Gringotts - Part3h - Harry
“What just happened?” Tony asked rubbing a hand over his arc reactor, though everyone was rubbing their hands over a spot on their body. “It felt good, weird, but good.”
“We were chosen by Lady Magic to guide and protect Harry,” Severus told him, his voice sounding awed, and all reserve he seemed to hold since he arrived at the tower was now gone, as he looked convinced of his place at their side.
“Sirius, as his father, and us as secondary decision makers,” Remus told them, “Congratulation, it’s a nephew.”
“I feel like I need to hold him,” Natasha told them.
“I do too, and I never held a human baby before,” Ragnok told them, though he looked happy with the fact.
“Did someone see if Luna glowed too?” Clint asked.
“No, I didn’t look, but I would think so,” Remus said looking toward Ragnok.
“Let me check,” He said and read ahead of Harry’s parchment, “Here it is.”
Guardianship:
Lady Magic - Overseer
Sirius Orion Black - Father - Primary Caregiver.
Remus John Lupin - Father - Secondary Caregiver.
Tertiary Caregiver - to be considered without prejudice, and without priority - in alphabetic order -
Clinton Francis Barton - Phillip Julius Coulson - Ragnok, Goblin King of the Gringott’s clan - Natasha Alianova Romanova - Severus Tobias Snape - Anthony Edward Stark
More can and will be added, or removed, with the approval of Harrison James Potter-Black-Lupin and Lady Magic.
“That’s cool,” Clint said. “Dumbledore won’t see that, right?”
Ragnok glared at him, “I was already protective of the little Lord, and now he is a member of my family, he will be well protected, all documents will be filed in the trunk, which can only be accessed by Harry, those of his blood, me and those of my blood, no one will ever see those unless all of us agree to show them,” Ragnok said. “This includes, your tests.”
“Sorry, I feel…” Clint said an again rubbed at his shoulder.
“Really protective,” Phil finished, rubbing too but on his side, just where his holster usually sat, but he had taken it down when they had tea earlier.
Remus observed the others and decided to check something, he grabbed Severus’ left arm as it was where he kept rubbing and pulled the sleeve of the sweater he wore up staring at his mark.
“It’s gone,” Remus said, as he traced a finger over Severus’ flesh, instead of the ugly Dark Mark stood a brilliant Verde snake coiled around a bubbling cauldron.
“I felt it, when it changed, it freed something inside,” Severus told them.
Remus looked around them but everyone seemed to have it somewhere they would need to take their clothes off to see, so he volunteered, taking his jacket off, unbuttoning his shirt, under everyone curious stare.
“Up between my shoulder blades,” Remus said as he turned to Sirius, taking off his undershirt.
“A wolf curled around a green lily and a bright moon,” Sirius told him, “it’s beautiful.”
“I have a feeling we all have one,” Tony said rubbing at the same spot again, and again.
“I want to know about mine,” Clint said and took off his leather jacket and his t-shirt, as his was on his left shoulder.
“A black and white detailed Hawk holding an intricate wooden bow and arrows in its claws, the eyes, and the arrowheads are emeralds,” Severus told him, as he still caressed his own mark with one finger.
“Yes!” Clint said and put his clothes back on.
Remus looked around the room.
“I know it’s not a sentence many are used to hear from me, but I am not taking my clothes off,” Tony told them.
“I won’t be either,” Natasha told them.
“Not it,” Phil said when Sirius looked at him expectantly.
Remus patted Sirius’ shoulder and his friend looked at him confused.
“What about you?”
“I didn’t feel anything other than my love for the pups,” Sirius told him.
“Hum… We’ll see about that,” Remus told him and turned to the others.
“A healer, a comforter, an observer, I wonder what the others will be,” Remus wondered, “Little cub, don’t mark people without asking first,” Remus told Harry.
“‘Kay, bu’ no do,” Harry said confused.
