FUTURE PLANS

As Harry walked into the bank he dropped his charms and strode in as himself for the first time in five years. When he entered the main lobby all action stopped, and all eyes turned to him. The patrons, wondering why all the goblins stopped talking, looked to the main doors as well and their mouths hung open as they stared.

"Good afternoon Mr. Potter," Griphook said as he approached and bowed in front of Harry. The other goblins also bowed in respect before they went back to their work as Harry and Griphook disappeared around a corner.

"Good afternoon Griphook, and please call me Harry. We are equals and although I believe I know why the goblins showed me that respect when I walked in, it was an unnecessary gesture."

"It takes a lot to earn a goblins respect Harry, but what you said today in your speech has earned you the respect of all goblins. If the bank were empty you would have received a much more formal greeting from them. The Heads Goblins have asked me to bring you before them for an audience, at your convenience, they are assembled in the great hall if you have time today."

"Yes anything I can do for my magical brethren I will do, lead the way Griphook."

As he entered a large room, he noticed a wooden table in center with many old goblins sitting around it in a circle. An empty chair sprung up around the circle with one chair directly behind it. He closed his eyes While he sifted through all the goblin customs he had been given before he realized what the circle was for. He walked forward until he reached the empty chair and waved his hand over it, casting a goblin-vanishing spell at it. When he finished he created another chair at the table and held it out for Griphook. He bowed twice to Grimly, the only other head he knew, and waited for Griphook to sit before he joined the circle. The other goblins looked at each other for several minutes before Grimly nodded twice back at Harry and welcomed him into the circle.

"From your actions here today am I to understand you know why you have been invited here today, and you would like Griphook to be involved as well," said a goblin across from him in the circle.

"Yes I believe I know why I am here but as I have told Griphook on more than one occasion we are equals and he should sit beside me."

"Very well Griphook, the council accepts you as a member, based on Mister Potter's support. We have asked you here today Mister Potter to offer you a position on the Council of Goblins. You have proven yourselves in our eyes at your press conference today and by the actions of your family on our behalf. You already seem to know our magic and our customs for some reason; I can only guess that it has been passed down to you from your ancestors somehow. If you accept our offer you will become a goblin citizen and be privy to all our information and resources."

"I accept your offer and I will offer my support in any thing you may require my help in, but as I understand it, goblins have to have at least one wife by the time they become of age, and although I am looking for a girlfriend at the moment I don't plan on getting married for a long time, at least not until Voldemort is defeated. And I have a hard enough time with one woman, I doubt I will be looking for more," he said with a smile as he bowed to all the goblins in the room again.

Grimly stood up and bowed to Harry before answering with a smile, "we agree to your terms and happily accept you in our culture, Head Harry Potter. You should be more worried for Griphook. Because of his new station he has to find five new wives." They all laughed as Griphook turned a little greener at that comment. They stood up and shook hands as they all walked out the door discussing lighter things.

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As they approached Griphook's office several goblins were waiting by the door for him. They waited until he sat down before handing him several notes and then leaving again. "Well Harry, it seems we are very popular today, several individuals request meetings with us. I must thank you for standing beside me today, my rank and position here has increased greatly thanks to you.

"Nonsense Griphook, I knew from the moment I laid eyes on you that I would one day trust you with my accounts, that day has now come. I am expecting a few visitors today whom I told to ask for you by name, are those the ones that wish to see us?"

"Yes, a Mr. Draco Malfoy, a Mr. Alastor Moody, and Headmaster Dumbledore, are all waiting in offices to see you. Your new office here is right next to mine, if you wish I will retrieve them one at a time and bring them to you."

"That would be wonderful. Please bring in Mr. Moody first and I will wait for him in my office."

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Mad eye Moody was pacing back and forth waiting for the door to open. He had been waiting ten minutes before a goblin came to escort him to Harry Potter's office, and now he was waiting for Harry to show up.

All of sudden he was hit in the head with another rock, and as he turned around he saw Harry sitting at the desk with a smirk on his face. "Potter what in the devil did you do that for, and how long have you been sitting there watching me?"

"I have been here since you first appeared in my office, and I hit you with another rock because you weren't paying attention. You assumed the only way into this office was through the front door, it isn't." Harry smiled as he handed Moody a piece of parchment. "This is my new house and all the areas you will be able to access. As you can see some of the rooms are already password protected, and the passwords are on your parchment. The real building is twice that size and only myself and my house elves will have free reign. These are the maps for the rest of the defense group. I want you to pick a room and set up your own wards around it and check the wards on the house. I will be living there from now on and the DA will be moving there shortly, if they accept my summer training program."

"Ok, would you like me to add some trips and traps to the house for them now, or do you want to wait a while before testing them?"

"Go ahead, nothing too lethal yet, but I want them to be kept on their toes."

