what up, what up
†
When Clarisse finally made it out of lawyers office Severus sprinted his way out and stopped next to her.
"Mum said - that she'll - take care of it. Okay wait.." He took deep breaths and continued, "Mum also said she wanted to stay and - uh talk more about how she could get the police to arrest dad." He said looking red, "So she said for us to explore Diagon Alley cause she put a tracker? On me so she could find us easily."
Clarisse was rather delighted that she had some "alone" time without adult supervision.
"Okay Severus, what we are going to do is super secret okay? I previously planned to get your mother away so she wouldn't ask what I'm going to do at Gringotts but now no need for that. So, Gringotts first."
†
Gringotts is unmissable. It's the whitest, most cleanest place on Diagon Alley. Walking up to it Clarisse felt a sort of Deja Vu because the Harry Potter producers did a wonderful job at setting up the movies because they look almost alike in real life. Both Severus and her walked into the Bank and looked around amazed, even though Severus had visited Diagon Alley once or twice he'd never taken in the details of the place. Always kept his face down and covered by his mother's cloak. But now he saw every detail of Diagon Alley. Clarisse was fascinated by the Goblins and how dark and elegant it looked inside. Clarisse spotted a Goblin that didn't look to busy and walked up to him cautiously, dragging Severus by his hand.
"Excuse me sir, sorry for interrupting you, but I have important matters to talk about urgently and privately. Well we both do. We'll need different representatives and rooms." Severus sort of tugged on her and gave her a puzzled face and she gave back a later face.
The Goblin gave her a calculating look.
"Yes, I can see. My name is Miktrec, follow me." He got of his post and walked them to the only door on the wall behind him.
"Why do you want me to see a Goblin?" Asked Severus nervously.
"I want you to tell them about what happened to your mother, I'm sure your mother wouldn't want to burden your grandparents with what happened to her in the past decade. And you should ask for their opinion on your next steps to reconcile with the Prince family. I will have to open an account, a vault?, and exchange my muggle money and stuff like that you know. Also, I'm pretty sure they have connections to muggles and their higher authority so maybe tell them about finding your dad." She said quickly for him not to ask more questions.
"Um, okay then…" Severus said skeptically.
This time they entered what looked like a waiting room with cubicles. But because they are the only two inside the Goblin took them separately into different cubicles which expanded immensely as Clarisse and Severus entered alone into their assigned offices.
†
A couple minutes later another Goblin made it's way into Clarisse's Office.
"My name is Puxch, Miktrec told me of the aura you carry on you. I'm here to get answers and of course once I know what's happening I'll try to answer questions that you have, the many as I can of course." Said the Goblin seated on his office chair. He crossed his hands and looked at her patiently.
"Yes, hello Puxch, to start off, my arrival has been 3 days ago, wow 3 days ago. Anyways I was in another time and life and now well I'm here. To clarify, my name was Angeli, I'm was 19 years old and from the year 2015. But from another universe, world, realm, I don't know but what I do know is that Magic is not real where I was from. Now, 4 days ago I was driving in my family's company van and made a sarcastic plea to a God, or something, and suddenly I am thrown into this world. I mean I think I died or something, I clearly don't know, and then I wake up in an orphanage, in this vessel and well yeah."
She really didn't know how to explain, Puxch made her a little nervous. Mostly because he just sat there and listened. Finally after a while he moved and walked out the room. Okay wow, rude.
Clarisse just sat there for a whole 5 minutes and finally Puxch came in with another Goblin.
"We have nothing to say. We would have thought you'd be from another time and from a different country, because of your accent, but to be of another world makes things a lot more complicated. While you were talking I casted my own diagnostic and found that what has been casted upon you looks to be irreversible. You're going to have to make due until we come up with who and why this spell has been used upon you."
She bit her bottom lip trying her best to not cuss out loud. On the outside, she looked like a little girl who just lost her teddy bear biting her lip trying not to cry. But on the inside of her head, FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCKITY FUCK, on repeat.
