An Ancient Power Returns
Chapter 2
{Flashback}
Harry Potter was on his first day of school. A beautiful red haired girl in his class was criticizing him. "I think that you should get better clothes. Yours are much too baggy and ratty to be in.", she exclaimed. His cousin Dudley came by and pushed her roughly out of the way and started to beat Harry. A loud bang and flash of light had Dudley disappearing and reappearing hung by his undershorts from the flag pole.
The next thing he saw he was in grade 4 and his uncle was purple faced because he had done better than Dudley in school, which was unacceptable in his uncle's eyes. He went to swing at Harry only for him to disappear and reappear in the front of Big Ben in London.
When he was 9 a garbage can blew up next to Piers and Dudley as they were beating on some little kids. Harry didn't know how it had happened he just thought it would serve them right and it happened. The boys were in the hospital for 3 weeks.
Then came the incident on Dudley's 11th birthday while they were in the zoo first he was actually talking with a lion when no one was around which he found strange... but the weirdest thing was when he talked to a snake after setting it free and trapping his cousin in its cage by making the glass disappear and then reappear.
Then he managed to beat a troll in the girl's bathroom in his first year after he went looking for Hermione to warn her. He actually wound up causing the floor to swallow it so that it could not move. Unfortunately it killed the troll when the floor formed back crushing it. The teachers were quite surprised to say the least.
He was then responsible for stopping Quirrell/ Voldemort from getting the Philosopher's Stone which ended when the possessed professor touched Harry and burst into flames and then blew away as ash.
In his second year he discovered that he was a parselmouth meaning he was able to speak with snakes which he thought made sense as he thought about the zoo incident. Later that year he took down a 60 foot Basilisk with a small bit of help from Fawkes (Dumbledore's Phoenix).
{End Flashback}
Harry awoke with a start. He could still feel his magic rage through him like a tsunami but it seemed to be more natural to him now ..like it had attuned itself to him better. His Aura was flashing rapidly between red, green, blue, white, silver and gold. He looked around to see the Red with bluish green ringed eyes staring at him in shock. A chill went down his spine as they stared at him it was like they were looking into his soul but in an expression of shock.
The look on Merlin's face at the surprising coloring of the boys aura was priceless. He had known that adding a large portion of his magic to the boy while in the womb would have some changes, but he did not expect that. The power the boy had was well beyond that of the old wizard himself. As he looked into the boy's magic he noticed a block that was placed there and decided to remove it the next time he was rendered unconscious which it turned out would not be long. He definitely had to help this boy gain full control as it would only increase in a year's time.
Merlin snapped out of his stunned state and handed the boy a potion and a plate of food while he checked him over for any signs of the darkness or any other injuries. Repairing quickly the physical damage to bones and muscles caused by the abuse from Harry's relatives over the years, ensuring the boy was healthy. He then went back to a caldron that was bubbling away and quickly finished off the potion he had been brewing as he added 2 drops of a clear liquid Harry would later learn was griffon tears.
The potion was cooled then poured into a mug. Merlin then handed to Harry who was told ,"Drink this it will bring your body up to the proper size and physical fitness you were supposed to be, after fixing your malnourishment from over the years." Hearing this Harry downed the contents but did not notice any differences . He looked at the man who called himself 'Merlin'.
"Are you sure you brewed it right? I don't feel..." As he was about to finish his statement a soft light appeared and started growing bright and then a pain shot through his body so badly that Merlin never got to talk to him for a week. By this time Harry had been gone 2 weeks. Merlin used this time to ensure that (1) someone knew the boy was safe and (2) the blocks were removed from the knowledge Merlin added when Harry was still in the womb and the block that was placed on Harry's power by someone else.
Back at Hogwarts Professor Dumbledore was sitting at his desk lost in thought about the disappearance of young Harry Potter. He had Ministry and Order Members scouring the country side for him. A sudden flaring of the fireplace brought Dumbledore out of his thought as Harry's Godfather Sirius Black stepped into his office and slumped into a chair.
"Any luck in the search?" Asked Dumbledore
"Not yet but I hope he is found soon. I know he is still alive as the Goblin's still show his family vault and his school vault as being active. They would not be if he was dead." responded Sirius. " We have searched all over the countryside and every town and city in England. If he is still here he is under some heavy protection."
"I am sure we will find him it is just a matter of time."
Meanwhile in the Slytherin girl's dorm, a young woman with dark cherry red hair was think about a certain raven haired young man whom had disappeared on Halloween. She had been looking forward to her date with the young man only to learn he had literally vanished. Her dreams were haunted by his deep emerald green eyes. She shut the book she had been studying from and set it aside as tears started to fall. She closed the curtains around her 4 poster and added a silencing charm before crying herself to sleep again. That night she had a strange dream not of young Mr. Potter but of an old man with eerie eyes of red with a bluish green ring. He said "Do not to worry about Harry Potter. He is safe and will be returned by the end of the Winter Solstice one year from now."
Daphne woke with a start after hearing that and quickly put on a night cloak and her slippers and hurried to the headmaster's office. She normally did not trust the man that much but figured he might want to know about his golden boy. She reached the stone gargoyle who told her to wait a moment in the office and Dumbledore would be there shortly. It stepped aside and Daphne ran up the stairs and into the office. A soft trill caught her attention as the beautiful red and gold phoenix looked at her like he was looking into her soul. Eerie she thought as she looked at the bird. At that moment a soft clearing of the throat could be heard as Dumbledore caught her attention.
" How can I help you miss Greengrass?" asked Dumbledore softly but clearly. He was standing at the top of the steps leading to his room in the top of his office.
"Professor, I had a strange dream, or vision , or I am not sure what to call it." Daphne started. Dumbledore's eyes looked shocked and then he quickly replaced it with his soft twinkle and smile he always seemed to have.
"Go on, tell me all about it." , He encouraged. He hoped that this was not just some girl's deluded fantasy.
"Well I cried myself to sleep as I have for the last 2 weeks since Halloween. But instead of the usual dreams I have been having I saw an Elderly Man with red eyes that had a bluish green ring around them. He spoke to me and it seemed so real. He said ' Do not to worry about Harry Potter. He is safe and will be returned by the end of the Winter Solstice one year from now.' I woke up after that and came straight to you."
This time Dumbledore had not been able to hide the shock on his face. He quickly got up and moved to a book case muttering what sounded like it couldn't be he has been dead for 1500 years. He grabbed a book off the shelf and quickly flipped through it to a description of a man known to many as the greatest wizard to have ever lived. As he read the description the author gave of the man, Dumbledore's face paled immensely.
He turned to Daphne and handed her the book with a picture with a description for her to read. To say she was shocked was an understatement as the eyes from the dream were the same staring at her from the book.
