Gringotts - Part8 - Severus
Even Ragnok knew better than to let Phil and Sirius banter.
Severus Tobias Snape
Sire: Tobias Snape
Bearer: Eileen Snape, née Prince
“A well-kept fact,” Ragnok interrupted himself, “The Princes are descendant of an actual Prince who when the Statute of Secrecy was set up, one of the Prince of the Royal family was a Wizard and had to choose between his magic and his family, as he was far in the line of succession he chose magic, and when asked for his name when he registered he told them, Prince Edwin, and it staid.”
“So…” Sirius said looking at Severus gleefully. “Severus is a prince?”
“No more than any other muggle,” Severus rolled his eyes at him. “The Royal family is about as scattered around the world as the Black. I probably belong to the cadet family of a cadet family by now.”
“You would be in part, correct,” Ragnok said and Severus looked at him incredulously, while Sirius asked gleefully, “Which part?”
“While the origin of the Prince name is fascinating, and not spread around to prevent people, Dark Lords, Light Lords, Ministers, to think they would overthrow them and establish a monarchy in the island, it can still be found by genealogists, and any Prince family members,” Ragnok told them.
“So, that was not the secret,” Sirius said jumping up and down on his seat like a two-year-old.
“No,” Ragnok confirmed. “A different line inserted themselves into the Prince Family. A line originating from an actual prince who legends say fell in love with one of the family members, but others say he used them because he thought the name adequate.”
“What line?” Remus asked while Phil mumbled, “I have a bad feeling about this.”
“Prince Loki of Asgard,” Ragnok said and grinned at a gobsmacked Severus.
“That’s not fair!” Sirius complained and Remus smacked the back of his head on reflex.
“I think,” Severus started but nothing came after it.
“To get over it?” Tony asked after a minute. “I mean, yeah, it’s something to dig into, especially after what Harry implied earlier and what happened in New Mexico, but it’s not like you’re the only one around the table with family problems.”
“Sensible as always Stark,” Natasha sneered at him.
“Look whose talking, you and Agent confined me for over a week,” Tony sneered back.
“To save your life,” Natasha countered.
“So, I would be part of your boys' band,” Tony told her.
“‘ough,” Harry cried out. “No, fa’in.”
Which, at the very least, had the benefit of stopping everyone to pay attention to the cubs, who had recently been put back into their playpen.
“What?” Tony asked.
“No, fa’in,” Harry repeated, trying to glare at him.
“I think he is trying to say ‘No fighting’,” Phil offered, and Harry nodded.
“That’s a nice sentiment Munchkin, but we are all grown-ups, and sometimes grown-up disagree and fight,” Tony told him.
“Go’n up,” Harry said before laughing at him.
“I feel like I need to agree with him,” Phil said, Remus, and Ragnok nodding in agreement.
“Loki?” Severus asked getting all the attention back to himself.
“Of course,” Ragnok said looking back down on Severus’ parchment.
“You kind of look like him,” Remus told him. “Long black hair, tall, lean body. It is how he is drawn in books.”
“He also has green eyes,” Severus countered.
“Yes, but the Prince family is well known for their black eyes, just as the Malfoys and their blond hair, or the Potters’ messy hair who led them to create Sleek Ease,” Remus told him.
“Fine,” Severus snapped at him and looked expectantly at Ragnok.
Titles:
Prince of Asgard.
“Though, I am not well versed on Asgardian protocols,” Ragnok said. “From what I gathered from the trunk, Odin is still alive, Thor and Loki are Princes of Asgard if I was to hazard a guess your title is honorific, to signal you as part of the Royal House.”
“That’s fine by me,” Severus said.
Prince of Jotunheim
“I am guessing the same applies?” Severus asked.
“I really don’t know, Odin’s mother was a Jotun according to legends, but it is all we have to find answers,” Ragnok told him.
“Didn’t they do researches in the Future?” Clint asked.
“I was dead before they left Britain since I was never informed before, and I don’t have any reason to come and take this test, my mother having been cast away from the family for marrying a muggle, they probably were never told,” Severus told him. “Not that I would have confined in them from what Harry showed me anyway.”
“Well, both Thor and Loki were part of Harry’s group,” Phil said, “We probably will have the opportunity to ask.”
Lord Prince
“How come I gained this title?” Severus asked.
“While it is true your grandfather disowned your mother when she chose a muggle, he never held the circumstances of your birth against you,” Ragnok informed him. “The Prince title comes with 1 seat in the Wizengamot.”
“Why only 1 when everyone else had 2?” Natasha asked.
