As one adventure ends another is surely to begin!
By Fallensoul62
Warning: This story is a mixture between canon and AU containing a Sherlock like/powerful fem harry, character bashing, alive-snarky but nice Severus, nice Malfoys and all around occ-ness.
Guide
"Hello"...means talking
"Hello"...means flashbacks/memories
'Hello'... thoughts
'Hello'...thoughts in a flashback/memory
"Hello"...means parseltounge
"Hello"...means spells
Chapter 1 part 2
Memories, betrayals and changes
-Previously-
Suddenly Rose is knocked out of her thoughts when she hears Severus talking to her, "As hypercritical as this will be coming from me you shouldn't hold on to the past rose. It will only bring you pain and suffering. Beside we won't be here much longer." Severus advises her as he stares at her with his bottomless dark chocolate almost black eyes. "I know dad. I know," She replies with a small smile and just as she goes to pick up the book on her lap to read a knock at the door stops her. "Severus, Rose it's time to go. The goblins are excepting us in half an hour," announces a voice through the door to which Rose replies to with a chirpy, "thanks Lucius. We'll be down in a minute."
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-Diagon alley~ gringotts bank-
20 minutes later finds the three of them walking up the steps of a multistoried marble 19th century styled building, that has the name 'Gringotts Bank' craved into the stone just above the burnished bronze main doors. Gringotts itself is located near the intersection that separates Diagon alley and Knockturn alley. It is also the place where British witches and wizards store their money and other valuables, in heavily-guarded vaults miles below the ground. Once they reaches the entrance Severus pushes and holds open one of the doors for the other two, before following them into the small but well lit entrance hall. Ignoring the two scarlet and gold uniform wearing goblins, which guard the main doors, they stride towards the second set of doors, rose giving the warning carved into the silver doors in front of her a nostalgic glance. 'Enter, stranger, but take heed of what awaits the sin of greed for those who take, but do not earn, must pay most dearly in their turn. So if you seek beneath our floors a treasure that was never yours, thief, you have been warned, beware of finding more than treasure there.' She mentally recites to herself before she laughs lightly under her breath as a stray thought passes through her head bringing a small smile to her face, 'I still can't believe i thought that was scary.'
Rose noticing the second pair of goblins, which guard the silver doors in front of her, nods her head respectfully towards them causing the pair to stare at her in shock for a few seconds, before respectfully nodding their heads back to her with small smiles on their faces that look more sharp smirks. Lucius and Severus quickly share a look and a smirk at each other over Rose's head, then just as quickly composes their features into indifferent expressions seconds before they step through the doors and into the main part of the goblin run wizarding bank. The main part is a vast hall made of black and beige marble that has three huge gold chandeliers hanging from the ceiling, while two long rows of dark brown counters stretch across the length of the room, on either side of said room, and sitting behind each counter is a goblin that's tallying up some random wizard's or witch's money. Behind the counters, and goblins sat at them, are many doors leading off to the various vault passageways with around a hundred goblins sitting near them, goblins that are waiting for a wizard or witch that needs to be taken down to visit their vault/vaults.
With a small smile still on her face Rose, with Lucius and Severus behind her, glides down the hall towards one of the free counters. "Good morning sir may your honour be preserved, your gold flow vigorously and your enemies writhe in torturous agony," she greets with a wave of her dainty hand causing a look of surprised shock to appear on the faces of the goblins within hearing range. The goblin behind the high counter in front of her coughs awkwardly into his fist, before covering his shock with a sneer as he looks at the trio with calculating sharp brown eyes. "May your honour be upheld, your gold multiple religiously and your enemies fall at your feet in complete and painful submission," he greets back with a nod, "now what is it you want?" He then asks Rose gruffly as he stares at her with another sneer upon his thin lips and a raised eyebrow.
"We have an appointment with manger Griphook sir," she informs him while Severus shifts slightly behind her a clear indicator to those that knew him how impatient he is becoming. The goblin clicks his fingers and a large brown leather book appears on his counter, which he then proceeds to open and check through with a slight scowl on his face. Finding her appointment he closes the book and with another click of his fingers said book disappears. "Follow me," he demands gruffly as he jumps off his high stool to the tiled floor below, where he then escorts the trio to the only elevator in the room, that's at the very end of the hall, to get to Griphook's office.
-Griphook's Office~ top floor of the bank-
"Here we are," the goblin announces as the 1920's style elevator comes to a slow stop. When the gold-plated metal doors open the trio and goblin step out into a well-lit corridor that's made out of black and beige marble, with a deep blue carpet covering the whole floor of the corridor successfully hiding the unsightly wooden floorboards from the view of potential visitors. They walk down the right side of the corridor and stop in front of a dark wooden door, that has the words 'manger Griphook's office' engraved on a gold plaque which is nailed onto the wall beside the door. The goblin gives two hard, sharp knocks against the door, and not a second later a gruff "enter" in gobbledegook can be heard coming from inside the office.
The goblin enters with the trio following behind him to find an old looking goblin with high arched black eyebrows, shoulder length curly black hair, pale skin and a rather long pointed nose sitting behind a dark wood desk. A smirk appears on Griphook's thin lips as he stands up and walks around his desk towards the trio, "Rose it's good to see you again." He greets happily as Rose crouches down to share a hug with Griphook, "the same to you Griphook." Is her reply once they're all sitting down comfortably at the desk. "So what can i do for you," he asks leaning forward with his folded arms on to the desk. "It's time," Rose replies a serious expression on her elegant fae like features.
A few tense and grave seconds pass in silence when suddenly Griphook stands from his chair and walks towards the door, "excuse me i will be back in a few minutes." He tells them as he leaves the room and once the door is shut silence fills the room again as they wait for Griphook to come back. It is as they're waiting that Rose remembers the very first time she met Griphook and found out the shocking truth about herself.
