Chapter 4
Remus Lupin sat and waited, he was at the inheritance office at Gringotts and he was waiting for the solicitor. He sat on the end of a arc of chairs. There was an empty seat next to him, then Tonks, Adromeda, Molly, Ron, Hermione, Arthur, Dumbledore, Nacrissa and Draco Malfoy. In the middle of the arc there was a table which was meant for the solicitor.
The empty seat next to Remus was meant for Harry, but he wasn't there either.
When at last the solicitor came into the room and sat at her desk, every one was so busy waiting for her to start speaking that no one noticed Tonks drop a pice of wood on the floor just outside the headmasters sight and mutter a prase.
The solicitor spoke,
"Now we only need to wait for Mr Potter and then we'll begin"
"Mr Potter isn't emotionally stable enough to be here so he apointed me for his proxy," the headmaster stated.
"I'm afraid that he has to be here. It's stated quite firmly in Mr Black's letter to me that Mr Potter has to be here, so I'm afraid we'll just have to postpone the reading," the solicitor exclaimed.
"The black rules state that the reading has to be no more than a month after the demise of the family member else it goes to the nearest male family member" Nacrissa Malfoy said and looked straight at Draco
"The boy isn't emotionally ready yet," Dumbledore said.
"Maybe i should be the judge of that,"
Everyone looked at the speaker.
"Harry?" Lupin half asked half stated.
"In the flesh," he said grinning widely and sat down between Remus and Tonks.
"Harry how long have you been standing there?" Dumbledore asked.
"I belive that the first thing I heard was 'emotionally stable enough'," Harry answered.
"But my boy, I was just looking after you, your guards told me that you didn't do anything but brood all day, run in the mornings, and scream during the night,"
"Yet none of them ever spoke to me... and just for the record I stopped screaming in the night last Monday when I managed to mostly get over Sirius's death. Talking helped, talking realy helped"
"See my boy, the Dursley's arent all bad, at least they helped you to get over your godfathers death,"
"The Dursley's?" Harry laughed "You think I spoke about Sirius to the Dursley's, yes I can see that conversation 'Aunt Petuina, I just saw my godfather die, I feel bad, I think I need a hug'. Oh yeah, you could see the red on Petuina's face all the way to Hogwarts, then she would answer in a similar manner to when I lst asked something similar, I think i was about six at the time, 'Get into your cupboard boy and no food for three days'. Yes I can see it happen, no old man I didn't speak to the Dursleys, lucky for me I have some friends out there"
"But your friends have been instructed to stay away from you until you stop mourning,"
"Then I am lucky that I have friends other than these cowards who can't even stand up against a headmaster and..."
"I belive that is quite enough" Every one who were waching the duel of words turned around and looked at the solicitor who until now and been all but forgotten, "now if you will calm down I have a will to read," the goblin lady said
"Of course milady, time is money " Harry said and sat down.
"Mr Potter my brother was right, you are certainly much more polite than most wizards," she shoot a glance at Dumbledore.
"Oh, you bear a unique resembalance to Griphook, is he your brother?"
At this every human (or werewolf for that matter)stared dumbstruck at Harry, all goblins looked alike to them
"Oh Mr Potter I am impressed, believe it or not most wizards think goblins all look the same"
"Please call me Harry, and for a goblin you are easy to recognise , for example all goblin eyes are black but yours and Griphooks are more bluish, and your noses are...".
The sound of Dumbledore clearing his throat interupted them "I believe that we should continue, time is money after all".
"Of course you're right sir, so let us begin the reading. I am Graknic Griphook and Mr Black asked me personally" she sounded very proud "to execute his will. He gave me a letter which I was instructed to read in the case of his demise. Contained within were just instructions on how to use the will and who would be required to be present. There was also a setence that I didn't quite understand. It was 'ask Moony which of us won', can you explane Mr Lupin"
Remus looked as he was deep in thought, then suddenly he burst into laughter, until he managed to say "James and Sirius made a bet who could make the most absurd will, well I think they said the most orginal, but for them it's the same thing, well I was made the judge because for the bet to work they had both to be dead. James' will was a cage full of cornish pixies, each one of which had one piece of paper tied to them with a string so we had to catch all the pixies and then fit the pieces right together like a jigsaw puzzle. I wonder what Sirius did?"
"Mr Black said that to activate the will, Mr Po...Harry has to tap this envelope with his wand" she held up a glowing red envelope.
"Is that what i think it is?" Harry asked
"A howler?" Tonks asked
"Yes" Harry said
"I believe so" Lupin said
"Oh, ok" Harry said and taped the envelope
Almost imediatelly the envelope started to smoke and then it exploded
"SIRIUS OCTAVIUS BLACK, HOW DARE YOU DO SOMTHING LIKE THAT TO POOR HARRY"
said a voice that Harry had only heard when he was in the presence of the foulest creatures on the planet.
