Somewhere between entertaining her son and interjecting as her handsome husband dealt with the goblin, Seren heard a familiar voice. Looking away from the bright blue eyes of her little man, her gaze came to rest on Leah. "Miss Abbott, it's good to see you too," she replied, offering the girl a quick wink before they both returned their attention to their bank business.

Though it may have appeared she was distracted by the two year old, she wasn't and had listened attentively enough. "... and Deputy Headmistress..." she attached to the end of Aron's sentence. That made her VIP where Hogwarts staff were concerned, no? She wasn't all too thrilled with handing her wand over, but if it was necessary, so be it. Balancing the child on her hip, she removed her wand from her holster and held it out tentatively.

"Yes!" Said Lucy who looked at the goblin.."I'm looking for a vault!"
Can you help me choose a vault very safe for me?

Coriana smiled when she heard someone call out to the line. "Mom, that one looks available." They headed over to the window. "Hi, my name is Coriana Hayes, i am here to open my vault. I am a first year at Hogwarts. My mom has a vault here already."

Marie stood in line with her parents and her older siblings. Since she was now 11 and going to Hogwarts, she was going to get her own vault instead of sharing the family vault. Ed had his own, Anna had one, now it was Marie's turn.

"Once you get sorted, we'll come decorate the vault in blue and bronze." Father was saying now. "Another Ravenclaw vault in the family."

"Does everyone decorate their vaults?" Marie couldn't imagine that all of these people had decorated vaults.

"No dear, but it makes the vaults special." Mother always did like feeling special.

Marie nodded and went back to quietly waiting for a worker to summon them over.

Sturnik nodded. Both were considered dignitaries according to the humans. Interesting. He accepted the identification and the wands. He gave them a quick glance over and then took a quick sniff.

Yup. They were wands.

He then gave them a quick measure using the edge of the counter. "Mahogany and Avodire." he said handing them back. "We are all set. Would you like to visit your vault now? Will the child be coming? There are dragons on the way, so if there is anyone sensitive to smoke, I recommend they stay behind."

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Sturnik nodded. Both were considered dignitaries according to the humans. Interesting. He accepted the identification and the wands. He gave them a quick glance over and then took a quick sniff.

Yup. They were wands.

He then gave them a quick measure using the edge of the counter. "Mahogany and Avodire." he said handing them back. "We are all set. Would you like to visit your vault now? Will the child be coming? There are dragons on the way, so if there is anyone sensitive to smoke, I recommend they stay behind."

Well...that was...quick. Taking his wand back, Aron quickly pocketed it and then glanced over at his wife. "Do you want to go take a look?" he asked her with a small shrug. He had primarily just wanted to set it up so that his paychecks and whatnot could be deposited there directly and well, a family account was something they really should have had set up ages ago. So, as far as this Herbologist was concerned they were good for the time being.

After adjusting her grip Derfael, preventing him from slipping any further down her waist, Seren retrieved her wand and returned it to her concealed holster. At the mention of taking a look at their vault, and... dragons, Seren turned to gauge Aron's reaction. His shrugging told her all she needed to know.

"I'm fine without, unless you want to?" she replied, reluctant to let go of their son - and she wasn't all that keen on introducing him to dragon smoke.

Coriana sighed as another girl beat her to the open window. "Mom, is it always like this in here?" When her mom shrugged, Cori sighed and went back to patiently waiting for her turn.

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After adjusting her grip Derfael, preventing him from slipping any further down her waist, Seren retrieved her wand and returned it to her concealed holster. At the mention of taking a look at their vault, and... dragons, Seren turned to gauge Aron's reaction. His shrugging told her all she needed to know.

"I'm fine without, unless you want to?" she replied, reluctant to let go of their son - and she wasn't all that keen on introducing him to dragon smoke.

What he wanted to do was get out of here and into the summer sunlight. Being indoors on days like this made him want to wilt faster than Devil's Snare. Instead of any sort of verbal response to his wife, however, he simply gave her an unamused look.

"We are all set for now," he replied, turning back towards the goblin. "Maybe some other time." Like when he had official business to attend to like making a deposit or a withdrawal.

Aron placed a hand on Seren's lower back and began to lead her out of the bank. Suuuuuuuuunlight here they come!

