The Young Ones

Chapter 16: The Meddling Order

Albus was sitting at his desk listening to Molly ranting loudly about how her husband had left her, how some of her children had left her, about Harry abandoning them for the Dark, and other things that he wasn't really paying attention to because he was far too busy trying to think of where they could all possibly be.

And where he went wrong.

How did things get to the point where Harry would turn to the Dark, then marry and have children with Lord Voldemort of all people? What could he have done to turn his saviour away? And what did he do to turn him away again?

Not that he particularly cared, of course. He just wanted to know what went wrong, and how to get the blasted boy back. And those monstrous children.

Perhaps it didn't help that when the boy came seeking help in stopping the war so that his oldest future child wouldn't die he attacked him, but surely Harry would be able to see that Albus was only trying to do what was best for him, right? Having children with the Dark Lord of all people was not what was best for Harry, or for the Greater Good.

Harry would see that, if Albus could just get him back.

But he didn't know where they were. No tracking spells or anything of the sort were working. He tried one on Amelia, and yet it disappeared long before she arrived back at work. In the middle of nowhere, too. There were no Houses or anything in sight when the tracking spell stopped working and he gave up.

Merlin, it was all so frustrating.

"Albus, are you paying attention?" Molly said, sounding annoyed although clearly trying to hide her annoyance.

"Of course, my dear," he said, turning to look at her, "Your husband has left you, divorced you even. And your oldest children have left you also. They are ignoring any attempts of yours to contact or see them. I have lost members of my Order, and our saviour, along with many powerful students who would be assets in this war, and we need to get them all back. And we need to find those blasted children to wipe them out of existence, for good, but not before finding out what turned Harry to the Dark Lord in the first place,"

It wouldn't be nearly so easy to tell her what she was ranting about if they weren't also many of the things that his mind was ranting about.

"And, we need to find out how the fuck they knew that Severus was Harry's mum and who gave them the right to announce it to the world. Honestly, Harry can't have Severus as his mother, that man is Dark and would very easily turn our boy away from us," Molly said, shaking her head.

"Indeed," Albus nodded.

"Couldn't we just do a country-wide obliviate?" Molly suggested, "If everyone forgets everything then we can rule over them with no trouble,"

"Yes, however we will also get caught in it and forget that we even want to rule over them. Plus everyone would just be mindless people, forgetting literally everything, including how to look after themselves. We would all essentially be babies, with no one to teach us what to do to grow," Albus said with a sigh, Molly had suggested it many times and although the idea had merit, he hated to admit that he also just wasn't trained in the art of obliviation, any number of things could go wrong with it. Though he might consider it as a last ditch effort if everything went wrong.

Or continued to go wrong. Because everything was already going wrong.

And he didn't know how to fix it.

Maybe he should write to Harry, say… sorry. Maybe he should pretend to go along with stopping this war. Then Harry would come back, right? And he could keep him here? And the children. He could bring the children. He could tell Harry that he wants to keep the children safe, and Harry could bring them to him.

He stroked his beard, thinking about all the possibilities.

He could even get Tom to come. And Severus. He could play nice, for a little while, just long enough to make them feel safe, and then he would have everything back under his control again.

Right?

"Don't you have a book on rituals that can help you find someone with just their name? Their name according to magic? You could do one of those rituals, right? They are able to find someone who is underage under any wards," Molly said.

"Well, yes, that might work," Dumbledore said with a smirk.

Yes, surely no one had changed their name, right. He could find any of the students that had gone with the Dark Lord, then he could find Harry. He had their names in their records, and he didn't think all parents and guardians would refuse to put their child's full name on their application. And none of the children would leave the safety they might have found with the Death Eaters to change their name, right? He also didn't think the rituals would require any official titles, because surely magic doesn't recognise those, right?

Yes, this could work.

Soon, Harry would be back under his thumb, whether the boy liked it or not.

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