The chapter-title is a parody on the film title An American Werewolf in London.
In this chapter, I mention that Minister Bones has received an anonymous, typewritten note. What magical person wrote the note? Where did he/she get a typewriter? I will not answer the first question, but I will tell you that the typewriter was found in the Grangers' attic.
Chapter 15
A British Werewolf in Chicago
Still Wednesday, July 31; hours earlier
Still Potter Manor
Between John and Paulina doing school-supplies shopping with Harry, the newlyweds attending Dumbledore's trial at Gringotts, John and Paulina dealing with Harry's "Happy birthday!" owl-mail, and the couple hosting Harry's eleventh-birthday party, John and Paulina did not have much free time on July 31.
But the Potter newlyweds did have time enough to scribble their thoughts about a joint John Potter-Gringotts press release, and to elf-mail the note to Ironsmelter, the public-relations goblin at Gringotts.
Evidently Ironsmelter managed to write the joint press release before the Daily Prophet's 7 p.m. deadline.
From the Thursday, 1 August 1991 Daily Prophet—
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HOGWARTS, NOT ILVERMORNY, FOR HARRY
DUMBLEDORE SENTENCED TO GOBLIN MINE
DUMBLEDORE SENTENCE DEFERRED
Yesterday Albus Dumbledore was arrested in the Gringotts lobby for theft against two Potter vaults, and was tried in a Gringotts court. Dumbledore was assessed over a half-million galleons and was sentenced to the Gringotts London gold mine as punishment for his thefts. However, Dumbledore's prison sentence was deferred till months later, after he came to an agreement with Director Ragnok of Gringotts London and with John Potter, the Potter Regent. The agreement also concerned the schooling of Harry Potter.
The Gringotts court convicted Dumbledore of having stolen G107 000 from the Potter family coinage vault, with the help of former Potter account manager Bronzedagger; and for stealing G428 175 from Harry Potter's trust vault. The Gringotts court assessed Dumbledore G588 693 in reparations.
Dumbledore was able to pay the full assessment, so was not beheaded. Along with the assessment of over a half-million galleons, Dumbledore was sentenced to eighty years in the Gringotts London gold mine.
In a statement, Director Ragnok of Gringotts London said, "In 1981 Albus Dumbledore used a quasi-legal legislative process to get himself declared the magical guardian of Harry James Potter, the Boy Who Lived. Dumbledore afterwards stole hundreds of thousands of galleons from Harry Potter's trust vault. Dumbledore also stole from the Potter family coinage vault, to which he should have had no access. Dumbledore abused his position to steal from an orphan! Dumbledore's actions were despicable, and the Gringotts court's sentence against him yesterday was fair and just."
After the sentence of eighty years in the gold mine was handed down, but before Dumbledore was led out of the courtroom to begin his forced labour in the mine, Director Ragnok and Regent John Potter made an offer to Dumbledore. In return for Gringotts charging Dumbledore an additional monthly penalty payment, and after Dumbledore had given two oaths, Dumbledore's sentence in the gold mine would be deferred till June 1992 at the earliest and June 1998 at the latest, provided other conditions were met. In a different part of the agreement, Regent Potter agreed to send Harry Potter, the Boy Who Lived, to Hogwarts for at least the boy's first year. Previously on 26 July, Regent Potter had stated that he and his wife Paulina were taking Harry Potter to the USA to live, and Harry Potter would begin his magical schooling at Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the USA.
Regent Potter further agreed that he and his wife also will attend Hogwarts this year, along with Harry Potter. However, the elder Potters will be taking only one course at Hogwarts: seventh-year NEWT-level Charms.
Neither Director Ragnok nor Regent Potter disclosed what the oaths were that Albus Dumbledore gave. Regent Potter said only, "Director Ragnok and I forced Dumbledore to make a 'devil's bargain' if he wished to stay out of the mine for a while. The oaths were harsh in their effect, and Dumbledore was very angry with Director Ragnok and with me. Poor baby."
When asked to comment, Albus Dumbledore wrote, "What we have here is the combination of a misunderstanding with Gringotts, and the tantrums of a big boy who was given too much responsibility too early. I am greatly pleased that Harry Potter will be attending Hogwarts, which is the same school that both his heroic parents attended, for as many as seven years."
