A/N An annoyance with time made this update take so long, and a lack of giving a shit, is why I ended the chapter where it is.

Chapter Twenty One

Enter the Goblins

As I am about to lead him out of the store, I get a strong feeling that Harry should hide, so I quickly usher him back inside said cupboard and tell him: "Stay in there Harry, do not make noise if possible and do NOT leave untill I say it is clear oui?" He nods with slightly widened eyes as I add a few layers of Notice-Me-Not and Disinterest wards around it just in time for the doorbell to jingle, showing that someone has just entered the store. I hold my finger to my lips and head to the exit of the room and listen.

After some quick shuffling I hear what is obviously Borgin move towards to the front. "Ahh Lord Malfoy, and young Heir Malfoy, I am at your service." I sneer in disgust at his smarmy arse licking tone, but decide to have some fun at everybody else's expense. I push my way out of the storage room making the door slam with a loud bang causing all three of them to jump out of their skins. The look in their eyes when they see who it is...that flicker of fear is so very satisfying although the look from Draco had happiness and relief. Interesting.

"H-h-heiress Black-Rosier, I-I-I did not know you where here, I-if I had then I would not of been s-so-" He tries to flatter me with his weak oily 'charms' but I cluck my tounge and he instantly stops speaking. Out of the corner of my eye I see a look of shock and slight hope maybe on Draco's face. While Uncle Lucy has a very small happy smirk mixed with shock. Seems he has recovered then, yet he remembers his place. Good, good.

"Do not worry that you did not notice me here Borgin, that was the entire point. I had heard of a few interesting objects that you have recently aquired that seem to react to strong magical persons. I simply thought it prudent to supress my own aura so that I could investigate their worth. Not as much as I had hoped as it turns out. At least in magical terms. Continue with your sale. I shall catch up with my cousin. Come Draco."

Judging by the look of pure relief in Borgin's eyes, my on the spot lie not only worked, but is actually true. Granted since nothing since I arrived here pressed on my magic, it was slightly less of a lie than I thought it was. Interesting, I see a favour or two in the future. I give Borgin a look that says as such. A slight fearful nod is the acceptance I expected from him. I smirk as I know this will be VERY useful.

As Uncle Lucy starts his obviously dubious deals Draco runs over and I guide him in the storage room I arrived in. "Keep this to yourself Draco, or you will suffer. Understood?" He nods rapidly, I grin knowing that he obiously knows that I am his liege now, not just a cousin. I cancel the wards and tell Harry to come out. He does, which shocks the life of out Draco. The squeak he made was VERY amusing. I will never let him forget it.

They glare at each other for a few minutes as I look between them . "Why do you dislike each other?...The truth please." I finally ask after I see both of them attempt to say something, quickly look at me and then stop, of course the 'or else' is implied. Obviously it seems that I am missing something here. Finding out what can smooth out so MANY things over the next few years.

"Well Ron-"

"Weasely-"

"Stop!" I interrupt. Of course it is the red headed idiot. Why he cannot be like his brothers...

"Draco, what did Weasely do?" I ask him first since he knows I don't like Ronald much, if at all.

"He laughed at the fact that I was a Malfoy, a TRUE pureblood, and not only outright insulted me, but my entire family, as if the blood traitor has any concept of how we fought to gain what we did, and then for centuries how hard we had to fight to KEEP what we earned!" Draco states with pure passion in his belief.

He IS more or less right, after all the Malfoy Family joined William the Bastard in his conquest of England, same as the Black, LeStrange and Rosier families. Although the Malfoy family has had the hardest time since they are Noble in name only. At least until quite recently.

I nod in agreement. "Most of that is true yes, do NOT look at me like that Draco or feel my displeasure!... Harry, tell me what happened between yourself, Draco and Weasely."

He seems worried since Draco is here, but he can see that Draco defers to me, so he takes a deep breathe, exhales and says; "Well, after you ran off to do whatever you did, Ron asked if he could join me. I..well I didn't see why not so I said it was okay. He asked me if I really was Harry Potter and when I said I was he seemed a bit shocked but seemed to ignore it fairly quickly. He did kinda get over it by asking about Quidditch, and when I didn't know about it, he explained everything!"

"And what about why you chose Gryffindor?" I prompt him to explain. Making Draco's eyes widen as he realised the other house he could of been in. I also see the calculative gleam. Which makes me smirk in amusement and happiness. Draco is truly starting to earn his place.

