Harry POtter & The Veela That Wouldn't Go Away
By: Darkmoore
Chapter Two - Taking a Meeting, or Two
Reaching the entrance of Gringott's Wizarding Bank, Remus and Bill take Harry to the office of Gardoth, the goblin in charge of Harry's financial matters. In the office already is Albus Dumbledore.
"Harry?" the aged wizard says, "Whatever are you doing here?"
"I'm here to have a meeting, or rather two of them with Gardoth. You knew about the one concerning my family's assets."
"Yes, yes, of course, I just assumed that you wouldn't be coming to this meeting."
Harry frowned. Something was going on that Dumbledore didn't want him to know about. Harry had developed a sixth sense for this during his sixth year at Hogwarts and he didn't like it very much at all.
"Well then gentlemen; let's get to this meeting shall we, as I still have the Black family meeting to get to this afternoon." Gardoth said to them. "Mr. Potter and Professor Dumbledore were invited by me to this meeting, do either you have any others you wish to be here."
Dumbledore started to speak, but Harry answered first, "I've invited Remus Lupin and Bill Weasley to sit in on this meeting, as Remus is an old family friend of my father's and Bill has some experience with the banking world, that I sorely lack."
"Well then let's begin with the properties held by the Potter family."
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Having long thought that his small vault in the bank was the only thing his parents had left him; he was shocked out of his wits to discover that that was merely his trust fund vault and that the Potter family indeed had another larger one, deep in the bowels of the bank, and guarded by dragons no less.
"We should have brought Hagrid." Harry said, "He would have loved to have seen them."
Dumbledore twinkled at him in merriment, trying to cover the fact he was worried about how angry Harry would be with him for keeping all of his assets from him.
If the truth be told Harry was seething with fury with his headmaster, when he learned that Albus Dumbledore had purposefully kept this information from him. However, Harry was keeping this anger under control for the moment, but he could feel deep down that this could very well create a rift between them even wider than the one from last year after the prophesy was revealed.
"I can't believe that your parents had all of this wealth. I never knew any of this was here." Remus said in awe.
"You and me both." Harry replied giving Dumbledore a pointed look.
"Well, now Mr. Potter," Gardoth began, "all we need do now is collect a few documents that you need to look over, just the deeds to the properties and the maintenance contract for your parent's graves and we can go back up to my office to finish the paperwork before the meeting begins."
"My parents have graves?" Harry asked as he climbed into the cart.
At hearing this Remus' head spun around almost giving himself whip-lash, "You've never been to your parent's graves?"
"I didn't know where they were buried or even if they were buried at all. I assumed that they had been completely destroyed by Voldemort." Harry said as Bill cringed at the sound of the name of the dark wizard.
Now it was Remus' turn to glare at the Headmaster and the two began discussing this topic as they returned to the main floor of the bank.
Harry growing tired of this hushed conversation took out his wand and quietly said, "Legimens" while it was pointed at Dumbledore. Harry knew well that his mind was like a steel trap, but sometimes a stray thought or two found their way in or out and he hoped he would find the one he was looking for.
Dumbledore spun around and looked at Harry, who was now openly seething, he had found the thought he was looking for, well part of it anyway.
"You never meant to tell me at all. Nothing about my parents, about this vault nor about anything to do with my own personal life. You meant to keep me ignorant of all of it, so you could control me." Harry accused.
"Harry, that's not it at all."
"Then what," Harry asked calmly, "What is it then?"
"I didn't want to upset you, Harry; I thought it might be too much for you."
Now Harry was in a full out rage, but somehow managed to make into Gardoth's office before exploding. Luckily for Harry that office was sound proofed, as people often began yelling in it.
"LAST YEAR WHEN I WAS TAKING THOSE DAMNED LESSONS WITH YOU, YOU SAW HOW MUCH I WANTED TO KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THEM AND THE LENGTHS I WOULD GO TO FIND OUT! ANY SCRAP OF INFORMATION ABOUT THEM WOULD HAVE HELPED ME SO MUCH, ESPECIALLY AT THE BEGINNING OF LAST YEAR WHEN I FELT SO EMPTY AND ALONE AND NEEDED SOMETHING TO HOLD ON TO!" Harry bellowed … very loudly, almost sounding as if he had used the sonorous charm.