The next morning
Friday, 2 August
The weekly session of the Wizengamot
As soon as the Wizengamot session began, Minister for Magic Amelia Bones moved for a vote of no confidence against Chief Warlock Albus Dumbledore. Augusta Longbottom seconded.
An Acting Chief Warlock was appointed, Cyrus Greengrass. The no-confidence motion was debated—naturally, Albus had much to say, which summarised to I have done nothing wrong, and Amelia is acting mean to me. But I forgive her, because I am a good man.
Then Greengrass called for the vote.
The vote passed overwhelmingly, with only the Ancient House of Weasley and the Minor House of Dumbledore voting against.
After Albus was sacked as Chief Warlock, furious Albus was forced to sit in the chair reserved for the Minor House of Dumbledore—a seat he had not actually sat in since 1945.
Meanwhile, Cyrus Greengrass quickly was voted Chief Warlock.
Minister for Magic Bones then shocked everyone, by bringing in Sirius Black to stand trial. According to Bones, Black never had been given a trial in 1981.
Arthur Weasley, after hearing this, gave Albus an angry glare.
It took less than ten minutes—which included Sirius Black's questioning under Veritaserum—for Black to be acquitted of all charges. The fact that Sirius Black's wand had cast no deadly spells, helped his case too.
Even more shocking than Sirius Black's trial, Amelia brought in Barty Crouch, Jr—a supposedly dead Death Eater—for the crime of escaping prison; and brought in Barty Crouch, Sr, on trial for helping his son escape prison and for repeatedly putting his son under the Imperius Curse.
Minister Bones said that both Crouches were arrested after she had received an anonymous, typewritten note with no magical signature, and she had sent the DMLE to Barty Crouch, Senior's house to investigate the note's claims.
Barty Crouch, Senior was sentenced to Azkaban for life.
Dumbledore's plea that Senior be sentenced to only ten years in Azkaban, in the minimum-security wing, was ignored by the rest of the Wizengamot.
Sirius Black, who still was in the courtroom, but now was there only as a spectator, was seen to grin viciously when Barty Crouch, Senior's sentence was announced.
Barty Crouch the younger was given a four-minute trial—two minutes of which was naming, under Veritaserum, every Death Eater he knew. (Minister Bones had ordered that Junior's questioning in court be done under Veritaserum; even though Junior, as a Pureblood, by law could be Veritaserum-questioned only when he permitted it.) After those four minutes of Veritaserum questioning, Junior got himself made brain-dead by a Dementor, right there in the courtroom.
Every Wizengamot seat-holder whom Barty Crouch, Jr had named as a Death Eater, was immediately arrested and was himself immediately put on trial, with Veritaserum questioning (again by Minister Bones's order). By a remarkable coincidence, every one of the arrested, alleged Death Eater seat-holders had declared back in 1981 that they "were under the Imperius Curse," but none of them had stood trial in 1981 so that their claim could be proven true or false.
Now when these Death Eaters, under Veritaserum, named Purebloods and half-bloods whom they had murdered, the remaining Wizengamot seat-holders showed no interest in merely sentencing the accused to Azkaban, "the same as what moneybag-snatchers get." Instead, all of the Wizengamot seat-holders who were arrested on Friday and who were tried on Friday, were Kissed on Friday.
Again Dumbledore blathered about imprisonment instead of the Kiss; again Dumbledore was ignored.
But before they were Kissed, the Death Eaters on trial had named still more Death Eaters. Minister Bones wrote arrest warrants for every alleged Death Eater that had been named by someone who had gone on trial today—it was a long list. Some of the names on that list had claimed to be Imperiused, back in 1981.
The next day
Saturday, August 3, morning local time
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Remus Lupin these days was an off-the-books restaurant worker. Today his shift started in three hours. In his apartment (flat), he was starting to read today's edition of an American wizarding newspaper, the New York Wand.
At this precise moment, Remus was staring in shock at the New York Wand headline, SIRIUS BLACK FOUND INNOCENT.
That story was on the front page, but below the fold. Above the fold on the front page were two headlines, SEER SAYS ARKANSAS GOVR IS NEXT PRESIDENT (a story that Remus absolutely did not care about) and DUMBLEDORE SUFFERS WOES.
Dumbledore's woes and problems, it turned out, were because the bearded wizard had outraged a young American wizard, John Potter.
During all the years that Remus had known James Potter, James never had mentioned having an American first cousin, Peter Potter; or an American first cousin once removed, John Potter. But now American John Potter was as famous to American magicals as was his British second cousin, Harry Potter.
