Something Different

Chapter Eighteen

By: MissPatriciaPotter

After Sirius tucked Harry into bed, Sirius walked quietly to Dumbledore's office. It was past the hour of lights out, only a couple teachers and ghost prowled the hallways looking for students that were out of their dormitories. On the way to Dumbledore's office, Sirius thought about Harry. The boy was just like his Father, for many reasons, the hair, the glasses, and the lanky body. There was two things that were from Lily that Sirius could clearly tell were from her genetics. Harry's eye color was unusual, it was almost unearthly. Lily had pale skin, that when left uncovered in the sun for even a short period of time burned, Harry had pale skin too just like Lily. It was a reminder to Sirius, what was no longer there, both Lily and James.

Sirius climbed up the winding staircase to Dumbledore's office. He whispered the password, Lemon drops, and the Phoenix opened its wings.

Dumbledore was writing a letter with an elegant hawk feather quill when Sirius arrived. Strewn on Dumbledore's desk was various lengths of parchment, Sirius could clearly see that some of the parchment had been ripped up, while others had writing on them. Rough drafts he supposed.

He sat down in one of the chairs in front of the desk; Dumbledore didn't even look up, he continued to write. Five minutes later, Dumbledore signed his name with a flourish, sealed the parchment with the Hogwarts crest, and tied the letter to a small tawny owl. He took it eagerly, and flew off through the open window.

"This is why I called you here." Dumbledore placed a cage that had a snowy owl encaged in it. The small owl hooted at Sirius in hopes that Sirius would let her free from this cage. "It came with a letter." Dumbledore shuffled through a desk drawer and withdrew a piece of parchment. He handed it over the desk to Sirius. Sirius glanced at it quickly and saw that it was addressed to Harry on the front and it had been torn open by Dumbledore he supposed. The writing was elegant, made in green ink and was very flowing. The writer had obviously gone to a very good school to achieve such an effect.

Dear Harry:

I hope this owl reaches you. I am sorry for what I said. In fact I care deeply about you, if there wasn't so much conflict about what wizard to adopt you, I would. I hope your safe.

P.S. This owl is for you to keep her name is Hedwig, remember when we went to Diagon Alley to shop? Well this is the present I bought for you, hope you like her.

Lucuis Malfoy

"I can't believe that Death Eater is trying to contact Harry." Dumbledore spat out angrily. Personally Sirius had never seen Dumbledore this angry.

"Inferno." With this simple incantation and moment of his wand, a small fire was set upon the parchment. "I've made a copy of this for legal reasons of course."

"The other reason you have been called here is because of this-" A bloody sheet appeared on the desk. "This was found in a cupboard under the stairs at the Dursley's residence. They were not at home at the time, I have talked to Mrs. Figg and apparently they have left to go on a vacation to Hawaii. They had asked her if she could watch young Harry but she had plans. She heard nothing else from the family, but neighbors have said that they saw a man with long blonde hair associating with Vernon, the uncle, the day Harry disappeared this is the day the wards went off here. Apparently Lucius from an eye witness point of view carried the boy out of the house and ran, nobody tried to stop him."

"I am also keeping this owl," Dumbledore pointed to the snowy owl in the cage, "she may have a tracking spell on her, and I frankly don't trust Lucuis at all."

Sirius took in all the information in at a small time, taking every bit of information very slowly. "We need Lucius in here."

"That is near impossible, one we don't have any crime that has committed."

"What are you talking about he kidnapped the Boy who defeated Voldemort, I call that a crime!" Sirius rose off the chair, glaring daggers at the people in the paintings on the wall.

"Padfoot?" Came Harry's small voice from the entrance, "who kidnapped who?"

"Nothing Harry, here I'll tuck you into bed."

"But I want to know what it is going on!" Harry ran over to the desk, upon seeing the owl, he smiled, "I know that owl."

Both men glanced at Harry.

"I think you should be getting to bed," Sirius admitted, walking foreword to walk Harry back to his room, as he did not know if Harry remembered the way back, "this is kind of sort of between us." He pointed to Dumbledore and then himself, he felt sorry for Harry but he was meddling in business that wasn't his. 'He is just like James' Sirius thought glancing at Harry through silted eyes, 'being curious was James's thing.'

Harry ran up to the desk, and put his little fingers through the steel bars of the cage in which she was encaged, the owl nipped gently at the fingers, showing her appreciation in being in the attention she was getting.

