3: New looks

Harry followed without complaint, not quite clear what he did to deserve four goblins as an escort. Al, after walking a minute, decided to rest his feet and slipped back into his ring, humming a slow funeral song, which seemd to be heard by one of the Goblins, because he looked at Harry with an unreadable expression.

"Shut up, Al." Neight whispered lowly and the humming stopped immediantly, the Goblin turning around after some more moments. They stopped before a big door, which openend after a long knock, which sounded like some form of morsecode. Knock, Knock,Knock, Pause, Knock,Pause,Pause, Knock Knock,Pause and then four last Knocks. The door opened and showed a wide office, into which the four gards escorted the man in their midst. They stopped in front of a desk with a Goblin sitting on a chair behind it. The Golin looked as grim as the guards and mustered his guest with much scrutinity.

"So?", he asked after some silence.

"Well, greetings. I'm Neight Seal and would like to discuss some things reagarding my vault. I gave the Goblin at the counter the key."

"Yes, Mr. Seal and that's were the problem lies. That is not your key. It is the key to a vault under a different Name"

"Yes, well that's why I'm here."

"Then enlighten me, Mr. Seal."

"The name the vault is registered under is Harry James Potter.", Harry started and stopped soon after, not sure how much he could tell.

The Goblin, seeing his hesitation, said:" Everything you tell me that does not bring danger to Gringotts, will remain between us and not leave Gringotts."

The boy-who-lived took a deep breath and started again. "So, My birthname is Harry James Potter and I died... yesterday I think. Well, I'm not entirely sure, but I woke up yesterday evening and cause I died when it was morning, I think I've been dead for a little over half a day.", he stopped his ramblings and took another deep breath. "I'm sorry, Being Avada Kedavra'd tends to jingle my brain a bit. So, I died. And when I woke up I met some people who should recognize me, but they don't and everbody seems to have forgotten me and I see it as a kind of vacation and took on the Name Neight Seal to stay off the radar, but I need some money and that's in my old vaults. I also need a vault under the name of Neight Seal. Is it possible?"

His mouth snapped shut and the room was silent for a minute. Then the Goblin stood up and said:" Well, I think introductions are in order, Mr. Harry James Neight Potter Seal. "

Harry winced and inserted:" Black."

The Goblin semmed almost stunned and said nothing, waiting for elaboration. "Well, if you mix up my real Name and Neight Seal, it should be Harry James Neight Potter Seal Black. I inherited the Black title from my godfather, after he died.", he looked the Goblin in front of him into his eyes and the latter smiled. Which was creepy in it's own way, while at the same time seemed friendly, if a little calculating. Which made it creepy again.

"Well. I'm Gobblerdock and your spokesperson regarding your vaults. May our business flourish and bring wealth to both of us." Gobblerdock bowed and Neight followed suit.

"So I hope.", he answered.

And smiled.

Harry left Gringotts with much more money than when he entered, including a pouch, which would refill itself and was keyed to his signature. Also, to ensure that Harry really was Harry Potter, he gave one drop of blood. The process to verify his lineage would take some time, but it gave the goblins some assurance. They also had him give a wizars vow that he, at this moment in time to his knowledge is Harry Potter, Heir of the ancient and noble houses Potter and Black. It went smoothly after that.

After seeing the contents of his vaults, Gobblerdock had given him the magical equivalent of an ec-card, for purchases that where easier done without counting each and every Galleon manually. He had assured the-boy-who-was-on-vacation that his secret would not leave Gringotts many times and opened the vault of one Neight Seal as one linked to Harry Potters. It wouldn't come up on any papers, but the link between them made it possible for their owner to take money out of them from just one card or pouch. The transaction would be made from one of the vaults, depending on which insignia he traced on either the card or pouch. Meaning a traced P or HP would direct the transaction to Harry Potters vaults, while a S or NS to Neight Seals and a simple B to the Black svaults. It was just a matter of documentation and to allow him to choose, which Person he wanted to be at the time of the transaction.

