Noelani walked through Diagon Alley, her trunk now stored safely in a room she had rented at the Leaky Cauldron. She was headed back towards Gringotts, with sore arms. They ached from both lugging her trunk all the way from Knockturn Alley to the Leaky Cauldron, and from pinching them to make sure she wasn't dreaming. If she was dead, not much she could do about that. But if she were dreaming, she could wake up. So she had spent a half hour in her room, pinching her arms and banging her hand on whatever she thought might do the trick.
None of them had and she had resigned herself to the fact that she was stuck in a book series she loved. That wasn't too bad, actually. At least she wasn't stuck in the Hunger Games, and didn't have to kill people in an arena. That would really make her want to wake up.
As she reached Gringott's, she marveled at just how big it truly was. The books nor movies did it justice, it was absolutely magnificent. Granted, the goblins running it weren't the nicest looking or even nicest to her, but still. She approached one of the desks and told one, "I need to make a withdrawal from Vault 712."
The little creature looked up at her and asked in a whiny voice, "Name of the vault owner?"
This was where that little paper came in handy. Not really though, it just told her that the vault was under her name as a withdrawer, but the full account owner was Ben. E. Factor. She thought it was a horrible pun. But none the less, she replied, "The vault is under Ben. E. Factor, but I'm Noelani Ohalu, I'm listed as a dependent or whatever."
The goblin nodded and looked through a few things before brightening up and saying, "Oh, you're the Hawaiian Witch! Mr. Factor mentioned you would be coming by. Well, let me be the first to say, welcome to Gringott's Wizarding Bank, Miss Ohalu. Now, do you have any Muggle money you would like to exchange?"
Actually that was a good question. Digging through her pockets, she began pulling out crumpled bills and random change. After rechecking her pockets, she asked, "Can you exchange American bills and a… peso? Cool, didn't know I had that, I'll be keeping that one." Tucking the Mexican peso into her jeans pocket, she just gave a friendly smile.
It chuckled and replied, "Absolutely, Miss Ohalu. Now, would you like to exchange this for Wizarding money or British Muggle pounds? Mr. Factor noted you might want to explore London a bit."
Clever mystery man. Chewing her lip, she chose, "Let's go with pounds." The goblin quickly replaced her crumpled and wadded up currency with crisp new bills that Noelani assumed to be pounds. As she took them, she thanked the goblin by habit, "Mahalo, bra." Upon saying it, she glanced up and saw the confused look on her teller's face and quickly translated, "It's Hawaiian, for 'thanks'."
The goblin nodded unsurely, before changing the subject, "Would you like to make that withdrawal now, Miss Ohalu?"
She was staring at the contents of the vault in awe. It was piled high with gold, silver, and bronze coins, gems and other valuable things encrusted with gems. It looked like a dragon hoard rather than a bank account. Swallowing, she stepped in and took the leather, drawstring pouch she had found in her trunk earlier that night.
Honestly, she couldn't remember what was what, nor did she care at this point. She alternated between handfuls of each color coin, before deciding that it would last her the whole bloody school year. She planned on going to Hogsmead after all. And she just HAD to stop by Zonko's.
Before leaving her new found fortune, she glanced at some of the jewelry. One particular piece caught her eye. It was a dark gold four-leaf clover, encrusted with diamonds. Lucky, that was what she thought as she saw it. She was lucky, this was the dream of so many, to get a new chance at a new life. Gently picking it up, she placed it around her neck. Smiling, she took her leave of the vault. This was going to be an adventure, and she was going to make sure it was one of the history books, magical and muggle.
Authors Note: again this is for fun so yeah its short and such
