With a wild swat of his wand he almost seemed to whack one of the incoming spells away as though he were a beater and it a bludger. A bludger than then struck one of the goblins off to the side flying backwards against the wall and then fell with a thud to the ground, seemingly lifeless.

Not that this maniac was concerned. All he saw was TWO bags full of loot that he needed and absolutely no one else coming to their rescue. Tumbling out of the way of the next spell, his wand was thrust to the floor beneath the girls where he send a Glisseo spell to knock them off their feet and hopefully on to their back so he could relieve them of their belongings and make a break for it through the doors.

Foolish is as foolish does with this lot. Impatient too.

"HURRY UP AND TAKE US!" spat one who then threw a Blasting Curse at the toes of the female goblin who had just arrived.

She looked between all of them and hoped the aurors would be here sooner rather than later, but for now the goblin stepped closer to the prisoner. She waved her finger to send a protection against the spells being sent, "Follow me" Turning she headed back down the corridor towards the vaults.

They were growing impatient and did not know that goblins were capable of moving at such a snail's pace. Agitation brewing and bubbling over, two of the escapees sent more spells in haphazard directions towards other goblins and blasted them against the walls behind their stalls where they fell like lifeless sacks of rocks to the ground.

"Do you goblins speak English? What part of hurry is difficult to grasp?! TAKE US NOW OR IT WILL BE YOU NEXT!"

Like taking candy from babies. And he would be taking more if the setting were different, but for now just the deposite bags would do. He could get his other fix elsewhere once he made off with the galleons.

Kicking hands out of the way, the man nabbed both deposite bags away from the ladies and then blasted his way (literally with Bombarda Maxima) through whatever stood between himself and the chaos ridden streets of Diagon Alley. And then, while hidden beneath the veil of smoke and dust he disappeared.

Jolie skidded too, her shoes were cute but no match for a glisseoed surface. Landing on her bum, she was still clinging to the deposit bag when the kicks came at her. Jolie shrieked a bit at the pain and then catching sight of some goblins being MURDERED, she outright screamed. The deposit bag was snatched away in the same moment and the next thing she knew, a violent explosion with dust and debris everywhere. She covered her mouth and eyes and curled into a ball as the dust settled around her.

There was a HOLE in the BANK.

These prisoners were not going to enjoy where they were being led, but that wasn't Sagni's problem. She nodded to Sturnik showing that she understood and turned to head back down to the vaults. Not even looking back over her shoulder she just waved them to come along.

The goblins had been hard at work since the chaos caused months ago by the escaped wandwaver criminals. Today the bank was officially entering the busy season with Hogwarts being out for the summer.

Several goblins scrambled around last minute while consulting clipboards filled of checklists. They were double checking structural integrity of repairs as well as rechecking all the security improvements that had been made.

Ashley walked into gringotts, and walked up to the thing desk or whatever, bewildered. She wondered how to set up her vault and stuff. "Excuse me," she said to a goblin, "can I like set up a vault or something? And then can I withdraw from my account? Sorry I don't really understand how this works." She hoped to get this over with so that she could start doing stuff in Diagon Alley. Why was she so nervous today? She needed to look like she belonged so that she would fit in better with all the wizards who actually knew what they were doing and had known what hogwarts was before they got their letter. She hoped nobody noticed how nervous she was.

Tex was a little anxious as she sat behind her counter. Her legs fidgeting slightly as she watched the entrance. Her eyes were peeled for any suspicious activity. She had a bit of a scare a few months earlier and now busy times triggered the same feelings.

She attempted a warm look at the approaching human child.

"I can help you with that. If you have a family vault, a guardian would have to grant you access. If you are what they call a 'muggleborn' we can convert money for you to deposit." the counter goblin explained.

