Disclaimer: Harry Potter characters are not mine. Nor is the HP universe.

A/N: Thanks for the fav and follows. I hope more people find the story interesting. Moving on... Here's the first chapter. Hope you like it.

A/N: Edited 21/01/2018: Some changes are done with the chapter.

Meeting Harry

1980, Children's Home, London

She was hoping to be back long before this time. She just doesn't understand Death sometimes. Why send her in this time? She would have to salvage them on the brink of their extinction.

It would have been a lot easier to bring them back from the destruction if she had been born sometime before.

Like maybe 100 years before.

Before the great Bumblebee started destroying their world with his good intentions.

She remembered her last life in this time, she had watched as Harry Potter had blundered through his school years, she had been in the year above him and had lived her life in peace, getting out of Britain as soon as her school was done with. And hadn't returned again even after the war, disgusted with the people.

Her disgust hasn't lessened much.

There were some who were nice but others had been turned into sheeps by the Bumblebee. She knows people need a leader, but to follow anyone with blinds on their eyes is stupid. How's she going to undo all of Dumblydore's work?!

Oh Merlin!

Man! Even her thoughts had changed, well maybe its better as she won't have to try hard to establish herself with them.

She hadn't realized she had already been the master of the Death when she had lived this life last time. Though the hallows will not be much use to her as she hadn't collected them to become his master. Not that she actually needs them though.

-x-

She was born in this time now as a girl, Annabelle Summers.

She had been both boys - girls, wizards and witches, and even a vampire few times.

Death doesn't mind vampires much. They aren't indestructible, so will die sometime and so he doesn't care much for them.

She had been a girl last time as well. Now she was a one year old orphan in an orphanage in London just like last time.

She had found out about her inheritance when she had gone to Gringotts first time. And after living in the wizarding world for seven years had decided to leave it behind, using her inheritance to live a peaceful life.

This time she had been born so as she could be in the same year as Harry so she will probably go to Hogwarts together with him.

He was one of the masters, Death had confirmed her. He wouldn't be given his memories anytime soon but he is powerful so she should get his help for her task.

And the people will listen to him as he is already a celebrity. She just needs to think of a way to get him out of Bumblebee's control somehow.

-x-

1981, Children's Home, London

As a two year old she couldn't do much, but she had gotten her facts together in the last two years and had trained her body with basics as soon and as fast as she could.

She had scoured her memories and had remembered some information about Voldemort she had learned after his demise.

How he had been a half-blood orphan, living a hard life before coming to Hogwarts, having psychopathic tendencies, getting shunned by his housemates, and Bumblebee's suspicions about a child, driving him towards the dark arts to protect himself from the snakes in his house, the prejudice of other houses.

It had all been written in a book quite a few years after the war and she suspected it was written by Harry.

Many had said he had been angry at his late headmaster even though he had named his child after him, but the book was written under a pen name so she isn't sure, but she still suspects it.

She had decided to bring his soul together. A fact learned not from the book but by her own observations, was that he had split his soul.

She was sure Death would be happy if she did it, as he didn't like the destruction of souls. Even vampires, with their long lives, didn't destroy their souls when changed, it remains with them, even if they didn't have a heart beat they exist, so the soul exists with them.

From observation, she meant the facts of his life, unable to kill, collecting artifacts, even if Harry didn't come out and say it in the book, it had enough hints to piece together the facts along with his own life account and her knowledge in various branches of magic through her various lives.

So she had debated on how to proceed and had formed tentative plans, but first things first - getting Harry away from Bumblebee.

She still would have to wait a few more years to do anything though as she couldn't go to Diagon Alley alone and couldn't owl order anything to help her. An aging potion would have been great right now. This is always a chore growing up. But according to Death, the growth helps her get her brain functioning properly so she guess she can't complain.

-x-

Summer, 1987, Little Whinging, Surrey

She was seven now and had decided to go to Surrey to get herself acquainted with Harry.

In his last life he didn't have many friends and had been given a biased view about everything. So she's gonna give him facts and see what he makes of them.

Death didn't favor anyone 'just because' after all.

