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Gringotts' discoveries

Chief goblin Snowcack was enraged like he hadn't been for over a decade. How could they keep the heir of the Potter family this ignorant to the wizarding world? This went against so many laws, not only those made by wizards, but also by those who signed the ancient magical contract between the magical races. By the time he became eleven Harry Potter should have been taught the basic etiquette and customs of wizards, how to behave in company of certain other magical races and the laws he had to remember.

He had double checked that Gringotts had sent Harry quarterly statements of his family's vaults and the investments managed by Gringotts. The vault Harry had visited first on his eleventh birthday was merely a small one, set up as a trust vault for him until he became of age. It was refilled to a total amount of fifty thousand gallons each year for Harry to use for his education and private needs. As it seems, the boy must have thought it was all he had been left and used it sparsely.

Well Snowcack knew for sure, that they had informed Harry of the refilling of his vault every year on his birthdays. No, the only question was, who was intercepting Harry's mail? He had a suspicion but needed proof to undo the illegal interference.

The next thing to think about was who was just now telling Harry the things he asked about. It had to be somebody who was knowledgeable in wizarding customs and caring for Harry. Well this eliminated his muggle relatives. Biggest mistake in the century sending Harry there to live. It was clearly against his parents' will, but it had been sealed by the head of the Wizengamot, Albus Dumbledore, shortly before the Potters had died. Nobody had been able to read it. But of course, not even Dumbledore knew everything.

Gringotts kept the originals of every wizarding will to avoid legal problems. Wizards were just too greedy to be trusted in matters of gold.

Considering the setting of the letter Harry was coached by a wizard or witch who knew the abilities of the goblins quite well. It was a little known fact, that they could indeed check for magical blocks, placed curses or potions without any trouble. Only the curse breakers had an inkling what could be done within the halls of Gringotts. And they had been sworn to secrecy. The others were acknowledged friends to the goblins. And there weren't many of them, especially after the last war. Lots fell to the Dark Lords armies.

Snowcack thought some longer, and then an idea crossed his mind. That would be a possibility. He checked the letter once more and then he was sure. Only one person knew this information. He grinned evilly. It seemed one special friend had come back and taken charge to set some injustices right. And he wouldn't be deterred by anybody. Oh yes, with him back things would become interesting.

He set up a response to Harry Potter and asked him to meet him in two days at 11.00 am. And he just added a portkey to the letter for good measure for the owl to deliver. It wouldn't do for some wizards to know that the goblins were in contact with their missing Boy-who-lived. Oh yes, the goblins read the papers and he had heard more than one goblin cackling delighted for the ministry being lost on what to do.


Harry and Sirius sat at the kitchen table in the house. Harry was delighted. He had learned so much about his parents, his grandparents and the wizarding world. He wondered why nobody had bothered to tell him some of those. It would have made his life so far much easier. Had he known that every underage wizard or witch that was raised by muggles had a magical guardian appointed, he would have asked this guardian to defend his rights against his muggle relatives. It was forbidden to imprison children for no reason. The guardian also had to keep in touch with his or her ward to make sure nothing hindered the development of the magical child.

Harry didn't even know who his guardian was. One thing he would make sure to find out. While he wasn't physically abused at the Dursleys', except you counted the many chores he had to do or Dudley's favorite pastime, he had to suffer emotional abuse of the worst kind.

It should have been brought before the Wizarding Children Service, which dealt with abused children in the wizarding world long ago. Why did nobody bother to look after him while growing up? They all sang his praise for defeating Voldemort but couldn't be bothered to ensure his healthy upbringing? That was more than suspect.

What also was bothering him was his hurting head. Something was very wrong. It was as if somebody wanted to suppress him thinking for himself. He really hoped the goblins could help him. This was alarming to him. Sirius tried his best to help him, but as he wasn't a trained healer or potions specialist, he could only do so much. To Harry's great surprise Kreacher had gotten him a headache potion.

Harry had thoroughly thanked the elf for doing so. Seemingly the old elf liked Harry better than Sirius for some strange reason. Well, Sirius had started to do some curse lifting on the house with his father's old wand he had found after a long search in the study. It didn't work perfectly for him, but he was able to use it until he could get a new one. Kreacher had become a bit less irritable so Harry thought by the time Sirius had undone all the dark magic floating around in the house Kreacher would be somewhat normal.

Harry at the moment was enjoying his pizza. As Sirius had promised he had sent Kreacher to get groceries and the elf had returned with lots of things Harry just couldn't wait to try out. Sirius had insisted for Harry to have a somewhat balanced diet as he clearly needed the proper nutrients. But nobody said good food had to taste horrible. They had planned to make hamburgers with chips the next day. With lots of salad, tomatoes, cucumber, roasted onion rings, cheese and of course ketchup. Harry was looking forward to it. He had never known how to eat properly as nobody had taught him.

While some wouldn't think hamburgers fell into the category of healthy food, well in case of the premade ones they would be right he admitted, those made by themselves were not as fat. They would only fry the meat in a pan, the rest of the things would be raw or in case of the rolls toasted.

At Hogwarts he just ate what was placed before him. And the food tended to be rather unbalanced. He was sure the school nurse would look after proper nutrients in the food but he suspected her to be too busy with her job at the infirmary to do it properly. There were lots of fat food items and very little healthy food. Perhaps he could ask the house-elves in the kitchen to help him. He was quite sure they would gladly assist him.

During his time at the Dursleys' he had developed a dislike for too much fat food. Perhaps because he saw what it did to Vernon and Dudley. He never wanted to be that fat.

This moment Hedwig entered the kitchen with a big official looking letter attached to her leg.

"It seems the goblins were fast to answer, Harry." Sirius stated.

