The Paranoid Harry Potter

She apologised again before rushing off, and then a thought struck her. She pulled out a standard bit of auror field kit, a pair of glasses that could see through most glamour charms. She looked back at the boy through the glasses; nope his eyes were still brown. He was definitely not Harry Potter. Thank goodness the other two had not been with her. They would never have let her live it down - her thinking that a random stranger was the boy who lived. Oh dear, she was starting to see Harry Potter everywhere.

She hurried along and a few moments later found herself at Oudekerksplein. She was surprised to see Lupin and Snape just standing around there. They seemed oddly embarrassed when they saw her.

"What's the matter?" she asked. "I thought your note said we'd be meeting at Magischstraat."

"We ah...we couldn't find the entrance," explained Lupin.

"They seem to have moved it since I was last here," said Snape. "We were just waiting until we spotted someone who could tell us where the entrance is."

"Honestly, did none of you bother to check out a guidebook? They put in a new marker a few years back. You need to find the bronze bust that's embedded in the sidewalk."

"A bronze bust?" asked Snape.

"Yes, it's should be near the church. You have to tap the stone at the bottom of the bust. Once you do that the entrance to the street becomes visible."

"Oh, I think I saw something like that on the other side of the church. Follow me, it's in that direction," said Lupin.

A minute later, Tonks was stamping on a stone at the bottom of a strange piece of sculpture - one that had been embedded right into the surface of the road. As soon as her foot lifted from the stone, the three of them saw a door that had not been there before suddenly appear. They walked through it to find a narrow brick lined alley, one just wide enough for a single person to walk through at a time.

"Let's go," said Tonks. "As far as I know, the street is at the other end of the alley. The Dutch Aurors have an office somewhere on the street. We should check in with them first."

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Harry's heart was hammering like a freight train. He couldn't believe it. He had been recognised. He had been so sure that his disguise would be good enough to protect him. Well, it had, but it seemed like the woman only thought he wasn't Harry after she had gotten a good look at his eyes and forehead. What if it had been someone else? Someone who would have cursed first and asked questions later. He ducked around a corner and quickly got under the invisibility cloak with Dobby.

"Who is that woman?" he wondered. "Is she a Death Eater? Well, she could also be with the Ministry," he thought, "Not that it makes much difference."

He decided to follow her and hurried back around the corner to see the woman rushing down the street. He quickly raced after her, pulling Dobby along with him.

"Has to be either a Death Eater or someone from the ministry," he explained to Dobby. "Not likely that there's anyone else looking for me. Well okay, I guess Dumbledore might be looking for me as well, but I don't see the Headmaster of Hogwarts working with someone who has pink hair. Do you?"

Harry followed the pink haired woman, he was careful to keep her at some distance. He saw her meeting some men. He could not make out their features at this distance so he had Dobby remove the omnioculars he had bought at the world cup from his backpack. He raised the omnioculars to his eyes and looked for the woman through them. It was always a little difficult for him to locate something in the omnioculars field of vision. It usually took him a few seconds to find whatever he was looking for even if he had been staring right at it. He found the woman in the omnioculars just as she disappeared. She had seemed to suddenly vanish in thin air followed swiftly by the men she had been meeting.

"Looks like she's entered a magical area," he said. "Probably something hidden like the entrance to Diagon Alley."

He rewound the omnioculars to play back the last few minutes. When he replayed the footage he was shocked to see that the pink haired woman was in fact keeping company with two men that he recognised. Two men that he recognised very well indeed, even though they were wearing muggle clothes instead of the robes he was used to seeming them in.

He snarled in hate and anger. Lupin, one of the men was Lupin and the other was Snape.

"Looks like I was absolutely right about Lupin," he said. "Since he's not working at Hogwarts any more he should have absolutely no reason to be keeping company with Snape. That means he's definitely a Death Eater as well. Why else would he be with Snape?"

"Dobby, it looks like we're going to have to leave Amsterdam sooner than we planned. It's not safe here any more. Can you pop us back to the hotel? We're just going to grab Hedwig and whatever else we left there and then we're going to go straight to Schiphol Airport and catching the first plane out of here."

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