Chapter five
After they had been at the ministry Remus asked Harry if it was okay to go to Gringots now. "Why do we have to go there uncle Moony?" Harry asked. "Well first they have a copy of your parents Will," Remus explained "and second, you should be taken to your Family Vault before your twelfth birthday, which is in two weeks." Harry nodded, then he frowned: "You mean the vault I use now isn't my only vault?" "No, you also have a Family Vault, the vault you use now is your trust vault. In the family vault everything from your family is kept. All the photobooks and jewellery and also books." "Well, let's go then!" Harry exclaimed. He was happy; maybe today he was going to see some of his parents' possessions. He had never had them.
At Gringots Harry looked his eyes out again. The first time he was here the place had been amazing and now it was still. "Hello, could we speak to the Potter family manager?" Remus asked the goblin at the desk in front of him. "Hello Mr. Lupin, Mr. Potter if you have a moment." The goblin turned around and asked a passing goblin: "Could you please get Griphook for me?" And then to Harry and Remus: "If you would follow me please" The goblin led them to a room with a desk and two chairs in front of it. Harry and Remus took a sit in the two chairs. "Griphook will come to you soon." the goblin said and he left them alone.
"Hello Mr. Lupin and Mr. Potter, what can I help you with." Griphook said as he walked in. "Hello Griphook, it's good to see you again. How are you?" Harry said. "I'm well Mr. Potter, thank you for asking." "Hello Griphook, we are here for a couple of things. Recently Mr. Potter's guardianship was transferred to me. Harry here hasn't seen his family vault yet and I would like to take him there. It also has come to my attention that you have a copy of the Will of his parents. The wizard one was sealed, but we would like to take a look at it. I also wanted to ask you if you could do a check for his powers on Harry and if you have perhaps a family tree for him?" Remus said. "Well that is quite a list, but we will see what we can accomplish. I trust you want to keep this meeting a secret?" Griphook asked. "That is indeed true." Remus said. "Well first we will check the family tree, that way we can also confirm Mr. Potter here is indeed who he says he is, after that we will see to the Will. Then we will do a power check and afterwards you can visit the family vault. Also if the guardianship has been transferred. The payment for it also has to be transferred." This had Remus looking up. "Payment? What do you mean with that?" "Well because a child generally costs money, the late Mr. and Mrs. Potter have set up an account to pay for that." Griphook explained. "But let's proceed shall we?"
A short while later a goblin brought three papers in. "Thank you" Griphook said "You can leave now." The goblin left the room and Griphook took the first paper. "Mr. Potter, would you please touch this paper with your wand. This paper is enchanted if you tap it, your family tree will appear." Harry did as he was told. A very large family tree appeared. His heart jumped when he saw his parents' names. His mom's family tree wasn't very interesting, until. "Uncle Moony did you see that there were wizards in my mom's family?" Harry asked "uncle Moony?" Remus didn't react, he was staring somewhere at the top of the paper. Harry followed his look. "Does it really say?" he asked. "Yes Harry, it does really say Godric Gryffindor." Harry fell silent. At that moment something else caught his eye. "Ehm uncle Moony, do you see that to?" Remus looked at the point Harry was staring at, his mouth fell open. "Well Harry, it appears you are the heir of more than one founder." There at the top of the paper stood: Salazar Slytherin.
After they came over the shock of Harry being the heir of two founders they moved on to the Will. Harry really did want to see it. "Here it is." Griphook said, giving them a piece of parchment. Harry and Remus started to read.
The Will of James Potter and Lily Potter Evans.
Herby we declare that we are sound of mind and soul and that no one has forced us with any sort of magic to write this down.
First to the order of the Phoenix, we declare 10,000 galleons, in the hope that they will use it for the safety of the wizard world.
To Sirius Orion Black we declare 1,000 galleons. We know you don't need it, but use it for the good.
To Remus John Lupin we declare 1,000 galleons and we grant him access to all the books in our vault. We further give him the ingredients for wolfsbane, found in our vault. It should last ten years. They are charmed to never expel.
To Peter Pettigrew we declare 1,500 galleons as a thank you for being our Secret Keeper. We know the danger it brought you so accept this as a thank you.
To Alice Longbottom we declare 1,000 galleons. Thank you for being such a great friend for us.
To Ted and Andromeda Tonks we declare the book the life of a methamorpmagus and all our research on the abilities of methamorphmagie, in the hope it will help them with the care for their daughter.
