Chapter VI Two years go fast

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AN: Time to stay in USA, differ over time, as this being written people from open country's can stay with VISA up to 90 days. I (Smargden) did seven visits to NYC, in the years 1966-1967, after the immigration officers had searched their books and my name was not to be denied, I had 29 days, hence that being used here.
And if You like to know where in Texas, Try a little north part of Amarillo Potter County Texas - (Evil smile in the face of the author).
And let us pray no harm come to my readers - or co-writer due to the weather now. :NA/

The period after the passing of both Tom aka Voldemort and Albus Dumbledore were, at times, hectic. The closing of Hogwarts had just become a foregone conclusion upon the death of the Headmaster. The ministry by way of the educational department had tried to walk in and take control of the building, however, they could not get past the gates. They had pouted and whined, all very officially of course, and tried to demand the rights to the school and whatever remained. Their only argument was that as the school had been closed, it was the ministry's right to claim whatever was left.

They soon found out how wrong they were. They were gracefully informed by a large team of legal barracudas, you know the ones that can make a bureaucrat pee their pants at twenty paces? Yeah them, they had the pleasure of informing the ministry that the building, the land and whatever may be in it or on it was property if Lord Gryffindor.

Gringotts released a statement to the ministry and the press that confirmed that a Lord Gryffindor existed but stated he had no interest in having his given name made public. They went on to say that Lord Slytherin also still had an heir, by conquest, and that was Harry Potter. Since no heirs of the Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff founders had been proven by a Gringotts inheritance claim, in the last two hundred years, their portion of Hogwarts is to be held in trust by the remaining heirs for another three hundred years.

If after a total of five hundred years no heir is found for either line then their lines are to be considered dead. At this point their portion of the ownership of Hogwarts School is to be distributed evenly to the remaining heirs of the founders. The legal barracudas went on to point out that since their is still legal heirs to the school they, the ministry, would not be able to take control of the school as the Schools magic would only recognize the heirs. Seeing the disappointed, frustrated and plain just pissed off looks on the faces of the ministry officials the head of the legal team just couldn't resist one last legal dig.

"I do feel I should also mention that the heirs of Gryffindor and Slytherin also have additional options. If sometime in the distant future they have no blood heirs to pass control of the school to they have the right to either choose an heir outside the bloodline to adopt in or to set up a governing board for the school separate from the ministry. This cannot be changed through any laws you may try to force through the Wizengamot as it was part of the founding treaty between the school and the ministry. In other words, more simple words….. mates ya pissed the heirs off and ya ain't ever gonna get the school." finished the barrister with a laugh. He was sure the looks on the ministry officials faces would have his employers crying with laughter.

The ministry threw such a fit that the original documents for the founding of Hogwarts was brought out to be viewed. It was found on review of said documents, in addition to proving what the legal team said was true, that the castle was not the considered the school. The school was actually just renting the building, the items inside the castle and the land it sat on for a very small fee. The contract further stated that anything the school added, greenhouses, huts or whatever, was to be considered property of the castle. It was with heavy hearts and much pouting that the ministry conceded that any attempts at seizing Hogwarts would fail.

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The ministry tried to recover some of the public approval it had lost during their attempts at seizing Hogwarts by giving Harry the Order of Merlin. The approval rating for the ministry leaders plummeted even more when Harry refused to accept it on the grounds that Albus Dumbledore had been given his due to a lie. When they still protested and said they needed time to call for a majority vote to remove the Order from Dumbledore he brought up the Order of Merlin that was given to Peter Pettigrew. Dumbledore had been given his when he lied and stated he had killed Grindelwald. Harry went on to say that Peter Pettigrew had been given his 'posthumously', based on the word of Albus Dumbledore, after he had betrayed the Potter family. The heroic efforts, Dumbledore claimed Pettigrew to have done was all a lie. He mentioned again that neither award had been revoked. Just the thinking of Alastor Moody and all he had done for the country during the war knowing he didn't receive a medal. Then in the same breath, to know that the rat had one, it makes a joke or farce of the whole award process and the previous recipients. Harry went on to add that, the author Gilderoy Lockhart, was a total fraud who had based his published works on lies and stolen memories. Harry then stated that it wasn't the Order of Merlin but instead it was THE ORDER OF LIES and he wanted no part of it. From that point on what no ministry official understood was why no one would accept the award for the Order of Merlin. At least they didn't for many years to come.

