With Every Sacrifice
Chapter 10: Mysterious
Albus Dumbledore sighed when Remus shook his head. The news wasn't good.
Harry had been missing from number 4 pivet Drive for the last two weeks. The Order of the Phoenix had become worried once Harry's letters stopped arriving almost three weeks earlier, and now that his disappearance had been confirmed, they were almost frantic.
The aging headmaster of Hogwarts nodded his head. He was gravely concerned that something horrible had happened to Harry. Reports indicated that a stranger had been allowed into the house on the same day school's last term had ended. Dumbledore had thought nothing of it. The background check seemed normal enough…
He slowly opened a ring of parchment that had been delivered weeks before. No one had really paid any attention to it. Standard in form but maybe it held something they had missed…
Remus glanced over Albus' shoulder and read it quickly. A small frown formed on his face.
"He's muggle born but something seems out of place. Maybe the information is wrong. After contacting the Dursleys it seems that they let Kannes take Harry with him to buy more school supplies. They never returned. Harry hasn't been heard from since and Hermione and Ron haven't received information from him at all for the past near month. The Durselys also said Kannes had been distant to them but seemed unnaturally interested in Harry. I don't think he's anywhere near the normal man the reports show him to be. We need to find Harry. The Daily Prophet is having a field day with his disappearance. The latest headlines say 'Abducted Boy Who Lived. Maybe For Good.' We have to act fast Albus! We have to find him." Remus said, his voice stressed and his hands balled into fist with a newspaper in the right one.
Albus slowly stood up from his desk and glanced over at the rumpled paper.
"I know, but where to start? It seems Kannes wasn't even going to classes even though he was registered. He was using it as a cover and also his father's connections to get close to Harry. He may have been working for someone. Tom might have changed tactics to get to Harry. But, even still… this man went through our barriers without any warning. He shouldn't have had any ill will towards Harry." He reasoned, feeling distraught.
"Like the Durselys have good will." Remus said sarcastically. Harry had said something before about his families' distrust of magic.
Albus sighed, quite aware that Harry didn't have the most cheery time out of the school's gates. "We have no leads or sources. I think we should have Severus use Oculemtly on his family. We need to figure out if anything strange happened."
Harry James Potter landed hard in the dirt. His glasses fell off his face and he let out a sharp scream. Irvine smirked a little and then used one hand to haul Harry up from the ground. The brown haired man then turned to face their latest opponents.
They had finally encountered Zero.