The next morning Harry did not come down to breakfast.

But by lunch time they were getting worried and Remus Lupin ventured upstairs to wake him up.

Remus knocked softly, afraid that Harry was still asleep and not wanting to wake him.
"Harry?"
He knocked again.
No response.
He slowly opened the door.

He saw a lump in the bed and decided not to wake up Harry, and closed the door again.

***

At dinner, Remus went up again to see if Harry was awake, and again he saw Harry sleeping. He really didn't want to wake him up, but he didn't want him to go hungry either. So he brought up a sandwich and set it on the table on the room in case he woke up and was hungry. And again, he left.

***
Harry had been asleep for a day and a half now. And Remus went up again to check on him, Sirius was also getting worried and padded into the room ahead of Remus. The dog jumped onto the bed and nudged the lump. He barked. And wrestled with the covers.

"Sirius! What are you doing?!" Remus jumped up and pulled the dog Sirius away. But Sirius had pulled back the covers to find nobody there, but a pillow in it's place.

Sirius started barking like mad, and Remus raced down the stairs and barged into the kitchen.

"He's gone! Harry's run away!"


***


Harry had sneaked out the 2 nights before and was living off the 10 pounds (i don't know English money! so I'm making up something random here! okay) that just happened to be in his pocket the day he left the Dursley's. But 10 pounds can only last you so many days, and by now, Harry was almost out of cash. Since he didn't have a bank account or any form of muggle money, he decided to make his way to Diagon Ally.

He went to Gringotts and pulled out some money. And the next thing he did was to plan out what he was going to do over an ice cream. He sat down at one of the tables eating it and planning what he was going to do. He had been gone from Grimmauld Place for 2 days now. There was only a week left before school started, and he didn't have any of his things with him.

He decided that he couldn't let any of the members of the order know where he was. That would just blow his plan. He hesitated to tell Ron and Hermione, Ron's parents would be suspicious and Hermione would demand that they tell someone where they were.

He couldn't risk letting the Order know where he was.

He couldn't tell Ron or Hermione.

He couldn't be found.


At least, not yet...