Summary: Harry Potter has gone missing. When a dark stranger appears one year later claiming to be a friend no one knows what to think of him. Will Harry Potter ever reveal himself? And where has he been all this time.

Pairings?

Timeframe: Starts summer after fourth year.

Disclaimer: I don't own it! I would think that was obvious.

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A/N: Pre-OotP, this takes place in the summer after fourth year. So Sirius is still alive and a fugitive unless I write otherwise.

A/N: I read so many fanfic's before I ever started writing. So if you see something that's familiar I'm sorry. If it's yours and you know it tell me and I'll give you credit. I swear it's not on purpose!

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Chapter 1: Darkness Rises

Harry Potter the boy-who-live and supposed savior of the wizarding world sat in a dark corner of a smoldering ruin and he wept. He wept for the family that had hated him and that he had hated in return but mostly he wept because no one had come for him. No one had come to even try to save him.

Voldemort's minions had come and killed his family but had left him alive. But not alone he had been subjected to numerous pain curses and not only the Unforgivable but also cutting curses and numerous others. They had taunted him telling him that he wasn't worthy of death and that he was beneath the dark Lords power not worth the waste of a death curse.

This from the underlings of a man who had been trying to kill him since he was one years old. Well, Harry would show him! He would train, he would learn, and he would finish Voldemort once and for all.

Only Harry didn't know how he would do it. He wouldn't go to Dumbledore. Harry had realized that Dumbledore, for all his good intentions, was only using him. Dumbledore wouldn't give him what he needed, he would coddle him, and give him just enough to feel powerful, but not enough to defeat Voldemort. And he had to defeat him. So what would he do? Harry was lost in dark thoughts, blood running down his face. He was starting to feel faint, blood loss from a few of the cuts that were sure to scar.

While, he sat in this dark ruin, pondering his necessary fate, he didn't notice the soft, almost non-existent footsteps approaching. Harry didn't actually see who those foot steps belonged too. He looked up only to see a figure in a dark cloak and fainted. The figure slowly crouched and checked his pulse. He then gathered up the frail body and in a thick cloud of green smoke disappeared.

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The Order was panicking. Gathered in Dumbledore's, magically enlarged office all shouting with each other and wondering what had happened. Harry Potter savior of the wizarding world was missing, presumed dead.

"Silence! Please!" yelled Dumbledore. "Please, my dear friends. Let me tell you what I know. Yesterday night, while I was at a Ministry meeting, Harry Potter's house was attacked. His relatives were incinerated. Pray to Merlin that they did not burn alive. However, there is no sign of Harry. His body was not found and Severus has informed me that Harry is not in the Dark Lords clutches. Although, he admits that the Dark Lord has lost faith in him and has been withholding information.

"Well, what are we going to do?" Remus ever calm.

Sirius jumped up.

"We have to find him! How did this happen? We have to find Harry!" He was hysterical.

Remus grabed his shoulders and pulled him into tight hold. It quickly turned into a hug as Sirius started sobbing. Remus guided them both to a open couch and sank down on it still holding him tightly. Everyone turned their attention back to Dumbledore who was signaling for attention. But Severus spoke before he could.

"Well, what are we going to do. I personally don't like the boy but he's not a bad child. We should find him."

Dumbledore repiled, "Unfortunately, I don't think there is much we can do." A loud sob from Sirius interuped him. Dumbledore cleared his throat and continued, "I have already tried to locate the tracking charms I had placed on the boy and have got nothing in response. Numerous other such charms have been sent by myself and others on staff and have turned up nothing of Harry's location nor of his health. We will look for him but I'm afraid that with nothing to go on there is very little hope of finding him."

And with that the meeting was over.

Chapter End.

A/N: Ok so don't kill me it's short and I don't know when I can write the next chapter but I'll try to do it soon. Please send me reviews tell me what you thought. I'm more likely to write if I get reviews and if you hated it then tell me what I did wrong! Thanks, Neverraven.

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