"Harry, you must understand, visiting them would not have brought them back to you."
"BUT I WOULD HAVE KNOWN WHERE THEY WERE!"
At this point Remus cut in and added, "I think Harry is right, you should have warned him about all of this event years ago. This is something he was going to have to deal with no matter what and I agree it would have given him some much needed peace of mind."
"Thank you Moony."
Bill who had been listening to this and becoming very angry himself that Harry had been treated this way asked, "Remus, do you know where they are?"
"Yes, I do." The werewolf answered Bill, but looking right at Dumbledore.
"Good," Bill responded and then turned to Harry, "We'll go there after the meetings are over with today, if there's time and if not we'll do it tomorrow if you like."
Harry nodded gratefully, not trusting his voice at the moment.
* * * * *
After the first meeting had ended, Harry had taken a portfolio of his copies of all the documents from Gardoth, that had been marked 'Potter Family' and waited with Remus and Bill for the next meeting to begin. Dumbledore had taken his leave as he wasn't invited to that meeting and Gardoth was looking at him in a way that said, 'and you're not going to be either.'
Not too long after the members of the Black family all arrived and were seated in one of the many conference rooms that the bank had. In attendance besides Harry, Remus and Bill, were Andromeda Tonks, her husband Ted and their daughter, Nymphadora and Narcissa Malfoy with her son, Draco. Bellatrix LeStrange was unable to attend, due to the fact that she was a wanted fugitive of justice.
Tonks saw that Harry and the others were there and smiled at them, not being able to be friendly to them openly as they had never been formally introduced and only knew each other secretly.
"What are they doing here?" Narcissa demanded.
"Mr. Potter is the legal heir to the fortune owned by the late Sirius Black and thus he was invited to this meeting, as wizarding law clearly states he should be." Gardoth replied curtly to the woman.
Narcissa humphed in disgust and Draco sneered at them, but it didn't matter, they couldn't do anything about it. However, she continued, "My cousin was a convicted mass murderer by the ministry, thus none of his heirs, legal or not, should be excluded from this meeting."
Gardoth looked at the woman and sneered himself, he did not like her very much and said, "You must not be well versed in wizarding law, my dear, otherwise you would have realized two very important facts. The first that Mr. Potter became Mr. Black's legal godson upon his birth and became his legal guardian after his parent's death, both of which predates his supposed murder spree. Secondly Mr. Black was cleared by the ministry earlier this spring after the capture and imprisonment of Peter Pettigrew, the supposed main victim of the murder."
Narcissa remained silent after that speech, having been put down by a lowly goblin.
Andromeda however, thought the whole thing was funny and said, "Always trying to be the Queen Bitch I see Cissy?"
"I don't even know why you and your mud-blood husband are even here, you were disinherited years ago."
Tonks bristled at the insult to her parents, but said nothing.
"Ladies, if we might be allowed to continue, we have much to cover and I'm sure you have much to argue over that is far more important than your current topic." Gardoth said and went on, "Let's begin with the total assets of the Black Family Trust and then break them down into smaller categories."
* * * * *
After two hours of this lecture about the Black Family Trust almost everyone was bored to tears. Especially Harry, as he didn't quite understand why he had been invited to begin with.
"Now, finally as for the legal guardianship of the Black Family Trust." Gardoth said making everyone happy, as it meant this meeting would soon be over. "As you know the eldest living male member of the Black family will be in total control of the trust until said time as they die or legally hand it over to another member of the family to handle."
Draco Malfoy sat up importantly, thinking he would now be in charge of the family's assets as he would be with the Malfoy family fortune, or at least he would when he reached his majority in two months. That is until that mistake his father begat becomes of age and takes his share.
"At this time I would like to present the master vault key to …" Gardoth announced as Draco stood to take the key from the goblin, "… Mr. Harry Potter."
