Yes, I know. I'm really pitiful aren't I? Another Harry story and I should be concentrating on more important things, like my Grammar and Language class. Well, I'm doing it anyway. So get used to it. This is my passion, and, in a weird sort of way, my release. Who needs a stress ball when writing about it makes everything fit so much better in context? AND it helps you sort out your feelings!

Disclaimer: After doing a search on because I was bored and none of the stories I liked had been updated, I realized how many Azkaban fics there were. Heck, I just read one about half an hour ago! So, being the unoriginal person that I am, I came up with my OWN Azkaban fic. And this is it! And I'm saying this only once because I apparently have to, I DO NOT OWN HARRY POTTER! Thank you.

Summary: AU CoS. Harry's a dark wizard! Oh so everyone believes after the whole Parseltongue thing comes out. Thrown into a prison cell with innocent godfather Sirius—along with a host of others who stand by his side—Harry manages to escape, thanks to outside allies, along with Sirius and the others. But the Dark Lord is coming back, and Dumbledore and the Ministry are after them. Things are heating up as they are hunted by 3 different factions, for a war they refuse to participate in…..

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You'd never find a happier family then the Howards. Nor a stranger one. They were entirely too large to be a normal nuclear family, and only a select handful were actually related to one another. But they were family nonetheless, and they loved each other like no other.

The eldest of the family was Maggie. Maggie was a wonderful person, kind but stern. A bit strict, but she never was extremely severe with any of her family. Maggie taught mythology at the local high school, where most of her kids attended.

Next in line was Bonnie and William. They were very loving and kind, although it was safe to watch out for Bonnie's temper. Bonnie was an excellent worker at the near-by day care center, and her husband was a very good insurance agent.

Luke and Nancy came directly after. They were very strict and mannerly, and taught their kids proper etiquette. Nancy stayed at home while Luke worked in a government office.

Steve and Rudolph were the very best of friends and co-taught gym class in the same high school Maggie worked. They also taught night classes at the local college on history, and were absolutely brilliant at their jobs. Steve was fun-loving and a great prankster, while Rudolph was his clam center, continually bringing him back down to earth. The only downside was that Rudolph would always disappear for a few days each month, for reason unknown.

Then there was Alan, who was the most strangest you ever saw. He didn't have a job per se, but he was always making citizens arrests. He was the most paranoid old man you ever did see, and he had an eye patch over one eye. Legend had it that he had lost it in some great battle, and the patch hid the socket hole where an eye once lay.

Simon was a chemist, and very good at his job to boot. The best, even, and he had a great attitude to match. The chemistry classes at the high school and college were always getting him to come over to their classes as a "guest speaker" and Simon was great with the young adults.

There followed was a very long list of kids. Most of whom belonged to Bonnie and William, and Luke and Nancy had one. Steve and Rudolph were the legal guardians of another, as appointed by his late parents, and the others had all been adopted into the family.

Bonnie and William had 7 children. The 3 eldest were Robert, Colin, and Peter, all of whom had jobs of their own. Robert was a banker, Charlie was an extremely talented veterinarian, and Peter worked an office job. The twins, Tobias and Keith, ran a joke shop on Main Street. A very successful one, too, it should be noted. The youngest two were still in school. Randy and his sister, Gwen, short for Genevieve, were a year apart, and very close to graduating, Randy doing so this year and Gwen the following the year after.

Luke and Nancy had one son, named Drake, who was the same age as Randy, and one of Randy's best friends. He went to the same school as Randy, and they were always arguing over something, but there was no real malice or anything in it. In fact, the others all thought it very entertaining, and enjoyed snickering helplessly as they watched.

Steve and Rudolph's charge was the son of two very well-liked people. Steve and Rudolph had been the bestest of friends with them, and so it came as no surprise when they were willed by them as their son's, Patrick's guardians. Patrick was also the same age as Randy and Drake, and their best friends. He was shy and unassuming, but give him a reason, and he could be your worse enemy. He hated only if given reason, and was a very kind boy.

