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Chapter three: Thrice Defied
"Enter Strangers, but take heed Of what awaits the sin of greed, For those who take, but do not earn, Must pay most dearly in their turn. So if you seek beneath our floors A treasure that was never yours, Thief, you have been warned, beware Of finding more than treasure there."
Lily shuttered as she passed under those words at Gringotts. She often felt like something was living in the passageways beneath her office. She could vaguely make out grunts and silent roars. The goblins were very secretive about their security measures, and even more secretive about their punishments. If they every caught Lily snooping around with Wizarding accounts, getting fired would be the last of her concerns.
She smiled politely as she passed Rigger in her morning routine, he lifted his head a spoke, "are you hiding something Mrs. Potter?"
Lily was startled, "no," she said suddenly.
It seemed like an eternity, but he stood there searching her up and down. "Very well," he finally said.
Lily rushed to her desk, and dashed out of the view of the head goblin. She was shaking nervously as she searched through her daily reports, she was searching for two words in particular. She shuffled quickly, anxiety filling her with dread.
"What if Rigger knows, what if he's watching me at this very moment," she though frantically.
Finally those precious two words appeared, Tom Riddle. The account was still untouched. She quickly snatched the file and hide it under her robes. Her heart was racing, but she knew what she had to do. There was filing cabinet on the third floor for protected or sealed accounts. Wizards and witches who owed the bank money, or were in debt to any of the goblin's connections were protected and sealed. They were untouchable.
Rigger didn't raise his head as Lily casually walked by him on her way to the third floor. She was grateful. Her heart felt like it was about to burst. Beads of sweat forming on her forehead. When she reached the desk of the goblin who guarded the protected or seal accounts she felt her heart stop.
"I need to check an account," she said quickly.
"Name," the goblin said emotionless, not looking up from his book.
"Lily Potter," she replied.
He stared up at her, "remember, nothing comes out of this room without the permission of Rigger," he reminded her.
"I understand," she agreed.
"Enter," he said looking back down at his book.
She rushed over to a filing cabinet and shoved the file under it's appropriate letter. She had gotten away with it, her task was done.
"May I inquire what your doing up here Mrs. Potter?" asked and eerie voice.
"Mr. Rigger, I was looking for information on an account I'm reviewing," she lied.
He squinted his eyes, "which account?"
She felt her heart leap up into her chest, "the Bagman account," she thought quickly.
"I wasn't aware that was one of your accounts?" he accused. She was starting to panic, her face had gone pale, and she was forgetting to breath.
"Mr. Bagman is a personal friend of mine, and he asked me to check to see what his debt with the bank was," she was getting desperate.
The corners of Rigger's mouth cracked, "I thought higher of you Mrs. Potter. Associating with that crook Ludo Bagman."
Lily was feeling some relief, "I apologize for my sneakiness, I was just looking our for the best interest of the bank."
Rigger was obviously trying to decide whether or not believed her story. "Very well," he finally said, "carry on, and report to me on the status of his account."
Rigger walked swiftly back to the guard desk, and muttered something to the goblin at the desk. Lily pulled out the Bagman file, anxious not to raise any more suspicions about what she was truly doing.
She gather the information and dashed back to her office, with a minor stop to get cleared by the guard goblin at the desk.
Only one last task to do to clear up any loose ends on the Riddle account. She looked through the accounts pending file, a payout of 900 gallaons was due to come out that evening, "disappeara," she muttered. The paper disappeared and Lily smiled with relief.
She pulled out the information she had collected on Bagman's account, and began to prepare a analysis for Rigger, it was going to be a long day.
About five hours passed without incident, that's when it happened. A strange looking woman dressed in black approached one of the goblin tellers.
"Do you have your key?" he asked.
She passed the key silently to him. He took it in his hands and closely examined it.
"I'm sorry, but that account is sealed," he informed her.
She lifted her cold eyes, "what?" she said in an evil tone.
"That account is sealed," he repeated.
"Impossible!" she protested. "Check your records again, I have already placed a request to transfer 900 gallaons this very evening."
The goblin looked into a small orb placed discretely on his desk, "I'm sorry, there is no record of that request. That account is sealed," he said coldly. "good day."
"YOU STUPID CREATURE," she yelled, "I DEMANDED TO SPEAK TO YOUR SUPERIOR."
"May I help you," Rigger said coolly from behind.
"Yes, this associate of yours is saying my account is sealed," she said hatefully.
