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They had tried to reach him something was definitely not right. He hadn't sent Hedwig to them so maybe that's why they couldn't reach him. However the more he thought about it the more he realised that they would be getting in touch with him in their own way with their own owl. He was still reeling after the cheek of Mrs Weasley at the station. She really didn't seem to get the fact that he didn't mind helping people when they asked but taking and stealing from him was tantamount to bullying in his eyes and he would never put up with that from anyone even Ron Weasley. He'd been bullied before but never again and he meant that. When he'd asked the headmaster if he could go somewhere else for the summer he'd been told about the blood wards keeping him safe and that he'd only have to stay there for two weeks for it uphold each year. He'd said if Harry was lucky after the two weeks he'd be able to spend time with Ron's family but that, this might not happen. He didn't believe the man but after researching it in the library found out it was true. He would need to spend two weeks a year there but that would be fine from now on and he'd make sure of that. A goblin rushed in he recognised immediately.
"Hello Griphook and may your enemies blood flow in a river at your feet!" he said as Griphook and the goblin with him gasped looking shocked to the core. What had he done wrong?
"I'm so sorry if I've offended you in some way Mr Griphook it was not my intention" he said nervously as Griphook seemed to snap out of it and laugh slightly confusing him.
"Mr Potter you are quite alright I was just highly shocked you remembered my name. Most wizards do not remember our names" he said seriously.
"But you were the first wizard to show me to my bank account in first year and no one ever forgets their first visit to this prestigious bank. Well no one with a tack of sense I would hope. I have actually come here to ask you for some favours however it would seem you need to speak to me first so off you go!" he said as Griphook smiled. He was the smartest wizard he'd seen in the bank in many years that's for sure. The amount of respect he was showing was remarkable. He truly did care for them and that was rare indeed.
"Please tell me Mr Potter what you need assistance with and then I will tell you why we need to have a serious discussion" Griphook said waving his hand as a tea service arrived for them there with cakes and pastries for them to eat as he poured Harry some tea and sat back in the chair.
"Well I need to see a healer and I do not trust Wizards as they do not believe most of things I say these days. This year I slayed a basilisk in the chamber of secrets with the sword of Gryffindor and I was bitten by a fang when I did it. Dumbledore's phoenix Fawkes came and cried his healing tears on my wound saving my life but I'd still like to get checked out to be sure. Also I know this may sound ridiculous but it only just occurred to me that as a wizard I should be able to cure my sight somehow. If that can be arranged I'd like that very much. Once I am done with that I wish to buy a house and have it put under the fidelious charm which I found and read about during my research on blood wards. I cannot remain where I live now and I know that my parents house is now a national monument so living there is out of the question. Can you help with that?" he asked as Griphook fainted and was revived. He looked highly panicked before he remembered his surroundings and took a big gulp of his tea before he spoke.
"Mr Potter do you give me permission to remove a copy of the memory of your encounter with the Basilisk and call Lord Ragnock our head of the Goblin nation to view it with us here?" he asked as Harry agreed. The memory was removed and placed in the pensive where the regal king and Griphook viewed it coming out moments later in shock.
"Mr Potter in the Goblin nation we use Basilisk parts for almost everything we do and as you slayed the beast it is yours by right of conquest. How much money will you take for the carcass plus the skin we saw there?" he said as Harry looked very shocked indeed. The king of Goblins was talking directly with him causally it would seem.
"It is an honour beyond measure to meet you King Ragnock. I've never been in the presence of a king before. I will be honest and say I know nothing about money so have it valued by someone authentic and tell me whatever they say about it please. After that we can talk" he said as Ragnock smiled at him.
"The carcass and skins have been moved to our harvesting facility as we have the ability to summon them from anywhere as that is how we often do things here. I am linked to people who know what to do. I am being informed there was more there then even you realised. Some artifacts belonging to Slytherin were found which will be brought to you in due course. I am willing to give you a sum of eight million galleons as I have been informed that this is the worth of the animal" he said as Harry looked shocked.
"Thank you for retrieving it for me as I didn't want to have to go back there again. I will take the money and thank you very much. Please leave a fang out for me and a suit of protection made from the hide and one pair of boots. After that they may do as they please with it. Is that agreeable?" he asked.
"Yes it is indeed. I have news of a bad nature to report to you and it is in fact why I have summoned this goblin here to be with you" he said as Harry smiled.
