So I suffer from insomnia, comes from working third shift, I'm lucky if I get a few hours of sleep in at once, that being said I wrote an entire chapter last night because of it. Things get pretty light hearted but take a definite dark turn near the end, and I'm touching off on the very nasty reality of child abuse and what Harry went through with the Dursley's.
I hate Vernon, he reminds me of a dead friends dad and simply put, I want you to hate him too. Oh and all that goblin stuff, yeah I have no idea I just ran with what worked, the Read-All was borrowed from a few other fics I read months ago so I'm not claiming to have made that up, it just sounded like the perfect gift for Hermione.
Please as always review, even if you want to tell me I'm daft for writing this, I really like hearing what my readers have to say
Pacing back and forth Hermione could only watch as her friend frantically swore at the ceiling in parseltongue, the only bits of English breaking through being the occasional "Shit shit shit shit..." eventually she stopped and looked at the giant snake head statue incredulously.
"You could have said that five minutes ago Sal! Ugh...my ring allows me to apparate through the schools wards, and seeing as how Dumbles is more then likely camping in the girls loo at the moment it might be a good idea to take off," Glaring once again at the statue she hissed a few times and the response sounded...petulant.
"What was that about?" Rolling her eyes Lilly shifted her dress about obviously unused to wearing girls clothes,
"Thanked him for blowing my cover, his response was that he was just excited, typical...all right now that this can of worms is open I need a few things before I make my debut, feel like heading to Diagon alley?" Hermione worried her lip a bit, this would be breaking so...so many rules, on the other hand they were already in trouble and well...the new Harry was kind of intoxicating to be around. Before the accident he'd always been introverted and prone to sulking, now well...'full of life' was a great way to describe her best friend, nodding she smiled in return,
"Sure why not, but only if we can go to Flourish and Blotts at some point," Smirking Lilly let her glasses slide down her nose so her glowing emerald eyes looked over them,
"But of course anything for the lady," for reasons Hermione couldn't quite put words to everything about that made her flush madly, seeing that her mission was accomplished Lilly laughed, grabbed her by the waist and gave her a wink. One second they were in the filthy confines of the Chamber of Secrets, next they were in The Leaky Cauldron, Hermione swayed a bit trying to gather her wits but Lilly seemed completely unfazed.
"I am never going to get used to that," Hermione grumbled under her breath, Lilly just shrugged and walked up to the bar,
"Heyya Tom, I'd like two glasses of firewhiskey on the rocks, oh mix hers with a cola please," the weathered barkeep eyed Lilly warily, pulling out his wand he cast an identifier charm on her and his eyes widened in shock.
"Ha-Harry? Its true?" He stuttered quietly, nodding Lilly in equally quiet tones whispered,
"Yeah Tom it is, no I didn't plan it, yes I'm stuck this way, no I don't really care at this point, as you can see I've had one helluva week so I could really use the good stuff." Nodding unblinking he poured the drinks, sauntering over to Hermione it looked as if the raven haired teen had no idea how many stares she was drawing.
Hermione really really really should put a stop to this, they were both technically underage, but just as with their apprating out of Hogworts it was simply another sin thrown onto the pile, shrugging she sipped her drink and nearly gagged.
"Merlin's beard thats strong!" Lilly laughed as she sipped her glass experimentally, looked surprised as to how smoothly it went down she muttered, "Thank you Mister Riddle," while taking another sip. Hermione glanced about and realized how many of the patrons, mostly men were staring at her friend who remained oblivious to it all, 'She is still such a boy' she sighed inwardly.
Coughing as she took another large gulp of her mixed drink she could already feel her cheeks flushing from the strong alcohol, catching her breath she asked what had been on her mind since they fled, "So Lilly, why are we here? I know you wanted to stop at Gringotts but was there anything else?" Nodding her friend swirled her glass expertly staring vacantly at the wall, eventually pushing her glasses up with a middle finger she replied,
"Yeah, there's a jewlery store that has something I want, gonna need to get a few piercings but it'll be worth the effort, trust me on this one ok? Aside from that I'm going to need to grab a few books on Runes since I'm soooo ditching divination, I seriously have no idea why that course is even taught. Outside of that I need a new wardrobe, hell Harry needed a new wardrobe, only reason he didn't upgrade was fear of the Dursley's finding out he had money."
