A/N: Alrighty folks, time for the most interesting trip to Gringotts yet!
Disclaimer: All characters except for Rose Potter come from the oh so amazing author J.K. Rowling, also I used a bunch of ideas from other fan-fics, to name a few, Potters Stand United by Fairywm, and the whole Dangerverse series from Whydoyouneedtoknow. Anyways enjoy!
June 10th, 1989, Gringotts
"Say Hermione," Sirius started as they entered Gringotts, "I read about this theory of muggleborns being descended from squibs, do you want to test it? All you'd have to do is prick your finger and give the goblins some blood and we could figure it out, and yes you guys can do it as well." Sirius finished upon seeing the other 3 children start to open their mouths.
"Sure that would be loads of fun! I wonder who I might be related to hopefully it's someone important like Ravenclaw or maybe Hufflepuff?" Hermione responded enthusiastically. "Well then," Sirius replied, chuckling at the girls enthusiasm, "Don't get your hopes up too much for all we know you might not be related to a squib."
"I know, I know." Hermione responded, not losing any of her enthusiasm. The approached the goblin who looked up immediately. "Ah, Lord Black, how may I help you today?" The goblin asked curiously.
"Well first we wanted to take a Heritage test for each of the kids here and then we want to go withdraw some money for shopping." Sirius responded. "Of course, just prick your finger and put 5 drops of blood on each sheet." The goblin said, holding out the sheets, and small knives to each of the children.
Everyone picked up the knife and pricked their finger, letting the blood drop onto the parchment. For a second, nothing happened, then all of a sudden name started sprouting out from a line, at the second to the top of Hermione's parchment was the name, "Sophia Ravenclaw." Hermione said. In a barely audible whisper. Sirius, who had been looking at the "Black" side of Draco's parchment immediately perked up and took a look at Hermione's sheet. "Sweet Merlin Hermione, you're an heir of the founders." Sirius said breathlessly. The goblin, hearing this, spoke up "Miss Granger, if you are indeed an heir of Ravenclaw would you please follow me? The heirs of Gryffindor may join us aswell, you may each bring one guardian."
"Who're the heirs of Gryffindor?" Hermione asked, confused. Rose, seeing the confused look on everyone's faces, spoke up, "Umm… Harry and I are."
"You… you are? Why didn't you tell us?" Draco asked with a hurt look in his eyes. "Well, you see, originally we had just met you guys so we didn't want to tell you until we knew we could trust you, after that we kind of… forgot." Harry said ruffling his hair with his hand, a bad habit he had picked up from Sirius. "That makes sense I guess, but umm excuse me, Mr… ?" Hermione asked the goblin. "Griphook." The goblin answered. "Mr. Griphook would it be ok if Draco came with us in place for one of our guardians?"
"I suppose that would be ok." The goblin responded, surprised at the young girl's politeness. "This family would be worthy to be considered goblin friends." Griphook told his colleague next to him. "Thank you." Came seven replies, from everyone but the elder Grangers. Griphook's eyes widened in surprise, "You… you speak Gobbledegook?" Griphook's colleague asked, shocked. "Of course,"Hermione started,"why shouldn't we? You go through the effort to learn english, the least we could do is learn your language." By now a small crowd had gathered, recover from his surprise Griphook motioned for the large family to come forward, whispering, he said "You may all come, follow me." As they got further down the hall he continued, "While it is not my choice, I will certainly recommend you to the head of the bank, Ragnok, as goblin friends."
"Thank you, we appreciate it." Sirius replied. The group entered a modest room, Griphook approached the desk, speaking quickly and quietly in Gobbledegook, "Ragnok, these wizards and witches here are the heirs of Gryffindor and Ravenclaw. I also highly recommend them as goblin friends, they are polite and know how to speak our language." Upon hearing this last statement, Ragnok looked up, shocked, then dismissed Griphook.
