Harry Potter: Rise of the Spiral

Chapter 2

On his way to his mother's vault, Edmund was going through a myriad of emotions. Reading his mother's will and learning about the deceit of the Vulpis family patriarch, that forced her to marry his father, made him furious.

Edmund's grandfather had not only forced the marriage contract on Clair but also killed off the rest of her family a day after the marriage. With a wand aimed at her little sister, Clair was forced to take an oath to never harm the Vulpis family. Later, her entire family was slaughtered by death eaters.

All this time, Altair was completely unaware of the will. Clair had carefully hidden a lot of her family scrolls and galleons in her vault. She had written about how the Vulpis family betrayed Whirlpool family's trust and took over all their business and land.

To say that Edmund was angry was an understatement. When he had finished reading the will, he lost control over his chakra and the goblins got a glimpse of what could happen to the boy's enemies.

His first goal was to slowly cripple the finances of the family while keeping a low profile. By the time he reached majority, the Vulpis family would be reduced to beggars.

By providing a few drops of blood, he opened the vault. There were a few storage scrolls that had various weapons stored in them. There were quite a lot of scrolls on various ninja arts and hand to hand combat techniques. Then he saw the Uzumaki swirl on the wall of the vault that made him feel oddly nostalgic. The Whirlpool family used the swirl as their family crest to remember where they came from. A quick accounts check informed him about the total amount of money he had.

After taking all the necessary scrolls and storing all of them in a bigger one out of the vault, he travelled back to his accounts manager and asked for help in increasing his wealth and bringing down the Vulpis family. After being asked why he wanted to do so, he reluctantly shared his story. At the end of it, the manager had a vicious grin on his face and readily agreed to help Edmund.

After a two hour discussion on counter investments against Vulpis family and an agreement on regularly emptying his trust vault into the Whirlpool vault and keeping the transaction hidden, Edmund thanked the manager and left the bank to buy other stuff for Hogwarts.

Five hours later, he approached his last destination in the alley to buy a wand.

The old man in the shop was oddly unnerving. Edmund kept his guard up.

"Ah, Mr Vulpis, I've been expecting you. I still remember when you mother and father-," but looking at the menacing glare Edmund shot at him at the mention of his father, "-though I guess you don't want to hear about that."

Edmund nodded.

"So, which is your wand arm?"

"Ambidextrous."

"Ah! Alright." Quietly, he took the measurements but on the inside, he was itching to say something. The young heir was quite difficult!

"Mr Vulpis, try this one... *CRASH* no definitely not... this one... uh, no. Please try to hold back on your magic. Try this one... *BOOM* yeah, please hold back a little more. I don't have an infinite supply of wands. Try this one... uh, no. Agumenti... maybe, Mr Vulpis try this one... "

After trying thirty wands and destroying twenty of them along with burning half the store, Edmund finally found a wand that fit him. Not that it really mattered. Wizards and witches were not extraordinary in terms of speed and strength, so, he could always dominate them by casting faster. It didn't matter if his wand was strong or not. Being able to use chakra, magic was a novelty for him. Although magic was useful in its own way, chakra had more offensive power.