Hogwarts Dark Magick
Runs along side the Harry Potter books
Chapter Two/Gringotts
A loud beeping awoke Rowena with a start. She groaned when she saw it read only 7:00am. But she had it set for 9:00am. The only explanation was that her mother had put it forward. But she smiled, shook her head and yawned. She rubbed her eyes and pulled back her royal blue duvet covers. They were decorated with a large bronze Raven looking very regal. Her mother had decorated her room the way she wanted about a year ago. Rowena got up and her feet touched the cool floor boards. They were painted with bronze and blue stripes. She loved her room and wouldn't change it for the world. The walls were decorated with the Weird Sisters and right now they were singing in mute and generally waving to Rowena. She also had some muggle band posters up -U2, Red Hot Chili Peppers, System of a Down and KoRn. She had gotten her mother to enchant them so they moved to. Bono winked at her and Anthony blew her a kiss. S.O.A.D was still asleep and KoRn were chatting up the Weird Sisters.
Rowena laughed and went to the bathroom. After getting dressed in a simply black crop top and blue jeans she went downstairs.
Her mother heard her bounce down the stairs and served up her pancakes.
'Hey momma!' she cooed as she drowned her pancakes in maple syrup. She cut them up and took her first bite. She grinned. This was heaven on a plate to her.
'D'ya know what today is?'
'Uh – August 28th?'
'Silly I didn't mean the date! Today we're going to Diagon Alley!'
Rowena dropped her knife and fork and stared at her mother.
'Don't just sit there with ya gob open! Eat up we've gotta leave soon.' Fibby laughed and leaned against the counter. She picked up her coffee and cradled it in her hand. She'd have to tell her soon the truth about how she came to be. She still hadn't gotten around to telling her she was adopted. But all this was happening and she didn't want to ruin her happiness even though she feared she'd find out before she could tell her herself.
Soon they were at the leaking cauldron. The walked off the ruby red Double Decker bus and looked at the grimy building. Muggles walked pass and paid neither heed to them nor the building. They entered and were immediately hit with the smell of stale whiskey and smoke.
'Hey Tom.' called Fibby to the barman as they passed through. A hag at the counter stared at them with one visible eye and two old wizards puffed on long pipes billowing purple smoke.
'Ya want summit to drink?' Tom asked as he cleaned out a glass with a grubby cloth.
'Naw thanks Tom – I've got Rowena and we're here to get her school equipment.'
'Wow whee if it ain't Rowena! Darling I ain't seen you since you were yea high!' Held his hand a few feet about he ground. Rowena blushed. Everyone was staring at her now. She loved attention but this was….uncomfortable.
'Hey Tom we gots ta go! But I be seeing ya later!'
They left and after her mother tapped the right brick with her wand they entered Diagon Alley.
'Two celebrities in one day. Potter now Ravenclaw.' Tom muttered as they left. He shook his head.
Rowena had only visited Diagon once before with her mother and she was too young to remember it. Throngs of witches and wizards of all ages were gathered here going to various shops to get what they needed.
'Well Darling I reckons we better get ya some money first.' Fibby directed Rowena to a snowy white building which towered over all the other little shops. Rowena gazed at it in amazement whilst the babble of shop keepers filled her ears.
'Dragon Liver! Only seventeen sickles an ounce!'
'Daylight robbery!' came the shrill voice of a witch in emerald green robes as she walked past and shook her head. A soft hooting came from a shop named Eeylops Owl Emporium – Tawny, Screech, Barn, Brown, and Snowy.
'Well go on in then.' Her mother pushed her forward. She looked at a goblin wearing a uniform of scarlet and gold. He wore a swarthy clever look about his features and he had a pointy beard. The goblin's fingers were long as were his feet. He bowed as they entered and they came to a second pair of doors. They were silver and engraved with:
Enter, stranger, 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.
A pair of goblins bowed them through the doors and they entered onto a vast marble hall. About a hundred or so more goblins were sitting on high stools behind counters. Some studied jewels others counted gold and silver coins and weighed them.
Fibby and Rowena made for the nearest free goblin. He glared down at them.
'Good Morning Madame,' He rasped at Fibby, 'How might I be of service to you?'
'I'd like to take some money out of Miss Rowena Ravenclaw's safe please.'
'Do you have the key?'
'Right here.' She handed him a tiny gold key and he studied it for a couple of seconds.
'Seems to be in order. Very well I'll have someone that you to your vault,' He barked at a goblin in ruby and gold uniform, 'Huor here will take you to your vault.' And he waved them away and continued with some work.
Huor held open the door for them and they were now in a narrow stone passage. Rowena was surprised as she expected more grandeur. Huor whistled and a small cart rattled up the tracks. Huor open the door and they got on and sat down. Rowena loved roller coasters so was quite at ease. Fibby looked like she couldn't care much either.
Huor whistled again and they sped off.
Rowena's eyes stung as they whizzed along at breakneck speed but Huor wasn't steering so Rowena assumed the cart was enchanted. They twisted along and dived into the black shadows. They plunged even deeper and took more furious turns and twists but Rowena was enjoying it. The rattling cart came to a halt. Rowena looked on as a small boy and a large giant of a man sped off. She and her mother exited the cart.
'Vault 712' came the high pitched squeak that was Huor's voice. He placed the minuet key into a keyhole and a series of clicks were heard. The door opened a billows of purple smoke issued out. Rowena coughed slightly and then gasped. Mounds of gold, towers of silver and heaps of bronze coins filled the room.
'All mine?' She turned to her mother.
'All yours, now hurry and fill ya bag. But remember this has to last you 7 years of school. Rowena nodded her head and piled coins into the pouch bag her mother handed to her.
'Now the Silver ones are sickles, the gold ones are Galleons and those small bronze ones are Knuts. Lemme think – Seventeen sickles to a Galleon and twenty-nine Knuts to a sickle. Easy enough to remember.' Her mother smiled and motioned for Rowena to come on and hurry up.
She finished filling her bag and the goblin locked the vault again. The entered the cart one last time and in a wild ride they left Gringotts and stood in the blinking sun.
'So what now?' she asked her mother.
'Time to get your stuff.'
Okay 2nd Chapter. I would like any comments at all and what you all though of it!