Chapter 6
1st of June 1989
They had decided that they would place the golem somewhere, where it would take some time to be found. Silverclaw was busy getting the golem for Harry Potter ready. Harry had already donated his blood and magic to it. The only thing missing was time. It would take five hours for it to be ready. The placing had to be perfectly timed for it to succeed. Nobody could see them placing it so it wouldn’t blow on their faces now or later. The place had to be somewhere where people went so it would be eventually found.
The Dursleys’ had already been dealt with. They were memory charmed by the goblins so wizards couldn’t break them and those goblins who knew, knew not to say anything since they were the ones to do that.
They were playing for the long run with their current plan but they couldn’t get the boy in power yet. He was way too young to be King yet and he had to learn first.
They had to wait for the golem to be ready and switch the blood wards to him. Then free the real Potter of those and get him fully healed. They would remove the horcrux at the same time. They would have to make every wound and magical block to the golem so Dumbledore would take some hit because of it.
The others were getting everything ready for Sirius’ release that everything would be ready to go when the golem was placed and the Dursleys’ made to inform Dumbledore.
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The golem was ready and Harry again laid on the bed in the healing ward ready to do another ritual. The golem was on the bed next to Harry. They were transferring the wards from Harry to the golem. After it they would finally take care of the horcrux in the scar.
“I can remove the scar after the ritual if you want”, Galena said.
“I think it would be the best since I need to make changes to my body anyways and the scar would be too obvious a mark of Harry Potter”, Harry said.
“Alright. Are you ready?”Galena asked. “This will be more painful and will take longer since we need to be extra careful with the horcrux that it can’t possess any of us.”
Harry nodded and they moved to a ritual chamber for this. The goblins doing this ritual took their places and started the ritual.
The transferring of the wards was an easy and quick process. It took only a minute and it went smoothly.
They took a deep breath and started another ritual.
Harry felt a painful pressure on this scar. He tried to stay as still as possible to not make it take any longer than it normally would. Then he felt a loving power surrounding the scar to start to push the malevolent soul out of him. He realised it had to be the sacrifice of his mother and started to feed all of his love for his mother and father to it, making its presence bigger.
“What you are doing right now, don’t stop if you can”, Harry heard Galena’s voice from somewhere far away. “It's making it harder for the horcrux to hang on to you.”
Harry pushed and pushed. Finally he felt a snap and the pressure lessened noticeably. Harry was so tired of the struggle that he passed out.
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When he woke up the next time, it was darker in the ward. Andromeda and Davis sat beside his bed chatting. They noticed that he was awake.
“How are you?” Andromeda asked with worry in evidence in her voice.
Harry was surprised that she was even worried. They had only met each other yesterday or today depending what day it was now.
“I have a small headache but otherwise I’m good. I feel a lot lighter.”
“Galena told us that you need to take this when you wake up. I think it might be for the headache. Galena is brilliant like that”, Davis said.
Harry took the potion and the headache eased at once. Galena was really brilliant, Harry thought.
“Here is also food and more potions you need to take.”
Harry sat up and the tray was placed in front of him on the bed. He started to eat and ate a little bit before he took the potions and ate as much as he could after the potions.
There were nine potions for him. There were two types of malnutrition potions, diluted Skele-gro for his bones, three different potions for his internal organs, one for hormones, one for nausea to help him eat and one helping his veins become stronger. Most of those were diluted so his body had time to get used to the changes.
“Your scar is gone”, Andromeda noticed.
“They removed it after the horcrux was removed”, Harry answered.
He was done eating and they continued to get to know each other but there was a sound of footsteps coming nearer to them. They looked who was coming. It was Narcissa.
“We need you Harry to come with us so we can do a masking ritual to make him fully Black. After that we can give Silverclaw the go on with the golem”, she said.
They stood up and were leaving when Harry said: “I need to first move everything I can from the Potter vaults. After that I need to renounce the Potter Lordship so it will go dormant when the golem dies.”
The women nodded at the information.
They left and went to the office where everyone else was waiting for them.
“We need to wait a bit before we can do the masking”, Davis announced. “I think Griphook should be here for this since he is the Potter manager.”
The Blacks and Ted looked confused but the goblins realised what this was about. They had almost forgotten which would have been a severe mistake on their part.
Silverclaw went to get Griphook while Davis and Ragnok told the other Blacks what was going on.
When Silverclaw came to the room, Griphook in town, the others didn’t even notice since they were listening to what Davis was telling them.
Griphook bowed and went straight to Harry. They were looking for what they could move and what they couldn’t. Harry asked him about the family heirlooms.
“Here is the list. You can look through it and decide what you want to take. Those are marked “secured” which nobody knows about. You should at least take all of them and make them yours. I advise you to still keep them separate. That way you can also learn your Potter inheritance and if you have more than one child you can name someone Potter and give them to them”, Griphook said while handing the said list.
