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Chapter Two : Gringotts and the Will
They parked in a parkade down the block. "Here we are The Leaky Cauldron. We have to go though here to get to Gringotts, that is the wizarding bank." Harry said nervously.
"Why are you nervous?" asked Kurama.
"Well I told you I am famous. If the order finds out that I am here they may try to take me back to Privet Drive wether I wish to or not." Harry stated.
"Hiei do you have a spare ward?" Kurama asked.
"Why do you ask?" Hiei asked.
"Because Harry needs to hide that scar for a little while." Kurama replied. Hiei passed Kurama a bandana/ward which Kurama tied to Harry's head. "There now we can go in with less risk of discovery." Kurama stated.
"Thanks Kurama. The first thing we need to do is get translation charms so we can all understand eachother." Harry said as he walked in to The Leaky Cauldron with the others fallowing. They walked straight though to the back. Harry counted the bricks and tapped the right brick with his wand. After the bricks rearranged themselves they stepped in to Diagon Alley. "Now you see why I was more worried about my heiritage then the fact that I am a wizard Mr. Xavier." Harry said.
"Ahh... now I understand Harry. If I was able to sense wizards I would have trouble sorting out mutants from wizards or youkia for that matter." Xavier said.
They pick up some translation charms and headed to Gringotts. "Well now that you can understand us and we can understand you guys you can talk if you want to." Harry said.
"HN." "Sure" said Hiei and Yusuke.
"Not very talkative are they?" Harry said.
"Not really." Kurama stated.
"Ok... we go up to the first availible goblin to get service." Harry said. They walked up to an availible goblin. "Griphook. It is good to see you again." Harry said to the goblin.
"Do I know you, sir." Griphook asked.
"Yes it is me." Harry said as he removed the bandana from his forehead to show his scar.
"Oh... Mr..." Griphook started to say but Harry motioned for him to stop.
"Please I do not want anybody to know I am here. Oh... Griphook took me to my vault the first time I was here." Harry said to the others. "Griphook I have just found out that Dumbledore has been keeping alot of things from me and I was wondering if you know if my parents had left a will?" Harry asked.
"Well sir, I know that a will was left with us. It was sealed in an envelope with instuctions that it not be opened until you turned seventeen or your legal magical gaurdian said to open it." Griphook said.
"Who sealed it and handed it to the goblins?" Harry asked.
"Well that would be Dumbledore sir." Griphook said.
"What? I want that will opened immediately." Harry demanded.
"You will need your legal magical gaurdians approval to open the will sir." Griphook said.
"Fine who is my legal magical gaurdian?" Harry asked.
"Well... That would be Dumbledore, after your godfather was sent to Azkaban he had his rights removed and became your legal magical gaurdian." Griphook stated.
"Would another magical relative be able to release the will to me." Harry asked.
"Yes sir but you have no other magical relatvies that we know of." Griphook said.
"Great grandfathers, would either of you be willing to help in this." Harry asked Kurama and Hiei. They looked at eachother and shrugged.
"Hn, Ok this time I will help." Hiei said. Griphook was shocked.
"Sir are you saying that you are his great grandfather and that you are magical." Griphook asked Hiei.
"Hn, unlike my great grandson I am not friendly and I am a youkia so yes Iam magical." Hiei stated.
"Oh... well a small test will have to be done but if you are a relative then we can procede with the will reading." Griphook said. Griphook brought out a little silver tray and asked both Harry and Hiei to put three drops of blood in the tray at opposit ends. "If you are related the blood will go to eachother" Griphook said and they watched the blood move across the tray untill it merged together. "Well it seems that your parents will will be read today." Griphook said as he sent a goblin to retrieve the will.
The will soon arrived. "Griphook why have you asked for the Potter's will." asked Ragnok, another goblin.
"Well sir it seems that Mr. Potter has some relatives that we did not know about and they have given premission to unseal the will." Griphook answered.
"Oh.. Ok then let us procceed." Ragnok said. the envelope was opened and out popped three pieces of paper and two opened envelopes, one had Snape writen on it and the other had To Whom it may Concern. The goblins were upset as they looked at the first piece of paper.
"It seems that Dumbledore has been keeping things from more then just you Mr. Potter." Griphook said. "In the event of our death the two envelopes are to be sent to Mr. Snape and the Ministry of Magic. Sirius will take care of our boy but if anything was to happen to Sirius before Harry's eleventh birthday this will must be read at that time so Harry does not have to stay with my sister any longer then that. We being of sound mind and body do hearby bequeth all our worldly possesions to Harry James Potter-Evens-Snape. Along with the title of Lord Potter and full adult rights. With this will you will find emancipation papers that have already been filled out and a letter for Harry's eyes only." Griphook read.
"Could you send the letter to Snape along with a letter of explanation and ask Fudge and Bones to come to the bank please. I have an idea about what the other letter says and I want them to see this for themselves." Harry said while waving his hand over the counter at the papers.