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As the war between Albus Dumbledore and Tom Riddle, aka Lord Voldemort, had ended what followed was considered a time of wonder and serenity. There was the occasional attempt by many pureblood and bureaucrat to fill the power vacuum that arose. Skirmishes over power occurred frequently at first. Draco Malfoy was one of those who, despite his young age, tried to recruit followers, but died heirless before he was scheduled to start his sixth year of schooling. The sad thing is he wasn't the only one to die, but he was the one that most knew of and remembered.

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Harry had created some new rules for his school in the United States before it officially started. One new rule was that all students, regardless of blood 'purity', had to take an inheritance test at Gringotts. That Gringotts now had an office at school made it infinitely easier for everyone. The test was a requirement for the school ID that allowed the students into the USA for longer than 29 days. The test could be taken either before school began, which was strongly recommended, or at the school once it began but as long as it was before the thirtieth day. If a student had not had the test done by the close of Gringotts on the 29'th day they and their belongings were immediately collected and sent back to Britain.

Once back on British soil they would be advised they would need to seek schooling elsewhere and would have the option to reapply for admission to the school but they would be on the bottom of a rather long wait list. All in al it was a good reason to take the test and get er' done.

WOW, did those tests produce some astounding news to shove in the pureblood bigots faces. It turns out that there was no such thing as a 'first generation magic user'. Muggleborns were found to be children that came from squib lines or those who had had their magic bound for some reason such as children that previously were denied or refused a Hogwarts invitation. A small group was found to have originated from a house that had cast out family members for marrying supposed muggleborns or non magicals. Typically what happened every few generations to squibs from pureblood families was they would be killed or left in the muggle world. This practice tended to cause a rise in 'muggleborns' attending Hogwarts as early as
ten to fifteen years later. The last group was more difficult to solve as the test said that some of them came from well named pureblood families but were not the biological children born to that family line, at least not the matriarchal line. It is thought, perhaps, that they were muggleborn children switched at birth for children thought to be squibs.
At this point a very discreet investigation took place. The most difficult to solve was where a mother was asked, under truth serum, if she had been having an affair or had a one night stand. When the answer given was no, she was then scanned for memory charms. After that scan was done most then stated yes to an affair or one night stand. But in one case the response was still NO. That mystery was proving much harder to solve and so they now went to question the 'father'.

After a thorough questioning of the 'father' it was revealed that the husband was not exactly faithful or clean when he had intercourse with his wife. In this instance the cheating spouse had intercourse with another woman. This woman or 'mistress' still had semen from another male inside her. When the cheating spouse had finished with the 'mistress' he had gone home to his wife covered in the semen of another man. At this point the spouse had sexual intercourse with his wife and his semen as well as the semen from the other male entered the wife's body. It was the husbands bad luck that his 'little swimmers' were not as strong as the other males. The 'mistress' was technically a prostitute who was not that big on hygiene so had not cleaned up after servicing another client prior to entertaining the spouse. This was the only case that provided any true difficulty in solving it.

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It was a short time later that the people from the consortium had completed handling the follow up tests which were done very discreetly. The testing wasn't completed in a week it actually took the rest of the year. This was one of the things Regnok had asked Harry to have done as well. Gringotts knew that from time to time blood quills, that families traditionally kept to use to sign contracts with, could develop some abnormalities. However prior to this they had no right or reason to interfere. This was their way to show the pureblood bigots - that they were not as pure as they thought or purported themselves to be. The children that had any abnormalities were told in private what the investigation of their heritage had found.

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One major difference between Old Hogwarts and the new school was that all students were informed that they had a mandatory appointment with the hospital wing when they first arrived. Once their appointment date and time arrived, and they made it to the hospital wing, they would be scanned for memory charms, blocks of all sorts and their physical health was thoroughly checked. It was quickly found that some students had memory charms, most charms were found having to do with accidental magic discharge as a child and were not harmful. Mostly the charms were benign and only needed removed if it was present when there was a combination of the charm with magic blocks. At that point there was a possibility of danger to the affected person if it stayed and also when trying to remove them. A lot of muggleborns found they had blocks that reduced their magical ability. The older muggleborns, that were not students, that went to Gringotts for the testing found the blocks had been present for their whole life. The staff were all thinking that the next hurdle to tackle would obviously be the bigotry against the non purebloods or half-blood's. Then once the memory charms and blocks had been dealt they began the physical check ups. All those that were not raised in the magical world needed to checked to make sure their vaccinations for immunity to common magical diseases were present and up to was the staffs plan of action for first three months at school.

