Chapter 1: A and V at Diagon Alley

Thoughts

Artemis and Voronor were sitting at a small booth in the Leaky Cauldron Planning out their day. They had both agreed upon the importance of going to Gringotts first for multiple reasons, and on going to Ollivander's after that. What they couldn't agree on was where they should go after that. After 15 minutes of arguing and compromising they decided on and agreeable schedule.

First up was Gringotts. Next they would go to Ollivander's to get their wands. After that they would head down to Madam Malkins to get new robes for everyday use and muggle clothes. Then they would go to Traven's Trunks to get their new trunks. After that they would get new familiars at Magical Menagerie Then they would go to Flourish and Blots to get any books they would need. A visit to Knockturn Alley might also be in order.

That was the plan, until they got to the entrance to the alley and realized that they couldn't get in without a wand. They tried tapping the bricks with their fingers, but it didn't work, so Artemus just had Voronor 'Pop' them to the other side of the wall into a back alley. They exited the alley and made their way down the road. Artemus enjoyed not being recognized by anyone and was smiling the entire way as they made their way to the bank.

They entered the building and went up to an empty desk. "Hello Griphook, it's nice to see you again.", Artemus said. The goblin looked startled at being talked to so politely by a wizard before regaining his composure. He said "Forgive me, but have I met you before?" Artemus leaned forward before whispering in his ear "Yes, can we have a private meeting please though?" The goblin nodded and motioned for them to follow him. They followed him down a couple of hallways until they got to his office. As soon as everyone was seated, Griphook cast a silencing ward and a perimeter alarm ward before motioning to Artemis that it was safe to talk.

Artemus walked looked into the Goblin's eyes before saying, "Allow me to introduce you to Artemus Tollond, also known to few as Harry Potter." Griphook fainted from shock, and when they revived him minutes later the first thing he did was request a blood test. Harry thought about it for a minute before asking, "Griphook, what exactly will the blood test do, and what does it involve?" "The blood test Mr. Potter ahem, I mean Tollond will write your original name down with your new one next to it. There is also a test that will determine family ancestry that you may do, but I will only allow it after the original blood test. All you have to do is let a drop of blood touch a piece of enchanted parchment." Griphook replied.

Artemus agreed to the test if only to be allowed to access his vault again. When he told this to Griphook the goblin looked at him strangely. They decided they would wait before asking him about it. Griphook produced a piece of parchment and a ritual knife for Artemis to use. He quickly cut his hand without hesitation and let one drop of blood hit the parchment before Griphook healed his hand. He, Griphook and Voronor watched as the blood started to write in a spidery handwriting:

Harry James Potter – Artemus Tollond

Griphook looked satisfied and said, "It looks as if everything is in order Mr. Tollond. Would you like an overview of your vaults before moving on to other business?" Harry looked at him as if he was crazy before asking, "What do you mean by vaults?" Griphook replied calmly, "Surely you did not think that your Trust Vault was the only Vault you had? Your Magical Guardian by law was obligated to tell you about all of your vaults on your eleventh birthday." Artemus felt a small spark of anger creep into him before he asked Griphook shakily, "May I ask who my Magical Guardian is?" The wandlessly summoned a thick file which he looked through for a few minutes while Artemus waited. A few minutes later he looked up at him and informed him that it was Albus Dumbledore.

The air in the room grew cold, and everyone in the room could feel the pressure from Artemus' magic running wild in the air around him visible. It crackled like lightning for what seemed to them like hours when it was really only minutes. "How many times has that man betrayed me? That's twice now. You'll get yours if you did anything else to me you bastard."

If I had to guess, I'd say he never told me about my vaults so he could take as much of my money as he wanted. He probably told Kreature to lie to me so Sirius couldn't have a chance at becoming my magical guardian. That would have taken control of me away from him. He keeps me in the dark, and only tells me what he deems important. Guess what old man; I refuse to be your weapon anymore!

Voronor stepped in, "Artemus, Griphook, I believe it would be best if we got back to business." That snapped Griphook out of it and he said Mr. Tolland, at the moment you should own three vaults, the Potter Family Vault, The Family Black Vault and your trust Vault. "Why do I own the Black Vault?" Artemus questioned the small goblin. "Mr. Black left everything to you in his will, but asked that you provide Remus Lupin with enough money for the wolfsbane potion each month. I'm assuming you were never informed of this. By law you should have been by your Magical Guardian." 'Strike three you're going down Dumbledore' Artemus thought. "No, I was never informed."

