"Confringo."

Remus heard a crack as he cast it. The spell went towards Dursley, but another spell hit Dursley, knocking him to the ground. Remus' spell went past him, blowing up another wall. Dursley started screaming. Remus looked to the side.

He blinked. "Dumbledore? Minerva?"

Dumbledore looked at him, one of the few times he looked less a kindly old man, and more a stern headmaster. McGonagall was looking at him like he'd just pulled a particularly large prank with the other Marauders.

"Mr. Lupin! You ought to be ashamed of yourself! Casting spells on Muggles! Destroying their house! One hundred points from Gryffindor!"

For a moment, Remus was too shocked to say anything. He recovered. "But I'm not a student anymore."

Minerva blinked. "Right. Well, forgive me, but these actions certainly seem the actions of a hormonal, immature teenager."

"What Minerva means to say," Dumbledore said patiently. "Is that you came here far too recklessly. You should have let someone else, someone not so…personally involved come here to question them."

"You're both involved," Remus pointed out. He took a few breaths. He was calming down now.

"We," Minerva said dryly. "Didn't try to blow them up." She looked at Dursley, still screaming. "Even if it is tempting to turn him into a duck or something," she muttered.

"If we had arrived here a second later," Dumbledore told Remus grimly. "You would have earned yourself a one way ticket to Azkaban…unless you wish to join Sirius there, in which case, please continue."

Remus paled. He'd nearly killed Dursley. Blown him up. It was for James and Lily, he tried to reason. But that didn't make as much sense now as it did a minute before. Now it just seemed petty. Ridiculous. Personal, he'd admit. And if James and Lily were there, they'd call him out on it, too.

The best thing he could do for James and Lily was find Harry. Killing Dursley wouldn't help. Being in Azkaban wouldn't help.

"I wasn't thinking," he admitted.

"I know," Dumbledore said calmly. "You were angry, and you had every reason to be. That happens to the best of us." He raised his wand, and repaired almost all the damage that Remus had caused. He turned to Mr. Dursley. "Mr. Dursley, may I have a word with you? Mr. Dursley?"

Mr. Dursley sent a nervous glance at Remus, though he calmed down as he noticed that the walls had been fixed. "Keep that lunatic away from me," he mumbled, motioning towards Remus.

Dumbledore looked over to him. "I have a few questions to ask them myself. I think it may be best if you left."

Remus glared at Dursley before nodding. "I'll just…I'll just be at Headquarters."

Pepper had been gone on a business trip for over half a month. Tony had been pressuring her into coming back as quickly as she could. He seemed excited, though just what for, she didn't know. And know Tony as she did, she wasn't sure whether to get back quicker, or try and stall for as long as possible. She'd asked what it was he wanted her to see, but he refused to answer. He wanted to surprise her. So it was either something she would love, something he thought she'd love that would make her mad, or something he knows will make her mad, but is doing anyways.

She thought she'd heard something about "Harry," thought she didn't know anyone by the name of Harry. Perhaps it was a new robot Tony had created? Though what a robot named Harry would do, she didn't know.

So now she was coming up the elevator, anxiously guessing at what Tony had brought into the tower now. The door opened. She stepped out, then stopped.

"Tony…?" she said, her voiced quickly rising in pitch. "Is that a—is that a baby?"

Tony was holding a baby, as Clint and Natasha took sips of coffee tiredly. Steve and Bruce were looking at something in a computer as Thor spoke to them. Tony grinned, and they all looked over to her.

"Yup! Say hi to Harry," Tony said, walking over.

"What? Where did you…? Tony, where did you get…Harry?" She looked at Harry, and despite her frustration with the random baby in the tower full of superheroes, she felt her mouth turn upwards. Harry giggled.

"I was the one who found him," Natasha spoke up. "It's kind of a long story, but basically I found him a couple weeks ago on a mission, he's a wizard, he's been orphaned, and the relatives he was going to would have been terrible."

Clint nodded. "Neglectful at best, abusive at worst."

"So you've taken the baby and decided to raise him yourselves," Pepper deduced.