All other things will be going to our son Harry James Potter. In our vault are two letters for him. Read them son.
Also the guardianship of our son will go to, in this order:
Sirius Orion Black, his godfather
Alice Longbottom, his godmother
Remus John Lupin
Ted and Andromeda Tonks
Arthur and Molly Weasley
The person that gets the guardianship will get 100 galleons a month to care for Harry. Under no circumstances Harry may be placed with someone else.
Remus' and Harry's eyes went big as they read through it. "Are that Tonks' parents?" Harry said grinning as he read about Ted and Andromeda. "Harry, you are not funny." Remus reacted with his eyes rolling. But then he fell silent. "No! That can't be true" he almost screamed. "What is it uncle Moony?" Harry asked concerned "Harry, did you read about Peter Pettigrew being the Secret Keeper?" Harry nodded "Your house was protected with the Fidelius Charm, which is a charm that hides something, in this case your house. The information goes to one person, the Secret Keeper. That person is the only one who can reveal the information. He can tell others and they will know the information but won't be able to talk about it with people. Peter was your parents' Secret Keeper, but everyone thought Sirius Black was. So when Voldemort came to your house, everyone thought that he had betrayed you. It was chaos in that time, so he didn't get a trial. Now appears that that has been a great mistake." Harry was confused "Where is Sirius now then?" he asked. "He is in Azkaban, the wizard prison. I would try to get him out, but I'm afraid it won't work, with Dumbledore as the Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot. He will do everything in his power to keep Sirius from looking for you. I think that was another reason for him to seal the Will. This way he could place you with your aunt and uncle. After he rescued you from there, he could be your hero and you would listen to him." Harry went silent. An innocent man was sent to prison so that he could be a playball. He was done with Dumbledore trying to control him. He would take his fate in his own hands.
"Shall we proceed with the power check?" Griphook asked after a while. Remus nodded. "Okay Mr. Potter, all you have to do is drop a bit of your blood on this parchment. Harry did as he was told and a small list appeared.
The abilities of Harry James Potter:
Wandless magic
Parselmouth
Able to see magic
Metamorphmagus grade three
"Merlin Harry, your list is longer than most people's." "What do you mean uncle Moony?" Griphook interrupted: "What he means Mr. Potter that most wizards have one or none abilities, you have four and if I see it correct, you have a great potential for a fifth. But more than that. The ability to see magic hasn't occurred since Merlin. You can change the world with your power Mr. Potter." Harry went silent again. It occurred to him that that had happened a lot this day. It was a day full of surprises.
"Can we go to my family vault now?" Harry asked. "Of course Mr. Potter, follow me" Griphook led them to the carts. They went deeper than they had gone for Harry's trust vault. They stopped for vault number twelve. "This is the Potter family vault." Griphook said. Harry and Remus went inside. Inside lay and enormous pile of gold. One wall was giant books shelve. On the wall lay a lot of jewellery. On a small table at the side lay two letters. Harry's name stood on them. He putted them in his pockets. He would read them later. "Do you need something here or shall we go?" Remus asked him. "I'm done here, I just wanted to look at some of my parents' stuff and I have done that now, so let's go."
Not long after they stood outside Gringots. Harry was thinking about all that had happened today. They apparated to Remus' house. Inside Harry said: "I'm going to write a letter to Tonks." Remus looked up: "why would you do that?" Because my power check said I was a metamorphmagus grade three. I want to know what it means and she is a Metamorphmagus, so I thought I would ask her. Unless you want to do it of course?" Harry left to his room grinning. The look on uncle Moony's face when he had said that was almost to funny. "You are not funny, Harry Potter." Remus yelled after him. Harry only grinned. Yep, he definitely would have fun with those two.
A/N: The next chapter! This was supposed to be together with the last chapter but Hey, it can. I also got a lot of reviews about my grammar faults. I'm sorry for that. My laptop was crashing and my grammarcheck didn't work and with me being not a native english speaker I couldn't find my own faults. But, halfway through this chapter I managed to find what was wrong, so I hope it is better now. I migth post the last four chapters again, but now with the grammarcheck done.
I also changed Tonks' age a bit in this story. In the 'real' she would be 18/19 but I decided to make her 21/22 I like this better, cause then she would already have finished auror training and a full auror.