"WHAT?" everyone yelled at once. Remus and Bill were in the corner laughing, Harry was stunned, Narcissa and Draco were livid beyond words and the Tonks family were getting the time of their lives knowing full well that dear Cissy and her brat were about to be disinherited.
"Wotcher Harry, you've hit the mother load!" Tonks exclaimed.
"What's the matter Cissy?" Andromeda asked his sister, "You weren't counting on that money were you?"
Narcissa ignored her sister and asked the goblin, "How is it possible that Potter …"
"Mr. Potter," Gardoth corrected.
"… has been given lordship over my family's assets and accounts?"
"As you know madam, Mr. Black had non issue and thus the legal status of a godparent in wizarding law becomes like that of a biological parent and thus making Mr. Potter the heir of Mr. Black.
"Then why was Draco looked over as the one to receive the master key and the guardianship?"
"Because Mr. Potter is the elder of the two and has reached his majority prior to your son." Gardoth replied with a little bit of glee in his voice.
"Scarhead can't be older than me." Draco said.
"Oh but he is Mr. Malfoy, today is his seventeenth birthday, thus he has reached his majority and the reason we have met today, rather than earlier in the year."
"You'll never get away with this Potter, the dark lord will kill you yet and then I'll have the last laugh." Draco spat at Harry with venom in his voice.
"He's tried and failed more times than I can count Malfoy, just when is he suppose to succeed? When I'm two hundred years old and can't pick a wand up anymore?"
Draco started to draw his wand, but was stopped by Bill, who already had his wand you and yelled, "Expelliarmus." causing Draco's wand to go soaring through the air and the teenager to fly backwards into a bookshelf.
Bill handed Malfoy's wand over to Gardoth, who promptly snapped it in half. "Mr. Malfoy, there will no wand waving during this meeting. You will conduct yourself in a professional and adult manner or else you will be permanently expelled from this institution, is that understood?"
"My wand." Draco whined and picked up the pieces.
"Be grateful it wasn't your neck Mr. Malfoy. Now, since Mr. Potter is now in charge of the bank vault here at Gringott's you will find that all of your bank keys are now unable to open the vaults. Mr. Potter will have to authorize a new key to you, IF he wishes you to have one."
Narcissa glared at Harry as Remus was whispering into this ear.
"Mr. Gardoth," Harry said respectfully, "If it's alright, I would like Mrs. Tonks to be given an active key, as well as her daughter, who despite her turquoise blue hair, is also an adult. I will keep the master key and no other person is allowed entrance to the vaults."
Narcissa exploded, "YOU CAN'T DO THAT, YOU HAVE NO AUTHORITY TO DO THIS. YOU SCHEMING LITTLE BLOOD TRAITOR; YOU PLANNED THIS ALL ALONG …"
Narcissa's rant was cut short, by a perfectly placed silencing spell by Tonks, who was tired of her aunt's posturing and turned to Draco and looked at him as if daring him to do something about it.
Draco wasn't stupid and he was a coward to boot, so he did nothing to stop the colorful Auror.
"Also," Harry said, "I would like a full accounting of all Black family assets, particularly items such as painting, other art work and anything of value that other members of the Black family may have been entrusted with."
Narcissa and Draco glared at him, knowing full well, that Andromeda had nothing of these items and Bellatrix's personal items had been reabsorbed into the Black Family Trust shortly after she was put into Azkaban. This would mean a team of goblins were coming to Malfoy Manor.
To Be Continued ...
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Author's Notes: Thanks to everyone who read and reviewed.
uten wrote Now you've done it... A good prequel and a good sequel. At the same time. I must have them both!! Your writing certainly has improved rapidly and your ability to give cliffhangers is definately a big improvement (you're good at them). Both of these stories are excellent. And with the broad outline you gave of what happens in the prequel, I'm looking almost as forward to this as I am the sequel.
Answer - Please don't expect rapid chapter with two stories going at the same time, that might actually kill me. :D
athenakitty wrote Harry's surprise about the letter? Will Harry find out why Dumbledore doesn't want him to be there for his parent's money? Will Harry get really mad?
Answer - Harry get mad? Now what makes you ask that?
