House of Caliban

Chapter 1

Harry knew he shouldn't be in London right now.

He knew that if anyone found out that he snuck out of his house, away from his relatives, that everyone would lecture him on being irresponsible and not caring for his own life or being able to defeat Voldemort. He can already hear Mrs. Weasley and Hermione nagging him.

But on the other hand, Harry was positive that ignoring a summons from Gringotts was also not a good idea. He had his invisibility cloak so he should be fine, probably. Harry was able to slip into Diagon behind an older couple before carefully making his way through the summer crowd in the alleyway.

Harry was unsure why Gringotts was asking him to come in as soon as possible or else they would freeze his accounts, which was a threat he didn't know the goblins could make but he wasn't going to risk not being able to access his vault. When he received the letter it was the only time Harry possibly regretted giving money to the Weasley twins for their shop. How was he going to get by if he had no money? So now he was slinking through Diagon Alley, trying not to run into anyone as he made his way into Gringotts.

He probably should've left a note or something behind, but it is only a couple of hours, what could go wrong?

Once inside of the bank, Harry quickly made his way over to the only goblin he did recognize.

"Psst, Griphook," Harry whispered.

"Mr. Potter, why are you hiding?" Griphook sneered, looking at Harry as if the cloak wasn't even on him.

"Well, I received a letter saying I needed to come here urgently, but I am technically am not allowed to leave the blood wards during the summer, so I had to sneak out," Harry muttered with a shrug, "But I am here now."

Griphook stared at Harry as if trying to determine if he was truthful or not, it made Harry's insides squirm a bit at the scrutiny.

"Follow me, Mr. Potter," Griphook said before quickly leading the way to a hallway of offices. For being so short, the goblin really moved quickly, Harry had to jog to keep up with Griphook's pace. They reached an office near the end of the hallway with a nondescript door, and Griphook swung the door open and Harry made it into the room just barely before the door slammed shut again.

"Nagras! Here is Mr. Potter, I will summon the others." Griphook said to the goblin at the desk before leaving out of another door at the back of the office. Harry pulled off his cloak, looking around curiously before looking to the goblin called Nagras.

"Um, nice to meet you, sir?" Harry decided to start with.

"Well I am no sir, but you may sit down Mr. Potter," Nagras said with a raspy voice, milky-looking eyes staring at Harry in a way that Harry would almost describe as amused. "The others will be along shortly, do you know why you have been summoned?"

"Um no? But since the letter I was sent threatened to freeze my account if I didn't show up, I assumed it was something important."

"Accounts, you have more than one, but yes this is very important."

"I have more accounts? What does that mean?" Harry asked confused, he only had one vault, right?

"It means that you have several vaults with Gringotts boy." Another deep voice answered making Harry turn to see two other goblins had returned with Griphook.

"Why didn't I know about these vaults?"

"Your magical guardian should have told you, boy, it is not the goblin's job to coddle you and tell you what you own." The new goblin said in a scolding tone.