It should be noted that what Hermione would accuaratly call an evil grin spread across the other witches full lips, "My Death let me in on what happened to them, Petunia ate the rebound while watching telly, nothing left of her, hehe... Vernon and Dudley are shacked up with Marge...three for one sale, I have plans for them..." Her face fell and she had a far away haunted gaze in her glowing eyes before shaking herself free of some memory or another.
Finishing their drinks and now mildly tipsy the two made their way into the Alley proper and went strait to the goblin bank, as they walked up the steps Hermione asked,
"So Ancient Runes huh? If only a very good friend had suggested that you take that two years ago, such a shame you'll be behind the curve," Smirking while eyeing the brunette Lilly scoffed lightly,
"Yes yes from here on out when cute witches give me advice I'll actually listen to it instead of taking the easier route...its so wierd having all this energy half the reason I took such a barmy course to begin with was because of the bouts of lethargy...now we know why but still..." Only half listening Hermione was dealing with the excess blood rushing to her face, luckily Lilly was being introspective and didn't notice any change.
Reaching the doors Lilly held one open for her, walking past the guards and confusing the hell out of them by greeting them friendily she came to a stop in front of a teller, "May your gold flow freely and plentily good sir, may I possibly have the honor of speaking to Director Ragnok? If it would expediate the process please inform him that Lillith Potter is here to see him."
The word Hermione would use to describe the goblins expression would be gobsmacked, definetly gobsmacked, after all how many wizards were friendly with goblins much less greet them in the traditional manner of their people? Rushing off to do as he was bid she glanced at the grinning Lady of Slytherin,
"You serioulsy were paying attention to our history classes weren't you?" Face falling she snorted while shaking her head sending her hair swaying,
"No, Binns is the most useless Proffesor at that school...well...ok Trelawney is but thats not really a class more like "Do your potions homework while listening to Ron whine". No right before third event last term I nabbed a couple history and cultural texts because I kind of want to pass my history OWL this year and Cedric insisted that I'd need outside help, the more I think about it the more it feels like half our classes are designed to fail us..."
Hermione's eyes widened as she inhaled sharply, Lilly turned to her in confusion, "What?" Not thinking about it she quickly pecked the other girl on the cheek while blushing profusely,
"Ahem...umm...I'm very proud of you..." Looking mildly bewildered (but pleased) Lilly shook her head and turned towards the approaching goblin while muttering "Women." The goblin bade them to follow and so they did, worming their way through the twisting corridors they ended up in a rather oppulant office, a dignified looking goblin was behind the desk reading some document or another. Coughing lightly their escort stated,
"The Lady of Slytherin Lillith Alice Potter and..." Lilly leaned in and whispered to him quietly, then he continued, "And her Goldkeeper Lady Hermione Jean Granger to see you sir." Hermione shot her a questioning look but the only response she recieved was one of the glowing emeralds winking, approaching the desk the pair sat in the proferred chairs and waited in respectful silence.
Ragnok looked over his reading spectacles and seemed to gauge the two teens, eventually he removed the lenses and leaned back into his chair, nodding towards Lilly he stated,
"May your gold run freely and plentily Lady Potter," smiling Lillith nodded in return,
"And may your enemies perish in bankruptcy and obscurity Directer Ragnok," Looking very pleased he pulled a folder out and pushed it towards Lilly,
"Here is the culmination of the Potter and Slytherin accounts, the Gaunt's, as you suspected ran the latter family into the ground, thankfully the main vault has not been accessed in well over five hundred years, if you can pass its tests you'll be given free access to what is yours." Looking a bit nonplussed Hermione asked,
"Wait, from what Lilly told me there was nothing left and the last heirs of Slytherin died destitute," Ragnok nodded at this while giving another wide smile, after all if this girl was the goldkeeper of such a polite and knowledgeable Lady then she deserved the courtesy.
