𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐋𝐄𝐒 𝐂𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆 (OC x OC) - Full Series

[007] CHAPTER 24 - THERE IT GOES

"i can finally breathe."
|| maisie peters

Makayla Malfoy

We're going to Gringotts today. Hermione's idea is to use Polyjuice Potion to make us all look like Death Eaters. We've all agreed that Mattheo and I are less likely to need a Polyjuice Potion, which makes things way easier for Hermione while she's brewing.

I stand on the hill with Louis, who, regrettably, looks like my brother Preston. He looks miserable and I almost laugh and puke at the same time. I never thought that Preston could be uglier until he was being puppeteered by my boyfriend.

Wait, no.

He isn't my boyfriend anymore.

He's my fiancée.

I have to stifle a smile. My fiancée.

"Are we ready to go?" Griphook asks as Hermione, who looks like Bellatrix, walks over.

"Ready as ever," Hermione sighs.

We all grab Griphook's arm and then we appear outside of Gringotts. This is the first time I've seen Diagon Alley after Dumbledore's death. It's deserted and polluted. No one has been here for months. Yet when we walk into Gringotts, the goblins are all still there. They're all writing with their quills, sitting at their desks as if they haven't left a day in their lives.

I walk behind Hermione. I'm to her left, Ron is right behind her, and Louis is to her right. Ron is basically only there to keep Louis and I separated from being suspicious. It's the right move, probably, but I still think it's unnecessary.

Annie, who looks like my sister Halston, is walking on my left. She's nervous. I can sense it in her bones—in her mind. It's also pretty obvious that she hates looking like Halston.

Halston is a rude and self absorbed 6th year student who does nothing but bullies other students. She's a mini me, like a bunch of my sisters are. The only difference is the fact that I've changed for the better, hardly any of them have changed at all.

Halston still goes to Hogwarts, but I keep low contact. Especially after I found out about the time she turned my old room into a frog resort. That's probably the only reason why father let me stay with Kai and Preston. Before Kai... you know... died.

Harry and Griphook are both under the invisibility cloak while Mattheo is walking with Louis, bored out of his mind. So out of his mind that it's annoyingly trailing into mine.

We awkwardly reach the front desk, standing there silently while Hermione waits for the goblin to notice her. Eventually, she gets fed up and clears her throat softly as she crosses her arms over her chest. "I wish to enter my vault," she announces.

The goblin doesn't look up from his paper as he murmurs, "Identification?"

She glances back at us before looking at the goblin and saying, "I hardly think that'll be necessary."

At last, the goblin looks up and straightens his posture at the sight of her. "Madam Lestrange!" he announces, his voice monotone as he turns to the goblin behind him.

"I don't like to be kept waiting..." Hermione awkwardly adds, trying her best to act as if she really is my aunt. I'd be surprised if she was fooling even one goblin in this room.

Off somewhere to the side, we all hear Griphook whisper, "They know! They know she is an imposter! They've been warned..."

I glance over to Louis and he looks equally as concerned. Swallowing hard, I turn forward.