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'Marauders Centers' was now the public name of Harry's school and it was located in the state of Texas in the USA. The school itself had become well known rather fast even if the location wasn't well known.

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Harry had promised his classmates that they could be with him for his last two years of education and just pay for the cost of food. It would be open to negotiation as to what would happen after those two years. Harry, when asked, would proclaim that he had a backup school with a solid foundation and his plan was to keep it running, but not as a charity. He informed them that the two years was basically free but after that their would most likely be a small tuition charge. It was also made common knowledge that if the ministry would like to be involved they had to pay for the right before even beginning to demand anything of the school or him.

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What follows next is a brief summary of a lot of pointless meetings Harry attended with moronic pureblood bigots regarding his property. It involved him turning up to listen to airheads with delusions of grandeur carry on and once his patience wore thin he would simply stand say "no" before saying "meeting adjourned" then walking out. This is a small collection of some of his meetings, demands made demands and his tempered even responses to all of it.

The negotiation was not just people representing various parties sitting in the same room and arguing, it was a little more refined. Instead of arguing in person or through a third party they would also send letters in which the owls sometimes criss crossed each other carrying responses. There were some occasions where they met at Gringotts in London as well but there was no way that Harry would invite them to his new school. They had two years to come to an agreement that was starting as of 1998.

Funding, to continue the school, needed to come from somewhere other than Harry because he wasn't going to foot the bill past the promised two years. So it was strongly suggested to all interested parties that someone had to find the needed gold somewhere. Harry's first suggestion was quickly nixed, he had simply asked the government to pay for all school years. The ministry delegation countered and demanded that Hogwarts be reopened and then stated that they were not prepared to hand over any gold to support the day to day running of the school.

Harry point blank refused to hand over Hogwarts to them and refused to reopen it until an agreement was reached. He also stated that he did not and would not support the bigotry that was the seeding the minds of the young for future segregation. He had proven that there was no halfblood or mudbloods as some called the lesser of the non pureblood group. It was also a word that more than one of the ministry delegation had used. When Harry stated the next time he heard the word from them he would be after blood, their blood.

With his next statement he also proved just who was the blood traitors were. He stated it was the purebloods and not satisfied with just saying that he then also explained why they were blood traitors. He showed proof that in just a few generations every pureblood couple left would have less than two children living to middle age. These individuals, while they would reach middle age, they would do so with a marked reduction in the power they could wield. With that last statement he let them know that they were the enemy within the magical population and of magic itself.

The last little mental bomb he threw at them was that during the last war the killings were bloodbaths committed by those that considered themselves pureblood. They were so proud of their pureblood that when they killed in the name of purity they hid their faces behind masks. Then he reminded them that while the majority of those that died were 'half bloods' or 'muggleborns' they also killed purebloods. They were purebloods that were killed by purebloods.

To keep the numbers up for the magical population you need to have at least two offspring per couple. However most purebloods only have one heir and very seldom do they have a spare. This reduces the numbers needed to populate or in this case repopulate to half. Another few generations from now and you might wonder where the magicals and the magic have gone.

They had gone from one magical person per one hundred non magicals two thousand years ago to one magical person per every one hundred thousand non magical now. That is equal to one magic user per 100,000 in England and the surrounding European areas. The scary news is that it's reducing each year.

By letting the so called pureblood magicals deny the non pureblood magicals their equal rights they made them appear to be sub citizens. With these actions by the 'purebloods' the muggleborn then tend to divide themselves to reach 1 of three possible outcomes almost without thought.

For some, they will return to the non magical or muggle society. Once there they find that they have a substandard muggle education which leads them to only being able to obtain low level jobs. They will silently curse themselves for neglecting the possibility of their needing to lead a non magical life. They will realize they have lost seven years of school in the non magical world and some may take the low end jobs while attempting to take night courses to catch up in hopes of getting a better job.

