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Chapter 4: POVS
12 Grimmauld Place, 14 August 1996
In a little room, in a house in london, sat 2 girls, worriedly pacing the room, one of them was a bushy haired brunette and brown warm eyes, the other was a pretty girl with red hair. You see this two girls were Hermione Granger and Ginny Weasley respectively and the subject of their worry was centred upon a certain raven haired youth known as Harry Potter and his mysterious disappearance (the Daily Prophet had been printing stories of Harry joining You-know-who and betraying the Wizarding World)
"Do you think Harry turned dark" Ginny asked nervously
"No I don't, I don't think he has I trust Harry, and I believe that he would never do anything like that, especially join the man who killed his parents. Harry may be many things but stupid is not one of them." hermione replied
"But it seems unlike Harry, he would never just up and leave and especially without writing a note to at least say he was safe" Ginny whined
Yeah I know, he wouldn't but don't worry, I'm pretty sure that Harry will turn up sooner or later" Hermione said "I just hope that he will turn up sooner rather than later" she added as an after-thought
"But he could be hurt or worse still mentally incapable, I wouldn't put it past You-know-who to try to cast "imperio" on him or worse still the cruxiatus curse (A/N: I can't spell the "pain" curse properly, so anyone who can, please review and give me the right spelling) on him and torture him to insanity, if Harry refuses to obey him and knowing Harry he probably would" Ginny sobbed
"Don't worry Ginny, Harry wouldn't go down without a fight" Hermione consoled
Suddenly Ginny burst into tears, Hermione was taken by surprise but mentally shrugged and hugged Ginny trying to console her, Ginny between sobs said.
"That is just what I don't want to happen for Harry to die or for him to be hurt like Neville's parents" Ginny muttered
"Ginny I know how you feel, we all do too, losing my best friend is notsomething I wantto happen everyday" Hermione consoled
"You don't know how I'm feeling" Ginny shot
"What do you mean, I don't know what you're feeling, I LOST MY BEST FRIEND", Hermione said stressing every word "I have known him for 4 years" calming down slightly she continued and you tell me "You don't know how I'm feeling", if you think that I don't know how you're feeling you've got another thing coming and besides I'veknown him longer than you have what makes you think that you feel sadder than anyone else.
"Because... because...I..eh, because I fancy Harry o.k", Ginny replied blushing crimsonand I never got to tell him how I felt before he left.
She turned to look at Hermione who was gaping stupidly at her
"For how long" Hermione manged to blurt out
"Well since I could walk really, you seethe wizarding worldalways worshipped Harry as a hero, my bedtime stories were about him defeating the you-know-who, about how brave and noble he was, When I came to HogwartsI experienced it first-hand, Harry came to my rescue in the Chamber of Secrets, he was my "knight in shiny armour" I learnt that not only is Harry all of those things he is also kind, funny and generous, did you know that he gave his tri-wizard winnings to Fred and George to open their own joke shop" Ginny said
"Well why didn't try to talk to him" Hermione asked "You know ask him out, he doesn't have a girlfriend...yet.
"Yeh like just go up to him and say, Hi Harry, I proper fancy you, would like to go to Hogsmead with me? I would look totally ridiculous, plus Harry wouldn't go for girls like me, he is rich and famous so he would probably go for beautiful rich girls like that Cho" she spat the last word with venom.
"I think you are not giving Harry credit, I know he likes Cho but I just think its a little crush that will disappear in time". Hermione answered.
"A little crush, Gee did you see the looks that he was giving her at the Yule Ball, I would give a hundred galleons for him to look at me like that. Ginny replied sadly.
"So are you going to ask him out when he comes back? Hermione asked.
"I'll try to ask him out but, I can't even talk to him, every time I look at his emerald eyes,I feel I could lose myself in them and then I find myself stuttering" Ginny answered
"Yeah I know his eyes gives you a dreamy feeling" Hermione said knowingly
At that moment Ron walked into the room and went to Hermione who kissed him passionately (Ron & Hermione had gotten together after Harry disappeared) and nodded to Ginny before proceeding to sit on the bed beside Hermione.
"What are you talking about babe"He asked
"Harry" Hermione replied
Ron was jealous for a moment or so but hid it he then said
"Don't worry Hermy, Harry will be alright, I don't believe all the tales of him joiningyou-know-who, and he will pull through he always does"
"I hope you are right Ron, I truly do" she said before hugging him and then following him down the stairs for dinner, all their thoughts were of relief, somehow talking to each other had put their faith in Harry pulling through safe and sound.
Earlier11Ausust (2weeks afterHarrydisappeared)
Somewhere in Riddle Manor
A snake-like figure paced uncontrollably, along the throne room, he was in atowering rage, his red eyes shone with anger, all because of a boy; Harry Potter, the stupid brat had been declared missing and the rumour was that Potter had joined him, he sneered
That boy join me, he is too "good" to even cast a decent cruxiatus curse.