By: Darkmoore
Chapter Two - Taking a Meeting, or Two
Reaching the entrance of Gringott's Wizarding Bank, Remus and Bill take Harry to the office of Gardoth, the goblin in charge of Harry's financial matters. In the office already is Albus Dumbledore.
"Harry?" the aged wizard says, "Whatever are you doing here?"
"I'm here to have a meeting, or rather two of them with Gardoth. You knew about the one concerning my family's assets."
"Yes, yes, of course, I just assumed that you wouldn't be coming to this meeting."
Harry frowned. Something was going on that Dumbledore didn't want him to know about. Harry had developed a sixth sense for this during his sixth year at Hogwarts and he didn't like it very much at all.
"Well then gentlemen; let's get to this meeting shall we, as I still have the Black family meeting to get to this afternoon." Gardoth said to them. "Mr. Potter and Professor Dumbledore were invited by me to this meeting, do either you have any others you wish to be here."
Dumbledore started to speak, but Harry answered first, "I've invited Remus Lupin and Bill Weasley to sit in on this meeting, as Remus is an old family friend of my father's and Bill has some experience with the banking world, that I sorely lack."
"Well then let's begin with the properties held by the Potter family."
* * * * *
Having long thought that his small vault in the bank was the only thing his parents had left him; he was shocked out of his wits to discover that that was merely his trust fund vault and that the Potter family indeed had another larger one, deep in the bowels of the bank, and guarded by dragons no less.
"We should have brought Hagrid." Harry said, "He would have loved to have seen them."
Dumbledore twinkled at him in merriment, trying to cover the fact he was worried about how angry Harry would be with him for keeping all of his assets from him.
If the truth be told Harry was seething with fury with his headmaster, when he learned that Albus Dumbledore had purposefully kept this information from him. However, Harry was keeping this anger under control for the moment, but he could feel deep down that this could very well create a rift between them even wider than the one from last year after the prophesy was revealed.
"I can't believe that your parents had all of this wealth. I never knew any of this was here." Remus said in awe.
"You and me both." Harry replied giving Dumbledore a pointed look.
"Well, now Mr. Potter," Gardoth began, "all we need do now is collect a few documents that you need to look over, just the deeds to the properties and the maintenance contract for your parent's graves and we can go back up to my office to finish the paperwork before the meeting begins."
"My parents have graves?" Harry asked as he climbed into the cart.
At hearing this Remus' head spun around almost giving himself whip-lash, "You've never been to your parent's graves?"
"I didn't know where they were buried or even if they were buried at all. I assumed that they had been completely destroyed by Voldemort." Harry said as Bill cringed at the sound of the name of the dark wizard.
Now it was Remus' turn to glare at the Headmaster and the two began discussing this topic as they returned to the main floor of the bank.
Harry growing tired of this hushed conversation took out his wand and quietly said, "Legimens" while it was pointed at Dumbledore. Harry knew well that his mind was like a steel trap, but sometimes a stray thought or two found their way in or out and he hoped he would find the one he was looking for.
Dumbledore spun around and looked at Harry, who was now openly seething, he had found the thought he was looking for, well part of it anyway.
"You never meant to tell me at all. Nothing about my parents, about this vault nor about anything to do with my own personal life. You meant to keep me ignorant of all of it, so you could control me." Harry accused.
"Harry, that's not it at all."
"Then what," Harry asked calmly, "What is it then?"
"I didn't want to upset you, Harry; I thought it might be too much for you."
Now Harry was in a full out rage, but somehow managed to make into Gardoth's office before exploding. Luckily for Harry that office was sound proofed, as people often began yelling in it.
"LAST YEAR WHEN I WAS TAKING THOSE DAMNED LESSONS WITH YOU, YOU SAW HOW MUCH I WANTED TO KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THEM AND THE LENGTHS I WOULD GO TO FIND OUT! ANY SCRAP OF INFORMATION ABOUT THEM WOULD HAVE HELPED ME SO MUCH, ESPECIALLY AT THE BEGINNING OF LAST YEAR WHEN I FELT SO EMPTY AND ALONE AND NEEDED SOMETHING TO HOLD ON TO!" Harry bellowed … very loudly, almost sounding as if he had used the sonorous charm.
