Albus Dumbledore collapsed into his chair in the headmaster's office at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He had had a tiring day, spending most of it studying and shoring up the existing wards at Number Twelve Grimauld Place. He wanted to ensure that Harry would be absolutely safe after he moved him there. Poor boy, he thought, it must be so difficult to live in the muggle world. Not being able to do magic at all. Why the very thought was enough to make you nauseous. No wonder the dear sweet boy was always so eager to leave every summer. He hoped that Harry was recovering from his ordeal at the hands of Voldemort. Well, he had done what he could to make the rest of the summer pleasant for Harry. Not the least of which was persuading the Weasleys to move into Grimauld Place with Sirius. No doubt a few weeks of Molly Weasley's nurturing would be good for the boy. He wanted to make sure that Harry would have his friends around him. He would need their support more than ever now that Voldemort was back. Thank Merlin that the Weasleys had been willing. He didn't know he could have handled it if they had been more like the Grangers. Miss Granger, loyal friend that she was, had been more than willing to come and live at Grimauld Place, however persuading her parents to let her leave for the summer had not been easy. No, not easy at all, he thought, thinking back to how he had been forced to use all his charisma and powers of persuasion on Hermione's parents. They had not liked the thought of their only daughter leaving their house so soon after her return from school. Still, the time he spent convincing them was worth it, he thought. Harry needed his best friends with him in this difficult time and the least that he could do was ensure that they would get to spend some of the summer together. Which reminded him, he would soon have to go look at the protections at Privet Drive, to see if the blood wards had recharged sufficiently. He had wanted to move Harry to Grimauld a week ago, but he had not judged it safe enough. Harry needed to spend more time with his Mother's closest relative. He had also needed additional time to go over the wards at Grimauld. If it had just been Sirius living there, he could have left it with the Fidelius, but he was not willing to take any chances with Harry.
His brow furrowed in thought - poor Harry, knowing him as well as he did, he knew the boy would be frustrated at not being told anything. Unfortunately, he had yet to determine the full extent of Harry's link with Voldemort. That there was a link was undeniable, Harry's dreams proved that, however the question of the effect Voldemort's resurrection ritual had on the link still remained to be seen. It was quite possible that the blood that Voldemort had stolen from Harry to use in the ritual had strengthened the link immeasurably. Until he better understood the link between the two he could not afford to tell Harry anything. If he did so and Voldemort gained full access to Harry's mind, the effects could be disastrous. Thank Merlin, he had never informed Harry of the prophecy. Full knowledge of the prophecy was one of the few cards he still held. If Voldemort could simply read that information from Harry's mind that would change the game completely. As it was, his current plans centred around the fact that he was certain that sooner or later Voldemort had to break into the Hall of Prophecy. With a little bit of luck, he could use that to finally make Voldemort's resurrection public in a manner that even Fudge would not be able to deny.
Unfortunately he did not have any reliable method of determining the full extent of the link between Harry and Tom. The only way that he could think of was for an expert Legilimens to practise Legilimency on Harry to see if they could analyse the link. However, that was a method he was reluctant to subject Harry to. Not unless he was certain that he had no other choice. Convincing Harry to let someone read his mind was also problematic. Especially as he could not just come out and be straight with the boy. Chicken and egg he thought. He could not tell Harry anything until he had a better analysis of the link and he could not get a better analysis of the link without giving Harry more information. So if it became necessary, he would have to come up with some excuse for the boy to allow a legilimens access to his mind. He hoped desperately that it would not come to that.
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