Spontaneous Magic

This Harry Potter story was written for fun. All rights belong to the wonderful lady (JK Rowling) who gave the world Harry Potter to read and enjoy. Love the movies showing again on TV for the holidays.

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Accidental magic is a problem for all young wizards and witches, especially when they are distressed or scared. Freak begins to despair at age five because no one notices him or cares for him. When he is taken from his cupboard and knows 'Aunt Tuna' and 'Unc Vern' plan to desert him at a hospital, the small boy's fear causes his magic to react spontaneously.

Being adopted into a magical family in England gives 'Frank' the love and safety he needs to stave off expression of uncontrollable magic. His adoptive parents learn a great deal about their son when they blood adopt him using the services of the Goblins.

In 1991, when Frank boards the Hogwarts Express, he meets many children who believe that 'Harry Potter' is dead. His adventures at Hogwarts create many situations where his powerful uncontrollable magic reacts.

This story should be twelve chapters long, ending in sixth year without any romantic relationships in place but lots of magic thrown about. The Weasleys really won't figure in the story very much but Neville, Hermione and Luna will be friends. Dumbledore (BASH), Sirius (BASH), and Pureblood characters (BASH BASH) to help move the story along.

Chapter 03 Dumbledore's Troubles

An emergency session of the ICW in Geneva kept Supreme Mugwump Albus Dumbledore occupied for the last three weeks of June, the whole of the month of July, and the first week of August. There were problems in Eastern Europe and in Southern Asia that demanded the international body meet and find some solutions or face discovery by the muggles.

When the elderly wizard finally reappeared in Britain, the Wizengamot and Minister Fudge demanded his immediate appearance at the Ministry for Magic in London where he was forced to sit through back-to-back sessions to approve the budgets for the coming year.

Having ignored all the letters and messages sent to him while in Geneva, the Grand Warlock was unprepared for the flood of paperwork presented to him in the Wizengamot chamber. When he tried to delay the meetings and votes for a week, there was a general outcry from the entire membership and immediate motions to remove him from this 'throne'.

To maintain his position over the Wizengamot, Dumbledore was forced to approve the drafts presented to him without reading them and see them voted through the membership without knowing what he was approving.

Finally returning to Hogwarts, the headmaster slept for two days before he attempted to look at the correspondence piled on the desk in his office. It was another five days before he read the note from the squib he'd embedded in the neighbourhood where Harry Potter was hidden. After reading the letter from the woman – written six weeks earlier – he used a portkey to reach a nondescript location in northern England where magic would not be noticed by the ministry. Then he apparated to the park near Arabella's home. Transfiguring his wildly coloured wizard's robes into a bright purple suit that would have looked out of place a century earlier, Dumbledore hurried to the squib's door.

At the door, he cast a spell to open the door and stepped inside to find the house empty of furniture, cats, and the squib he paid to watch over the Dursleys and the boy. Only when he returned to the porch did he pay attention to the notices that the bank was foreclosing on the mortgage for non-payment.

'Non-payment?' he wondered. 'The house was paid for in full when I placed Arrabella here four years ago.'

The bank was a muggle institution so he had no way of figuring out the situation or reversing the foreclosure without using too much magic.

'Arrabella said something happened to Harry and the Dursleys,' he thought and returned to the front of the house. From several windows, he noticed binds and curtains moving aside.

'I shouldn't be seen,' Dumbledore decided and cast a powerful 'notice-me-not' charm that made him appear as static on video and overlooked by the muggle and magical eye.

He hurried down the street and stopped suddenly at the burned-out ruins of No. 4 Privet Drive.

'Fire? Arrabella wrote there was a fire at the house and the whole family was wiped out. How did the Death Eaters find them?'

With great care under his notice-me-not charm, Dumbledore spent an hour casting spells to reveal any ghosts lingering about the street. There were two muggle spirits down the street, but there was nothing of Harry Potter or his family left here.

'There should be something. They died here so how is it possible they didn't leave any memory of pain behind?'

Apparating away, Dumbledore never investigated further. His conclusions were all he needed. As he walked from the gates of Hogwarts back to the front door of his castle, he already plotted how to announce the death of Harry Potter.

'My timing must be perfect. At New Year's in a year or two perhaps…certainly well before 1991 when he would have been expected to arrive at Hogwarts.'

His most worrisome thought was, 'And what shall I do when Tom returns? But if the boy-who-lived is dead, Tom can be killed by anyone else. '

Unknown to Dumbledore, Arrabella Figg made use of the confundus spell on the title papers for her house to take out a second and then a third mortgage on the property. Dumbledore generally paid her monies once a year – early in August when he was able to poach funds from Potter's education fund. After the fire destroyed the house and then a second fire in their car killed the Dursleys the same night, Arrabella feared the Death Eaters were responsible and fled. Her carefully horded funds would get her to Australia where the weather was much warmer than England.

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