"Harry, you must understand, visiting them would not have brought them back to you."
"BUT I WOULD HAVE KNOWN WHERE THEY WERE!"
At this point Remus cut in and added, "I think Harry is right, you should have warned him about all of this event years ago. This is something he was going to have to deal with no matter what and I agree it would have given him some much needed peace of mind."
"Thank you Moony."
Bill who had been listening to this and becoming very angry himself that Harry had been treated this way asked, "Remus, do you know where they are?"
"Yes, I do." The werewolf answered Bill, but looking right at Dumbledore.
"Good," Bill responded and then turned to Harry, "We'll go there after the meetings are over with today, if there's time and if not we'll do it tomorrow if you like."
Harry nodded gratefully, not trusting his voice at the moment.
* * * * *
After the first meeting had ended, Harry had taken a portfolio of his copies of all the documents from Gardoth, that had been marked 'Potter Family' and waited with Remus and Bill for the next meeting to begin. Dumbledore had taken his leave as he wasn't invited to that meeting and Gardoth was looking at him in a way that said, 'and you're not going to be either.'
Not too long after the members of the Black family all arrived and were seated in one of the many conference rooms that the bank had. In attendance besides Harry, Remus and Bill, were Andromeda Tonks, her husband Ted and their daughter, Nymphadora and Narcissa Malfoy with her son, Draco. Bellatrix LeStrange was unable to attend, due to the fact that she was a wanted fugitive of justice.
Tonks saw that Harry and the others were there and smiled at them, not being able to be friendly to them openly as they had never been formally introduced and only knew each other secretly.
"What are they doing here?" Narcissa demanded.
"Mr. Potter is the legal heir to the fortune owned by the late Sirius Black and thus he was invited to this meeting, as wizarding law clearly states he should be." Gardoth replied curtly to the woman.
Narcissa humphed in disgust and Draco sneered at them, but it didn't matter, they couldn't do anything about it. However, she continued, "My cousin was a convicted mass murderer by the ministry, thus none of his heirs, legal or not, should be excluded from this meeting."
Gardoth looked at the woman and sneered himself, he did not like her very much and said, "You must not be well versed in wizarding law, my dear, otherwise you would have realized two very important facts. The first that Mr. Potter became Mr. Black's legal godson upon his birth and became his legal guardian after his parent's death, both of which predates his supposed murder spree. Secondly Mr. Black was cleared by the ministry earlier this spring after the capture and imprisonment of Peter Pettigrew, the supposed main victim of the murder."
Narcissa remained silent after that speech, having been put down by a lowly goblin.
Andromeda however, thought the whole thing was funny and said, "Always trying to be the Queen Bitch I see Cissy?"
"I don't even know why you and your mud-blood husband are even here, you were disinherited years ago."
Tonks bristled at the insult to her parents, but said nothing.
"Ladies, if we might be allowed to continue, we have much to cover and I'm sure you have much to argue over that is far more important than your current topic." Gardoth said and went on, "Let's begin with the total assets of the Black Family Trust and then break them down into smaller categories."
* * * * *
After two hours of this lecture about the Black Family Trust almost everyone was bored to tears. Especially Harry, as he didn't quite understand why he had been invited to begin with.
"Now, finally as for the legal guardianship of the Black Family Trust." Gardoth said making everyone happy, as it meant this meeting would soon be over. "As you know the eldest living male member of the Black family will be in total control of the trust until said time as they die or legally hand it over to another member of the family to handle."
Draco Malfoy sat up importantly, thinking he would now be in charge of the family's assets as he would be with the Malfoy family fortune, or at least he would when he reached his majority in two months. That is until that mistake his father begat becomes of age and takes his share.
"At this time I would like to present the master vault key to …" Gardoth announced as Draco stood to take the key from the goblin, "… Mr. Harry Potter."