"Of course Mr... Er... Lord Potter we can send the letter immediately to Mr. Snape and we have no problem with contacting both Fudge and Bones for this." Griphook said.
"Do you wish to read your letter Lord Potter and you will need to sign the emancipation papers." Ragnok asked.
"Yes of course, where do I sign?" Harry asked as he picked up a quill and dipped it in ink.
"Right here, next to the X Lord Potter." Ragnok pointed. Harry signed and the last formality was taken care of to his freedom."And here is the letter for you to read while we wait for Fudge and Bones to arrive." Ragnok said. Harry took the letter and opened it to read .
To my dearest son:
If my wishes were carried out you are reading this when you are seventeen, but if not then you are eleven and have had to stay with my sister. I am sorry my son for that but now you are emancipated and free from her.
You will be experiencing a few changes or have experienced changes that I hope Sirius was able to help you with. These changes are because you are four fifths youkia, or a demon. If you are wondering about how you became a Potter, well it started when I became pregnant with you. You see your real father was a spy and I felt that if he knew about you then he would be comprimised by this, so with James Potter's help I was able to hide your real father. You see James Potter found out that he took one to many curses and was unable to have children. We decided to do a blood ritual that would make you as much a Potter as you are my son.
I made sure noone found out about my being a youkia, at that time a young ministry worker named Umbridge was causeing troble for nonhumans with a bunch of laws that she was getting past. If those laws are still in effect you may wish to hide your youkia heritage or leave the country all together to protect yourself from those laws. Your father also hides his youkia heritage, we both found out about eachother at the same time and fell in love. We both knew how dangerous it was for us but youkia are naturally drawn together because we are very dangerous to normal humans. If you are wondering about my sister she does not have enough youkia in her to be considered a hanyou which is a part youkia, part human. My sister only has one fifth youkia in her. I on the other hand am two thirds youkia and your father is two thirds youkia so we are considered youkia though we do not have enough youkia in us to servive the Killing curse you do. You see the Killing curse does not effect youkia that are atleast three forths pure youkia.
I will miss you my son.
Love your mother
Lily Evens-Snape
Harry finished reading the letter as Fudge and Bones entered the bank. "Ah... Minister Fudge and Madam Bones I am glad you could come on such short notice." Harry said.
"Oh... Mr. Potter may I ask why we were asked to come here?" Fudge asked.
"You may, I have had my family's will opened only a few minutes ago and in the envelope with the will we found this." Harry said while pointing to the counter.
"This letter was ment to go to the ministry shortly after the attack on the Potters." Ragnok said pointing to the envelope. Fudge and Bones picked up the envelope and saw it had been opened took out the letter within.
After a few minutes reading both looked up and asked in unison "How did this letter get in the envelope with the Potters' will."
"All we know is that the will was given to the bank already in the envelope by Dumbledore with the provision that it not be read untill Harry turned seventeen or his legal magical gaurdian gave premission to read it." Ragnok stated.
"But Dumbledor got himself named Harry's magical gaurdian so how were you able to open the will without his premission?" Bones asked.
"Well it seems that Mr. Potter has other living magical relatives and one of them gave premission to open the will." Griphook stated.
"Other living magical relatives. Well a direct blood relative supercedes a nonblood gaurdian so there was no laws broken by the bank. But this, what Dumbledore did could be concidered criminal." Bones stated well waving the letter around.
"That is not all. It seems that the will was suppose to be read when Harry turned eleven because of his living conditions and because the will was sealed we did not know about this condition so we were unable to read the will when it was suppose to be read. We are not pleased with this ." Ragnok stated.
"What do you think Mr. Potter? What should we do about this?" Fudge asked.
"Actually Minister Fudge I am now Lord Potter, and I think that Dumbledore is getting old. I do not think that causing him problems after the fact will change anything, so as long as he leaves me alone I have no problem with him." Harry stated. As Harry finished his statement Professor Snape walked in. Snape looked around and saw Harry and walked over to him.
Snape looked at Harry and said "It is good to see you, My son!"
Five minutes earlier at Headquarters
"...Do you not understand this is in Harry's best interest." Dumbledore said.
"Yes, we understand but to leave Harry with those people... Headmaster Dumbledore, we can not abide by this decision." Hermione said indicating herself and the Weasleys, who were nodding with what she was saying.
"And after last year we will not leave Harry without answers if he asks us for information, within reason of course, sorry Professor Moody." Ginny said.
"Quit alright Ms. Weasley but I never was your professor, so if you will stop calling me that" Moody said. "I have to go and see if Harry got safely to Privet Drive." Moody said as he got up and left.
As the arguement was starting again an owl flew in and dropped a letter in front of Snape. Snape picked up the letter and went to a corner to read. He broke the Gringotts seal and pulled out a letter and an envelope that was already opened. He read.
Mr. Snape
The Potter's will was opened today and in the envelope with the will was this letter to you. It was found in the state we have sent it to you.