The uniformed boy drew closer to the highly polished desks and followed the logical progression of filling out one of the new vault forms. When it came to what sort of vault he wanted, he stalled for a moment. He felt that a student one would fill to capacity too quickly and might even come with binding spells that would only allow for the vaults contents to be used toward education. And a business one? Well, he wasn't fully fledged yet. He liked the sound of 'Other', though. That sounded flexible and like something he might be able to negotiate his needs into.

"Hello." He began, putting his best efforts toward using what Gobbledegook he was able to teach himself. Surely, everyone there knew some portion of the language, right? The rest, he carried out in English, just in case. "I need to open a new vault. Can you help me?"

AJ had money. AJ had money. AJ had money, hey, hey, hey, hey. It was goblin time and the lion was not able to hide her excitement. The rumors were true. EEP. She wondered if she could pet it. Better yet, could she have her very own goblin? It would be nice to have a back up plan incase her unicorn fell through.

There was a line, and AJ raced over to stand behind the last person. She was having problems staying still though. Jumping up and down in place happened partly because she was THAT excited, and partly because she couldn't see the action over the tall dude in her line of vision. Move over, dude. Was it her turn yet?

Well. It was that time of year again. Jake was just getting back into the swing of things after his time off, and now the students were home from school and they would surely be swarming the street and, in turn, the bank. Time to get to work.

Jake looked up as he saw a young boy approach the desk out of his peripheral vision, his eyebrows raising slightly at the Gobbledegook. How old was this kid? Jake wondered if he knew any other words in the language, but he didn't ask. Instead he just smiled and replied, "Hello," also in Gobbledegook, then in English, "I sure can. Have you filled out the new vault form?"

And behind that boy was a girl who looked to also be a student. Jake smiled to himself when he noticed the girl bouncing slightly. Excited? Maybe it was her first time in the bank.

"Hello, Miss," he said, trying to catch her attention. "Welcome to Gringotts. What can I help you with today?"

Since she was pretty much an actual, official adult now that she'd graduated from Hogwarts, Penelope figured it was about time for her to open her own vault at Gringotts. She'd done fine keeping her money protected and stuff, and managed to make sure she always had lots saved instead of spending everything as soon as she could. But now it seemed appropriate to save it somewhere else, and Gringotts was obviously the proper place for that.

So she got into what looked like the right line and waited for whenever it would be her turn.

"Joost finished." Cutty said with a smile passing the completed form over to the wizard by sliding it beneath his hand. "Do you need to see my wand also?" And he had six billion questions too. One of which came out whilst he had reached for his wand. "Is Gringotts insured in the event of a thief making his or her way into my vault?"

It was definitely a busy day. You got used to most of the year being somewhat slow in the bank most days, and then summer came and it was suddenly a popular place to go.

"Hi, welcome to Gringotts. How can I - Penelope?" Jake blinked when he actually saw who he was talking to. It had been... two years since he'd seen his friend. Friend? Did he even count as a friend now? He cleared his throat and sat up a little straighter. "How're you doing, Penelope? It's been a while. What can I do for you?"

Jake took the application and started reading it over. He nodded to the kid's question without looking up. "I will need your wand," he answered.

At the next question, he almost laughed. Almost. "Gringotts is completely safe. There hasn't been a robbery here in a really long time." Other than the goblin-aided kind, but he wasn't going to mention it. Most people probably remembered what had happened anyway. "But yes. It's insured." At least he thought it was. ...Fingers crossed.

He leaned forward slightly and turned the form around for the boy to see. "Mr. Mordaunt, there is a slight problem with your application. You asked for a Special Use Vault, which I'm afraid I can't assign to you at this time. I would suggest a Student Vault instead. It has everything that you specified on your application, and you can always upgrade to an Individual Vault at a later time if you exceed the capacity of the vault." He looked at the boy to see if that was okay.

It was her turn already? Cool, that didn't take lon- How did this person know her name???

She looked up from the form she'd picked up and...oh. It was Jake. Merlin, she'd forgotten he worked here. Pretty easy thing to forget after, what, two years now? But also a really inconvenient thing to forget because now this was awkward. Merlin.

She was gonna try not to let it be though. Penelope could totally be professional about this. No issues here. "Hey, Jake." Well, calling him by his first name probably wasn't technically professional...but whatever. "M'doing okay. Just here to open a vault." She filled out the last bit of the form before handing it over to him. "Hope I filled it all out right."

