Chapter 7

Deep in the bowells of Gringotts

Kingsley Shakebolt stood outside of vault 195. The goblin he was with 'Gristakk, Dinhook or Griptac or somthing' told him to give him the key, 'the nerve of that goblin, to order his superior aroud.'

Kingley handed the goblin the key and he put it into the keyhole and twisted, well tried to twist but it was stuck then a red light started to blink and a sound like a muggle... 'siken was it?'

Then Kinsley heard some pops and saw six goblins in full armor with swords that glowed green with magic. He heard some words spoken in gobeldegook but it was the last thing he was aware of before he was unconcious.

Graknic Griphook's office

Graknic sat at her desk doing some paperwork when the door burst open and her brother walked in. He looked emotionless, but she knew her brother well enough to know that he was about to burst out laughing. He closed the door, when the door was closed he sank to the floor laughing.

"You should have seen his face when the security goblins came," He gasped out between laughs.

"Slow down Gristang, brother, start from the begining." Graknic said smiling.

"Well" he started "Mr..." he looked on the notepad he had "...Kingsley Shaklebolt came to Gringotts sometime around five and he asked for immediate acces to Mr...erm Harry's vault. He had an old key, and it didn't fit, therefor, because this was an medium security vault, the security goblins were immediately alerted and took him to the human Auror headquarters where he will being charged for attempted brake in into a Gringots vault and suspected thievery. Just thought you should know.

"Of course I should know" she said "our family has taken care of the Potter vaults for century's. Now pop over to Harry's residence and tell him about Mr Shaklebolts break in.

No 12 Grimmauld Place... err You-Know-Where

Albus Percivil Wulfric Brian Dumbledore sat in the kitchen of No 12. 'Life is good ' he thought. He had the Weasley mum making his food, the Weasley brat was greedy enough to be bought of and he had intercepted the mail from the Granger girl, the boy was completely alone.

"Dumbledore, Dumbledore" called a voice disrupting his private ego trip, "I have some bad news" growled Moody as he spotted Dumbledore at the table.

"What is it Mad Eye" Dumbledore said grumpily nothing was more important than his ego trip, well maybe the boy growing a brain on his own rebelling against the cause, running away or some things like that.

"Kingsley has been arrested." Moody said.

'Ok this is bad but not unsaveable' Dumbledore thought.

"For breaking into Potters vault." Moody continued.

'Scrach that, he couldn't be seen defending somone that worked against the boy' Dumbledore thought, out loud he said "We'll see if he'll be judged guilty. If he is then we can break him out. We can say it was Voldemort, his wife or some still-in-love ex-girlfriend."

"Dumbledore" Moody said "You want to tell me something. Why should Potter change locks and not give us the keys if his parents will gave the Order access to the vaults?"

"Harry must never have read the Will, and has seen the frequent widrawals and thought someone was stealing from him." Dumbledore lied smoothly.

Smallest bedroom, No 4 Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey

A little annoyed that Tonks wasn't paying any attention to him he looked back and saw the egg he had made hanging a metre in the air and had a little tornado around it. A crack appeared and emitted a sound that was a mix between a birds screech and a wind blowing through leaves. It was so loud that Harry didn't even hear Tonks say "Damn I thought it would be a phoenix."

Well it wasn't a phoenix, as a mater of fact neither of them was sure what it was. They knew it was a bird and just out of the egg it looked like a miniature white-tailed eagle, miniature meaning that it could have stood on its legs inside the egg and not touching the roof of it, but its feathers were blue-tinted that made the effect that it was see-through. Before their eyes it grew to the size of a hunting falcon and landed on Harry's shoulder.

They were still staring at it when they heard a pop behind them and somone say in surprise "What in the name of the treasures of the ancestors?"

The two people in the room looked behind them and saw a goblin standing there gaping in surprise.

"Griphook, judging by your reaction you know what this bird is." Harry stated.

"Yes but this bird is thought to be only a myth, it's..." the goblin was interupted by a screech from the bird.

