1. June. 2019

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Previously:

They drive to a big and boring house. They enter and meet a 50 years old man. He is wearing a suit. (It isn't Mycroft Holmes.) They tell him what they know and what the want.

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Mister Suit says: " Harry Potter isn't a person of interest. I will ask around. If it isn't someone to high, I will be able to start a different investigation. Different prison, different officers. It can't be back-trace to us. The problem is to keep the child away from the Dursleys. We have to either stop whoever did this and changed the memories from doing it, if that really happened, or we have to get the child far enough away. I will need time. I could arrange for a fast adoption but we would need someone who they won't or can't touch. Or. ›Pause‹

It could become difficult to find someone like that who wants to adopt.

Don't do any thing today. You could tip them off. I will ask around and find out the options. If I should do this, i want evidence that something is wrong. I trust you but I still want it. Watch the Dursleys tomorrow but don't let them or the neighbours see you. Come back for dinner. We will discuss and plan than.

Mr. Suit makes some calls and does his thing.

Nizaburo Shiratori goes to his hotel and orders room service. He calls his girlfriend and tells Sumiko what he found out and about the fast adoption.

The DI goes home and tells his female partner about the possibile danger in their future. He does a lot of paperwork. He will be able to spend his time away from the police station. The only things he has to do before he can leave Scotland Yard is paperwork. He does most of it today.

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The next day

The DI is in the station early and does some things. He hands in a big part of his paperwork and tells his boss that he will hand in the rest later and spend the time outside the police station.

Shiratori and the DI meet and observe the Dursleys from far away. They are hidden. They take pictures and a video of a limping Harry. They drive to for dinner.

Mr. Suit has been busy.

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They have a delicious dinner. They don't talk about Harry.

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After dinner

Mr. Suit, the DI, Shiratori and another man sit down and discuss the situation.

"The child is limping. It must have been a bad injury if he is still limping.", Mr. Smith says.

The DI says: " He didn't have the limp when we arrested the Dursleys. He must have gotten it after it."

Mr. Suit says: "I didn't find out who did it. We managed to get a short video and some pictures from cameras but we don't know who that old man is."

He shows them a picture.

Mr. Suit: "The good news is that he isn't a noble, a friend from the royals or someone from the higher ups and he is British. The bad news is that whatever he used could be used again. If Harry would be adopted my someone famous, we could use that because I don't think you could change the memories of a complete country. But he could change the persons memory who than would send Harry somehow back.

I think we should open a new case. Tomorrow. Some police from East London or East from London will search the Dursleys without much noise. They will be arrested. Around 5 o'clock Harry would get adopted."

"That's faster than I thought possible.", Shiratori says. The DI says: " What would that do if that old man does it again? You aren't suggesting to bodily-murder the Dursleys, are you?"

"No.", says. Mr. Smiths says: " I can speed it up. The faster we manage the adoption, the higher is the chance that the old man will be too late."

" The old man was active one day after the arrest. He either has spies or hacked the police computer system. You can see on the video that the old man doesn't know how to operate technology. He didn't know how an elevator or the machines in the underground work. So. It should be spies. I checked the Dursleys and the neighbourhood. At the same time or shortly after the time that Harry is listed with the Dursleys, 4 neighbours moved there. One moved to Australia 3 years ago. One year ago two others moved to other areas near London. One was a close neighbour to the Dursleys. The other one has children who were mobbed and hurt by Dudley Dursley. There is an actual report but the Dursleys blamed Harry. The persons who brought or rented the houses have changed again. They are out. There is one old woman who moved there and stayed. Mrs. Figg. She babysat Harry often. She brought that house with money she hasn't had. She appears a few years before partnership to Mr. Figg. After his bodily-death she had a small house with a garden. She bought the new house before selling the old house which sold for a lot less than the new house costed. She is a spy."

Shiratori says: "That still doesn't change the adoption problem. How do we stop that the old man does it again?"

Mr Suit smiles and says: "Easily. If we have the right theory, than the old man had to meet everyone who had changed memories. He went to Harry's location around the middle of his thing. so. He didn't know where the child was at the beginning.

So.

We will have to hide the child. We have to cover who adopted him. Just have some electronic trails and one paper which gets hidden away. Nobody from the prison, police or others can know who has him or where he is. Someone will know it but they won't know who or that there is someone."

The DI: "Harry will disappear."

Mr. Smith: "Exactly."

Mr. Suit: "We can hide who has him. We can hide the 'where' too. That way the old man has to not just found out who has him which I doubt he will but he has to find where he is."

Shiratori: "If he searches the country? There is still the possibility that he can somehow find him."

Mr. Suit: "Inside the country. A possibility. Outside the country. A different search. We will get the child far away from Great Britain."

"It will be more difficult for a foreigner to adopt a British child and to find a foreigner who would do it and care for Harry.", Shiratori says.

Mr. Suit: " Foreigner from far away. Someone who has money and is good with children. Someone who can understand the abuse the child went through. Someone who is protective of the child. Someone who likes Harry. Someone who we can trust who doesn't work for the old man. Someone who knows about the danger. Someone who knows about the situation and we don't have to tell him about it." Do you know someone like that Inspector? "

Shiratori looks at him for a moment and says: "You are talking about me, aren't you?"

Mr. Suit: "Someone who is leaving the country shortly to France, than China, than Japan. Someone who the police thinks isn't inside the country at this time. The only traces for your stay are electronic and some papers in the hotel which wouldn't e a place where the old man would search. You showed that you care about Harry. You are › Pause‹ not poor. You know about this shit. You are a police officer. Wouldn't you want him?"

Shiratori says: "I. I don't know. I would have to think about it. What if they find it out and go after the trail from the airport? I will have to give them Harry's name. What about the foreigner thing? Different nationalities? The language? I'm not partnered yet?"

Mr. Suit says: "It won't matter that you are a foreigner or single and not partnered yet for the adoption. Mr. Smith has that covered. After the adoption is through, the child won't be a British anymore. Out will have some papers which will function until you land in Japan.

The child is 6 years old. He will learn the new language fast. Especially when he isn't abused. I might actually be a good thing for him. New start. A new language which he can connect to good memories.

The trail? I doubt that they will even search outside of England or Great Britain. At least for a while. The computer data would most likely be deleted at that time. Usually. This situation isn't usual. The computer data will be deleted after you and Harry will have left the French airport. So. No real trail. You will be leaving France the next day which will throw the old man of your trail if he gets that far, which I doubt.

Harry's name? You mean the new name. After the adoption is through, Harry's name will change. Either just the last name will change or perhaps the first or middle name will too. It could be that the child doesn't like them. You will have to decide it with the child. They will search for British Harry Potter and not for Japanese Harry Shiratori.

How about you sleep about it and give me your answer tomorrow morning. We could start the plan tomorrow around 9 o'clock am and be finished with the adoption around dinner. We could put you on the 20:55 - flight to France. If you don't want to, we will have to find someone else. But we will have to move the plan to a later date."

They keep talking for a while.

The DI goes home and does some paperwork.

Mr. Smith does what he does.

Mr. Suit stays home and relaxes.

Shiratori goes to his hotel room and thinks. He doesn't know what to do. He calls his girlfriend. If he adopts Harry, it would change things for Kobayashi too.

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