John Potter had become famous by rescuing Harry Potter.
According to many New York Wand stories, over the course of a week—
Before Ilvermorny, John Potter had grown up in Omaha, Nebraska, the son of Peter Potter. Peter Potter's father was the British-immigrant wizard Ignotus Potter, the second son of the British wizard Achilles Potter and the younger brother of Charlus Potter (a grandfather of Harry).
Before Ilvermorny, John's future wife, no-magic-born Paulina Moffitt, had grown up in Loganville, Georgia. Her grandfather, nonmagical Mark Moffitt, had immigrated from England when he had been eighteen. Mark Moffitt's sister, the nonmagical Connie Moffitt Taylor, had remained in England and eventually had become the grandmother of a Mundane-born English witch, Hermione Granger.
To say that John Potter and Paulina Moffitt each had been "quiet" at Ilvermorny was an understatement.
From their first year at Ilvermorny onward, John and Paulina never had socialized with anyone—except each other.
From first year onward, neither John nor Paulina had had a friend—except each other.
Nobody at the school had had the courage to ask whether John and Paulina were dating each other; but it was a fact that neither John or Paulina had gone on even one date with anyone else.
Nowadays no Ilvermorny student or professor remembered either John or Paulina ever speaking up in class, except when called upon by a professor. (Oddly, whenever Paulina had been asked a question, she always had answered correctly—even when the question had been difficult.)
But how could two such quiet, unsociable students have made such an impression on the school? Because they were beautiful. Individually, John and Paulina had been the most photogenic students in the school; but when they had stood side by side, they had been gods. Every student in the school (except for the first-years) had wanted to date John or Paulina; many students had fantasized about being in a threesome with both of them.
John and Paulina, at the end of their sixth year in June 1990, had told the Ilvermorny headmaster that they each were taking a "gap year." And indeed, when school had started again in September of 1990, neither John nor Paulina had returned to Ilvermorny.
The New York Wand could not trace where John and Paulina had gone, or what they had done, during their gap year; but thirteen months after John and Paulina had last attended Ilvermorny, they showed up at Gringotts New York, on July 23 of this year, to get a magical civil marriage performed.
Then the Potter newlyweds international-portkeyed to Britain on their honeymoon.
It was during this honeymoon, when John and his bride went to visit John Potter's British second cousin Harry Potter, that the dragon offal hit the simmering cauldron.
Remus noticed, having read enough of the New York Wand stories, that no interviews were conducted with John's or Paulina's hometown family and friends, in either Omaha or Loganville. But Remus was unbothered by the newspaper's oversight; he was sure the Wand had a good reason.
After reading about Sirius being found innocent, Remus felt stupid.
For ten years, Remus had believed that Sirius had betrayed James and Lily—because Sirius would not have been thrown in prison unless he were guilty, right? And if someone was accused of something awful and he was named Black, he had to be guilty, right? On the other hand, the thought never had occurred to Remus that Peter could be the betrayer.
Likewise, for ten years, the thought never had occurred to Remus that Albus "two made-up middle names" Dumbledore, the Defeater of Grindelwald, the Leader of the Light, had lied to Remus. "Harry is safe and loved"? Not hardly! "The wards will not let a Dark Creature approach, so there is no point in trying to visit Harry." Except that the Wand reported that the wards on the Dursley house were good for keeping You Know Who out and for keeping harmful-intention magicals out, but were not good for much else. Wards had not blocked Remus from ringing Petunia's doorbell; Remus's own werewolf-shame and his unquestioning obedience to Dumbledore was what had kept him from Petunia Dursley's house.
Boudicca Grenwick, the Director of Wizard Child Services in Wizarding Britain, apparently had been mind-whammied so that WCS never had checked on Harry Potter, Wizarding Britain's most famous orphan. It looked likely that the Muggle equivalent of WCS in Surrey County, England likewise had been magically neutralised somehow. But what truly had left Harry unprotected was that both Minerva McGonagall—James' one-time godmother!—and Remus Lupin had put unquestioning obedience to Dumbledore above loyalty to James and Lily. Not one magical person, not one time, had visited Harry after Dumbledore had left Harry on the Dursleys' doorstep.
John Potter had done what Remus should have done, or what Minerva should have done, but had not done. The reason that John Potter had the wits to see and to do what was right for Harry was because John Potter the American, unlike Remus and Minerva, did not worship Albus Dumbledore.
