Harry Potter is the property of JKRowling. I am just having a bit of fun playing in her sandbox.

Chapter 1

The Prisoner

The auror wrapped her cloak tighter about her. The weather had been the worst in the recent times. To have to travel the north sea to that god damned place in this rickety boat, in this weather. She cursed her luck again. It had been about one hour since she and her two fellow aurors left the shore. It will take more than two hours still to reach their destination, she guessed as she looked forward in to the mist and rain. At least we will be able to return home to a hot cup of coffee or chocolate after our duty is concluded she thought.

She looked down to see the bundle of rags laying on the floorboards of the boat. The battered and bruised body of the prisoner had not moved a bit after his sentence had declared. If not for the shallow movement caused by his breathing it was easy to think he was already dead. She felt almost sorry for him for the fate that awaited him. If the minister had his way he would have already been kissed, as he is still a minor it was overruled. At least for now. The chance of him seeing his seventeenth birthday were nil. Such was the fate of one of the most famous wizards of the world. To haunted by death and tragedy time after time. That was the fate of the boy who lived, Harry Potter the new prisoner of Azkaban. She settled down for the long journey.

Her eyes flew open as she saw movement from the prisoner. Her hand went to her wand but before she could draw it out she was overcome by an intense pain like her head is going to burst. Then her world turned black.

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When she awoke she struggled to sit up. She could see her fellow aurors and the boat driver bound together at the bottom of the boat. She became aware of two things one she was bound by an anti apparition manacles second a wand pressed painfully to her neck.

"Do not try anything foolish" a calm and cold voice whispered in her left ear."you get to make a choice. To die now or later. So what is it going to be."

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