The tension in the room had become

The tension in the room had become unbearable. Suddenly every Auror had forgotten about Voldemort and his Death Eaters. They wanted the Dark Prince, to make him pay for the
atrocious attack he had made on the Longbottoms. Frank had been a fellow Auror and his wife Alice had also been a member of the Order. Their deaths had affected them all and
now that they knew who was directly responsible, they would do anything to bring their killer to justice.
Lily fought the sob that was threatening to overtake her as she grabbed onto James' hand. Frank had been a good friend of James. When Harry had gone missing fifteen years ago,
Frank and Alice had been there for her and James. They were good people and did not deserve to suffer such an ill fate. The fire had taken 48 hours to put out and in the end there
was nothing left of the bodies but ashes.
"I know that this news is upsetting but we have to focus on what we have before us. This is a chance. If we can apprehend the Dark Prince then we can eliminate a good part of
Voldemort's confidence. With the Dark Prince under arrest, we can easily get to Voldemort." Dumbledore explained.
At this point, Kingsley stood up.
"I am sorry to say this but we have not even been able to hurt him, let alone capture him. The boy is unpredictable. He uses spells that we have never even heard of. I don't think
we can plan his capture."
The atmosphere in the room was already solemn and at Kingsley's words it plunged another couple of notches down.
"Our only option is to study the boy. We can learn a lot from the way he battles." Moody said, giving his solution to the problem.
James stood up so that every eye was now on him.
"See, I think that's a problem. We don't have time on our side."
Everyone stared at James as he made this revelation.
"What do you mean 'we have no time' Potter!" snapped Snape.
Sirius growled a little at him but Lily quietened him by placing a hand on his arm.
"What I mean is simple, we have no time to study him, this boy is simply wiping the floor with us and he is not even seventeen yet. He only has the usual one third of his powers. If
we don't capture him now then…well can you imagine what he will be like when he comes of age and gets his full powers?"
James' words took their effect as everyone had a look of pure terror and dread on their face.
"We need to know more information about him. We have to know what his weakness is, since everyone has at least one." Dumbledore said, as he eyed the Order's spy, Severus
Snape.
Snape looked at the Headmaster and felt that this was the time to report on his findings. He stood up so that everyone had turned their attention to him.
"Well I think that everyone must realise his most obvious one, the Dark Lord." He paused to listen to the collective intake of breath. He continued. "I have found that the Dark Lord
and the Dark Prince share a very close relationship. I have never seen the Dark Lord react to anyone the way he reacts to his son. Even the Dark Prince seems to be really
connected to his father. He would gladly sacrifice himself if the Dark Lord asked him to."
At these words, Sirius spoke up.
"What are the chances that we can ask You­Know­Who to do just that?"
Lily looked at him sharply, honestly he had no sense at all.
"However" Snape continued after sending Sirius a glare. "I have found out that he is quite close to another one person. Bellatrix Lestrange." he looked straight into Sirius' eyes as
he said the name of his cousin.
Sirius' eyes darkened and a blush crept up onto his cheeks. He and Bella had been very close when growing up but as they became young adults, Bella fell into the Black family's
tradition, and took the Dark Mark. Sirius had to literally flee his home in order to save his life from his own family. James looked over at his best friend and noticed his jaw
clenched and his fists in tight balls. He glared back at Snape. 'He could have worded that differently' he thought. 'Slimy git!'
Snape had a satisfied smirk on his face.
"It turns out that Bellatrix has brought up the boy and cares a great deal about him. Although the boy shows resistance to her, he secretly cares about her too. I had to spend
considerable time as a certain inner circle Death Eater to get this information."
Snape paled slightly as the memory of being Lucius Malfoy came back to him. He had used up the whole supply of Polyjuice potion for that.
"So you're saying that in order to get to the boy we have to either get to You­know­who or Bellatrix Lestrange?" asked Kingsley Shacklebolt a little sarcastically.
Snape only responded by sending an icy glare his way and sat down. Albus Dumbledore looked sadly at the room full of defeated faces.
Sirius rounded on Snape again.
"How come you never saw the boy's face, I mean he can't walk around all day and night wearing that awful mask?"
"I didn't go anywhere near the boy. He would have surely been able to realise what was going on as he is very close to Malfoy!" Snape answered in a much clip