Another decision some may come to is that they will stay in the magical world and tough it out. But they will do so knowing they have no rights or even the possibility for equal rights when trying to obtain a job.

The last group will say screw this and they will flee the country. They hope that if they can start over elsewhere that it may be better for them than in Britain or that they could obtain a better job in the non magical word with their lack of non magical education abroad.

This is where Harry kept to his morals and his earlier decision. He had the choice of either stopping everything and closing his school for all students from Britain or he could stay and begin rebuilding the magical society from the bottom up. He decided he would work to make it a working part of a blended world, where the magicals were able to live among the non magicals without being seen. They would be able to hide in plain sight for the most part. Then when that was done he could leave Europe.

As he had done before he started anything, he sat and started to create a rough plan. He knew that all magicals needed to be educated and that education must be provided somehow. If the ministry was going to dictate how the education of the young magicals would be handled they could and would do it without his help and without Hogwarts. In no manner, shape or form would his beloved Hogwarts be used to promote bigotry, hate, or propaganda.

After a few rounds of threats, and some judiciously used blackmail, it ended with the ministry conceding on some points. They would, along with a little payment from the taxpayers, fund the school. The funds would be managed by Gringotts with no interference by the ministry allowed. Harry conceded on a point to keep good faith with the ministry. He promised to shorten the length of time needed for students to be prepared to take the OWLs from five years to four. With the concessions from both Harry and the Ministry documented and signed they came to an agreement.

The end result, after his first year, was a lot of thank you's for the results that were achieved. The students were talking at home, actually they were bragging, about how they all could show way better results than anyone who had previously gone to Hogwarts had been able to. When the OWL results were published they showed two versions, the old British standards and the international standards. The NEWT results were published in the same manner. There had been a small amount of cheating, which depending on how you look at it, really isn't cheating, to overcome the lack of education from Hogwarts, some students had been offered a memory transfer in a few subjects and it was understood to be an exception as time was short.

The end results were very close to how he had been visualizing things from the start. What really hit home with the students was that the ministry had been given no requirement beyond the student's OWL results. They, the ministry, were not obligated to pay anything beyond that point. The students then realized that to be able to obtain positions in different jobs like auror or healer they needed to have NEWTs. The muggleborn realized that going from OWLs to NEWTs was similar to graduating high school and going to college. Classes like Potions were needed in several fields and warders and curse breakers needed a higher education in runes and arithmancy. That benefited Harry perfectly because as the students came to this realization they would then have no issues signing up for a later payment program that counted in work hours. They could see that an hour of work for a wealthy pureblood was the same for poor halfblood.

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In the end Harry had accepted to rethink his stupidity, as the ministry called it, and return to Hogwarts. He had given his promise that all students would come to Hogwarts after the two years had ended. With the fact that he had completed his requisite seven years of schooling he knew the new school would set up with his own rules.

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To the eyes of the public, Hogwarts was active but without having any courses, thanks to the elves. Harry had done an inheritance test in one of the compressed trainings and it showed that he could claim the title Lord Gryffindor, Lord Slytherin, Lord Black and the main family name of Lord Potter. As a result of Dobby telling him the elves were crying as they lost their magic he bound the Hogwarts elves early. Actually instead following his early plans of closing it down for good he created a new plan for the future of Hogwarts and Britain and prepared for later years.

Education that went beyond OWLs would be located in the new Hogwarts. Magical Britain had no college where you could earn a master's degree so this was what the new Hogwarts would be used for. While the school in Texas was too good to close and would be used for schooling up to OWL level.

Harry planned to use the same rules, used in the newly opened school in Texas, for his new and improved Hogwarts. However redesigning the houses would be a project for the future. He envisioned Ravenclaw for academic knowledge, Hufflepuff for gardening and healing, Gryffindor for auror academy and future explorers and lastly Slytherin, for potions and political careers. It was in the original charter covenant that Hogwarts was to keep the four houses running as long as it was used as a school.

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In the end Harry had done a lot to get revenge on some of the worst bigots. It was found that four families were the main names behind all the suppliers of equipment for student attending Hogwarts. The suppliers of caldrons, telescopes, parchment and quills, cloth for clothing and trunk suppliers were the worst of the bigots. They had ways to charge separate prices for what they sold to different people without anyone the wiser.

