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Chapter 02: Return to Britain

Albus Dumbledore was NOT a happy man.

Almost six years of political hell since young Harry James Potter had disappeared from his relatives' home of Number 4 Privet Drive and he still had no idea, clue, or lead as to where the Boy-Who-Lived had gone. Nor did anyone who had attempted to find him.

It all started three years ago in the summer of 1991 when young Harry was due to receive his Hogwarts acceptance letter. Normally, the letters were handwritten by the Deputy Headmaster or Headmistress, which would be Minerva McGonagall. But the actual envelopes that delivered the letters were written by an enchanted quill that would tap into the Hogwarts archives to find each new first year student's home address and write it down. Then owls who were magically able to track down any address around the world would deliver the acceptance letters to whatever address had been last recorded for that first year child.

All the way up to the envelope part of the process, had things gone smoothly.

Minerva had written the acceptance letter as perfectly as always. The address was copied onto the envelope. But the owl refused to deliver it, or rather, had flown around the Owlery in circles as if looking for a meal before retaking its previous perch and abandoing the letter entirely. Minerva had tried this with every owl available at Hogwarts with the same results each time. So she went to Albus and told him of the situation.

Once informed and confirmed this by watching Minerva's memory inside his Pensieve, Albus immediately departed to Little Whinging, Surrey to check on young Harry Potter.

But the Dursleys had no recollection of ever caring for young Harry. Merlin, they didn't even seem to know who he was except for the fact he was Lily Potter nee Evans' son. Not even using Legilimency on them turned up anything and the Blood Wards he had set up ten years ago were now destroyed, and by his estimation, had fallen three years prior.

Little did he know that new wards had been set up secretly and discreetly had dampened the effects of any kind of magic within the Dursley household. One could overcharge a Killing Curse and fire it off in the house and it would have the effect of a Tickling Charm cast by a first year.

Gringotts had been a dead end as well. Harry's Trust Vault had been completely sealed off by the goblins, whom stated that his magical guardian had ordered all Potter Vaults be sealed and only accessible by a Potter and those he or she gave permission to. Albus had tried to reason he was Harry's magical guardian, approved by the Ministry and the Wizengamot. That's when he was informed that guardianship of Harry James Potter had been transfered over to another approved individual who was under client confidentiality, which meant they were powerful and influential enough to swear the goblins into complete secrecy.

The British Ministry had nothing to add as well. Cornelius Fudge, the current Minister of Magic, had been livid when he heard their hero that saved them the Dark Lord Voldemort, AKA You-Know-Who, was missing. All available Aurors where assigned to tracking the boy down under Albus's leadership using whatever clues were available.

Things worsened for magical Britain when a year after Harry's disappearance, infamous mass murderer Sirius Black escaped Azkaban. Some of the Aurors assigned to track down Harry Potter had to be redirected to recapturing Black and things only got more chaotic from there.

Several months after Black's escape came an official report through the International Confederation of Wizards, mainly from the United States declaring Black innocent of all charges via trial. When the news came out that Black had never received a trial in Britain and had been denied one really got the public in an uproar. The only thing that had kept Fudge in office was the fact it had been the previous Minister's fault, not his.

Not long after the school year began, with a tip from Sirius Black, Peter Pettigrew had been found impersonating a common pet rat in his Animagus form for years under the care of first year Gryffindor Ronald Weasley. Pettigrew had been immediately put under Veritiserum, found guilty of all charges, and sentened for life in Azkaban.

The search for Harry Potter continued on, but misfortune seemed to pile up from there. He had placed Nicholas Flamel's Philosopher's Stone in Hogwarts to lure Tom out of hiding and to initially test Harry of his capabilities as a wizard, but that plan fell apart and he instead had a duo of Gryffindor first years made up of Neville Longbottom, Hermione Granger, and another first year from (surprisingly) Slytherin: Theodore Nott go after the Stone to stop a possessed Quirrell.

But when Albus had arrived at the chamber that housed the Mirror of Erised, the trio was unconscious, Quirrell was dead, Tom was fleeing, and the Stone was missing. And the next day when he tried to contact Nicholas, he found that he and his wife Penelope had disappeared entirely from magical Britain.

