"I have not been in contact with any wizarding governments at all. I haven't been keeping many secrets from people I meet at Hogwarts, though. I've been planning to see if there's anything worth joining forces with in existing anti-secrecy movements to reduce impediments to a revelation of how to get more daeva assistance here."

"You're thinking of informing the muggles?"

"The Muggles are the ones who'll benefit the most, even if there weren't orders of magnitude more of them!"

"The question is whether they'll see it that way. In a large enough group of people, someone is going to act erratically."

"Yes, but we're comparing here to not doing anything and allowing billions of people to continue to live in poverty dying of preventable diseases."

"Understandable. I am, in this as in all things, primarily concerned with the security of the Goblin nation."

"That's very reasonable of you. I don't know very much about the Goblin nation so I can't predict very confidently what the results of daeva being generally known will be for you folks specifically."

"The worst case scenario is that the muggles and the daeva ally with the wizards against us. I of course cannot speculate on our preparations for that case, but do you have an estimate of its likelihood?"

"I don't actually know much about wizard-goblin tensions. I wouldn't estimate it as very likely on general principle, though, genocide gets bad press."

"This is admittedly a better time for it than much of the last century."

"Oh yeah, I would be far more hesitant to recommend this fifty years ago."

"Indeed. I notice you never gave an estimate for the timetable."

"I don't have a firm one. I could imagine getting underway as soon as a few weeks from now but most likely I'll find the problem more complicated than that."

"Most things are. I hope you will keep us informed. Now, in the shorter term . . ." and they can work out an agreement for Cam to turn gemstones and precious metals into an eye-popping but not nation-destroying number of galleons. At least one goblin artisan must have signed a massive confidentiality agreement, because there are requests for things like gemstones with metal ingots included in the center.

Ooh, fun. Cam is happy to fill these orders.

He won't get to meet the artisans but they will doubtless be very pleased too. Deputy Ambassador Rangvald almost smiles before showing Cam back to the cart station.

Right outside Gringott's a woman with shiny blond hair and very fancy glasses strides up to him and smiles toothily. "Hello. Are you Campbell Swan?"

"That's what it says on some of my correspondence."

"I'm Rita Skeeter, reporter for the Daily Prophet, and I'd be very interested in interviewing you. Would you like to come back to the Leaky Cauldron with me and answer a few questions?"

"Oh, no thank you, I recommend sending the questions by owl," he says. Being interviewed is a skill and he doesn't have it.

"I will certainly do so. But be aware that I have deadlines, and if I don't hear back quickly I may have to write my story without your input."

"Feel free to include your schedule with the owl."

"Of course. What's got you so busy you can't talk to me today? Or are you simply unwilling to let the public know what you've been doing?"

"Feel free to include those questions with your owl." He cannot exactly run away. Is there room to take off.

He can, although people will absolutely stare and point. Also if he gets much above the tops of the highest buildings, there will be an odd effect where further upward movement does not bring him any further from the ground.

Well, he doesn't need to get high, he just needs to not be having a conversation with this reporter any more. He flaps his way to the Floo fireplace's home and Floos back to Hogwarts.