13 Gringrotts! (Part-2)

{28th June 1993}

{Gringotts Wizarding Bank, Diagon alley, London}

{1:09 PM}

"Of course Heir Selwyn..." He pulled out several parchments and forms for his table and after looking at everything before saying, "I could arrange for you to have a meeting later today while all your assets will be audited manually, or if you are in a hurry there is another way but you would need to sign some forms because it uses blood magic." He growled.

'Blood magic, except for the blood quills blood magic is banned in Britain...'

"I need this done now," I said, not agreeing to blood magic on the surface just in case this could lead to trouble later.

"Of course..." He pulled a small bowl from his desk and placed it on the table in front of me.

'Runes, but this isn't a common language, looks like Celtic to me...'

He put a dagger in front of me, full of unknown runes, "Use the dagger to cut your index finger and drop 7 drops of blood..." I did as instructed and placed my finger above the bowl, I counted 7 drops of blood and when I was about to remove my finger away from the bowl I felt it tingle a little before it healed itself.

'Hmm, interesting...' I stared at the runes and memorized everything.

Bloodfang took back the bowl placed his finger on one of the runes on the bowl, all the runes glowed as the blood swirled exactly 7 times before settling down before he pushed a parchment out which had runes inlaid in it and slowly dropped the blood onto the parchment. I stared as the blood was absorbed by the parchment and then words started filling the parchment which Bloodfang slid towards me.

{ Name - Blaise Zabini Selwyn }

{ Father -Aries Charlus Selwyn }

{ Mother - Aria Isabella Zabini }

{ Family alive - Aria Isabella Zabini}

{Heir to The Most Ancient and Most Noble House of Selwyn (From Father, by blood-adoption)}

{House assets and estates-}

{Main family vault-}

{Liquid assets- 1,987,234 galleons 13 Sickles 6 Knuts.}

{Heirlooms- Multiple ancestral wands, trunks filled with in unaudited magical artifacts, Priceless jewels, and jewelry approx 56,163 galleons}

{Trust vault for Blaise Zabini Selwyn - 10,000 galleons (refills to 10,000 galleons every year)}

{Estates and shares of House Selwyn-}

{Selwyn manor}

{Selwyn cottage in Switzerland}

{A villa in France}

{3% shares in Zonko.}

{1% shares in Eeylops Owl Emporium.}

{5% shares in Madam Primpernelle's Beautifying Potions.}

{3% Daily prophet}

...}

There was a whole lot more as the parchment kept going on but instead of reading more of the shares and products that I inherited from Selwyn, I looked towards the Goblin for guidance.

"Everything in the main family vault is inaccessible to you until you get at least 3 NEWT's, all the shares and properties follow the same rule. Your trust vault gets refilled every year on your birthday, it has never been used after your visit last summer so the full amount is available to you. There is also another trust vault in your name from the Zabini family which also refills every year on Sept 1." He paused a form in front of me along with a blood quill.

"Sign here and I can get the procedures from your trust vault started. Your trust vaults can not be monitored according to your family charters as it has since ancient times seen as the capital every heir gets to increase his influence before he takes up his Lordship, or if he does..."

{Gringrotts}

{The undersigned hereby accepts the Gringotts vault storage policy dated, 1567...

...}

{_______}

'Don't tell me I have to read the whole storage policy?'

"What's with the storage policy?" I asked the goblin.

"The Latest Edition of the policy revised on 1567 because of the Wizengamot's policy forbids every vault owner to store any item other than money in their vaults except in their family vaults."

"What about muggle-borns-" at his impatient look I asked, "When do muggleborns qualify for a family vault?" I asked.

"After 3 generations of no squibs born through their progeny..." The goblin answered.

'So the purebloods have been forcing the muggleborns to have all their precious objects and artifacts stored in their homes that do not have as strong wards as their family homes... but why it's not like they can openly raid houses back in the day? was there some dark lord active in the 1500's?'

"Just sign there so I can get the process started..." The goblin seemed inpatient so I quickly signed my name on the designated place.

"Now I'm assuming you want to drain both your trust vault's into this new vault?" at my nod the goblin slid another paper in front of me.

{Gingotts}

{Permission to drain all contents from vault no _____ to vault no ____ on every Sept 2 till the former vault's closing.}

{_______}

Seeing that both the vault numbers were already filled I asked just to confirm, "Is 12856 my new vault?" The goblin nodded so I quickly signed my name again, feeling the light sting of the blood quill.

The goblin took the too papers, cut his finger, and dropped his blood on both the parchments before pushing the parchments into his cabinet.

"Your new key will be here in 5 minutes, is there anything else you need me for?" The goblin asked.

"Yes, I need a place to stay, are there any properties available for sale within my price range?" I asked and the goblin raised an eyebrow. He quickly pulled out another folder from his cabinet and started talking while browsing through it, "The goblins have seized many properties throughout the years, from manors to small houses, you won't be able to buy a manor with your meager wealth but a small house should be doable. Would you prioritize security or location, in Britain or anywhere else in Europe?"

'I should focus on security and in Europe, I can't really do the Fidelius charm right now, and I don't even know if you need another person or even a third person for the spell to work, it was always unclear to me in the books why would James and Lily in the original book allow someone other than the two of them to be the primary secret keeper.'

"I would emphasize on security and inside Britain's borders!' I said to the goblin who nodded and started leafing through his booklet.

'This should work, I need to vanish for some weeks from the scrutiny of everyone else and get myself familiar with the world, and plan for the future.'

"This one should do," The goblin placed a document in front of me describing my future hideout.

'A house in Barnton? Where even is this?'