Chapter 10: Gringotts
Notes: Hello lovelies I hope you had an amazing month~ I am truly sorry for how long you wait through these the updates, but at this time I can only hope to do monthly updates; but you in for an amazing treat! Today's chapter is one of the longest I've personally written, while most of my chapters range for 1,000-2,000 words this is chapter is 4,094! So I hope you really like this chapter, it was just a treat to write and it flowed so well for me. I want to give a special thanks to amandadubose88 for being the beta for this chapter! She is so lovely to take the time to read over my work. Also thank you to you lovely readers for sticking by even when updates are slow 3
I think I should just let you go read this chapter since you have waited long enough. If you see any mistakes let me know so I can go back and edit it when I have time. 3
Today was the first outing I would have since coming to Malfoy Manor. I was both nervous and excited. Nervous because even though it has been over a week since I have left the Dursley's and have the best potions money could buy; courtesy of Severus Snape, (our relationship is slowly on the mend. Even though he still thinks that I am a dunderhead.) along with the best mate one could ask for, in both emotional/mental health as well as physical health. Even if this was just a short trip to Gringotts bank. Even though I'm pretty sure Cissa (she corrects me every time I do not call her that.) was wanting to go shopping in celebration after we figure everything out.
Mr. Malfoy (I still could not bring myself to call him his given name just yet.) said we would wait and see since we have no idea how long it would take to talk to the goblins.
Of course, I was extremely nervous about meeting the goblins. They were all about work and preserving their clientele. I know I have not been the best customer to have there, and I was feeling bad about rushing them, it's just each time I went I had someone with me, or somehow or another they had my money all ready to go. Which was very concerning half the time because I have no idea how other people went about getting it out of my vault. I was also a little frighten that if I brought that up, I would be at fault for not having my key.
Enough with those thoughts! I shake my head trying to think on the bright side of things, maybe if I am still well enough after this trip, Draco and I can go out to eat. Not that the food is bad here at the Manor, it would be a different type of surroundings and maybe be even counted as a… Date? I felt my face redden at the thought of going out on a date! It would be our first date, as… as a couple, even though we are mates, we haven't made it public just yet. And with me being… well me, there was bound to be a slip up and we would end up plastered on the front of the Daily Prophet. Maybe this date thing was not for us, I thought with a sigh.
With that last little thought, I rolled out of bed and made my way to the shower to begin this long day.
* * * * ~MAGICAL TIME SKIP~ * * * *
I stood in front of Gringotts bank, still very much in awe over the beautiful building as well as being a ball of nerves. I don't want to get on the goblins bad side and get kicked out of the bank. I have no idea how to go about properly comporting myself in front of them like other pure-bloods and half-bloods that have accounts with them.
My nerves settled down to just background noise when Draco gave my shoulder a squeeze, and sly smile, he always knew what needs to be done. Maybe I am just a burden to him he would be the perfect mate for anyone.
I tried to give him a smile back, but I knew I failed when he just pulled me closer to his side as we walked into the grand building right behind his parents, I felt like a lot of the goblins eyes just swiveled into our direction along with the witches and wizards in there doing their business. We only just stepped through the doors, when a youngish small goblin came racing up to the two older blondes.
"Mr. Malfoy, Mrs. Malfoy! Thank you for coming, Heir Malfoy welcome! Mr. Potter, we are pleased to see you." The young goblin quickly ran through our names with no introductions needed (I guess if you are part of a well-known pure-blood family and have an appointment this would happen). "If you follow me please, Ragnok, the head of your accounts, is expecting you and he will help you with everything you desire to have done today."
With that the goblin turned around and started walking at a fast pace, leaving the Malfoy family and I to follow behind him. We followed the goblin in a maze of long hallways with many doors. Some areas decorated in fine gold and precious gems, others with weapons, one area was an open mining area and you could see a few goblins extracting gems straight out of the walls.
"Sir! Your appointment is here." The young goblin announced as he pushed up a large oak door inlayed with gold and silver swirling around and had a beautiful sapphire as a doorknob. The Malfoy's quickly entered taking a seat right in front of the large desk, that was filled with goblin made trinkets and stones, along with a dagger and parchments. Without needing to be told what to do the goblin left running off to do whatever other job was warranted for him; while I was left their standing awkwardly unsure what I was supposed to do, this was my first time being in the bank besides to get money, and I've never been to a muggle bank before either.
Draco quickly saw what was happening and gestured to the chair beside him, I did not want to embarrass myself anymore, so I made my way over to the open chair sitting as close to the edge and to Draco as possible.