Griphook then asked his most serious question, "Mr. Tollond, would you like to do the family ancestry test?" Artemus nodded and Griphook handed him the knife again. He got out a light red scroll that would expand to fit the user's needs this time. "Just place a drop of blood on the scroll please." Artemus repeated the process from before with Griphook and watched as his family tree was mapped out.

Artemus Tollond – Harry James Potter-Black or Artemus Tollond-Potter-Black or Lord Gryffindor/Slythern

Heir to:

Tollond Family (Elf Bond of Equality)

Gryffindor Family (Potter Family – Blood Adopted)

Slytherin Family (Riddle Family – Father)

Evans Family (Mother)

Black Family (Declared by Clan Head as Heir)

Parents:

Lily Potter & Tom Riddle

James Potter – Blood Adoption

Vaults by importance:

Gryffindor & Slytherin Vaults

Potter Vault

Black Vault

Evans Vault

Trust Vault

Seats on Wizengamot: 4

Lord Status: 4 times over

Magical Abilities:

Potions Master

Sword Master

Air Elemental

Wandless Magic

Elf Magic

Multi-Animagus

Mind Link - Voronor

Mage

NOTE: The Potions Master ability manifests when you gain your inheritance. The younger you gain your inheritance, the more magic you will have. The Sword Master ability manifests after 1 year of practicing magic. All of your other abilities except for Mage have to be earned.

Mage is a state of being. If you have come into your inheritance. You need to have a high amount of magical power to be considered a mage. The history of Mages has fallen out over the years. Not many know what they are capable of. The last known mage was Merlin. You find yourself capable of some things you were not capable of before if you are now a Mage.

Artemus was overwhelmed by the information before him. He was glad that he would now be able to do well in potions class and about his other abilities as well. He would have to research them later and made a note to buy books on the ones that he could. Griphook for his part acted very calmly throughout the entire thing. Harry told Griphook to keep a record of everything that they knew Dumbledore had done to him for later use.

Artemus asked Griphook if any transactions were being made from his family vault. Griphook told him that there were monthly transactions to various vaults. There was one to Molly Weasly's vault, one to Ron & Ginny Weasly's vaults. Another was to a vault named Granger. One was to a vault labeled Order, which Harry suspected was the Order of The Phoenix, and another, was to Hogwarts. Finally one was being made to a muggle account in the name of Dursley.

Artemus didn't know what to think for a minute until it hit him. His friends had been paid to be his friends and to spy on him. How could I be so stupid, what Hogwarts Alumni doesn't know where the name of the platform that houses the train which goes to the School? Molly Weasly must have been paid to mother him. The rest of her family had reacted normally to him, but she had always been overly there for him. HIS money was being used to fund Hogwarts, and the Order. He had his balance checked and the amount transacted per year never went over what he made with the revenue that he owned, but he never earned any either. For the past ten years, he had made nothing in revenue, and he was stuck with the original balance of three million galleons for the Potter vault. The Black vault was at two million galleons. The Evans vault held two hundred thousand galleons. His trust vault had one thousand galleons that were replenished from the Potter Vault yearly for school expenses. The Gryffindor and Slytherin Vaults were reported have twenty million galleons and several objects.

The first thing Artemus did was have Griphook make a vault for the Tollond Family. He and Voronor each received a key giving them full access. The keys had anti-theft charms and were charmed to automatically appear in your pocket when you step foot into the bank. They also got Gringotts withdrawal pouches with anti-theft charms on them. You could take out up to one thousand galleons a day from the pouch. After that you had to go to the bank.

The only problem was that the vault was empty. So Artemus made Griphook the manager of the Tollond Family Vault and moved everything from the Potter, Black, Evans vaults and his trust vault to the Tollond Vault except for one knut which was left in the center of each vault. Let the Old Fool try to use that to fund his order and pay to keep his school running. Dumbledore would have to find another source quick. Finally after the two hours it took to get everything done and eat lunch, Voronor asked Griphook if he could find one of the Gryffindor or Slytherin houses and have it ready for them when they returned to the bank at the end of the day. Griphook agreed quickly, happy with his new status and eager to please his now favorite customers. He told them that it would be ready as soon as possible and escorted them back to the main lobby where Artemis and Voronor left the bank on their own, just as a patrol of aurors came through searching for Harry Potter and going to tell his account manager to stall Harry should he enter the bank. Ha ha ha, so the meddling coot has realized that I've left my relative's home. He's in for a surprise when at the end of the month he doesn't have any money to pay to my 'family and friends' Artemus and Voronor thought as they made their way to Ollivander's to get their new wands. On the way there they noticed it was 1 p.m.

