Ravenclaw Princess [Book 1]

Chapter 2

I stumbled out of the fireplace and fell on top of something soft yet firm.

'Oof!' I yelped as I fell over. I opened one eye to see whom I landed on. I noticed the hair right away. Blaze.

'Sorry Blaze,' I said. I felt embarrassed. He chucked and helped me up.

'I need to go to Gringotts to get my money from my vault,' Blaze said I nodded, and we walked to the snow-white mutistoried marble building called, Gringotts Wizarding Bank. We opened the large doors that lead into a small entrance hall and another set of doors. I ran my fingers over the engraved words on the sliver door that read:

Enter, stranger, but take heed of what awaits the sin of greed

For those who take, but do not earn,

Must pay most dearly in their turn.

So if you seek beneath our floors

A treasure that was never yours,

Thief, you have been warned, beware

Of finding more than treasure there.

We went through these doors and saw a vast marble hall long with counters stretching along its length. Doors were leading off to the vault passageways. We waked down the long hall to the one at the very top. I watched fascinated, as the goblins went to work, counting money, writing and stamping parchments, and many other things. We reached the end of the hall, and Blaze said

'I wish to withdrawal from our vaults'. The short goblin stood up and peered over the desk at us.

'Ah. And do Mr. Flametta have his keys?' Blaze handed out the key to the goblin, and he then said,

'Very well, walk this way' He pointed a finger towards a goblin in a mine cart and gave Blaze his key. Together, Blaze and I walked to the mine cart and sat down.

'Which vaults are we headed to?' the goblin asked us in his high pitched voice.

'The Flametta vault' Blaze responded. The goblin nodded and started the mine cart.

We rode down the rail for a long time. It twisted and turned down a maze of passages. In contrast to the grand marble of the entryway and the main hall, the passageways to the vaults were stone and dimly lit with flaming torches. The cart went very quickly and prevented us from getting a good look at our surrounding. My hair whipped behind me as I held on the sides of the cart leaning forwards. I could see Blaze smiling at me in the corner of my eye.

The cart came to a slow stop as we reached the Flametta Vault. I stayed in the cart as Blaze and the goblin entered. Blaze came back a few seconds later with a little sack of money in his hand. They both got back into the cart, and we started to move again. We were at the exit.

As we exited Gringotts, I didn't notice a large man with a small boy who had emerald eyes. Once we were outside, Blaze said,

'Okay let's first get our wands. That will be quick.' I nodded, and we walked to Ollivander's Wand Shop. On the walk over I looked into all the beautiful shop windows. I saw a group of children huddled around a broom store. I tried to listen to their conversation. All that I heard was,