"Thank you Ragnok, for seeing us on such short notice, we are sorry for any inconvenience we caused you with this," Mr. Malfoy the first to talk to the new goblin, "we are here for inheritance testing also I would like Mr. Potter to visit one of your healers so we can have the proper paperwork for court purposes."
I glanced up to the new goblin before quickly looking down seeing as most of his focus was on me. From what I saw this was a highly thought of goblin, he was wearing very nice clothes with precious gems woven into the robes, nothing else was different from the first goblin I met, the head goblin out in the reception area. With the nasty cruel teeth that looked like could eat me, those long curled fingers. I would rather take on the basilisk again, then talk to a goblin for some reason they terrified me to no end.
"No, we must thank you for bringing in Mr. Potter here, we have been trying to get ahold of him, to take on his heirship and even his lordship since he is of age after his fourth year."
I blinked in shock my head snapping up at Ragnok, they have been trying to get ahold of me? Why haven't I ever gotten something like that?
"Mr. Potter you are a very hard person to get ahold of did you know that?"
"I-I-I," I swallowed the lump forming in my throat. "Sir, I've never received something like that."
An angry look crossed the goblins face. He must think I am lying much like the Dursley's did when I told them the truth when Dudley told them a lie.
"Then what about your account papers when send both yearly and monthly informing you of how your money was invested, and what was taken out?"
Once again, I met the goblins harsh stare flinching back into myself, "I-I've never received something like that either sir. This is only my second time to be in your bank since my first year at Hogwarts."
"So, you are telling me, that you have never signed off on our paper work we sent you, you have no idea how rich you are, and you have no idea where all this paper work is heading? That you guardian has never showed you any of this?" The goblin summed up what I said in a few words.
I just nodded, ready to be yelled at for being stupid or something like that. I wonder who my guardian was since Sirius couldn't manage my accounts while he was in prison… and now that he is dead…..
Instead the goblin shocked me. "We will have that fixed up right away Mr. Potter those who have been in charge of your accounts will be changed to either myself or to another Goblin you can trust. And those who took money that was not used for your benefit that were taken out of your account, will be punished for fraud.
While we continue this talk a few other goblins will look into what was taken, and who has taken it, and those who have it will be severely punished the money taken from their accounts. All this will be done today, and we will have those papers in your hand by the end of the day."
Ragnok was writing out something on a parchment and as soon as he was done the little goblin that led us in here came back. They exchanged a few words in Gobbledegook before the other goblin took off once again.
"Well that is taken care of, we will get down to the inheritance test, then the claiming of heir and lordships while you are here." He paused looking at myself and the Malfoy's before continuing, "since you are a submissive in a known mating arrangement, while you are the head of the accounts and will have the final say in how to move the money about, to ensure that you have money when you need it. It is well known that the Dominate will take care of the accounts, do you wish to still have it set up that way?"
I didn't have to think that long on it, since I knew that I have no clue how to run bank accounts; where money should be invested in and stuff like that, and I know Draco has had lessons from his father over this type of stuff, so I nodded my head.
I could feel Draco's Veela purr since I was acknowledging that he was the Dom in our relationship and that I have trust that he will put my finances in the right places.
With a nod the goblin wrote it down in my files letting it be known of the slight changes made to my accounts.
"The first order of business we need to take care of, is to find out which lord and heirships you are capable of getting and If the magic of those families will accept you. For this we need to take some blood due to it being the powerful type of magic it is." The goblin explains as he took a beautiful ebon dagger from one of his draws, placing it on his desk along with a golden goblet. "The goblet is used to separate the different type of family magic that you can have, the dagger is one of my favorites to use, it also has no magical compounds that will affect the blood magic. You will need to at least have the bottom of the goblet covered so that we can ensure that we have enough to look at when separating out the family magic."
I glanced at my Dom knowing he was uneasy with the thought of hurting myself, but we needed to get this done, without being prompted, I got both the dagger and goblet and took a seat on Draco's lap. Knowing this is easier, the protectiveness he would have once I made the cut.
I took one of his hands that automatically wrapped around my waist and pushed the goblet into it, so it would be easier for me to cut the palm of my hand. Once secured I swiftly made a diagonal cut, letting the blood flow freely into the goblet; the knife was sharper then what I thought it would be and I might have cut a little too deeply, but all the same the goblet was quickly filled.
Draco took the goblet and the dagger away from me and leaned forward to place it on the goblins desk, before taking my injured hand and licking it.
