Published at 30th of November 2019 10:41 pm

Chapter 103: You're a hard man to find

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"Remus, my boy. Please come in." Dumbledore said jovially as he motioned the werewolf to join him in the office and Remus could already tell that he was not going to like this conversation.

Because even though Dumbledore never outright said it, he knew that he was spy for the old man.

A spy and a ambassador for the werewolves from the light side.

And had done his best to bring the werewolves to their side in the last war as well. Not that his efforts bore much fruit but Dumbledore knew that he tried his hardest so the headmaster was not disappointed in him.

But Remus knew that after this talk, Dumbledore would be highly disappointed in him.

Not that he could bring himself to care at this point.

The news that Sirius was innocent and Peter was the real betrayer still rang in his ears. And the cold hard truth that they had let an innocent man rot in Azkaban for a whole decade before he was assassinated because the truth was about to come out had rattled him far more than he would care to admit.

Especially when that innocent man had been his best friend at one point in his life.

And to think that he had hated the man without ever even trying to talk with him.

If he had just talked with Sirius for once, then everything would have become clear to him.

But no, he had turned his back on his best friend on the word of ministry officials.

Hah! The irony.

The guilt of what he had done was overwhelming him even after he took two whole to calm himself down after that talk. And he kept asking himself if Sirius would be alive and free right now if he had just got off his butt and went to meet him even once.

And then there was the question of whether Dumbledore knew or not.

Remus was sure that he didn't. Dumbledore had hidden his status as a werewolf and allowed him to attend the school and had given him a life when no one else did.

Dumbledore had helped him when he was at the lowest in his life and had made him the man he was today. In fact, he practically owed half his life to the headmaster.

Dumbledore was not a bad person.

He was not the kind of person who would let an ally rot in the prison for his own benefits. Right?

Right?

And when his heart didn't gave out it's affirmation, he realized that perhaps for the first time in his life, he had lost his faith in Dumbledore.

At this moment, he felt lost for the second time in his life. The first time being the night when he lost all of his friends to Voldemort.

He let out a tired sigh and plopped down on the chair and could practically feel the headmaster's gaze on him.

And wasn't that a funny thing.

Even after he had left the school for more than fifteen year, he still called the man headmaster.

"So how did your talk with young Mr Potter go?" Dumbledore subtly fished for information "I'm sure that talking with him after such a long time must not have been easy."

Remus was about to open his mouth and tell the old man how the meeting went far different then he could have ever anticipated but a sharp prick at his heart made him realize that the Unbreakable vow was still in effect and giving away any of Harry secret to Dumbledore was not effectively impossible.

He then opened his mouth to tell the headmaster that he would not be able to tell him anything about Harry Potter because of the Unbreakable Vow but his heart clenched again and he realized that he could not reveal the truth about the Vow either.

He had not thought that Harry considered the Unbreakable Vow as a secret but upon further consideration, no one ever flaunted having taken an Unbreakable Vow. Such things were usually kept private behind hidden doors so the Vow counted as a secret as well.

But if that was the case, then what the hell was he supposed to tell the headmaster.

After thinking for a while about it, he finally said "It was good. Harry is a mature person and talking with him was indeed not easy."

The Unbreakable Vow didn't act up so he was safe for now, but the headmaster didn't look very pleased by his lack of description and Remus sighed inwardly.

This meeting was going to be very tiresome. He could already tell that.

"Yes yes. Young Mr Potter seems very mature for his age. Such a pity that so suspicious of us adults." Dumbledore shook his head in sadness "But despite all that, I'm sure he'll be able to see the goodness in your heart and in time, come to understand how much you truly care for the boy."

"Yes Headmaster. He is suspicious of us adults and didn't talk with me in great detail. I'm afraid I really don't have much to tell you at this point." Remus said with a grimace, realizing that the Headmaster was not going to buy this line at all.

"Really. Because I've heard that abused children normally instantly start trusting people who show that they truly care for them." Dumbledore said and Remus felt a pang of anger rise in his heart at those words.

Mostly because that was exactly what Harry had told him as well.

That one of the reasons why Dumbledore sent him to live with his abusive relatives was so that he would instantly start trusting the adults in the wizarding world. Mainly the professors and the Headmaster himself along with Hagrid. All of whom worked for Dumbledore in one way or another.

He was trying to trust Dumbledore here. He really was. But the more he thought about Harry's words, the more the facts lined up against Dumbledore.

The next few minutes were spent with Dumbledore subtly trying to gain more information from him and him trying to tell him vague things about Harry that didn't trigger the Unbreakable Vow.

By the end of it, both he and Dumbledore looked tired and with a forced smile, Dumbledore finally allowed him to leave the office.

And he had never been so relieved to leave that room than he was now.

And that more than anything else made him realize how low his faith in Dumbledore had become.

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While Dumbledore and Remus were talking, Harry had left Britain once again on his trusted Nimbus 2000 while wearing his invisibility cloak and was riding toward his next destination which was the United States of America.

It took him three more days of extensive searching through the help of mind arts and the Imperious before he was able to find the person he had come here for.

Harry could see the man was talking with some of workers in his new company and waited patiently for him to finish his conversation and at last, the man finished his conversation and came back to his office and tiredly sat down on the chair.

And just as the man sat down on the chair, Harry performed a few charms to make sure that no one would either hear them or disturb them during this conversation and after he had applied all the charms, he removed his invisibility cloak and came out from the dark corner of the office and said.

"You're a hard man to find Mr Steve Jobs."

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