Secretly, though he would have liked the boy to join him, he knew the brat was powerful and together no one could match them, but the boy was too stubborn (too much of a Griffindor) and would refuse to join him even if he decided to kill him, he had attacked the Weasley residence to use his friends to goad him but it seemed that the old coot Dumbledore had been aware of his plans and had moved the Weasley and the mud-blood Granger to a Fidelus Charmed residence. Though all hope was not lost, the entire wizarding world was making it easy for him discreditng their hero; Potter and denying his re-birth, this made it easier for him to work in the shadows. For now though he just had to find the lad, it seemed the lad had grown a brain and had used a Dark Fidelus Charm on himself to hid him, that was the only way, he couldn't have been found with the entire wizarding world searching for him. If the boy was using the Dark Arts to hide himself, it would seem that he had probably had a split with the old man Dumbledore, that was a problem to worry about later, but for now he had to think of a way that the boy had escaped and beaten Bella, one of his most powerful and loyal servants (a/n: Merlin used wandless and wordless magic to hitBella from behind so ahe would't know if it was indeed Harry who hit her or not)
Flash Back
Hehad sent his most trusted and loyal servants to go capture the potter brat, the only reason he hadn't gone himself was because he expected Dumbledore to be guarding the Weasleys and he knew Bella would be no match for Dumbledore, so he had gone to the Weasleys and she had gone to the muggle residence where Potter lived with specific orders to capture the boy and bring him back, but that was 3 hours ago andas said before he had failed to capture the Weasleys and nobodyhad seen hide nor tail of Bella.
As he was thinking, the door opened to revealBellatrix Lestrange limping in, he smiled to himself the boy hadn't gone down without a fight, she got within touching distance and postratedon the floor, kissing the hem of his robes. He snorted impatiently at her
"Rise Bella, I hope for your sake you didn't fail me" he said
She started whimpering and crying, begging for forgiveness
"My... my...Lord, I'msorry, I...
Immmediately he knew something was wrong, with incredible speed, he rushed down from his throne and grabbed her byrobes lifting her clean off the ground, quickly scanning her surface memories usingLegilimency, he threw her across the room with force and bellowed
"YOU FAILED ME BELLA, YOU COULDN'T EVEN KILL THE BRAT. CRUCIO"
The spell hit Bella and she was lost in a world of pain, he enjoyed the way she writhed on the floor, screaming herself hoarse, he held the spell for 2 minutes, before releasing it. He instantly felt better
"Come here Bella" he hissed
She got up and limped over to his side, he grabbed her left hand and mutteredon the dark mark
"Modre"
Immediately, she screamed in pain with the force of him summoning all his inner circle Death Eaters, he went back to his throne and sat down on his throne awaiting the appearance of his servants. He didn't have to wait long within minutes they all stood before him and bowed down. He then got up and subjected all of them to 4 rounds of the cruxiatus curse, before sending them to find the Potter brat.
End Flashback
That was 2 weks ago and still no sign of Potter, he had been forced to abandon his search efforts to locate the brat, he had even tried using the boy's link with him in his scar to locate him but all to no avail, it seemed that the boy was not in this world anymore or had become a master Occlumens because he couldn't find him anytime he tried he ended up in a very dark place where one couldn't tell one's eyes from their nose, he had almost killed himself once when he stumbled in the boys mind and just kept on falling, if it hadn't being for him being a master at the mind Arts, he wouldn't have been able to rescue himself and break off the link, but that had caused him a mighty headache for 2 days. Oh well he was going to be patient and wait for the boy like others were doing to show up before making his move and at that time Potter was going to regret ever crossing paths with him.
Hogwarts
14 August 1996
In the safety of Hogwarts wards, paced an old man with a long white beard and half-moon spectacles, the twinkle that was normally in his eyes was gone and his steps were somehow uncorresponded, this man was of course the great and esteemed Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Leader of the Light, and Defeater of the Dark Lord Grindelwald, people who knew this man would have said that he had aged in the last 2 weeks or so, and the truth was he had, the reason for his uncharacteristics behaviour was that his plans had been disrupted with the disappearance of one Harry James Potter.
The boy had run away somewhere and had caused him to put a hold on his plans, which was to use the link between Tom and Harry in Harry's scar to bring about Tom's downfall, he planned to remove the block that he had placed on Harry when he was just a few months old and then train Harry to full strength. After that he would use Harry turning evil as bait to lure Tom and then force him to fight Harry on an even field, and he had no doubt that Harry would prevail because only he knew that Harry was a High Mage, whereas Tom was a High Socerer, no doubts who would win in an even playing field there.
Right now he needed to go andconvince Young Weasley (Ron) and Miss Granger (Hermione) about accepting Auror training and allow them and The Weasley twins to join the Order of the Phoenix.
He got up and grabbed his floo powder and quietly whispered
"12 Grimmauld Place".
He disappeared in a cloud of smoke.
12 Grimmauld Place
14 August 1996
In a dark room in the Black residence, a man called Sirius Black and his friend a Marauder called Remus Lupin were contemplating the disappearance of Sirius' Godson; Harry Potter.
Sirius was stood by the window looking into the stars and Remus wassat on the bed, as Sirius stood there he suddenly felt a warm tingling sensation surrounding him he could feel the love and he heard Harry's voice in the stars comforting him and assuring him that he was fine.
He turned to look at Remus and said
"Did youhear that"
"Hear what?" Remus asked curiously
"Harry's voice telling me that he was going to be safe and I shouldn't worry about him" Sirius replied
"No, I didn't but you see Harry is safe" Remus acknowledged
"Yeah I guess so, anyway I'm hungry are you coming down for dinner? Sirius asked
"Yeah in a minute" Remus replied
"Ok" Sirius said before exiting the room.
Remus then looked into the stars and whispered
Stay strong, cub, come back safe and ready to defeat Voldermort, your parents would be proud of you.
Before proceeding to walk out and lock the door.
My4th chapter. Hope you like it.
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