“He is right, it was part of Lady Magic’s judgment, she judged us and assigned roles to Harry’s life,” Ragnok explained, “I saw this once when I was still a young goblin. Severus is the healer because as a Potion Master he knows what to give them or not, may it be potions, or spells. Remus is, for lack of a better word, their mother, their caregiver, the one who will cuddle with them, and see to their everyday life. Clint is the observer, the planner, I read the SHIELD files before you came in, you favor your bow and arrow and you never miss because you see all the factors, the wind, the movement of the target, you make split decisions, you see the whole situation, not the details, it will be useful.”
Gringott contract of Friendship
Gringott contract of Employment - Warder
“The friendship contract won’t be explained, it is under secrecy, just know no harm will ever come to Harry on Goblins land, or we will go to war over it,” Ragnok told them with a bloodthirsty grin, that scared even Natasha.
“Employment I guess is from the past, but why keep it active, he is only 15 months old, he may change his mind,” Tony asked.
“Gringott’s employment contracts are for life. We put much energy, knowledge, and Galleons into the training of our human employees, only illegal actions, by our laws or yours, or fault resulting in the endangerment of another employee, a civilian, an artifact, or Galleons can terminate a contract without penalty. Those penalties are high enough for us to make sure to keep our Humans employee enrolled,” Ragnok explained. “As is, paying Young Harry and others their fees for the next decades as they grow and train, is less expensive for us than terminating their contracts without just cause. Being untrained is our responsibilities, not theirs, it is up to us to make sure they want to become what we are paying them for. Though you should know, only 3% of our employees are humans, we only sign contracts with the best ones, they need to show extraordinary proficiency in what they do. William Weasley is one such human, he only started Hogwarts, but we will be sure to keep an eye on him, according to his files he has a ward sight, and a high magical sensitivity, those are magical abilities not found in Goblins, but they make effective Curse Breaker. Harry was training to be a Warder, as William Weasley, it was due to his abilities.”
“Now I wonder how much it would cost you to fire them…” Tony wondered, but so were the others.
“Over a lifetime of wage, working for a Goblin Clan, or any creature clans, isn’t seen as respectable in most parts of the world, we protect our chosen employees,” Ragnok told him.
“Are you going to pay Bill too?” Sirius asked sounding worried.
“We are, but he left instructions on what to do with the money until he graduates from Hogwarts,” Ragnok assured him. “One of these instructions states his mother isn’t allowed to ever know about it. Contingency plans were implemented in case you managed to change the future enough for her to not affect his vault, which you just did.”
“Oh, Merlin,” Remus exclaimed. “We just freed Arthur from that harpy he calls his wife.”
“She sounds like a nice Lady,” Tony snorted.
“Let’s say that when she is in a mood, which happens about 10 times a day, you could hear her from the roof of the tower while she was down on the street,” Severus told him.
“Arthur went from funny big brother, although we only saw him in the summer, and awesome Quidditch player to dull and subdued when they were in 6th year. His parents and James’ were neighbors, and we would spend much time there with his youngest brother, he was always treating us like family. But he married Molly, and we stopped hearing from him until we signed up for the Order of the Phoenix, by then they had five children and Molly was pregnant with Ron,” Sirius explained. “Ugh! I just realized Ron and Ginevra are Dumbledore’s kids…” Sirius said turning green.
“What?!” Everyone asked.
“It’s in Lady Magic’s decision, Albus and Molly have to marry before their daughter Ginevra is one year old, and later it says Arthur can choose not to take custody over her and Ronald Dumbledore, meaning Ron isn’t his either,” Sirius said pointing out the lines on the parchment.
“Ugh!” Severus repeated, shuddering at the thought, as Remus was.
“What’s the big deal? I mean yeah, it’s a despicable thing to do, cheat on your husband, but…” Tony asked.
“Dumbledore is a hundred years old, or close to it, all wrinkled and just UGH!” Remus cried out.
