Harry Potter & The True Power

Chapter 9 : The Gringotts Visit Part 3

Harry felt as if he had just walked into a gust of cool fresh air. Then he saw himself looking at Ragnok who was looking at a large door. It was a simple door except for the fact that it was made up of some thing which Harry had never seen. There were no locks or places for the key to be put in. it was a simple solid block of a thing. Ragnok looked at him and waved him to the door.

"Mr. Potter. this is the most unique vault in all our banks. It has no door per se. It has a guardian. This vault holds many mysteries for us as well. As this was the very first vault in all the goblin businesses. For centuries, the potter kin have come to this place and been adjudged. This door has never opened for them. There are many rumors about the guardian. But what is clear is that it gives you control of only a certain portion of the Potter family fortune. It judges you to your worth. But even the least amount is a very filthy rich amount. After the death of every Potter head of the family, the entire vault is merged back except for the personal vaults of the living kin. Then a new vault is adjudged for the new head of the Potters. It is rumored that this vault has a treasure beyond all the gold in the world."

Harry was totally astonished. He had never in all the lectures of Hermione upon the working of financial systems (after all wizards and goblins had always fought over money) but he had never even heard of such things. The only reasons he knew this was that Ron always asked Hermione to repeat the tales of people with too much money.

However, as he had never expected anymore money than he already had, Harry really did not care about the money inside. What he did care about was help. If there was something inside his family vault could help him defeat Voldemort? Though he felt a huge amount of power in him, he was pretty sure that without proper training in using that power, most of that power would go unutilized. And he would end up dead.

With a clear mind, though a bit anxious, Harry stood in front of the guardian, waiting to be adjudged. Soon, a golden light emanated from the guardian and enveloped Harry. Beyond him, Ragnok was looking apprehensive. Most of the wizards who had come here earlier, had auras ranging from red to blue. As a matter of fact, the only one with a blue aura was James Potter. He had been the strongest Potter in the long lines of Potters. Though it was rumored that someday the real heir to the Potters would come and claim all, it had not happened in nearly 3000 years. That was when this vault had been made. And Gringotts had come into being.

Coming out of his thoughts, he saw the aura of potter quickly changing colors. It started from a very bright red, then changed until it turned blue, then dark blue, then purple and in the end silver. Ragnok was looking with his mouth opened. Nobody had ever had a silver aura. This aura was only a rumor. There were only two auras greater than this, gold and platinum. Platinum, or white aura as it was sometimes mistaken as, was rumored to be of the very vessels that had started the evolution of magic on the planet, the Gods. It was also in the Gringotts charter of establishment that when someone with a Golden aura does come thru the guardian, an emergency session of the goblins would be called and their holy book would be opened and read before the said wizard. Nobody had ever read it. Hence no one knew what was in it.

"It had taken 3 millennia for the first silver wizard to come, how much longer the gold wizard might take. If it happens at all" thought Ragnok. He had been very close to find out the secrets of their Holy Book. Alas, it was not to be.

Suddenly, there was a blast of pure energy and the whole room was basked in a golden glow. Ragnok, who was lost in his muses, was taken aback as he saw Harry Potter shining in an aura of even a brighter light than the glow which had been coming out of the guardian.

Thirty seconds back, as Harry felt the glow envelop him, he felt as if the energy was trying to reach his magical core. Slowly, his core began to respond and started to burn brighter and brighter. Soon it became a race of who was more powerful. Harry did not control it, it was almost primal. Soon, huge amount of energy started to flow through every fiber of his being. He felt as if his core has expanded through to his entire body. And then he felt a resistance. He felt as if the foreign magic was stronger still and his core was trying to find more magic in him to finish with the upper hand. Then it happened. He felt another surge pass through him and he felt the whole room glow like that of sun. He was reminded of looking at the golden orb just last night, though this was a lot brighter. Never the less, he was not threatened. Suddenly he felt as if his magic was equal to the foreign magic and then became stronger. As soon as this happened, he felt a single moment of clarity. A singularity where he could understand all the past. But it happened for less than a second. A less than a second of nirvana. Then he fainted.