"Lady Ravenclaw, Lord and Lady Gryffindor," Ragnok began, seemingly ignoring the rest of the party, "May I please see your heritage parchments?" Confused, Harry, Rose and Hermione took out their parchments from their pockets and handed them over to Ragnok who placed them on his desk. Muttering something under his breath, Ragnok placed a finger on each parchment and the words rearranged themselves, until a list of names were on each. Harry's parchment read,
Inheritance Test
Harry James Potter
Confirmed Inherited Lordships
Noble and most ancient house of Potter
Noble and most ancient house of Boldon
Noble and most ancient house of Peverell
Noble and most ancient house of Gryffindor
Confirmed inherited family vaults
Potter Vault
Boldon Vault
Peverell Vault
Mannoy Vault
Stuart Vault
Gryffindor Vault
Stock In Wizarding World and Muggle World
Wizarding World
Daily Prophet- 40%
Nimbus Broom Company-40%
Honeydukes- 35%
Quality Quidditch Supplies- 35%
Eeylops Owl Emporium- 25%
Flourish and Blotts- 25%
Gambol and Japes- 20%
Madam Malkin's- 15%
Slug and Jiggers- 15%
Hogshead- 10%
Zonkos-5%
Magical Menagerie-5%
Muggle World
Grunnings- 40%
Blizzard Entertainment- 35%
Nintendo- 20%
Apple-15%
Samsung- 15%
Google-10%
Similar to Harry's parchment, Hermione's transformed from a family tree into one of her inheritance, she was the heir of the Scamander's, an old pureblood line that had supposedly died off with Newt Scamander, Ravenclaw and Wilkins, all had vaults as well as some stock, the most noticeable being 15% in the Daily Prophet. Rose's parchment had the same thing as Harry's yet at the bottom were a few added words stating that when she came of age she had the right to demand half of all stocks and vaults, but anyone who knew the twins seriously doubted she would demand that, they were just too close.
"Well, looks like there's only one thing to do." Sirius stated, as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. "And just what might that be Lord Black?" Ragnok asked, even though he had an idea of what Sirius was thinking. "Visit the vaults of course! Oh also, Harry, Rose, Hermione make sure you go to the Daily Prophet and demand to get an early copy of it so you can make sure everything is ok, just tell them that if they don't get an owl about it within the hour they sent it that it's ok. This way that can't start printing lies for the ministry."
"Ok, we can do that later, can we visit the vaults first?" Hermione asked, eager to see if there were any old books with new information in the Ravenclaw vault. "Sure, I don't see a problem with that, we'll check your vaults first and then Harry and Rose's."
As the group headed down to the Ravenclaw vault Sirius took a look at Draco, looking for envy or disappointment, instead all he found was pride, pride for his new family, oh how things had changed from barely more than a year ago.
When they got to the very end of the rails they found four vaults waiting for them, each had power radiating off of the doors, vault one was colored red, vault two- blue, vault three- yellow and vault four, green. "These are the vaults of the founders." Ragnok started, "Only your blood can open them, because of the wards we have, only true descendants may enter, meaning that only Lord and Lady Potter as well as Lady Granger, may enter their respective vaults." The three children looked pleadingly at their guardians and after receiving a nod, quickly entered their vaults. "So," Sirius began casually, "who are the other heirs?"
"Normally I would not answer this question, however since you are a guardian of the heirs, I will answer but must beg that this information not leave this room." Ragnok answered. Sirius drew a deep breath, for a goblin to show respect to a wizard was surprising, for a goblin, the director no less, to beg was unheard of. "I understand and will not repeat this information." Sirius agreed.
"Thank you, as for the heir of Slytherin, that would be Tom Marvolo Riddle, better known as Lord Voldemort, because he is an enemy of the goblins, he can not access the vault." Sirius gasped, he could only imagine what Voldemort would have done with that wealth and knowledge of one of the founders. Ragnok however seemed unaffected, "The second heir, I believe you know much better, the heir of Hufflepuff is Neville Frank Longbottom."
"WHAT?!" Sirius exclaimed, "you're telling me, that Neville is the heir of Hufflepuff?"
"Precisely," Ragnok responded, "think about it, the Potters and Longbottoms are two of the oldest bloodlines in England, doesn't it make sense that they both date back to the founders time?"
"I suppose... " Sirius replied, still trying to get his head around this interesting discovery.
As Sirius pondered this new information, Harry and Rose came out of their vault, each holding a sword with a scabbard on their waist, some books and most interestingly, a portrait. "I really must thank you two, people come in sometimes but no one ever offers to take me with them, I tell you it gets dead boring in that vault alone and the wards don't even let me leave my portrait."
"It's really not a problem Rick, after all, who better to teach us about our Gryffindor powers than Godric Gryffindor himself?" Rose asked the painting. Narcissa and Draco staggered back a few steps, "Are you telling me… " Draco began before being interrupted by Hermione also coming out of her vault talking to another portrait. "WENA!" Godric exclaimed before leaving his vault to give Rowena Ravenclaw a hug. "Rick, if I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times, DON'T CALL ME WENA!" The portrait replied angrily although her grin betrayed her. "So… " Draco began, "we now have two of the founders' portraits with us and we can probably get a third… we really aren't a normal group are we?"
"No, no we aren't." Harry agreed, chuckling. "And who are you?" Ravenclaw inquired before adding, "By the way Hermione, those books contain not only your extra powers but they also include a map of Hogwarts with all the secret chambers and it updates itself with where everyone is."
"Just like the Marauder's Map!" Draco exclaimed before introducing himself, "Pleasure to meet you Lady Ravenclaw, my name is Draco Malfoy." He finished with a bow. Rowena curtsied in response, "A pleasure to meet you as well. Now just what exactly is a Marauder's Map?"