"WHAT?" everyone yelled at once. Remus and Bill were in the corner laughing, Harry was stunned, Narcissa and Draco were livid beyond words and the Tonks family were getting the time of their lives knowing full well that dear Cissy and her brat were about to be disinherited.
"Wotcher Harry, you've hit the mother load!" Tonks exclaimed.
"What's the matter Cissy?" Andromeda asked his sister, "You weren't counting on that money were you?"
Narcissa ignored her sister and asked the goblin, "How is it possible that Potter …"
"Mr. Potter," Gardoth corrected.
"… has been given lordship over my family's assets and accounts?"
"As you know madam, Mr. Black had non issue and thus the legal status of a godparent in wizarding law becomes like that of a biological parent and thus making Mr. Potter the heir of Mr. Black.
"Then why was Draco looked over as the one to receive the master key and the guardianship?"
"Because Mr. Potter is the elder of the two and has reached his majority prior to your son." Gardoth replied with a little bit of glee in his voice.
"Scarhead can't be older than me." Draco said.
"Oh but he is Mr. Malfoy, today is his seventeenth birthday, thus he has reached his majority and the reason we have met today, rather than earlier in the year."
"You'll never get away with this Potter, the dark lord will kill you yet and then I'll have the last laugh." Draco spat at Harry with venom in his voice.
"He's tried and failed more times than I can count Malfoy, just when is he suppose to succeed? When I'm two hundred years old and can't pick a wand up anymore?"
Draco started to draw his wand, but was stopped by Bill, who already had his wand you and yelled, "Expelliarmus." causing Draco's wand to go soaring through the air and the teenager to fly backwards into a bookshelf.
Bill handed Malfoy's wand over to Gardoth, who promptly snapped it in half. "Mr. Malfoy, there will no wand waving during this meeting. You will conduct yourself in a professional and adult manner or else you will be permanently expelled from this institution, is that understood?"
"My wand." Draco whined and picked up the pieces.
"Be grateful it wasn't your neck Mr. Malfoy. Now, since Mr. Potter is now in charge of the bank vault here at Gringott's you will find that all of your bank keys are now unable to open the vaults. Mr. Potter will have to authorize a new key to you, IF he wishes you to have one."
Narcissa glared at Harry as Remus was whispering into this ear.
"Mr. Gardoth," Harry said respectfully, "If it's alright, I would like Mrs. Tonks to be given an active key, as well as her daughter, who despite her turquoise blue hair, is also an adult. I will keep the master key and no other person is allowed entrance to the vaults."
Narcissa exploded, "YOU CAN'T DO THAT, YOU HAVE NO AUTHORITY TO DO THIS. YOU SCHEMING LITTLE BLOOD TRAITOR; YOU PLANNED THIS ALL ALONG …"
Narcissa's rant was cut short, by a perfectly placed silencing spell by Tonks, who was tired of her aunt's posturing and turned to Draco and looked at him as if daring him to do something about it.
Draco wasn't stupid and he was a coward to boot, so he did nothing to stop the colorful Auror.
"Also," Harry said, "I would like a full accounting of all Black family assets, particularly items such as painting, other art work and anything of value that other members of the Black family may have been entrusted with."
Narcissa and Draco glared at him, knowing full well, that Andromeda had nothing of these items and Bellatrix's personal items had been reabsorbed into the Black Family Trust shortly after she was put into Azkaban. This would mean a team of goblins were coming to Malfoy Manor.
To Be Continued ...
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Author's Notes: Thanks to everyone who read and reviewed.
uten wrote Now you've done it... A good prequel and a good sequel. At the same time. I must have them both!! Your writing certainly has improved rapidly and your ability to give cliffhangers is definately a big improvement (you're good at them). Both of these stories are excellent. And with the broad outline you gave of what happens in the prequel, I'm looking almost as forward to this as I am the sequel.
Answer - Please don't expect rapid chapter with two stories going at the same time, that might actually kill me. :D
athenakitty wrote Harry's surprise about the letter? Will Harry find out why Dumbledore doesn't want him to be there for his parent's money? Will Harry get really mad?
Answer - Harry get mad? Now what makes you ask that?