Ragnok was totally amazed at what happened. As soon as Harry started to glow gold, he began to levitate. A bit slowly at first. Then his aura turned even brighter. He began to float higher and higher. Soon he was glowing much brighter than gold. For less than a split second, he felt as if the golden aura had started to change into white, and then, with a huge surge, everything went quiet. Harry came floating down to the floor. For the first time in the history of Gringotts, the guardian changed. Where it had been previously of a dark brownish gold color, now it was a bright gold, with a white phoenix engraved with in.

Totally turned out of his wits, Ragnok waved his hand, trying to levitate Harry. Nothing happened. As Ragnok started to call for the portal again to call for assistance, Harry's unconscious body floated of it own accord and followed Ragnok back to his office. It kept floating without any help. Knowing that he could not do anything else to help, Ragnok went in to the private communication system of Gringotts and called for an emergency meeting code alpha-one. A code every goblin knows. Every one would be here in less than three minutes.

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Belliatrix was on her way out to find peter when she saw Snape walking in, with the vial of a potion and a scroll. "he must have found the spell as well", she thought. Both the top death eaters looked at each other and said nothing. Both just nodded. Bella had a good enough knowledge of potions, but wasn't as good as Severus. She knew he must have been up all night to brew the potion. Had it been any other group, they might have expressed relief or even laughed a bit. The dark lord, however, didn't like his people socializing much. Anyway most purebloods were like the English royals, stiff upper lip et al. showing emotion was simply not done. So for the benefit of the other, both restrained, and then proceeded to the lord's suite where the healer might have been. This potion and spell was to be given and casted at midnight. Hence there was plenty of time

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There was a huge uproar in the Diagon Alley. Everybody had felt the huge magical wave flow through. Many objects with charms on them had started to act awkwardly. You could see many brooms shooting up & down, books floating across, enchanted objects lying about useless. Many hoardings and charmed objects which had been flying across as advertisements fell on top of many wizards and witches, hurting them. Within a few minutes, many aurors had apparated in. a few emergency teams from St.Mungo's had also appeared.

The thing which had hurt worst was that Gringotts had shut down. It was not the normal door closing, but the magical shutdown. Instead, all the doors and windows had magically fused. Inside, all the transactions had been suspended and a goblin was offering anyone who wanted to go out, a one way self destruct portkey. Though no-one except people who had children outside were taking it. Everybody knew that Gringotts was the safest place to be.

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Dumbledore was sitting in his office with Minerva. They were yet again looking for a new defense professor. The last one was in the St.Mungo's. the second one in five years. It was really a sad shape of events. With the present status of ministry and the unknown power surge, he was at his wits end. The things were spiraling out of his control. Then it hit them. A huge power surge, though lesser than the one which had happened last night. He quickly felt the surge and found it was from the Diagon Alley. Feeling for Harry's security, he quickly looked around for Fawkes, but he was nowhere to be found. He closed his eyes, calling for his familiar. But yet again, was unable to do so. Feeling frustrated, he tried to floo to the secured room at the inn. However, it seemed even the floo network had shut down. At last, he made a portkey and left with Minerva to the Diagon Alley.

A few moments after they left, the sword of Gryffindor, which was now hanging in a charmed shelf on the wall, glowed and then disappeared. By the time Dumbledore would find out, it would be too late for him to interfere.

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Fawkes at the moment was in the forbidden forest. One of his duties as the ambassador to the Wizarding world was also to maintain diplomatic relations with the new magical creatures. The new magical creatures were defined as the creatures which had come into existence in the last millennia. It may due to natural evolution or due to merging of species. The older species consisted of dragons, phoenixes, griffins, elves, unicorns, Pegasus, magical owls, high snakes, goblins, centaurs, dwarves, vampires, caristas (also known as house elves) and a few more exotic species due to merging of the species.

