The Dark Lord's Pet Princess

74. Helga Hufflepuff's Cup

After a week of solid planning, the group felt ready to break into Gringotts. Well, as ready as they could feel, when they knew they were attempting an impossible mission.
After Hermione took the Polyjuice Potion and transformed into Bellatrix, Larissa couldn't stop herself from glaring at her.
"Sorry. It's just hard to see you, since I really hate my cousin at the moment, and she hates me too" apologised Larissa.
"It's alright. I expect everyone is going to be looking at me with hatred when we get to diagonally" sighed Hermione.
"Let's just get this over with" admitted Harry.

Griphook climbed onto Harry's back and Hermione threw the invisibility cloak over them both.
Ron had been transfigured so that he looked different, and he was pretending to be Larissa and Bellatrix's bodyguard, since he wouldn't fit under the cloak.
Once they were all ready, they held hands and apparated to diagon alley.
They tried to go through the street without talking to anyone, and most people gave them a wide berth.
But unfortunately they bumped into a fellow death eater, who immediately made his way up to them.

"Madame Lestrange, how wonderful to see you. You too Larissa" said the death eater.
"Good day Travers" replied Larissa curtly.
She was used to the death eaters calling her by her first name, in fact she used to insist on it, as she hated being called Miss Black.
"I must say that I'm suprised to see you both out" admitted Travers.
"And why's that?" Questioned Larissa, even though she knew the answer.
"I had heard that the inhabitants of Malfoy manor were confined to the house, after the escape of Potter" replied Travers.

"You should have known that the lockdown did not refer to me, as we all know I am above everyone except our dark lord. Bella was allowed out today, since I am accompanying her" informed Larissa.
"Of course. Forgive me for assuming that you were included in the confinement" apologised Travers.
"You are forgiven" replied Larissa.
"So, where are you two off to today?"
"Gringotts"
"Ah, gold, filthy gold. But where would we be without it?".

To Larissa and the gang's annoyance, Travers did not leave them and followed them all the way inside Gringotts.
Once they were there, Larissa egged Hermione forward, since it was the Lestrange vault they were after.
"I wish to enter my vault" announced Hermione.
"You have identification?" Asked the nervous goblin at the front desk.
"I have never needed identification before" replied Hermione.
"Neither have I. Besides, it's not as if you don't know who we are" snapped Larissa.
"I'm afraid it's the bank's policy. Your wand will do Madame Lestrange" said the goblin.

Larissa suddenly realised that the goblins knew Harry had taken Bellatrix's wand. And if they revealed that they had the wand, they would be exposing themselves.
Before things had a change to get worse, Larissa quickly whipped out her wand and placed the Imperius Curse on the goblin at the desk, and Travers who was still stood beside them.
This fixed the situation and got the group out of the main hall and towards the cart that would take them down to the vault.

"See, I told you that you'd need me" admitted Larissa, once they were alone.
Harry threw off the cloak and set Griphook down on the ground.
"Yeah, that was quick thinking" praised Harry.
"You're welcome" smiled Larissa.
"There's no room for Travers on the cart though" Griphook pointed out.
Larissa flicked her wand at Travers, and he began to make his way down a dark path.
"What did you make him do?" Asked Ron.
"Just hide. Now, can we get this over and done with?" Questioned Larissa.
"After you" said Harry, pointing to the cart.

After several minutes of riding the cart through the underground, it suddenly stopped and ejected them after they went under a waterfall.
Luckily Hermione's quick thinking saved them all from being killed at the bottom.
Unfortunately the waterfall had washed away all the enchantments, and Larissa had to place Bogrod the goblin back under the Imperius Curse.
The group then continued on their journey to the Lestrange vault, passing a dragon on the way.

Eventually they arrived at their destination and entered the vault.
The others were shocked by the amount of treasure in the room, but Larissa wasn't that suprised.
"Is your vault like this too?" Questioned Ron.
"Yeah, and I expect the Malfoy's is as well. All the old pure-blood families have vaults like these" answered Larissa awkwardly.
"Let's just find what we are looking for and get out of here" announced Harry.

As they looked through the vault, Hermione accidentally touched one of the goblets, setting off the Genimo Curse and causing the goblet to multiply.
"Well, that makes things easier" groaned Larissa sarcastically, as the vault began to fill up with duplicate goblets.
"Stop, don't move, it'll just make things worse" admitted Harry.
The group looked around with just their eyes until eventually Harry saw what they were looking for in a cabinet on the wall.
"It's up there" yelled Harry.
"Hufflepuff's cup... And how in Merlin's name are we supposed to get up there?" Questioned Larissa.
"You'll have to lift me up using magic" replied Harry.

Larissa obliged and lifted Harry up.
He then used the sword to pick up the cup, but as he came back down the cup slipped and landed in front of Griphook, who grabbed it.
"We had a deal Griphook" reminded Harry.
"The cup, for the sword" Shouted Griphook.
With no other choice, Harry handed over the sword of Godric Gryffindor in return for Hufflepuff's cup.
Griphook then legged it out of the vault, leaving the group stuck.
They couldn't stay in the vault, as it was filling up with treasure, but outside the vault were a dozen goblins and Gringotts employees.

"I've got an idea. Follow me" insisted Harry as he ran out of the room.
The group followed him, but stopped when they saw what he was about to do.
"Relashio!" Screamed Harry, pointing his wand at the chains holding down the dragon they had passed earlier.
Harry then jumped on the dragons back before looking back to the others.
"Come on" he encouraged.
"You can't be serious" frowned Larissa.
"Get on!" ordered Harry.
With no other choice, they all climbed onto the dragon and rode it to safety.