CHAPTER 2

Harry woke up early in the morning and got ready for the day. He decided that he would wear a cap to cover his scar. People mostly recognised him due to his scar if it was not on show, then it is not a problem.

He went to the kitchen and cooked breakfast for his relatives and walked out. As Harry set foot outside he had detected another problem. He caught the shimmer of a invisibility cloak, he would have dismissed it as a glimmer in air but he knows what a invisibility cloak looks like and he knew he was being watched.

He needed to fool whoever was there and get to The Leaky Cauldron. He would use the same technique they were using.

Harry went to the garden and casually started tending to the plants. After half an hour he thought it was enough to fool them and went inside. His relatives were eating breakfast. He ignored them and walked up to his room. He took his invisibility cloak, his wand and a cap he found in Dudley's things and went to the kitchen.

"Aunt Petunia, there are people keeping an eye on the house. If anyone comes knocking or looking for me, tell them that you sent me to the nearby supermarket." He asked her. She nodded her head.

"If the freaks come knocking I will let them know not to ever set there foot here again or that I will complain to the police."

"If they wait and say that they want to see when you were back, then?" Dudley asked. Harry was startled by the question. He didn't think of that.

"Send Hedwig, she will find me and I will be back very fast." He went back to his room and closed it behind him.

"Hedwig, if my relatives release you, it means someone is here to check up on me and they want you to find me. Come find me as soon as you can." The owl hooted its acceptance. Harry donned his cloak and walked out the front door along with Dudley when he was going to meet his friends.

Harry caught a cab with the remaining money he had after last year and asked to be dropped off near the Leaky Cauldron, not that the cab driver could see that. Harry put on the cap and walked inside the pub as if he belonged there. No one gave him a second glance as he was in muggle attire.

"First stop Gringotts." He told himself. He walked to the massive building and read the familiar poem he read the first time he was here. He went to a teller and stood in line.

"I want to visit my trust vault." He said to the goblin.

"And you are?" The goblin asked.

"Harry Potter. I don't have my key, is there any way I can get a new one?" He asked.

"We need proof that you are Harry Potter. Put three drops of blood on this parchment." He was instructed and handed a parchment and blade. He cut his pointer finger and put the blood on it. The cut healed itself. The goblin took the parchment and blade and looked it over.

"Follow me Mr. Potter." The goblin said and signalled to another goblin behind him. "I am Murdock and I will be taking you to the bank Manager." Harry was confused. What bank manager? Did he do something to acquire the head goblin's interest? Did he do something wrong? He was about to voice his questions when they stopped in front of an ornate door. Murdock knocked on the door and was given a prompt get in.

"Master Ragnok, Mr. Potter is here." He said and exited the room.

"Take a seat Mr. Potter. We sent you many letters and bank statements but never received a reply. It is good of you to grace us with your presence."

"I am sorry Ragnok. I don't know what for but I felt like I should say it. I don't know anything about any letters. I never received any. I only ever get letters from my friends and no one else." Harry replied. "What bank statements? I thought I only had a trust vault."

"Curious. It seems that there is ward on your person preventing you from receiving any letters except from a select few. You don't only have a trust vault Mr. Potter." Ragnok explained. "It was opened by your parents when you were born as spending money. Every heir to an Ancient and Noble house is given a vault at the time of birth which is theirs to do with as they please. Only when they reach majority or are emancipated are they granted access to their main family vault."

"What ward? I never heard of one. Wouldn't I know if there was some spell on me?"

"You would have felt it when it was placed on you. But if you never received any letters, it was placed when you were a baby. It should be a mail redirect which redirects the mail to another specified place instead of the recipient, because if it was mail block the letters would be sent back to the sender and we never got back our letters."

Harry was processing the information that someone spelled him and that he had more than one vault.

"Is the family vault bigger than my trust vault?"

"Yes, of course Mr. Potter. Your trust vault as I said, is only for spending money. You would have been able to see the main vault if your father, the Lord of the house had taken you there. You and your great grandchildren can live a very luxurious life and still have enough money for another generation."

