A/N: Here we go with my first fanfic, Obvious Disclaimer: I have/will never own Harry Potter it belongs to JK Rowling. However Thorne and Nova are my own OC's and will be in the majority of my works in one form or another.
Summary: Harry Potter's third year, and a time for worry for many as Sirius Black has escaped. Harry is meant to be among these people worried as the supposed mass murderer is coming after him, however an odd sense of normality is all he can sense withing the castle of Hogwarts. However when two mysterious strangers arrive in the Great Hall, claiming to be from around the time of the Founders, and leaders of the fabled fifth house all chaos brakes loose as Harry and those around him find out just how much people have been playing with their lives. But can they trust these two strangers enough to actually break free?
This is unbeta'd, mistakes may be made, especially with the SCUBA equipment it's been 5 months since I last touched any of it.
Prologue
Early August 1993, A Hidden Island in the Indian Ocean
The Island rose out of the sea like the back of a gigantic sea monster, slowly climbing to an apex at the peak of the solitary hill and back down again into the sea. Atop the lone hill stood a house, which was hidden from muggle, or as the owners called them, mundane eyes. Indeed it could hardly be called a house with its central front and two wings each going some hundreds of feet back. Beneath the house were two sprawling layers of dungeons, and beneath that a cave system that linked back up to the Pacific ocean via an underwater cave mouth, it was through this mouth that two figures now approached the island, their SCUBA gear seemed to blend in with the background, even the tanks didn't gleam their normal silver nor the secondary mouth pieces show up as was usually required. Indeed, it would be seen as strange if any wizard looked upon the scene, as these two used a mundane method of underwater travel, instead of the charms and potions normally taken advantage of. But then again, these were no ordinary wizards, and being immortal or damn well near it wasn't the only difference.
Thorne looked bought his air gauge up so he could see it, head nodding as he saw he still had a quarter of the tank, about average for him after diving for 45 minutes. Stopping he turned around to Nova, sending the standard OK? Signal back to her, the forefinger and thumb making a circle and the other three fingers pointing upwards, seeing the signal returned Thorne moved onwards, letting out slow powerful kicks as he navigated the cave tunnels that got them back to where they had started off, 45 minutes before. After a couple of turns through the system Thorne stopped at the familiar wall, charmed red just to make sure that they didn't miss it. It also helped as it had a tracking charm which Thorne's compass had a hand pointing towards. With a quick look upwards Thorne started the slow ascent, making sure to pressurize every metre as he had been trained to do all that time ago. Coming up the last few feet Thorne was almost glad as he recognized the familiar signs of both the flat side of the cave floor where he had jumped in, and the presence of one of his faithful House Elves. Sitting up on the ledge Thorne removed his mask, regulator and snorkel before carefully looking toward the nearest House Elf, nodding his head as a greeting. "Good dive Master Thorne?" the elderly House Elf asked.
"Very good thank you Fronce" Thorne replied, having now removed the tank from his back as well, along with the BCD, Bouyancy Control Device, allowing Fronce to take care of it, as Nova came up out of the water as well, she was soon talking to Huxan. Thorne looked as Fronce levitated the tank over to where it would be refilled before going to clean the equipment he had, allowing Thorne to remove the flippers, weight belt before Fronce returned, helping him with getting out of the wetsuit.
Now as Thorne stepped away from the remaining gear he looked like any normal young adult, at 6 foot exactly his frame was fairly thing although most of it was bulked out with some muscle, showing off the fact that he exercised regularly, the black of his hair seemed to almost glisten from the salt water, as Thorne let it dry naturally, rather than opting for quick spell most wizards used. Slipping on a light pair of sandals Thorne started up the set of steps hewn out of the rock face before turning around, waiting for Nova to catch up. "So sis, exactly how many photos did you take with that thing" he pointed to the underwater camera on Nova's wrist, "Or did you forget that we can use our pensive for exactly that whenever we want."