Also adopted into the family had been the 3 boys' best friends, Heather, Brad, and Abigail. All 3 were the same age, and were very good friends with each other, Randy, Gwen, Patrick and Drake.

Abigail was home-schooled, as was Drake, Gwen, and Heather. The reason given by their public educated peers was that they had the same sickness that infected Rudolph, and it would get in the way of their schooling if they had gone to public high school. With home schooling, they could plan lessons around it, and nothing was missed or anything.

Most accepted this explanation, knowing full well that missing 3 days of school a month would really start effecting grades, so it made sense that they were home-schooled. They were socialized as everyone else, so where they learned their math and science wasn't really a concern.

The last in the family was a clumsy policewoman named Nadine, who was the bridge between the age gap between the youngest of the family and the youngest oldest, Steve and Rudolph and their own generation. The kids looked to her as a favored aunt, and the adults all saw her as a beautiful young lady as fun-loving as Steve, who was, in fact, her distant cousin.

Only Abigail wasn't as outgoing as her friends, and adopted siblings. She always seemed to be hiding something, even from them, and was very closed-off with anyone she did not know. She seemed almost afraid of everybody else, and was only closing off as a defense mechanism. Her friends noticed, and they always looked extremely sad and angry at something every time.

All were originally from England, although their various backgrounds varied, and had a slight accent. But they hadn't seen England since the graduating students had been in 8th grade, and had moved to America, where they had now made their home. Occasionally, you could see a bit of longing on their faces when they were dragged into a conversation about the UK, but they had stated time and again that they couldn't go home.

Their friends knew only an altered version as to the reason why. Wrongfully imprisoned for something they didn't do—Steve—and something they couldn't control—Patrick—and for sticking by their sides—most of the kids, the twins, Maggie, Rudolph, and Simon—they had been shoved into prison, only to escape a few months later. Fugitives couldn't go home—ever.

The others, while never sent to prison, could no longer home either. They would be considered dangerous criminals now, because when the others had escaped, they—who had been secretly on their side to start with—made their alliances known when they had gone with.

Besides that, Luke had gone back to England—incognito of course—and discovered that a war was brewing over there now to start with as a Hitler-type came into power. They had suspected that the war would come, and had vowed when they escaped that they would have nothing to do with it—even if those who had turned on them attempted to force them.

Very few outside of that knew the whole truth. The whole truth was a very strange thing, because they were very strange people. They were witches and wizards. Rudolph and those who were home-schooled were werewolves as well as witches and wizards. Rudolph had been one since he had been 7, Abigail since she was 3. The others had been turned after being thrown into prison, when they had been thrown into the same prison cell as Rudolph and had been bitten by him.

The Hitler-type was a Dark Lord who called himself Voldemort. Supposedly defeated by one-year-old Harry Potter when he mysteriously reflected the monster's Killing Curse back at him, he had not been totally killed. He lived, instead, as a sprit, of sorts, for 13 years, before coming back through a very dark ritual.

Harry Potter should have been called on to save the English Wizarding World, as their beloved savior, the Boy-Who-Lived. The Boy-Who-Lived had defeated You-Know-Who (They refused to call Voldemort by his name) once, he could do it again. Harry Potter should have been called on, would've been called on, if it hadn't been for one minor flaw.

Harry Potter was revealed to be a Parselmouth—a snake-speaker that was a mark of a Dark Wizard—in his 2nd year. He was arrested and shoved into Azkaban, along with Ron, Ginny, Fred and George Weasley, Hermione Granger, Minerva McGonagall, Remus Lupin, Severus Snape, Draco Malfoy and Blaise Zambini. They were thrown into the same cell as Sirius Black, betrayer of his best friends, Harry's parents, James and Lily Potter. All of them were innocent of the crimes they committed, and had never received the trail that was in their rights. The only one guilty of any of their "Crimes" was Remus, who'd been guilty of being a Dark Creature—a werewolf. And it wasn't something that could be helped.