There was a small orphanage there, where she could stay while she make friends with Harry. She was hoping he wouldn't be too malnourished when she meets him though. He had been thin and ragged whenever he used to come back to school from the holidays, she remembered. She don't understand why his friends never helped him though or why he didn't used his substantial wealth to get better clothes and some food.

-x-

How dare they! She was outraged by the things she had seen in the Dursleys house.

But the wind in her sails was taken out by her thoughts.

She had gone to see where Harry lived as soon as she had gotten a place in the orphanage in Little Whinging, Surrey. They had bought her story. She had told them she had lost her way in London and had then taken the wrong bus back to her orphanage. But didn't realize it until it was late as she had felt asleep in the bus. They had decided to let her stay for the night and when she asked the next morning if she could stay there instead of in London, they had debated but finally decided to let her stay asking for her papers from the London orphanage for her transfer. It had all gone off without a hitch for which she was happy. And if she have to confund them a little then it was just a minor mischief.

And then she had gone to see Harry and found out him living in a cupboard, working like a slave, getting next to nothing to eat. He would have been better off in an orphanage!

She had observed this under an disillusionment charm.

But now she lost her anger when she remembered some of her previous lives and the stories of others she knew of being in a hell of an orphanage. He had it better but it still doesn't makes it alright though. She needed to do something about his immediate situation.

-x-

Harry had been busily slaving off to get his job in the garden done soon. The heat of summer sun on his back was scorching and he longed to be in the shade of the house. After this he could go stay in his cupboard Aunt Petunia had told him, so he slaved off, weeding the mostly dry garden.

He was brought out of his thoughts by a 'psst'.

He looked towards where he think he heard the sound come from and saw a kitten sitting near the hedges.

As he debated if he had heard the human sound from the kitten, the kitten waved its paw at him. He was frozen in shock seeing that. Did it...? Yes, it did. It beckoned him now. Sitting on its haunches, it indicated like a human would to its wrist and then later. It was asking to meet later.

Harry could only nod his head, without thinking. It jerked her head in the house's direction. And he was confused again. Then the kitten hid in the hedges as Aunt Petunia came out. He was done with the work so he asked his aunt if he could go out. She waved him off and told him, sweetly, for a show to the neighbors, to come home before evening.

While others would take it as concern, he knew it was because he had to start cooking the dinner then.

So he left towards the direction of the small playground and saw the cat was following him.

He settled on the swing, thinking if he was going mad taking orders from a cat, when the cat disappeared in the trees behind the playground.

And then a girl of about 7-8 years of age was coming towards him, from the trees. She sat on the swing beside him and smiled at him.

"Hello Harry. You're Harry, right? Harry Potter?" Anna asked.

"Yes, I am. Who are you?" Harry asked back nervously.

"I'm Annabelle Summers. Its a pleasure to meet you." Anna answered with a smile.

"Its nice to meet you too." Harry replied politely.

"So you remember the kitten you saw just now?" Anna started.

At Harry's confused nod she continued, "It was me."

"You! What are you talking about? How is that possible?" Harry exclaimed.

"By 'Magic'. Of course." Anna stated the obvious.

"Magic? I don't believe you. Uncle Vernon says magic isn't real." Harry replied frowning.

"I thought you won't. But you shouldn't take anyone's words without a grain of salt. Magic is real. You're 6 years old right?" Anna asked.

"Yes. But I'm going to turn 7 soon." Harry said.

"Oh. July 31st right?" Anna said remembering.

"Yes. How do you know that about me?" Harry asked intrigued.

"I'll explain it all to you. And I will try not lie about things. It would be hard, as I'm very... it had become a habit, I guess. Lying all the time. Anyway. I live in the orphanage on Magnolia Road. Came from London a few days ago actually. And I know about you, because I know things. Not everything. But most things like how you had survived a killing curse as a one year old. No one has told me about it but I still know it." Anna said, thinking on what to tell him about her knowledge.

"What! Survived a... What are you talking about?" Harry asked more confused than before.

"Maybe I should assume you don't know anything and start from the start." Anna said looking at him with a frown.

She wondered if his relatives told him anything or not.

So she told him how his parents died, how he was left with his relatives, about the madman named Lord Voldemort. About the wizarding world, about him being a wizard.