Nova stopped on the first step, face palming before retorting "Well I didn't see you telling me to stop, thank you very much" slapping Thorne on the arm before carrying on, rushing past him, allowing Thorne to look at the young women, who was his twin sister. Unlike Thorne, Nova's dirty blonde hair almost clashed with the brown eyes that the two of them shared, she was slightly shorter than Thorne at 5 foot 8, but she was more bulky, and had proven often enough to people that it was muscle and not fat. "Damn girl" Thorne said quietly in response before continuing up, coming to the first landing area he stopped, looking back down to the water where he had come up, sighing briefly as he saw how calm it was, before looking around the landing area itself. This was as far up as mundane people could come, the wards hiding the next set of stairs up, indeed hiding them from any other wizards as well unless they were keyed to the wards, and that was precious few people nowadays. Moving on up the stairs Thorne felt the magic tingle as he stepped through the wards, noticing him as the master of the house, continuing up the stairs Thorne slowed as they started to spiral, running his hand over the walls as the natural bumps were run over by his hand, snapping out of his private thoughts Thorne continued upwards to the next landing area, a thick metal door was the only way off here, and Thorne didn't want ot go through there right at this moment, although it held nothing for the moment, that floor was made of a number of cells in case they were needed to hold either werewolves during the full moon or prisoners during the war. The next floor up was for the House Elves, and the one after that held the pantries, and wine cellars, although wine wasn't the only alcohol stored there, as everything from Lager to Fire whiskey was also present for the household. The next floor up was the last one underground, and led through to the largest cavern in the series of caves, inaccessible from any other way through wards and stone it was the main hub for Thorne and Nova's work, however today was a day off for them, a luxury they could barely afford, given their prestigious position in their line of work, every country from the ICW knew of them, and many had frequent contact with the twins. The twins, or as they were known, the Guardians even owned properties in ten of these countries, excluding India, who had initially owned the Island they now used as a main base. Sitting halfway between the British Indian Ocean Territory and the Cocos Islands Guardian Island, as it was known, was one of the best kept secrets to have been held in the world, and that didn't include the Fidilus Charm that was part of the wards.
It was Nova's calls that bought Thorne out of his thoughts this time, and noticing the slight alarm in her voice he sprinted up the rest of the stairs two at a time before coming off at the ground floor, wandlessly casting a locator charm he sprinted into the main dining room where Nova was holding a parley with four animal, a copy of one of the many newspapers they got was sitting on the table. Noticing the four animals Thorne let out a sigh of relief, the alarm wasn't a bad one, instead it was merely due to the fact of exactly who was calling them, it had been a long time since they had returned to Britain, their home country, and indeed it had been even longer since they had been called to their initial home itself. Thorne cleared his throat, both announcing his presence and wish to speak, "Well, it looks like we're returning back to the beginning for this one, I wonder how much Hogwarts has changed since we last stalked the halls." Nova nodded before continuing, "Thank you mentors, we will go and guard, and set right what has been made wrong. For no-one shall stop us, not all the Dark Lords of history combined, not even…"
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"Albus Percival Dumbledore" Molly Weasley shouted "You know what this could mean to all our plans. I thought he was meant to be unable to ruin anything." With that Molly threw the latest copy of the Daily Prophet towards the headmaster, the title speaking for itself.
'SIRIUS BLACK ESCAPES AZKABAN'
Dumbledore looked back at Molly raising a singular eyebrow, "Now we both know that it is highly unlikely to change our plans, I will write to the Minister, expressing high concern that Harry will not be safe enough here at Hogwarts without some extra help from the Ministry, he'll provide it of course, and allow our plan to continue, Sirius may be mad but he won't be able to get through to Harry if we have enough Aurors to stop him. Besides it is most imperative you keep up the love potions, if they are brewed well enough and as often as needed then we will have no concern, Harry will want to stay with you and Ginny because of his love for her." Dumbledore's calming voice and reasoning calmed Molly down enough to not look quite so angry, at the time's she was on full blast, even Dumbledore was afraid of her. "Ok, the administrations will continue, but if this plan slips up I'll personally make sure you get your comeuppance" Molly threatened, "Now if you'll excuse me I'll return to the Burrow, my children must not assume anything, and I don't particularly want to Obliviate them."
"Understood" Dumbledore replied, breathing out a sigh of relief as the Weasley matriarch left his office via the floo. Looking towards Fawkes he saw the Phoenix shake its head, as if disapproving of his actions, but Dumbledore dismissed it until the Phoenix flame travelled away, leaving a no sign of it being there seconds before, nor of where it travelled to.
A/N: Well there's the Prologue, reviews would be nice but not essential and Chapter 1 will be out in the next couple of days hopefully.
I know we haven't met Harry yet, however I believe getting used to Thorne and Nova will be important for the storyline, and they will sink into the background as the story progresses so that Harry can be the main character he is.