“As I explained, the family was kept away from the lords' circles to keep from being accused of treason if they ever wished to try and overthrow the governing body,” Ragnok started to explain. “Most lordships hold 2 seats through bonding when the last witch of a family was bonded to a lord, or a lady of another title, the seat fell to them. If they had more children or if they chose to, the lords could separate the tiles once more, but that could create divisions among the family members as not all titles are equal in powers or monetary value.”
“Now, you have to learn too,” Sirius joked childishly when the room became silent.
Magical Familiar:
Moke - Unknown
Dwarf Runespoor - Unknown
Snallygaster - Unknown
“I am not all that surprised,” Remus commented before explaining to the other, “a Runespoor is a three-headed snake, their eggs are used in Potions. They can grow up to 7”, but the dwarf kind is smaller in stature and won’t be bigger than a dog, and as a familiar, Severus will be able to speak to it, as we all can with ours, and Harry will too, as a Parselmouth. A Moke is a type of lizard, it can grow or reduce its size at will, which is why it is often used in marquetry. As a spy and a Slytherin, both are logically attuned to you.”
“Not every Slytherin has a snake as a Familiar,” Severus said rolling his eyes at him.
“True, but still.”
“At least, they are small,” Tony said.
“The Snallygaster isn’t, it’s a part Dragon part bird beast, you can fly on their back if you domesticate them, but they can grow to be as big as trucks,” Sirius told him.
Magical Core:
Mage - Level 1 - Blocked 50%, Leech - 10%, Leech - 10% (broken)
“Why did you have two leeches?” Phil asked. “And how did you break one?”
“That one is easy,” Sirius said pointing at Severus’ arm. “He used to have the Dark Mark, a truly awful tattoo-like mark, which is put on Death Eaters when they pledge themselves to the Dark Lord, Harry broke it, or well, Lady Magic when she gave him a new mark.”
“So, that Dark Lord siphons his followers’ magic through their mark?” Natasha asked.
“It would seem so,” Severus told her, but seemed disturbed by the thought, it was as if he hadn’t known. “What about the second one, oh wise man?” He asked Sirius.
“Dumbledore.”
“Why?” Severus asked looking confused.
“Because you are powerful and taking only 10% of your core wouldn’t be something you would notice, but it would give him a lot of power,” Clint pointed out. “Ragnok already told us the old man had several leeches aimed at him.”
Potions:
Amicae - toward Albus Dumbledore, Gryffindor, Order of the Phoenix, Slytherins, Lucius Malfoy, Narcissa Malfoy, née Black, Regulus Black, Death Eater, Voldemort.
Inamicae - toward Lily Potter (broken), James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Harry Potter, Gryffindors, Hufflepuffs.
“Wow, he completely corrupted your personality,” Tony pointed out.
“I know I’ve had to fight against it since Sirius came to find me,” Severus said. “I was going to brew purging potions last night after we read the twins entry in the journal, but I kept putting it off.”
“And it would have kept going,” Ragnok assured him. “There is a compulsion on you to only brew potion Dumbledore allows.”
Severus growled, when everyone looked at him he explained. “A few months ago, the Dark Lord asked me to brew a potion, it was extremely dangerous, and I went to Dumbledore hoping he would find something to keep me from doing it, like a new restriction on Boomslang or something equally as futile but effective,” Everyone nodded, even those who didn’t know what boomslang was. “Instead he told me to do it and he would find a counter later. When I went to see him I was anxious about the potion and what the Dark Lord would use it for, but going home I felt like it was important for me to make a perfect potion, I did it twice to be sure.”
“The compulsion will be dealt with easily, then you can work on a counter for that potion,” Remus assured him.
Severus nodded and stayed silent clearly still brooding, so Clint came around the table and slipped the little ones onto his lap to distract him.
Magical Contract:
Godfather Act to Draconis Lucius Malfoy - Lady Narcissa Black, Lord Lucius Malfoy, Lady Bellatrix Lestrange, Lord Severus Snape-Prince.
Mastery of Magical Art - Subjects - Potion, Defense against the Dark Art.
Secrecy vow - Order of Phoenix
Secrecy vow - Dark Lord Voldemort (Broken)
Life Debt Act - from James Charles Potter to Harrison James Potter-Black-Lupin
“Those are all self-explanatory,” Remus said, “though I didn’t know about the DADA Master, congratulation.”
“Thank you,” Severus told him shyly.
"I wonder what it would take for the vow to the Order to break,” Sirius wondered.
“It’s different,” Clint pointed out when everyone looked at him he explained. “The vow to the Dark Lord was made to one person, Severus turning on him, and pledging to Harry, plus Magic’s edict broke it. But the vow to the Order is to an organization, as long as you are agreeing with its goals, and its people, it doesn’t matter what you think of the leader, you still believe in protecting the Order.”
“The Curse Breaker will look into it, see if Dumbledore didn’t hide something behind it, which would allow us to break it,” Ragnok announced.
