This is a rewrite of my story rise of the Dark Lord Potter. Tell me what you think.
Betrayed
As Harry stood in line at Gringott's bank waiting to visit his vault, he was still numb with shock. He could not believe that he would not be returning to Hogwarts in a weeks' time. He had just come from his trial at the Ministry of Magic, where he had been put on trial in front of the entire Wizengamot for a simple case of underage magic. He had had to defend himself as nobody had stepped in to defend him, no Weasley's or Dumbledore or anybody. Every time he had tried to explain about the Dementor's that had attacked him and his cousin, Fudge had cut right across Harry, not letting him get a word in edgewise.
Guilty!
After half an hour the vote had been cast and he had been found guilty of underage magic. His wand had been snapped and he was expelled from Hogwarts. As he had slowly left the courtroom after the verdict, he had been shocked to find the hallway empty; Mr Weasley was nowhere to be found but he supposed that Mr Weasley had gone to his office to get on with his actual job at the Ministry, after all he had done his Order duty and gotten Harry to the Ministry for his trial and Harry supposed the man could not afford to wait around for him as he needed to work and pick up some money for the day, after all the Weasley's needed every bit of money Arthur could get what with being as poor as they were and Arthur waiting around for Harry would not get him the money he needed to feed his family and send his children to school.
In the lift back up to the surface, Harry had decided to visit Gringott's to see how much money he had, he figured he might as well go back to the Muggle world and as he had no intention of going back to his aunt and uncles house he needed to know how much money he had so he could buy or rent himself a flat and enrol in Muggle school. Hopefully he could catch up and get decent grades to get a decent paying job when he came of age, maybe be a police officer or something, maybe he'd enrol in the army as you didn't need top grades to get in and it was a respectable job to have and as he was an expelled, underage wizard he doubted anyone in the wizarding world would give him a decent job no matter how famous he was.
"I would like to visit my vault please." Harry said to the Goblin behind the desk when it was his turn.
"Key please." Replied the Goblin as he looked at Harry with a bored expression. However his bored expression changed when Harry passed him his vault key and he realised just who he was dealing with.
"Mr Potter, branch manager Ragnook would like a meeting with you on an urgent matter." The goblin teller informed Harry as he passed him back his key.
"Ok I'll see him now." Harry replied as he put his key back in his pocket. The Goblin flipped up a closed sign before jumping off his stool and walking around the counter and motioning for Harry to follow him.
The goblin led Harry across the hall, away from where the carts were, through a set of double doors and down a long hallway that had doors on either side that led into other goblins offices; however the Goblin led Harry to a door at the very end of the hallway. As they reached the door, the goblin knocked on the door before opening the door and leading Harry inside.
"Harry Potter to see you director." The goblin announced as he and Harry came to a stop in front of the large wood desk.
"Thank you Sharptooth," Ragnook said dismissively before he turned to Harry and motioned him to sit in one of the chairs in front of his desk.
"What did you want to see me about director?" Harry asked in a polite voice, he wondered if the goblins had some obscure law that said he was not allowed his money after been expelled from Hogwarts.
"Mr Potter, I have two bank statements to show you, the first one is dated 5 October, 1981 and the second one is todays date." Ragnook said taking Harry by surprise as he handed over the first sheet of parchment.
Potter family holdings year 1981
45'000'000 Galleons
22 Godric's Hallow, Wales (destroyed)
Potter Manor, North Yorkshire (destroyed)
Potter family beach house Miami
15% shares in Flourish and Blotts
25% shares in Obscurus Books
20% shares in Twilfitt and Tatting's
30% shares in Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes
Unknown amount in family heirlooms and books
"Wow 45 million Galleons." Harry exclaimed in excitement and he had been worrying about not having enough money to buy his own house in the Muggle world.
"I wouldn't get too excited Mr Potter." Ragnook said grimly as he passed him the latest bank statement.
Potter family Holdings 1995
22 Godric's Hallow, Wales (destroyed)
Potter Manor, North Yorkshire (destroyed)
Potter family beach house Miami
Unknown amount in family heirlooms and books
"What the hell happened to all the money and the shares?" Harry exclaimed in shock as he looked at the statement.
"Albus Dumbledore came into the bank with a letter apparently from you and with your vault key and removed all the money and sold the shares." Ragnook explained to a shocked Harry who could not believe that the man he had looked up to with the upmost respect had apparently robbed him blind.
"Dumbledore stole all my money and sold off all the shares, why?" Harry asked the goblin in whisper as a tear leaked from his eye at the betrayal.
"As to that I do not know, but he split the money between his personal vault, Molly Weasley's vault, Ronald Weasley's vault and Hermione Granger's vault." Ragnook replied at Harry passed him the two statements back.
"Ron and Hermione stole my money." Harry felt like his heart was shattering as tears leaked from his eyes at the thought of his bestest friends in the world had betrayed him for seemingly no apparent reason. He didn't give two thoughts about Mrs Weasley's betrayal at that moment as he was numb from Ron, Hermione and Dumbledore's betrayals.
"Yes, they were here and helped Dumbledore remove the money from your vault into their own vaults along with Molly Weasley" Ragnook explained after few moments in which he gave Harry time to collect himself somewhat.
"What am I supposed to do now, I've been expelled and I've got no money to live off and pay school fees in the Muggle world." Harry asked quietly, all he had were fourteen Galleons in his pocket and that would not buy him food until he could get a part -time job when he turned sixteen.
