Hey guys~
I am sorry for the long wait, but rl isn't easy at the moment, and it comes first...
But as I was a bit rpoductive last night, you can now read the newest chapter of "Cupiditas"~
And don't worry... I will also continue "History is Written by the Victor" in the near future...
And now enough talking!
Enjoy reading this chapter and tell me what you think!
CHAPTER 5
"I can't believe, that, because a fourteen years old boy believed in two sixteen years boys and gifted them with 500 galleons, one of the world's biggest imperium of pranks exists."
The oh-so-feared dark lord still couldn't wrap his head about this new, rather shocking and unbelievable information he received on their last stop before entering Knockturn Alley, "Weasley's Wizard Wheezes".
"If you have all the background information I had back then, you'd probably have done the exact same thing. Because, after all, I've a lready seen a few of their products in action, and I knew that having their own joke shop was their livelong dream. Plus, I had just won a bunch of money in a competition where the one boy died who should have been the winner as I had been entered illegaly in the first place. And if this would not have been reason enough, I also owned, at least to my knowledge at this point of time, a whole vault of golden, silver and bronce coins and they had just lost their last knut to a deluder. And now, all of my third of the business' profits go into a special vault set up for research and new buildings, as they need most of their profits to buy new resources and their own living expenses. And , even though I am not using any of the earned money, as a co-owner, I have a veto in all business decisions and, should the need ever arise, are the primary person to take the business over. Like this, the pranking will go on and it won't become only a money making business. Because that's what would happeb to it, should it ever fall into the hands of Ron or Ginny, or, Merlin forbid, Percy Weasley. I was thinking about joining them if I ever would return to the wizarding world. After all, where is a better place to work for the Marauders' heir then one of the most famous joke shop imperium?"
While Emerald was talking and troughuly shocking Marvolo with whathe told him, the two had arrived in a store Emerald was familiar with.
"'Borgin and Burkes', seriously?"
"Yes. Because there is no better place to find uneected treasures than a pawn shop. After all, everyone knows him, lots of people sell him stuff, and he only knows the true worth of maximum half of his goods. I actually found here stuff worth thousands of galleons and payed about fifty galleons top a piece."
"Okay, you convinced me. Let's go."
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Inside the pawn shop, they found quite a few goods which they then bought way under their actual worth, including, but not limited to a few books writen in parseltongue, two of them by Salazar Slytherin and the third by Mordred LeFay, a few of the Black heirlooms stolen in Harry's fifth year by Mundungus Fletcher and a 500 year old basilisk egg, that needed a parselmouth or grown basilisk to talk to him to start the hatching process. The egg Emerald kept for himself, as he had always wanted a snake, since he was a child, though the potions in his system during his teens surpressed that wish.
Afterwards, they stroled through the alley, visited the shops they felt like, like the alleys clothing shop, where Emerald bought himself a whole female wizarding wardrobe so that another trip in the wizarding world wouldn't have to be in muggle clothes.
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In the evening, as it was Emerald's day off, they both went to Slytherin Manor for dinner and a drink in front of the fire place afterwards.
During the whole time, the two of them talked and talked, slowly but surely aproaching more and more personal subjects, like their time in school, their dreams growing up and their different relationships. The only subject staying completely untouched were their childhoods, what they both went trough with their respective guardians, up until their start at Hogwarts and during the summers.
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It was already past one in the morning, when Marvolo led Emerald to his room.
"Emerald, I have one last question for you."
"Yes?"
"Why did you start working as a female pole dancer in this strip point, if you clearly do not need the money?"
"Do you really want to know?"
"Yes, of course. Otherwise I wouldn't have asked, would I? Because I can't understand it. You could have travelled the world with your noney, if you wanted to leave everything behind for some time to get some distance between yourself and everything that happened."
"Well, I was bored without anything to do. And , although I like seeibg new countries and stuff, I would have gone crazy with traveling for a long time. I much prefere a regulated day-to-day live and the odd holiday abroad. Plus, I was also kind of waiting for someone of my past to step trough the very door you did. And now, I wish you a good night and pkeasant dreams. I'll see you tomorrow morning at breakfast to a pretty good lecture."
This said, Emerald gave the dark lord a kiss to his cheek, stepped insode his room for the night and closed the door into a still shocked Lord Voldemort's face inside snickerin at the shellshocked expression on the usually masked face.