When you shopped their merchandise one would notice that none of the objects had a visible price tag. When the store clerk rang up your purchase you would discover there was different ways to pay. One way was with gold at the counter. By paying this way you paid full price. The next type of payment that could be used was to pay with your Gringotts key. Unknown by all but the keenest of observers was paying this way reduced the purchase cost by a fifth. This was all done without it being seen by either observers or the clerk and it was equal to a twenty percent discount. A third method of payment gave the purchaser another twenty percent price discount which totaled forty percent. The way this occurred was by making the payment with your family ring. The ring would initiate a transfer from your vaults to theirs the same as the key however it showed that you were a fullblood or pureblood. The last discount given was friends of the owners discount or it could also be called the family alliance discount. The group of friends that hold the ownership of the stores only pay twenty percent for the same merchandise the that muggleborn or half bloods had paid full price for. It was this type of bigotry that made the economy of the stores balance and make gold.

Well, to say it politely, they did NOT like the new routine for Harry's school. Now the students had no need to buy any supplies, other than possibly day to day clothes. Then you needed to add in the fact that the muggleborn and most of half blood would shop in the muggle world for their clothing needs as it was usually far cheaper than in the Alley. All other supplies were included and with help of the elves it came from all around the world. This was done without putting hard earned gold into some golddiggers hand, a gold digger that was charging up to five times more for substandard supplies, for what they called mudbloods.

As the stores in the Ally began to bring less and less gold in shoppers soon saw a reduction in prices. Everything was on sale sometimes even the business itself, a person couldn't pass a store without seeing signs suggesting up to fifty percent or more off and that suited Harry perfectly. He would match the competing merchants sale and put what he had on sale but he did not sell to others only to those inside his world wide consortium. The results were that the prices went down and that was good for his business. Soon he had successfully driven the bigots out of business without his name being seen or mentioned.

Harry with the help of Gringotts invested a lot, both in time and money. The Alley and remote areas were purchased, the existing buildings were demolished and rebuilt as new a residential area to be available for future rentals. Sun and wind power plants were created using rune powered magic. What was not seen was the electric power boosters that were in use and the magic recycling plants that produced gas for cooking and heating. Soon it was a fully functional and running community built for future. In the future it would be considered the normal standard for those with magical ability. The areas that were rebuilt also included business centers, redesigned workplaces and shopping areas encompassing everything that a community would need.

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The Hogwarts castle and land itself was a private property. As he was avoiding broadcasting that he was Lord Gryffindor he instead told everyone that he rented it from Lord Gryffindor. He stated when asked that none of the other founders other than Godric himself or his heir had any claim on the castle. For this reason Harry could and did assert that it was a privately owned property and it would not open for visitors other than those invited.

As Harry had gotten the ministry to enter into an agreement that allowed him to run the school he quickly reworked the whole concept. The first thing he reformed was the method of travel to London. He did this by temporarily leasing some greyhound buses. The buses they leased were more modern and when the interior was reworked, both the seating and the engine, it was far more advanced than the nightbus. The change in the way they went to school was done for all children. This allowed the children to make it to the platform on time and prevented the more stubborn adults, who wouldn't adapt, from breaking the statute. The children were able to blend in more easily with the non magical world thereby offering a layer of normalcy and security. Two dozen of the newest and most modern type of Greyhound buses were leased, of course they was leased from the consortium, to be used in Britain.

All school children would enter the bus in their local city before being transported to the platform at Kings cross. The gateway to the platform 9 ¾ was closed. Unlike when Harry went to Hogwarts for the first time, no child in the future would risk the magical worlds safety by asking a non magical how to get onto that platform. When the barrier was closed additional wards were also added preventing apparating or portkey arrivals to the platform for security reasons. This was yet another kick in the balls to the purebloods.

Once at Hogsmeade first year students would still be directed to the boats on the lake. That first trip from the train to the castle, being transported by boat over the lake to Hogwarts castle, was traditional and magical he wouldn't change that. The entrance at the new school the boat trip was also for the second and third years, as they would see the castle that way.

