Harry Potter And The Prince Of Slytherin 71 Gringotts.

"Will you be fine?" Draco asked.

"What? with you driving the car?" Theodore asked, his voice still shaking.

"No, you coming with me." Draco said focusing on the direction they were heading to. "Won't your father complain."

"Not really." Theodore said, "You know how he is, he just doesn't care. Anyway, where are we going?"

"To the black family house."

"And where is that?"

"Relax, it is enchanted so you don't know about it." Draco said, "And I have to quickly make a formation and enchant the door."

"Door?" Theodore asked confused, "What are you talking about?"

"Sigh! Take this-- and just shut up, you don't want to have a crash landing do you?" Draco said pa.s.sing a book to Theodore who started reading it.

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"Was that him?" A girl dressed up in a beautiful blue dress asked.

"What is it Astoria?" Daphne said in an annoyed tone, "Who was what?"

"I was asking if that was Draco Black?" Astoria asked again with excitement on her face.

"It's not her fault Daphne." Pansy said rubbing her forehead, "Yes, that was Draco."

Astoria's eyes opened wide in surprise, "He really was here? Too bad I couldn't meet him-- I really wanted to thank him for his present."

"Hmph! Don't talk about him, that idiot." Daphne snorted, "How dare he just run off."

"And no one knows where they headed off too." Pansy sighed, "I just wish they would be okay."

Pansy was very worried for them and Daphne, on the other hand, was way too annoyed.

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Moments later they reached their destination since it was complete daylight they couldn't just land where ever they wanted to, so they had to be careful. After Draco started flying over the Grimmauld place the hidden place opened up. Draco took a couple of deep breaths and barely managed to land safely on the roof. Theodore who was immersed in the book looked around after the sudden disturbance.

"Are we there?" He asked, "Well, glad you didn't kill us both."

Draco rolled his eyes, both of them got out of the car and looked around.

"So this is the place huh?" Theodore said looking around, "So where is the library?"

"You can find it if you jump down from here." Draco gave an innocent smile, walking down the stairs.

Theodore bickering followed him inside.

"Dobby? Kreacher?" Draco called out.

Both Dobby and Kreacher came towards him, "You are finally here, master." Both of them greeted.

"Clean a room for Theodore here," Draco ordered, "And prepare my room as well."

"Yes, Master." Kreacher said running away.

"Dobby, prepare some food for me and Theodore, will you."

Dobby nodded as well and ran away.

"Are you just going to look around?" Draco asked.

"It's an interesting place, so what's wrong with that," Theodore said.

At the dining table, both of them were eating the beef stew that Dobby had made.

"So what do you plan to do?" Theodore asked

"Romania," Draco said, "We should go there."

"You still into the dragon thing?" Theodore said, "Aren't you getting a bit too excited with collecting all these beasts?"

"You can say I am but I am doing this to help them, aren't I?" Draco said, "Like, the Murtlap would probably die after you destroyed its habitat in that forbidden forest, same for Starlight and as for fluffy, he would be sent back to Greece, so it's like me helping them and them helping me."

"You make it sound so generous." Theodore snickered. "So how are we going to get there? Since you are famous and all, wouldn't people know about our whereabouts."

"I have an idea for it." Draco said taking out a small potion vial and drinking it. "I ordered it from the beauty shop, so it should work."

"What is--" Before Theodore could finish the action of the potion had already started taking place, with his platinum-blonde hair turning completely black. Draco also changed his eye color to red.

"How about it?" Draco asked smirking.

"You look like a vampire." Theodore said nodding, "But with it, it will be difficult to recognize you."

"So--"

"Even though we can avert attention from other people-- we have a new problem in hand-- we will now be attracting the attention of some Vampire hunters, which will be more annoying."

"Che, you win some, you lose some." Draco said annoyed, "You can't have everything can you?"

Theodore rolled his eyes, "So when are we going and how are we going? Don't tell me we are flying in that car."

Draco shook his head, "It's too far for driving. We can move to Budapest by an illegal portkey and from there we can get a ride to Romania."

"Illegal Portkey?"

"Yeah, I have heard my father talk about it, with his friends." Draco said. "It should exist."

"But what if it doesn't?"

"I don't know." Draco said, "We will think about it when the time comes. Now if you will excuse me, I will have to go take care of my animals."

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"Where could he be?" Lucius said in annoyance banging his fist on the table. "It's not a safe time for him to be playing around."

Narcissa, Pansy, and Daphne who were having a little chat of their own looked towards the group of men discussing Draco and Theodore's whereabouts.

"Let them be." Theodore's father said waving his hands, "They will go around playing and when they get hurt, they will come back home, learning an important lesson."

"It's not that simple." Lucius shook his head, "Things are getting more complicated, with different riot groups forming."

"Pansy, do you know anything?" Pansy's father asked.

Pansy looked at Daphne then back at her father, "I don't know." she said.

"Pansy if you remember anything, please tell us." Mr. Parkinson said, "You don't want Draco to get hurt, do you?"

Pansy and Daphne stared at each other for a while, contemplating what they should do.

"Things aren't as simple as before." Lucius added, "There are literal adult wizards looking for Draco, whether they are dark wizards or someone trying to be a martyr. If they get caught, things would be very difficult to handle."

"We did talk about-- going to Romania for the holidays." Daphne said after thinking about it, she was afraid Draco might be killed by those crazy wizards who were full on protesting him.

"Yes." Lucius stood up. "Why didn't I think of that."

"What's in Romania?" Mr. Nott asked.

"Something important," Lucius said vaguely. "But that's not important."

"How can two kids reach Romania?" Mr. Parkinson added, "Do they even have enough money?"

"Money?-- I know where to look." Lucius said, "Gringotts."

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"Are you sure that you have enough money?" Theodore asked

"I do." Draco said walking outside the pub. "I am the head of the Black family remember?"

Gringotts is an imposing snow-white multi-storied marble building located partway down Diagon Alley, near its intersection with Knockturn Alley, that towers over the neighboring shops. Draco and Theodore both hidden in robes walked inside Gringotts. Standing beside its burnished bronze doors, wearing a uniform of scarlet and gold, was a goblin.

The goblin was quite shorter than them. He had a swarthy, clever face, a pointed beard and, very long fingers and feet. He bowed as they walked inside. They ignored the goblin waking inside, towards the second pair of doors which was silver, with words engraved upon them:

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.

"Arrogant s.h.i.ts." Theodore whispered, "Every time I see these words, I can't help but feel p.i.s.sed. Just because they are a bit smarter, do they really think they are different from an house-elf."

"Calm down." Draco said, "Do you really want to fight with them?"

"Che, one day I will show them how secure this place really is." Theodore clicked his tongue and walked silently. A pair of goblins bowed them through the silver doors and they were in a vast marble hall. About a hundred more goblins were sitting on high stools behind a long counter, scribbling in large ledgers, weighing coins in bra.s.s scales, examining precious stones through eyegla.s.ses. There were too many doors to count leading off the hall, and yet more goblins were showing people in and out of these. Both of them walked towards a free counter.