"Wait a moment," Harry spoke softly to the owl, "I'll get you out of here." Harry walked around the desk to get the latch undone, when a loud booming voice sounded.

"Oh no you don't!"

A wand was waved and Harry fell forward but was caught luckily by Sirius.

"I think it would be wise not to let him out of his room tomorrow." Dumbledore stated. "I think that DeathEater has brainwashed him!"

Harry know whom they were talking about, got out from his position in between both Sirius's arms. He stood in front of both of the men; "He is not like that!"

"Harry!" Sirius yelled, taking Harry's hands into his hand and holding it tightly.

"Let me go! Lucius is very kind he gave me my own room and Draco was very nice to me! I want to go back there, I don't want to stay here!"

After Harry's rant, Sirius let him go shocked that Harry cared so much about his enemy from school, the Malfoy's. Lucius had also been so mean to him when he was going to school as well as to James. But why was Lucius being so nice to Harry, the son of someone he despised? In the wizarding world it was rumored, that Voldemort still lived, his location was unknown, but past DeathEaters knew. Maybe Lucius had a secret motive to kidnap Harry to bring him to his lord? Sirius didn't know but he wanted to find out.

After Harry had gone, Sirius had lost his shocked exterior and ran to the door but was stopped by Dumbledore saying. "Don't go he'll get over it. He is just like James being dramatic."

"I wouldn't talk about James that way!" Sirius stopped up in front of Dumbledore's desk, grabbed the nearest object, which he noted was a snow globe of Hogwarts in winter. A couple of kids were on the grounds surrounding the castle, having a snowball fight. Sirius threw the globe to the ground. The glass shattered with impact on the ground, glass and the fake snow spewed everywhere.

"I hope you're happy!" Sirius said through clenched teeth.

Meanwhile...

At a resort in Hawaii, the Dursley family enjoyed their holiday.

Vernon was making arrangements at the travel agency for a tour of all the volcanoes on the island. Petunia and Dudley were getting ready for the pool. Dudley waddled out of the hotel room and into the hallway, wearing bright orange swimming trunks, his mother, who wasn't wearing a swimsuit but a stiff looking skirt and blazer set, followed him.

They went into the elevator, choose the floor, and took notice of the two hooded men in the elevator with them.

All the two remembered were the words, 'Avada Kedavra'.

Xxxxxx

Harry slipped out from under his hiding spot from under a statue of what appeared to be a knight on a horse; there was a platform that held up the statue, which was where Harry had hid. Harry was used to small spaces; he had after all slept in the cupboard under the stairs all his life. Harry at times got claustrophobic but that was only when he felt sick. The school was quiet as Harry slipped out; it must be past curfew as the last student had gone by about three hours ago. Teachers were wandering the halls, peeking for students that were breaking curfew. Harry walked over to the window and looked down. It was dark outside; the only light came from a couple lights on the grounds, the light from Hagrid's house, and the twinkling stars that could be seen.

Harry had a plan to escape, he felt like he didn't belong here. Sure he felt close to Sirius but Sirius didn't feel like family to him, Lucius and Draco did. Harry climbed down three sets of stairs, while avoiding the Great Hall; he took the side hallway . He peeked into the Great Hall, two students were standing in front of the teachers table, they both had out wands and appeared to be practicing spells for something.

The huge door that lead outside was so close, Harry could feel the anticipation inside of him. He walked up to the huge wooden double door and tried to open the door. There was only one problem he was too short. The doorknob suddenly turned and Harry looked franticly looked around for a spot in which he could head in. He found one underneath the stairs. Quickly scooting under he watched as the person came into the castle. The first word that came to Harry's mind was tall, the man before him was about eleven feet tall with bushy hair and a scruffy looking beard. The odd looking man opened the door so it hit the side of the wall. The giant then stomped up the stairs noisily. As the giant went up the stairs, Harry got out of his hiding place, and quickly went through the doorway before the door closed.

The cool night air hit Harry's face and he gave a little shiver. Harry walked over to the broom shed; the shed surprisingly was open. Even though it was dark, Harry still managed to rummage around, coming out with a broom; he went out to the Quidditch field, mounted the broom and took off into the night sky.

Authors Notes- I am really sorry for the late update. I was busy with school and such. I hope to update Something Different again soon.