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After Harry's meeting with Snape's ghost he had an almost overwhelming urge to go to Madrid. Yes, he had traveled the majority of the globe to establish new places for his schools but the urge to go to Madrid was strong and time was fanning the flames of that urge. The longer he put it off the stronger it became. Currently he planning to take care of some business details at Gringotts. Those details included a meeting with his business partner to go over plans for the school complex and a few last minutes updates. It was due to this meeting that he's on the steps leading to gringotts alone, for once, as his bodyguard was occupied at the ministry. Oh while he used the term 'bodyguard' it was more of a loose classification as relationship had become something closer to friends. Not quite a 'snogging' partner per say however they had spoken, at length, about a possible future together. Both of them had left that conversation positive that a more intimate future was a possibility for them.
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"I have a need to visit your offices in Madrid. I'm told there is a Gringotts branch there too. Is that correct?" Harry asked Regnok.

"Well, that is both right and wrong. You see human businesses all around the world have branches of those business in multiple countries. However, if you think about it, who really is 'the head' of those branches? Is it the manager at that location or the CEO in the home country? Is the name even the same all over?"

"In the human corporate world it can get really confusing as to who is ultimately in charge. I think I would lean toward no it isn't the branch manager but the CEO in the home country. As for the company name again I would say no it probably changes due to language barriers or other reasons." said Harry.

"Well the same goes for us. Yes there is another goblin run banking system set up in Europe. We have a total of two actually. We have the Gringotts here in Britain that encompasses the magical north half of Europe. If you are magical and live within the northern half you conduct business here. The other branch of Gringotts handles the southern portion of Europe. This will include most countries around the Mediterranean Sea and that include Spain as you asked about Madrid. My cousin is the manager of that branch and it is called Gormic Bank since, Gringotts the word, can take on different meaning due to language barriers."

"I suppose our school in Malta would fall under the 'umbrella' of the Gormic branch then?" Asked Harry

"Yes it will as well as your New Zealand location are within the branches that coverage zone for the Pacific area."

"Oh, I didn't know that. Now I kind of feel silly for just assuming that Gringotts did it all. Since you didn't say anything different I assumed 'Gringotts' covered the entire area." Said Harry in a soft little voice.

"Gibraltar is governed by England and a lot of the business there are concerns for us. We need to monitor them or be in close proximity to them for various reasons. It is for this reason that we also have a 'Gringotts' branch office located on that odd cliff. The branch is quite small but but it is large enough to hold our entrances to the portal system for our gates. Also just for reference, should you need it in the future, the main office for the Iberian Peninsula is not Madrid its Cordoba. It's a lovely little town, yes. NO - it's, well it WAS, back then, a millenia ago, one of top three cities in the whole world. Actually looking back on things its a bit funny. My cousin had selected it while the two of us were arguing. We were fighting over which of us was to manage which branch.

"My cousin Rebikan, being a right proper little swot, said that I spoke English and he didn't. So that's why he manages that great branch and I have this branch, well it was rather big different back then, but now min branch are the bigger to his annoyance. We still fight to this day but we do put effort into trying to not kill each other."

Harry did not miss the grin at the face of his friend, "And I can see it pleases you"

"It really do, I do remind him, as often I can, and thanks to the British now have Gibraltar I can do business from there in both Portugal and Spain. And I can take you there however, to make things easier once there, can you tell me what you need to do there?"

Harry spoke with Reg and went over the business he needed to complete at Gringotts 'sister' branch bank. Once he finished speaking he received a school trunk that was about a quarter of the size of the one Hagrid had instructed him to buy during his first visit to Diagon Alley. He snuck peek inside it and all he saw was letters.

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Later when Harry had sorted it all he found it fell into two categories, pre Hogwarts and Hogwarts days. The first part was all her diaries. They had been penned on regular paper with a normal pen at first however later he saw she had began to mix normal paper, parchment, pen and quill.

She wrote mostly that she was more or less an orphan of sorts. Her grandmother was an unlucky girl who caught the attention of a royal and became pregnant by him. Of course this was information that could not be allowed to be made public as it could reflect badly on him. He was not king at the time her grandmother became pregnant however he was in line for the throne and did become king later.