After she was finished he sat in thought, she let him be, swinging on her swing, she liked this aspect of being a child, you get to swing freely with abandon.

"I was told they died in a car crash... Am I really a wizard? You must be mistaken. I can't do any magic. Not like you can turn in a kitten." Harry said looking defeated.

"You would be able to. Don't worry. It takes practice. And you can't have done nothing. Didn't things happen around you? Funny things, scary things? Anything that couldn't be explained."

At the look of comprehension on his face she said, "That's magic."

"Can you teach me to do more? Please. Do things like changing into a cat." He asked pleading.

She smiled and said, "I'll teach you all you want to learn. But first things first. I'm going to teach you to defend yourself from your bully of a cousin and we need to get you a room for yourself in the house. Its not gonna happen soon but I'm sure we could do something by the start of the next school year."

Anna told him some more about the world of wizards. About his parents friend, his godfather who could have taken in him but was sent to Azkaban without a trial.

"He is innocent you see. But it would be hard to prove even with a trial as we don't have any evidence to prove his innocence. I don't know his whole story." She really didn't. She can't remember much about it from her previous life.

She decided to get him adjusted to all this new information before she bombards him with even more knowledge. And told him to meet her there again tomorrow when it was time for him to go back to the house.

-x-

Anna had worked out a schedule for him, to get him as fit as her.

She was going to get his eyes checked first using some of the money she had collected until then. Then she was going to get him out of his malnourished body and into a fit one. The clothes and his living condition would need to be improved later.

So the next day she had been restless to start and gone to see him in her kitten form.

He had been up early but had to work till noon still to get his tasks done. He had seen her and greeted her with a smile. Talking to her in a whisper. When she had been unable to respond back by saying something he had been upset but she had gestured she would talk to him later. So he was somewhat reassured.

When they finally got back to the playground he asked her, "I had heard you in your kitten form yesterday so why didn't you speak today?" He had been disheartened when she hadn't replied.

"You just heard me getting your attention first when I was human. I didn't talked with you after I changed form. We can't talk as animals that's why I had to talk to you in signals at the time. Now let's go we have a lot of work to do." She answered and moved on, to stop him from chastising himself.

She took him to the optometrist and had ordered contact lens for him after his eyes were checked. And the specs with the correct prescription, as a backup. He had protested her spending money on him so she told him she wasn't doing it as altruism and him helping her in her tasks would be his payment.

"Or if you don't want to help me, then you could always pay me back. Your parents were loaded." She had offered the alternative.

She had told him to not take it badly that he was only getting help for the money or because she needs him.

"People have shittier lives than yours. Your life isn't sun and roses, I know, but you should want to help yourself, for me to do anything for you. And you look like you want to improve your life, so I'm helping you. No bad feelings, alright?"

He had smiled and said she didn't looked much altruistic anyway. And he didn't mind.

"Its better than what the Dursley's are doing. They took me in but aren't even decent enough to care for me some. Even if they aren't any poor at all. 'Took me in out of goodness of their heart'!" He had huffed shaking his head.

When he had asked what tasks she needed help with she had told him he would get to know about it later.

"I don't want to hide anything from you. But you had just learned about the magical world and I want you to get comfortable with it all and me, before I tell you more. Alright?" Anna had answered.

He had accepted her explanation and said he would help her with her tasks.

She had said, "Don't be so sure. Maybe you wouldn't want to help me after learning what the task is. Don't trust so easily."

He had replied, "I don't trust easily, no. But you are helping me -"

Anna interrupted him, "As I said, don't trust easily. I'm helping you, yes, but I have ulterior motives -"

He interrupted her back, "And that's why I trust you somewhat. You aren't trying to hide it. You aren't doing this because of 'the goodness of your heart'. You want something from me and didn't hide it. So..." He shrugged with a smile.

"You are very mature for 6 year old." Anna said to him with a brow raised.

"Nearly 7. And I don't trust you absolutely as you are hiding things. And you are only 7 yourself." Harry had replied.

"I'm seven. Yes. But not really."

When he looked confused she added, "You will know later." So he left it at that.