The whole Wizarding World went into panic when they all escaped Azkaban—the miserable magic prison they had all been sentenced to, run by creatures that sucked all the happiness from you called dementors—something supposedly impossible. To all appearances they didn't even have outside help, about the only way you COULD get out, and a way not very effective.

However, all of them were very good at covering their tracks, as were the Weasleys, Malfoys, Alastor "Mad-eye" Moody, and Amber the orphaned werewolf, who'd helped them. Then, after escaping Azkaban, they went into hiding in England for a bit to allow the Azkaban prisoners time to recuperate and heal from their time with the dementors. Once they had recovered just enough, they fled to America, where they had been living ever since. And just in time too, as their hideout was attacked and destroyed only hours after their departure.

It didn't take long to realize that Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy, Arthur, Molly, Bill, Charlie, and even Percy Weasley, Alastor Moody and Nymphadora Tonks had also disappeared, although it took a bit longer to figure that they had gone WITH the fugitives. They were declared Death Eaters—the name of Voldemort's followers—and criminals, and they were to be sentenced to Azkaban upon capture. The orphaned werewolf, Amber, had never been to Hogwarts—England's Magical school—or anywhere else for that matter, and went unnoticed.

Most of the adults were positive that they would be called back into service, regardless, because of several reasons. First, Lucius and Severus were both Death Eaters, although Severus had turned spy for Albus Dumbledore, the Headmaster of Hogwarts and the current leader of the "Light" side, and Voldemort's greatest enemy. Voldemort had always broken his followers out of prison when they were caught, and he would no doubt want his two best Death Eaters back by his side.

Remus and Amber—now with Hermione, Ginny, and Draco—were werewolves. The Dark creatures had allied themselves to Voldemort the first time around—most of them, at any rate—and it was to be expected that they would too, especially since being thrown into Azkaban. Sirius was a supposed death eater, and it was thought that he would go back to his "Master" too.

Harry was defiantly needed in the war. Upon arrival to the States, the adults had told the younger ones about the prophecy made by a teacher at Hogwarts, Sybil Trelawney. One that stated that Voldemort and Harry had to face off, because "Neither can live while the other survives". Only Dumbledore, who'd been there to hear Sybil give it, and a few select members of his Voldemort-resistance group, the Order of the Phoenix—most of whom had just arrived in the US—knew the prophecy. Voldemort knew the first half—thanks to Severus—that stated that the one to defeat the Dark Lord would be born as the Seventh Month (July) died to parents who had defied the Dark Lord 3 times. To find out if it would be Harry Potter or Neville Longbottom, they should look for the mark the Dark Lord left, signifying the other as his equal. A Mark given on Halloween 1981 to Harry Potter, in the shape of a lightening bolt on his forehead.

Dumbledore would no doubt use his influence in the Wizarding World—he defeated the last Dark Lord and was very powerful—to free Harry long enough to deal the final blow to Voldemort. Then the whole lot of them would either be killed or left to rot in Azkaban.

However, turning on Harry had been a bad decision on the Wizarding World's part, because Harry wasn't going to help them. Throwing Severus Snape and Draco Malfoy into prison was the wrong thing to do, because it enlightening them on how wrong their former beliefs that Pureblooded Wizards were superior to Muggles—non-magic folk—and Muggleborns,—witches and wizards born to muggle parents—and they were tainting the gene pool, were. They no longer held the same beliefs that Voldemort did, and no longer wanted to be ruthless killers like they had been during the first war. They weren't going back, not even for Voldemort.

None of the others were getting involved either. They were through with the English wizarding world, and through with Voldemort, Dumbledore, the Ministry of Magic, and the whole thing. They weren't getting involved and that was that. Let them stew in their own mess.

There were others who agreed with them, namely in the animal kingdom. Dumbledore's own pet phoenix, Fawkes, had left Dumbledore the minute he allowed the innocent Harry to be condemned to Azkaban. When they had escaped, Fawkes, helped out and bonded to Remus, and had remained with the Fugitives ever since.