"Griphook is more then just a goblin sir. He's the first goblin who ever showed me to my vault in my first year and no one with a brain ever forgets their first experience in Gringotts" he said as the king laughed a hearty laugh while Griphook looked around nervously. He wondered why he'd been called but maybe that had been why. I mean he had been the first Goblin Harry had ever met and so the assumption was that Harry would feel more comfortable with him there.
"Yes you are right indeed. You are funny and I like you Mr Potter. Mr Griphook is here because not all is well with your accounts here and your old account manager sharpfang is currently being questioned about illicit activities within your accounts. He severely mismanaged them and now I want to ask Mr Griphook to take over as your new account manager. I will explain momentarily why sharpfang is your old account manager as he broke many rules we have here in relation to client manager confidentiality. He is a disgrace to the Goblin Nation as it stands. Now I believe you want a health check by us here at the bank and so we will get to that now. Griphook will scan you quickly and tell us what needs attention if anything ok?" he asked as Harry sat there looking gormlessly at everyone present. If he'd expected to hear anything that wasn't it. Griphook began his scan moving his finger up and down when an alarm in the office went off both of them screaming.
"Mr Potter you have the foulest dark magic on your person this bank has ever seen which I am disgusted to say resonates with something in the Lestrange Vault. Do you know the Lestrange family? I can only tell you about it being in the Lestrange Vault as that dark magic resonates so well with the magic currently within you" he said as Harry looked very worried.
"I don't know them other then that they harmed Neville Longbottoms parents beyond repair. I only know this because I overheard someone at school talking about it before. For that reason I despise them. Neville has never been ok because of them. At least I can say my parents died. He cannot and is still without them. I shouldn't have lost my parents obviously but he has had it tougher then me because they are still alive and can never be home with him ever again. He told me so himself once and it was heartbreaking to hear" he said seriously.
"You will need to come with me to a deep chamber of the bank where you will be asked to pass through a grade ten decontamination shower. It will drench you from head to toe in a specialised liquid that will aid any and all problems you have on your person and will do so in twenty minutes. Do not be fooled by the short time as it will seriously hurt you but needs to hurt in order to work. Come this way please" he instructed as a nervous Harry went with them into the deep bowels of the bank. They entered the room with the decontamination shower in it and everyone who was not needed was told to leave the room. Harry was instructed to get naked and get in as soon as he felt ready. They would wait behind a screen until he was done. The shower beeped letting him know it was ready as he slowly undressed and thought it's now or never before bravely rushing in and screaming his head off as several old broken bones which had not healed properly disintegrated only to be regrown with a special skele-grow option the shower had given him. That was a total of ten bones. Goblins had developed a method of giving someone skele-grow in one go instead of many installments of the potion over two days as normal healers in St Mungos did. It caused more pain but for a much shorter period and generally people did feel better about it afterwards. He felt his body stretching his height increasing slightly to what it should have always been but never was over his abuse at the Dursley's.
Moving up his body he felt his internal organs being righted and then his vision became blurry as everything went black and he couldn't see a thing. He called out that he was blind and then felt a pain unlike anything he'd ever felt as he had an extreme headache that didn't seem to want to dissipate. As he cried his eyes out from the sheer agony it was causing him his scar burst open blood gushing out as black followed it. There was a blood curdling scream as another one was heard in another distant part of the bank and Harry blacked out. What should have taken twenty minutes took one hour for him as he had been so malnourished and sick that he'd needed the time to seriously heal. This did beat the equivalent month he'd have needed to spend in Saint Mungos getting everything fixed. He was moved to the infirmary to sleep and would be awake in two hours or so. At that point all he needed to discuss with them could be dealt with. Griphook was honoured he was asked to be the new account manager for the Potters and vowed to do his best by Mr Potter for as long as he lived. All would be well with the world soon. A device in Albus Dumbledore's office monitoring the horcruxes went off telling him that two had been destroyed by natural causes and he breathed a sigh of relief even if he was annoyed that it was two less Harry would need to be finding and destroying. His device only told him the status of them and not where they were so he would still need to look for them however he'd have Harry for that. Once Harry had found and destroyed them all Harry could die for everyone and he'd live to take the glory once more. He did love it when a plan came together. He could have had no idea what awaited him next year though and would be in for a world of shock and awe.