After getting his eyes checked she had shown him his schedule to get his body fit.

"I already work in the house for so many hours and you are adding to it." He had said incredulously.

She had replied, "It isn't all hard labor, see. Only running along with me in the evening before you go home and some defensive tactics. You need to get admitted in a dojo for more practice. But that will come later. Maybe after you had gotten your own room and all. For now you need to start meditating and practicing your magic. Magic and health is the most important. So start with the meditation tonight. I'll give you pointers how to do it. And we will practice doing magic from tomorrow. It needs a lot of concentration at the start to achieve any result, hence the meditation, then practice to do it easily after you got a handle on things. And I'll bring you meals till your relatives start giving you healthy portions."

So they met and practiced together all summer. He had hard time meditating, but learned to clear his mind at last.

"What do you do when I ask you to clear your mind?" Anna had asked.

"Try not to think anything. Relax my breathing, like you said. And relax my muscles and all." He replied.

"Try not to think? It would only cause you to get lost in the thoughts...Try to imagine a flame or calm water and imagine putting your thoughts in them. Like you had acknowledged them but they need to go for now. First just calm your mind with whatever you find calming. It doesn't have to be the flame or water, it could be the dark place or a silent library. Calm, alright?"

So she had instructed him and he had got it at last. She had told him about Legilimency and Occlumency. And he had started building his defences when he meditated, after he had got a handle on it. She didn't ask about his defense or to test them. As there was no need right then to check it. But she would probably need to test it later, before going to Hogwarts.

His concentration increased as he got focused on learning to use his magic. It still seems to come to him with some difficulty though, which was a surprise for Anna, because she knew he was Death's master so he should have an instinctive grasp on his magic now that he was practicing it. She was suspicious, his last life too he had showed a mediocre power. Oh, he was brilliant in some things but he was just not skilled enough in others. She thought it was because he hadn't ever taken any efforts to learn more. Now...

She had decided to bring him to Diagon Alley on his 7th birthday which was in a few days. She would need to get him checked for any bindings on his magic. Their first stop was going to be Gringotts where they were going to get some money and find information about their inheritance. The goblins could probably check him out for a fee.

They had steered clear of his cousin, who was always on the search for him for weeks. And she had showed him to hide his new specs and contacts with magic. He had practiced hard to grasp that trick. So all in all they had a nice time together.

-x-

31st July 1987, Gringotts, London

The day of his birthday arrived bright and early. Harry got up and made breakfast for the Dursleys and after they were finished he cleared the table. The Dursleys didn't acknowledge it was any different day at all. He did all his work fast and then told Aunt Petunia he was going out. She just nodded her head like she had been doing for the last few weeks and then he was off to meet up with Anna at their usual spot on the playground.

She was waiting for him with a smile and a long jacket for him.

"Happy Birthday. I haven't got a gift for you but you can count this trip as one." Anna said sheepishly.

"I don't mind. It's great to just be able to see the wizarding world for the first time." Harry replied shaking his head.

"Put it on. And put your hood up, so people won't recognize you." Anna then said giving him the jacket.

Then they walked in the trees and she asked him to hold on to her arm tightly. She apparated them to an alley near the Leaky Cauldron, that she knew from her time before. They walked to the Leaky Cauldron from there. People looked at them inquisitive as they entered but nobody stopped them, both had their faces covered. Anna because she didn't want anyone to remember her face and Harry, well he was famous and they didn't need the attention. She led him to the backyard and tapped the correct pattern on the bricks with her finger, adding some magic to it.

And he watched as the bricks parted like breaking a jigsaw puzzle. The alley was lively with a crowd full of children and parents. As the letters for Hogwarts must have reached the students in the last week, so they were out shopping for school supplies.

She led him through the alley as he watched all the various shops with excitement. When they had reached Gringotts, she led him through the doors, nodding at the goblins at the door, he followed her lead and nodded at them as well. They nodded back not showing any other reaction. She waited as he read the warning on the doors inside, nodding to the goblins again. She told him conversationally that they had a dragon guarding some of the vaults at which he had looked incredulously at her but she just shrugged and indicated the grinning goblins. They entered the marble hall and she led them to the counters. There were plaques in front of the goblins sitting on the counters, she read them and moved towards the one which read inheritances.

