Missing boys
"Come on Harry. Lets leave April with her mood swings and you can come with me to get a report off Arthur Weasley." James said to Harry. Harry turned to look at April who was looking at reports and appeared to be seething. Harry nodded quickly, sensing April's anger even where he was at his age. James lifted him off the desk and set him on the floor. Harry waited patiently for James to put his auror robes on and then smiled.
"Where are we going?" Harry asked. He loved coming to work with his dad. Though it was a little bit boring he didn't mind.
"We're going to go and see a crazy red haired man." James said. Harry laughed.
"Is he really crazy?" Harry asked.
"Maybe, I've never really met him before" James said.
"I like crazy people" Harry said. "Like Uncle Sirius, he is mad." Harry said James laughed and glanced at April. April was again engrossed in her paperwork. James pushed the door open and Harry ran out into the busy Auror Headquarters.
"Harry, stay near me." James said. Harry nodded and stuck near James.
"Potter" said someone from a cubicle, a black wizard was leaning out of one of the cubicles.
"Shacklebolt." James said.
"Nice kid you got there? What's he doing here?" Kingsley Shacklebolt asked. Harry smiled.
"He's my son. His birthday and I promised I'd take him to work" James said. Kingsley's eyes went to his forehead. James and Lily were still growing used to people staring at their son's forehead. Kingsley nodded then turned in his seat.
"Look after him. Apparently Malfoy is in the building today. I still don't trust him, despite what the minister seems to think of him." Kingsley said. James smirked.
"Been hanging around with Moody a bit much have we?" James asked. Kingsley grinned.
"There is some wisdom behind that ugly face of his." Kingsley said. James nodded and took Harry's hand. Harry wasn't really paying attention, he was marvelling at the hustle and bustle of the busy auror headquarters. A few people gave him a few curious looks but Harry was growing used to that.
"Come on Harry." James said. Harry followed him, holding onto Harry's hand tightly but let go to open the door. Harry clung onto his dad's auror robes for safety.
"Where are we going?" Harry asked.
"I told you," James said with a smile. "To visit the mad Muggle artefacts man" Harry chuckled. James pushed open a few doors. Harry looked through the windows that lined the wall.
"It wasn't raining earlier!" Harry said with a frown.
"The maintenance wizards are annoyed with the ministry. I think they want a payrise. But that's not for me to decide. Now lets see. Arthur Weasley" James muttered to himself. He looked at a door that led to a small stuffy office. He pushed open the door. The office was fairly small. Smaller then his and April's office. There were two desks squashed in and piles of parchment stacked almost everywhere. There was a red haired man with horn- rimmed glasses on. He was bent over some parchment.
"Fascinating, simply fascinating." He muttered under his breath.
"Mr. Weasley." James asked uncertainly. The red haired man looked up.
"Yes, ah, Mr. Potter" He said. James scowled, how did the man know his name? Probably the same way everyone else knew his name.
"I'm here to collect the fire arms report." James said. Mr. Weasley nodded and got out his wand.
"Here it is. I thought you already had a report on fire arms."
"No, that was bombs" James corrected. Mr. Weasley nodded. James turned around and frowned, where was Harry. "Harry?" James asked looking around. HE went into the hall.
"Harry?" Mr. Weasley asked, "Your son?"
"Yes." James tucked the report into his robes and looked frantically up and down the halls of the ministry.
"HARRY!" James shouted. There was no reply. Mr. Weasley had a look around his office.
"He isn't in here." Mr. Weasley said. "May I ask...what is your son doing here?" James looked at Mr. Weasley.
"It's a long story, basically it's his birthday" James bit his lip nervously. "Shit, Lily is going to kill me. Thank you Mr. Weasley"
"Arthur"
"Well, thank you but I have to go and find my son." James said hurrying down the hall.
Harry looked at the strange man with very yellow hair, it was nearly white. His eyes were a stony grey colour, like the colour of Emma's ugly grey Dolphin toy. He had a look on his face that Harry had never seen before. It looked like he was happy but not happy at the same time.
"Hello, I'm Harry Potter." Harry said like his mum had taught him to when he met new people. Or was that when he met people his parent's knew? Did his parent know this man.