The goblin teller, passed his orb over to Rigger who smirked, "I'm sorry but the account is sealed, our hands are tied."
"DAMN YOU FILTY CREATURES," she tried to calm herself, "there must be some mistake."
"Mam, nothing is taken into our out of our sealed room without my permission," he turned hatefully on his heels, "there has been no mistake."
The dark woman was fuming, she spun around and Lily recognized her immediately. Bellatrix Black was gripping her wand under her robes, debating whether to attack and fight her way to the sealed funds. Lily gasped, and tried to make herself unseen. It was too late.
"YOU," she shrilled. She pushed her way over to Lily's desk, "what is a filthy mudblood doing in a wizarding establishment such as this?" she asked hatefully.
"Hello Bellatrix," Lily said politely.
Bellatrix looked cautiously around the room. Her eyes wandered on all the goblins now eyeing her and Lily, yet her eyes found there way back to her school mate.
"I know it was you," she said softly. "You've been warned."
Bellatrix cracked a sadistic grin and walked out the door. Lily wasn't sure how long she stared at the door. She knew Bellatrix was evil, she wasn't accused of being a death eater yet, but Lily's heart told her that she was one.
It took nearly two hours of steady work to drown out the image of Bellatrix Black. Lily was working vigorously on her assigned accounts, when she heard one of the goblins tell Rigger, "good evening."
Lily pretended not to notice that everyone was leaving the bank, she had to stay. She had a gut feeling that the death eaters would attack the bank. She pulled Dumbledore's list out of her pocket, stake out 7 o'clock.
She slowly began to gather her things, the members of the Order would be gather outside in Diagon alley soon.
"It's time to close up Mrs. Potter," Rigger said shortly.
Lily smiled politely at him, "of course."
She gather her things and with a few delay, made her way out the front doors.
James Potter was waiting for her beautiful wife outside, and his heart melted when she finally appeared.
"Hello love," she said sweetly before giving him a welcoming kiss.
"How did it go?" Sirius muttered quietly.
Lily gave him a worried glare, "fine," she said almost in a unheard whispered.
"Excellent," he muttered to himself.
"Who else is meeting us tonight?" Lily asked her two male companions.
"Peter will be here shortly. He had some type of delay," James said as he glanced around.
Lily looked back up towards the bank.
"Enter Strangers, but take heed Of what awaits the sin of greed, For those who take, but do not earn, Must pay most dearly in their turn. So if you seek beneath our floors A treasure that was never yours, Thief, you have been warned, beware Of finding more than treasure there."
"I think we're going to need more help than that tonight," she said quickly.
"What happened?" Sirius asked .
"Not here," she warned. "Go tell Dumbledore that there will be an attack tonight."
James had sweat beads forming on his forehead, and he was starting to understand the seriousness of the situation.
"Lily, you go, me and Sirius will stay here and wait," James tried.
"No," she said quickly, "you two don't know the banks secrets, you could get killed if you don't know what your doing."
James knew she was right.
Sirius nodded, "I'll be quick." He apparated.
James pulled Lily close, "don't worry, everything is going to be fine." He sounded unconvinced.
A loud pop sounded just a few feet behind them and caused them both to jump.
"Hey guys, where is Sirius?" said Peter looking around happily.
"He's gone to get." James lowered his voice "help."
James pulled Peter very close so only he could hear, "there is going to be a death eater attack tonight on Gringotts."
Peter's face went pale white, "are you sure?"
Lily nodded.
"Oh My God, what are we suppose to do?" Peter asked worriedly.
Lily spoke up this time, "hold them off until help arrives."
James felt a horrible pain pierce his stomach. He had a feeling that Lily had no idea of what she was suggesting.
"Well, we better hide, so we'll at least have the element of surprise," Peter suggested. James nodded in support of the idea.
Sirius arrived at the headquarters of the Order in a panicked fashion.
"Black, what on Earth is wrong with you," croaked Alastor Moody.
"Attack on Grigotts tonight," he choked out.
"Bloody hell," Moody swore. "Well what are we waiting for?"
Sirius shook his head, "James, Lily and Peter are already there, but we're going to need more help."
Moody nodded his head in agreement, "the Longbottoms are in the kitchen I'll get them." "Frank, Alice come out here will ya," Moody said loudly.
"Alastor is something wrong?" Alice asked as she made her appearance in the doorway.
"Yea, grab Frank. There is going to an attack on Gringotts and we need all the help we can get."
