A/N:

Okay! I'm posting a couple of ideas/snippets I found lying around, adding some bits of writing. However, it's important for you all to note I'm not really spell-checking these or doing a lot of proof-reading. I'm just throwing these few things out for the fun of it. This is the first, hope you enjoy!

Some ideas for a female Harry's introduction to goblins and goblin society…

Important Goblin OCs

Agate

Head of female cross-species healing at Gringotts, she is not to be trifled with. She is blunt and no-nonsense with little patience for time-wasters. However, she has a deep sense of passion and duty for her position and cares greatly for her patients.

Iolite

Young and timid, Iolite serves as a vault runner and currier at Gringotts bank. However, pity the fool who takes her timidity for weakness.

Carnelian

Sharper than a tack, Carnelian has served as a manager of Potter affairs for decades. Although she appears intimidating at first glance, she acts with unexpected grace and elegance. Observant and tactful, she holds a soft spot for children.

Lazuli

Young and energetic, Lazuli serves as a front clerk at Gringotts bank. It is a joke that she can talk faster than the speed of a Gringotts cart. However, this does not mean she is foolish or incompetent. In fact, she puts much emphasis on proper decorum and rules and is easily offended when they are ignored.

Tenra

An apprentice healer, Tenra holds bedside manner in spades, especially when compared to the brusk Agate. However, this does not mean she will sugar-coat things. Instead, she tends to translate all the "scary" medical lingo and possibilities into language the patient can understand. She helps make patients feel safe, cared for, aware, and in control. Superiors, including Agate, believe she will have a promising career as a mind-healer.

Marit

Marit is the female leader of Gringotts alongside her male counterpart, Ragnok. Although somewhat aware of Goblin custom, many wizards and witches discount her importance. They view her more as a king's consort, bed partner, and mother of heirs rather than a queen and leader in her own right. However, Marit is as fierce and clever as her partner, and pity the fool who crosses her.

Soraya

Soraya serves as one of Gringotts most esteemed experts on dark and obscure curses. She often works overseas with the Egyptian clans. However, she is occasionally called back to London for matters of importance. She is one of few words unless what she speaks holds some weight and meaning. As such, when Soraya speaks, others listen.

Beryl

Beryl serves as honor guard for Marit. She pulls no punches and is rather abrasive. It is not easy to get her to show her softer side. Many believe she has none.

Goblin Society

Goblin society is different from Muggle and wizard society in certain ways. For one thing, both genders are entirely equal without any gaps between males and females. It is goblin practice for like to handle like with little cross-gender interaction, especially pertaining to young and/or single individuals. For example, goblin children are taught in single-sex environments until late adolescence. Even then, there are always two teachers per subject, one male and one female. Also, with wizard interactions, males work exclusively with males, females with females. This is why Gringotts counters are set up as they are, with one long counter going down either side of the lobby. As such, when Hagrid brings in young, clueless Esmeralda Potter, he massively breaches goblin etiquette by attempting to bring her to the male side of the room.

Goblins are all very shrewd and intelligent. In crafts, their skill is often unparalleled, especially in metalwork. They hold a dim view of thieves and liars. They also believe that crafts belong to the crafter rather than the purchaser, and the purchase is simply a long-term agreement for the purchaser to rent the product.

Added Note:

I had the vague idea of making Esmeralda Potter somehow goblin kin, a little bit similar, but different, to what most of us assume in our head cannons about Flitwick. That's what got me thinking on the separate idea of goblin society taking a separate but equal sort of odd stance on gendered interaction.

Anyway, in such a universe where Harry is goblin kin, goblin procreation works differently to that of witches and wizards, allowing for the inclusion of multiple parents in a child's genetic material. Historically, wizards and witches, when desperate enough, have come to goblins to aid in the creation of a bloodline heir. The amount of goblin genetics contributed varies from case to case, possibly impacting physical, magical, mental, and emotional traits influenced by genetics.

I don't know why I came up with that idea, and I'd likely never do anything with it. However, I just kind of wanted to play with it a bit, though it could work without the strict gender-separate society idea I outlined above. Come to think of it, both ideas probably would not work great together, though I wanted to get both out there, ah well! The following snippet comes from the assumption that Esmeralda Potter is entirely human, but her gender makes all the difference in her goblin interactions.

