The Master And Host Of Death: Book One

Chapter Two

The next morning found the residences getting up bright and early due to the fact they had still not gone shopping. The Malfoys and Lestranges flooded into the Black sitting room and then walked into the dining room to find the residences of the household beginning to eat. Additional families sat at the large table and started to eat.

The three families made little conversation. There was a tapping at the window, and Remus stood to open it. An owl flew in and dropped two letters, one of which was red, and started to open itself and seemingly started to talk.
A rough voice came through, as though there was a recording, and said,

"To any and all residences of the Lupin-Black household:

Please come to Gringotts as soon as possible, as we have acquired the main objective of our last meeting. If not able to come until a later date, please send word back with the bank delivery owl before sending back. This object needs to be discussed before the date of 17 September, as we will not be able to hold the said object any longer than that without having another Ministry trial, as the object needs to have an owner.

Sincerely,

Ragnok,

Potter Vault Manager and keeper."

The letter then ripped itself into smaller pieces over the dining room table. Remus quickly grabbed some parchment and a quill and started to write. When he was done, he grabbed a piece of string and tied it to the owl's leg, giving it some meat before it flew off.

"What in the world was that all about?" Narcissa asked, cutting through the thick silence.

"That, my dear cousin, is why we had to go to Gringotts yesterday," Sirius responded.

"No," the blonde woman shook her head, sighing, "what was the object he was talking about?"

"Harry and Hayden are now the holders of all of the Deathly Hallows and we must go and collect the Elder Wand before we have to go to trial over it," Remus said grimly.

Lucius nodded, "And who was the previous owner, might I ask?"

Remus sighed, "The said previous owner was said to be Albus Dumbledore, but he never took it by conquest, but by the absolute use of luck. Ragnok said that there is a record book of holders in the Ministry and that Albus is not in the book. Before it was said to be him, though, it was the previous Dark Lord, Gellert Grindelwald." Remus grabbed the other letter that lay on the table and opened it. He skimmed it through. "This is just from Severus saying he couldn't make it because Dumbledore is holding a professor meeting today. We best be going if we want to beat the crowd."

The large family made their way through the small crowd surrounding the steps of Gringotts where an older redheaded woman was yelling at an older lady and, what looked to be, her grandson. The other redheads looked like they were trying to disappear.

Remus stepped in while the Weasley brothers hid from their mother that had disowned them.

"Mrs. Weasley, Lady Longbottom. What brings you here today?" Remus asked politely.

"Neville and I were on our way to collect some money for school shopping when Mrs. Weasley started to yell at us." Lady Longbottom answered back calmly, as though there wasn't anything wrong.