After a while the second Goblin handed Puxch three wand like things. He left and Puxch sat down.
"Well, what we can do is find out exactly who is the vessel you are walking around in. It's a simple test, you just said you awakened in an orphanage and with these tests we can find out who the parents are. How are you living your life as?"
"Well right now I'm now Clarisse Odette, that's the girl's name, I'm a metamorphmagus 'seer'." She said with air quotations and then clasping her hands together.
"A metamorphmagus you say, interesting. Now may I ask, are you a seer?" Said the goblin grabbing blank parchment.
"Yes, well you see, in this other world there are these series of books, and it talks about these certain characters and adventures, battles, wars. It's about Hogwarts and it's Headmaster Dumbledore," she said it with a scrunched up nose, "It's also about a cerberus, souls in objects, a mirror that shows your desires, quidditch, basilisks, werewolves, a phoenix, a triwizard tournament, terrible death, resurrections, a pink toad, a secret room for a secret club, more death, a veil, death eaters, attacks, more death, the deathly hallows, a hunt, the successful break in here-" she sniggers here because of the Goblins outraged face, "with the dragon." "WHAT! THAT'S PREPOSTEROUS!" he yells while he stands up. She lifts her hand telling him she has more to say.
"And at last the war with a very much decimated Hogwarts." She finished off as if nothing had happened. "These books wrote what could have become your future."
The Goblin just sat there thinking over what she just said. "What did you mean by souls in objects?"
"Ah, okay well as you know, dark times are ahead of us, and this darkness has been around for more than a decade. There is an evil man walking these grounds claiming to be a dark lord."
"Ah yes. I've heard of him. Many Pure Blooded families have withdrawn from their vaults to support this man. As a matter a fact I have a few meetings with them after we are done here."
Hmm….. interesting.
"Well I will be coming here constantly to prevent many of the events I've just spoken about. Also because I will be opening a vault here. Also with your help I will share with Gringotts all I know of the future to make a good profit, you know… with bets." At this the Goblin sat straight with pleasure that they just gained a reliable source to make more money.
"Yes well, Gringotts welcomes you to the wizarding world. Use this life as if it was your own because that's what it is. It's yours to do what you want. The child that once was in your body has passed on, no child can handle a soul transportation, whatever kind." the Goblin finished solemnly.
"Hmm, that sucks to know actually. Um I want to know who her family could have been… like who was she related to and stuff?"
Puxch came up to her with the wand-like objects and blank parchment.
"I will obtain your blood with these readers. One reads your health, the other is for your bloodline and the last will show your identity just for you to have for whenever you go to the ministry to apply for your apparition license and other licences. Ready."
She nodded and held out her hand to have the blood taken from her. Each reader with a sample was set aside on the table. One was grabbed and the Goblin held it to the parchment. Words started to appear and even though Clarisse was fascinated by the magic but she looks away because she doesn't know what it says.
"Well, you are healthy, you will need to take a dragon-pox prevention potion and well because of your developed brain you will not need help controlling your metamorphosing abilities. Now next test."
He went to his desk for another blank parchment and left the second reader next to it.
"May take a while, would you like some tea or anything else?"
"Uh yeah I'd like some tea…" I wonder how wizards tea tastes like…
He left and Clarisse's eyes fell onto the working reader. The parchment was growing in size. oh damn, she's related to a lot of people… I am?
Puxch came back inside with a tea tray, "How do you like it?"
Damn I really don't know. "Surprise me." She said watching him add milk and one teaspoon of sugar. Never had milk with my tea but I guess.
She held out her hand and grabbed her cup while the reader finally stopped writing. The parchment seemed to be at least 2 feet long.