I blushed unsure of what was happening as Draco repeatedly ran his light pink tongue over the deep cut. I hissed as the stinging caught up with me.
Draco let out a low coo, as he tried to ease my pain the best he could. I could feel both the Older Malfoy's looking at us with a smug smile, but I was too busy with Draco, he released my hand that was when I saw that the cut that had once been on my hand was now healed. I was in shock I did not know that Veela had a healing ability for their mates, or maybe it was just a Dom thing, I will have to ask Draco about that later. Because our attention was being called back to the goblin who now had in hand a paper turned in our direction that was just filled with names and vault numbers.
"Thank you, young Mr. Malfoy, for taking care of your mate's hand, I would have called a healer, but I thought that you would be a little on the protective side about not being able to heal your mate." Draco just grunted still too much in Veela mode to answer the goblin in words.
"As you can see here Mr. Potter has a lot of connections, thanks to the potter's blood, black blood and the dead line of Morgan Le Fay, which was thought to be erased after Merlin. We will be looking into how exactly you are related to her, but it appears that an old squib line that your mother is from is the reason."
I took the Paper to read over exactly what family ties I have in the wizarding world.
Potter Line- Lordship
Potter- Lordship, Books and family heirlooms, Potter lands, and vaults 687, 875, and 1102
Peverell- Heir Slytherin, Invisibility cloak, ¼ Hogwarts, forgotten lands vault 958, 1175
Gryffindor- Heir Gryffindor, Sword of Gryffindor, ¼ Hogwarts, forgotten lands, vaults 967 & 1157
(Please send young Heir to the vault 1157 for further information)
Line from biological father
This line is grey magic and possible inheritance is Veela, elf, and Niko
Black Line- Lordship
Black- Lordship, Books and grimoire, Secret library and black lands, vaults 887, 112 and 1143
This line is from blood adoption and from Godfather
This line is Black Magic and Possible Inheritance Dark Elf
Morgan Le Fay- Heir
This line has been dead since the time of merlin. For resurrection of this line and Line Author, Merlin is willing to give young heir chance to bring the lines name into the light.
Morgan Le Fay- Heir, old forgotten books long lost since Merlin time, forgotten lands and castles, vaults 2,4, and 1700
Merlin- Heir (even though not blood descendent Merlin's magic is around to both protect young heir and as well as to talk to the young heir) Old accent texts (found in Hogwarts and ministry of magic), old tomes, vaults 1,2,7, and 7777
(please send Heir to vaults 7, for introduction to myself and Lady Morgan we would like to talk with him)
Line from Biological mother
This line is both light and Dark magic and possible Inheritance Elf and Veela
I was in shock at what I was reading. I was the lord of two lines and heir to many others. Was it always like this, or am I just a special one? Draco was reading over my shoulder and I could feel his shock through the bond as we got down to me being a descendant of Morgan Le Fay and having access to Merlin's old texts and vaults.
We handed the paper over to the older Malfoy's, so they could read. "Dear Merlin!" Cissa exclaimed as she set the paper on the desk. This was a lot more information then what I was expecting from this small visit.
I looked at the goblin, "S-Sir, I know that we are supposed to go down to the two separate vaults, but can we save that for another day with how many other things are happening today?"
"Yes, Lord Potter-Black, that is understandable, and will be considered. With both claiming of 2 lordships and 4 heirships, along with the healer review ordered by Lord Malfoy." The Goblin said
I started to relax, I don't think I was ready to meet one of the founders and the most powerful Dark Witch and Light Wizard known in time. He placed the inheritance paper in a tube-like thing and it was gone in a flash. Short seconds later there where 6 ring boxes sitting on the goblins desk.
"For the claiming of Lordship, we will need just three drops of blood on each ring and then we place the ring on your left index finger, these rings will form together and create one ring, but can be separated as well. For you Heir rings we place them on your right ring finger and let magic decide if you are fit to be heir." The goblin explained, setting the rings out on his desk.
I examined each ring, all crafted differently and each having its own type of character, "Can you tell me which ring goes with which line?" I asked leaning towards the rings to get a good look.
"Certainly," he pointed to the first on the right, "This is the lordship ring to the Potter line and the one next to it is the lordship ring to the Black line."
I looked at both closely; the Potter ring was of gold and a ruby to represent the sentence for Sir Gryffindor himself, the band was large, and the ruby was set in where the gold protected it with two diamonds on either side. The Black ring was set in white gold almost silver looking with an onyx stone, it had what seemed a Celtic trinity woven into the band.
