The shadowed figure approached number 4 Privet Drive and looked down at the boy sleeping on the porch. He picked the boy up into his arms and glanced at the cut on his forehead that was still bleeding. He waved his hand over it and it was healed. However to his surprise it hadn't vanished.
"You have surprised me twice today little one, and I'm not an easy person to surprise." The man stated as if trying to explain even though he knew the boy wouldn't understand. "It has been a long time since someone from this realm has been sensed someone in ours".
With that he turned and began walking slowly talking to the boy about where they were going despite them being asleep. What little practise the man had with children had taught him that they like the sound of a voice and that they found it to be calming.
"I'm going to get you ready for what you have to face, something that the people who left you here are ignoring. If the Gods deem you worthy enough to be sensed through the barrier then it is the least that I can do." The man looked at the boy again although this time he looked a little deeper and found out everything there was to know about the boy. "Well Harry", the man said softly, "I believe I will need to peer into a few more minds to learn and then teach you this magic of yours before we go home for you will need it." With that the man disappeared.
Albus Dumbledore sat in his office reflecting on the day that had just taken place full of parties and speeches and finally dropping young Harry off at the Dursley's. He knew they were horrible people but this way at least when he arrived at Hogwarts he would find it to be a wonderful place and he could use that to mould the boy into what he needed him to become.
The professor was just about to reach for a lemon drop when suddenly a man holding a bundle of blankets in his arms appeared in his office. The professor (despite his surprise at seeing the person apparently apparate into his office) immediately recognised the blanket as the one that Harry had been wrapped in when he left him at Private Drive.
Dumbledore immediately reached for his wand but found that it wasn't there.
"Looking for this?" the man said.
"Who are you?" Dumbledore said with great anger in his voice although there was most definitely a bit of curiosity mixed in as well.
"That is none of your concern I'm afraid but I will let you know that Mr. Potter here will be in good hands. However I am lacking certain knowledge of how to teach him what he needs to learn which brings me to why I am here." Then as he had done earlier to Harry the man peered into Albus' eyes and found a slight barrier but pushed it aside as if it were nothing and found all the magical knowledge placed within his mind as well as a few interesting facts pertaining to Harry that made him quite angry.
Albus collapsed at the strain that had just been placed upon his mind. After what seemed like an eternity he looked up at the man who conjured a staff.
"Thank you Dumbledore your knowledge has been of great help to me however I must be off you have clued me into a few people I wish to visit before I return home. Goodbye Albus." The man turned and then just before he disappeared or Albus could say anything the man shouted obliviate and restored Albus and his office so that there was no indication that anything had ever happened except for the invisibility cloak that was no longer in the bottom drawer of the professor's desk.
The man after a long night of travel and visiting many experts in this realms magic including the Flamel's, Severus Snape, a young girl who could change her appearance by the name of Nymphadora Tonks and finally Sirius Black who he delivered an unconscious rodent after speaking to one Remus Lupin and explained to them both why he had to take Harry away. It took a lot of work but he finally convinced them that is was the correct course of action. He stood in a large clearing on the edge of the woods overlooking a small town known as Ottery St. Catchpole more specifically a building that the inhabitants called The Burrow. He had no real reason to be there simply curiosity, as Harry seemed to be connected to someone there. Whenever he travelled Harry tried to take him here it wasn't much of a pull but enough to make him want to know what was so special to his young ward.
The man threw the invisibility cloak over himself and his ward and entered into the home not making a noise. He made his way upstairs to a room with a crib, which held a little red haired girl. He couldn't help but smile and thought to himself you're lucky young Harry I lost mine a long time ago he made to turn but then a thought occurred to him. It was an abstract ritual of his people and they were of the right age for it. Although it hadn't been performed in many, many years. He placed Harry down beside the girl and cast a privacy ward. He then looked into the mind of the girl and started the ritual. It was all done in Latin except for one phrase I thee bond Ginevra Molly Weasley and Harry James Potter.
Finally, Harry and the man took their leave and once they were far enough away he removed the privacy ward and The Burrow was suddenly filled with crying as Molly Weasley made her way to her daughters room. The man turned for one final look at The Burrow and noticed the lights were on in the girl's room. He looked down at Harry who also seemed to be quite distressed.
"I'm sorry Harry but this bond will keep both of you safe from a great number of things and while it will be quite straining to keep you separate for so long it is truly for the best but don't fret little one for you will see her again in a decade or so I promise and your love will be the things of legends and you will be able to share with her everything that I have to teach you." With that Harry Potter was taken from this realm and he wouldn't be seen in it again for almost 12 years.