LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 3: Diagon Alley
Andrew looked at the different stores and looked at Dumbledore, then he started rolling his act of not knowing anything," headmaster, I don't have any money with me. How can I buy supplies ", Dumbledore said," there is no need to worry Mr Peverall. Your family left a legacy for descendants. Gringotts is maintaining the vaults and after taking the inheritance test you'll definitely be able to claim your inheritance ".
Andrew nodded and followed Dumbledore while they entered the gringotts. The bank is strange. Bent pillars and a silver door that says :
Enter, stranger, but take heed
Of what awaits the sin of greed
For those who take, but do not earn,
Must pay most dearly in their turn.
So if you seek beneath our floors
A treasure that was never yours,
Thief, you have been warned, beware
Of finding more than treasure there.
Andrew rolled his eyes. He is thinking it's better to replace these greedy goblins from the economical chain. Who knows if they will really rob the vaults or secretly stole the inheritance of houses. He didn't want that. As Andrew and Dumbledore stepped foot into the gringotts, some goblins didn't like it.
Andrew looked at them while Dumbledore goes to the head counter and said," we're for the inheritance test. Mr Andrew here is stated as peverall by the book of admission. I may have brought the potential heir to house Peverall ".
The goblin looked at Dumbledore with grumble and then gazed at Andrew with it's piercing eyes then said," follow me ", as they entered a room with many runes and arrays. The goblin took a dagger and placed a bowl with some kind of glowing blue liquid in it.
As the goblin tried to held Andrew's hand he is bewildered. The goblin completely ignored and pricked his finger squeezing few drops of blood. Andrew really wanted to complain, can't this goblin just say a warning.
Andrew saw the liquid changing and a symbol appeared. The deathly hallows, the goblin expression soured even more and he placed the bowl in an array of magic runes. They glowed and parchement magically write sentences on itself.
[ Andrew Magnus Peverall
Age : 11 years 1 month
Date of birth : 1st July, 1981
Heirships :
• Heir to the most ancient and noble house of Peverall
• Heir to the most ancient and noble house of Slytherin
• Heir to the most ancient and noble house of Gaunt
Additional bloodlines : veela ]
The goblin expression turned grim again. It handed the parchment to Dumbledore with an unhappy look. Dumbledore glanced at the page and asked," can't you locate his parentage?", the goblin shook his head and said," gringotts only says if they have the blood of that house and whether qualification of heir is on that person or not ".
Dumbledore sighed and said," that's a pity ", Andrew acted he is also disappointed a little. The goblin exited the room and brought back 2 rings then said," the heir rings of Peverall and Slytherin are here, but the heru ring to gaunt is missing. The vaults and keys are transferred to the new heir of the three houses. Do you want to proceed to see the belongings and recent transactions?".
Andrew nodded while the goblin handed him the parchements. It says the properties and shops that are under the three houses. Diagon Alley isn't new, it's there since medieval times. So it's not surprising that peverall house and gaunt house shops under that.
The two rings suddenly merged and gave a single golden ring with the engraving of deathly hallows and snake. Andrew put it on and checked the properties and transactions. Pretty much nothing except galleons piling up from the rents of that shops.
Contract are expired and Andrew has no chance to get them to work as they're almost a century ago, some are even 3 centuries ago. So he can only give up. The good thing is the part of broom companies. It's more than one, cleansweep brooms, comet brooms and even nimbus racing broom manufacturing is also there. He is confused how did a recent company shares are in the acquisition of peverall house.
Turns out the peverall house has a fund giving branch for business. The goblins although greedy remained loyal though few galleons are lost, the hood part is the shares in the name of peverall house. The income that should be there is reduced by half by these companies mainly because of bribing those goblins.
Andrew smirked as he thought about something. He called the account manager of peverall house and with Dumbledore he inquired about this. The goblin tripnok sweated a bit. Andrew told him he will wait few days to see the money returned or not he will complain to the ministry about the robbing. Since the establishment find is given from Peverall house, they took a 20% share of the company as a mandatory goal. So it's a good income but it's rescued by half. The profits promised are only given half throughout the last few years. It seems these companies used the loophole that no is checking and didn't send the money.