"Yes, I am curious what they wrote." Harry answered after he swallowed his food he had been chewing. Table manners were some of the only things he was glad Petunia had taught him. Even if her method of yelling at him every time he did something wrong was disturbing.

Harry offered Hedwig a piece of ham which she gratefully accepted.

Harry opened his letter.

Dear Mr. Potter,

It has come as an unpleasant surprise to me that you haven't been told the most basic rules how to behave in the wizarding world. I don't blame you, but I blame the one who had been in charge of your upbringing. Gringotts has started an investigation to find out who was named your magical guardian after your godfather Sirius Black had been sent to Askaban without a trial.

We of the goblin nation still view him as a friend to our nation as he hasn't proven us wrong until now. We have been sending you quarterly statements of all your assets managed by Gringotts Bank but obviously they have been redirected or intercepted. This is also being investigated at the moment. Be assured there will be consequences against whoever has been manipulating those.

At the same time we are doing a complete check of your accounts to find out if somebody has illegally accessed your funding. We will present the results to you at the meeting you asked for.

I would gladly meet you and your guardian (whom I think I know quite well) at August 10th at 11.00 am. For this I have included a portkey in this letter, timed to activate ten minutes to 11.00 am in two days. I figured it would be best to keep our meeting a private matter. No need to alarm whoever is messing in your life to your private matters.

The department in charge of undoing magical blocks, curses and potions has also agreed to give you a thorough check up after our meeting. If there are any things done to you against your will, we will find out and be able to solve the problems against a fee of course.

May your gold flow steadily and your business go smoothly

Snowcack

Chief Goblin of Gringotts Bank

Sirius chuckled. He knew Snowcack would know that he was behind Harry's new insight by telling him to sign as the heir to the Boldon family. Only five others besides Lily and James had known. First there were Lily's surrogate parents, who were muggles and dead by now, Frank and Alice Longbottom, who became victims of his insane cousin Bellatrix and were in no condition to tell anybody anything, and himself.

"That's great, Sirius, now I don't have to worry about being found by the Ministry and whoever is interfering in my life." Harry said happily.

"Yes, it's great, Harry. It will make things a lot easier. Especially as I know that Gringotts has untraceable meanings of glamouring a person. I could buy one of those crystals they sell and be able to get a wand in Knockturn Alley without the ministry being any wiser."

"I didn't know there were such things in the magical world. That's really cool, Sirius."

Sirius nodded smiling. He enjoyed Harry's still childish enthusiasm about the possibilities of the magical world. It was a shame he had to learn it just now.


The next morning when Harry arrived in the kitchen he could see Sirius sitting at the table, grinning like a mad man reading the Daily Prophet.

"Oh my, this is too rich." He laughed.

"What do they write?" Harry asked.

"Oh good morning, Harry, I didn't see you there. Come here and see for yourself." He invited his godson.

Harry did and sat next to Sirius. He began to read the article under a photo of him, that had to have been taken sometime during his first year.


The Boy-Who-Lived missing

By Rita Skeeter

It has come to the attention of your faithful reporter that Harry Potter, 13 years old, has gone missing during his summer holidays from Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry where Harry will start his third year on September 1st.

As you all are aware of Harry Potter, who had been the downfall of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, is, as we recently found out, living with his muggle relatives at an unknown location during the summer months, when the school is closed.

During these holidays Harry Potter seemingly lost control over his magic and accidentally used magic. He blew up his uncle's sister, Miss Margery Dursley and then left without a word. Now the concerned wizarding population is asking, how could a nice boy like Harry Potter (interviews with several witnesses of Mr. Potter's normal behavior on page 4) lose control this badly?

When I tried to interview the aforementioned muggle relatives, they had the audacity to smash their door in my face and shout and I report this literally 'that the freak could go to hell and never come back to bother hardworking normal people like them'. It makes you wonder why Mr. Potter is forced to live with people like that who seemingly hate everything that is related to magic. Why didn't the ministry intervene in this before? Did they even bother looking for the hero of the magical world?

Mr. Potter, who had been presented with an award for services for the good of Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry at the end of last term, rumors are, he had been able to thwart the plans of the heir of Slytherin in relation with the incidents of the infamous chamber of secrets, how is not known, could at the moment be in grave danger.

As reported in all our latest editions the mass murderer Sirius Black escaped from Azkaban. Many believe he will be after Harry Potter's life as he was the one who betrayed the boy's parents to He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. The ministry has spread the whole auror department as well as every available witch and Wizard at the Ministry to find both of them. Harry Potter to keep him safe from the danger and Sirius Black to send him back to Aszaban.

The Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge has commented the current measures as following:

'It is really tragic what happened with Harry's relatives, but I am sure after the emotions have calmed down some they will find the deep feelings running in families and forgive Harry for his accident. It happens to the best of us that we lose control of our magical abilities if our emotions are boiling. If Harry reads this article I want to ensure him, that he isn't in trouble and I want him to come out of wherever he is hiding so that we can protect him properly from the danger he is in.'

After my personal experience with Mr. Potter's relatives I am not so sure that Minister Fudge is seeing the whole picture. I would like to interview Mr. Potter on this topic, so if he reads this, I want to assure him, that the magical community is on his side in this outraging treatment he got from his relatives. I personally think the Wizarding Children Service should investigate this matter to ensure the well-being of the hero of the wizarding world.


Harry was now chuckling. Then he loudly laughed. This was ridiculous. Just because they feared Sirius would harm him they were willing to hush up a case of underage magic. And the Daily Prophet wanted to involve Wizarding Children Service in his case. He would really like to tell them what really happened at his aunt's and uncle's house the last thirteen years. Oh yeah, that would be big news.