"Ah you seem to be forgetting that should you authorise it, we could launch an investigation into the theft and letter fraud and maybe get you your money back." Ragnook explained to Harry with a small grin.
"No, I do not want anything to do with the Ministry of magic after today." Harry replied in disgust, he would never trust the Ministry again, not while the current leaders remained in power anyway.
"Well we could visit your vault and see what heirlooms you have and if they are worth something, we could sell them and get you some money to live off, until you can get a job." Ragnook spoke after thinking it over for a few minutes.
"Ok we can go now." Harry replied in a monotone voice as he stood from his chair, his family money had been stolen and now he was going to sell his family heirlooms just to survive.
"Very well." Ragnook nodded as he stood from his seat and lead Harry out of the office and down the hall back towards the bank lobby, once back in the lobby, Harry and Ragnook set off towards the doors leading to the carts that would take them to the vaults deep underground. As they dodged round customers, Harry kept his head down to hopefully avoid people noticing him, the last thing he wanted right now was a mob of people throwing questions at him about his trial. Luckily though, the made it to the carts without Harry being recognised by anyone.
Once they arrived at Harry's vault (687) and Ragnook had opened the door, Harry was rocked by how empty the vault looked now that the piles of gold was no longer there. Though he could now see the five chests at the back of the vault along with a modest sized pile of books.
Half an hour of sorting through the chests and Harry and Ragnook had two piles of items, one pile was of things that would not be able to be sold as they were not worth anything and another pile of items which could easily be sold for a decent amount. Harry turned to the smallest chest in the vault and opened it, thinking that there would not be much to be sold in it as it was so small. He was proven right until he came to a drawstring pouch at the bottom of the chest, he removed the pouch which was quite heavy and contained something that felt jagged in his hand. He opened the pouch and pulled a blood-red stone out of the bag.
"Holly shit." Harry exclaimed getting Ragnook's attention as he stared at the stone; he had only seen one other stone like this one at the end of his first year at Hogwarts, which he had saved from Lord Voldemort. As far as he knew only one of these stones had existed and that had been destroyed at the end of his first year and yet he held in his hand proof that more than one of these stones existed.
"What is it?" Ragnook asked as he came over to Harry. For an answer Harry showed him the stone in his hand.
"This." Harry replied quietly.
"A Philosopher's Stone." Ragnook gasped in awe as he and Harry stared at the stone.
"Well, I no longer have to sell my family heirlooms." Harry grinned. Who cared about forty five million galleons when he had a stone that could transform any metal into pure gold.
"I believe that you are about to become the richest wizard in England." Ragnook smirked, if Dumbledore and his band of thieves had stolen the heirlooms and not just the money then they could have had enough money for anything. As it was they had left the chests behind and now Harry Potter had just become Gringott's most important client.
"So have Gringott's got any metal they do not need and could make into Galleons after I turn it to gold?" Harry asked Ragnook with a smirk as he pocketed the stone.
"Why yes, we Goblins have tonnes of metal that you could buy from us and turn into gold." Ragnook replied with a smile.
"How about we split the metal into two equal piles and I turn it all into gold, one pile for me at no cost for it been turned into Galleons and one pile for Gringott's to do with as you please." Harry replied with a grin causing Ragnook to look at him in shock. The amount of metal Gringott's had was around 10 tonnes and turning it all into gold would be worth billions.
Harry began laughing at the amount of money he was about to gain and ironically it was thanks to Dumbledore that he was going to get it in the first place. The Headmaster had stolen all his money and had inadvertently helped Harry to find the stone, had the Headmaster not stolen all his money and he might never have known about the stone, as it was Harry James Potter was about to become a billionaire and immortal in one day. The money and Immortality would now help him wage war against the Ministry and Dumbledore. Once he was trained he would bring down the corrupt ministry and in its place he would build a ministry without corruption and purebloodied bigots running Magical Britain, he did not care if he had to kill every worker at the Ministry to achieve his goal of a corrupt free government. Dumbledore and his band of thieves would pay dearly before he snuffed out their pathetic lives.
Harry knew that he would need help in his war, there was no way he could take on the ministry, Dumbledore and Voldemort without any help and hope to win. Fudge had the Auror's, Dumbledore had the Order of the Phoenix and Voldemort had the Death Eaters, so Harry would need his own army if he hoped to take out the three sides. But Harry already had an idea forming in his mind. He would arm the Muggleborn's who had been disarmed by the Purebloods and were constantly targeted by Voldemort and his Death Eaters, while Dumbledore and the Order did very little to help them. He would also recruit heavily from Hufflepuff house at Hogwarts as those students where bullied the most by the other three houses and would hopefully join him in making the world a better place; he would of course recruit students from the other houses who were bullied on a daily basis, namely people like Neville Longbottom.
As he and Ragnook left his vault to go transform the metal into gold he hoped that Sirius would be his first recruit and would also help him as he began to train for his war on three factions. However until he was ready to launch his war he would let the three sides slug it out and hopefully severely cripple each other, making it that much easier for Harry to take over.
AN: so tell me what you think please review. Any ideas would be most welcome.
By the way I decided to continue with Prince of Slytherin as I have had a lot of people asking me to instead of the rewrite; thus I have deleted the rewrite and will continue with the other story that you all seem to like so much.