Actually, John Potter scorned Dumbledore.
When Remus looked past Headmaster Dumbledore let a werewolf boy attend Hogwarts, Remus was shocked by how much Dumbledore deserved to be scorned. For one thing, why had no werewolf children been invited to Hogwarts after Remus had attended Hogwarts? Had not Remus proven himself?
Now it was proven that Dumbledore had stolen over half a million galleons from Harry Potter, had been caught, and had been sentenced to forced labour in a Gringotts gold mine. When asked to comment, Dumbledore had not said I was wrong or I apologise—no, he had labelled the entire situation a "misunderstanding." Remus thought, How stupid does Dumbledore think we are?
While Remus was reading the New York Wand and was thinking about John Potter, about Sirius Black, about Albus Dumbledore and about the shortcomings of himself, Remus Lupin, an owl from Gringotts New York tapped on Remus's window.
Remus was informed by letter that the wills of James Potter and Lily Potter had been informally read, and Remus was entitled to a bequest of one hundred thousand galleons. Remus could collect this money from any branch of Gringotts.
Remus realised that he was being told of the bequest now because John Potter, once he had become Regent, had ordered James' and Lily's wills to be read, including the wills' bequests. In the ten years after James' and Lily's deaths, supposed executor Dumbledore had not released any bequests.
A thought jumped into Remus's brain, unbidden: I'm surprised Dumbledore never withdrew my bequest in a Gringotts moneybag, supposedly so he could pay me my bequest in person, then he hid the bag of coins under his mattress.
In any case, it was time for Remus Lupin, ashamed werewolf, to return to Wizarding Britain and to start doing the right thing by his friends' son, Harry Potter; and the right thing by his old friend, Sirius Black.
Some hours later
11 p.m, British Summer Time
The grounds of Malfoy Manor
Foop. Invisible John and invisible Paulina apparated to just outside the wards to Malfoy Manor. Tonight the newlyweds would (hopefully) steal the diary-horcrux that was somewhere inside Malfoy Manor.
Malfoy Manor was Fidelius-invisible to almost everyone on the planet, but not to the Potters, who knew exactly where Malfoy Manor was—for the same reason that Older Hermione had had MUDBLOOD carved on her arm, till Antonia had changed her into unscarred Paulina.
Back at Potter Manor meanwhile, young Harry was tucked in bed, deeply asleep. (To ensure that Harry was asleep this night, John had hit his younger self with a Sleep spell when John and Paulina had walked out of Harry's bedroom.)
At the moment, as John and Paulina stood just outside the Malfoy Manor wards, both John and Paulina were under the "Not sensed within all the world" spell. They looked like green ghosts to each other, and were (hopefully) invisible to everyone else, as well as undetectable to all wards.
"Let's go pay a visit to Draco's house," said green-ghost John. Green-ghost Paulina nodded.
John and Paulina walked forward. At some point they must have passed through the wards, but the wards never magically attacked the couple. Still, John and Paulina, whose wands were out, were prepared for the front door to open and Narcissa Malfoy to shoot spells at them, or for Malfoy house-elves to pop onto the lawn and to cast spells—but nothing of the kind happened.
John and Paulina soon walked all the way to Malfoy Manor's front door, and were unbothered by defenders during the entire time.
The Potters figured that inside the manor house at the moment were one adult witch (Narcissa), one pre-Hogwarts child (Draco), and four house-elves (one of whom was Dobby). Of the six beings in the house, Dobby was the one whom John was most worried about—the elf was unpredictable.
Now at the manor house's front door, the Potters did not knock; instead, they each apparated three feet forward. As they knew they would, John and Paulina found themselves in a foyer. They looked around, and saw no Malfoys or house-elves, and they heard no shouts or running feet. No house-elf popped up to challenge them.
"Point Me the diary-horcrux," Paulina incanted.
The Malfoy Manor foyer was roomy. On the right side of it was a staircase that led up to the second floor (first floor in British usage). The Potters walked through the part of the foyer that was to the left of the staircase, till they reached a shut door on the back side of the foyer. Paulina's Point-Me spell was telling the newlyweds that they should walk through this door and turn left.
The Potters did so—and immediately discovered a problem.