Relieved Harry exited the Bank and was finally able to tell Al to shut up, in very accurate terms. He had started pestering him about visiting a clothing shop first thing, as soon as he got wind of his wealth, but Harry was heading torwards Knockturn Alley first. He pulled his cloak firmly around him and his hood deep into his face. Ignoring the other passerbys, he decided on a little shop called „Winrys everyday charms" With a jingle of a bell he entered and stood in the middle between two long and filled shelves, as well as a counter with a young witch behind it. Her face was smooth, too smooth actually, and her hair a plain brown. Her eyes were an unsurprising green, and a black cloak hid her body. He walked torwards her.

„Well?", she asked and Harry started explaining his request with a confident and no-nonsense voice he had learned persuaded people the most. It had a little chill to it, but not enough to threaten openly.

„I need a device, into which I can anchor a certain number of concealment charms. It should be removable only by myself and be able to anchor up to 50 charms. Minimum. Also it will need to have a keyword to deactivate or reactivate. „ He didn't phrase it as a question, silently staring into her eyes, trying to detect any possible use of legilimency.

„Of course. Should it be a ring, or necklace, or wristband?"

„A ring on a necklace."

„Follow me.", she said and, without looking back, went into a backroom. There she muttered some words and three rings, as well as five necklaces gathered on a desk in the middle of the room, seemingly coming out of nowhere.

„Choose, but don't touch.", she said and stood beside him. Far away enough to not annoy him and to not be out of his vision and thus pose a threat.

The rings were as different as night and day. There was a plain silver one with no ornaments, a bright gold one with fancy glittering stones in many colours and lastly a black one with the sign of the deathly hollows, as well as the one from Voldemort and a skull.

„Not the black one." Al said with disgust from his ring," And not the gold one either. You'd have to fear going blind by just looking at this peace of trash." His master snickered lowly, agreeing with him. The necklaces varied from thick to thin, and were purely silver or black, so it didn't took long to decide." I take the silver ring, with the silver necklace in the middle"

The woman nodded. „To set a password just say: ‚Passwort start' and ‚password end'. You will need it to activate its functions and also to verify your orders. If you want to install the charms into the ring or necklace, say kopplerackdur, either cast them on it and imagine where they have to show, or what you want them to do when activated, or cast them on yourself. To save them for final use, say 'kapplerockdur' again. It's so no one can use the word in a normal conversation. You can disable and enable the kapplerockdur-phrase, just say 'order', then state your order and finish with your password. „

„ So, If I say: Order. Deactivate function for charmsadding, my password, it will disable it?"

„Yes. The necklace can be used as a charmholder on it's own, but if it's linked with the ring and empty, the charms from the ring will take priority. You can specify which one takes priority when you use both, also through your password and the orderstatement. Anything else, you want to know?"

„How much?"

„175 Galleons."

„Alright.", Harry said without hesitation, not quite comprehending how much that was.

Back in the front, he decided to count the money manually, to avoid detecion of the transaction and left.

Outside he went into a near sidealley and cast some glamours to hide his features, then went into a shop, that had the sign:"Rooms to Rent, pay per hour" on it. He artifically lowered his voice and demanded a room for an hour, paid 1 Galleon in advance and went into the appointed room. There, he searched for any monitoring spells, found none and cancelled his concealment charm.

„So, you wanna do these glamours now, or why are we here?", Al asked, while watching Harry undress. His only answer was the phrase „kapplerockdur". The robe and underclothing went onto the bed and Harry stopped to look at himself, again.

His many scars were still visible and because he didn't know how to magically heal the wounds from Dumbledore, they would also add some new ones. He made a mental note to research mediwizardspells.

With some flicking and swishing he covered almost all of them up, only leaving some small ones, so that his skin wouldn't look to smooth. Then he lenghtened his hair a bit more, gave it a permanent brown simmer and dulled the bright yellow-green of his eyes to an unspectacular shade of green-grey. That should be enough, he decided and pointed his wand at the ring.

„kapplerockdur.", he said and felt a warm sizzle going through it. After wrecking his brain for a password he decided on one,that he would hopefully never utter aloud for quiet some time:" Password start, I am Harry James Potter-Black, password end." The ring sizzled again and Harry saw his glamour fade.

„So, pleeeeeeease let's get you some decent clothing now?", Al whined and Harry snorted.

„I am Harry James Potter-Black.", he said, activated the Ring and Neight Seal walked out of the little shop onto Knockturn Alley.

After redressing of course.