Summary: What if Harry Potter was actually schizophrenic?
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter.
A/N: I thought it would be interesting to write a bit about the rings, what do you guys think? And I don't know Latin. All I did was google it. Let's see if you guys can figure out what it means!
"The voice"
"Normal speaking"
The boxes were made of different types of wood. The one that he was given had a light shade of brown to it. The crest on the box depicted a ion with wings and a unicorn holding a shield. The shield had two wands crossing with three sparks coming out of each wand. The boy noticed a few words at the bottom of the crest that said:
'Fas honoribus determinatio et paulum Fortuna'
The boy opened the box. Within the box, sitting on a sea of blue satin, was a gold ring. The details took his breath away. A diamond adorned the ring and around the jewel he could read the same words that were on the box. Within the diamond was the shield and on the respective sides of the ring were the lion with wings and the unicorn.
"Your first lesson starts now."
The boy looked up at the man with rapt attention.
"The ring's placement on the hand is important. Your right hand represents your family and what you have inherited. Your left hand would what you have inherited through a will or through conquest."
"So the Potter and Gryffindor rings go on the right and the Black and Slytherin on the left. And now to complicate things, he'll tell you which fingers to put them on, I'll bet you anything."
Ignoring what the voice said, the boy continued to listen. The man showed him his right hand and two rings appeared one on his index and the other on his ring finger.
"Your main family ring would be placed on you index finger and, depending on how far the inheritance, it continues down all the way to the pinkie. This shows you that I am the head of the Malfoy family and that I have inherited the Brooks fortune from my great great grandfather."
"So the Brooks family married into the Malfoy family and didn't have any heirs of their own."
The rings disappeared and the man looked at the boy expectantly.
The boy looked at the two rings on his right hand. The first, on his index, was the Potter ring. The other, on his pinkie, was the Gryffindor ring. It was beautiful in it's simplicity.
The ring was gold and adorned with a ruby. Within the ruby was an animated lions head. When the boy had taken it out of the almost white box he had noticed that the lion head looked as if it was sleeping. As soon as he had placed it on his finger, the ring had resized itself and the lion had seemed to awake with a start. Now it was just looking around with interest.
"Let me guess which position the rings on your left hand will take! The Black ring will be on your index and the Slytherin ring on your pinkie. Am I right?"
It goes without saying that the voice was right. Of course, the manager and Mr. Malfoy insisted on checking them for curses. They didn't have any.
Coming from a silver coloured box, the Black ring was simple and beautiful. It was silver with an obsidian stone and the family motto 'Toujours Pur' surrounding it.
The Slytherin ring was the most interesting of the two. It came from a black box and had an emerald within the silver ring. Circling the emerald where two golden snakes. The most interesting part of it was the fact that it was hissing and the boy understood every single thing it said.
"Don't tell them anything. I highly doubt that this is normal and people don't like unnatural things. Best to do some research."
Once every ring was at its correct place Mr. Malfoy explained what the rings could do. They could disappear and reappear when Harry wanted them too. The boy was slightly disappointed but could see the advantage of it.