John and Paulina were expecting Narcissa and Draco to be in bed, and the manor house to be dark and quiet. But instead, once the Potters stepped into the new hallway and turned left, they saw, ahead of them, light spilling onto the carpet from an open door.
As John and Paulina walked closer, it became more and more obvious that the room with the open door was the room that had the diary-horcrux in it.
This room turned out to be the Malfoy Head of House Office. The wide-open mahogany door had the Malfoy crest in gold on the outside, and had gold door-levers.
Which meant, a simple Alohomora would not unlock this door after Narcissa left. No, to unlock this door, John and Paulina would need to speak the exact same unlocking passphrase that Lucius Malfoy had spoken.
When the Potters reached the open door, they looked in. Narcissa Malfoy was sitting in the black-leather chair that was behind the room's huge desk. On the desk was a thick ledger. Narcissa was turning pages in the ledger, was writing something on a parchment from time to time—and was muttering insults to her dead husband.
Green-ghost John took a few steps to the other side of the hallway and slumped down to sit on the carpet. He said to Paulina, "I guess we wait for her to leave."
Paulina said, "Look on the bright side. Maybe she'll forget to lock the door."
Narcissa said, loud enough for John and Paulina to hear, "It's a good thing Cornelius is out of office, Lucius! Because at the rate you've been bribing the green-bowler fool, we Malfoys would be living like Weasleys by the year 2000."
Fifteen minutes later
When Narcissa left the Office, the undetectable Potters hoped that she would speak the locking passphrase. She did not; instead, she laid a hand on the now-shut mahogany door and said, "I do not know the locking passphrase, but I am Regent Malfoy. Lock this door."
Click went the door. Yawning Narcissa walked away.
Paulina said to John, "Looks like we must find the passphrase the hard way."
The Potters waited a minute, till they were sure Narcissa was gone and was not returning.
John was nervous about what he was about to do: to remove his and Paulina's invisibility while inside Malfoy Manor. Once this happened, not only could Narcissa and Draco see the Potters, but so could the Malfoy Manor wards see the Potters. In a worst-case scenario, John and Paulina were only seconds away from death.
On the other hand, John was almost sure that Antonia the angel would not have put the Potters in such danger.
"Gryffindors charge ahead," John murmured. Paulina squeezed his hand. Then John drew his wand and hissed, "§Sentiri§."
He and Paulina were no longer green ghosts, but again were opaque and in the right colors.
To John's relief, the Malfoy Manor wards did not push Paulina and him out of Malfoy Manor, nor did the wards cause the Potters pain, nor were the Potters killed.
John smiled at Paulina in relief. Paulina's smile at John said I knew you could do it.
Aloud, Paulina said, "Let's get to work."
"Open the door," John said.
The mahogany door did not unlock.
"Unlock the door," Paulina said.
Still nothing happened.
Three minutes later
John and Paulina still were unsuccessfully trying to find the passphrase that would unlock the door to the Malfoy Head of House Office.
On the hallway to their right, they heard a noise.
"Shit!" John exclaimed (but quietly). Still keeping quiet, he pointed his wand at Paulina, then himself, as he hissed, "§Non sentitur in omni mundo§."
He and Paulina turned into green ghosts again, which were undetectable to everyone else.
Narcissa now was walking up the hallway toward them. John worried, Did she see us before I turned us invisible again?
Did I just see two ghosts outside the Lord Malfoy Office? Narcissa wondered, as she walked through the corridor towards the mahogany door.
I can't be sure. They vanished after two seconds.
Then Narcissa thought, It wouldn't surprise me if they were the ghosts of two murder-victims of a long-ago Lord Malfoy.
Narcissa looked annoyed—at what, John could not guess. But if she was carrying a wand, she did not draw it—so maybe she had not seen the Potters after all.
Narcissa put her hand on the mahogany door. "I do not know the unlocking passphrase, but I am Regent Malfoy. Unlock this door."
The door clicked unlocked, Narcissa opened the door, then stepped into the office. She emerged seconds later with a pair of reading glasses, which she put in a pocket of her robes. She locked the door again, with the same "I am Regent Malfoy" words as before, then she walked away.
When she was gone, John hissed "§Sentiri§," to make himself and Paulina audible to the mahogany door.
"Shit," said John. "I've forgotten what passphrases we've already tried."
Paulina said, "Luc Malfoy, the Founder of House Malfoy of Great Britain, grew up in France. Let me try French passphrases. Ouvrez la porte."