They waited in front of the goblin to acknowledge them and when he did Anna requested, "We would like to get a blood test done, please."

He replied, "Blood test requires a fees of 3 Galleons."

"We will pay it after we got some money out of our vault. No need to worry."

"No money no test."

Anna heaved a sigh but then said, "3 Galleons for the test is a steep price."

But the goblin just shrugged, "Fixed price for the test."

So she brought out some bills out of her pocket.

"What's the exchange rate?"

"5.12£ per galleon."

"That's about 30£ for both of us." She scowled.

But he shrugged back. So she gave him the bills, he nodded and got off his stool.

Harry had just watched it all in interest. The goblin came around then and lead them towards a door leading off from the hall. They followed him and entered a hallway. The goblin didn't stop till he reached a door after traveling through various hallways. The door opened to a office and he went and sat behind the desk.

Anna thought that she wasn't taken to the office the first time when she had done the blood test, though later they did take her to her account manager. They probably realized he was Harry Potter and she came from an old family too if she knew about their methods. As nobody asks for a blood test now a days.

The goblin, she learned his name was Bloodaxe, had brought out a bowl full of some liquid, a knife, a quill and a parchment. He put them all in front of her, so she brought the knife to her finger cutting it and dropped 7 drops, as Bloodaxe told her, in the bowl. He dipped the quill in the bowl and left it on the parchment as it started to write on it by itself. She gave him the knife to clean it of her blood, which he did and gave it to Harry, who repeated her actions. There cuts were healed as soon as the job was done. Then they saw the results -

-x-

Annabelle Abigail Summers

Blood Status : Half-blood

Mother : Abigail Summers née Archer, Half-blood.

Father : Marcus Cassius Summers, Pure-blood.

Magic Status : Not bound, Not mature.

Ability : Fire Elemental, Animagus, Metamorphmagus, Ward-Master.

Affinity : Charms, Curse Breaking, Dark Arts, Defence, Flying, Healing, Illusions, Legilimency, Occlumency, Potions, Runes, Warding.

Inheritances : Summers family vault, Archer vault, Summers villa (Unplottable).

Family tree :

-x-

"Hmm. I am related to the Shafiqs." Anna said seeing her family tree. "And the Blacks." She continued.

While Harry's result showed -

-x-

Harrison James Potter

Blood Status : Half-blood

Mother : Lily Potter née Evans, Muggle-born.

Father : James Charles Potter, Pure-blood.

Magic Status : Bound, Not mature.

Ability : Air Elemental, Animagus, Metamorphmagus, Parselmouth, Healer.

Affinity : Charms, Dark Arts, Defence, Flying, Healing, Herbology, Legilimency, Magical Creatures, Occlumency, Potions, Transfiguration, Warding.

Inheritances : Potter family vault, Evans vault, Potter Family Estate (Unplottable), Potter Home in Godric's Hollow, Potter Chateau in France.

Family Tree :

-x-

"Your magic is bound. I don't understand. Why would someone..." She trailed off.

"Is it dangerous for my magic or something? To be bound." Harry asked worried.

"Of course it is. Your magic is a part of you. If your core is bound it won't flow freely like its supposed to, like the blood flow in your veins. That's why you had so much difficulty when you practiced magic. And for magicals it is essential for the growth of your body. Its a crime to bound someone's magic. Its a miracle you can use magic at all. You are very powerful that's why you could use your magic, a miniscule percentage though it is." She finished her rant.

Then she asked Bloodaxe if he could help them unbound his magic. He had been sitting silent, face emotionless through her rant.

"Yes. For a fee."

When they told him they would pay it, he called another goblin and talked to him something in their language.

The wizards called it Gobbledegook or something which is a an insult as it means gibberish. Anna just doesn't understand the wizard kind. The Goblins manage their money, it would be catastrophic if they rebelled against them, which they actually had done many times before. And the wizards... Anna just shook her head at her thoughts as they followed Bloodaxe and the other goblin to a ritual chamber.

They told Harry he would feel dizzy and uncomfortable for a while after the ritual and then prepared for the ritual. There was a ritual circle drawn on the floor which had runes on its edges.

