31st Oct. 1981
As soon as one Albus Dumbledore, the Headmaster of the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardy, placed the basket containing a small baby on the front door step of No. 4 Private Drive, something happened which he hadn't been expecting. The second the basket touched the floor, the baby inside the basket started to glow emitting the golden light and after few seconds it vanished from existence without leaving any hint behind. Behind him one Minerva MacGonagal, the Deputy Headmistress gasped and removed her wand suddenly going all defensive as the headmaster also did the exact same thing. Headmaster started muttering a few spells to find out what had happened but as time went and when he couldn't find anything he started to get worried.
"Albus! Where is Harry Potter? What the hell just happened just now?" Minerva asked getting agitated. Standing right next to her one Hagrid was also getting very worried as he saw that even the headmaster was unable to find out what had happened to young Harry Potter. After lot of unsuccessful tries Albus resigned with defeat and decided to call in expert to find out Harry Potter, so he flicked his wand and a beautiful white Phoenix can out from it…..
"Alastor, can you please come to No. 4 Private Drive now? We have a very big problem over here and your assistance will be most welcomed" said Dumbledore to the Phoenix and with another flick the Phoenix vanished with a white flame.
Roxy the Head house elf of the Potter Manor was very sad. Few hours earlier all the Potter house elfs had felt through their magic, Master James's and Mistress Lily's life-force ending. Since being loyal to their master they had all tried to go where they were staying, but were unable to do so. Roxy had been house elf of the Potters even before Master James was born. And like all house elf was very loyal to him. She was deeply saddened with their death, so in order to forget the pain she was feeling, she was trying to clean the whole Manor. She was so busy in her work that she almost missed the small sign of someone entering the Potter Manor. Using her Elfen magic she traced the person being in the Living Room and promptly teleported there. And saw a small bundle on the floor. Roxy got excited seeing that the bundle was a small child with messy hair.
"Master Harry!" shouted Roxy happily, "You are here". One by one all the Potter Elfs started to teleport into the Living Room and started talking excitedly.
"Silence!" shouted Roxy. Moving forward Roxy bent down and lifted Harry Potter from the floor where he was soundly asleep. So Roxy teleported him to his room so he can sleep comfortably on his bed. After making that he was all set in his room, Roxy call a meeting of all the Potter House Elfs in the Kitchen. She had to act and act fast as per the orders given to her. Being the Head House Elf of Potter, Roxy was liable to lots of information that the rest of Potter elfs were not aware off. She also had certain orders to carry out in certain situations, and this was such situation. When she entered the Kitchen she saw that it was fully packed with all the Potter Elfs. So she conjured a small chair in the center of the room and climbed on it so each and every one can see her. She noticed that the Elfs that were present were not only those that worked in Potter Manor but also from other properties that belong to the Potter's. she took a deep breath and addressed all of them in order to make them aware what their next orders are.
"All the Elf's that work in Potter Manor, please go and lock down the Manor, before anyone decides to come visiting. Rest all of you….you are to go to your respective houses and carry on as if nothing has happened. You are forbidden to tell anybody…..and I repeat anybody where Master Harry is after Potter Manor is locked down" ordered Roxy and immediately some of the Elfs left to do as ordered.
"But if Master Dogfather and Master Moon comes and asks us?" one of the Elf asked.
"Even then you are not allowed to tell them. This is a serious matter and until the Potter Guardian appears, we are not to do anything other than to protect the last remaining Potter" replied Roxy.
"But when we will know about this new Guardian and whether he is the real Guardian or not?and whom to trust?" asked another Elf.
"When true Potter Guardian appears, the Guardian will easily be able to get into the Potter Manor even in the lock down state, then I will send message to all of you until then all of you don't know anything that had just occurred here so far" replied Roxy, with that all the remaining Elf's teleported away to their respective jobs.
Roxy sighed and got down from the chair. She had lots to do, but before that she has to complete very important task to complete and went to the fireplace in the Living room. Above the fireplace was a huge painting showing a man sound asleep in a chair. Roxy had her orders, she had to activate the painting now. When Roxy had become the Head house-elf of the Potter's, the previous Head House-elf had himself trained her in all she had to incase of any emergency in the Potter Family and very seriously told her that in dire situations only to activate the painting above the fireplace. According to Roxy this is a dire situation. So she slowly levitated herself to the required height and pressed the Potter Crest next to the painting.