Sirius, Moody, Frank and Alice all aparated quickly back to Gringotts.
The sun began to fade in the evening sky, and Lily felt a dreadful feeling in the pit of her stomach.
James watched the bank intensely, wand drawn. Peter was pale white, apparently from fear. Lily tried to smile at him. He didn't even notice.
"Someone is coming," James whispered quickly. Lily peered over James head and saw a fearful sight. A group of 10 or more cloaked individuals were floating down the streets of Hogmeade, towards the bank. Lily threw herself against their shielding wall, and grabbed her chest. There were too many of them. James was staring intensely at the direction of the death eaters, he was going to deliver the first wave of the attack.
"James, we'll be killed if we take them alone," Peter begged.
James gave Peter a disappointed look. Lily was shaking in fear, she knew Peter was right.
"We can's just sit here," James argued.
"AVADA KEDAVRA," pierced a high pitched voice at the front of the group, and an old man walking quietly on the side of the street fell over dead.
Lily placed her hands on her mouth to muffle her cried. James felt his adrenaline rushing through his veins.
"STUMPY," he screamed aiming his wand towards the leader of this dark group.
The cloaked figure flew back 20 feet and landed motionless on his back. The first draw was made, no sense in hiding any longer.
"RUN!" James screamed at Lily and Peter.
Lily grabbed James arm, and gave him a quick glance. She dashed behind a trash can out of sight and aimed her wand, "BOILIOUS," she screamed. A cloaked figure started floating ten feet in the air, it's body imploding from within.
Lily glanced at Peter, he was ducking in a plant a few feet away from her, he was shaking with fear.
Lily didn't notice a death eater creeping up from behind her , "CREVIOUS."
Lily felt her chest erupt in a surge of pain, she was going to pass out. She glanced back over towards Peter, why wasn't he helping her.
She looked down the street, help had finally arrived.
She saw Sirius arrive with Alastor Moody. They charged the death eaters and made them scatter. Colored streaks were flying through the air, as different cursed darted from the ends of wands.
The dark hooded figure that had cursed Lily was now standing over her, a evil high pitched laugh rang in the cold air. "Stupid girl. AVADA.." Lily blacked out.
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Chapter three: Thrice Defied
"Enter Strangers, but take heed Of what awaits the sin of greed, For those who take, but do not earn, Must pay most dearly in their turn. So if you seek beneath our floors A treasure that was never yours, Thief, you have been warned, beware Of finding more than treasure there."
Lily shuttered as she passed under those words at Gringotts. She often felt like something was living in the passageways beneath her office. She could vaguely make out grunts and silent roars. The goblins were very secretive about their security measures, and even more secretive about their punishments. If they every caught Lily snooping around with Wizarding accounts, getting fired would be the last of her concerns.
She smiled politely as she passed Rigger in her morning routine, he lifted his head a spoke, "are you hiding something Mrs. Potter?"
Lily was startled, "no," she said suddenly.
It seemed like an eternity, but he stood there searching her up and down. "Very well," he finally said.
Lily rushed to her desk, and dashed out of the view of the head goblin. She was shaking nervously as she searched through her daily reports, she was searching for two words in particular. She shuffled quickly, anxiety filling her with dread.
"What if Rigger knows, what if he's watching me at this very moment," she though frantically.
Finally those precious two words appeared, Tom Riddle. The account was still untouched. She quickly snatched the file and hide it under her robes. Her heart was racing, but she knew what she had to do. There was filing cabinet on the third floor for protected or sealed accounts. Wizards and witches who owed the bank money, or were in debt to any of the goblin's connections were protected and sealed. They were untouchable.
Rigger didn't raise his head as Lily casually walked by him on her way to the third floor. She was grateful. Her heart felt like it was about to burst. Beads of sweat forming on her forehead. When she reached the desk of the goblin who guarded the protected or seal accounts she felt her heart stop.
"I need to check an account," she said quickly.
"Name," the goblin said emotionless, not looking up from his book.
"Lily Potter," she replied.
He stared up at her, "remember, nothing comes out of this room without the permission of Rigger," he reminded her.
"I understand," she agreed.
"Enter," he said looking back down at his book.
She rushed over to a filing cabinet and shoved the file under it's appropriate letter. She had gotten away with it, her task was done.
"May I inquire what your doing up here Mrs. Potter?" asked and eerie voice.