"Huh." Puxch said. "It is said here that your vessel was the daughter of Alexander Wilkins and Samantha Shafiq. The last heir to the Shafiq Noble family, your father a muggle, your mother a squib. But that is easily dismissed, see here it also added your former life's family tree. You had some magic in your previous body. States here that you are a direct descendant of the Turquoise God of Fire and Lord of the Year Xiuhtecuhtli (she wa te KWA tle). It explains here that your line is full of squibs, that the very first of your line was transported to your realm, because it no longer existed here. But this family starts in Spain, a muggle woman, who sired the children of a dying wizarding line in what is now Mexico. The wizard transported his only son, who was a squib, when he was at the legal wizarding age when their wars started, they were a royal family and when their land was under attack, to preserve their line the transportation was enacted. At the time the line stopped existing, it began in your world… your Mexico. In a way, you're right where your family should have been. I guess somehow it thought you strong enough to bring you back home."
Clarisse was confused until she remembered that a few years ago her mother's elite group made a performance to her family's ancestry and it was very tribal like. Wow, I really have to start paying attention to history.
"Oh, okay… That explains sort of how I came here. But that doesn't explain how the certain books that I've just talked about made it's way to my old world." She thinks about it but then shrugs and decides not to look into it, I'm not about to look for trouble and investigate.
"We can transfer your vaults into our bank," said Puxch with a grin, "it'll probably take a month of transferring the many vaults and especially from such distance but it's possible. You have to come with us to prove you are the right heir." said Puxch greedily at the thought of more money in the bank.
"Yeah sure I'll go, I love Mexico, been there 4 times actually, I wonder if it's the same. Anyways you could probably do all the charges with the money of well my "mother's" money you know. You can owl me when you are all ready to leave. Also, I can take out money right? I mean figuratively speaking I am an adult in my mind. I can take charge of my money right?"
Puxch ran ideas into his mind and said, "Yes actually. You can take your money seeing as you are the last in each line, the Shafiq and the Xiuhtecuhtli. You can't obviously buy a wand because you haven't been trained to use one but I will give you a money pouch attuned to only you." He opened a cabinet and took out a pouch.
"What color would you like it?" asked Puxch.
"What are my house colors? For both of them." Asked Clarisse.
He grabbed the Bloodline Parchment and said, "Light Purple for Shafiq and Turquoise for Xiuhtecuhtli, obviously."
"Okay um I'd like the rim and bottom to be black, the bag itself to be turquoise and the embroidering Light Purple and on it the Letters X and S on each side and then leave the other two sides blank." She said and when she was done imagining her bag she looked that it was done already. It was better than she thought it would be.
"It will be worn on your wrist at all times and only you can take it out and only willingly. If anyone notices that you can't pay them they will immediately alert the Aurors to help you out. It will be transfigured into a bracelet until time of purchase where it will revert to it's normal size, etc. I will also need blood for this to acknowledge its owner." He lent out his hand and she reached out hers. He cut her palm wide open, ouch what the fuck, and she watched as blood dripped onto the bag. She gasped when the cut immediately healed.
"Awesome. Now will this only be in wizarding money or muggle money as well?" She asked admiring her new bracelet.
"Yes it will also call out to muggle money but it will look as it you are just holding a muggle check book or if you hide your hand in your purse, just ask for the money you need and you will be handed the desired amount. In your bag you will also carry inside you identification. Guessing you will be living around muggles I will also provide you with their type of identification as well. Now to finish the third task for you." He grabbed the third reader and grabbed a sheet of what looked like gold. This time he added words and when he set down the reader on the gold it glowed and in the end what was left was what looked like two sheets of crisp and clean parchment and two muggle identification cards.
"This will self update and oh look, you have two sets of identifications. One for the name Clarisse Odette Wilkens-Shafiq and another for Angeli Rodriguez Xiuhtecuhtli."
What. The. Fuck. "I have too many names. Why can't I just stick with one?"
Puxch just shrugged and dropped her cards into the bag. "You can change your name when you turn 17, to claim your vaults officially and your properties."
"WAIT. I have properties? I'm officially a homeless orphan! I need a house to live in!"
The goblin was a little irritated now that this meeting was taking much longer than anticipated but he took out the Shafiq property list. "These are the properties of Shafiq, most are here in near Diagon Alley and some are around Hogsmeade in Scotland."