Anna had studied runes but rituals never were her strong point even with all the knowledge of all her lives. They warned her not to interfere in it and she acquiesced.

But when they checked him over before the ritual to get him ready they found something wrong with him. Bloodaxe and the other three goblins were talking agitatedly with each other. Finally Bloodaxe told her that Harry had a soul fragment latched in his scar and it would need to be removed before they could unbound his magic.

"Is it affecting his health? Harming him? And would removing it be dangerous to him?" Anna asked thinking furiously.

"Its just dormant for now, so its not harming him. But could cause troubles later when he would start using magic daily. And it would cause pain while removing it but would not affect him long term." Bloodaxe replied.

"Are you gonna destroy the soul fragment after you take it out?" Anna asked.

"We could for a price." Bloodaxe replied with a raised brow.

"Or else?"

"Or else it will be transferred to another item and kept as it is."

"Then what would you do of it?"

Anna was intrigued. She was sure she knew whose soul it was and was going to try to piece it together with other fragments, but what use would it be to the goblins.

"If you won't take it, then inform the - other owner - in a manner of speaking and bargain for it."

"Could you piece together the fragments if you could get others? Wait a minute. Let me guess, for a price." She said with a smirk.

He smirked back. "Wizards have forgotten the old magic but not goblins. Yes. We could piece it together for a price."

"Wait, how would you know to piece together a soul? Though isn't it wrong to tear it in the first place at all? And how do I got a soul fragment in my scar?" Harry who had been shocked to hear he had a piece of a soul in his scar asked, finally getting out of his stupor.

"Yes it is wrong to tear a soul apart. But it happens when you kill someone. That's why we know how to heal it, you need to feel genuine remorse for your actions, even if they are against an enemy. Though most don't tear their soul totally apart to create a horcrux like Voldemort seems to have done. Mostly people used to come to us to heal their souls of the tears that had been caused in it after the battles they fought, where they had killed their enemies. Even if they didn't come to us, the soul can heal given proper time. And some used the tears to create horcrux. An item in which you store a part of your soul to cheat death. Though no one can be truly immortal. Death always gets his due." Bloodaxe finished.

"I have Voldemort's soul in my scar." Harry said blankly.

Anna was afraid he was going in a shock.

"I have my parents murderer's soul in my head." Harry exclaimed angrily. And continued turning towards Anna, "And you want to piece his soul together. He murdered my parents and you want to help him. Were you going to ask my help in that task? Well then you were right. I'm not going to help you ever. Not for this." He finished.

"Harry, Listen to me. First calm down. Now I know you have every right to be angry at me but I was going to tell you about it soon. I never realized you had a soul piece in your scar. I knew about the horcruxes, yes. I was going to piece them together, yes. But that isn't my end goal. And I'm not gonna ask you to help me in it. As for him being a murderer of your parents, well you don't really know the whole story about it. Why he killed your parents, why he was after them at all. And if you don't care about the reasons then alright, I guess. Family is family, right?" She said sarcastically.

"But you didn't really knew your parents, what if they were the bad guys, what if they were bad towards you. Until now you only heard from the Dursleys that your parents were drunks who got themselves killed in a car crash and you had believed them, didn't you? Were you thinking any good thinks about them then? About your drunk parents who left you to live your life in a hell. I'm not saying they were bad people. But I'm saying you should consider the circumstances before deciding to put a blame on someone." She finished.

Harry's face had gone through various emotions as she talked, disbelief, anger, shame, anger again. He just asked, "He killed them. What else is there to consider?" He muttered.

"Well. Consider a situation, don't roll your eyes." She added as he did that.

"So consider a situation, you care about me somewhat right?"

He just shrugged.

"Well consider you do. And someone's held me at gunpoint. And is asking you to kill someone else. What would you do? Let me die, kill the innocent victim, or kill the person who's asking you to do it?"

"It isn't the same circumstances. And I wouldn't kill anyone. Just subdue the person."

"Yes. But you can't save everyone here. And you are a 7 year old, so I won't want you to kill anyone too. But you had to consider the circumstances. We can't be superheroes saving everyone as we went."