With no marriage in his great grandmother's near future the child was born a bastard child. His great grandmother was said to be an unlucky girl who bore and unlucky child while serving Spanish royalty. The child was of the line Alfons but not recognized due to being born out of wedlock.

Later her last name was changed to Evans for security reasons. His grandfather had also served the queen but no one would say what department he was a part of. After reading that in his mothers journal he thought think James Bond or Mission Impossible and that was his grandfather he supposed. He, in a brief moment of childish whimsey wondered if his grandfather had ever said 'If I told you where I worked I would have to kill you', or if he just used a generic cover story. The journal did go on to say that this was another reason for the change of names.

The journal, as he read, would also cover other less harsh topics like her day to day routines and what homework she was doing. In fact a lot of it was like this until he stumbled upon another startling fact. He read about a young girl, that become her sister and got the name Petunia who became an orphan because her family was believed to have been targeted by the IRA. Lily did write that it was possible that the deaths were due to a backlash from an IRA attempt that went wrong but she was unsure.

She also wrote that never did 'see' the real reason in her visions so could only provide supposition or her impression of what happened based on the feeling she received during the vision. Later as the time passed so to did the way she recorded things in her journals. By her fourth year at Hogwarts it was completely in code. He was becoming frustrated with the journal until he saw that she had left instructions on a way to break the code or lock. / Place a drop of blood. If I deem you worthy to read further the text shall become clear. Should you be found unworthy beware for you will be given only a small amount of time to return the journal./ After reading what was written, Harry made small cut on his thumb and smeared the blood where it indicated to do so. He watched and waited with bated breath until the text started to become clear and he could read further.

In one entry Harry read that his mother had started to wonder how she was going to pass this information to her son. She had wrote that this gift of family history could be idle for some time. She knew there was a possibility that she would not be able to pass the information on herself so was racking her brain to find a way to do so. During her research on how to secure this information for future family members she unknowingly put voice to her questions. It was during one of her research and mumble sessions late at night that a house elf overheard her. She wrote that the house elf was ever so polite when she popped in to give a possible solution to the issue. It was due to this house elf that the giftbox ended up outside Gringotts. Lily wrote she was ecstatic when the house elf told her about Gringotts. She no longer had to worry about demands from the British government as there was no way to 'find out' about the journals. She felt that it was truly safe. The Spanish branch of the goblin banking system was like a separate entity. They were able to establish that the giftbox was of the Alfons line and no British national was ever to be able to make demands for it.

He read that her true joy was that her visions had shown her that Snape would give him memories and through those memories he would know her. She had been afraid that all she would be for him were words on a piece of paper or parchment. With the memories it would be like live memories and would show her life both before and during Hogwarts. As a bonus he had gained a lot of information about potions as she had 'seen' that Snape was going to be a master of the art.

His heart had warmed as he read what she had written of family activities. The hardest part to read was where she had 'seen' that it would be 'the rat' that was the traitor. She wrote that in her visions if she exposed him then everything went right to hell. She wrote of the various scenarios she had 'seen'. That it had passed the point where that BSC, SIS more known now as MI6, and the SOE, (Special Operations Executive) could be of help. She wrote that she knew that her father was involved there and they had started taking down all 'migs'. Migs was the codename they gave the magicals and in her writing made it clear that it would only end in disaster should they become involved. It was here his heart broke for what seemed the millionth time as he read that the only way to save as many lives as possible was to do nothing to stop her death. She could do what she needed to do to save him but her life was to be forfeit. Harry actually had to stop reading for a while as his eyes began to fill. If asked he would have been sure to say it was allergies or the dust from the old papers causing the reaction.

After a lot of looking for clues to the identity of his great grandfather of the Alfons line he felt he knew who it was. He thought he could put it together and more or less guess how it must have been. Don Juan Carlos Teresa Silverio Alfonso de Borbón y Battenberg he was the third son and designated heir of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg and per the date of birth for him and information he found he was dead now.

But now he knew why the name Alfonso was listed on his family tree on his mother's side. He had seen the name of course, but before now he had no clue why it was there or how he was related. Well now he knew more about his family history and felt he knew his mother as more than a name and a face.

EOC

AN: Spanish royalty involving is of course pure fiction for the story. But the named person is (was) a real person died 1993.

And Cordoba was one of the world's top three cities of the time Roman empire.
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