-Flashback: visiting ron and hermione at the burrow~1997-
With a thunderous crack Rose appeared on the front lawn of the burrow, a rather old rickety looking building with the top floor of the house leaning slightly to left, that's surrounded by open fields and situated on the bank of a large river. Sighing Rose walked towards the house, carefully avoiding the small duck pond, with the intent of visiting her long time friends Ron and Hermione who she hasn't seen since they went back to Hogwarts. Just as she was about to knock on the door voices and the mention of her name stopped her, and so filled with curiosity Rose placed her ear against the wooden door to listen feeling rather guilty for doing so.
"When are we going to get rid of her she's become annoying and a bother, walking around like her owns the place and flaunting her wealth as if we didn't known she was rich," exclaims the recognisable voice of Ginny Weasley. 'Ginny!? Who is she talking about?' Quickly went through Rose's head while she continued to listen in on the conversation.
"Will you shut up Ginny! Dumbledore assured us that she will be dead when she goes through her inheritance," snapped the voice of Hermione which then changed into what Rose calls her 'lecture' voice when Ginny's whine of "why then and not now" sounds through the door. "Because Ginny Dumbledore has put on block on her core after second year and as you should known that when we go through an inheritance, our magic builds up stretching our core until our magic explodes out of us so that it doesn't kill us by overloading our bodies. Unlucky for her because with the block on her core all that magic will have nowhere go thus..." Hermoine was then interrupted by Ron by the sounds of it, "it will attack Rose from the inside and kill her, right!"
A loud smack followed by a pained yelp echoed through the door, which is then followed by the sound of Hermoine with a smirk on her face by the tone of her voice, "don't interrupt me but yes Ron your right and then once she's dead we get her money and he fame that comes with being the girl-who-lived's best friends. Just like Dumbledore promised." Thoughts of denial flew through Rose's head as she tried to comprehend what she had just over heard, stubbornly refusing to believe that Dumbledore and her friends that she considers family had planned her murder even though she had just heard otherwise.
-End of flashback-
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-Flashback: Prince manor 1997~going through her inheritance-
Pain! Hours of a scorching mixture of red hot and ice cold pain shot through her veins as her body arched itself of the carpeted floor of her bedroom. A strangled scream escaped her bloodied pale blue lips as resounding snaps echoed throughout the room. Dark red blood soon began to flow from her lips, ears, nose and the corners of her dulling green eyes as she lay completely still, her skin turning a light ashy grey as the slow wheezing of her chest finally came to a stop. 'They've succeeded,' was the last thought to pass through her head before she was surrounded by an all consuming darkness. A few hours later a loud gasp of someone taking a deep breath was heard in the quiet room breaking the silence. Coughing was then soon followed by a pained whimper as Rose slowly pushed herself off the hard floor to sit on her soft double bed; resting a hand on her forehead Rose slowly began to sort through her chaotic thoughts so as to try and lessen the painful pounding that thrummed through her head. Once sorted Rose takes a few deep breaths before standing up and walking to the floor length mirror to inspect herself. What she found was completely unexpected as her appearance had completely changed so much so that she didn't recognise herself at first.
Slowly she ran a hands over her arms in shocked awe, as her once lightly tanned skin was now an ivory pale white in colour. She then moved her hands to inspect her face mostly her nose that had narrowed and straightened into a 'duchess' nose (look at a young kate backinsale's nose), and her eyes which had narrowed, elongated slightly and gained an upward slant at the corner of her eyes closest to her temples creating what people call 'almond shaped eyes.' (Look at a young catherine zeta jones) The biggest differences though were her hair that had changed from a tousled mess of dark brown waves, to a now tamed thick mass of straight golden blonde hair, which curled slightly at the ends, that fell gently around her face and her eyes which were once a deep emerald green but now a startling rich crystal blue. Suddenly Rose's now blue eyes rolled back into her head before she fell onto the floor with a "epp!" The only thought that flew through her mind before she fainted was, 'what the hell happened to me!?''
-End of flashback-
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-Flashback: gringotts bank ~1997-
Rose, with Severus sat beside her, sat on a deep green cushioned and dark wooden chair in front of matching solid dark wooden desk in an office belonging to a goblin called Griphook. Soon an old looking goblin with shoulder length back curly hair and pale wrinkled skin walked into the room, and sat himself in the high backed wooden chair behind the desk. "So what can i do for you..." Griphook trailed off as he stared at the two with a raised bushy eyebrow, to which Rose quickly replied with, "I'm Rosemary Potter but call my rose and this is my father Severus Snape-Prince. It's a pleasure to meet you manger Griphook." A look of surprise flickered onto Griphook's face for a moment at being invited to call her by her first name, as normally wizards/witches wouldn't even bother to offer, before it disappeared into a blank expression when Griphook started to speak, "As i said what can do for you." An uncomfortable expression crossed Rose's face and tears started to gather a the corner of her eyes which caused Severus to pull her out of her chair and onto his lap, "Rose would like to have a blood and inheritance test done today if possible, and can we have a copy of all her bands statements." Severus told Griphook as he hugged a sniffling Rose to his chest and pressed her face into the crook of his neck.
With a snap of his clawed fingers sheets of blank parchment and a simple looking silver knife appeared on the desk in front of Griphook; smirking Griphook slid the parchment sheets and knife over the top of the desk towards the pair, while saying, "All she has to do is cut the palm of her hand with the knife over the parchments and let the blood drip onto it. Don't worry the knife has a healing charm placed on it which will heal the cut after an appropriate amount of blood has been spilt onto the parchments."
-End of chapter 1 part 2-