School year of 1992 found the Chamber of Secrets. And once again the trio of now second years had figured out the puzzle that none of his staff could. By now, Daphne Greengrass, Tracy Davis, Luna Lovegood, Blaise Zabini, Lavender Brown, Parvatil Patil, and Padma Patil had joined in on the unofficial Hogwarts study group that had dedicated themselves to defending Hogwarts.

Near the end of the year, Neville had gotten into the Chamber of Secrets and slain the basilisk. Turned out first year Slytherin Ginerva Weasley had been possessed by a diary of which Albus was sure was one of Tom's Horcruxes and the 'study group' had discovered that fact and had waited for their chance to enter the Chamber to eliminate the basilisk. Albus had been pelted by Howlers from parents for days when word got out. Lucius Malfoy had been discovered to have planted the diary on Ginerva and was removed as one of the school governors. His house elf, Dobby, was freed on that day and wasn't seen since.

1993, which would have been Harry's third year came around and Peter Pettigrew escaped from Azkaban. Guards had heard him muttering something about Hogwarts so the Ministry had sent Dementors to guard the school in case Pettigrew showed up there. But after an incident during the first Quidditch game, they were sent back to Azkaban after Fudge received a nonstop flow of Howlers from parents. The rest of the year had been peaceful.

Then was the summer and the Quiddtich Word Cup at which Death Eaters had chosen to make a scene and go as far as sending the Dark Mark into the sky. Fortunately no one had been reported dead, but a house elf owned by Barty Crouch was blamed for casting the mark and was 'freed'. The house elf, Winky, hadn't been seen since then.

Now it was time for the school year of 1994. The Triwizard Tournament was now underway as the schools of Durmstrang Institute of Magic and Beauxhatons Academy of Magic had been invited to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to participate in the reinstated historical event.

October 31, 1994. It was now time for the Champion Selection Ceremony. All three schools' students and faculty were assembled in the Great Hall awaiting the Goblet of Fire to choose the Champion to represent each school in the Tournament and every student was leaning on the edge of their benches in excited anticipation.

For Durmstrang, Victor Krum was chosen.

Fleur Delacour was to be Beauxhatons' Champion.

And Cedric Diggory was representing Hogwarts.

Then, unexpectedly, the Goblet of Fire shot out of its flames a fourth piece of parchment which Albus caught easily and read aloud the name that was written upon it for all in the Hall to hear.

"Harry Potter."

Silence filled the hall so quiet you would have been able to hear a pin drop in the room from the other side.

Then a bright flash of light in the center of the Hall caught everyone's attention as two voices began shouting at each other.

"What the hell?! How did we get here?!"

"How should I know?! Weren't you the one being pulled by some unknown force? Cut the damn connection off already and let's go!"

"Don't you think i would have if I could? There's something binding about it!"

"For God's sake, or you a Mage or not? Just cut through it and be done with it!"

"If you're so good, why don't you do it?!"

"Maybe I will!"

"You wanna have a go?!"

"Bring it!"

With that battle cry, both persons leaped at each and began firing off spells at one another in rapid succession. What surprised everyone watching was that none of the spells that went astray from the battle seemed to even hit a single bystander. But what shocked them more was the fact the two apparent boys were casting spells wandlessly and non-verbally, which was considered to be advanced magical techniques not learned until one's sixth and seventh year and they were clearly only around fourteen years old or so.

After about five minutes of this, Albus had had enough and shot out a loud BANG from his wand and shouted at the fighting pair, "ENOUGH!"

As the dust settled, everyone in the Great Hall could now make out what the two boys looked like. One was of average height for a fourteen year old with short messy black hair, green eyes, round glasses, and what appeared to be a muggle T-Shirt jeans that did little to hide his obvious muscles that had many of the female population drooling.

The other boy had similar reactions from the girls as well. His short silver hair, blue eyes, and same style clothes that didn't hide his well-fit physique had many of the males wondering what they had to do to be as good looking as them.

It was the raven-haired teen though, that many in the Hall knew was the boy that the magical world had been searching for for the past six years.

Harry Potter had been found.

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End of Chapter 02

Author's Notes & Disclaimer:
I thank those who apparently like this story so far and favorited it, but I really would appreciate reading some feedback from you guys. Leave a review with your thoughts and I'll see what I can do to improve since I'm too used to writing Yu-Gi-Oh! fanfics lately. I do not own Harry Potter or any aspect of other anime when I bring up references later on. Bye!