A/N: I have 110 pages of this story written already and it's not done yet. I love this story, and I hope everyone who reads this note gives it a chance. There is very little Harry/Draco in the 110 pages, but Harry and Draco have years of emotional baggage to work through. Also, I don't own anything you reconise, especially the characters of Harry potter, though a few other things, like Degrassi or even some of the gods and goddesses mentioned later. Also, suing me isn't worth it, so this disclaimer works for all my chapters, Okay? Oh, and Seamus was thrown in for fun! I love Seamus and Blaise, almost as much as Draco, Harry and Snape, when he's nice. Ron is a no no, as is Hermione, and I love Dumbledore bashing. I think that's everything.
Chapter one
Harry woke to a knock on the door. Tom the innkeeper opened the door after Harry gave the okay. Harry took the plate of bacon and eggs from the bald man, and also took the offered coffee cup, adding six lumps of sugar and a nice splash of cream. Tom left, and Harry ate his breakfast. He walked downstairs, intending to go straight to Diagon Alley to do a little shopping. He was stopped by Tom waving him over. There was a young man that looked to be Harry's age. Tom asked "Would you mind sharing a room with this young man? He looks to be your age, and he goes to Hogwarts. Do you know him?"
Harry laughed and said "'Course I do. This here is the same guy I've shared a dorm with for a great many years." He turned to his dormmate and pulled him up the stairs to the room they would share. "This is your bed, Seamus! My stuff is all over, just ignore it. I'm going shopping. Wanna come?
Seamus nodded and followed Harry, who had sprinted down the stairs. Seamus followed at a more dignified pace than his over rambunctious friend. Seamus found Harry waiting for him by the brick wall that is also the entrance to Diagon alley. They walked through the archway that appeared after Harry tapped a brick. Harry immediately went in and made his way to Gringotts, walking briskly.
When he found out Seamus was not directly behind him, he made his way through the crowd of early birds to the blonde boy. When he was within grabbing reach, Harry reached out a pale hand and snatched Seamus's arm in a firm grip, and started out once more to the white marble building, pulling Seamus the whole way.
Once inside, Harry told a goblin "Potter, one through sixty-eight". Seamus handed the goblin a key that had the number four hundred nine on it. After the number was an F. They got into a squeaky and rickety cart, and one long and sickening ride later, arrived at a long hallway that must have had thirty doors on each side. "Potter vaults one through sixty-eight." the goblin that brought them said. Harry stopped in front of a stretch of wall, and the next second, a small silver dagger was resting in his hand. He made a poked the tip of his finger with it, and a crimson budded in the cut, spilling over a mere second later.
He pressed his finger to a stone that was slightly darker than the others, and the stone wall shimmered, and then a stone door appeared. Harry pulled open the door, and pushed Seamus in. first, following as soon as there was room in the doorway. Inside the vault was a huge pile of gold, along with some gemstones and some old books and other things. Seamus went straight to the books and other stuff, while Harry filled his coin bag with a huge amount of galleons, sickles, and knuts. Seamus looked up when Harry called "Okay, Seamus, we can go now."
"Oh, can't we stay a little longer? The stuff in here is so cool!". At Seamus's pleading, Harry shook his head and rolled his eyes. "Put the neat stuff, like weapons, potions notes, spell lists, anything that might be useful in this bag. Don't worry about breaking anything or ripping the bag or anything, all the stuff that goes in it is protested from breaking, the bag is spelled to hold whatever you need without it ripping. And everything fits. I could fit a house in it if I wanted to. Then we'll move on. Okay by you?"
Seamus nodded. And asked "We'll move on to the next vault, or get out of here? If you don't mind, I would like to look in a few more. We can go shopping later this summer. It is only the middle of June, after all, and this is almost better than shopping, but not quite."
He had been packing the books, a few weapons: a sword, 7 daggers, and another sword that had emeralds and rubies and sapphires and some yellow stone he did not recognise. It was apparently a magical sword, and he would find out what it did. They exited, Seamus carrying the bag. They went to another stretch of wall that had a darker brick in the middle, just like the last one. Harry pierced his finger again and once again pressed it to the dark brick.