"Where's you daddy, Harry?" The man asked with a slight smirk. Harry shrugged. "Would you like an ice cream?" Harry grinned. His dad had promised him an ice cream and now this man was offering him an ice cream. His birthday was going really well.
"Yes please." Harry said.
"Follow me then. I'll get you your favourite ice cream." The man said. Harry grinned and followed the man through the big building Harry's dad worked in and out into the street. The man held his hand tightly and Harry followed him happily.
Lily looked at the clock, James should have been home by now. He had missed the owl coming with Lily's certificate that proclaimed her a proper Healer. She now had a full time Job at St. Mungos if she'd wanted it. Lily had opted for a part time job while Emma and Harry were still young. Sirius was in the living room playing with Bo, Rhia and Emma. There was a barking and Lily jumped in surprise. A large black dog ran into the bedroom and knocked Lily over.
"Padfoot!" Lily snapped. Emma and Rhia came running in after Padfoot and jumped onto Lily's bed. Padfoot sat on his haunches and gave Lily a doleful look. Lily scratched him between the ears and looked at the two young girls.
"I want chocolate." Rhia said as she bounced up and then landed on her bum. Emma followed suit and lay on her front next to Rhia.
"What bout Bo?" Emma asked. Rhia looked at Emma and shrugged.
"He had chocolate earlier." Lily looked in alarm as Emma and Rhia tried to open a fairly large bar of Chocolate.
"Emma." Lily said sternly. Emma stopped absolutely frozen. "Hand me the chocolate or Rhia will have to go home."
"Mum at work, Daddy kicked out." Rhia said with a smile. Lily rolled her eyes. The girls were too clever.
"Give me the chocolate or you will be in big trouble." Emma slowly handed back the chocolate.
"When Daddy come back?" Emma asked
"I don't know." Lily turned to Padfoot. "Go and find James for me." Padfoot nodded and ran out of the room. "Come on girls. Where's Bo?"
"TV" Emma said. Rhia clambered off the bed while Emma grabbed for her mum to pick her up. Lily picked up Emma, she was very light for her age, and carried her downstairs.
"Orion!" Rhia shouted. Lily frowned and looked in the living room. Another young boy had just joined Bo and Rhia. He looked not much older then one and sat against the sofa sucking his thumb. A few tufts of black hair stuck out of his head. Jenny was by the fireplace and Remus was talking to Bo about getting a broom. Apparently Bo wanted a new one but Remus didn't want to get him a new broom. Orion beamed when he saw his older sister. Rhia went over and tried to pick him up.
"No, Rhia, you'll drop him" Jenny said, taking Bo. Rhia pouted but nodded. She loved her little brother.
"You haven't heard from April or James have you?" Lily asked with a frown.
"No" Jenny said, "But they're at work, they've probably be working late."
"They have Harry with them." Lily said.
"Baby sitting." Jenny suggested. Lily frowned uncertainly. Something didn't seem right, James would have sent her an owl to tell her something. There was a crack and Sirius stood nervously in front of them all.
"So, where is my husband?" Lily asked with her arms crossed. Sirius gave her a nervous smile.
"He's working" Sirius said. The others looked at him. Lily got her wand out.
"I know you too well Sirius" She said waving her wand at Sirius, he watched it nervously. "Where is James?"
"Um, there's a slight crisis at his work, April and James are on it."
"And Harry?"
"Um, he's being...looked after" Sirius said.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Jenny asked. Sirius turned to Jenny.
"Um, nothing, just that James has everything under control" Sirius said. That didn't inspire any form of hope in Lily.
"Sirius." Lily said Dangerously. Sirius bit his lip anxiously.
"James lost Harry" He said so quickly Lily nearly missed it all.
"WHAT!" Lily screamed. Sirius scowled.
"He has it under control-" Sirius didn't finish as Lily apparated to the Ministry of Magic. There were people buzzing around everywhere going about their business. Lily knew exactly where James' office was.
"Ok, So we've got Lily out of the way" James said frantically. He looked at April. She was looking at him disapprovingly.
"I still can't believe you managed to lose my godson." She said.
