Chapter 6: Gringots

My father and I apparated to gringots and I have to say, apparition feels like shit.

You feel like you are being squeezed out of a tunnel.

After reaching the entrance of gringots I saw the infamous sign, but I didn't bother with it.

With my occlumy reaching the peak level of the wizarding world, I was able to memorize and remember everything, even stuff from my past life, and gringots was the same as the movie.

After walking in for a while and seeing all the goblins there I was slightly surprised.

All the goblins were extremely vigilant, they didn't want other people to steal their gold.

We walked all the way to the head goblin, and my father said, "We are here for the Markus families inheritance testing and the opening of a private vault. "

The head goblin then asked a goblin named Griphook to lead us into a private room, where two boxes were set there, seems like they were notified about it before hand.

Griphook opened the boxes, one box was empty and the they had a small ring, which was pure white in colour, with a dragons marking on it, the symbol of my family.

My father then took his ring of and placed it in the empty box. Light shinned on the boxes for a moment, and he quickly kept his ring back on.

"This just activated the heirloom test Shawn, every noble house has their own test, but ours is known to be extremely difficult, there are three levels, red, yellow and green, for the completion of the test. Except from our families founder nobody has gotten a green acceptance, and yellow is once in every 100 heirs, we haven't seen one since your great grandfather, and he was known to be as strong as Dumbledore. I myself got a red acceptance. I cannot tell you what the test is, but I know you will do just fine." After saying this my father said nothing else.

The thing which shocked me was that my great grandfather was as strong as Dumbledore, wow that's surprising, but what happened to him?

Griphook took the heir ring, and passed it to me, and without saying anything I just kept it on. Mana pulsated out of the ring and I was transported into a large white room, were what seemed like all my previous ancestors were, and they were all bowing.

I didn't get what was going on, and I couldn't speak even if I wanted too, but then an ancestor stepped up front and said," you shouldn't be able to speak young one but you should be able to hear us, I and all your other ancestors are extremely proud to have the one chosen by god himself in our family, there is no need for you to do these tests, as god has said you would pass them easily. We don't have much time, but all we have to say is we are proud young heir."

'Did god do me a favour?' I thought to myself.

Well, I honestly didn't care if they were proud, but the thing which is weird is the gods that I met in the throne room, the god which sent me a letter and the god which helped me with this test had different attitude The gods in the throne room felt that everything was beneath them and the other two felt like they were talking to any other normal person, this change of attitude is weird but it's not like I can do anything about it now.

And then I was back. My father seemed extremely shocked. Sweat was pouring down his face and it seems like he thought I failed immediately, until suddenly the ring started to shine bright green and shot up into the ceiling, and then past it into to the sky's. Dam, I ain't gonna pay for that.

I didn't really get what was going on but I didn't care about it as well. I really was not going to stick with this type of family in the future anyway, so what if his ancestors recognized him, he didn't do the same.

Griphook was smiling and my father seemed like he was about to faint. After all, there hasn't been a green acceptance since the first ancestor, and if a yellow acceptance was at the level of Dumbledore, the green might even be at the level of Merlin himself.

"Wow, Shawn that was amazing, to even pass my test it took me hours, but it took you no time, you will surely lead our family to a new age, but besides that, I think it is time we open your own vault. I know you might not like your mother for what she is doing, but in the end it is all for the good of our family. Your mother didn't agree about the vault, but I think it is about time for you, just don't tell your mother know about this, I will be waiting outside." After saying that my father left.

I just starred at Griphook as he was taking out the paper work, while growling.

After signing up for a vault, which was sponsored by my father, for opening the vault and the basic amount of gallons that needed to be kept inside, I asked Griphook, "Mr. Griphook, would you like to take part in a business adventure?"

The goblin, from growling immediately smiled, "Well, that depends Mr. Shawn, what type of buisness are we talking about."

I smiled a little, thinking about how I didn't even need to check Griphook's aura to know the greed oozing out of him. I pulled some potion recipes out of my expendable bag and placed it on the table as I explained, "These Mr. Griphook, are potion recipes which will revolutionize the wizarding world, in theory, they will be able to increase the strength, speed and vitality of anyone who takes these potions, there is even an age reduction potion which will allow the user to reduce their age by 10 years, but it is extremely costly to make, and has drawbacks."

I let that sink in for a bit, after all, this is going to bring huge changes and huge amounts of gallons if used right.

Griphook tried to reach for the recipes but I slapped his hand away, and said, "Mr. Griphook, swear a magical oath that you will help me in my business venture."

"I cannot do that, I do not have the authority." Griphook said.

"Well, either find someone who can, or I am sure some other shops or smaller banks would be happy to invest in my project. Also, I do not wish to talk to any supervisor, so either get permission or I will leave, you have 10 mins."

Outside the room, Joshua Markus was stunned to see a sweating goblin run over to the head Goblin table. The head goblins eyes widened in surprised from the few whispers from Griphook.

He then nodded and whispered something back, and Griphook ran back inside.

'What the hell is Shawn doing?' Thought James.