5 Getting the Binding Removed

June 1994

Gringotts Wizarding Bank

After few minutes of wait, three old Goblins much older than Sharptooth walked inside the room.

Harry and Sharptooth immediately stood up to welcome the new arrivals.

"I am Harry Potter," Harry introduced himself and waited for their response.

The three men smiled in response with their pointed teeth shining brightly. 

"As Runook described. You are really respectful even to us Mr. Potter," the Goblin in middle stated. "But our names are of no importance. What is important that we are Goblin healers and we need to study the magical binding on you so that we can remove it," he added further.

Harry nodded.

The lead healer snapped his finger and a large bed appeared in the middle of room pushing the two chairs towards the corner of the room.

"Lay down Mr. Potter and please remove your upper clothes," instructed the lead healer.

Harry did as he told and started to remove his clothes and laid bare chested on the bed. Looking over his lean and fragile body the four goblins did not took even a moment to conclude that the young Harry was abused and malnourished from early childhood, but none commented on it. It was a topic for later discussion.

The three Goblin surrounded Harry and started to draw weird symbols around his chest and it was not even few minutes when the three healers were red in anger.

"What happened?" Questioned Sharptooth seeing their anger.

"Whoever did this is extremely barbaric. Doing something like this to a child is disgusting. It seemed that he wanted Mr. Potter nothing more than to be mentally retarded Squib or possibly die because of magical exhaustion even while casting the basic of magic spells," informed the lead healer.

"And why is a blood ward anchored to you. Wards are not meant to be anchored by humans but by magical ley lines. And there is also a post deflection binding on your body," one of the Goblins bellowed further in anger.

Now it was clear to both Sharptooth and Harry, where he did his summons from the Gringotts went.

"It seem that all your post were first seen by Dumbledore himself and then he decided what you need to see," commented Sharptooth.

"Can you remove the binding?" Asked Harry anxiously.

"Yes. Thanks whatever God you pray to Mr. Potter. I can't even think how are you keeping your soul, magic and mind together despite the binding," replied the lead healer.

"For now don't remove the blood wards. I don't want the person to know about its removal. Someone will help me by informing of a way to fool these wards," added Harry.

"Also if the post deflection binding is removed will Dumbledore be notified?" Harry questioned further.

"No. He may doubt if he stops receiving your mails but he would not be notified immediately," informed the lead healer.

"Get these removed too," added Harry.

The lead Goblin nodded and did not enquired any further.

"Sharptooth, ready the ritual room. The binding is powerful one. We need to be accurate and precise during the binding removal," further added the lead healer.

Harry was then taken deep inside Gringotts on an exhilarating cart journey and the odd group of 4 Goblins and 1 human arrived inside a large room.

The room was quite big in size with very high ceilings and was completely empty. On the walls were marked different kind engravings depicting some kind of runes, but he did not have even the slightest of understanding of those. Afterall he had taken the easy way out in his third year and had chosen Divination and Care of Magical Creatures as his subject.

The lead healer arrived at the centre of the room and gestured Harry to stand on a particular square marking.

After again removing his upper clothes he stood on that marking and with a wave of hand from the lead healer numerous runes lit up on the floor forming some weird symbols and shapes.

"This room is a ritual room but sadly many of your old rituals have been classified as dark magic and banned by the ministry. Few decades back our ritual room was in great demand from you humans and we earned a lot of goal from it but sadly now it generally remains out of commission" explained Sharptooth.

The lead healer followed, "This room can do many things but for now what we need is a simple function of this room. These engravings which you see now will help you to keep your magic in control and smooth. With an abrupt removal of the binding will cause a large amount of magic to flow inside your body which can cause some damage both to you and to your surroundings, these runes will control those things."

"Shall we start," asked the lead healer.

Harry nodded in agreement and the three Goblin healer surrounded him forming a circle. With another swipe of hand, the goblins started their work on removing the binding.

Minutes started to trickle down and as soon as the time passed, Harry literally started to feel magic flowing in his body. He felt his body getting light, mind getting clear and soul getting free.

The process continued for 45 minutes and Harry with each passing second started to feel stronger. The few pains he had in his body thanks to Dudley started to heal.

He felt connected to the magic and was in love with this feeling.

"We are done here Mr. Potter. How do you feel?" Questioned the lead healer.

Harry laughed happily, "I feel so good. I feel powerful and free."

Sharptooth added, "The binding must have been putting a lot of strain of you. Thanks to God that you somehow got to know of this."

"Come let us go back and continue our conversation," Sharptooth added further.

The three Goblin healers with their work over went into a different direction and Harry along with Sharptooth arrived back into the same room they were sitting in the start.

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