Chapter 7 - Gringotts
[MC POV]
The next morning I woke up early as usual and started my daily routine. I trained my magic, ate, trained my body, washed myself and started to read something. But while I focused on the book Taya came into the room and reminded me that it was time to go to Gringotts. So I dressed up, said goodbye to Taya and Sabra as I told them to wait here and apparated to Diagon Alley.
And before you say something, I know you are probably wondering, Mikael you said you just want to have fun in this world, why work? Well, let me explain. I want to enjoy and live a long life and to do that I need both money and power. I want to have enough money, influence and power in the wizarding world as well as the muggle world to not worry about anything in my life and be able to do anything I want.
[Third POV]
(Diagon Alley, near Gringotts)
Out of a backstreet you could see a young man walking out into the direction of Gringotts. He had white hair with black ends, purple eyes and a face so beautiful that even women couldn't compare to him. His body was well defined because you could clearly see muscles under his cloth. Added to his heavenly looks he was wearing a beautiful suit and even without any knowledge of clothes one could tell how expansive and elegante it was tailored. Added to all this were his movements. Everyone could tell just by looking at him how noble he was and every noble who saw him would think that he had the appearance of the perfect role model of a pure blood. His whole appearance of a noble combined with his elegance and his looks and suit radiated through the street and showed an aura of superiority and arrogance which no one could refute. Everywhere he went you could see people stopping or turning around to take a look at him, most of them in a daze for a few seconds, as if enchanted by him.
While most were still watching him in a daze, the young man reached Gringotts and entered the bank. Engraved on the silver doors of Gringotts one could read the words and warning for everyone entering.
'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.'
While passing the door into the vast and majestic hall of Gringotts, with goblins guarding it, you could see countless counters with goblins working behind them.
While everyone followed his/her everyday life you could see the young man walking in and like before on the streets everyone was again stunned by his appearance and noble aura. Even the goblins looked up, as the surroundings quieted down, and were stunned by his magic power, which goblins could see even if it was concealed, as well as the natural energy he radiated, as if he was one with nature and magic itself. While everyone was in a daze once again, the young man made his way to a free counter.
[MC POV]
As I entered Gringotts I was once again the focus of everyone just like on my way here. Not that it mattered to me, as long as they don't stand in my way, because it was the same in my previous life and I was never really interested in what others thought or how they viewed me.
After walking through the large hall for a while I finally found a free counter and made my way towards it. Behind the counter sat a goblin with glasses and in a neat and elegant suit and looked me up from top to bottom.
"Good day young wizard, what is your business with Gringotts?" the goblin said in a polite tone, which stunned me for a moment because I knew that Goblins usually aren't that polite. On the other hand I guess they do love money and doing business and after seeing my appearance his business instincts must have formly cried at him to treat me politely.
"Good day, I am here to gain access to my family inheritance and to speak about business. If it is not too much I would like to talk about more details in private." I said in Gobbledegook with a polite tone which obviously stunned the goblin for a moment because nearly no wizard is nowadays able to speak the goblin language.
"No problem, please wait for a moment." The goblin said after he recovered from his shock and called another goblin, with a most likely higher rank in Gringotts than him. After the other goblin arrived they talked to each other in private for a moment until they both started to walk towards me.
"Good day Sir, please follow me." the goblin, who was called, said in a polite tone and after that we walked out of the large hall towards a private room.
"My name is Arkrat, so what can I do for you Mister…?" asked the goblin after closing the door of the room.
"Good to meet you, Arkrat. My name is Mikael Lestrange and as I mentioned before, I am here to inherit my family's titles and its riches." I said while showing the goblin my hand on which two rings started to appear.
One is black and silver with a crest on it, showing a Raven. That is the heir ring to the Lestrange family. The other is a large and golden ring with another crest on it and under the crest stand the words 'Toujours Pur', which is the heir ring to the Black family. And before you ask I got both the rings from Taya who told me that my mother gave them to her as I am the heir to both families and should something happen to her I could continue the families and their traditions.
After hearing my name and seeing both the family rings the goblin was shocked and deep in thought. When he was called and told the situation he was prepared to do some business but he obviously did not expect that the young wizard he was dealing with would be the heir to not one but two pureblood families. The other thing was, as far as he knew both families had no living or not imprisoned family members and Mikael Lestrange was declared dead as well, because after both Lestranges were imprisoned in Azkaban the young boy was nowhere to be found for more than seven years.
"Please forgive me for not recognising the heir to the ancient family of Lestrange and the noble and most ancient house of Black." the goblin said after coming out of his shock while bowing his head.
"It's alright, please raise your head. So I assume we can talk about business now?" I asked, not wanting to waste my time with pleasantries.
"Of course, please sit down." the goblin said while he gestured towards two sofas.
After that we sat opposite each other, while I waited for the goblin to start and speak, well I guess habits die hard right, because that was my usual business attitude in my old life.