"I know, I'm such a bad father. Ok, Arthur Weasley is searching the lobby. Kingsley has got the security on alert and Sirius is distracting Lily. I have Aurors looking all over the place." James said.
"I can't believe you're trusting Sirius" April said as she shook her head.
"Now, who has been in the Ministry that looks suspicious?" James asked April. April picked up some parchment and looked over it.
"Well, no one really. Oh wait there was-" The door slammed open. April and James both looked at the door. Lily stood in the doorway with her wand out.
"You lost Harry!" Lily asked. James stood up straight.
"I'm very close to finding him." James said nervously.
"You lost our son again!"
"No wait, last time he was hiding under the bed" James said.
"Where is he James!" Lily shouted. A few aurors looked in curiously.
"I told you you shouldn't have trusted Sirius." April muttered.
"And why aren't you out searching for Harry?" Lily said turning back to James.
"I swear I have Aurors on it."
"But why aren't you looking for him? Oh never mind, I'll look for him myself"
"Well anyway" She said in a louder voice. "I think I know where Harry might be, only thing is that the person knows who all of us are, we need someone who this guys doesn't know at all." April said to the two Potters. Lily looked at her.
"Fine who is this guy you're proposing to send to where ever?" Lily asked.
"Well I heard that Lucius Malfoy was in today to give another 'donation' to Fudge" April said "and he was in about the time James here lost Harry."
"What time did Harry go missing anyway?" Lily asked them. April looked at her uncertainly.
"Um..." April looked at James. Lily looked at James expectantly.
"About an hour after he got here." James said with a wince like he was expecting a curse to fly his way. Instead Lily stayed quiet and turned to April.
"Do what you need to in order to get my son back. I'll be at home because I have other children to look after." Lily said, emphasising the word 'children'. James gave her a sympathetic look.
"I'm so sorry Lily" He started to say.
"Don't even talk to me James. Find Harry and bring him straight home!" Lily said before leaving the room.
"Well, that went well." April said writing a small letter on a parchment.
"Shut up April." James said rather depressed. "What plan have you got?"
"Get your invisibility cloak James." April said. James looked at April uncertainly.
"What are you planning?" James asked. April sighed.
"We're going on a few raids, you do remember that the ministry is conducting raids on houses since Moody got attacked by those ex-Death Eaters." April said to James.
"Yeah I know that, but who's house are we raiding? Why do we need the invisibility cloak?"
"Merlin! I swear, for a marauder you're really thick! We're going to follow some raids and not be seen. The moment most people see an auror they get all freaked out. If we're under an invisibility cloak we don't have to answer awkward questions and we can do our own searching!" April said. James looked at her with a frown.
"Yeah but-" April sighed.
"Fine, forget about that plan." April said.
"Oh, I have a different plan." James said. He sat in thought for a while. "Ok, who was it that you suspected had taken Harry?"
Arthur Weasley knocked on the door to a large manor, he had several officers with him. He was doing a raid. Raids were more common now a days and there was a sudden increase of dark object available on the black market. It was partly Arthur's job to stop that kind of thing. The door opened and a tall man with platinum blond hair stood in the doorway. He wore black robes and looked at Arthur like he was inferior to him.
"What do you want Weasley?" He sneered.
"House inspection, Malfoy, open up the doors and let us through." Arthur said. Malfoy rolled his eyes and stepped aside and let Arthur in with his officers.
"Remember check everywhere." Arthur said. He gave Malfoy a smug look and began to look around Malfoy Manor. The officers spread out into different rooms. Arthur went into the living room and looked around. He felt a slight feeling of jealousy that his home wasn't like this but then that was because his family, though poor, was respectable...almost. There was a young boy, about five, sitting on a sofa playing with a small toy of a Dragon. The boy was pulling the dragon's head and it's tail in opposite directions and grinning as he did so. He had the same blonde hair as the older Malfoy and the same cold grey eyes. He looked up when Arthur walked into the room.
"Who are you?" He asked.