The door was pushed open by the raven haired boy, and Seamus again went first. into the vault. While the first held a pile of gold, this vault had no money, but had a lot of jewelry, including a lot of rings. Harry took a few of the nice looking ones, like crest rings, seal rings, and even a few bonding rings along with promise rings and engagement rings. He took only one or two of the engagement rings, but took a few all the same. If he needed any other rings, he could always go back. As he stepped away, accidentally making it spread out a little, something caught his eye.
It was a crest ring, four colors and a crest that was slightly familiar, though he had never seen it before. It was blue, red, yellow and green, with an R in the blue quarter, a G in the red, a H in the yellow, and a S in the green.
He put it in the bag, and went over to a pile of swords and jeweled ink pots, when Seamus called him over. "Umm, Harry, I think you should see this!". Harry went to stand by his side, and he held out an aged parchment envelope that had his name, his full name in calligraphy. He put it in the bag, in the front pocket. He went to look through the pile of papers in the pile in the corner.
He found a lot of old potion instructions and a few herbology guides in handwriting that reminded him of Hermione's notes. He put them in the bag, and they left for the next vault, putting all the papers, weapons, and books in the bag. The next vault held only a few trunks and gold. Harry went to a beautiful forest green trunk with silver on the corners and running along the edges. Seamus took a black trunk.
Harry found lots of daggers, and a few small items, including a pure clear rock that seemed useless, but Harry figured if it was a rock and that was it, it would not be in the vault at all, so he took it. He also found a few journals, and a few diaries, along with another invisibility cloak, but it had a different texture than his father's old cloak. As that one felt like water, the one in the vault was warm, like a mug of hot cocoa on a cold day. It was apparently a cloak for colder climates.
He put it in the bag, and finally put the whole trunk in. He let Seamus finish cleaning out the trunk he was digging in, and they went outside and took the cart back to the front counter. They left Gringotts and went to the robe shop, where they were fitted for robes. They went back to their room in the Leaky Cauldron. Then they emptied the bag, after pushing the beds against the walls.
They pulled out the trunk, and then the books, journals, papers, daggers and other weapons, and finally all the rings, forgetting the letter with his name on it. He showed Seamus the odd crest ring. Seamus was as puzzled by it as Harry was. They read all the papers, but not the books and journals. They put it all in the bag and went back into Diagon Alley. After buying all that they wanted, they decided to go to muggle London.
They went to Gringotts and Harry changed ten thousand galleons into muggle money, and at ten dollars a galleon, they had a hundred thousand pounds. They called a cab, and while waiting for it to make it to the Leaky Cauldron, they changed into muggle clothes. Seamus was wearing a pair of tight jeans and a tight tee-shirt. Harry was wearing a pair of jeans and a oversized tee shirt.
The pants were black and the shirt a blood red color. They went outside and waited for their cab. They went to a department store and picked out some muggle clothes. Harry told Seamus "I don't have any other muggle clothes, but I like them. He asked the saleswoman if she had any shirts made from silk. She said they did, and harry ordered 30 shirts in various colours.
They then went to a store called Hot Topic, where Harry got 10 more pairs of loose jeans. They left the store, and they went to another department store. After Seamus got more jeans, they went across the street, at Harry's insistence. "Harry, are you sure you want to do this?"
"Yes Seamus, I do."
They went inside the tattoo parlor. A woman that was covered in tattoos told them to look around and tell her if they found something they liked. Harry looked over all the tattoos and decided there were none he liked.
They went back to the leaky cauldron and found out from the barkeeper that there was a wizard's tattoo parlor right between Diagon Alley and Knockturn Alley. They left for it. They went inside and a shady looking wizard told them to look around, while he would be in the back room. Harry looked at every single tattoo on 3 of the walls when he saw it.
It was a large tattoo of a fire-breathing dragon. It was a dark blue dragon, with silver eyes. "That's the one I'm getting." Harry said to Seamus and he went to the bell you push for service. Harry pointed out the dragon, and the man said "Hmm, I don't do that tattoo. I need to get Arra. Wait here."
