Harry Potter and the Twist in Time
Chapter 2: Finding Harry
Harry Potter awoke with a start when the world went dark with a bang. He started crying. He was hungry. 'Where were his mum and Dad? Why was he in this dark and damp place?'
Professor McGonagall stormed into Professor Dumbledore's office. "Albus, Harry has gone missing!"
"What? What happened?" questioned Dumbledore.
"I went to the Dursleys today to check on Harry and he wasn't there," McGonagall said, collapsing in a chair, "I checked everywhere and he just isn't there."
"Gather up the group, we need to find him," Dumbledore said, standing up, "I am going to the Dursleys."
Picking up a jar from the mantle piece, he tossed it into the fire. Arriving at his old friend's place, Mrs Figg, Dumbledore questioned her. However, all he found out was that she had never seen Harry.
When Vernon opened the door, he just gaped. Professor Dumbledore was not in anything that looked remotely like muggle clothing.
Recovering from his shock, Vernon yelled, "We don't want any of your kind on our doorstep, so leave!" and he then slammed the door shut.
With a bang, Dumbledore blasted the door open once more, and entered the hallway seething with rage. Vernon lay on the floor, knocked over by the force of the door.
"WHERE IS HARRY JAMES POTTER!" yelled Albus Dumbledore.
Petunia came running into the hallway with a rather overweight baby named Dudley. She immediately screamed at the sight of the wizard towering over her fallen husband.
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH HARRY!" continued Dumbledore. "We had someone check the house and have found that he was nowhere to be found!"
"We… we have… got rid of him," stuttered Vernon. Finally gathering his courage together he continued, "We don't want one of those wretched FREAKS in our house so we got rid of him!"
"Then where have you taken him then," Dumbledore growled, "to an orphanage?"
"What, and leave him and his freakish abilities to some other poor person!" snapped Vernon, "I dumped him in a dumpster where he belongs."
"And where would that dumpster be?" Dumbledore snapped back.
Twenty minutes later, Dumbledore left the Dursley household. Quickly Apparating to Mrs. Figgs, he contacted the order members as to the whereabouts of Harry Potter. Dumbledore then Apparated himself to the alley where the dumpster was located.
Meanwhile, Harry was still lying, cold and alone, in the dumpster. He was growing more and more hungry as each hour passed, yet no one came. He had been crying for the last hour yet still no one came. 'Where are my parents? They can't have left me?' Harry thought.
Dumbledore arrived at the alley. He frowned, how could anyone leave a child in a place like this? One thing for sure I am going to make the Dursleys pay for this. He found the dumpster at the far end of the alley. Coming from inside of the dumpster, he could hear a desperate baby cry.
Behind him, he heard the cracking sound of more people Apparating into the alley. He spun around with the wand in his hand. He immediately saw that it was the other order members including the Longbottoms, Remus Lupin, the Bones, Madam Pomphrey and McGonagall.
"Where is he Albus?" cried McGonagall, "is he alright?"
"I have reason to believe that they have him dumped in this dumpster," Dumbledore replied.
Gently Dumbledore opened the lid of the dumpster. Inside, lay a very upset and dirty baby, still wrapped in his blue blanket. Poor Harry was in a very bad way. He was starving, filthy and his nappy needed changing. But when he saw the people who opened the lid he stopped crying.
"Mooey," Harry cried. Reaching up so Remus (Moony) could pick him up.
"Hey cub," Remus said, lifting Harry up and cuddling him, "you have had a long day."
"What are we going to do with him Albus?" McGonagall asked, "Where is he going to stay now that we know his relatives aren't going to take him?"
"For now he is going to return to Hogwarts, where Poppy can check him out and make sure he is OK," replied Dumbledore, "In the meantime, I am going to the Ministry and tell them that for now we have him. Also, I will see about getting some adoption papers for him. Then I will be seeing about getting those 'so called' relatives of his charged for abandoning him in the first place. So for now, let's return to Hogwarts and get poor Harry cleaned up."
With that, all of them Apparated back to Hogwarts. Remus still cuddling young Harry Potter.
AN: Thankyou for your reviews. I don't know how often I will be updating but I will update hopefully as soon as I have written. In the meantime enjoy.
Fireyhell – I haven't yet decided who he is going to live with. However, he is going to live with a magical family and learn about magic with them. Maybe even learn some. I haven't decided yet.
Drama Queen Girl – Yes Remus is going to play a major part in this story. Maybe even adopting him. Don't know yet. As for hexing the Dursleys now there is an idea.
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