"I'm from your dad's work." Arthur said politely. The child gave him a contempt look. 'He's going to be a nice child' Arthur thought sarcastically. He began to search the room thoroughly. The boy just sat and stared at him with a sneer on his face. A lovely child really. Arthur left the living room after having found a dark potion. He went to the basement where one of the officers, Gordo, was searching.
"Gordo." Arthur said.
"I think I hear a child. How many children do the Malfoy's have?"
"One, and I met him in the living room. Lovely kid" Arthur said. Gordo looked at him with a smirk before his face turned serious again
"Help me open this door." Gordo said. Arthur got out his wand and pointed it at the door. Him and Gordo blasted it with spells until it finally opened. Even once the locks had been broken it took a lot of effort to push it open. Inside was a fairly bare room and a young boy with black hair sitting on the floor with a red face. He looked as though he'd been crying. Arthur looked at Gordo and went to the child. He whimpered and curled up against the wall.
"It's all right, Harry" Arthur said, "I'm your daddy's friend. You know, Arthur Weasley?" Harry looked up curiously.
"The Muggle lover?" He asked. Arthur gave him a smile. Harry got up slowly and looked at him curiously. Gordo stood at the door. Harry looked at Arthur, "Where's Daddy?"
"He's looking for you. If you come with me then I'll take you to him." Arthur said.
"Where is the man who said he was going to buy me ice cream?" Harry asked.
"He's going to be taken away and questioned." Arthur said. Harry looked at Arthur suspiciously. He had reason to. "Come on, I'll take you to play with my own son, he's called Ron. Then I'll send an owl to your parents and tell them to collect you." Harry looked at Arthur and took his hand.
"Lily, please just talk to me." James said to Lily the next morning. Lily turned to him.
"Why? You lost our son and you're not even doing anything about it!" Lily said.
"I am"
"Oh yeah? Trying to get into my knickers is really trying something isn't it?" Lily said. "I don't see you out there looking for Harry!"
"That's because the plan won't work until now." James said. Lily looked at him and went to Emma's room where she was just climbing out of her bed. James followed.
"Stay away from me James." Lily said, she got her wand out as she turned. Emma stopped still and watched her parents. "Just let me get on with my job and you get on with yours." James nodded reluctantly.
"Alright, but please, just relax, we'll find Harry." James said. Lily looked at him like she wanted to believe him. Lily turned to pick up Emma.
"Come on, lets get you ready to go to Jenny's house." Lily said to Emma. James threw his hands up in the air as he left the room. He stumbled forwards as a stinging hex hit his shoulder. He turned to see Lily looking at him rather annoyed. James went downstairs and decided to have a drink of that Coffee drink that Lily always had. He picked up the mug and looked at it. What did Lily put into the Mug? He put the mug down so hard in frustration that it broke. James let out a stream of swear words. He was about to repair the mug when a bundle of brown feathers hit the window. James whipped out his wand and looked slightly surprised when he saw an owl sliding down the window.
"Ok-" James said uncertainly. He'd never seen an owl doing that before. He opened the back door and went outside to retrieve the owl. The owl had a letter attached to his leg and when James put him on the counter he was able to take the letter off the owl. James opened up the letter and read it quickly. He quickly burst into a smile and picked up his cloak.
"Lily, going to pick up Harry!" He called up. There wasn't a reply. James left uncertainly.
Harry sat on a big slightly worn down sofa in a messy house. He didn't know what he was doing here, why did he come with this strange red haired man. Why were those to boys staring at him? Two red haired boys who looked exactly the same and had the same kind of smile as Uncle Sirius had.
"Who are you?" Said one of them.
"Harry Potter" Harry said. Their mouths opened wide.
"Are you really?" The other said, "Are you really Harry Potter?"
"That's what mum and dad call me." Harry said.
"Wow." The first one said. "Can we see your scar?" Harry looked at them uneasily. He was only five but he didn't like people staring at his scar at all.
"I really don't want to" Harry said.
"Oh come one" one of them said, Harry had become too confused to remember who was who.
"Please? It would be so cool-"
"Fred, George, stop annoying Harry." Said a large, slightly plump woman. She sounded stern but she looked so kind, a bit like Aunt Jenny's Grandma but English and not as old.
