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Harry sat up in his chair, realizing what exactly he needed to do. He pulled out a piece of parchment, a quill, and a bottle of ink. He sat at his desk and began to write.
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Things to do:
Trip to Diagon Alley to check vaults
Trip to Knockturn Alley to check for Basilisk Eggs
Meeting with Bellatrix Lestrange
Meetings with potential new lieutenants-set up by Narcissa
Lavender Letter
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"Now," Harry said to himself, "how the hell do I go about doing these. Well, two should be easy, but I need to talk with Dumbledore about a potential trip to Gringott's and Diagon Alley."
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The following morning, Harry walked into the kitchen to find Albus Dumbledore sitting in a chair, conversing with Tonks. Harry got himself some breakfast and also sat down at the table, beginning to eat. Shortly thereafter, Ron and Hermione came downstairs, and the three of them started discussing what they thought their sixth year would be like. Harry paused in the conversation as he noticed Dumbledore get up to leave. "Excuse me, sir?"

"Yes, Harry?"

"Would it be possible for me to go to Diagon Alley today, I would like to check what I have inside my vaults at Gringott's, as well as purchase a new owl, since Hedwig was killed."

"I was wondering when you'd ask me that question, Harry. I'll say yes, as long as you agree to take a member of the Order with you as a guard."

Tonks chose that moment to speak up, "I have nothing to do today, Albus. I'll go with him." Dumbledore nodded absently and left the building. Harry sat back down at the table and finished his breakfast, then headed upstairs to get cleaned up. He showered, got dressed, and wrote the letter that he felt he needed to write.
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Dear Lavender,
I was wondering if you'd care to meet me tomorrow at noon in the Three Broomsticks for lunch.
Yours truly,
Harry Potter
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Harry and Tonks left 12 Grimmauld Place later that morning and boarded the Knight Bus to the Leaky Cauldron. Upon arrival, they headed straight into Diagon Alley and from there, to Gringott's. Neither one spoke until they entered the bank, where Harry walked straight up to one of the free goblins and said, "Good morning, Griphook."

"Ah, Mr. Potter. We were wondering when we'd see you again. Is there something I can do for you today?"

"Actually, yes. I would like to visit every single vault that is under my possession. I will be bringing this auror as a guard, though she isn't guarding against you, but against the forces of Voldemort."

"I understand perfectly, Mr. Potter. Let me see, you wish to visit all your vaults, so, that will be a total of four vaults, Mr. Potter."

"Four? Could you tell me what these vaults are?"

"Certainly. One vault is your trust fund vault. It's the one you visited when you were 11. The others are the Black Family Vault, the Potter Family Vault, and the von Eich Family Vault."

"The von Eich Family Vault? Where did that come from?"

"That was a vault set up by your maternal great-grandfather. He and his wife had only one child, a daughter and a squib. She married a muggle with the name of Evans and had two children, again both were daughters. The elder daughter was also a squib, and married a muggle, the younger was a witch and married into the Potter family."

"Very well, let's see these four vaults."

The three of them left the main hall and entered the tunnel that led down into the lower levels of the bank. Harry, Tonks, and Griphook got into the cart, and they rode for only a few minutes, before pulling up before a large area that somewhat resembled a train platform. Across the way were three vault doors. Griphook pointed at all three doors, "From left to right, these are the von Eich Family Vault, the Potter Family Vault, and the Black Family Vault. Which vault do you want to visit first?"

"Let's go with the von Eich vault, since it's furthest from the car and also the one I know the least about, though it seems to have been my mother's family's vault." The three of them walked over to the vault, where Griphook slid his finger across the rocky door, causing it to vanish. Behind the door was another door, this one much more elaborate, with gargoyles and a strange-looking eye in the middle of the door.

"This ward is not keyed to me," Griphook said. "Rather, Mr. Potter, it's keyed to you."

Harry nodded, "What do I do?"

"You merely walk forward, place your hand on the eye, state your name, and the ward will dissipate."