"Mr. Rigger, I was looking for information on an account I'm reviewing," she lied.
He squinted his eyes, "which account?"
She felt her heart leap up into her chest, "the Bagman account," she thought quickly.
"I wasn't aware that was one of your accounts?" he accused. She was starting to panic, her face had gone pale, and she was forgetting to breath.
"Mr. Bagman is a personal friend of mine, and he asked me to check to see what his debt with the bank was," she was getting desperate.
The corners of Rigger's mouth cracked, "I thought higher of you Mrs. Potter. Associating with that crook Ludo Bagman."
Lily was feeling some relief, "I apologize for my sneakiness, I was just looking our for the best interest of the bank."
Rigger was obviously trying to decide whether or not believed her story. "Very well," he finally said, "carry on, and report to me on the status of his account."
Rigger walked swiftly back to the guard desk, and muttered something to the goblin at the desk. Lily pulled out the Bagman file, anxious not to raise any more suspicions about what she was truly doing.
She gather the information and dashed back to her office, with a minor stop to get cleared by the guard goblin at the desk.
Only one last task to do to clear up any loose ends on the Riddle account. She looked through the accounts pending file, a payout of 900 gallaons was due to come out that evening, "disappeara," she muttered. The paper disappeared and Lily smiled with relief.
She pulled out the information she had collected on Bagman's account, and began to prepare a analysis for Rigger, it was going to be a long day.
About five hours passed without incident, that's when it happened. A strange looking woman dressed in black approached one of the goblin tellers.
"Do you have your key?" he asked.
She passed the key silently to him. He took it in his hands and closely examined it.
"I'm sorry, but that account is sealed," he informed her.
She lifted her cold eyes, "what?" she said in an evil tone.
"That account is sealed," he repeated.
"Impossible!" she protested. "Check your records again, I have already placed a request to transfer 900 gallaons this very evening."
The goblin looked into a small orb placed discretely on his desk, "I'm sorry, there is no record of that request. That account is sealed," he said coldly. "good day."
"YOU STUPID CREATURE," she yelled, "I DEMANDED TO SPEAK TO YOUR SUPERIOR."
"May I help you," Rigger said coolly from behind.
"Yes, this associate of yours is saying my account is sealed," she said hatefully.
The goblin teller, passed his orb over to Rigger who smirked, "I'm sorry but the account is sealed, our hands are tied."
"DAMN YOU FILTY CREATURES," she tried to calm herself, "there must be some mistake."
"Mam, nothing is taken into our out of our sealed room without my permission," he turned hatefully on his heels, "there has been no mistake."
The dark woman was fuming, she spun around and Lily recognized her immediately. Bellatrix Black was gripping her wand under her robes, debating whether to attack and fight her way to the sealed funds. Lily gasped, and tried to make herself unseen. It was too late.
"YOU," she shrilled. She pushed her way over to Lily's desk, "what is a filthy mudblood doing in a wizarding establishment such as this?" she asked hatefully.
"Hello Bellatrix," Lily said politely.
Bellatrix looked cautiously around the room. Her eyes wandered on all the goblins now eyeing her and Lily, yet her eyes found there way back to her school mate.
"I know it was you," she said softly. "You've been warned."
Bellatrix cracked a sadistic grin and walked out the door. Lily wasn't sure how long she stared at the door. She knew Bellatrix was evil, she wasn't accused of being a death eater yet, but Lily's heart told her that she was one.
It took nearly two hours of steady work to drown out the image of Bellatrix Black. Lily was working vigorously on her assigned accounts, when she heard one of the goblins tell Rigger, "good evening."
Lily pretended not to notice that everyone was leaving the bank, she had to stay. She had a gut feeling that the death eaters would attack the bank. She pulled Dumbledore's list out of her pocket, stake out 7 o'clock.
She slowly began to gather her things, the members of the Order would be gather outside in Diagon alley soon.
"It's time to close up Mrs. Potter," Rigger said shortly.
Lily smiled politely at him, "of course."
She gather her things and with a few delay, made her way out the front doors.
James Potter was waiting for her beautiful wife outside, and his heart melted when she finally appeared.
"Hello love," she said sweetly before giving him a welcoming kiss.
"How did it go?" Sirius muttered quietly.
Lily gave him a worried glare, "fine," she said almost in a unheard whispered.
"Excellent," he muttered to himself.
"Who else is meeting us tonight?" Lily asked her two male companions.