“What’s a Life Debt?” Tony asked.
“James saved my life when I would have died without him,” Severus explained, “It creates a magical debt to him, my magic has a compulsion to repay it, if I had a daughter I could offer to marry her to Harry to settle it, but James could have just as well asked me to kill someone for him.”
“That’s got to be illegal,” Phil commented.
“Technically it is, and isn’t at the same time,” Sirius explained. “You can ask someone who owes you a Life Debt to kill someone, but if they get caught they can and will be forced to tell the DMLE that it was the result of the debt and the person who sent you to accomplish the task will be sent to prison in your steed as they are responsible, you were only a tool. The magic involved is forcing you to do what was asked as payment, even if you don’t want to.”
“I can see this getting messy,” Phil commented.
“It can be,” Severus agreed.
“Url the Dwarf owed a Life Debt to his neighbor Tagg, he was asked to kill his own wife, as Tagg was in love with her but she kept refusing him. He was forced to do it by his own magic, but immediately called the DMLE, Tagg was arrested and sent to Azkaban, after the trial Url took his own life to join his loving wife in the afterlife, and Lady Magic avenged them, it is said that only pieces of Tagg were found in his cell after hours of screaming while the guards where warded off the cell,” Remus explained after casting a Silencing Charm over the cubs, still on Severus’ lap.
Silence fell over the table while everyone thought over the story.
“Why did it change to Harry?” Tony finally asked.
“When I went to Dumbledore to ask him to protect Lily,” Severus said and sent a quiet sorry toward Sirius and Remus for the selfish thought, kissing the top of Harry’s head. “When I went to him, he asked me to transfer it, as it is as part of their death befall me…” Severus said in a voice so small, Remus wasn’t sure he ever heard him sound so defeated, Harry and Luna cuddled closer to him for a while waiting for him to keep going. “as is, if James had died with the Debt still attached to him, I would be dead too.”
“Which means, the old man knew,” Clint told Natasha, leaving the wizards to their grieving as they regrouped around the children.
“Why?”
“If it could protect James Potter, or if he had put sufficient protections over the house, there would be no need for him to transfer the Debt,” Clint pointed out. “Either he knew, or he didn’t care either way, but James Potter was going to die. If he survived he could ask Severus for anything and he would have been told the Debt had been transferred, which I don’t think Dumbledore is actually allowed to ask for, not with the way they explained it.”
“I agree,” Tony said. “If I give you $10 and you have to give them back to me, but Natasha comes to you and say if you give them to Phil the deal is over, I’m going to get mad at you, at Natasha, and at Phil. Well, not really because I don’t care about $10 but you get what I mean. But I won’t be allowed to do anything against Natasha, she isn’t responsible for your actions, and she didn’t keep the money for herself.”
“On your finances,” Ragnok started but Severus stopped him.
“I do not need the details, I know my personal vault was close to empty since I had to yet to make money out of my potions’ skills, and the Masteries drained it severely,” Severus told him.
“But you have the money given to you by Harry,” Sirius reminded him.
“I was not part of his group, I was dead,” Severus told him as he would a child who didn’t understand what he was trying to explain.
“So was I,” Sirius told him with a shrug, making Severus turn expectantly toward Ragnok.
“Sirius is right,” Ragnok informed them, making Sirius grin, and Severus sigh.
“You will not give all of your money to other people,” Severus told Harry, who looked at him curiously but only grin before going back to playing with Luna.
“While technically and legally it is his money, it comes from the vault the Dark Lord had under his control, which fell onto Harry’s control,” Ragnok reminded them.
“Yeah, if it makes you feel better, you can see it has compensation for having to be a Death Eater for so long,” Remus told him, but it clearly wasn’t helping as Severus rolled his eyes at him.
“So, my accounts?” Severus asked Ragnok.
“1 million was added to your personal account as you entered the bank with Lord Potter,” Ragnok told him before adding, “it is not refundable.”
“Figures,” Severus said sighing once more.
“The Prince vaults are mostly comprised of artifacts, books, and trunks of precious potion ingredients,” Ragnok informed him, making Remus and Severus both turn all their attention on to him at the mention of books and ingredients. “In all, it is worth a little over 20 billions Galleons.”
As one they looked toward Tony, “94 billion dollars,” he announced and didn’t even pout, or act childishly.
Special abilities:
Legilimency/ Occlumency
"What is that?" Clint asked.
"Reading mind, and keeping others from reading mine," Severus told him making it clear he wouldn't explain deeper at the moment.
Patronus - Doe
Flying
"Without a broom," Severus said and smirked at Sirius' reaction.
Wandless Magic
Spellcrafting
Erudimens (partially blocked)