“I can see how that would be disturbing,” Phil said. “Should we try to talk to this Arthur person? If I followed, we just destroyed his life, and he is the father of many of Harry’s supporter in the future, supporters Strange told us to leave alone as they were happy, but who told us to do just what we just did.”
“From what I found the five eldest sons left the house, or the country, as soon as they were legally allowed to,” Ragnok informed them. “As the only member of a big family around this table, the clan can be happy even if one or several members are disruptive, from what I read on the future, they stood by Harry together, they were probably happy to share a life with their siblings more than anything, and that will still be happening.”
Luna babbled loudly looking at them, everyone turned to Ragnok to know what she said. “She said everything will be fine if we help. And something about green cuddles.”
“Not one to bad mouth babies, but your children are weird,” Tony said, making everyone laugh.
Special Magical abilities:
Soulmate - Blocked 100%
Parselmouth
Mage Sight - Blocked 100%
Mage Core - Blocked 100%
Metamorphmagus - Natural Block 90% - Binded
Animagus - Unknown
Wandless magic
Animens
Erudimens
“Parselmouth I knew, Lily freaked out when she found him speaking with a snake in the garden while she was gardening,” Sirius told them, “We thought it came from one of his ancestor’s line, but Mages are always gifted with the ability to talk to at least one animal, it’s their connection to the druids and the nature,” he explained. “Metamorphmagus is a Black gift, Nymphadora is one, the natural block, Andromeda explained to me, is so the gifted children can’t empty their core accidentally by changing too often. Dora used to tell me she was allowed to change as many times, or ar many aspects as she had birthdays until she gets her letter. It is logical to think it unblocks 10% a year, between 1 and 11. We should make sure the curse breaker leave this one in place.”
“They will,” Ragnok told him. “You are right, many abilities which can drain cores in that way, are naturally blocked as the core matures, if the Unspeakable experimented on it they didn’t see fit to share their researches.”
“He has a soulmate?” Remus asked.
“One or several, platonic or romantic, the term refers to people whose magic or energy resonate with ours since magic is attached to our soul they are called soulmates. We can’t know what type it will be until he met them, only that his core bears the mark. It would be easy to assume at least one of his companion in the future happened to be his soulmate, it would explain the control we talked about earlier,” Ragnok explained.
“Mage Sight, I understand, he can see and feel magic, we will need to teach him to turn it off, or by the time he goes to school his headaches will be blinding him with pain,” Severus said. “But what is Mage Core?”
“Mage’s core can never be depleted, while yours, ours, need time and rest to replenish, his will feed on the magic he can find around him when you cast a spell on or around him. For example, when you release the spell the power doesn’t dissipate it stays in the air unused, Harry can feed his core on it,” Ragnok explained.
“Meaning potions and spells will have a limited effect on him as the power in them will go right into his core,” Severus sighed. “Treating his injuries will be harder, but it explains why the Amorentia never worked, the magic was absorbed by his body while the ingredients simply accumulated in his blood.”
“He never tried to become an animagus?” Sirius asked concerned by something.
“There was a war while he was at school and a new one beginning 6 months later, he probably never had time to train,” Remus told him with a side hug.
“Animens and Erudimens?” Phil asked.
“If I remember my Latin correctly, that would be Empath and Savant, though it’s a rough translation because I don’t remember ever hearing those words before,” Tony said.
“You are right though, I saw those on Lord Potter’s tests and had to research it myself,” Ragnok told them. “Animens, translate to ‘understanding of the soul’, that would be an empath, though on his future test, the power was corrupted by all the potions and spells on him. Erudimens, translate to ‘understanding of knowledge’, Harry will absorb Knowledge of every kind, Merlin was the same, that too was corrupted by spells to make him fail school.”
“So, explain emotions, and not let him devour books that aren’t his level, or he will become worse than Tony, and get bored before he even goes to school? Got it!” Clint told them.
“Languages,” Tony said. “That’s something you can’t really learn properly at school, and there is enough of it around to keep him busy for years.”
“Sounds good to me,” Sirius nodded at them.