Daphne and Winky appeared in a run-down, beat up little shack. The cool ocean breeze swept her hair into her face, tousling it and getting it into her mouth.

"Well he did say it was terrible didn't he Winky?" Daphne decided to question the elf. At Winky's nod she continued, "Don't start fixing this place up until I tell you, we don't want the ministry to think anyone is here." Another nod from the obsessive elf and Daphne set to work. She could live in this hovel if it was cleaned up, but as it was now she would go crazy. Daphne didn't consider herself to be a snob, as a pureblood she was happy with less, while most wanted more and more, but this little rinky-dink, broken cottage needed to be fixed, or someone, most likely Potter, would face her wrath.

Daphne carefully pulled a warding lectern out of her trunk. She had spent the last week of school carefully crafting this lectern, along with the runic wards accompanying it, so that she could at least get up the basic wards to hide herself and Potter. He wasn't very trusting learning that to tie himself to the lectern, and therefore every ward it centered, he needed to donate blood, but eventually both of them managed to find a place to meet so he could enter through her wards.

Although the lectern didn't need to be centered on the island, Daphne wanted four layers of wards to go into protecting them, and the best location considering her ward plan would be inside the house. The first layer of wards would just contain wards to keep others from finding them, and finding the island: anti apparition, anti portkey, anti elf magic (any elf tied to them gained immunity from the wards, just like Potter and herself), anti owl, anti tracking, an unnoticeable ward to hide the island, and her favorite, a breaker ward; any foreign magic to the caster would immediately be broken upon entering the wards, so tracking charms would be nullified. The second layer would be just inside the first layer and have defensive wards added to it, along with every ward from the first layer, for added protection. The point of stacking the similar wards on other layers was more added insurance in case someone noticed another layer and broke it, hopefully breaking the first layer, no one would look for a second with similar wards. The third layer would be around the yard of the house and she had planned would contain magical nullifying charms, so that breaking the wards would be harder, and so that Potter and herself could defend themselves easier, this was included with stronger versions of the wards in the second layer, and the first layer's wards as well, while at that point they were probably found out, hopefully anyone trying to breach the island would think there was no house and it was just a warded island. The fourth layer of wards would contain the strongest wards Daphne knew: repelling wards, nullification wards, concealment wards, defensive wards, blocking wards, breaking wards, unnoticeable wards, everything. The fourth ward layer would be around their house, and if they started falling she would also have a transport ward set up, this would break through any anti apparition or portkey wards so that both her and Potter could escape whoever was trying to capture them without delay. Sadly she had to leave the receiver rune in her dormitory at school, she'd ask Winky to pick it up if they lasted the week it would take for them to get out of England so she could place it somewhere better, and further, away from those trying to locate them.

The two of them decided a week was the best time to try to get off the island. Since Potter missing would probably set alarms off for everyone after the train set off, their best hope that a search for him would start would only happen if everyone who noticed didn't think to use an owl to alert the headmaster. The expected worst case scenario, only forty-five minutes until he was hunted, average would be about ninety minutes, and best case would be ten hours, when the train made it into King's Cross Station and everyone found out Potter was pulling a runner. Her family would find out then regardless, her sister wouldn't check on her during the train ride, and Tracy probably expected her to disappear if she could. By the end of the day the two of them expected Dumbledore and whoever he could get, the Dark Lord and his minions, and the Ministry would be looking for them. Potter's problem would be leaving Gringotts without anyone finding him. Only the best luck would mean no one would be searching for him by the time he would be finished, and it was critical to their plans on getting out of Britain to use the elves, so if anyone noticed him using Dobby for transport the ministry would tighten up security so elves wouldn't be free to leave. Only because most wizards considered elves beneath them could elves come and go out of the country without anyone noticing, if he was caught they'd be trapped here as a best case scenario. Because the two of them wanted a place to return without worry, the wards had to be set up before they left, and Potter had business at Gringotts that he insisted needed to be done before he could even think about leaving. Since they had work to get done before they could leave Britain, the search for both of them would start before they could actually leave. All magical travel outside of the country would be traced, and aurors would be stationed at key travel points in the muggle world, especially since Harry Potter was known to have grown up there. Their hope was after about a week they could send one of the elves to France and back, hopefully nothing would arise and they could make their escape.