"Indeed Lady Granger, but what they burned through was the trust fund similar to what Miss Potter had access to for her schooling, in order to actually retrieve the treasures of Slytherin one must pass a test, a charmed lock that only speaks in parseltongue and you must answer its riddle to prove you are a true heir. Sadly most of the Gaunt 's were...lacking in the cleverness department, inbreeding and all."
"HA!" Lilly blurted out, she began sifting through the Potter accounts and nodded happily, "Ok Director this all looks good, I'll be refraining from claiming the Potter title until its absolutely necessary, last thing I need is more social niceties, I still have access to the vault even if I hold off on the claiming right?" Nodding the goblin motioned towards the Slytherin file,
"Unlike what the House of Slytherin has set up the Heir of Potter can claim what is in their vault before declaring Lord or Ladyship, I will supply you and your Goldkeeper with pouches that will dip from the Potter accounts. If you need muggle money just simply think about what country you are in and the name of the notes used and you'll pull the amount wanted out, as an added courtesy if you manage to open the Slytherin vault the bag will connect to that as well." Grinning widely and eyes glowing happily Lilly stated,
"Brilliant! Thank you director, I have many other plans for the near future and I hope to involve you and the goblin nation, change is coming, long needed change, and I rightly don't care who needs to die for it to happen." The Director grinned in reply, offering his hand he shook hers while nodding his head,
"I do believe it will be memorable, I hope to speak to you soon young Lady of Slytherin, do take care now," with that the pair were lead off to the vaults, turning to Lilly Hemione asked,
"You don't care who dies?" Smirking Lilly tilted her head till it fell on Hermione's shoulder,
"When dealing with goblins its best to follow their cultural norms, casually talking about killing your enemies? Very much in line with the goblin mindset, I want them in my pocket, and I'm well on my way to getting that. That and seriously, you've seen the way the ministry works, are you going to cry if Lucius Malfoy is found dead in a closet due to a failed attempt at auto-erotic asphyxiation?" Caught between a scandalous gasp and massive laugh Hermione settled for coughing loudly as she tried to get a breath in, glaring at her friend she eventually wheezed out,
"You're reprehensible you know that?" Grinning all the wider Lilly let out a quiet laugh as they approached the rail car to the vaults, as they began their descent the dignified Lady of Slytherin amused the hell out of their guide by throwing her hands up whooping the entire way down to the vault. The Slytherin vault was...well much like many things Salazar Slytherin had a hand in, ostentatious, the massive silvered disk was covered in elaborate scrollwork and its entire border covered in interlocking jade serpents. Lilly looked...unimpressed, she shook her head in annoyance and approached the sealed door, cocking her head she glanced to Hermione,
"Well, any ideas or you think I should just start babbling at it?" Thinking a moment the brunette shrugged and nodded, turning back to the door she spoke in parseltongue, eventually one of the jade snakes slithered across the door and faced off against the Lady.
"If you wisssh to enter the vault of the Mossst Noble and Ancient Houssse of Ssslytherin you mussst passss a tessst of cunning," feeling slightly annoyed at the presentation she drawled,
"I ssswear if you asssk sssomething about ssswallowsss or my favorite color I'm hexing you," The snake for its part cocked its head in confusion then continued,
"It isss a sssimple logic game, for sssome reassson the passt 427 attemptsss have been...lesss then impresssive, now are you prepared?" Shrugging she nodded, "Very well, you and your companion are arresssted for a crime you did not commit, you are told if you both keep quiet your sssentance will be three years in Azkaban, if you accussse her of the crime your sssentence will be reduced to one year and hersss to five. Ssshe is given the sssame offer, do you trussst her to keep quiet or do you accussse her to ensssure your freedom." Lilly's eyes narrowed dangerously at this, she would never betray a friend, much less Hermione, about to tell the snake exactly where her wand was about to end up she caught herself, thats Gryffindor talk, think like a Slytherin, smirking she had her answer.