"Peter will be here shortly. He had some type of delay," James said as he glanced around.
Lily looked back up towards the bank.
"Enter Strangers, but take heed Of what awaits the sin of greed, For those who take, but do not earn, Must pay most dearly in their turn. So if you seek beneath our floors A treasure that was never yours, Thief, you have been warned, beware Of finding more than treasure there."
"I think we're going to need more help than that tonight," she said quickly.
"What happened?" Sirius asked .
"Not here," she warned. "Go tell Dumbledore that there will be an attack tonight."
James had sweat beads forming on his forehead, and he was starting to understand the seriousness of the situation.
"Lily, you go, me and Sirius will stay here and wait," James tried.
"No," she said quickly, "you two don't know the banks secrets, you could get killed if you don't know what your doing."
James knew she was right.
Sirius nodded, "I'll be quick." He apparated.
James pulled Lily close, "don't worry, everything is going to be fine." He sounded unconvinced.
A loud pop sounded just a few feet behind them and caused them both to jump.
"Hey guys, where is Sirius?" said Peter looking around happily.
"He's gone to get." James lowered his voice "help."
James pulled Peter very close so only he could hear, "there is going to be a death eater attack tonight on Gringotts."
Peter's face went pale white, "are you sure?"
Lily nodded.
"Oh My God, what are we suppose to do?" Peter asked worriedly.
Lily spoke up this time, "hold them off until help arrives."
James felt a horrible pain pierce his stomach. He had a feeling that Lily had no idea of what she was suggesting.
"Well, we better hide, so we'll at least have the element of surprise," Peter suggested. James nodded in support of the idea.
Sirius arrived at the headquarters of the Order in a panicked fashion.
"Black, what on Earth is wrong with you," croaked Alastor Moody.
"Attack on Grigotts tonight," he choked out.
"Bloody hell," Moody swore. "Well what are we waiting for?"
Sirius shook his head, "James, Lily and Peter are already there, but we're going to need more help."
Moody nodded his head in agreement, "the Longbottoms are in the kitchen I'll get them." "Frank, Alice come out here will ya," Moody said loudly.
"Alastor is something wrong?" Alice asked as she made her appearance in the doorway.
"Yea, grab Frank. There is going to an attack on Gringotts and we need all the help we can get."
Sirius, Moody, Frank and Alice all aparated quickly back to Gringotts.
The sun began to fade in the evening sky, and Lily felt a dreadful feeling in the pit of her stomach.
James watched the bank intensely, wand drawn. Peter was pale white, apparently from fear. Lily tried to smile at him. He didn't even notice.
"Someone is coming," James whispered quickly. Lily peered over James head and saw a fearful sight. A group of 10 or more cloaked individuals were floating down the streets of Hogmeade, towards the bank. Lily threw herself against their shielding wall, and grabbed her chest. There were too many of them. James was staring intensely at the direction of the death eaters, he was going to deliver the first wave of the attack.
"James, we'll be killed if we take them alone," Peter begged.
James gave Peter a disappointed look. Lily was shaking in fear, she knew Peter was right.
"We can's just sit here," James argued.
"AVADA KEDAVRA," pierced a high pitched voice at the front of the group, and an old man walking quietly on the side of the street fell over dead.
Lily placed her hands on her mouth to muffle her cried. James felt his adrenaline rushing through his veins.
"STUMPY," he screamed aiming his wand towards the leader of this dark group.
The cloaked figure flew back 20 feet and landed motionless on his back. The first draw was made, no sense in hiding any longer.
"RUN!" James screamed at Lily and Peter.
Lily grabbed James arm, and gave him a quick glance. She dashed behind a trash can out of sight and aimed her wand, "BOILIOUS," she screamed. A cloaked figure started floating ten feet in the air, it's body imploding from within.
Lily glanced at Peter, he was ducking in a plant a few feet away from her, he was shaking with fear.
Lily didn't notice a death eater creeping up from behind her , "CREVIOUS."
Lily felt her chest erupt in a surge of pain, she was going to pass out. She glanced back over towards Peter, why wasn't he helping her.
She looked down the street, help had finally arrived.
She saw Sirius arrive with Alastor Moody. They charged the death eaters and made them scatter. Colored streaks were flying through the air, as different cursed darted from the ends of wands.
The dark hooded figure that had cursed Lily was now standing over her, a evil high pitched laugh rang in the cold air. "Stupid girl. AVADA.." Lily blacked out.