He disappeared into the back room again, and a woman about thirty years old came out. She had a few tattoos on her arms, one on her wrist, and one on her lower back. She smiled and asked "Dragon? What color and where do you want it?
"On my lower back, please. And I would like it silver with blue eyes."
"Follow me please, to the back room. You need to remove your shirt and slide your pants down a little. It should only take a few minutes."
Harry pulled off his shirt right there in the main room, and handed it to Seamus. He then followed the woman through the door to the back.
He laid on the table and slid his pants down so they hung dangerously low on his hips and waited for Arra to start applying the tattoo. Arra placed the outline and muttered a spell to transfer it to his skin, another to color it like Harry had dictated, and a final spell to make it permanent. Harry was showed what it looked like by standing with his back to a mirror and looking into another one.
It was perfect. He went back out to where Seamus was waiting for him. He put his shirt back on, paid for his new tattoo, and they left. They went back to the Leaky Cauldron for lunch, then decided to read the stuff in the bag. They brought all the stuff out of the bag, and Seamus said "Harry, when are you going to read that letter addressed to you?"
"Oh. I forgot about that.". He pulled it out and broke the seal. He slid the thick letter out and began to read. It said:
Dear Harry,
If you are reading this, we did not live to see you grow up. There are some things I wish to tell you. First of all, this is your mother, Lily Evans Potter. I want you to know that I love you and never wanted to leave you.
The things in this vault are yours. These are the Potter vaults, but you also can get into the Evans vault, as I am and was an Evans. Another thing you must know is that you are related to five of the most powerful people in the world.
But before I tell you who those people are, you should know that I was born to a line of squibs. I am a pureblood witch, and you are a pureblood wizard.
On my side of the family, you are a direct descendant of Salazar Slythrin, Godric Griffindor, and Merlin himself. That means that you can get into those vaults as well. Now, your father is a direct descendant of Helga Hufflepuff and Rowena Ravenclaw. You are the last of the lines and heir to all them, as well as the Potter and Evans lines, because Mother and Father wanted it that way. You can open every one of those vaults, and you can take whatever you wish, as the people I have mentioned have no other living relatives.
Your father wishes to tell you that he loves you and hopes that life is well for you. Remember that we always love you.
Love Always,
Mum and Dad
P.S. This is James, or your dad. Lily wanted you to find this out on your own but I think you should know that Sirius Black is your godfather, and he wants me to tell you, in case he dies as well, that you were an adorable baby and that every girl in a 20 mile radius is gonna be falling down at your feet. Love From Padfoot, your loving godfather (he told me to say that).
Harry reread it and passed it to Seamus, as if looking proof that it was real. As Seamus read the letter, his eyes widened in shock "Harry, do you know what will happen when you turn seventeen?"
"No...What will happen? Is it bad?
"No," Seamus said. "you will just be the most powerful wizard of all time, surpassing Merlin by far. You will be invincible. Not even Voldemort or Dumbledore will be able to match your power. If you turned dark, no one would be able to stop you. Dumbledore must not know. Or if he does, he must be planning to do something to you so you can't turn dark. I hate that meddling old codger. That damned twinkle in his eye is not reassuring. When will you turn 17?"
"I turn seventeen on the last day of July." Harry looked over to Seamus. He was amazed at what the boy had told him. More powerful than Dumbledore? How could that be?
The boys were silent for a while. Then they went to read journals written by Helga, Rowena, Salazarr, and Godric. The ones that were written by the founder Slythrin were potions manuals, the ones by Helga were Herbology and medical magic, Rowena wrote ones for charms and transfiguration and divination and arithmancy, and Godric wrote defense against the dark arts.
Soon, it was time for dinner and they decided to stop working for the night. They went downstairs and had dinner, pea soup. Seamus went up the stairs, Harry following closely. They went to bed soon after, Harry rereading the letter over and over again. The next morning, Harry and Seamus went shopping in Diagon Alley...again. As they made their way back to the pub, Harry saw someone he knew well.
A/N: You all know who it is, right? Anyway, Drop a review...they are so awesome, and I need to know what you think!