Harry walked forward, placed his right hand on the eye, and spoke in a clear voice, "I am Harry James Potter." He felt a tendril of magic invade his mind, and he looked at it, noticing its strange green glow as it verifies his claim and his identity. It pulled back, leaving him with instructions. Harry grinned at the door and shifts his gaze so that he's looking directly at the eye. "/Open/," his voice came out in a hiss. The door opened and Harry walked in, followed by Tonks and Griphook, the latter staying respectfully out of the way by standing in the doorway, leaning against the wall. Harry looked around and noticed several different pieces of interest. One, this room was as large as the Great Hall at Hogwarts. Two, it was filled with mountains upon mountains of galleons. Three, there was a small table at the front of the pile, on which were two boxes and a book. Harry walked up to the table and picked up the boxes. He opened one, and found a ring with a strange crest on it. The other box also contained a ring, but this one had on it a stylized 'S' with some sort of serpent surrounding it. His eyes widened as he looked at the second ring.

Tonks, who had followed him to the table, noticed his reaction. "What is it, Harry?"

"I've seen this sigil before."

"Which one?"

"The one with the 'S' and the snake. It was in the Chamber of Secrets. This was the personal sigil of Salazar Slytherin." Harry shook his head and put the rings back on the table. He picked the book up and looked at it. On the cover was the same sigil as the other ring. He opened it and noticed the title: Genealogy and History of the von Eich Family. The first page after the title page was a complete family tree. It ended with him, and it began with Salazar Slytherin. Harry let out a short bark of laughter and turned to Tonks. "Well, it looks like the students at Hogwarts got it right after all. I am the Heir of Slytherin." He began to chuckle some more. Still chortling slightly, he walked through the vault, seeing if there was anything other than gold in the vaults. He noticed a shelf at the back. On the shelf were three things: a long, thin box and two round green objects that looked like eggs. Harry walked over to them and touched the green objects. He heard hissing in his mind. They were eggs. They were basilisk eggs. He laughed. 'So much for going to Knockturn Alley for illegal creatures,' he thought. He pulled down the box and opened it. Inside, he found a wand sitting in green velvet with the silver sigil imbedded in the top of the box. He closed the box and came back around the pile. "Tonks," he whispered, shock evident in his voice, "I think I just found the wand of Salazar Slytherin." Shock registered on both hers and Griphook's faces. Harry turned to Griphook and asked what he'd been thinking of since they began their trip down to the vault, "Griphook, is there any way I can carry out large items and gold from my vaults? I found some personal items in the back and I suspect that I'll find more in the other vaults."

Griphook nodded and handed Harry two bags, one silver, one black. "The silver bag is what we call a bottomless bag. It can hold up to 10 million galleons, which, by the way, is nothing but a drop in the ocean of what you have. The black bag can only carry up to half a ton, but it will hold anything." Harry thanked him, handed the silver bag to Tonks and walked back to the shelf with the black bag. He placed the two basilisk eggs reverently inside, followed shortly by Slytherin's wand. Harry shook his head, he now had four wands, he should test his potency with each wand once he got back to the Tower. He then placed the two rings on his fingers, the von Eich ring on the middle finger of his left hand, and the Slytherin ring on the ring finger of his right.

Harry walked back to Griphook and Tonks and took the silver bag from her. He held it open in front of him and pulled out his wand. He waved his wand at the front pile of gold and said, "Accio ten million galleons" in a clear voice. As the top of the pile of gold started to shift, Harry held the silver bag open and between the tip of his wand and the pile of gold. Shortly, hundreds of galleons flew across the room and into the bag. The flow of gold stopped before even the first pile was 2/3 of what it had been. "Well, at least we got that part out of the way. Griphook can I leave this bag in the cart while we check out the other two vaults?"

The goblin nodded, "Of course, you can, since you've made your withdrawal from the vault. Shall we go?"

The other two nodded, and left the vault. Harry placed the silver bag in the cart, turned around, and intoned, "/Close/" in parseltongue to the doorway. The elaborate golden door closed, and Griphook waved his hand, returning the rock-looking door to its proper place as well. They moved down the platform to the second door, the Potter Family Vault. This time, after the standard Gringott's door was opened, there was a field of coruscating colors. Harry noticed blue, red, gold, and bronze in the field. He shook his head, knowing where he'd seen those colors, but his mind apparently unwilling to make the connection. This time, he merely placed his hand on the field, and again felt the mental searching that he had felt at the von Eich vault. Apparently, the ward was satisfied with what it found, because the field vanished, and Harry and Tonks stepped into a vault that was filled with more gold and magical artifacts than the previous vault. The reason for this was quite simple, as there was a free-standing archway between the gold and the doorway. There was an inscription at the top, which read, "Greetings to members of the House of Potter, the descendants of Godric Gryffindor and Rowena Ravenclaw." After reading this, Harry laughed so hard his side ached. When Tonks sent him a questioning look, he answered, "I wonder what Dumbledore will say when he finds out that I'm the heir to three of the founders of Hogwarts." His laughter slowly died away, and then he noticed the three boxes that lay on a table similar to the ones in the von Eich vault. He opened them, knowing what he would find. The signet ring of the Potter Family, which he promptly put on the index finger of his left hand, and the personal signet rings of both Gryffindor and Ravenclaw, which were put on the index and middle fingers of his right hand, respectively.

