What he didn't know was that since both those spells work on the mind of the victim, they were totally ineffective on Harry unless enough magic was powering them knock anyone else out for a week. The goblins had given Harry his heir rings, which Dumbledore hadn't noticed Harry was wearing, and those rings protected Harry from a wide variety of spells and potions meant to control a person as well. And that was in addition to Harry's own natural resistance to mind altering spells and potions. So even if Harry hadn't realized he was under attack and fought back on his own, his rings would've alerted him to the problem. If they didn't just negate the attack outright. But then, Dumbledore didn't know Harry had his rings now.
Sure, Harry would appear to fall under them in the beginning, allowing the caster to believe they were working so they wouldn't automatically increase the power of their spell casting but Harry was definitely the master of his own mind and he was far too stubborn to ever let anyone tell him what he believed. Too many years of not being able to control even the slightest aspect of his life outside the security of his own mind had made Harry fiercely determined to retain control over his own thoughts no matter who thought that right should belong to them.
Even Voldemort could've told Dumbledore Harry was the complete master of his own mind because he'd tried the Imperious Curse on Harry only to have him throw it off. Twice! And he could imperious anyone! If that curse wouldn't work, then no mere Confundus or Compulsion spell would. No matter how powerful the caster was. Strength of mind was more important than strength of magic when it came to the mind arts spells effectiveness. Not that Dumbledore would've listened since he never listened to anyone who wasn't singing his praises or telling him what he wanted to hear.
The goblin upon seeing the parchment with it's coded signature smiled nastily at Dumbledore. He'd been hoping he'd be the first to see this particular parchment. It was going to be a fun day at the bank today. He pressed a button under his counter and a very special goblin hurried into the lobby.
While Dumbledore was being led merrily around by the nose by a goblin assigned to this duty by the Nation, Hermione, Ron and Ginny decided it was time they confronted Harry about what they considered his theft of their assets. Dumbledore had told all three of them not to mention it to him as he, Dumbledore, would get it straightened out and Harry didn't realize they were drawing a salary from his accounts. But all three were upset over their missing money and completely sure of themselves where dealing with Harry was concerned. They were positive they could go to him and get their keys restored without him ever realizing exactly what they were doing. Because they believed he was simply too stupid. That and too much under their thumb so as not to lose their friendship. So they set out to track him down.
Since he wasn't staying in the tower, they had to hunt him down in the Castle itself. Instead of looking here, there and everywhere they went straight to their favorite Professor. She always believed anything they chose to tell her no matter how ridiculous or obviously untrue it was. Especially if it included something bad Harry had done or was doing. Professor McGonagal really didn't like Harry Potter and but she did like them.
They got the Deputy Headmistress to tell them where they might find him using the excuse they wanted to see if they could persuade him to come back to the tower or at least join them in the common room for a bit. She told them if he wasn't in a class or the Great Hall for a meal he'd either be in his room or in the Library. And no, she couldn't give them the password to his old room or even tell them for sure where it was because she didn't know. Though she didn't understand why they needed to look for him at all as he was back in the fifth year dorm this year. Surely they could just wait in the common room for him to show?
They glossed over the fact that he wasn't staying in the tower right now by telling her they wanted to talk and visit with him now. Not whenever he finally decided to return to the tower. None of them wanted to tell her he wasn't staying in Gryffindor Tower. They all knew it worked to their advantage having him elsewhere in the Castle where he couldn't as easily counter their actions against him.
They waylaid him in the library, where he was sitting alone at a table studying. The library was full of studying students. Both from Slytherin and from Ravenclaw. And in their year to boot. The trio smiled smugly to each other knowing that those two groups would make sure it got around the Castle very quickly about how they'd once again put Harry Potter in his place. Which to them was under their heel and doing everything they told him to do. It could only benefit them to have their year mates seeing them pulling his strings while he danced to their tune.
The two Weasely siblings straightened their spines and followed Hermione as she marched across the room to where Harry was sitting alone at a table reading and taking notes from a book. She was their leader and they took their cues from her as always. Making sure she had the attention of the room, Hermione demanded, "Harry Potter, you stop ignoring us right now. We've been trying to talk to you for days now and you keep ignoring us. We're your friends, Harry. Did you forget that over the summer? You know we're the only friends you have and it isn't wise to ignore your friends. You just might wake up one day to discover you no longer have them. We've told you this before."
"But that isn't important right now. Right now, we want to talk to you about our vaults and why our keys no longer grant us access to them. We demand you give them back to us right now." She held out her hand as if she expected him to meekly lay her missing key in her palm. Slightly behind her both Ron, who was smiling smugly, and Ginny who was trying for a 'I'm a sweet innocent girl' smile, both held out their hands as well. Both were eyeing the tables of students closest to them from the corner of their eyes making sure the other students saw what was taking place now with Harry Potter. naturally they were ignoring the stacks and Madam Pince as the Librarian didn't like them and would never like anything they were involved in.
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