Asylum

A special thanks to my beta, Saeadame.

Asylum

Chapter 2:

6 years later

The Order of the Phoenix searched high and low for the Dursleys, but it seemed that the Dursleys were elusive. They didn't seem to be anywhere in England, and they appeared to have taken the boy savior with them.

Unfortunately, they needed Harry Potter now more than ever. About five years ago, the Dark Lord, Lord Voldemort himself was resurrected again. To top it all off, it was in Hogwarts, in the Chamber of Secrets.

Lord Voldemort had placed a piece of his soul in a diary that had 'mysteriously' ended up in the Weasley's youngest child, Ginny's hands. Students had been petrified all throughout the school year, until finally at the end of the girl's first year of schooling she was taken down to the Chamber of Secrets where her very life force was taken from her, and Tom Marvolo Riddle, at the age of sixteen was alive again.

But that was five years ago, the man's youthful appearance has attracted numerous followers. He was seducing the younger generation with his looks and his charm as he did the previous, then promising them fame and fortune under his command. That was, until they took the dark mark and became just another minion to the sick megalomaniac. The poor souls didn't even know what they were getting into. Many joined the man and it wasn't until afterwards that they really knew what the man stood for.

Pain. Murder. Bloodshed. Domination.

They had all learned quickly that the only thing Lord Voldemort wanted was to conquer. He would never fulfill the promises he made to each of those individuals when they took that ghastly mark on their arms.

Albus shook his head from his dark thoughts and returned to his present surroundings.
It was August 2nd, two days after Harry Potter's 17th birthday, and the Order of the Phoenix was sitting around 12 Grimmauld Place.

"…and another attack happened in Rowena's Circle. Thirteen were killed and many were wounded." Kingsley Shacklebolt reported. Rowena's Circle was a small village with a lot of elderly who went into retirement.

Albus sighed. Another day, another attack. "Thank you, Kingsley. Any other news."

At this point, seventeen year old Hermione Granger, a quiet and studious girl cleared her throat. Albus was hesitant at first to ask her about joining the order. The girl appeared to be really arrogant when she first started at Hogwarts, which caused her to have no friends. Now that she has shed her arrogant and nearly overconfident demeanor, she still had no friends as everyone else already had their own clique. She had top marks, though, and was muggleborn. He finally asked her to join in April and tasked her with looking into the missing Dursleys and Harry Potter. So far she had found nothing, much to her frustration.

Hermione stood up from the table and shuffled a few papers in her hands. "Y-you asked me to look into the missing Potter case." She mumbled a bit, though they all understood her. "I er--found some newspaper clippings in the Surrey library."

Everyone perked up at this. No one knew exactly why the whole town seemed to have moved. If they knew why, then maybe they could figure out where they all went.

Hermione seeing that she actually had some attention for once raised her voice and appeared more confident in herself. "The first clipping is from September 28th, 1989. I'll give you a summary. It says that number 4 Private Drive was attacked. That the Dursleys were sleeping when an unnamed person took a shotgun from Vernon Dursley's closet and murdered all three Dursleys in the house. A suspect was taken into custody.”

Nearly everyone's mouth was open in shock, the exception being Severus Snape, who only had one eyebrow raised to show his surprise.

"What about Harry?" Sirius Black, the ex-convict croaked. It was revealed shortly after Voldemort's return that Sirius Black was innocent all along. Peter Pettigrew transformed right in the middle of Diagon Alley during a raid the summer after Voldemort returned. Sirius was pardoned and was given a heap of gold for his troubles. He had been looking for Harry ever since he was freed.

"The next clipping, which was written two days after that one, says that a boy was found in the cupboard under the stairs, and that they were still looking into who he was."

Sirius paled. They found a boy…

Hermione realized just how that sounded and rushed to explain. "Oh he was alive, he was not killed with the rest of the family."

Sirius let out a rush of air he didn't remember inhaling. Thank Merlin…

"But, the odd thing is he was found with bruises and cuts all over his body and a series of broken bones and decided to do a huge investigation. Another newspaper said that apparently the boy was the surviving nephew of the Dursleys and that he was hospitalized. They didn't say where though." Hermione said.

"Apparently, they never said that the attacker of the Dursleys was actually apprehended and the neighbors didn't like this. Their whole neighborhood liked to be completely uniform and safe, what happened to the Dursleys scared them, and so they all moved to find a safer town." Hermione finished.

Oh…so that is what happened.

Dumbledore cleared his throat. "Now it would seem we would have to find Harry's hospital records. If we find out what hospital he went to, then we might find where they sent him from there. Remus," Remus's head snapped up in attention, "you and Miss Granger will be in charge of finding these records. Start with the most obvious, the hospitals located around Surrey."

Remus nodded.

"What about me?" Sirius asked.

Dumbledore sighed. "I know you want to go, but your presence might draw too much attention. I know your name was cleared in the muggle world, but they may still have their doubts and eyes will inevitably be drawn to you. We don't need Voldemort catching on to what we are doing."

Sirius looked away sadly, knowing Albus was only telling him the truth, but it still hurt to not to be out there looking for Harry.

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A/N: First of all I’d like to wish you all who celebrate a Merry Christmas!

Next, I would like to say something about the story. I know a lot of you are thinking this will be a Dumbledore and Order of the Phoenix bashing but……it’s not. I happen to like Dumbledore to the extremes. I either like him as crazy and manipulative or I like him as grandfatherly who is prone to mistakes sometimes. My last stories had him as manipulative, now I would like to try him as grandfatherly.

I would like to thank reviewers:

Daisy, Demonic Darkness, Andrea, Sanji_is_weird, Hine, shadowama, Anon, Sneakyfox, Makovaso, KillingProphet, LamaPie, Blair, Misery, poohbear74, amysds, hell_on_earth, and PotionsPet

Tbabyay: If you want messaged for updates you have to leave your email address as I do not yet have it. Thanks for the review.

DarklessVasion: I didn’t know that! So I actually did look into after your message, but let me just say that what I found was a very long history of guns of EVERY type in England and when they were banned. I think it said that it was like 1988 that they needed a certificate for a shotgun saying that you own it and that you have the right to own it (law officials or special cases other than self defense). Now Harry killed the Dursleys in 1989, so it was one year after this, though they were not totally banned yet. Even if they were banned, would it really surprise you that Vernon Dursley thought that it was his right to own one and got one through illegal means? Anyway he did own a rifle in the Sorcer’s Stone, so that shows that he wasn’t opposed to having a gun in the house. So thanks for the information, I seriously didn’t know that. Thanks for the review.

Middy-kun: Haha…the question of who the dominate is. Well not one person is going to be completely dominate. First it will appear to be Snape as Harry hasn’t really had the chance to be in a relationship, but as things progress I would like Harry to take on that role as his self confidence and self worth increases. Thanks for the review.


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