Harry Potter the Power Unknown By Priya Ashok

Chapter 8

Albus, Snape and McGonagall returned to Hogwarts shortly after. Albus was fuming and they had walked back to the Dursleys and once again checked for any type of magical presence but could not detect anything out of the normal. In fact there was nothing out of the ordinary to tell him that a magical wizard boy had resided there and had vanished.

Albus had shown far more than he had intended. He had planned to use the ordinary tracking charm only. But he had been forced to use the more complicated calling spell as the ordinary tracking charm refused to even register.

That was when he feared Harry was kidnapped by someone powerful and with great resources. Snape and Minerva had watched with astonishment as they witnessed a furious and a foaming at the mouth Albus Dumbledore.

Albus always exhibited his anger by an exhibition of his power that was visible and one that would calm down the opponent. Today, however he was exhibiting his anger in a blustering way that showed his helplessness.

Without a word to either Snape or McGonagall, Albus went to his office. From his office, he flooed again to The Leaky Cauldron and went to Diagon Alley and apparated to his home. He immediately called Arthur, who was at the Ministry and Peter, who was in the Weasley's home as Percy Weasley's pet rat.

Wormtail had a small invisible collar that would tingle in a particular way that would tell him the urgency of Albus's call. As he was snoring that day on the window sill of Percy's room, a tingle woke him up.

The call from Albus told Peter that something serious was going on. He immediately ran into the woods that surrounded The Burrow and changing, apparated to the source of the call, that was from Albus's home.

Meanwhile Albus had called for Fawkes and was waiting for the other two to arrive. As soon as they did he briefed them about all that had happened.

"Arthur, you must check up on Black. Harry did not respond to my call. That means he is behind powerful blood wards, wards more powerful than the ones I have cast on him."

"But how can that be, we have been checking on him regularly and those people have been ill-treating him so beautifully." Arthur was understandably confused and then he continued.

"If you will wait for some time, I will be back, bringing you news about Black. If it is Black who has somehow escaped from Azkaban, then we can narrow our search and even find both of them and take care of them." he finished.

"Yes, you do that and if it is Black, then he has asked for his death in the most horrible manner. This time we will not keep Harry with his relatives, though, I will bring him here and keep him under the influence of a nice imperious, till he can open the vaults for us." Albus was almost screaming and had become purple in anger, an anger he could not exhibit in front of others.

Arthur then left a fuming and an out of control Albus he had never seen before and a worried Peter.

What he forgot in his haste to find Harry was the fact that he had shown Snape and McGonagall a spell he had cast on a small boy was so dark, it was one of the banned spells, banned by the Ministry. And he had apparently cast it when Harry had been younger than he was now.

Albus and Wormtail were waiting rather impatiently for Arthur to return from the Ministry. Peter was feeling slightly apprehensive as Sirius would search him out and attack him on so many counts.