As she finished unpacking she came across a case, these were her pride and joy, four runes, never before used in warding. She came across the idea last year, and had been working on small scale tests this year; the accumulations of these tests would hopefully result in her earning masteries in runes and warding. While she hadn't submitted the theory and proof of this particular rune had on warding, her tests and formulas on the theory of how wards were manipulated would be enough to grant her the masteries. Sadly, because she needed to lay low submitting her theory would only cause the both of them trouble if the people they were hiding from understood what they could do. The runes she had dubbed 'ghost' runes, and would be used to strengthen her wards tenfold. The theory behind them came from a discussion she had overheard between some professors about a charm called the Fiddlesticks Charm, or something like that, after looking for the charm and eventually finding it she loathed it. The charm itself was weak, the effect was to protect a specific location from everyone, but the issue with the charm was it wouldn't last forever, most of the time it didn't even last long. The charm's lifespan was dependent on the caster and the 'secret keeper' the stronger the two are, the longer it would last. Regardless, the average wizard could probably only make one last for a few months, above average maybe a year. Then the charm collapsed and it would have to be recast, and because of the final condition of the charm it couldn't be used as a runic ward, only a warding charm. The secret keeper had to be a living sentient being, and the innate magic within them sustained the charm after the casting. They were the only one able to give out the secret. If they willed it, only they could use the protected location, even if the caster was inside the location at the time of casting. Because of this the charm needed to be a spell, and if something were to happen to the secret keeper after they gave out the secret it could pass to anyone who knew it. The final major issue with the charm was the secret keeper could not reside in the location being kept secret, what a useless waste! The secret keeper could visit, but if they remained too long the charm would fall, and the location would be known again. While if the keeper died some of the multiple keepers could reside in the location without it falling quickly, it was still a race against time at that point. The only good thing about the charm was what it represented in warding. Her ghost rune was a rough parody of a secret keeper, it had to reside outside of the wards it was connected to, but in return it fed off ambient magic in its location and could further increase the power of her wards. The downside is if someone discovered her ghost rune and broke it her wards would be weaker then normal, a small price to pay in return for its benefits. She also learned that the greater the distance the less power the rune seemed to give off, so ideally the rune had to be near the ward, but outside of its protection. Potter's choice of location saved her in this regard too, and island off of England. The magic in her rune wouldn't let it erode until well past her death, probably several generations after her death at the earliest, and with careful placement she could ensure that currents didn't move it, all she needed was Winky to find a place after she set up the ward, and then the rune would be perfect. The other three layers would all be placed somewhere on the island one on the rocky coast, the other two hopefully nowhere near each other to not be found.

Thanks to her ghost runes, she was sure that the both of them would be safe, at least reasonably so. While her warding probably wasn't even average on the scale of someone who works with wards for a living, her being in school and all, she felt secure that her ghost runes would allow her wards to be strong enough to keep almost anyone at bay. Someone like the headmaster or the Dark Lord probably would still notice them, and probably easily decimate them, but she was hoping that neither of them would go out to actively search for the two of them, instead preferring to send out their pawns until the grunt work was out of the way.

Once Daphne was finished preparing her runes and the lectern, she set up the lectern and started to walk along the perimeter of the island, setting along her runic seals for the first layer of her wards. Ideally as she was doing this they would be tying themselves into her lectern, but the lectern would be giving off a magical signal the second she activated it, instead she had to place the runes, and then have Winky place the ghost rune before she activated her lectern. If she did it the other way around the ministry would register the magic from her lectern on their sensors. Once the missing person report for Potter and herself came in, it wouldn't be hard for them to find her interest in runes, and any ward expert would guess it had to do with a central runic ward scheme. If she set up her runes beforehand they would activate with the lectern, if any magic was detected it would be written off as natural magic, even after learning about the runaways, it would be so short that they wouldn't be able to place it as wards, though they would be watching closely for anything to symbolize wards from then on, at least until the heat died down.

Over the next hour and a half, both Daphne and Winky worked to engrave the rune stones into the rocks along the side of the island. On one coast, facing away from the mainland, they found a beach, and had to bring some larger rocks from the middle of the island over to engrave the stones, so that the tide wouldn't break her ward. Once all the runes were placed, and Winky had engraved Daphne's ghost rune to the bottom of a post on the dock, with the promise to fix the dock when the elves were able, Daphne went to the lectern and activated it. What happened shocked her, she felt the wards snap up, as the lectern glowed brighter then she expected, her wards weren't just stronger as she imagined, they were massive! It was impossible; could her theory have been incorrect? She thought that the ghost runes power was limited, but the only way she could imagine the wards gaining so much strength is if the ghost rune powered up the ward, without concern for size! In her small scale tests, the ghost rune could power up a ward on a classroom almost twenty times over magically, she estimated the entire islands wards would gain five or ten times the strength, but this was easily triple her expectations! As excited as Daphne was, she couldn't go examine how and why this phenomenon was happening, she needed to start setting the second layer of runes immediately. The first layer was only to obscure the island and those on it from the world, the second layer would be the first to actually prevent others from getting onto their island. Daphne believed in being prepared, and Potter admitted that he hated not being prepared himself, only circumstances in his life left him unprepared for everything. They both wanted the most protection they could get; assuming that the first set of wards would keep them safe just because it was meant to hide them could end up getting them caught. The second set of wards would stall anyone who could find them, with the added hope of keeping them concealed if whoever broke the first layer expected that to be the only set of wards. It was entirely possible for that scenario to work, most wizards only used one set of wards, and just added onto that set to further protect themselves.