"Then in order, is the Peverell, Gryffindor, Morgan Le Fay, then Merlin's." The goblin went on after I was done inspecting the Lordship rings. The Peverell ring was a large, Emerald set in white gold with bands weaving in and out of each other like snakes in a conglomerate. Gryffindor was just like the potter ring just a larger Ruby. The Le Fay ring was Sterling silver oval black onyx Celtic ring almost reminding me of the Blacks ring, but just the Celtic symbols where different. Then Merlin's was a sight to behold, the stone itself was something I have never seen before, it reminded me of looking at galaxy pictures back in Primary school, but more alive as I could see the movement of the swirls in the ring, it was the inlay in a black band that was also an unknow material I was just mesmerized and drawn to the ring.
I pulled my gaze away from the ring, "Do I have to wear the rings all the time or just when certain events happen?" I asked the goblin.
"You will have to wear your lord ship rings all the time to prove that you are the Lord Potter-Black, as for you Heir rings, no you can just put them back in the vaults as soon as they accept you. If they accept you." The goblin gave a scary toothy smile.
I gulped, nervous once again but nodded.
"Good then first we will start with the two lordships right if you please prick you finger and place three drops of blood upon the stone of each ring." He said handing me a small letter opener sized knife.
I took it and quickly pricked my finger letting the blood drop upon the rings. Draco took the injured finger and place it inside his mouth, I felt his tongue flick across the pad of my finger as he sucked on my finger, and I felt my face go red a small whine almost escaping my throat, but I was able to contain it… barely. I glared at him, but I saw a mischievous glint in his eyes. He knew what this was doing to me.
My raptured attention was pulled away as I felt the draw to the rings. The magic flowing through the room with a warm breeze, I picked up both rings knowing that they accepted me and placed them on my left index finger; there was a glow as the two rings melted into each other forming one ring. It was now a silver ring with a gold inlay, the two stones staggered the ruby on top of the onyx stone.
"Well done Lord Potter-Black, now let's move on to the heir rings. Please start with the Peverell ring and work your way from there."
I nodded at what was said before picking up the Heir ring and placed it on my right ring finger. I felt the magic of the ring meet my magic almost like a tidal wave washed over me as the two collided. At first, I was stuck in this cold wet feeling before it went away, and the ring glowed and was warmer to the touch.
"It has accepted you Lord Potter-Black," The goblin smiled before moving to the next.
I quickly made it through the Gryffindor ring not much of a wet feeling and almost instant glow and warming of the ring. The Morgan Le Fay Heir ring was a little different, I felt my power being drained into the ring at first, I thought it was denying me the Heirship, as my magic was sucked up into the black stone, but after a moment, it warmed to the touch and my magic rushed back into my body, with the glow it indicated it was through.
Last but not least Merlin's ring, I felt the power of the ring from here, I was almost afraid to place it on my finger. I swallowed my fear and reached to the ring, I shivered as I felt the powerful magic run through my body, just from that I was wondering how in the world Merlin's ring would accept me, I am nowhere near as powerful nor am I deserving of this ring. I slowly slipped the ring on my finger; my vision danced as the magic invaded my body, for a moment I thought I was sucked into the ring as I saw the starry magical invaded my vision. I felt as if I was one with magic, things I should not have known was now in my head, it was like I was seeing magic herself. Then as sudden as it started it ended, leaving my body exhausted at the same time empowered. I blinked a couple of times to clear my vision and I saw the Malfoy's looking at me with great concern while the Goblin was standing up at his desk observing the happenings. At first, I was disappointed thinking the ring denied me, but as I reached for it, the room lit up from the burst of galaxy colors and the ring grew warm and tightened itself around my finger.
"Well done, Lord Potter-Black, it seems the ring of Merlin has bonded itself to you accepting you as its new owner. Many have tried, but only you have succeeded such a feat. You are indeed destined for remarkable things."
The Goblin spoke in the riddle-like tone that most creatures seemed to get around me. I bowed my head, not wanting to be such a great wizard, I just wanted to be Harry.
"Let us take a small break and have some Lunch, before proceeding to the healing room, if that is alright with you Lord Malfoy."
I jerked my head up in shock. We've already been here half the day?! It seemed Mr. Malfoy was stunned at how much time went by as I saw a flicker of surprise that passed his mask.
"That will be indeed nice Ragnok, if you will have us. I have not realized how much time has passed. If during this lunch the papers for the vaults and such activities of young Mr. Potter's estates are ready I would like to look those over."
Ragnok nodded at Mr. Malfoy's request and stood up and made his way out of his office leaving us there to think about what has happened today; as well as what is to come.