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Chapter Three: Back to Reality
Uncle Vernon was in the kitchen with Aunt Petunia and Dudley having their breakfast, which consisted on a half a piece of grapefruit. Vernon looked at Petunia and in a harsh voice began to speak. "What is that no good boy just going to sleep all day!"
Dudley just laughed to himself not wanting to make his father angrier. "Dad I will go wake him up."
Vernon just smiled at Dudley. "At least one kid in this house knows his manners. Go ahead Dudley and get that lazy freak out of bed there are chores to be done."
Dudley left the kitchen as Vernon continued to rant on. Dudley stormed up the stairs and forcefully pounded on the door to Harry's room but got no answer. "HARRY! Get your ass up dad wants you downstairs now!"
Dudley grows tired of not getting a response and opens the door to find that the bedroom is completely empty. Dudley makes his way back down to the kitchen to tell his father that Harry is missing.
Uncle Vernon looks at Dudley as he walks into the kitchen. "So where is the freak?"
"I don't know dad he isn't in his room." Replied Dudley in a not so caring tone as he sat back down to finish his breakfast.
Uncle Vernon stands up from the table and is about to scream about Harry some more when he hears someone at the front door. Vernon makes his way to the door and opens it to find Albus Dumbledore standing there. "What do you want!" yelled Vernon as he looked at Dumbledore.
Albus just looks at Vernon with his normal calm expression. "I am Professor Dumbledore and I have come to see Harry, I fear that he might be in grave trouble."
Vernon just laughs as he looks at Albus. "Well your too late."
Dumbledore looks a bit shocked and taken back by Vernon's comment. "What do you mean I am too late? What has happened here and where is Harry?"
Vernon's face grew red in color as he looked at Dumbledore. "Look here old man I do not know where that freak is and frankly I am glad he is gone! Maybe he finally figured out that he wasn't wanted and left to be with other freaks like him."
Dumbledore is about to let Vernon have it when Vernon shuts the door on him. Dumbledore turns away knowing that Vernon will not longer be any help and makes his way off of Privet drive and apperates to Grimmauld Place.
Dumbledore immediately summoned all the available order members to discuss the current situation.
After waiting for an hour the other members arrived at the house and Dumbledore had them all set around the table. "Earlier today I was worried that Harry might be in grave danger. Upon going to the Dursleys' residence to check on young Harry I found that he had disappeared."
At the sound of this everyone made a low gasping sound and then Mrs. Weasley was the first to break the silence. "Albus what do you mean Harry disappeared?"
Dumbledore just looked down at the table and his eyes lost their twinkle as he looked at the group. 'All I know at this point is that Harry is no longer at the Dursleys' house and that they do not know where he is."
Mrs. Weasley just broke down and began crying, as she looked at all the members of the order. "Albus" she said between sobs "How could they just lose him?"
Albus still looked as hurt and confused as Molly did. "Molly I do not know how muggles can do a lot of what they do but I assure you that we will find him."
At that moment a witch with bright pink hair walks into the kitchen and she looks like she has been crying for a while. Her eyes are all blood shot, red, and puffy as she looks at the other members of the group. Albus looks at her for a second before speaking. "Tonks where have you been? You were on watch last night right?"
Tonks sits down in a chair and looks like she is about to start crying again. "Dumbledore I am so sorry. I was watching Harry last night and watched him walk out and summon the Knight Bus. I thought that he had gotten on the bus and so I followed it to the Leaky Cauldron and waited to see if Harry came off the bus. However when he did not come off I became concerned and stopped the bus. I then asked Ernie and Stan where they had left Harry Potter off at." Tonks pauses as swallows hard as she thinks about the answer. "They said that Harry Potter never got on board the bus. I told them that I seen him summon the bus, and they said that they were summoned but when they arrived no one was there so they continued on their way."
Everyone just gasped with shock. Then Dumbledore was the first to break the silence. 'You mean that Harry just disappeared right in front of you and you do not know how he did it?"
Tonks' face grew a bit red as tears began flowing from her red puffy eyes. "Dumbledore I have went over this event in my mind hundreds of times and I can not figure out how Harry escaped my detection I was watching him very closely sir I swear it."
Just then there was a load pop as Alastor Moody apperated into the kitchen and looks at the group around the table. "Sorry I am late all, I have been doing a little investigating for Tonks."
Tonks jumps up and looks at Moody for a moment. "Mad Eye did you find anything?" she asked in a concerned voice as all the other just looked at him waiting for his answer as well.
Moody just looked at Tonks for a moment and then spoke directly to her as his magical eye began spinning around the room looking at everyone else. "Tonks think really hard but was there anything strange when Harry disappeared?"
Tonks fell back in her seat. As many times as she played the events over in her head she had never really thought about that too much and then it hit her. "Come to think of it Mad Eye there was something a bit odd. When Harry summoned the bus for a split second I could have sworn I seen a flash of blue light but then the bus appeared and I figured it must have come from it."
Dumbledore just looked at Tonks and Moody for a moment before looking at Lupin. "Remus are you thinking what I am? I think it is time that we get Hermione and begin to examine this blue flash of light. If my hunch is right then time is of the essence."
Molly now really looked scared as Remus apperated out of the kitchen headed for Hermione. Molly looked at Dumbledore then spoke in a concerned mother voice. "Albus what is going on?"
Dumbledore just bent his head down and then slowly spoke in a calm but shaky voice. "If I am right and I pray to Merlin I am wrong but if I am right then young Mr. Potter was somehow sent to either another time or another dimension all together."