"So what can Gringotts do for you, Mister Lestrange?" asked the goblin after some time noticing I wouldnt start the conversation.
"First of all I want to inherit both families and their vaults, I guess there are no problems with that right?" I asked
"Of course not, as you have both families heir rings and there is no other person with a better claim you can inherit both the family titles as well as their vaults. We just need to sign the documents to make it official"
"Good, I will sign everything before I leave. But before that I first want to talk about the management of both families. I am not really interested in the exact number of money the families own, as I know they both have more than enough. Which brings me to my point, I want both the families managed by a goblin who only contacts me if something major should happen to the family assets. So as I don't know any goblins and if it is not too much of a problem to you, could you be the personal manager of both the Lestrange and Black families? Of course you would get some money out of it" I asked, because honestly I don't want to waste my time in managing both families, I mean I will do my best to increase both the influence and the money of both families but I would rather research and train my magic.
"Of course Mister Lestrange, it would be my honour." said the goblin trying to hide the excitement in his voice but non the less you could see the sparkle in his eyes.
"Good then to the next point and what I expect from you. I want you to make major investments with the capital of both families in the magical world as well as in the muggle world." I said.
And after that we talked about the investments I want him to make. For the magical world, I first told him to buy as many shares of the Daily Prophet as possible and then that he should invest a lot of money in magical stores or companies as well as property in the magical world around the globe. After that I told him that he should do the same in the muggle world and told him to especially invest in muggle companies like 'microsoft' or 'apple'. After everything I wanted to talk about was said I signed all documents needed to officially claim my titles and vaults, thereby becoming the head of both House Lestrange and House Black.
"Then I hope we have a good cooperation and I also hope that Gringotts won't mention my name or that I inherited both titles to the wizarding world. Of course out of my generosity I would make a kind donation to Gringotts." I said with a small grin, obviously knowing that if I wouldn't do this every wizard with a bit more money could buy my information.
"Of course Mister Lestrange, Gringotts accepts your donation. Nobody should find any information about you in the near future" The goblin said, unable to hide the wide grin he had on his face.
"Then Arkrat, may all your enemies fall dead before you and may your riches never stop to grow" I said, again in Gobbledegook, out of courtesy and in hope that our cooperation would be beneficial to both of us.
"May your enemy's death bring prosperity and may your wealth never start to decrease as well Mister Lestrange" said Arkrat smiling at my words.
After our conversation I parted with Arkrat and left Gringotts by foot because I wanted to take a look around Diagon Alley, afterall it was my first time coming here as well as my first time in direct contact with the wizarding world since I left my home seven years ago. So while I walked through Diagon Alley with a bit of curiosity about the new and strange world before my eyes, I suddenly felt it.
A pull on my magic, a pull on my whole being. It was as if my magic guided me in a specific direction while all my instincts screamed at me to follow it or I would regret it for the rest of my life. And so without even thinking about it I followed my instincts and walked through the streets under the guidance of my magic. After some turns I walked into a backstreet, which was extremely dark and dirty, and no normal eight year old child would even consider to set foot into it. But I just walked into it without even a care in my life because I knew at the end of this street I would find something which would greatly influence my future.
And there I saw her for the first time. A young girl whose age was impossible to guess because she was so dirty and thin. She wore rags which nearly covered her but despite them you could still see countless wounds on her body. And while I looked at her and tried to analyse her she started to look up as well and we made eye contact. As we both looked into our eyes we felt it both. Our magic responded to each others and we both felt a connection as if fate brought us together. We both didn't know what our future would look like or what our relationship would be like but we knew that we would walk down the same path, together.
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Hey guys, the author here.
Before anything else, let me tell you that I myself have no clue about this chapter. I expected much more of this whole Gringotts Ark but I had a lot of problems writing the dialog in Gringotts. But as I said this is my first time writing and I still struggle especially with dialogs. So yeah, hope you don't comment too negatively on the quality of this chapter and of course I hope or will try to raise the quality for the next chapter again.
But back to some story related topics. At the moment I am still considering which house our main character should join. I read a lot about Slytherin and Hufflepuff in the comments so either one of them I guess? (Some Ravenclaws as well but I honestly don't know what to think about that?). As of now I think it would be best to put the main character into Slytherin (but again it could still change, it's not final).
Another topic would be, if the story should have a single romance interest or a Harem? I would be fine with writing both of them so I would like you guys to decide. And before you ask, no I don't know which character(s) is/are the final love interest(s), I will decide on that in later chapters so as of now every female character I introduce could be a possible love interest I guess.
And yeah the last thing I wanted to say is that my story obviously misses a lot of details or isn't the same as the 'Harry Potter' you know. I obviously have some logic problems like how did the main character get both heir rings but honestly it's my fan fiction and I want the story to progress and not be stuck on some details. So I hope you can overlook that as well (*smile*).
With that said, thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed it and see you next time.
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