Amber the werewolf had learned her own history while in the States, when she learned that her parents had been born and raised within the US borders. Both were essentially pure-blooded, although there were a couple of muggle/muggleborn lines mixed within. Her family bloodlines had been some of the most revered families in the Wizarding World, first in England and Ireland/Scotland, then in the States. The Ireland/Scotland line came from her father, as did the few muggle/muggleborn bloodlines, and the two English lines had come from her mother. Her muggle/Muggleborns ancestors had married into the English royal family, branching it out quite a bit. On her mother's side, Amber was also part Native American magic.

She also owned Hogwarts and half of the Bulgarian magic school, Durmstrang. Her many-times great grandfather on her father's side had a daughter that married into the founders' line after Godric Gryffindor's only daughter had married his estranged comrade's, Salazar Slytherin's, youngest son. Considering the fact that Salazar had married another Founder, Rowena Ravenclaw, that made the already powerful family that much more powerful. Add to the fact that, before Slytherin had gone spare on them for a few years, the 4 Founders agreed to give their good friends—and any heirs therein—full ownership of Hogwarts to prevent any in-fighting between their own heirs, Amber was already Hogwarts' Heir.

Going further down the line, the final Founder, Helga Hufflepuff, had her own heir, and he fell in love and married into one of the two family lines on her mother's side. When Amber's parents fell in love and got married, they—who were squibs with little to no knowledge on the magic world or their own heritage—were completely unaware that her father, heir to Slytherin, Ravenclaw and Gryffindor, and her mother, heir to Hufflepuff, were making a solid blood heir to Hogwarts, who—as per the wishes of the Founder's joint will concerning their school—also owned it legally thanks to Amber's father being a blood heir to the family who had been friends with the Founders oh-so-long ago.

This, of course, also meant that Amber was a distant relation to Voldemort, whose mother had been a descendant of Salazar's eldest son, and the son who started the whole "Slytherin is evil" view. And the only Slytherin to believe that Muggles needed to die, and who's current half-heir (Voldemort was actually born a half-blood by the name Tom Marvolo Riddle) carried on his tradition.

It was quite fun for Amber and Harry to have private conversations in Parseltongue—a gift Amber inherited, but Harry gained unintentionally the night he rebounded Voldemort's curse—and drive the others insane when they wouldn't say what the conversation was about.

Amber had her own familiars, in the form of a couple of magical equines—a winged unicorn and a thestral, to be specific—and triplet Snowclouds, a rare cat so named because of it's elemental powers. Snowclouds rarely ever bonded with humans, and never in more then one per wizard. Amber's Snowclouds had been born wild, and would have continued living as such if Amber hadn't been on vacation with Maggie and Alan—Minerva and Alastor—and accidentally run into they and their mother. The Snowclouds, then just little baby kittens, had immediately bonded to the young werewolf, and their mother had also come back to bond with Harry. They were adorable cats, a mix between the magical versions of the muggle Snow and Clouded leopards.

They had been living happily in America—perfectly happy ignoring the inner turmoil running rampant amongst those they once thought friends and family—when they got 2 very surprising letters. Not they weren't surprising in their content or their senders, which could be nothing but expected by them. It was the fact that the letters had been sent at all. What's more, there was nothing that even remotely looked like any sort of tracking charm, either on the delivery bird (an owl and a raven) or the letters themselves.

They were from two very different people wanted what was essentially the same things.

The letters were from Albus Dumbledore and the Dark Lord Voldemort. And they both wanted the group to join their cause. If they didn't, there would be consequences.

However, it was time that Voldemort and Dumbledore were both told "NO!", and the fugitives were only too happy to do it.

They never should have sent Harry Potter and his friends and Azkaban. They were all going to suffer for it.

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I know it's probably not all that entertaining, but I needed to get the background story out f the way so I could proceed. So review please? Its 7 pages long!