"The entire excercissse is moot, only the sssloppy and unssskilled get caught committing their own crimesss, and only a fool would allow themssselvesss to be blamed for sssomeone elsssesss, this sssituation would never occur because I follow our housssesss creed, 'Do not get caught.'" Apparently animated stone snakes can laugh, who knew, after a moment it nodded at her,
"That of courssse is the right anssswer young Lady of Ssslytherin, do enjoy the ssspoilsss of your conquessst," and with that there was a massive thunking noise as internal gears pulled the vault pistons aside and the door swung open. As they they got their first look into the vault even their guide looked impressed,
"Well...I see claiming House Potter is going to be a moot point for the time being," The room was practically overflowing with gold coins, rare baubles, and books, oh so many books lined the walls, Hermione let out a jubilant squee as she rushed towards the story high shelves. Shaking her head in amusement the goblin grabbed her attention and handed her a pair of thin leatherbound books that looked a bit like journals,
"These are 'Read-Alls', a gift from Director Ragnok, simply slot them into the shelves and push your magic into it, you'll be given access to any tome in this vault without having to withdraw them, it's for security purposes as well as convenience, only you can read it. Oh and if you activate the charm on the back it will explode if someone else tries to *ahem*, force the issue." Suitably impressed she walked up to Hermione and handed her one of the Read-Alls and explained its purpose, Lilly was fairly certain their was a Hermione shaped dustcloud in the space her friend had occupied a moment before hand.
Chuckling to herself she began exploring the room, her eye caught a glass display case that was missing several items, there was a fine dagger in the center and there were three empty slots beside it, after a moment she realized that two of the slots were meant to hold her tiara and ring. Looking about she found an old piece of parchment jammed under the case, it read
'The Treasures of the Most Noble and Ancient House of Slytherin, Salazar's Enchanted Locket, Band of the Head, Ring of the Family, and the Dagger of Remorse.' Looking down at the dagger she was at first apprehensive picking it up, I mean really what moron just goes about grabbing enchanted items without finding out what they are first? Scanning it a few times with her wand she was a bit nonplussed to see how many enchantments were on the thing, it took her a moment to realize it was a goblin forged blade.
"Niiice" she crooned as she picked it up and was momentarily stunned as she felt something pierce her mind, after a moment the ache faded and she stared wide-eyed at her new toy, the damn thing had just taught her how to knife fight..."Brilliant!" she crowed, this managed to get Hermione's attention for roughly 2.3 seconds then she was back to her Read-All. Harry's short attention span was starting to show but Lilly had a few more things to grab before they bolted, taking a bottomless bag off a shelf she began throwing galleons into it by the handful; the pouches from Ragnok were great but money on hand was always a good idea.
Walking up to Hermione she guided her still reading friend out of the vault and nodded to the goblin to close it off, realizing she didn't have a sheath for the dagger she tossed it into the bag with the galleons and slung it to her thin belt. After the ride back up they walked down the streets significantly richer then they had been forty minutes earlier, a very lucrative day. Hermione was looking about self consciously when Lilly asked,
"Ok brown eyes, whats up?" Looking a bit...apprehensive she said,
"I'm...its just you're getting all these stares looking the way you do and in those dress robes, I'm just...a bit drab in a school uniform..." Snorting she steered the bookworm towards Madam Malkins,
"Well can't have my Goldkeeper feeling like she's dressed tatty, lets get you something nice, if nothing else I'd love to see you in something like you had on during the Yule Ball," Hermione for her part blushed and set her gaze on the cobblestones.