"Hiiii," she singsonged. "Thank you sir. I'm here to open up my very own vault." AJ was beaming from ear to ear. This was exciting stuff here. "I have 10 galleons, 5 sickles, and 1 knut." She was proud of that.

The soon to be second year looked around. While the man was nice, she was disappointed that a goblin wasn't helping her. She really did want to pet one. "Is it true that we get to go on a ride?" Because she loved roller coasters.

Jake just couldn't help but smile - this girl was just obviously so excited. Honestly, it was one of his favorite parts of the job, seeing kids come in and be in awe of the bank itself or the goblins or whatever. It was fun to see them like that. "Okay," he said with a small laugh, "I'm going to need to see your vault request form, if you've filled one out already. And your wand, please."

At the girl's next question, he chuckled again. "It's a bit of a ride, yes. I hope you don't get motion sickness?" He smiled.


... well, this was slightly awkward. Really, Jake didn't see how it wouldn't be, considering how long it'd been and the fact that they used to be fairly close. And apparently Penelope didn't want to do the catch-up thing. This was going to be strictly business, then. He could do that.

He looked over the form that she handed to him, nodding slightly as he read. "Everything looks great. I'll need a look at your wand, please. And that'll be ten galleons to register."

For once this lion was prepared and had her form all filled out and ready to go. "I crossed all my T's and dotted all of my I's." Mmhmm. It wouldn't be because of her that things were delayed. She plopped the form down on the counter. It was time to hand over her wand. AJ gingerly placed her hand around it and took it out of the holster. "Be super easy with it please. We are just back on speaking terms." Her and her wand didn't always see eye to eye.

A ride. YES!!! "Me? No way. I am so ready." Pumped would be an understatement. Could she go now? "Do I get to ride with a goblin?" That would make her whole banking experience.

Thank Merlin he seemed to be going along with keeping this focused on business and stuff. 'Cause this was neither the time nor the place to catch up or address things. And right now she really just wanted to open a vault and have that done so it was one less thing she had to worry about.

Thankfully she'd filled the form out fine, so Penelope pulled out her wand and handed it over to him. Then she opened her bag to grab a handful of galleons and counted out ten of them. Imagine the food she could have bought with that. But this was the price to pay for having a vault here apparently. Ah well. She handed those to him too. "There you go. Anything else?"

Mr. Mordaunt.

The faintest smile played around the boy's mouth as he was addressed by his father's name. It amused him when people addressed him by this title.

A soft ker-tap! sound was swallowed by the vastness of the space that was Gringotts bank as Cutty placed his wand on the surface of Jake's desk. He listened as the wizard went on to explain about his vault options and his almost buggy eyes glanced down for a moment as if considering whether or not he'd be alright with a student vault. He was in fact, simply re-evaluating his plan. "A student vault sounds perfect. Booht,...Do other types of assets count toward the vault capacity? Say I over-exceed capacity, could I take that money and place it into the market as a stock or a bond?" Cutty was game for getting in on the ground floor of the Wizarding business world. He wanted to be a part of it one day himself. Also, he wanted to meet Anna Greingoth-Newell. In a strange way, she was slowly becoming his hero. And he figured if he invested enough money in her company, he'd have an even better chance of seeing that to fruition. He wouldn't have to be nice to Sophie Newell. Mwahahahaah!

Finally Cyprien was going to be able to go ahead and open an account at Grigotts. It would feel good to have his money in a place that was secure. Waiting in line Cyprien stepped up to the counter. "Excuse me? I would like to open an account?"

Sturnik didn't want to do this. Sturnik wanted to continue to make eyes at a certain window goblin. It was just hard to do that with so many children in the way.

Sturnik would get rid of the children.

By ensuring they were taken care of. "Alright. Anyone ready to see their vault, follow me." he said making his way toward the carts.

Walking into a big beautiful building. Prim thought it was the craziest thing she went through all day. she was so scared she would do something stupid. lets hope she doesn't trip again.

That was probably him. Cutty saved his question for another round of research, though his hunch that it didn't count was probably right as such assets didn't take up any more space than a document with the stock information required. Perhaps, when the time came he could simply invest or opt for a larger account as the wizard helping him had suggested.

He finished up with the wizard and followed the Goblin to his new vault. Of his own. No mother dipping in and spending it on whatever dumb thing. He had his own vault!