Harry was looking as if he would faint. The goblin was indeed enjoying Harry's reaction but took pity on the poor boy and waited for five minutes until Harry recovered. He took out a file and placed it in front of him.

"This is the file related to the Potter family vaults. You also have access to your mother's vault which she never closed before passing on," Saying that Ragnok placed another file on the table.

"I would like to shock you with more information but you should first read those files. Then I would advise you to take an inheritance test. It tells us which houses you are eligible to become a Lord of and which vaults you would inherit."

Harry took his mother's vault file first.

Lily Mary Evans

Vaults No. 650

Monetary value: 9,475,789 Galleons, 788,943 Sickles, 266,890 Knuts

Assets: School Trunk, House Ownership Papers, Albums.

Shares:

Dahlia's Book store – 45%

He didn't even know where this Dahlia's Bookstore was. He had never seen it in Diagon Alley.

"Is the book store in muggle world?" He asked Ragnok.

"No, it is in Christen Alley situated behind Gringotts." He didn't know of the existence of a Christen Alley at all. He didn't say anything and took The Potter Vaults file. It was big and heavy. It would contain more than 40 papers and he would never be able to read it all in one attempt. He decided to read the last page and everything else back home when he was free.

Potter Family Vault:

Monetary Value: 528,397,969 Galleons, 334,678 Sickles, 7,778,075 Knuts

Assets: School trunks, Pensive, Memories' Vials, Swords, Shields, Armours, Portraits etc...

Potter Family Library Vault:

Books, Family Grimoire

Properties:

Potter Manor (Condition Unknown)

Godric's Hollow (Monument)

Potter Beach House (Stasis)

Eleanor's Island (Stasis)

Privet Drive No. 4, 8, 12, 13

Shares:

Daily Prophet – 28%

Flourish and Blotts – 34%

Nimbus Racing Brooms – 23%

Slug and Jiggers Apothecary – 32%

Grunnings – 51%

That's it. Harry was speechless. He was definitely rich and he owned major shares in the company his uncle worked in. Oh! He was overjoyed. He will not dismiss his uncle but it will be useful as Blackmail material to keep them out of his hair.

"Put seven drops of blood in this bowl Mr. Potter." Ragnok said. Harry took the blade offered and cut his pointer finger once again. He put the blood in the bowl and the cut healed itself magically. Ragnok placed a quill in the bowl. "We wait for seven minutes and the quill will be ready."

"I will take this file home with me, if you don't mind, Ragnok."Harry said.

"Of course Mr. Potter, just remember that you won't be able to make any changes until you claim your Lordship. It is just a copy so you can keep it. It is, of course self updating. You will know get notified of any changes in the profit or loss the shares bring you."

"Where can I find books on this Lordship and everything?" He asked.

"You won't find them anywhere except for the old Family libraries and the Potter family library is currently stored in a vault here. Your grandfather and father moved all the salvageable things out of the Potter Manor after it was attacked by the death eaters and stored them in the vaults here."

"Can I visit the family Library vault?" He asked.

"You are lucky as it was added recently and not a part of the old family vault. You can visit and also take out the books from there." Ragnok answered. He removed the quill and placed it on a parchment and it started writing.

"So let me get this clear. I can visit any vault of mine except for the family vault and take anything from them." Ragnok nodded.

"Great. I want to visit my trust vault, library vault and my mother's vault." Harry answered. "But I don't have the key to my trust vault on me. I was given the key by Hagrid when he first brought me to the bank."

"It was sent to your magical guardian the day you turned eleven. Albus Dumbledore is your guardian as we were told."

"There is something else I am not being told." Harry said suspiciously.

"Yes, Mr. Potter. It is not known by everyone but your magical guardian was, is, Sirius Black. Albus Dumbledore named himself your guardian illegally." The quill stopped writing. Harry was prompted to pick up the parchment and he did so.

As I have put in the summary, this is a Dumbledore and selected Weasley bashing story. The plot is still on going.

I may or may not have made Harry a little powerful but not super Harry as everyone expects him to be.

I am happy I got to update two chapters in a day as I am quite busy preparing for an exam.