"You remember that?" Genuinely surprised Lilly stopped and gently pressed her friend against the wall, their eyes met as Lilly truly tried to emphasize her point,
"Hermione, my entire fourth year was nothing but a series of attempts by an insane Death Eater to try and kidnap or off me while Dumbledore sat around eating sweets playing with himself, seeing you in that gown was quite possibly the only high point of that bloody stupid ball and one of the only things I wish to remember from that godforsaken tournament, so no self depreciation ok?" Blushing even deeper she broke her gaze and nodded, satisfied Lilly led them into the store and a half hour later a rather fetching muggle-born and half-blood strutted out of the shop with full bags.
"You really didn't have to pay that much for all this, its ludicrous!" Laughing Lilly patted her friends shoulder,
"Look at it this way 'Mione, we're spending Slytherin's gold," after a moment she grinned in return,
"Well in that case why not hit the bookstore?" Rolling her eyes she raised her hands in an attempt to placate the other woman,
"Hold your hippogriffs...god that sounds stupid...anyway lets get my jewelry first, I've always wanted one of these things but well...I really couldn't think of a way to justify it with all the "responsible" adults insisting they manage my affairs." Curiosity peeked Hermione followed her into a very high end jewelry store, luckily they were dressed the part and were practically fawned over, neither girl knew if that was better then being out and out ignored, how irritating.
Looking through the display cases she pointed at a set of simple silver stud earrings and what looked like a tongue piercing, "I'd like two sets of these please," the employee helping them looked surprised, trying to not sound condescending she attempted to dissuade Lilly.
"Ma'am those are...quite expensive, very old and powerful enchantments are used in their forging, if you'd like-" Lilly tapped into the rings memories to see how a pissed off Lady would act, surprisingly it was exactly how she wanted to handle this,
"Listen, I am damn well aware of the babble enchants, I'm well aware of how expensive this is, and I'm equally aware that you get commission off any sales you make, so unless you want me to grab the cute blonde over there to take my money I suggest you drop the attitude and do your bloody job." Both Hermione and the saleswoman looked at her in shock, the woman then frantically unlocked the cases and grabbed two sets of the jewelry, she scrambled to the backrooms to go find something or other while Lilly played the rich bored snob.
"Lilly, what was that all about?" Looking to Hermione she gave a brief flicker of a smile before murmuring so only she could hear her,
"Simply put I am a lady of one of the most ancient and apparently wealthy houses in the magical world, and Harry had to deal with enough condescending store clerks who looked down at him for his second hand clothes, I no longer have the patience to play that game." Seemingly satisfied by this they were soon rejoined by the saleswoman who apologized but since the enchants would bind the jewelry to their magical cores she needed the money first, rolling her eyes she tossed the money pouch on the counter and handed over the mountain of coins.
This action was not lost on the rest of the store but Lilly didn't pay any real attention to that, after a moment looking like a landed fish the saleswoman sorted the fortune out then took them to a backroom then left them to their devices, eventually a heavily tattooed witch came in whistling jauntily.
"Ello lovelies, I'm Vanessa and I'm here to poke holes in your heads," grinning in response Lilly introduced them and sat in the offered chair. "Alrighty I'm aware its a bit taboo to mention anything that goes against the grain but due to previous...incidents I need to ask, which way do you swing? Lilly laughed, glanced at Hermione and smirked, the Vanessa snorted at that, Hermione for her part asked,
"Why does that matter?" Vanessa glanced up from the thick needle she was hitting with a disinfecting charm and absently said,
"Oh the tongue stud, sexual orientation depends on the placement, his or her pleasure and all that, put it in the wrong spot once and the bloke came back screaming everyone thought he was a sword swallower, mind you I did it on purpose because I thought he was a prat but still." Hermione blushed multiple shades of red and seemed to lose her ability to speak, Lilly simply smirked again and let the woman pierce her ears then tongue, goddamn that hurt.