Harry explained his speech to Moody before letting him go to the house and telling him he would be there later.

"Go ahead and show Draco in Griphook, he has been waiting long enough I think."

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Draco was waiting in a small office being watched by a small goblin and waiting for another goblin, named Griphook. He had been waiting now for an hour and he was getting very restless.

Where the hell is he and why is that goblin sitting there watching me? I am getting sick of this. If he doesn't show up in the next five minutes I'm leaving. He pulled out his pocket watch and looked at the time again he knew he would be safe. If Potter tried anything all he had to do was break the clasp on the watch and he would be portkeyed back to his manor. Where the hell is he!

"Hello Mr. Malfoy, my name is Griphook, if you would follow me please."

He looked up startled because he never heard the door open or the goblin enter. He nodded to the goblin as he stood up and followed him out of the office.

"This is Mr. Potter's office he is waiting for you."

"Mr. Potter's Office, why does he have an office here? He's too young to be an employee, and I didn't think a goblin would even give a human employee an office?" Malfoy asked as he stared at the name on the door and then looked back at the goblin.

"Mr. Potter doesn't work for Gringotts but that is all I will tell you about him, Mr. Malfoy. You should address your questions to Mister Potter if you are interested in answers to them," he said as he walked through the door. "Harry, Mr. Malfoy is here to see you, shall I show him in?"

"Yes thank you Griphook, send him in and inform Professor Dumbledore that I have left for home, and I am sorry that I missed him. I will be leaving soon and I don't want to speak with him today."

"Very well, have a safe trip," Griphook said as he bowed and left the room.

"Good afternoon Mr. Malfoy. I see you got my letter, take a seat," Harry said pointing to a chair in front of his desk.

"How is it that you have your own office at Gringotts Potter?" Draco sneered as he sat down, cautiously.

"They seem to like me, that is how I have my own office," Harry said as he looked into Draco's eyes.

"How did you get Fudge to resign and appoint Weasley as acting minister?" Draco said as he leaned back in his chair and pulled out his pocket watch.

"The minister and I came to an agreement the other day on a few things and I suggested he go into hiding to avoid both sides in the coming war," Harry said with a smile.

"Interesting! Now what do you want with me exactly? You said you were offering me an alliance and you had a vault with my name on it here at Gringotts," he said fingering the watch again in his hand.

"Let's get to the point then shall we? I need the leader of Slytherin house this year on my side of the war. Many lives will be lost this year if the houses don't unite and learn to work together. I will be working on uniting the houses with my defense group and I need more Slytherins involved. Half of them will follow you and do what you do because of who you are and what your father is," Harry held up his hand as Draco was going to interrupt him and continued. "I know you have chosen not to take the mark and several of your friends have as well. Now where was I? Ah yes, the other half of Slytherin will remain neutral, not wanting to pick a side while they are still in school, fearful of both sides and not wanting to step out of line. Most of them have parents that aren't death eaters or parents that weren't Slytherins. Now if you work with me all of Slytherin will follow your lead and the houses will all be united after that."

"How do you know I have chosen not to take the dark mark? I only told my mother of that decision and she wouldn't tell a soul," he asked as he sat up straight in his chair, looking into green eyes.

"A friend of mine told me when he delivered my letter to you the other day," Harry said as he smiled back at Draco. "Phoenix are very loyal to the light side and they can tell if a person has chosen the light or dark path in life. Soon after he delivered your letter he reported back to me that he could see light in your soul as well as dark, but the light was stronger than the dark."

"Where did you get a black phoenix? I've never heard of them and neither has mother. Where did it come from?" he asked.

"I needed to deliver your letter and I figured if I sent Hedwig she would never come back, so called Adrian to me and she agreed to take a letter to you," Harry said with a smile.

"Only you could call for a phoenix and have one come to you Potter. What else do you want from me in return for your help?"

"Well if you decide to sign up for the DA when school starts again you will have to sign an enchanted parchment that will not allow you to discus what happens in meeting with anyone who is not a member but that is all for now. I ask that you try to be civil with other people and not be such a git all the time, but I know it's tough to change your whole life in a day. Also, you could try calling me Harry instead of Potter all the time."

"Very well I agree to your terms Pot…. Harry. I will work on being nicer to people and calling you by your first name."

"Good. Now we should talk about security. It won't be safe for you at your house when Voldemort finally breaks your father out of Azkaban. Now you can probably set your houses wards to not let people in that aren't invited, but as soon as your father gets out of prison the wards can easily be taken over by him. And then you and your mother would be screwed. You have a few options there, you can put a Fidelus charm on the house or you can cast a wizard repellant charm on it. I would suggest using both of them together with a muggle repellant charm."