"Oh but mum-" said Fred...or George.
"No, go and play outside, Bill and Charlie are about to go and play some quidditch, go and watch them." Said the lady. Fred and George left the room, heads quite close together. Harry sat on the chair watching silently.
"I swear-" the lady said. "Are you alright dear?" She asked Harry. Harry nodded.
"I'm hungry. Where's mum and dad?" Harry asked.
"Your mum and dad are on their way. Do you want a sandwich to eat?" She asked with a smile. Harry smiled slightly.
"Yes please." Harry said.
"You're so polite, wait here for a moment and I'll go and make you your sandwich." She said, "Would you like to play with something?" Harry shrugged. "Ron!" She called. Another red haired boy came running into the room, he was followed by an even younger girl with hair that was brighter then Emma's hair and it was straight.
"Mum" The boy said.
"Mum" The girl copied.
"Ron, Ginny, this is Harry Potter-" The boy and girl both looked at each other in amazement. "Play with him until his parents come." The lady said. The boy and girl nodded. The lady left the sitting room leaving Harry with more red haired children.
"Hi." Harry said. "I'm Harry."
"Ron, and this is my sister Ginny." Ron said. "Do you want to play with us. We were playing it."
"I told you Harry Potter was cute" Ginny whispered to Ron. "I saw picture. Mummy said he cute."
"Ginny!" Ron said harshly. He turned back to Harry.
"Ok. Um...where will we play?" Harry said.
"In the Garden." Ron said. "Come on." Harry slid off the chair and followed Ron and Ginny through the house into the garden.
"MUM!!" One of the twin boys shouted
"THERE'S A STRANGE MAN HERE!!" The other one shouted. The lady that was making Harry's sandwich rushed out. Harry, Ron and Ginny went to the gate and had a look out.
"Dad!" Harry said happily. James looked at him relieved and ran to the gate. He opened it and picked up Harry, obviously very relieved.
"Harry!" James said. Harry hugged him tightly. "Don't ever wonder off again ok! Never go anywhere with a stranger, how many times have your mum and I told you that!" Harry just seemed to ignore him.
"Dad, that's Ron and Ginny and the nice lady who is making me sandwiches." Harry said pointing at each one.
"It's rude to point." James said lowering Harry's hand. "Thank you so much." James said to the lady.
"It was no problem, Molly Weasley." The lady said, extending a hand. James took it and shook it.
"James Potter. Where was he?"
"Arthur found him in the Malfoy house during a raid. Apparently he had been locked in a bare room. Merlin knows what they were planning to do with him." Molly said.
"Again, thank you so much. I'll have the Auror department look into it." James said. He looked around the garden. There were four boys playing over in the corner and Ron and Ginny there with them. "Are these all your kids?" James asked slightly amazed. Molly smiled and nodded.
"Yes, this is Ron and Ginny. The two twins over there are Fred and George. The tallest boy is Bill and the other one is Charlie. There's also Percy but he's inside reading."
"Wow." James said. He started out of his amazement, "Well, we'd better get going before my wife decides to divorce me." James said. Molly nodded.
"Ok, well Harry was lovely to have, he can come and visit any time he wants." Molly said. James smiled,
"Likewise, we have enough kids running around the house anyway, a few more can't hurt."
"Oh, How many children-"
"Only two but my friends often bring their kids round." James said with a smirk. Molly laughed gently and handed Harry a small paper bag.
"Here's your sandwiches dear." Molly said. Harry took the bag and immediately looked into it.
"Oo, ham sandwich." Harry said putting his arm into the bag.
A/N:-Ok, I've jsut spent 4 hours drawing and I'm tired. I started drawing a red head wearing a pair of sunglasses and a brown leather jacket then while discusing something with some friends we decided that it was Emma Potter when she's 17. she looks quite cool :D Anyway, hope you liked this chapter. I got so many reviews for the last chapter that i HAD to update. I felt all emotional when I read all your reviews, you're all so nice. I feel quite overwhelmed! I'm going away for the weekend tomorrow/today (it's 2.15 am) so I probs wont update until SUnday. Hopefully Chapter 3 should be finished by then. Till laterz!