Vanessa cast a few healing charms and the sharp pain became a dull ache, after a few more moments she felt the enchants bind to her, smiling she glanced up at Hermione,
"Je vous le dis jamais que tu es belle?" Looking a bit shocked Hermione gave Vanessa a sharp look,
"That's French, why is she speaking French?" Laughing Vanessa gave Lilly an appraising look,
"Dragged her out here and didn't even tell her what you spent a fortune on huh? Girl must have some faith in you, that my dear is the babble enchant, the earrings allow you to understand any language you hear and the stud allows you to speak it. The more time you spend with a particular language the more natural you sound, eventually you'll fully assimilate the language and no longer need the stud and earrings, very very powerful magic, hence the cost." No longer squeamish about this whole thing Hermione allowed the procedure to be performed on her, she was stuck speaking German for about five minutes before she finally got the hang of it.
"This is...brilliant, thank you so much Lilly I've always wanted to learn new languages! Why did you want it though?" As they were walking out of the store Lilly scowled a bit,
"Wanted them since last year, I could never bloody understand what Krum and Fleur were saying with those thick accents of theirs, but of course Dumbledore told me I couldn't get them, it was "financially irresponsible." Pff, like making a fourteen year old kid fight fucking dragons was responsible..." Face darkening they walked in silence for a time before they reached the book store, leaving Hermione to go be...Hermione Lilly searched out the texts she needed for class. After paying for them and accepting the free shrinking charm she tossed them into her bottomless bag and sighed, Hermione wouldn't want to leave for another hour at least.
Deciding to just go wander about a bit she stepped out of the store and figured she'd grab something to eat, as she passed a shadowed ally she felt a strong grip grab her arm and with a yelp she was dragged into illusioned shadows.
Hermione had a very specific book she was looking for, she didn't know which one per say but she wouldn't let that deter her search, sifting through the endless shelves she was starting to get frustrated. That is unfortunately the thing about the wizarding world, they were so reliant on magic that simple things like alphabetizing their blasted books was a foreign concept, she was about ready to just give in and ask for help when she found a promising lead. Sifting through the rather sparse collection on none human societies she finally found what she wanted, grabbing the tome on goblin culture she found a dark corner and began reading.
"About time to find out what a bloody goldkeeper is..." the text was incredibly dry even by her standards, either the writer was getting the information secondhand or the goblins sincerely wanted to make it difficult to learn anything about them, could honestly go either way for the devious little bankers. She'd leafed through three quarters of the tome before she caught site of her goal, muttering to herself she read the passage,
"To a goblin nothing is more important then the safety of ones wealth and family, clan bonds are strong and only the most trusted of a clan leaders followers are appointed the title of 'goldkeeper'. It has many connotations though it is usually used in reference to a second in command who has proven their loyalty on several occasions or more often then not the clan leaders lover." Eyes widening to the size of saucers Hermione placed the book beside her and stared off into the distance, she wasn't sure how long she sat there but eventually all she could say was, "Oh my..."
Lilly was pulled into what she estimated was a shadow illusion that a third year could outdo, the man who grabbed her looked like he may or may not be a shaved gorilla, his blank stupid eyes really didn't help that comparison either. With that thought finished she was forced against the wall and held in place by her throat, the memories of 5 Privet drive were beginning to crack through and she had to force her mental shields into full power before she went into a panic attack. Her eyes were flaring as rage began to take hold of her, 'NO, I'm in charge now, I control my life now, no one is going to hurt me, no one is going to use me again!'.
Before her rage could fully envelope her she heard a distinctly high pitched man's voice coming towards her from deeper in the ally, unlike his associate who looked like he'd been acquired from Rent-A-Thug it looked as if this man styled himself as some sort of dandy. The well kept robes, slicked back hair and thin mustache screamed 'wannabe cultured,' to Harry he screamed trouble, to Tom he was a bottom feeder.
"Well well little lady, it would appear that you skiving class was a bad idea yes? Now please, your wand?" Before she could say anything the big brute used his free hand to grab her wand and toss it to the ponce, smiling he reached out and held her by the chin and turned her head to face him, "A pretty thing aren't you, well here's the thing, I see you have a Gringotts bag and those have oh so many safeguards on them, so while I may not be willing to risk...helping you carry such a heavy burden, you could quite easily ask for my help."