"A wizard repellant charm? I've never heard of such a thing, and the Fidelus charm can only be cast by extremely powerful wizards and I am not going to let Dumbledore cast any spells on my home. I don't trust that old fool and I never will. The manor already has a muggle repellant charm built into the wards so that won't be a problem."

"You're right no wizard has ever heard of that charm, I created it a couple of days ago so I could hide my new home from wizards and muggle both. I can cast both spells on your manor when I take you home. Your portkey won't work inside Gringotts because of the goblin wards preventing such things from happening. Another thing you can do to protect yourself from your father is removing him from the family. As head of the Malfoy family you have that right and power to do so. He will still be a Malfoy in name but officially he will have no say in yours or your mother's affairs. It will legally divorce your parents though, so I would talk it over with her when we get there. Is there anything else you would like to know?"

"How did you create a spell and how did you know about my watch being a portkey?"

"Well, spell creation is a very hard task and explaining the spell would take me too long to get into right now, I believe Professor Flitwick will get into it a little bit next year in charms. You have been playing with your watch since you got here and only a complete idiot would not have an escape ready when he was going to a meeting with someone he doesn't trust. If you give it to me I will make it work inside of Gringotts and I will make it a two way portkey to bring you here in case you need a safe place to escape to."

"Ok…" Draco said as he handed his watch over to Harry. He watched as Harry closed his hand over the watch and mumbled something under his breath. His hand glowed for several seconds before it stopped and he handed it back. "Did you just do wandless magic? That's impossible? I have only heard of Dumbledore doing that and he is the most powerful sorcerer alive."

"Well I believe many people can do it, but few people are trained to do it. Well, if you're ready to go I have a key to your new vault here, we can visit it and then go to your manor and adjust the wards."

Draco, too stunned to speak, took the key and followed Harry out of the office. They got into a cart and Draco was looking around for a goblin to operate the cart when they started forward without one. He stared at Harry as they rolled through the caverns of Gringotts and after a while they stopped in front of a vault, labeled Malfoy 135.

"Your family vault will only open with this key now. You can get a copy for your mother later if you wish but your father won't have access to this account anymore, and the key he has won't work any longer. Key please," Harry said as he walked up to the door. He turned the key and the heavy door swung open to reveal a large pile of galleons and a few scraps of parchment. Harry looked at Draco and smiled. "It isn't much but it will get you started, the parchment is the deed to your manor and the other one is an investment opportunity from a new store in Diagon alley. You currently own two shares of W.W.W. The shop is doing very well and right now your shares are giving you ten galleons a month. Not a lot of money but you only have five shares and the shop just opened. I predict it will be a very profitable business and may even take over Zonkos in a few years." Harry smiled at the dumb look on Draco's face before he spoke again. "I would suggest taking at least a couple of galleons for pocket change, and then we can head back upstairs and leave."

"Why are you doing this for me, after all the things I have done to you over the years and all the things my family has done to you?" Draco asked as they were heading back up in the cart.

"You have only done to me what your father told you to do, and I believe in giving second chances to people. This is your second chance. It is a new beginning for you, away from your father and his friend's control. I hope you use it to your advantage and prove that Slytherin house isn't all a bunch of evil gits to the world. Besides it will piss your father off when he finds out," Harry said with a large grin and they both laughed out loud. They got out of the cart, still laughing, and activated the portkey to Malfoy manor.

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The entire order was assembled at number twelve Grimauld place, waiting for an old looking Dumbledore to start the meeting. He stood up and called for order.

"I called you all here for two reasons. First, to congratulate Arthur Weasley, and second, because I went to speak with Harry Potter after the press conference this morning when I saw him heading into Gringotts. After a while of waiting to see him a goblin informed me that Harry went home after his meeting there, I left and apparated to Harry's house. When I got there the house was gone and Miss Figg couldn't explain it either. She said the house was there that morning and then it disappeared at lunch time. I walked the grounds where the house used to stand but it was nothing but fresh grass and a white picket fence. I don't know where the house went and I could find no traces of magic being performed in the area. As of right now, Harry Potter has been missing since he left Gringotts, and nothing I have done to try and track him has successfully worked. His family is also missing and his uncle was fired from his job a few weeks ago, so they could be anywhere. I need everyone on high alert looking for him, starting now."

Moody chuckled in his corner of the room, where he was staring at a hole in the wall he hadn't noticed before. Everyone turned to look at him and when they asked what was so funny he responded simply, "I have to hand it to your children Arthur, when they want to know something they will eventually find a way to get what they want." He walked over to the hole in the wall and poked his finger through it. A yelp was heard on the other side of the wall, followed by the sound of many feet running up the stairs. He chuckled again and sealed the hole with his wand.

"Well it appears the children know that young Harry is missing. You should tell them to keep us informed if they hear from him," Albus said as he gave instructions to many of the order members and then called the meeting to an end.

They all froze as a blood-curdling scream rang all throughout the house.

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