Heirlooms of the Potters
- Grimoire (deemed lost and that way secured)
- Invisibility cloak
- Wand of Ignotus Peverell (secured)
- Other wands in the vault (some secured with magic and you will be able to feel them with your magic)
- Portraits (some are secured and you will know which ones by your magic)
- Jewellery (some are secure and you will know which ones by magic)
- All weapons on the vaults (secure)
Harry looked at the list and was surprised by the amount of secure ones. Maybe Potters were more mysterious than everyone thought.
“What about the properties and estates?”
“Here is a list of those. It’s the same as with heirlooms. Secure ones are marked.”
Properties and estates of the Potters
- Potter manor
- Cottage in Godric’s Hollow
- Estate in uphills of Scotland (secure)
- Cottage in High Scotland
- Villa in Southern France (secure)
- Manor in India (secure)
- Villa in Cuba (secure)
- Villa in Mexico (secure)
- Cottage in Ireland (secure)
- Cottage in Northern Finland (secure)
- Estate in East China (secure)
Harry was surprised. Potters were richer than everyone had thought since all those estates and properties were secure. Nobody had any idea how mysterious Potters really were.
“I need to go to the vault to see which are secure and which aren’t since I am the only one who can do it”, Harry said to Griphook. Griphook nodded, took his pouch and stood up. Harry stood with him.
“We need to go to the Potter vault so Lord Potter can identify the heirlooms” Griphook said to everyone.
Harry suddenly stopped and looked at everyone. “What happens when the last of the line dies and there is no will?”
Everyone was startled. They had almost forgotten that Harry and Griphook were in the room.
“If there are no blood relatives, the vaults are seized and half of the money goes to the Ministry and the other half goes to Gringotts”, Ironclaw said slowly, wondering what this was about.
“What happens to investments, shares, estates, property, furniture and everything else that is on the vaults?” Harry questioned.
“Everything will be sold and half of the money goes to the Ministry and half to the Gringotts”, Ironblade said, still confused.
“Nobody will know what is in the vault? Only the money will transfer? How do you sell everything?”
“We sell everything through Gringotts and nobody knows where they come from. Nobody has access to the vault except the goblins who are in charge of the selling and cleaning. And yes, only money will transfer”, Ragnok said, having a little bit of hunch where this was going.
“Well then I don’t need to go to the vault. I can just transfer everything except all of the money.”
“What do people think, how much the Potters have money?” Harry asked, after being silent for a while.
“About a million galleons in total is the approximate estimate taking into account all the Heirlooms and such. On top of that also properties that are known”, Narcissa said perplexed.
“Alright. So I leave around a million galleons to be shared between the Ministry and Gringotts and move everything else except those properties and heirlooms that are known”, Harry said, turning back to Griphook.
“How can I move everything to the Reynes name?” Harry asked.
“The easiest way is for you to first say your name and then state the things you move from the Potters to the Reynes. Lastly say “So mote it be!””, Griphook said.
Harry nodded.
Everyone was looking and listening since they had the permission. Since they were going to be the boy’s guardians, teachers and later advisors, Harry had allowed them to be aware of his things. That showed how much the boy trusted them. What they didn’t know was that he knew that they couldn’t ever betray him since the bloodbinding.
“I, Harry James Potter, Lord Potter will move the following things from the Potters to the Reynes family. All of the things from the Potter vaults except a million and three hundred thousand galleons. All of the properties except Potter Manor, cottage in Godric’s Hollow and cottage in high Scotland. All of the family heirlooms except the invisibility cloak and those jewelleries selected by James and Lily Potter in their will. So mote it be!”
Everyone was baffled. How much money did the Potters have if a million and three hundred thousand galleons was around a million. And what was that about the invisibility cloak that he didn’t take it too. And did the Potters have more properties than those since some were excluded.
This was the weirdest moment for the Blacks. And this wasn’t even all.
“Why not the cloak?” asked Andromeda who knew about it.
“Life told me that Dumbledore has it at the moment so I couldn’t take it without alerting him” Harry said, making everyone but Davis and Andromeda frown. “Death also said that he can change the cloak and make it a copy. He can make it so that the cloak that Dumbledore will have starts decaying when the golem dies and Dumbledore will think that since the last Potter is dead, the heirloom lost its magic, making it useless.”
“Life and Death told you?” Ragnok said, looking at Harry.
“Yes.”
Harry let Andromeda tell the others about his powers while he just sat there wondering how fast his life had changed.
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Harry looked all the parchments through to see he hadn’t forgotten anything and everything was in order.
Since everything was fine he decided to go with the renouncing.
“I, Harry James Potter, Lord Potter will let go of the Lordship to the Potter house. Let it be found again on one of my children. So mote it be!”
There was a bright light and the ring raised in the air with the light. It looked for the next lord but since there wasn’t anyone eligible currently alive, it was surrounded by flames.
Everyone watched the flames in silence.
That was one thing out of their list.