Chapter 2
After her father left her in her relative house she was slave into her nightmare, day after day she attend to chores around the house from preparing meals to cleaning around the house, and tending to the garden. While trying to fail out of habit to obtaining top marks in school to avoid beating for getting higher mark than Duddly.
Lucy had look forward to her father to take her to return home for months, but her eight birthday came and pass her no sign of her father could been seen she worried that her father was injure during his mission, but her brother have been out of the school for more than a month now the would send words right?
On August morning she saw the family owl that drop a letter to her aunt which sealed her fate. Her aunt had told her that she would not be returning home till she was eleven old enough to attend Hogwart, her family have abandon her.
Since the dreadful day her chore has increase, she have given hope to be acknowledge by her once so call family, how the Potter line have fallen from grace. She waited and waited, day after day till she could no more hope to see the day of her eleven birthday as the beating increase.
Her uncle have acted odd with his whisper and occasional touch when her aunt and Duddly were not in the room, she had avoided her uncle presence like plague afterward. But one day her uncle return drunk in fear she took her beloved possession that she always carry with her and left the house after blasting her uncle to the far wall with magic when he corner her.
With luck she found the entrance into Diagon Ally after a long week, no one ask question as it is almost the beginning of another school term in a week she blend in with the hives of student. No one can recognize that she was a Potter either since she was tug away in the Potter manor all these years, even her brothers that had walk pass her didn't recognize her not sure if she can blame them her aunt had hack away her long hair not a month ago she had try to fix it but it still pain her that her flesh and blood didn't recognize her, she was left without a doubt to what she had plan to do.
Making her way toward the tall white building in the middle of Diagon Ally, she went to the first available goblin on the counter requesting a private room under the sixteenth term. The goblin made no comment to the request silently leading me to a private room after calling another goblin to take his place.
"This is Master Silver glove." The counter goblin lead another goblin into the room that he had me sitting in then left again.
"Good evening Master Silver glove."
"Miss Potter I heard that you wish to call upon the sixteen term to disclaim your name."
"That would be correct Master goblin."
"Do you know that would cast away more than your name it would cast away your blood and heritage."
"I know Master goblin I have study the wizarding law before, which is why I wish to take a new name opening vault with your establishment."
"I have been looking after the Potter estate and their possession for three generation and my ancestor did the same job to the Potter before you, it's difficult to see such valued family fall to this, to push their children into calling the sixteen terms. Never the least it will be done what name would you like to be under?"
"Eugenia Gladiolus."
"It will been done."
"Thank you Master goblin would you mange my account as well? Even under the new name?"
"I can."
"Will you be my witness?" To ask another to be a witness to a family ritual puts second to life trust into that individual hand. I had no other that I could trust the goblin have been the only one that was truthful to me despite the short term, the ritual can be done alone but I long for another's presence.
"If you wish it so. Miss Gladiolus."
"Thank you, may I borrow a dagger Master goblin?" Accepting the knife that Master goblin have produce I stood back to cut my palm allowing the blood to flow down to the room floor. "By my blood I Lucy Potter denied the name of Potter and the Potter line of blood, I am relative to none, without father brothers or sisters pass present and future. By my blood I denied the name of Evans relative to none, without aunt, uncle, cousin or cousins in the pass present and future. From today forth I will be known as Eugenia Gladiolus of Gladiolus family. May the Blue sword of truth be recognize by my enemy, with the silver shield of the snake protect my back from my family I claim thy coat of arms. Let it be judge by thy magic that have gifted me its presence, I call upon my magic of my status." Not many would denied their name and survive, even less survive to call upon magic to judge their worth shall they survive they start a new name in the pure blood family circle the magic judge few who attempted were unworthy for the last nine century the knowledge of such ceremony dime to only handful of people. That was why pureblood held so close to their tradion and purity because the pure blood family had been directly been touch by magic. I was gambling with my life and magic. As soon as the last word left my lip the darkness attacks me.