Esmeralda Potter was out of her depth. In the span of a scant few hours, her entire world had been turned upside-down. It felt like her mind was going at 1000 MPH, even during the short time she had slept the night before. She didn't know what was the largest shock: that she was a witch, that her parents had been murdered rather than killing themselves in a drug-addled car crash, or that she was famous?

Mr. Hagrid had said they would be shopping for school supplies. Esmeralda was worried, though. She didn't have any money. Half in a daze after the crush of people at the odd pub she and Hagrid just passed through, still gaping at the sights of the alley around her, Esmeralda gave voice to her concerns.

"Don't yeh worry 'bout thah, Essie," Mr. Hagrid said warmly. Esmeralda wrinkled her nose at the nickname. "Yeh didn' think yer parents lef' yeh with nothin', did yeh?"

"Erm…" Esmeralda trailed off awkwardly.

"We'll be goin' there firs'," Mr. Hagrid said, pointing to a majestic marble building which towered over all the other buildings in the alley. "Gringotts, the wizard bank."

Slowly, they approached. Esmeralda noticed that the front doors appeared to be made of, or coated in, some sort of bronze material. As they passed through them, they entered a small vestibule with silvery doors leading to the rest of the building.

Esmeralda's eyes were drawn to a poem etched into the doors. Quickly, she read it. Although unnerving, she supposed the poem made sense. One should never steal, especially from a bank. Perhaps the method was more antiquated and threatening than would be seen in the Muggle world but, she thought to herself, that was just it. She was in a whole new world, so she had best keep her mind open and her mouth shut.

Taking one last look around the vestibule, Esmeralda suddenly noticed she and Mr. Hagrid were not alone after all. Two beings, for lack of a better word, guarded the entrance. One was positioned on the left, the other on the right. As the silver doors opened, they swept into bows. Esmeralda, uncertain what to do, did an awkward sort of curtsey in response as she passed through.

"They're goblins," Mr. Hagrid said softly, which probably meant only half the people in the large room could hear him. "Clever, but not the most friendly o' beasts."

Esmeralda shuffled awkwardly. She didn't much like Hagrid referring to the goblins as "beasts". It seemed demeaning to her, and hit far too close to home besides. After all, how often had she been called a little beast by her relatives and others they influenced? As she averted her gaze from Mr. Hagrid, it fell upon the rest of the room. They were in a very large marble chamber. Going down either side were tall, marble counters with tellers evenly spaced down each. Something seemed a little different from one side to the other, but she was uncertain what it could be.

As Mr. Hagrid led Esmeralda to a line on the right, there was suddenly a flurry of motion from the left. Someone from the left was rushing over in some great hurry. Esmeralda wondered why. . . until the person, one of the goblin tellers, approached.

"Halt!" the being barked. It took that one word for Esmeralda to realize that the being was a lady. "What, may I ask, do you think you are doing?"

"Jus' takin' young Essie here ter get her funds," the large man said uncertainly.

"And you did not send her to the appropriate counter why?" the lady goblin snapped.

"She's new to magic, see, and I…" Hagrid started.

"You should have had a female escorting her then, shouldn't you?" the lady goblin cut across him.

"But Professor Dumbledore…" Mr. Hagrid tried to argue.

"Is not relevant, as he is also male and taking such an interest in a young witchling's Gringotts affairs is extremely inappropriate." the lady goblin hissed.

"But I also have ter pick up…" Mr. Hagrid tried again.

"You shall do your business over here, while I take this child to get sorted." the lady goblin said, brooking no argument. Esmeralda was admittedly confused. Why was it such a big deal that Hagrid was taking her over to one side of the bank rather than the other? She could only assume, based on context, that it had something to do with gender norms, though she didn't quite understand the issue. The only time she'd been separated from other boys had been at the end of year six, as the gym teacher and the school nurse had divided her class along gender lines to talk about puberty. Somehow, Esmeralda figured the goblin separation was much more important. With nothing else to go off of, she remembered her promise to herself from earlier, keeping her mind open and her mouth shut as she followed the quick, precise strides of the lady goblin over to her station along the left-hand counter.