"Umm.. well, Hagrid told me that everybody in Slytherin turns evil-" I interrupt with a growl, my anger builds to the point that I can feel the feathers sprouting from my body and my mouth and nose feel tight. I fight the transformation since not only have I never fully transformed, but doing so right now is a very bad idea. Draco grabs Harry and hides behind him. Smart.

It takes a little while but I barely notice Draco holding his hand over Harry's mouth to stay silent. I see movement from them and turn to stare. I waver in an out of knowing what is going on, I know both of their scents and that they mean no harm, not to me and not to each other. I know Harry's scent above all else, but it is slightly difficult to keep control of myself and not transform any further. I shake my head rapidly untill I feel my mouth and nose seperate and focus on the lack of threat. I come back to myself slowly with careful breathing and some difficulty.

I focus on retracting my feathers before I move on. Tonight I need to show Harry what I look like when I fully transform, so that he can truly know all of me. His reaction to my Fury form will define our relationship. His current shock is hopefully not a prelude, only because he didn't expect it.

I return to my normal form, albeit still very angry. I close my eyes and take a deep breath... hold it... and then release it slowly. I am in control again.

"Of course that Half-Giant abomination would say that. He cannot understand anything more than Food = Yum and Warm = Good. How DARE that ... that...THING insult my entire heritage ARGH!... I... shh shh shh Athena calm down, calm down. You do not want to scare Harry anymore than you have, shush shush. Slow deep breaths, slow deep breaths. Wfhoooo. Hmm okay, okay I am calm now. It's not worth it, move on. Stay calm, dont scare Harry, calm is good, calm is normal." I inhale and exhale several times.

It takes me a few seconds but I eventually do take my own advice and calm down. At least a little bit. "What did Ronald do to make you dislike Draco?" I ask to move on from something that angers me to what I hope is just a simple irritation.

"Well when Draco barged into our compartment he basicaly said that Ron was worth nothing and he was EVERYTHING. He made me think of my Muggle cousin and so I wanted nothing to do with him!" Harry says, although the look in his eyes shows what he saw then and what he sees now is quite different. It is obviously what he saw then isn't the whole truth now. I just hum slightly in acknowlagement of his words..

As Draco opens his mouth to speak I say "Draco, your father is about to call you to leave as his buisness is done. Send an owl to Harry if you wish to continue this dialouge. Keep this to yourself if you can. If not then say; you simply had to deal with me giving you an overly complicated discription of the runic curses of a blood letting knife and why it should be taught as a defence for Hogwarts Students. If nothing else it will annoy your Father, your Mother will understand as it is one of the Black Family secrets."

I hug him tightly and kiss his cheek goodbye. Harry gives him a hesitantly respectful nod. Draco grins at him before quickly leaving the room. I wait until him and his Father have left before smirking. I look at Harry and tell him that my 'advice' was actually a power filled compulsion. Seeing the shock I say; "Trust is one thing, but I would rather everyone does what I wish them to." He opens his mouth to say something, but stops and chooses to stay silent. Yeah, that is going to come back and bite me in the eyeball. Hopefully the right one, since my left eye is my favourite.

I cast another set of Aversion wards around Harry, only these ones are based on fear, fear of me to be exact. The more power in the wards, the more fear people feel. More than enough to leave Knockturn at least, although I MAY be trying to impress Harry a little. His wide eyes seem to say it's working. "Come on Harry, Mama is due to send a Veela Company to find me if we dont move quickly... again... and no, I am not joking." His eyes widen further and he seems shocked before he inhales quickly and runs after me. I giggle slightly at the thought of Cherry's reaction if she has to rescue me again.

After glaring at a few Hags who frequent the entrance of the alley; who honestly believe that leftover pig parts will entice anybody at all. "Shouting out that everything is fresh, is either a deathwish or a lie. No Pureblood with allow a hag to abduct a child, magical or not. Gives them ideas." I whisper to Harry. "Put your hand on my shoulder and stay right by me. Probably won't come to anything, but it is best not to risk it."

"How come everybody is scared of you? I mean, yes you ARE scary... but uhh I mean um..." Harry TRIES to ask, but tapers off.