Scare tactic, imply that your beauty reflects a desire for violence or something more carnal, he's well aware alive or dead the bag will still blow his hands into bits if he tries to force it open, speaking with familiarity, probably not his first time doing this, 'Thank you Tom' she reflected silently. Well this was annoyingly cliche, she could probably wandless stun both these idiots but she really hadn't been looking for trouble, she'd try to go for diplomatic first,
"As..." gasping against the massive hand wrapped around her neck she tried again, "As kind of an offer as that is sir I'm more then capable of bearing such a burden on my own, if you don't mind I'd like to be on my way." Sneering now the thief began stroking her cheek with the back of his hand '...Cold, dark, broken, don't touch me...don't touch me again Vernon...'
"Well that is just a crying shame, perhaps we should ask your friend if she can convince you otherwise, I'm sure we could come to consensus," eyes momentarily flaring bright enough to cast the mans shadow on the far wall she growled out,
"You lay one finger on Herm-" chocking off the rest of her sentence as the fist closed around her she nearly blacked out, 'Shit why does trouble always have to find me?'. The man began sneering at her all pretense of civility gone,
"Listen princess you don't make any threats around here, give me your bag or I'll make you wish you had," with that he began pawing her chest and that was it, Harry and Tommy were coming out to play,
"FUCK YOU VERNON!" Mr. Gorilla was slammed into the far wall, every bone in his body broken, stumbling back the ponce hit the ground trying to back away from the lithe girl, her untamed magic whipping around her sending her hair and skirts fluttering. She glanced down at the thug and coolly stated, "Pity, hadn't planned on killing him yet, problem with double casting a bone breaker and banisher, ah well, live and learn. Hmm...no one is rushing over here, so I suppose you were able to cast a somewhat presentable silence charm, good for you."
Shifting her gaze to the man she had dubbed 'Ponce' she pointed a finger at him, "Accio wand," catching her wand she aimed it at the man who was now soiling himself, "Hmm...lets see what you've been up to, haven't really gotten to try my legilimency since I ate Voldemort's soul." Ok yes, she was hamming it up a bit, but the look of horror that spread across the mans face was well worth it,
"Do-don't please!" Sneering in a manner that she honestly thought would have Professor Snape nod in approval she snarled,
"Sorry Ponce you don't get to beg for mercy, yet, Legilimens!" As far as her first foray into mental magic went it could have been better, the man had done this many times, usually in muggle areas were no one would notice, as it stood the man had been scoping the store out looking for potential targets when he had seen Lilly pay for the babble jewelry.
Ponce, whose name was actually 'Mitch' had followed through on his threats on other targets many times, rape, murder, and theft, lovely, sighing she stopped casting the spell as the man gasped on the ground. Well this wouldn't do, walking over to the dead gorilla she riffled around until she found his wand, standing up she walked back to him as he struggled to stand,
"Wh-wha-what are you doing?" he managed to stutter out, glaring at him her eyes little more then flickering embers she eventually spoke,
"You know, I could take you to the Aurors, have you thrown through the courts, spend a couple months stint in Azkaban, and you'll be back on the street doing this all over again, just like the last four times. Seriously everything about magical Britain is diseased or broken, so I suppose someone has to clean up. I've heard this curse requires you to really hate someone, that it will actually hurt the caster if they can't maintain and focus that hatred." Smiling coldly she cocked her head to the side, "I'm curious to see if I hate you enough," and with that she flicked the gorillas wand at the Ponce, "Avada Kedavra."
The babble charm is of course in reference to the to the babblefish of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, I have plans for Lilly to be dealing with some international scenes and I really have no interest writing several thousand lines about her not understanding what the hell is being said...that and I despise working with Google translate, ugh. Also when Lilly starts fighting I want to keep up with the theme that Harry was a squirrely guy who didn't hold still but she now has more grace thanks to all her inherited memories, I'm kinda shooting for a 'Vin' style as seen in Mistborn just not as amazingly OP, there has to be SOME tension right?