Everyone nodded. "We can do it Pepper," Tony said. "I mean, I can afford to raise a kid. I can afford to raise a hundred kids, uh, not that I want to. And we can protect him, and raise him to be a good person. A smart person." He looked at her hopefully. "Um, maybe you could help us a bit though?"

She looked at the others amusedly. "I suppose I've got the most mothering experience," she noted, looking at Tony, who feigned an insulted look. "And I suppose you had me won over at 'orphaned.' Poor boy."

Tony offered Harry to her. "Wanna hold him?"

She took him slowly, smiling at the baby. "Hello, Harry." He laughed reaching towards her face. "So did I hear you say he's a wizard?"

Bruce nodded. "We need to be careful with him. He uh, he turned the couch into d-u-c-k-s," he spell out the last word.

"Fairly harmless," Steve told her. Tony glared at him. "For the most part. But we don't know what he's really capable of."

"So we're being as careful as we can," Tony said.

"Careful?" Pepper looked at him dubiously. "You?"

Tony grinned. "That's why I need you."

Dumbledore assembled the Order. They sat around a table, some patient, some worried.

"Harry Potter," Dumbledore started, then hesitated, looking remorseful. He sighed. "Harry Potter has disappeared."

Remus, Moody, Arabella, and Minerva didn't react besides looking down sadly, as they already knew. Other Order members were shocked, others angry.

"What?" Dedalus asked. "Disappeared?"

Elphias was shocked. "Albus? Wherever did you put the boy?"

Hagrid was angry, going on about the no-good Dursleys, and then, noticing that Mundungus was checking out a box of fancy silverware, grabbed him and forced him back into his seat.

Oddly, Severus Snape gave one of the more vocal reactions, slamming his fist down, and standing up. "I swear, if I didn't know better, I'd say you were killing the Potters off on purpose. You aren't, of course, but you sure aren't doing a very good job protecting them. First Lily, and her husband," he said, sneering bitterly over the word husband. "and now you lose her only child within a month!"

"Within a day," Remus added wearily. "Apparently, Dumbledore gave Harry to the aunt that hates magic and Lily," because that makes so much sense, he thought, "and said aunt never even brought him inside."

Severus observed Lupin, one of his school-days enemies. Everyone else also stared. "You've already spoken to them on the matter?"

Remus nodded. "I didn't even mention the best part. They gave Harry away, to an assassin."

Chaos broke out in the order. Severus glared at Dumbledore. "An assassin," he said quietly, only loud enough that Dumbledore could hear. "Lily's son is in the hands of an assassin?" He looked about ready to blow up. He looked back to Lupin. "Tell me you're joking!"

"Funny, that's sort of like my own reaction," Remus commented.

"Enough, quiet!" Dumbledore raised his voice, getting everyone's attention. "I made a mistake, a serious misjudgment. That's my fault. But I won't let Harry suffer the consequences." He looked around the table. "Alastor, try and use any ministry resources to find him. Elphias, check around the wizarding communities you know. Arabella, Minerva, try and search the Muggle population."

Diggle looked to him doubtfully. "The Muggle population? You think it may be a Muggle that has him?"

"It may be so," Dumbledore confirmed. "Mundungus, search within the illegal channels you know."

Sturgis Podmore scoffed. "If he finds Harry, he'll probably sell him."

"OY!" Fletcher protested indignantly, looking genuinely scandalized. "I sell people's stuff! Their valuables, their crap they don't need, hopefully things they won't miss. I don't bloody sell their bloody kids! That's a line I'm not crossing, Podmore, and I'm offended by the implications!" He glared at Sturgis. "I'll do my best to find to find the kid and bring him here." He looked to Dumbledore, glaring at him now. "I'm not giving him to his relatives, though." He apparated off, and several other members left as well.

Snape glared at Dumbledore. "And they call you the greatest wizard of the age."

Ug. Sorry if this sucks. To be fair, I feel like crap. I'm sick, and my thoughts are muggy, and blegh. That said, expect me to go and redo anything I've done while sick, and hopefully it'll be better. I just really want to get as much out now as I can, cause I'm starting college in ten days, so yeah...

Sorry, guys.