Escapologist Harry

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Harry was four when he first desided to try his luck elsewhere.

He was returned five days later by Dumbledore - who then proceeded to Obliviate everyone aware of the event, including Harry himself - dirty and disheveled but with his first instinctive breath of freedom.

The Dursleys of course locked him in his cupboard for dirtying his clothes and dragging in mud on the floor - really Dumbledore's fault, the old man hadn't bothered with cleaning his boots.

Two days without food later, and Harry finally figured out how to pick the lock.

Four days later, Dumbledore dropped him off on the Dursleys doorstep once more - a bit annoyed at how the boy wasn't remaining put - and hurriedly Obliviated everyone of the information that he'd ever been away, but also implanted compulsions that would make Harry very insistent on remaining in the Dursley household.

It took him a week after his return and subsequent brain-washing for Harry to run away for the third time.

By the time Dumbledore managed to bring back the frustratingly elusive boy, nearly eight days after his escape, the Headmaster decided to make absolutely certain that it wouldn't be repeated, and other than replacing the compulsion, also added a type of leashing-spell that would make it as if a wall surrounded Privet Drive, and making the boy completely incapable of leaving.

Through accidental magic, un-Obliviated instincts, and a by now nearly fanatical need for freedom, Harry broke out of his perfect prison within the month.

He got dragged back before the end of the second day, Dumbledore having nearly drowned him in a variety of tracking-spells that would've made most academics green with envy.

The prison was reapplied, as it was reasoned that the brat couldn't possible pull that off a second time. Accidental magic was, after all, highly accidental.

It took him three days to replicate his escape, and this time he'd managed to remove or mask nearly every tracking-spell on him. Dumbledore finally found him nearly a month later, after his magic activated in an attempt to get away from a rabid dog.

By now, Dumbledore desided that perhaps it was time to get serious.

Reapplying the prison that he'd originally created, he raised enough wards around the area to cause the electronics around Privet Drive to act oddly. He then used Harry's blood in order to bind a permanent tracking-charm to him, and layered enough Obliviations, Compulsion charms, and Legilimency probes to make the imperio appear mild.

It took Harry thirteen days to twist the Compulsions into insignificance and find a loophole within the wards.

It took Dumbledore four days to finally catch him, but that was mostly because it'd taken him quite a bit of time to get to the point where he was actually convinced that the four year old had somehow managed to best his wards at all, let alone in less than half a month. He was rather upset about it, and desided to try to dumb the Boy-Who-Lived down a little bit. It wouldn't do for him to be quite this bright, after all.

Harry, now severely hampered in terms of brain-power, broke through the impassible wards in sixteen days.

Furious at having been bested, it took Dumbledore a single day to catch him again, and the damage he did in his rage to Harry's psyche would've turned most people catatonic.

Tossing the boy back into his cupboard, he used a few Compulsion spells to force the Dursleys into be nearly paranoid about making sure that he wouldn't leave the house. Then he reapplied his tracking-charms, and reset the wards.