"DYING THE POOR BABY'S HAIR YELOW"
by now Lupin was going limp of laughter,
"YOU BETTER NOT COME OVER FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK OR I'LL MAKE YOU BEG FOR THE CRUCIATUS. AND REMUS"she continued in softer tone "IF YOU'RE THERE LET ME INVITE YOU TO DINNER AT THE POTTER PLACE THIS EVENING.
Now another voice sounded out of the howler,
"OK SORRY ABOUT THAT, YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW HARD IT IS TO FIND AN UNUSED HOWLER WHEN YOU ARE A WANTED CRIMINAL. OK NOW TO CLEAR UP SOME THINGS, HARRY STARTED IT. HE MADE MY HAIR BLUE. IT WASN'T EVEN GONE WHEN I WENT TO THE POTTERS AT THE END OF THE WEEK"
Harry laughed "I thought the first time I did that was to my nursery teacher"
"AND NOW FOR THE SIRIUS STUFF... OR SIRIUS'S STUFF MAYBE. I'M GONNA BE GIVING IT OUT AFTER ALL"
There were quite a few sobs around the room,
"AND NO CRYING. JEEZ YOU WOULD HAVE THOUGHT SOMONE DIED"
More sobs sounded
"OK THE WRONG THING TO SAY BUT ANYWAY. I SIRIUS OCTAVIUS BLACK BEING MOSTLY SOUND OF MIND AND BODY"
Here there were a few snorts
"NO LAUGHING, I SAID MOSTLY. AS I WAS SAING, I SIRIUS OCTAVIUS BLACK BEING MOSTLY SOUND OF MIND AND BODY, SOLE HEIR TO THE BLACK FAMILY WILL IN THE EVENT OF MY DEATH GIVE 10,000 GALLEONS TO THE TONKS', PLUS 5,000 TO NYMPHADORA. I ALSO GIVE 20.000 GALLEONS TO THE WEASLEYS FOR BEING A FAMILY TO HARRY. THE MALFOYS CAN"
Every one held their breath,
"HAVE REMUS'S OLD ROBES WHEN HE HAS BOUGHT NEW ONES WITH HIS 25,000 GALLEONS. TO PROFESSOR DUMBLEDORE I GIVE ALL THE PAIRS OF WOLLEN SOCKS AT GRIMMAULD PLACE. AND YOU HARRY, WILL GET HEIR STATUS OF THE BLACK FAMILY. WHICH MEANS ALL MONEY, ALL PROPETYS AND BECAUSE YOU ARE THE LAST MEMBER OF TWO OLD FAMILYS YOU CAN, IF YOU WANT TO, GET EMANCIPATED. IF DUMBLEDORE IS THERE THEN NO, YOU CAN'T GET NO.12 GRIMMAULD PLACE. WHEN YOU READ THIS PADFOOT AND PRONGS HAVE LIKELY ALREADY PRANKED SOME PEOPLE UP THERE LIKE GOD, GABRIEL, SALAZAR SLYTHERIN AND SOME MORE PEOPLE THAT CAN TAKE A JOKE.
LASTLY I DON'T WANT TO MEET ANY OF YOU HERE FOR AN LONG TIME, WELL MABE DUMBLEDORE BUT HE HASN'T TOLD ANYONE HOW OLD HE IS. BUT BY THE INFORMATION ON CHOCOLATE FROG CARDS HE IS ROUGHLY 150 YEARS OLD, DON'T YOU THINK IT'S TIME FOR HIM TO STEP BEHIND THE VEIL.
BYE FOR NOW SEE YOU LATER… MUCH LATER.
By the end of the howler everyone was crying and most burst out sobbing because of that veil comment.
Dumbledore stood up and was about to say something when Harry walked over to Graknic and told her that he had some business to attend to at Gringotts and asked her to help him with it after everyone else was gone.
Tonks said "He can flirt with a goblin but still remains clueless about human girls.
Here is the next chapter, sorry for the wait, at least this chapter is at a decent lenght
and i got my self a beta special thanks to Godfric Potter
not much about runes in this chapter but you'll find out how he travels in the next chapter, now i'm going to set up a poll: what do you want to come out of that egg?It can be a phoenix, a snake or something else (I can't decide)
Medabart: Harrys magical core didn't shrink over the years, it has simply been constantly draining magic into the wards since he was one year old till he was eleven and even after that he was sent to 'feed' the wards over a some of months a year. Lets say the magic was draining faster than he recovered it then he has been continuously loosing magic over ten years, and then lets ad into the mix that when he first came to PD his core had to be very small he was so young.
Alphamech: I did and do study runes as a hobby at first it was only the alphabet, i used it to let of some steam, one year in school we had very evil teacher i think i could well compare her to Umbridge well she didn't torture us but we were seriously waiting for her to hit us so we could go to the police, but anyways i used to write some nasty things in my text book in runes during class.
I looked into some C2 and favorites list, and I have to say i'm in real royal company there are some great story's in them.
Gummi
Rune Warior
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.
If you want pace, prepare for war.
Ef þú villt frið, búðu þig undir stríð.