitely a relatively high price that Gringotts officials were willing to pay at the moment.

Evan had inquired privately, and found out that the other four Alchemists hired with him received even less…

He learned all this after joining the excavation team. Pendulum was really talkative.

Pendulum and Evan talked about the excavation of the Ruins of Amun Ra, the alchemical mechanisms inside, the current situation, the impact of Voldemort’s return, concerns about the future of Gringotts, and even the legendary magical item Sword of Gryffindor collected in Hogwarts.

It was clear that Pendulum had a particular concern about this.

It was well known that this famous sword was made by goblins.

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Although Gryffindor had paid for it back then, the goblins had always insisted that they owned the sword. Gryffindor only had the right to use the sword, and after his death, the sword was to be returned to the goblins.

Probably other goblins felt the same way and had always wanted to reclaim this sword.

Evan didn’t share this view. That sword had now become a symbol of Gryffindor House. Moreover, after he retrieved the sword’s scabbard, the sword gained significant magic power. In fact, even if Gryffindor’s Sword was handed back to the goblins, they wouldn’t be able to keep it for long.

The magic left by Gryffindor on it allowed every true Gryffindor to pull the sword out of the Sorting Hat.

Aside from his obsession with treasures and goblin-made items, Evan generally had a good impression of Pendulum.

However, Evan was aware that he might only be seeing a facade.

Goblins were inherently unreliable and harbored a natural animosity towards wizards.

Even though Pendulum and Evan seemed to get along very well, no one knew what he was thinking in his heart.

Additionally, the excavation team had a deputy leader sent by the Egyptian Ministry of Magic.

This was an Arab man whose name was too long for Evan to remember, so he and everyone else called him Mr. Saeed.

Mr. Saeed was the deputy leader, which was the main surveillance measure taken by the Egyptian Ministry of Magic after Zoser’s incident. They had inspected Zoser’s vault and found many artifacts and ancient magic items that should have been handed over, as well as evidence that he had resold these items to European pure-blood Wizarding families.

This discovery intensified the distrust Egyptian wizards had towards goblins, finally giving them an excuse to interfere in the excavation work.

The Ministry of Magic assigned special investigators to every Gringotts excavation team, appointing them as deputy leaders.

But to be honest, even an outsider like Evan felt that Mr. Saeed was here more of a hindrance.

First of all, as a typical Arab, he seemed unable to accept the presence of women in the excavation team. Mr. Saeed had hardly ever spoken a word to Rawya, and had no good face towards her. He was also hostile to Evan, whom Rawya had invited.

Secondly, he seemed to have a strong dislike for goblins, always speaking to Pendulum in an angry tone.

Thirdly, he appeared to detest foreign wizards, especially those from Europe and America, targeting them at every opportunity.

This created an awkward situation for the eight Curse-Breakers from Europe in the excavation team, who were ostracized by other Arabs.

Fourthly, despite knowing nothing about excavation and curse-breaking, he constantly liked to voice his opinions.

And since he represented the Egyptian Ministry of Magic, the excavation team had to follow his directives in many matters.

Rawya told Evan that it was because of Mr. Saeed that the excavation work was progressing so slowly.

These details described the complicated situation of Gringotts’ nineteenth excavation team, but they didn’t concern Evan much.

He didn’t plan to stay in this excavation team for a long time. He would leave after finding what he wanted…

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