Chapter 4
Dumbledore's POV
I sighed as I looked over the paper work a third time. Another of the countless searches for the missing Harry James Potter had ended in failure.
It had been nine years since I'd made the mistake of leaving Harry with his relatives that Halloween night. By now he should be about ten, nearly old enough to go to Hogwarts. That is, if he is still alive.
I thought back to how I found out he was missing. Mrs. Figg didn't have very good eyesight, she didn't notice that the Durlseys had abandonded their house until she'd overheard a foreign couple asking where they'd gone. She did a quick investigation, then reported to me. It hadn't taken long to track down the Dursleys. At first they refused to say anything, but after threatening them with truth potion they told us that the day after we'd left Harry with them he'd simply vanished. They assumed that we'd changed our minds and had taken him back. Since they were afraid we'd change our minds again they had moved and hoped to never hear from us again.
After that the wizarding world was in an uproar. Harry Potter, The Boy Who Lived, was missing. Search parties had spread everywhere and there was a ten million gallion reward for finding him. Unfortunately no trace of him ever arose. Many people had by not given him up for dead.
I admit I too was starting to loose hope of ever seeing him again.
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Conan's POV
"Wow, so this is London," I said looking out my airplane window.
Otosan, and Kaito-ojisan had decided to take a trip to London to visit their old friend Hakuba Saguru, and after some intense begging Toichi and I were able to come along.
Speaking of Toichi, he probably hadn't heard me since he was too busy scaring the stewardess. A little after my birthday one year ago we realized Toichi's eyes were in need of glasses after he to walked into a lamppost. It was revealed that he had been needing glasses for a long time, but since Toichi-kun had never been a fan for doctors and always skipped on check-up day, no one had ever realized it. He didn't like the idea of using glasses so he insisted on getting contacts. After that he and Kaito-ojisan had fun making contacts of all colors. Today he was supporting a pair that made his eyes yellow with slits for pupils like a cat's (using those and a headband with a pair of cat ears attached is how he scared the stewardess.).
I elbowed him, "Knock it off, the condition of us to come is if we behaved."
He gave me an wide eyed, innocent look "Me, misbehave, never." though the innocence of the look was kind of ruined by the cat eyes.
I shot him an unimpressed glare as the captain came on the PA and announced that we were about to land.
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One hour later at the Hakuba Estate
"Pleeeease, please, please, please, can we go explore London on our own," Toichi begged,
The adults, Otosan, Kaito-ojisan, and Hakuba-ojisan, finally caved. "Alright, you can go, but only if you stay close and take a cellphone with you," said Kaito-ojisan.
Toichi pumped his fist, "Alright!" he shouted, than he grabbed my wrist and dragged me out the door.
I glared at him as we ran down the street, "What's got you so hyper?" I asked, "I wanted to stick around and listen to Otosan and Hakuba-ojisan talk about cases."
He finally let go of my wrist then turned to me with a big grin, "Well I've got something better. Whey don't you solve a case for me."
It was than that I noticed that he had changed his contacts to a pair that were plain clear ones so it was easy to see his natural green eyes. He had also brushed his messy bangs aside to reveal the lightening bolt shaped scar on his forehead that had been there since his parents took him in.
'I see where this is going' "You want me to try to find your birth family, don't you. That's why you've made yourself as recognizable as possible." I said dryly
He sweatdrooped, "See, if you can figure that out I'm sure you can find them."
I hated to burst his bubble, but I had to be honest. "England is a big country, and we have no idea where to start looking, our only clue is that your mother was possibly named Lilly. Besides, if you really want to find them why didn't you just ask my Otosan?"
He visible slumped, "I would but, he would probably tell Otosan, and that would hurt Otosan's feelings. I love Otosan, and Okaasan, but I'm just curious about where I come from and about those weird things I can do. Wouldn't you be curious?" He replied.
I didn't know what to say to that. Finally I said, "Come on, let's just do what we said we would do, and go exploring."
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Toichi's POV
Conan and I had fun exploring the city for about an hour till the inevitable happened, I got bored.
I turned to him and shouted, "I'm Lupin, and you're Holmes. Catch me if you can!" With that I took of running.
Conan stood there in surprise for a second, then with an "Oi," he chased after me.
He had chased me for several blocks when I decided to add insult to injury by running backwards and still not letting him catch me. That worked pretty well till I ran into someone.
Conan ran up to me and pretended to pull out a pair of handcuffs and put them on me. "As usual the detective trumps the thief," He said proudly.
I wiggled into a sitting position, "No fair, I want a do over."
That's when we heard a low groan. we turned to see the guy I'd crashed into was just starting to pick himself up.
"Hey mister, are you all right? Sorry about crashing into you," I said in English. Conan and I had been taking English lessons for a few years now, and we were both pretty good. However Conan has a better accent than I do.
The man picked himself up, and I noticed he was about middle aged and had balding red hair. He was also wearing weird cloths
"Yes," he said rubbing his head. "I'm alright."
He glanced at the two of us and when he saw me he did a double take. Then he reached forward and brushed my bangs aside and stared at my scar for a long moment. Then he began speaking in English very fast, too fast for us to understand.
Needless to say he was beginning to freak us out. "Well I'm glad you're alright ojisan. bye bye," said Conan. Then the two of us ran as fast as we could and didn't stop until we were back at Hakuba-ojisan's house.
Before we entered I asked Conan, "What do you think that was all about?"
He shrugged, "I'm not sure, something about hair and pots being alive. That guy must have been a nut."
I nodded, "Yeah, you're probably right."
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Arthur Weasley's POV
'Merlin's Beard,' was all I could think as I took a good look at the boy in front of me. He looked exactly like a mini version of James Potter. And those eyes, those were Lilly's eyes. Along with that scar on his forehead it all fit. This boy had to be the missing Harry Potter.
After that I think I went into shock. I didn't even notice when the other boy with him said something to me then they both began to run away. They were nearly out of site when I finally came to my senses. I quickly picked myself up and followed them till they reached a large estate and went inside.
I was still recovering from my shock so I did the only thing I could think of. I apparated back to my house and sent an owl to Dumbldor, telling him that the Boy Who Lived had at last been found.
End Chapter 4
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A/N I'm really sorry it took this long to write this chapter, I go kicked off the other computer I'd been using and the one I'm currently useing doesn't have Word, that and I've had a lousy case of writers block. I'll try to step up the pace on both my stories. The reason that no wizard was ever able to find Harry(Toichi) is because of Kaito, since Kaito seems to have some immunity to magic, since Akako's spells never worked on him. I thought I'd be nice to the Wealeys and let them be the ones who find Toichi, the ten million gallions should definatly help them.