Griphook
Gringotts Employee
After reading the letter from Gringotts he opened up the letter and read that.
My Love:
If you are reading this then I have just died. I am writing this to tell you the truth. That night that we were together I became with child. I know I should have told you when I found out but you were a spy for the Light and I could not endanger you with this information. I was already pregnant when I married Potter to protect you. Potter found out he could not produce heirs so to protect OUR son Potter suggested doing a blood ritual that would give OUR son the Potters look until you acknowledge him as your son as well. I am writing this letter with OUR newborn son next to me, He looks so much like you but he has my green eyes. If you feel that you can not acknowledge him then I have made sure that Sirius knows what to do to keep him calm when his youkia heritage starts to come out. If something happened to Sirius before Harry turns eleven then the will will be read to him and I have explained in a letter to him about us and the blood ritual. I hope that you will find it in your heart to forgive my decision to hide this from you and accept your son.
Love always
Lily Evens-Snape
P.S. The wedding was a sham to hide OUR son better.
Snape had just finished reading the letter from his beloved and was wondering about the fact that it was opened before he recieved it when the door banged opened. "He is gone!" Moody said.
"What! What do you mean gone? Were did he go, with who?" The order asked.
"Well I got there and saw the car in the driveway already. So I checked his bedroom and the rest of the house. I saw the Dursleys but not Potter, so I went and asked the Dursleys real nice like were Potter was? they said and I quote 'That freak went with someone to train in America' end quote" Moody said to the order members.
"We have to find him before he leaves!" Dumbledore said.
"Severus..." Dumbledore started to say but Snape grabbed his forearm and looked at Dumbledore. "Go hopefully he does not have Potter" Dumbledore said as Snape dashed out of the room.
'He is so gullible. now I will just apperate to Gringotts and hopefully my son is still there' Snape thought as he apperated out of Headquarters. Moments latter Snape appeared at Gringotts and went inside. He looked around and spotted Fudge and Bones along with several other people and a couple of goblins. He senced the youkia coming off of three of the strangers and amongest them a boy that looked like Potter, his son. He went closer to see if it was him, when he got closer to see that it was indeed Harry Snape said "It is good to see you, my son." They embraced eachother. "We might not have much time, Dumbledore knows that you are not at Privet Drive and he was organizing a search for you when I left. I know about the blood ritual and the reasons that your mother felt she had to hide you from me but I am wondering why you are not showing your heritage yet?" Snape asked.
"I just found out about my heritage and why I am not showing it. It seems that Dumbledore put Seals on me and locked those Seals to this land. I have found a way to get rid of the Seals and get Sirus back at the same time." Harry said.
"How?" Severus asked.
"Well that is the great thing about this, it seems that the veil in the DOM is an one way portal to the Makai and when I go though it the Seals will break and my powers will be released in a rather explosive way that most likely will make the portal into a two way portal." Harry said.
"Well... what if it does not make the portal in to a two way portal?" Severus asked.
"Then I will have to find another way out of the Makai and if they are right I will have no problem with just leaving." Harry stated.
"Ok..My son" Severus said
"Uhm... I do not wish to intrude but "son" why did you call Lord Potter son Mr. Snape?" Fudge asked.
"Because he is my son. I sired him with Lily sixteen years ago but because of my responsiblities Lily desided to hide my impending fatherhood from me. She had a quick sham wedding with Potter and Potter, who found out that he could not have children, and Lily did a blood ritual so my son would look like Potter until I ackonwledge him." stated Snape to Fudge. As the two were talking Harry's features started to change and his eyesight became blurry
"Oh... dad why can I not see?" Harry asked.
"Well son you might want to take off your glasses since I have prefect vision. You must have gottin' the near sightedness from the blood ritual." Severus said. When Harry took off his glasses he could see again and noticed that his hair had become long and strait in the short time
"My hair is finally managable and I can see without these glasses." Harry said.
"Well I am almost done here. If I am right the letter you, Minister Fudge and Madam Bones, read told you about the change of secret keeper for my mother and Potter so you will be giving a full pardon and an appology to Sirius when I retrieve him from the Makai." Harry said.
"Of corse Lord Potter, we have to undo some of the damage done by the withholding of this letter." said Fudge.
"Good. Now all I have left to do here is find a way to do my bank bussiness while I am in Amarica for my training. Father you should come with us since things may become troublesome for you here." Harry stated.
"You may be right son I may need to leave England for a short time and I am sure that the goblins of Gringotts can give you a money card that is attached to your vault here and can be used anywere on Earth that has a Gringotts branch. It gives you access to both wizarding and muggle money nomatter were you are." Severus said.
"Of course, we can get the card right now, and because of your status, Lord Potter, we will give you a gold card that can go everywere even in countries that are not large enough for a Gringotts branch."Griphook said.
"Now that that is settled, we can get what we need for my training." Harry said as he started to walk out of Gringotts with his new gold card to do some shopping in Diagon Alley.
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