By Peter
Please note that Harry Potter and associated world doesn't belong to me. This should be obvious. Also note this is a parody of various Harry gets out of Azkaban fan fictions and shouldn't be taken as serious or as an insult.
"This is it Old Man." Harry's voice held no respect for Albus Dumbledore. The old man had manipulated him for years and then had him thrown in Azkaban for possibly joining the Dark Lord Voldemort. There Harry had been for almost a year. After Voldemort had mysteriously vanished, Harry managed to get a pardon. Now he was leaving Great Britain after all of that, which very few wizards could understand why. It was for the Greater Good after all. "I am leaving and there is nothing you can do."
Albus simply nodded and let Harry enter Gringotts. His plan was working.
Several minutes later. . .
"What do you mean I only have thirteen knuts left?" Harry was not happy.
"As you can see, when you were convicted of possibly joining the Dark Lord and wasn't grandfathered under the imperious defense, you just over 1/2 of Potter fortune due to the payouts to your victims. These were all the wizarding population of Great Britain who believed in you for the several day periods they didn't believe your were insane or a dark wizard. The Black fortune had been reverted back to Ministry and the 'Re-elect Fudge Campaign' since you weren't grandfathered under the 'non-pureblood cannot inherit a purebloods fortune' law. And the rest of your money except for the 13 knuts were donated to unnamed parties due to the 'Greater Good' law that only apply to non-pureblood wizards." The Goblin didn't mention the 10% transfer fees i.e. bribes the Goblin nation received in the various payouts. They did have to make a living you know.
"Now since you have below the mandatory 500 galleon minimal balance, you have to come up with the money for the penalties. And before you ask, you cannot use what the ministry had given you for your stay at Azkaban. In fact, you owe them 1000 galleons for wand holding fees and for the room you stayed in for the year."
"How will I get back my money since I am innocent."
"You can't since money cannot be taken back if you weren't proved innocent. You were proven 'not guilty due to lack of evidence' and not 'innocent'. This was done by a majority vote of Wizamount."
Harry looked rather pissed. "Then I do not have any money."
"Fortunately we have a work repay program in place to help you. Come this way."
Ten minutes later, Harry is working as slave labor in the goblin mines. The only other person there was Lord Voldemort to his surprise.
"Potter, I had found out about the Philosopher's Stone that Dumbledore had found among the Flamels belongings after their deaths. He had it transferred to Gringotts and I figured that it would be easy to steal it since I had broken into Gringotts since. I didn't realize they had increased security. It didn't help that my Death Eaters were working for a more powerful Lord and had given me a delayed sleeping drought. Curse that Dumbledore for subverting my loyal Death Eaters."
Up on the surface, Dumbledore considered this a plan well done. The prophecy can now be done without any threat to the Wizarding World and more importantly his manipulations. If Tom wins, he has his eternal stay in the Goblin Mines. If Harry wins, he won't be in any shape to be a Dark Lord after 200 years of hard labor. And if by some chance they get along, well that is what the goblins are for. And since the only ones who know Harry hasn't simply left are well paid goblins, no one will go looking for him.
Now to complete his master plan, to take over the. . .world's production of lemon drops.