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Chapter 2
Albus Dumbledore was having a good day.
He had as usually woken up early and found a cup of hot raspberry tea waiting for him, a his favourite one. The breakfast in Great Hall was a quiet one, only once interrupted by Slytherins, who were suddenly dressed in bright pink clothes, a prank he suspected that young William Weasley was responsible for. Deciding to let him have his fun, he just mumbled insincere warning and went resume eating his breakfast. The day continued by usual routine, and around noon, Cornelius Fudge showed up for another advice, regarding some unimportant matter. Later, he received, to his great delight, a brand new packet of Lemon Drops. Late afternoon Severus as usually came enraged into his office, demanding that some Gryffindor should be expelled, followed by loudly protesting Minerva. Everything was normal.
But then it all changed.
It was late at night and Albus was having a peaceful chat with Minerva, when one of his silver sensors suddenly started to ring. Annoyed to be bothered, he looked up to it and immediately paled as he saw the instrument show that the wards around Privet Drive had fallen. He quickly run to other instruments, which usually monitor Harry Potter health, only to find them disabled. It was very worrisome that the charms, he placed on Harry were broken, but he also felt little relived as they didn't show his death and so, a hope remained that he was alive.
"Albus, what is going on? Is something wrong?" Minerva asked him from behind.
"The wards around Privet Drive had fallen. I have to check on it immediately," he said and placed one of his old quills on the desk. "Portus."
"I am going with you," she said and Dumbledore quickly agreed, not wanting to waste any precious moment. "Here we go. One, two three..."
They both felt the familiar tweak, and the next moment they both slammed into ground, barely managing to stay on their feet. When they steadied themselves, they looked up and gasped in surprise.
Once so big and beautiful house was gone. In its place now stood burnt wreck, from which still smoked. They could see in distance firefighters and paramedics searching the house and one team had just wrapped the heavily burned body in blanket. The smell of smoke hung heavily in the air, making breathing very difficult.
They made their way to the house, when a policeman stopped them. "Please stand back. You can't go there. Only authorised persons are allowed to go in."
Dumbledore suppressed his worries and kindly asked him. "Don't worry, son. We were just curious of what is happening."
"It looks like gas explosion," cop shrugged. "When we came here, the house was already burned. By now, we already discovered three bodies, two of adults and one of child."
Dumbledore wanted to ask more questions, but he was distracted by sounds of apparation. The group of ministry employees, led by young auror Kingsley Shacklebolt appeared across the street. Shacklebolt was surprised by presence of powerful wizard, but he quickly hid it and made his way toward him.
"I hadn't expected you to be here. Amelia said that their devices discovered a huge magical backslash and we were sent here to see what happened and oblivate the Muggles."
"My sensors detected that wards around Number 4 had fallen. I fear that young Harry might be in trouble," Dumbledore replied.
"Harry? As Harry Potter? Merlin beard! Terchew, take half of team a team and search the house. I will took the other half and go through the neighborhood."
Aurors quickly followed the orders and spread across the street. Dumbledore and McGonagall wanted to follow their example, when they were joined by Arabella Figg.
"Albus, thank god you are here! I just flooed to your office, but you were already gone, so I came back here. Oh that's so horrible, what are we going to do?"
Dumbledore tried to reassure the panicked woman. "Don't worry Arabella, I'm sure Harry is fine. Why don't you rather tell me, if you saw anything suspicious a last few days?"
"No, everything was normal. I had Mr Tibies in front of his house whole week and he detected nothing unusual."
"Then, the only thing we can do is to hope that he is alright."
Aurors soon came back and reported that they haven't seen Harry. They were all relived that there was no body, but also worried, when they couldn't get a single clue about his whereabouts.
Kingsely soon excused himself. "I'm sorry Albus, but I have to go back to Ministry and report this to Amelia. But I'm sure she will sent more people here to find Harry when she become aware of this event."
"Sure, she has to found out what is happening. Just be sure that this information doesn't become public. We could never get rid of them," replied Dumbledore.
The others also suddenly realized that they have to go back to their jobs. They left all depressed, not being able find and save their saviour was hard blow for them.
Albus and Minerva tried to search Harry for some time, but they eventually gave up and left back to the Hogwarts, where they separated.
Albus went to bed with restless thoughts. He couldn't imagine how had such a perfect day changed into his worst nightmare. He tried to found out what happened at Dursley household and where Harry is, if he is still alive of course. He also felt guilty he hadn't put more guards around Privet Drive, as they might prevent this event. Another matter was the prophecy. He knew that Lord Voldemort was still alive and Albus knew that it is only matter of time before he find a way to regain his former body. Harry had to be with them when this happened and be trained as he was predicted to be their saviour. He also knew that news about Harry disappearance will be in morning Prophet and there will be massive manhunt after Harry, by friends and Death Eaters alike. And the most he could do was to pray that Harry is safe.
No, Albus Dumbledore definitely wasn't having a good day.
End of chapter.
So this was just a short interlude where Dumbledore discover Harry is missing. The next chapter is again from Harry POV.