The door still did not unlock. Paulina huffed.
Fifteen minutes later
John was feeling annoyed and desperate. He tried what had to be his 1001st experimental passphrase: "Unlock this door so that I can do important work for House Malfoy."
The door ignored him.
Paulina said, "Ouvre la porte pour le maître."
Click. The mahogany door unlocked itself and opened an inch.
Finding the diary-horcrux, and taking it away, was actually simple.
In the Malfoy Head of House Office, by the office chair, was a hidden box under the floor. John, using Parseltongue, removed the glamour on the lid to the box—this lid being flush with the rest of the floor—and unstuck this lid. The diary-horcrux was in the hidden box under the floor. Paulina pulled out, from a pocket of her robes, a tiny lead box. Paulina enlarged the lead box, she levitated the diary into the lead box, then John Parseltongue-locked the lead box.
Paulina shrunk the lead box and put it back in her pocket; while John, not using Parseltongue, stuck the lid to the hidden box under the floor, then glamoured the lid to match the rest of the floor.
After this, the only task left was to shut and to lock the mahogany door, so that Narcissa Malfoy would not realize that this room had been illegally entered.
It had taken both John and Paulina, each wracking his/her brains for eighteen minutes, to discover the passphrase to open the mahogany door. However, it took Paulina only four tries to discover the passphrase to make that door magically lock. ("Verrouille la porte pour le maître.")
Then the Potters, once they magically had locked the mahogany door, apparated from the hallway that was outside that door, directly to Potter Manor.
John was feeling tired now (the time was close to midnight), but he took the time to put the lead box that held the diary-horcrux in it, in the Potter Head of House Office.
The next morning, after late breakfast
Sunday, August 4
In Potter Manor
After John talked to Greyclay, John wrote a brief letter to Director Ragnok at Gringotts—
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Director Ragnok,
Paulina and I have found in Malfoy Manor, the horcrux that was not found in the Malfoy vaults. (How Paulina and I got into, and out of, Malfoy Manor is a trick that, I'm sorry, I must keep secret.)
The horcrux that we took from Malfoy Manor is in the form of a black-leather diary that has "TOM MARVOLO RIDDLE" stamped in gold on the front cover. I ask Gringotts to destroy the diary-horcrux for me; charge the Potter family coinage vault whatever you think is fair. Call for the Potter house-elf named Greyclay and he'll bring the diary-horcrux to you.
I also wish to hire Gringotts to seek out another horcrux: the Gaunt Head of House ring. In my previous lifetime, Albus Dumbledore, with no helper, sought out this horcrux, and it would've killed him. The horcruxed ring had a Compulsion put on it, to put the ring on one's hand; but the ring also had a deadly withering curse on it, that activated as soon as the ring was put on. Let me state again, seeking this horcrux is dangerous; but Gringotts has experience at finding and taking objects that are just as dangerous.
The ring can be found at Apparation coordinates A89Cx60A2 083Bx5538 0000x0000. As with the diary-horcrux, charge the Potter family coinage vault whatever you think is a fair price to find the ring-horcrux and to destroy it.
John G. Potter
Regent Potter
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Two minutes later, the lead box with the diary-horcrux in it, disappeared off the desk in the Potter Head of House Office. A few minutes later, Greyclay elf-popped beside John with a letter in hand that showed the Gringotts seal.
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Regent Potter,
The diary-horcrux has been received; I have ordered it destroyed. Vault 14 shall be charged G143 (which is the cost to Gringotts of destroying the diary-horcrux).
The finding and destroying of the ring-horcrux, Gringotts likewise shall do at cost. However, as this is a dangerous task, more-skilled Gringotts employees must be sent to those Apparation coordinates, in order to perform the task successfully. To give you a rough idea of what Vault 14 will be charged, if the task takes an entire day (from August sunrise to August sunset), Vault 14 will be charged G2 483. However, I do not expect this task to take an entire day.
Ragnok
Director, Gringotts London
Vault 14, the Potter family coinage vault, was charged G1,577 to track down and to destroy the ring-horcrux. John did not ask Ragnok whether the Resurrection Stone was destroyed in the process.
After John read the letter from Ragnok, he commented to Paulina, "G1,577 was cheap, even though that's £7,885 in regular money. I cheerfully would've paid ten times as much to get the horcrux that would've killed Dumbledore if Snape hadn't killed him first, destroyed without killing you or me."
