Discovering The New Path

The Letter

It was dark still, with the moon shining directly into his room he could feel his back throbbing in pain from Vernon's punishment earlier that day and as much as he would like to stay as still as possible to not aggravate his back more, it was getting harder and harder to ignore the insistent tapping on his window.

After a few more seconds of the tapping getting more and more aggressive he finally gives up on ignoring it, as he did not want to deal with the punishment he would surely get for waking any of the Dursleys up at this hour.

'Fine' he grumbles incoherently as he slowly starts to push his self-up stopping every few seconds as his back flairs up in pain.

Wincing as he finally sits himself into a seated position he looks over his shoulder to the small window in his room to see a large black owl with long feathered ears illuminated by the moons light sitting on his windowsill.

His brow scrunches in confusion at the owl he had never soon before 'well who sent you' he questions quietly as to not make too much noise and wake the Dursleys considering he has already made quite a bit of noise letting the owl tap on his window for that long.

Harry slowly gets up once again wincing at the pain in him back, he walks to the window and quietly unlatches and opens it to let the handsome owl in.

The owl gracefully fly's over to his worn and beat up desk landing on the back of an old chair the was held up by tape and an old book to keep it level.

He follows the owl to his desk and carefully takes the letter from its leg 'this for me little guy' he questions not expecting the owl to respond 'sorry, I don't have any treats for you' he informs the large owl.

Harry looks at the address written on the letter with his eyebrows going up in surprise at seeing the Gringotts seal and name on it. He stares at the seal for a few seconds before he is shocked out of his confused trance by the black owl hooting at him.

His head snaps up at the sound, the corner of his mouth ticks up slightly in amusement before saying 'yeah yeah little guy I'm getting to it' before he slides the tip of his thumb under a part of the envelope opening and slides it smoothly across the rest of the opening causing it to flip open.

Grabbing the smooth cream letter from the envelope once again signed with the Gringotts seal he opens it to read...

To Heir Potter-Black

We at Gringotts bank Request your presence Immediately

As there have been Irregular Transactions coming from your Vault

And would Like the matter to be Sorted As soon as Possible.

I Griphook would Also Like to Speak about your

Avoidance of your duties to you heir and lordships.

Griphook II

Manager of the Potter Vaults

Britain's Branch of Gringotts

As his eyes travel down the letter carefully reading each word his eyebrows slowly climb his forehead in shock at the words written, he looks over at the owl that was seated comfortably on his desk.

'Well, I guess you will want a letter to take back won't you' Harry says as he opens one of the draws of his desk pulling out an old piece of parchment, a quill and an old ink bottle.

He takes the top off of the ink bottle picks up the quill and dips its tip into the ink and begins to write on the parchment.

To Griphook II of Gringotts

First I think I should inform you that I have

No way to safely make it to Gringotts

And back without bringing harm to my person and as such

Won't be able to visit Second as I have no clue

On what you are talking about in regards to this Heir

And Lordship Business won't be able to explain that as well

If you have any ideas that could help me make it

There and back to Gringotts I will gladly come and

Sort these issues out.

Apparent Heir Potter-Black?

Student At Hogwarts

Harry Potter

Putting the quill down and lightly blowing on the parchment to help speed up the drying process he quickly skims over the letter he just wrote to make sure he write everything right before putting it on the desk to fully dry.

Grabbing the Quill and Ink bottle and chucking them back into his desk draw probably to never see the light of day again after doing so he lightly taps his finger onto the parchment to check that it is draw.

Once he was sure that the ink wouldn't smudge he rolled it up and carefully tied it onto the owl's leg 'take this back to Griphook for me huh little guy' harry quietly asks carefully patting the owl on the head before it flies off his desk and out the window.

Harry watches the owl fly until he can no longer make out its form in the moon lit sky.

After he can no longer see the owl he sighs quietly looking back over to his bed 'guess it's time to actually try and sleep' he mumbles to himself quietly before slowly walking back over to his old bed and slowly lowering his body down onto it grimacing and wincing the whole time in pain until he finally got himself laying down on his stomach and closing his eyes hoping the pain would dull soon.