That gave them about five hours to spend shopping. As he stepped in Artemus had a brief moment of fear where he though Ollivander might recognize him, but it never happened so he relaxed. "How may I help you Mr. ?" "My name is Artemus Tollond and this is Voronor Tollond" "Ah Humans with a High Elf inheritance. I suppose you are here for wands then?" "Yes, can you help us?" "I believe I can Artemus" After what seemed like hours, Ollivander determined that neither of them would be able to use a wand at all. "Well gentlemen, I guess I have the great pleasure of getting to make my first staves for you two. Please follow me to the back room."

The older man moved two of every ingredient to the table and told Artemis he would be first. "We'll choose the wood(s) first. You run your hand above all the types slowly, any that pull at your magic will be the ones I'll use to forge your staff." Artemus' hand stopped over first over a Holly Log, and then over a Yew Log. "Now you'll choose the core(s), same process. Whatever cores you choose will also symbolize the runes I'll carve into the staff." Artemus repeated the staff for the cores and ended up with five. A thunderbird feather for power, a phoenix feather for life, a basilisk scale for death, a dementor hair for madness and a centaur hair for order. Or at least that's what Ollivander told him. "Next up is the capstone, you repeat the same process for those gems over there." Ollivander motioned at a table covered in gems while talking to Artemus. He got a blood emerald and gave it to Ollivander.

Ten minutes later and Ollivander handed Artemus his staff. It was four feet long and looked like a block of fused yew and holly. When he asked Ollivander about it, he was told that he would have to grasp it for it to bond to him and take its appearance. Once bonded to him, it would only be able to be held by him safely, and it would change forms at his will. He took it just as Ollivander let go and it started to change into its true form. When it finished, the three of them couldn't take their eyes off of it. It had adjusted length perfectly so Artemus could use it as a weapon if needed. The blood emerald at the top of the staff had the wood coming up in a full grip around it at five points forming a dementor's hand. The runes had moved to the blood emerald. On the handle are of the staff were what looked like constellations, symbolizing the centaur. There were what looked like lightening bolts coming out of the bowl that formed at the bottom of the jewel and fusing into the staff's main shaft, behind the lightning bolts you could see flames. From the bottom of the hand grip was a plated tale that wound down around the staff and pooled at the bottom in a circle so he could set it down if he wished and have no fear of it falling over.

Next up was Voronor. When he came back from the back room he told Artemus that his wood types were cherry and mahogany. His cores were the heartstrings of the **** main dragon types. His jewel was a Sapphire. Thirteen minutes later and he had his staff. The jewel was resting in a dragon's mouth, and the dragon was the length of the entire staff. Its wings were folded back and its legs pulled against its body. Voronor's staff was also resized for combat, and it had a sharpened tip for a tail/end. The best part was that Ollivander refused to charge them for the staffs saying that they paid him enough by allowing him to make not one but two amazing staffs for them in the same day. It was something he had never done before and he loved it.

They left Ollivanders with their staves transformed into rings which they wore on their right index fingers. Swiftly they made their way towards the trunk shop located near the entrance to the alley, Traven's Trunks. They each had a multi compartment trunk warded and keyed to their blood so only they could access them. You could climb into the compartments and each one held a medium sized room. One of the rooms was equipped with bookshelves to be a library. The other two were for storage. They paid one hundred galleons each for the trunks and left.

Next they went to Madam Malkins where they each got 2 dueling robes, 5 Hogwarts robes, 2 every day robes 2 formal robes without crests and two dress robes. They also got six pairs of muggle black pants each and six shirts. Five of each of their pants were normal, and five of each of their shirts were different colors. The last of each were black muggle leather sets of clothing, including cloaks. Finally, they bought dragon hide boots and gloves. All in all it totaled up to about three hundred galleons each.

After leaving Madam Malkins, they headed into the Magical Menagerie where Voronor bought an eagle owl which he named Nightmare and Artemus bought a runespoor which he allowed to keep its names: Slayer, Zane and Ragnarok. Artemis got the runespoor for free because the shop keeper couldn't sell it to anyone else anyway and Voronor paid thirteen galleons for Nightmare.

It was 4:30 when they entered Flourish and Blots. They got all the books for every year at Hogwarts for each of themselves and started filling a compartment in their trunks with them after purchasing the books. Then Artemus bought Unleashing the Elemental Inside, Animagi and How to Become One, Wandless Magic for the Insanely Determined, and Ancient Elven Culture. The two brothers packed them away and made their way back to Gringotts.