Sirius cut in here, "Why don't we leave go meet up with the Longbottoms we are nearing our time limit, then we can all talk, I have a feeling this will take quite a while." Upon getting agreements from everyone, portraits included, they made their way into Diagon Alley with the portraits in their bags which were charmed to be light and to be able to hold anything. They finally spotted the Longbottoms sitting at a table outside of Quality Quidditch Supplies.
Sirius, deciding to lighten the mood, approached Frank, "Hello, Lord Hufflepuff." The kids, not including Neville, started snickering, while Frank choked. "How did you know?" Frank finally managed to choke out. "Well… having 3 heirs of the founders helps for starts, also asking two of the founders can do quite a bit of work."
"Wait… how can u ask the founders, and who exactly are the heirs?" Frank asked, confused. Harry stepped in here,"Haven't you been to the Hufflepuff vault?"
"There's a vault? All I knew was that I was the heir and that we had a ring from Hufflepuff."
"Looks like we need another trip to Gringotts!" Draco exclaimed. Everyone readily agreed.
Later that same day, Potter Manor
Sirius, Narcissa, Gertrude, John, Remus, Frank, and Alice all sat on couches, while the children all sat on the floor, with Helga, Rowena and Godric hanging up next to each other. "I really do miss Salazar, such a shame we can't get him out of his vault.' Godric sighed. Everyone there was thinking the same thing, but it was Neville who eventually voiced their concerns, "Why would you want to talk to Slytherin? I mean, didn't he fight with you guys, try to get rid of the muggleborns and eventually get kicked out?"
"What are you talking about?" Came Rowena's indignant reply. "Salazar just figured that muggleborns should be brought into the magical community sooner so that way they couldn't be tortured or killed if they had accidental magic, he went searching for more muggleborns when he was found by a extremely religious group that eventually killed him. Although there is a way we can get his portrait, we would just need to access the Chamber of Secrets."
"Wait a second, you mean to tell me that not only was Slytherin good, the Chamber of Secrets is real?!" Sirius exclaimed.
"Of course, all you need to be able to do is speak parseltongue, something we all learned but only Salazar wanted to pass it on to his heirs. See? We can talk to snakes." Godric replied, his last sentence in parseltongue. Harry and Rose, jumped in surprise when they realised they could understand him. "In that case… why can we understand you?" Rose asked confused, since her parchment never said anything about Slytherin, and signaling to herself and Harry.
"I'm not sure but we can probably look it up." Rowena responded, "Now then, how about you guys update us on as much as you can, especially this Marauder's Map, and we'll try and correct any mistakes."
It was a happy group that left a few hours later, all planning to research as much as they possibly could about their new found powers while Sirius and Frank decided to go to the goblins in the morning about getting a goblin tutor for the children in fighting, after all, it didn't hurt to be prepared and the founders had all suggested it.
Same Day, Harry's Bedroom
All five kids gathered in the bedroom, talking about their newfound powers. "So let me get this straight," Draco started, "Harry and Rose can control fire as well as bind magic to items, 'Mione can control water and communicate with animals and Neville can control the earth, communicate with plants and make them do what he wants?"
"Sounds about right." Harry replied as he opened his hand, revealing a flame. "Show off." Hermione said as she saw Harry reveal the fire, a fire which she quickly doused as water sprouted from her fingertips. "How about you two use your powers AFTER we've trained, I'd much prefer not being roasted alive." Neville cut in, seeing the two about to go at it. "I guess..." Harry agreed. "We should form a plan." Rose said suddenly, drawing questioning glances from all in the room. "Well we all know Dumbledore is a master manipulator, I mean think about, he specifically knew Sirius was innocent yet condemned him to Azkaban and I think I know why. If Dumbledore were the one to rescue us from the Dursleys then we would have treated him as if we were eternally in his debt, something he probably wanted. I mean come on, he could have stopped Riddle from becoming evil but he did nothing about it. We should all learn occlumency, and figure out who we can and can't trust, I'm sure some families are just too far in Dumbledore's pocket but we could convince others that he's manipulating them."
Noticing the tense atmosphere, Draco decided to try a joke, "Rose, that was quite smart, you sure you're not the heir of Ravenclaw?" He was rewarded by the red head sticking out her tongue at him."I do agree though, we should form a plan." And with that the 5 kids were left talking about who they had met and who they could trust.
A/N: Ok, ok I know that having kids plot about who they can and can't trust seems a bit much for how young they are but remember, you have the cunnigness of a Malfoy, the Brains of Lily Potter and the wit of a Ravenclaw, they were going to figure it out eventually. Anyways, next chapter their group grows SUBSTANTIALLY and they get to Hogwarts!