Chapter 3: In Which the Goblins Sympathized with Frank
Luckily for Stan, Death was in a good mood and when she and Frank disembarked at the Leaky Calderon he was still alive enough to gaze longingly out the window as they drove away.
The Leaky Calderon was only moderately crowded, it was a late summer afternoon and most people had better things to do. The occupants looked at Death the same way the wizards on the bus had, with curiosity and slight fear. Most creatures especially magical ones could feel the aura She possess, wizard could too but to a smaller degree. They knew something was different and deadly about her but not that she Death personified. Honestly the shiny golem attracting more attention, animated stone servants is so last century, house elves are the current trend.
Death and her fashion faux pas swept through the room and out the back, not even taking note of the of stares, because really you get used to it after the first millennia. The brick wall opened and the new Diagon alley was revealed.
Restoration after the war was easy enough a bit of wand waving and poof your store was brand-new. The biggest difference was the owners, Flourish and Blots was no longer run by Mr. Flourish and his partner Blots. However Death being Death was well aware of who was dead.
The thing that caught her eye was the eyesore known as Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes. Death was fond of Weasleys and couldn't wait until she completed her matching pair. While she was here she definitely wanted to meet the living one. She started over in direction of the loud bangs and whistles.
Frank shook his head and tugged on her robe, gesturing toward the large marble bank. Oh, that's right Death has no money. She can wait until she can buy things to visit.
Death likes Gringotts. She always has back when it opened in 1474. However, the goblins don't feel the same way about her. This is fairly unsurprising considering Goblins don't like dying and each of the entity's visits to their bank resulted in mass chaos. Something about rebellions, robbery and that not being where the Nifflers belong. Oh well Death like the greedy little creature, they just so bloodthirsty and "ugly in a cute way" her words.
The Goddess chuckled at the message at the door and reminisced about when she took them up on the challenge. Then taking deep breath she kicked open the giant doors.
"I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack! Did ya miss me?" She bared her sharp silver teeth in a feral grin. Six goblins fainted (she was sad, she wanted to break her record) and the wizards all stared like they weren't sure if she wasn't a figure of their imaginations.
The Head Teller blinked rapidly and then slam his clawed hand down on a large red button. Suddenly the goblins sprang into action like an anthill when poked. You could hear gobbledygook be spoken over the PA and red light were flashing. All of the wizard were hurried out the doors as Gringotts when into a full lock down. In the background Death could be heard laughing so hard there were bloody tears running down her face. Frank was also crying, but his sobs were silent.
Finally after all the bank was occupied with only goblins, Death, Frank and a few dragons, Head Goblin Ragnok stepped forward in full battle gear.
"Lady Death you have come again to our humble establishment, what can we do for you?" He bit out the polite words that looked like they caused him physical pain to form.
"Well I'm going to be in town for a while and I need some gold. Also, someone finally united my hallows so any info you got on one Harry Potter would be great." At the name 'Harry Potter' the goblins bristled.
"Figures that the thief would associate with you. If you claim responsibility of that human, you'll have to pay for the damage he did to the bank." The words were far less polite and term human was pronounced like one might say bubonic plague. But that was fine with Death she liked how grumpy the goblins were and as for pay for the stuff, well she made a lot of long term investments and was ridiculously wealthy. How much damage could one wizard cause anyway?
The answer was apparent a lot. The list of finable offences was a followed:
1. Entering Gringotts under disguise
2. Cursing the staff
3. Infiltrating a paying customers vault
4. Feeding goblins to the dragon
5. Freeing say dragon
6. Escaping on the dragon
7. Destroying a large portion of the Bank while escaping
And finally
8. Stealing an item from a vault
Death left the building much poorer than when she entered.
AN: Look its longer, its like 800 words the goal is for each chapter to be at least 1000 so yeah. I'm working on it. I'm new at this whole author thing.
Anywho I scraped together a rough outline how I want the story to go, so thats good. The next chapter shall be called: 'A brief interlude with Harry' in which you guessed it is Harry's point of view.
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