"Oh um ok" she said. "well I guess I'm a 'muggleborn', so I'm gonna need to change money and make a vault." She noticed that the goblin looked nervous too but in a different way. Not the kind that Ashley was feeling. It was a more serious nervousness than "I don't know what I'm doing" nervousness. "okay, back to pretending I know what I'm doing", she thought, smiling back at the goblin

Tex nodded slowly. The small wandwaver child seemed to be really confused. Poor dear. They really needed to assign these human children magical escorts and not just shove them into strange situations.

"Very well. We'll change your money and set up your vault." she said motioning to the table for the girl to set down her muggle world money.

Ashley set down her money on the counter quickly, hoping that nobody else was watching. According to her dad, it was not good to show how much money you have or take out a lot of money in public. But this was a bank, and apparently this was how you set up a vault. She shifted uneasily from foot to foot, hoping that setting up a vault wouldn't be too hard.

Tex accepted the money and began counting. Without looking up she asked, "Have you got a wand yet? We prefer to register them at the time of vault opening, but you can come back later to do that." She explained. "Would you also want to go down to your vault or should we take care of things for you?" They could just as easily make the deposit for her. The human could just take her key and be on her way. Tex thought she might prefer that seeing as how anxious the child looked.

"Yeah I do have a wand now", Ashley said. She presented her wand which she was very proud of. She thought it was very cool that it was made of vine."And yeah, after I make a deposit then I can be on my way. So I don't really have to see it." She was anxious to start getting school stuff.

When a member of the school staff hand delivered her Hogwarts letter, Sloane acknowledged that all sorts of mystical beings she'd always thought imaginary might actually be real. But never once had goblins crossed her mind. Now faced with a bankful of them, she wasn't sure how she felt or what she thought about them... Were they as individualized and varied as human beings in both their countenance and disposition? Or were they all as grumpy and serious as they appeared? Was that just bank goblins that looked that way? Or were there goblins who worked outside the bank who were downright cheerful?

As her mother nudged her forward, Sloane's mental image of goblins happily eating a picnic by Loch Shiel was broken. Frowning slightly for the interruption, she stepped into line behind a witch opening a vault and waited to be helped.

Tex carefully studied the wand. Vine. Unicorn hair core. Bendy. She handed the wand back and set a small bronze key with a moon symbol on the counter. "Here is your vault key. Your vault number is 516. You'll need both your wand and key to access your vault." the goblin explained.

"We will go ahead and convert your money and make your initial deposit for you. Anything else you need today?"

Tex motioned a pair of humans forward. It looked like a mother daughter pair. "Welcome to Gringotts. What do you need today?"

Sloane stepped forward somewhat timidly. "Um, I think we need to change our pounds sterling for, um, more appropriate money here?"With no idea what the magic money was called, Sloane felt uncomfortably foreign and out of place. "And, um, do you have any suggestions for how much might be needed to get everything on a firs' year student's Hogwarts list?"

Ashley put her key away. "No thank you," she said politely. "I have what I need." She thanked the goblin and left, smiling at the family behind her. She suspected that the kid was probably a muggle born too, just like her.

Tex nodded. Yes, it was the season for what the wandwavers called "Muggleborns." Which meant they had an influx of non magical money.

"It depends on if you want new or second hand items. 50 Galleons should buy all new items for you." Probably. She honestly hadn't checked to see what the going rate was for wands these days. "If you're on a budget, you ought to get your wand first. That's the thing you'll want to spend money on and get new."

Sloane nodded as she listened, absorbing the goblin's words and advice. "Thank you, sir." She conferred quickly and quietly with her mother and then returned her attention back, "Can we get 60 galleons please? Me mum is allowing me some emergency money to start the year, just in case. How many pounds sterling does that convert to?" Sloane had no clue the conversion rate, but vowed to commit that to memory for future use.

Tex nodded. 60 was quite doable. "With today's exchange rate..." she begas as she grabbed a piece of parchment off to the side to check the day's exchange rate, "That would be 301 pounds." she concluded.

Miss Jane Howard, lately a governess to an old Pureblood family but now a new Ministry employee, paused in the entrance foyer to Gringotts and looked at the rows of counters on either side of the room. She located the counter for new vaults and walked over to wait.