There were at least 15 properties on the list and she couldn't help but feel greedy. Oh god, there is one with 20 bedrooms.
She found a townhouse in London that had 5 bedrooms. But the reason she picked it was mostly because it had a garage and the one closest to the city. Gotta have somewhere to shop for groceries and keep in touch with the muggle world.
"I want this one." She said affirmatively, and the Goblin just looked at her weird.
"Wouldn't you want the family Manor with 10 bedrooms?" he asked.
"Hah, yeah no thank you, that'll be later when I'm way older, what am I going to do with a manor all on my tiny own. Besides it has a garage, totally need that."
"What's a garage?" Asked Puxch, still confused over her choice of properties.
"Well it's like a shed but bigger, connected to the house, and mostly a place to store your cars."
"Okay, it's actually the newest properties in the list, perhaps it was the home of your mother." He said. "It's very new and no one will know of your residence their. When you are of age it can be modified to be unplottable, warded, and under the fidelus charm. I will give you the address and a portkey to take you there when you are ready, the password will be Rodriguez."
He charmed a string and gave it to her, which she then wrapped around her wrist.
"Uhuh, thanks Puxch. I'll be back around next month for other business. Thank you for your help and sorry for not knowing how to properly address you and the rest of the Goblins and sorry again for not wanting to learn them because I am too lazy to start right now. Maybe I'll start next month, but anyways thank you for helping me and Severus next door." She stood up and walked out to the waiting room where Severus was sitting at reading a book.
I never got to try my tea.
†
When Severus Snape walked into the office he didn't know what to do. Clarisse told him to tell the goblins what has happened with his mother and for their help with his dad. I don't think I should ask help from my mother's parents. I don't even know if they know about me.
Miktrec came in and sat across from him. "What is it that you need our help with?"
And so Severus told him what happened a while ago with extra details because he saw the way his father ordered her around.
"Gringotts can help you with bringing justice to you and your mother. Our contacts in the muggle world will look for him to check on how is it that he got a hold of those vows. What is your mother's maiden name?"
Severus didn't want to say but they just had to ask. "Prince." he said softly.
The Goblin just nodded and wrote on a different piece of parchment quickly. He waved his hands and the parchment disappeared. "The House of Prince has been notified of what has happened to their daughter and grandson. What happens next with them is obviously up to them. Is there any other help you need in?"
Severus was to shy and not at all ready for that question. He's not used to being asked what he wants yet. "I saw other people coming in here and greet you in a different manner. How can I learn all that my mother couldn't teach me?"
The Goblin nodded and grabbed something from a cabinet on his desk. "We usually keep these in stock for muggleborns who ask but you're an exception." He said handing him a thick book.
"Wow, thank you Miktrec." The book looked crisp, clean, and most importantly… new. Severus couldn't wait to start reading it. He secretly read the books his mother brought back from her old home and now he has one he could read in front of her without being scared of being caught.
He walked out and sat on the chairs in the front room to wait for Clarisse. He wouldn't know how much longer it will take for her to come out so he decided to start reading the book. He was a good 15-20 pages in when he finally felt a presence next to him.
†
"Hey there, sorry for taking forever, they held me back because I found out who my parents were and had to take care of all that. No biggie." She said sitting next to him.
"Oh, it's okay. It wasn't that long… I think, I was too busy reading too take notice to be honest." Severus said shutting his book close. "Who are your parents?"
"Oh um, my dad was a muggle and my mom a squib. Sucks she didn't get the magic gene, am I right?" She said giggling. "Well let's get ready for some shopping, seems like being an orphan is literally paying off. Pun intended." She got on her feet, "Let's head off."
Suddenly they heard, "Follow me Lord Black, Lord Malfoy your vault managers are waiting for you." Immediately Clarisse morphed into Mindy Kaling, she shrugged and made quick eye-contact as if telling him to stay put and play along.
Thank god I wore that really long shirt or else I'd look weird as hell. Well I already do look weird in the wizarding world…
Turning back to the entrance she froze as they all walked into the room.
†
Mhmmmmm.