At once the man in the painting came to life and slowly started to slowly move his hands and legs. The man was very tall around six feet in height, having Potter trade mark hair, which by now were flying in all direction. He slowly opened his eyes and Roxy gasped seeing them, his eyes were golden in color and shining very brightly. As far as she was aware, extremely powerful people only had golden eyes. And this person must have been very powerful to retain that even after his death in his painting.
"Good Elf, why did you wake me up? Is there any problem with the Potters?" asked the man in the painting startling Roxy from her thoughts.
"Yes Master Sir, I am Roxy Sir, the Head House-Elf of the Potters, the last head Elf told me to wake you up if there is any problem that anyone else can't be trusted to solve. A situation has aroused and Roxy do not know what to do…." replied Roxy.
"Well first of all I am Ignotous the original patron of the Potters from whom the Potter line began. So tell he Head Elf Roxy what is the condition of the Potter family so far and what is the emergency?" asked Ignotous and Roxy started explaining everything that had happened so far and also told all the information she was liable to, which was lot more than an Elf should have known.
"So Potter line is almost finished except one person, Harry Potter…well I would like to meet him when he wakes up first thing tomorrow" said Ignotous.
"Yes Master Ignotous Sir" replied Roxy, "Roxy do not know what to do since Master Harry had suddenly appeared at the Potter Manor, and Roxy thought to wake you first before doing anything"
"You did the right thing Head Elf Roxy, now I want you to go and give all the Elfs at the Potter Manor to lock it down. Make sure that no one will be able to enter or exit the place except the Potter Elfs" ordered Ignotous.
"Roxy had already done that Master Ignotous Sir, the Potter Manor is fully in Lock Down state"
"Excellent, now the only thing left is to activate the last and final ward which will make it impossible to penetrate and I better start with it before anything happens" said Ignotuos.
"Master Ignotous Sir, What about Master Harry sir? Shouldn't they be searching for him and be worried about him?" asked Roxy.
"Let them worry they shouldn't have interfered in the workings of the Potter Family, this is not their business" replied Ignotous angrily and left the portrait to activate the ward.
Albus Dumbledore was getting very frustrated, two hours had passed so far and they were still trying to debating on where Harry Potter had disappeared to and hadn't even come close to any answer yet. After Harry's immediate disappearance Albus had urgently called his old friend Alastor Moody to find Harry very quickly but it proved vain, not seeing any other way he had reluctantly informed the Minister about Harry's disappearance. To say that the Minister was unhappy was his least worry right now.
The experts from Department of Mystries had even tried their luck but with no result. He had already sent Minerva and Hagrid to the Hogwarts before calling anyone here. Albus was deep in his thoughts when the expert from the Department of Mystries interrupted his mussing.
"Professor we tried everything we know so far about Magic without luck, the only thing that we can think that might have happened is the acting of the Potter Family Magic which is unknown to us, and if it is so then the Family Magic will only take Mr. Potter at his Family home. There is no other explanation that we can think of right now, so it might be better to check there first"
"Of course, why didn't I think about it…..let me go and check there first then" Albus said and tried to directly apparate directly to the Potter Manor but found that he couldn't even picture the Manor properly in his mind. He tried to remember where the Manor was located but found that he could not remember. James's father Charles had added him to the wards few years back and Albus was sure he must have forgotten to remove him from it as he had made lots of trips over there when James and Lily was in hiding to refer to the Potter Library which was very huge. He tried few more times to apparate there but was unsuccessful to do so.
"It looks like the Potter Manor is not allowing me to enter it right now" said Albus "Looks like someone has closed up the Potter Manor"
"If that is so then Mr. Potter surely must be at the Potter Manor" said the unspeakable while preparing to leave. After all that was present at the Private Drive left, Albus apparated to the Hogwarts and wrote a letter to Remus Lupin to come urgently as soon as he gets the letter and sent it with his Phoenix. Next second his Deputy Headmistress entered his office looking anxiously.
"Albus, what happened? Did you find Mr. Potter?" asked Minerva.
"I think that Mr. Potter might be at Potter Manor, but it seems I am unable to enter the Potter Manor" Albus replied.
"Do you think that Potter Manor closed itself off to those who are not Potters?" asked Minerva.
"If that is so my dear Minerva than we have a very big problem infront of us as Mr. Potter is the only person who would be able to take us there" replied Albus getting very worried.
"What are you going to do now Albus?" asked Minerva.
"Well I hope Remus will be able to tell us something more about this situation" replied Albus.
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