"It's partially because I am a Black, partially because I am a Rosier, partially because I am a Veela, but mostly, it's because alot of my family have been Death Eaters." I reply... "Uhh followers of Voldemort." I add before he can ask.

"Wha-?"

"I despise Voldemort, he killed too many of my family, seduced more to his lies, and worse of all, risked bringing our world to the the attention to the Muggle world. I could never follow let alone ALLOW him to do anything he wished to do." I growl at him making him nod and smile a little. My growl scares away a quite smelly werewolf who probably wanted to attempt to pick our pockets, although the growl let him know that I am Veela. Which means either serious burns or death.

As we leave the slightly dark and opressive feeling of Knocturn, my Father is almost instantly there, I cancel all of the wards and hidden protections I cast on Harry. Daddy falters for a split second before he starts making jokes to distract Harry from what Daddy thought he may of seen. I stand there confused for longer than I wish to admit to. Some of those jokes are obviously guy jokes. They seem to be in their own little world, so I say "Have fun, meet at Gringotts." I just leave them to it and head towards the Apothacary.

I wander too close to an older couple complaining about frog liver prices that are apprantly too high right now. I, being my bored nosy self, decided to check on what they meant and from I can see; Yes the frog livers have gone from twelve knuts to fifteen knuts per pound. "I agree, WAYY too expensive, frogs are NOT hard to breed. Its the shop-keeper's fault." I say loud enough for all three of them to hear. The shop-keeper sees me and judging by his wide eyes knows who I am. The price of frog liver will soon be back to twelve knuts. The power of the Black family continues.

I listen to a few more whisperings and complaints, most of them are about prices or lack of stock. Almost all complaints are unfounded, the things they want are not always so easy to get ahold of. Idiots, useless wastes of air idiots.

Bleh if you dare complain about the price of a KNOWN very rare object, then do the obvious thing and search for the cheapest. But no, no of course they don't... they just complain and buy it anyway... I feel so VERY tempted to point out their stupidity, but that would require talking to them... Idiots are NOT worth it.

Some of the people though, I can hear their insults towards my mother, my sister and myself due to us being Veela. We always ignore those comments, since they are much more common than you would think. Amusingly, none of them are from the very same families that they themselves prosecute for being bigots... hard to tell if it is amusing or annoying.

Grumbling to myself about the lack of respect. I head towards my family only to hear something about orange bubbles. "What is this about orange bubbles? Gold bubbles gather more attention." I say in my Father's ear. Making him squeak and jump. "Awww did Daddy get scawwed?" I grin.

A glare and a smack across my head is my welcome. Sometimes I feel truly loved by all.

"Mama why?" I ask, feeling betrayed.

"He didn't scream." Was her matter of fact answer. Can't argue with that I guess.

"I shall succeed next time. Now, shiny things time." I declare as I walk towards Gringotts. Making sure I regain control.

Pan herds them after me, Daddy's spluttering is amusing enough that Mama lets it happen, normally its her herding us.

I notice Harry start to read the Gringotts Spell Plaque, so I quickly cover his eyes before he finishes it. "Don't read that Harry, it's an invocation spell. It is a quite impressive work, since it based on the the arrogance of Humans. I can feel your frown Harry, I will explain when it is safe." I whisper into his ear as I guide him through the doors after bowing my head to each of the door guards.

As we cross the threshold I feel more at ease making me smile. I had forgotten about the trust ward. "Mama?" I question.

"I am probably going to regret this... but go ahead Athena, make a scene and announce our return." Mama signs heavily making me grin. Which makes Mama grimace and hold Harry close to whisper what I am about to do in his ear.

I stroll directly into the middle of the Lobby; seeing out of the corner of my eye that several Goblin tellers take cover after noticing me. I giggle slightly... they remember me. I clear my throat to prepare. The wide eyed floor manager Steelclaw, started shaking his head rapidly which just makes me want to do it more. I grin at him, which makes him seem as if he is about to cry. He vanishes through a backdoor no doubt to fetch someone higher up than him.

I cast a sonorus charm on myself before I screech as high pitched as I can, which is more than enough to cause a few fake crystals to shatter annoying a Teller since it made a mess, before saying; "HI!" then cancelling the charm and heading back to my family and linking my arm with Harry's and wave at the shocked crowd.

A/N 2 NO I will not be doing the cliché Lord Potter, not will he become an adult and be forced to marry at Eleven.