Harry, instead of looking around so much as he did in the von Eich vault, walked around, looking for something that stood out. Finding two long, thin boxes, he picked them up one at a time and opened them. In each, he found the same as with Slytherin's wand. The wand on the left was in red velvet with the sigil pressed in gold, and the wand on the right was in blue velvet with the sigil pressed in bronze. Harry closed the boxes and placed them in the black bag. He shook his head at the rapid acquisition of alternate casting of magic that he seemed to be undergoing. Now, he could get rid of Bill's wand, as he no longer needed it. He left the vault, informing Griphook that he only needed one item out of the Black Family Vault. Once Griphook opened the Gringott's door, that was it. There were no other protective measures present. Harry shook his head at the arrogance of the Black Family and entered the vault. He quickly found the ring and put in on the ring finger of his left hand. He then left the vault and turned to Griphook, "How much would it cost to put up similar wards on the Black Family vault as there are around the Potter vault? Nothing as elaborate, of course, but maybe something that only recognizes this ring?"

"Nothing you can't afford easily, Mr. Potter."

"Very well, I would like that done as soon as possible." Griphook nodded and took Harry and Tonks back to the main lobby of Gringott's. The pair then left the bank, carrying with them the two sacks. Harry took the silver sack and entered Eeylop's Owl Emporium to purchase himself a new owl. He came back out bearing a large cage containing a gray owl with black stripes on its feathers. Harry grinned at Tonks, "This barred owl decided to hiss at me when I entered. I decided I liked her attitude, so I bought her." Tonks shook her head at Harry's strange attitude and the pair apparated out of Diagon Alley directly to the Tower of High Sorcery.

Upon arrival, Harry wasted no time taking his new owl to the top chamber and releasing her from her cage. She rose into the air and flew around the room for several minutes before coming to land on his shoulder, where she gave his ear a light nip. He smiled and showed her the short letter he had written to Lavender. The owl hooted softly and held out her leg. Harry tied the letter to her leg and stroked her feathers. He said to her, "That letter's for a girl named Lavender Brown. I hope to see you soon." She hooted again and took off. He smirked and headed back downstairs. He took the black bag with him into the basement. Once down there, he opened the bag, reached in, and pulled out the basilisk eggs as well as the three wands in their cases. Setting the wands aside for a moment, he conjured up an incubator for the basilisk eggs, even complete with a special charm that mimicked basilisk venom for the purposes of hatching the eggs. He picked up the wand cases and headed back up the stairs. Once he exited the basement, he closed the door and locked it. He then placed a charm on it so he would know the moment anyone opened the door.

He took the wands outside and conjured a large stone wall. This was his test. He pulled out his own wand and performed the Reductor curse at it, which gave him a basis for judgment of the other five wands. He repeated the test with Voldemort's wand, then Bills, then the wands of the three founders. He found that his best replacement wands were the wands of Voldemort (unsurprisingly) and Ravenclaw. He dismissed the wall, threw Bill's wand into the air, destroyed it with a wave of his hand, and walked back inside and up to the master bedroom. He mounted the wands of Gryffindor and Slytherin onto the wall and walked back downstairs. He found Tonks in the room full of magical weaponry, ogling the sword on the back wall. Harry ignored what she was doing for the moment and rummaged through a small chest before finding what he was looking for. He strapped a standard wand holster to his waist and then strapped two concealing wand holsters to his forearms. He placed his own wand in the visible holster and placed the other two in the concealed ones. A few minutes later, his new owl returned. She had a note tied to her leg, and Harry removed it before conjuring up a mouse which the owl promptly dove upon and devoured. Harry opened the note, seeing his own name on the front.
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Dear Harry,
I'd love to! I'll see you tomorrow in Hogsmeade.
Lavender