Harry stared dumbfounded at the bird for couple of seconds and then started laughing. The other two in the room stared at him like he had just gone mad.

"What?"Harry asked "Didn't you hear what he said?"

They both shook their heads slowly.

"Am I the only one hearing this?"Harry asked.

They noded equally slowly.

"Ok one last thing" Harry said "is it a sign of a dark wizard to be able to talk to birds?"

Tonks burst out laughing "no but i dont think it has ever happened before" she said.

"It has happened before, but it's a sign of a light wizard because the only known bird to do this is a phoenix" Griphook said.

"Oh" Harry said "but what did you say it was?"

"It's a Hraesvelgr" Griphook said.

"A what?" Harry asked.

"Hraesvelgr, it is supposed to be a myth but it's description is in most books about birds. It is supposed to be an distant cousin to the phoenix and... anyway I didn't come here to ramble about mythical birds, I came here to tell you that there was an attempted break in to your vault earlier today" Griphook said.

"Oh" Harry said "who?"

"A lapdog of our mutual friend: Mr...Shaklebolt, Kingsley Shaklebolt.

"I knew it" Harry said "I just knew the old man couldn't keep his hand out of the biscuit jar. Can I prosecute him?" Harry asked.

"Of course, if you want to." Griphook said.

"Please do" Harry said "and dump a gallon of veritaserum down his throat. I want as much dirt on the old man as possible."

Griphook grined and said "Very well Mr Potter," and made himself ready to apparate out.

"Its Harry." Harry said.

"And I'm Gristang," said the Goblin as he popped away.

Harry was still grumbling about unpolite goblins that don't even say good bye, when Tonks said "Maybe we should try to find out more about this bird? What did Gristang say... Hraesvelgr?"

"Hm maybe I should try to ask him his name." Harry said to Tonks.

"Ok" Tonks said.

"Ummm... err.. Do you have a name." Harry blurted out.

The bird screeched.

" He says that's up to me" Harry said "what should I name him?"

"Should we check what the book says about him first?" Tonks asked.

"Ok" Harry said and got the bookand sat down with it on the bed beside Tonks.

"H... hp... hq... hs... not so far, here it is hra... Hraesvelgr," Harry mumbled as he turned the pages and started to read.

Hraesvelgr – Corpse-swallower – Haliaeetus Corpusvoro

Ministery Risk Rating: XXXXXXX Known multiple wizard killer

Hraesvelgr(HS) is a magical eagle, most of it's feathers are brown and blue-tinted but its tail and the underside of it's wings are bluish white and it has a yellow beak.

The HS is believed to be a myth but there are some documented sightings, though they are few. The HS is considered a distant cousin of the Phoenix, but while the Phoenix's magical powers are focused around fire, the HS's magical powers focus around wind.

The HS can make itself invisible, can beat its wings so hard that it can interupt wind-currents. It can also change it's size from the size of a Colibry (with a few centimetres of wingspan) to an unknown size but the largest documented was around 6 meters in wingspan.

Muggles have seen a HS many hundreds of years ago but because of the power in it they believed it to be a Thurs (A magical giant) and the source of all wind in the world.

"Wow that's a hell of a bird" Tonks said dumbfounded.

"Yeah" Harry said.

"Any idea what you're going to name it" Tonks asked.

"Yes, I was thinking about Thor" Harry answered.

"Thor, like the thunder god, isn't that a rather classy name for a bird?" Tonks asked.

Harry was about to answer when the newly dubbed Thor flew ower to Tonks, pecked her on the head, screeched and flew over on Harrys shoulder.

"Why are you blushing?" Tonks asked.

"He told me to restrain my mate." Harry said blushing deeply.

Tonks blushed to.

Sorry about the wait i had a bad case of writers block and my beta is drowning in school work.
Hraesvelgr was Hræsvelgur means corpse swallower and the ae/æ is said like a I

To: Rasmus, every child in Iceland try's to learn Danish, the keyword is try's, i've never grasped it but my sister can talk it almost fluently ;)
To: NamelessHeretic, I try.

bye see you later (i hope)