The magical wave had been felt more by the inhabitants of the forbidden forests. These magical creatures were more in tune with the nature of magic, than human wizards. As he was the phoenix's representative of the older or higher magical brethren, he had been called to discuss this new development. Most of the creatures were as it is worried about the battle brewing between the wizards, they really didn't want another complication.

Here in a the center of the forbidden forest, was a small clearing. It was called as "The Sanctuary". Here no animal was to be harmed by anyone. Outside this small area, the laws of natural food chain existed, but here, everybody was equal and was provided a platform to voice their concern. There was also a council, where a member of each group had an ambassador. However due to several reasons, some personal and some not, this council of the younger magical creatures didn't always work. Yet in the times such as these, for matters this important, it was one common platform, where everybody could sit together and discuss issues.

With Fawkes, there was the high centaur, the head of their council, Bono; for the unicorns, their princess flora was present. The other high creatures had not attended the council meetings in a long time.

They were all there and about to start when they felt another powerful wave of magic. Though some would consider this wave as weaker than the one that was felt earlier, both flora and Fawkes knew different. The earlier shock wave may have felt stronger but that was because it was a raw, uncontrolled magic. This new wave was far more controlled. By no means was it musical as the power waves generated by many of the higher magical beings. Yet, it was a bit harmonic and it was far better than the noise generated by the wizards.

Feeling this newer wave, it was immediately decided to postpone the meeting till tomorrow. The different magical creatures would try to find out as much as possible thru their own unique brand of magic.

As soon as Fawkes came out of the sanctuary, he felt that Dumbledore had tried to call him. Using his link, he found Albus in the Diagon Alley. He also tried to find out the source of explosion, though he was absolutely sure the reason was Harry, he wanted to find out the reason for such a massive surge. He looked in thru the magical subspace and found Harry floating in the air with golden energy receding into him. The sword, known as Gryffindor sword, lying gently on his chest.

Sighing, Fawkes thought, things were happening a lot faster than anticipated. And a second later, he appeared next to Albus, who was looking at the rock that used to be Gringotts.

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Inside the upper echelons of Gringotts, the office of Ragnok had been magically expanded and turned into a huge conference room. Nearly 60 of the most senior goblins, including the Queen of the goblins, her highness Queen Trastek, the 201st had arrived as well. It was nearly an unknown fact that though there was a council of goblins comprising of nearly 50 goblins, there was a monarch above who ruled the council and it was always a female. It represented the balance between both the sexes. The goblins were a progressive society. They lived totally divorced from the wizards as far as there society was concerned. As they had little respect for the wizards, which was a male dominated society, only male goblins used to come here to work. In their own home world, everybody was equal.

At the moment each and every one of them was waiting and looking at the body of Harry Potter who was still floating. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a magical sword appeared out of nowhere and laid itself on the chest of the young potter. It was a beautiful sword, with an exquisitely crafted hilt, and a huge ruby for the power stone.

Then, slowly, the golden glow started to recede into Harry's body as well as the sword. In a few minutes, moments, all was gone except for the slight glow which just hummed around him. And then, Harry opened his eyes.

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Author's notes.

I again would like to thank you all for the interest shown in my maiden fanfic. My maiden story as a matter of fact. I have been informed by more than one persons that I have two flaws as yet. A few minor grammatical mistakes and the length of my paragraphs. I have incorporated some of the suggestions like putting in a paragraph break and writing shorter paragraphs. As to minor grammatical errors, though they are checked by the Microsoft windows package, I understand its limitations and have decided to take on a beta. If any of you are interested, kindly mail me. I have tried to fix the other.

I would also like to thank all my reviewers who have been kind enough to leave their thoughts on my story. And I would like to thank the old ones who have been here since the start. So thank you everyone. I hope I can keep this story interesting enough in the future.

Ty. Golden Thestral

PS. all my attempts at putting a para graph have failes. kindly help.shift+enter doesn't work.