Chapter 14: Magic Detection!
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"I'm going to take that as a no," Harry muttered aloud as he dashed back towards his bed.
From the distinctive sound of apparation, he predicted that multiple wizards had just appeared a few floors below him and were heading up now.
He didn't doubt that they had been the ones to place a tracing charm on the Hogwarts letter, and from Harry's messiah-like status within the wizarding world, there was a good chance that Dumbledore was here.
While Harry didn't doubt that with the element of surprise he could absolutely destroy the vast majority of wizards in combat, Albus Dumbledore was certainly part of the minority, and with multiple others with him, Harry would have no chance.
Somehow he felt as though they might not take no as an answer for his entrance to Hogwarts. He wasn't willing to stay and find out.
They had most likely appeared on the ground floor and Harry was on the fifth. While wizards didn't understand things such as elevators, they would be up to him soon.
He picked up his wand and waved it through the air, summoning his various belongings from around the room and into a slightly-expanded backpack.
He hurriedly changed from his pyjamas to jeans and a shirt, strapping his wand holster to his forearm as his enhanced hearing picked up the thumping of feet and sound of voices.
He moved back over to the window and climbed out upon the ledge outside. As someone knocked upon his room door, he took one final glance backwards before shutting the window and pointing his wand at himself. He muttered a few spells before leaping from the ledge.
Wind rushed through his ears for a few moments and then he collided with the surface of the River Thames seventy feet below.
As the dirty water surrounded him, he was suddenly extremely glad that he had thought to use water-proofing and bubblehead charms.
There was also Loki to thank for the fact he was not feeling any pain, the god having dulled the sensation.
Just to be safe, Harry swam across the filthy river to the opposite bank, never breaking the surface.
Upon the other side he dragged himself to the shore, undoing the charms before producing his wand and carefully wrapping himself in the illusion of a rather short, black-haired man wearing a shabby brown suit.
It was his favourite form for staying inconspicuous. No one would give him a second look, muggles and wizards alike.
With a final glance backwards, Harry walked up the stairs of the stony beach and disappeared into the steets London.
His apartment's location being compromised wasn't too big an issue. It had all been paid for using illusions, mind control, and small amounts of real money when Harry was too tired to produce anything else.
As far as he was aware, he had been able to bring all of his belongings but for bathroom products. All in all it wasn't too big of a loss, but that didn't mean it wasn't bloody annoying.
He had been settled there for a greater part of a year and had been planning on setting up wards quite soon.
Wards that would have stopped him being found if only he had thought to put them up a few days earlier. He had already had anti-tracking charms on him but Hogwarts seemed to have somehow bypassed them.
Loki was unsure of the capabilities of Dumbledore and the school itself. Since Harry had nothing to learn at Hogwarts anyway, it would be best if he went far out of its reach.
With Loki speaking in AllSpeak, a language that translated into the native tongue of whoever he was talking to, they could essentially go anywhere since he would only need a few weeks to teach a whole language to Harry by essentially copying the information straight into his brain.
It was quite a strenuous process and discovering that a mortal mind couldn't be taught to speak in complete AllSpeak had been quite painful for both of them, prompting them to only learn a single language.
Loki had chosen that the best for Harry to learn had been Russian as a result of how large Russia was, but also because no one would expect Harry Potter to be in Russia.
So after catching a taxi to Gatwick Airport and using a few illusions, Harry was on a flight to Moscow.
As he had in Gatwick, he wrapped a slight illusion around himself for the sake of the CCTV cameras, changing his hair to dirty blond and his eyes to light brown whilst greatly changing his facial features and obscuring his scar. He would be near unrecognizable.
As he got to the Customs and Immigration counter, he subtly lifted his wand and pushed a mental compulsion of mortal magic upon the man in front of him, not knowing what illusionary documents would be required to let him in. The muggle's eyes glazed over as they waved him through.
Harry moved forward and the hairs on the back of his neck were suddenly standing on end.
Loki cursed. 'A magic detection ward. Someone knows we're here.'
Harry looked to the right and mimicked Loki's curse as he saw two men in black trenchcoats strolling towards him, wands in hand.
He turned left and saw three coming from that direction as well. From the looks of things, Russian wizards cooperated with the muggle government significantly better than the British did.
Turning forward once again, Harry began to sprint. A voice behind him yelled, "Stop!" in Russian and Harry's limited AllSpeak automatically translated it.
Well, at least that was working. He didn't stop, and a red light zipped by his left and hit a person in front of him. Harry span, whipped his hand forward and icing the ground in front of his pursuers.
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