He just heaved a sigh. And put his face in his hands.

She hugged him and said, "I hadn't wanted you to find it all like this. You want to be angry with him, with me. Be angry. I don't care. But I do care that you think for yourself and not just go along with others opinions. If you decide to hate him after you knew all the facts. Alright with me. And I'm definitely not asking you to help me with anything you don't want to do, alright? Let's just get this piece out of you and get your magic unbound. We will talk about everything later."

The goblins had given them space as they talked. She turned towards them and gave them her chain and asked them to put the soul fragment in the pendant, it was shaped as angel's wings, and to put spells on it so it wouldn't influence them. Then backed up as they got to work.

They moved the fragment from his scar to her pendant then took it away to cast spells on it. He didn't screamed during the ritual, even if he looked in a lot of pain and his scar had bled quite a lot but they healed it and said he will still have the scar but it would be faint now unlike before. Then they prepared him for the next ritual. She asked Harry if they should come later for it as he already had been in pain. But he said he would rather get it all done together. So they did the next ritual to unbound his magic. He didn't screamed this time either but had been tired after the ritual was done.

Anna asked if he would have any side effects from doing both rituals together but the goblins told her he would have no such effects and would just be dizzy from the blood loss before and the last ritual. He may feel unbalanced due to his core unbounding and the removal of soul fragment, but nothing else.

The healer, Bloodtooth, who had found out about the soul fragment checked him again and said the fragment was removed, residue and all, the magic properly unbound though it will be causing him some discomfort while he gets accustomed to it. He would have no long term effects because of his magic being bound but that was only because he had substantial power levels. She then gave the suggestion to get his eyes checked by a healer who specializes in it and also to get him on a potions regime for the malnutrition.

Anna had thanked them profusely for their help, took her chain back from Bloodaxe as he came back with it, then followed him back to his office putting an arm around Harry as he still looked tired. There they collected the results of the blood tests back.

"Hmm. You're related to the Blacks through your grandmother too." Anna said.

Then Anna asked Bloodaxe about their money, assets and investments. He gave them the details. They were millionaires. And Harry had some huge shares in Daily Prophet, Mulpeper's Apothecary, few shops in Diagon Alley, also some of the muggle companies, and half of the shares for Quibbler.

She asked if they could withdraw any thing from the vaults and was replied, "Not from the family vaults. Only the trust vaults."

So she asked if they could get checks or debit cards which they can use in the muggle world and the wizarding world. He had told them it was done by the account managers but he would do it for them for now. He also gave her two pouches and told her it was connected to their trust vaults and had few features like anti-theft, anti-summoning charms and the like on them. They were expensive but she thought it was worth it.

Then she asked him about their account managers, her manager was Bluntknife and Harry's was Griphook. She asked the procedure to change them, he said she needs to have probable cause for any changes to occur. She asked curiously if he handled any accounts, and he told her he did, but he could take more with a sharp smile. She had smiled back, thanked him along with Harry for his help and bid him goodbye.

As they left Gringotts, Anna decided they had enough excitement for one day so took him back through the alley towards the Leaky Cauldron. They had spent most of their day in Gringotts and it was getting near the time for him to return. They ate an early dinner at Leaky Cauldron and then she took him back by side along apparition to the playground near his house. She promised she would meet with him the next day and they would discuss all that happened that day. Then turned in the kitten form and followed him to his house.

The Dursleys remained indifferent towards him and she thought it was better than getting scorned or taunted. After he was gone back in his cupboard, which she promised herself he wouldn't have to any more soon, she got back to the orphanage. The staff knew that she was friends with Harry and thought she was good influence for him as the Dursleys hadn't been able to bash his name among the others much. They hadn't got the chance to do it. As he used his magic more, he didn't had any accidental outbursts this summer and Dudley hadn't been able to find them to beat them so others thought his behavior has improved. Anna scoffed at that thought. Idiots, the lot of them.

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A/N: Please review and tell me what you think about the chapter. I would love to hear any thoughts. Is it feeling cliché? Or boring? Good? Not good? Like it? Hate it?(I hope not.) Any response is appreciated, Novarkek.