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Warnings: Will be Slash. Spoilers for books up to year 5.
Family Ties
Prologue: Disappearance
Nymphadora Tonks yawned widely as she shifted under the invisibility cloak as she watched 4 Privet Drive, the house that Harry Potter, the Boy-Who-Lived spent the summers at.
She came to attention when a car she'd never seen turned onto the street and pulled into the driveway. The car was obviously expensive well beyond the means of someone in the area. Tonks watched as the driver, a man in his late twenties, black hair, well tanned, and dressed in a black suit, got out of the driver's seat and went around the car to open the back door for another man to get out.
The passenger was an old man, white hair that hung halfway down his back tied in a neat ponytail, dressed in a black suit as well, but what stood out the most on him was the black eye patch covering his left eye and the long scar running down that side of his face.
The old man walked with a purposeful stride up to the front door, the driver close behind. Tonks crept closer as the driver banged on the door.
A few moments later a very overweight boy opened the door.
"Dudley?" The old man asked when he saw the teen.
Dudley nodded in answer, "Who are you?"
"Hey Boss?" The driver said before the old man could speak again, "I smell blood."
"Dudley, what happened? Why does Tony smell blood?" 'Boss' asked the very pale boy. "Whose blood is it?"
Dudley just opened and closed his mouth unable to say anything.
"Is it your mother? Or your cousin?" 'Boss' seemed to find the answer he needed in Dudley's face because he pushed him aside, a great feat for such a slim man that was below average height, and entered the house, "Dudley, where?"
"U-upstairs."
The old man sprinted up the stairs as if he was a teen himself followed by Tony and Dudley.
Tonks hurried after them managing to follow silently glad they had left the door open. When she reached the top of the stairs she froze, she could smell the blood now. After a moment she crept forward so she could see into Harry's room and just stood gaping.
Harry lay thrashing on the ground in a pool of blood. His back was arched up off the ground and his mouth was open in a silent scream.
She couldn't tear her eyes from the gruesome scene before her until she caught Tony's movement in the corner of her eye. Looking up in horror she saw he had a wand trained on her even though she was invisible.
Tonks only heard one word before she was struck with the beam of light from the wand.
"Obliviate."
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Remus sighed into his cup of tea as he listened to the four youngest Weasleys as they discussed new pranking items the twins could sell. They were sitting at the dining table of 12 Grimmauld Place, Headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix, and more importantly, at least to the werewolf, it was Sirius' house.
CRASHRemus jumped up from his seat as the portrait of Sirius' mother started screeching. He ran out into the hallway and pulled the curtains closed over the portrait with help from Ron silencing the portrait.
"Tonks? What are you doing here?" Remus asked when he saw the metamorphmagus climbing back to her feet, "Shouldn't you be watching Harry?"
She pulled him into another room and cast silencing and locking charms at the door, "H-he's gone."
"What!" Remus yelped, Harry was all he had left, "What happened?"
"I woke up under a rosebush in the Dursley's yard." Tonks said quietly, Remus could just barely hear her thanks to his werewolf senses. "The last thing I remember before that was standing across the street."
"We need to tell everyone."
Fifteen minutes later after she explained what she remembered to the Order a few members went to 4 Privet Drive to investigate.
Remus apparated to Arabella Figg's house a moment later he was joined by Alastor Moody and Albus Dumbledoor.
The three quickly transfigured their clothes and left the house walking quickly to where Harry was supposed to be.
"They took most of Petunia and Dudley's things as well as all of Harry's. Did they get taken too?" Remus asked the Headmaster after they had looked through the house.
Dumbledoor did a few quick spells then put his wand away again, "It seems that Petunia and Dudley are both untraceable like Harry, but Vernon is still at work."
"So they took all three as well as their things." Moody said while he was scanning the house with his magical eye.
"Meaning that they aren't planning on killing them." Remus finished for him with a sigh of relief, "This doesn't sound like Death Eaters."
Dumbledoor nodded in agreement then asked, "Remus do you think you can smell whoever took them?"
Remus shook his head sadly after he sniffed around a bit, "All I can smell is Jasmine."
"Jasmine?" Moody asked fixing Remus with a stare both eyes focused on him.
"Does that mean something to you?" Dumbledoor asked.
"My instructor in the Auror Academy used a spell that would cover scents after a workout. I always left smelling of Jasmine. She said once that the spell could cover almost any scent from even the most sensitive noses, but she never taught it to me." Moody explained in his gruff voice, but Remus was sure he heard a wistfulness to it.
"What is her name? Could she have anything to do with taking them?"
Moody snorted and started clumping to the door, "Her name was Jasmine Blade. She died thirty years ago." He told them before he left.
After watching him leave Dumbledoor cast a number of spells trying to find something that would lead them to the Boy-Who-Lived.
Almost a half hour later they headed back to headquarters without any clues to where the three were, except the scent of Jasmine.
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