Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail or Harry Potter.

Warning: Dumbledore bashing (not too intense, but it's definitely there)

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"Hagrid." Dumbledore greeted the half-giant warmly. "I was wondering if you could do me a favor."

"Of course, sir!" Hagrid said, beaming.

"Ah, good, good." Dumbledore said with a sigh. "It would seem that Hayden Potter hasn't answered her Hogwarts letter. I was hoping that you could go pick her up and take her on her first trip to Diagon Alley. And perhaps pick up something for me at Gringotts…"

"Albus Dumbledore, sir!" Hagrid shouted, bursting into the Headmaster's office in a panic. "Hayden isn't with the Dursleys!"

"What do you mean?" Dumbledore asked, confused. "Did she refuse to go back to stay with them once your trip was over?"

"No, sir." Hagrid denied, wringing his hands nervously. "She wasn't there! The Dursleys told me that she ran away when she was five and they haven't seen her since!"

Snape froze as he listened to the disgusting filth spew crap about the Potter brat running away despite what they'd done for her out of 'the goodness of their hearts.'

That phrase alone raised an alarm for Snape, who'd heard something similar from his abusive father for many years.

Well, fuck. This wasn't going as planned.

Luckily, Severus was a renowned potions master, and what kind of potions master would he be if he didn't carry a phial of truth potion with him everywhere he went?

By the time he had milked all of the information he could out of the Dursley family, he was just about ready to torture them to death.

He wouldn't even use magic. Maybe he would have to look into some of the torture techniques people used in Greek and Roman times, surely they would be brutal enough?

Anyway, more on that later.

The large one who looked like a walrus had apparently dragged Potter out in the middle of the night and driven her to the middle of nowhere, fully intending to kill her and dump her body in the woods. The girl (apparently not as stupid as Snape would have thought) realized that something was up and manage to escape when her 'uncle' wasn't looking.

That was nearly six years ago.

Severus felt weak as the enormity of the situation dawned on him.

Chances were very, very slim that Potter had survived a few nights, much less this long. Lily's daughter, the little girl that he had sworn on his life that he would protect to the best of his ability, had most likely been dead for years.

Lily's daughter, gone…

And Albus was the one to place her in that situation…

"She's dead." Snape announced without preamble as he entered the Headmaster's office.

He hadn't expected the rest of the staff to be there when he arrived, but that was fine.

"Who is dead?" Pomona Sprout asked, alarmed.

Snape stared at her for a moment before answering, ignoring Dumbledore signaling him not to do so. "The Potter girl."

Minerva immediately dropped her tea cup, which shattered on the ground. Everyone else was silent.

"What?" Filius Flitwick asked after a long minute, horrified. "How do you know?!"

"The girl hadn't responded to her letter, and the Headmaster sent Hagrid to retrieve her. Hagrid reported that the girl wasn't with her muggle family, so he sent me to investigate…" Snape began.

"Severus!" Dumbledore said. "Surely this isn't the time—"

Snape ignored him. "The girl's uncle apparently grew tired of having to deal with her accidental magic, and decided to get rid of her. He drove her out to the middle of nowhere, and…"

He trailed off, allowing them to draw their own conclusions.

Honestly, it was probably better for the girl if everyone assumed that she was dead, if she had managed to survive. Especially if this was where Dumbledore's 'protection' had gotten her.

"Well then we must go search for her!" Charity Burbage exclaimed, not quite believing that the Girl-Who-Lived had been killed by a muggle.

Even if she was the Muggle Studies professor, even she felt that witches and wizards were superior.

Seeing everyone get excited, Snape took pleasure in bursting their bubbles. "This was over five years ago. No one has seen her since. Chances are that her body was buried in the woods, or that it was eaten by wild animals."

They would have commented on his dismal statements, but they couldn't.

After all, it was more than likely. What kind of five year old could survive a murder attempt?

Well, considering the child in question, that sounded stupid.

Rephrase—if she had survived the murder attempt, how could she have survived in the wilderness for so long?

As Dumbledore saw his staff members get ready to confront him (after all, he had always insisted that the girl was safe where she was), he subtly fingered his wand.

Just as they were about to come out of their stupors…

"OBLIVIATE!"

Albus scowled darkly.

How dare that muggle upstart ruin his plans?

All he had to do was keep the girl alive until it was time for Hogwarts. That was ALL he had to do, and he couldn't even do that?!

Now, thanks to him, Albus' plans were ruined. As much as he loathed to admit it, Severus was probably correct. The chances of the brat still being alive were so small that he couldn't even bring himself to hope for it.

Luckily, he didn't have to rely on hope.

His eyes glinted maliciously as he gazed at the silver instruments on his bookshelf, whizzing and moving like normal. If the girl was dead, surely they would have stopped, considering they were connected to her?

Hayden Potter might very well be alive.

The question was: where had she been all these years, and how would he find her?

Severus glared darkly at the wall to his office.

Did Albus really think that his Occlumency was so rudimentary that it couldn't counteract a simple memory charm?

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Sorry, I would've posted this earlier, but I was busy.

I just spent the last few days at an anime convention! Todd Haberkorn (Natsu), Jamie Marchie (Cana), Monica Rial (Mirajane), Ian Sinclair (Bora), Eric Vale (Loke/Leo)…all of them were there. Oh, and the guy who plays Goku, Sean Schemmel, but I don't watch Dragonball Z so that didn't really mean anything to me.

Yes, I prefer the dubbed anime, at least when it comes to series that have a lot of action, because I don't want to miss out. Sorry to all of you SUB OR DIE people out there.

Anyway. Todd Haberkorn did Natsu's Fire Dragon Roar in one of his panels. Absolutely the highlight of the weekend for me. It was loud and powerful and absolutely amazing to hear in person. Just…wow. It doesn't matter whether you love, like, or hate Natsu. It was amazing regardless.

Todd and Sean's autograph lines were absolutely insane. Like, wrap around the stadium insane. I never got why autographs are such a big deal so I didn't bother, but it was entertaining to see people wait in line for hours.

Jamie and Monica are awesome and hilarious individually, but it's like tenfold when they're together. I would totally recommend going to their panels if you guys ever go to a con, especially if they're both there. Ian was incredibly funny, especially after he drank a Monster during the panel. Eric was also hilarious, especially when he started doing impressions of Todd when he was late for his panel due to the long autograph lines.

Anyway, it was a long weekend. Lots of driving, dealt with parking garages downtown, huge crowds, Todd and Eric not being able to make it to some of their panels due to flight delays and other reasons that we can't blame on them (not that we would), lots of people in awesome/insane/scary/disturbing cosplay…

Seriously though, some of the people who were cosplaying dressed up as Elsa, Jack Frost, Belle, characters from Adventure Time, etcetera…seriously?! It was an ANIME convention!

On the upside, I saw…2 Erza's, 1 Jellal (in the Segrain outfit), at least 5 Levy's, 1 Gajeel, 1 Freed, at least 3 Lucy's (one of them in her GMG outfit), at least 5 Natsu's, 1 Rogue, 1 Laxus, 1 Gray, 2 Juvia's, 2 Happy's, 1 Cana, and 1 Wendy. Way more Fairy Tail characters than I saw last year when I went to this convention. Fairy Tail is taking over the world, and I couldn't be prouder!