Daphne sent Winky off to go fix up the house, since magic could be used freely now, while she spent the next two hours setting up the runes for the second layer of wards. Winky was happily busy fixing up the house for the two humans, and both elves, to reside in for at least the remainder of the week.

Just as Daphne finished the second layer of wards she heard the crack signaling an elf's appearance. Turning towards the house she saw both Potter and Dobby walking towards the little shack. Smiling Daphne went to fully activate the second layer of wards and find out how everything went with Potter.

Dobby brought Harry to the entrance of Gringotts before instantly vanishing again. Harry quickly hurried to the nearest available teller and waited to be acknowledged. At the goblin's glance and nod Harry stepped up to the counter. Something he had been told by Daphne about doing business at Gringotts was to quickly get into his business, goblins valued time and gold, if he wasn't dealing in gold he had to get to his business at their pace. 'Potter, the only reason the goblins will care about you is because of your account, if your not making a deposit or withdrawal, get to the point and be prepared with everything you need, if your not giving gold, your wasting time.'

"I'd like to talk to someone about my account."

The goblin didn't even look up as it replied, "I'm here aren't I? Discuss your business or move on."

"I'd like to discuss a few things about my account that I wouldn't like others to overhear, including summer plans dealing with locking others out of it."

The goblin irately looked up at Harry, "What problem could you possibly have with your account that cannot be taken care of out here."

Harry sighed, "Someone was given the key to my trust account last year and I haven't recovered it, I need to discuss something private dealing with that account for summer plans, and I want to know if I have other accounts, calling it a trust account makes me think there is a main account connected to it, if so I'd like the status of that account for the last thirteen years."

Harry had to admit, goblinkind didn't seem to show any shock at these sorts of things, if anything the goblin got surlier before commanding, "Fine, follow me."

Following the goblin through some doors Harry was led through a labyrinth of hallways, through several more doors and even some rooms larger then the great hall at Hogwarts. He passed several goblins, all of whom looked at him strangely as he passed through mostly empty halls with no defining traits. Harry's guide padded through the stone and dirt floors quietly, but Harry's shoes seemed to echo creating a loud and grating sound. Thirty minutes of walking, and being lost, and Harry was led into a small room with two chairs and a rather large desk. The rest of the room was notably bare, and other then the desk, it had no resemblance to any other office he had ever been in. There were no images, no bookcases, not even a window, just stone walls, and the stone door that only stood out from the rest of the wall by its handle and seams. Even Professor McGonagall had a few things scattered around to dampen the sound and let students look at, this office though had nothing to show, the desk's items were neatly put away and out of his sight, the office clearly showed that business was to be done here, and anyone who came in was expected to finish their business promptly.

"The senior account manager shifts recently changed so currently we don't have one on duty. I will have to rouse the next manager to come here and deal with your accounts Mr. Potter. Only senior account managers and above will know about the status of any and all of your personal accounts. You are expected to wait until one comes in. Luckily, because this day is when students are normally on the train back," here the goblin paused and looked pointedly at Harry, "there are never any appointments on this day. Be aware that future meetings about your accounts will need to be scheduled in advance." With that the goblin turned and left Harry alone in the office.

A little under an hour later and another goblin entered the office. Seemingly ignoring Harry, it went to the desk and pulled out some papers and folders. Once it had everything laid out, it addressed Harry, "Let us get right to business Mr. Potter. First," it snapped its finger and pointed at a doorway, which Harry would have sworn wasn't there before, with a miniature waterfall. "You must go through that door. That will remove any charms, compulsions, ingested potion and memory magic. We can not discuss any business until I am sure you are at least of sound mind."

Harry obliged and went through the doorway and returned to the room. To his delight the waterfall only looked like water, he didn't get soaked and need to be wet throughout the rest of the meeting. Once he returned to his seat the goblin dove right into business, "The first issue that I was made aware of Mr. Potter was your key is no longer in your possession, care to explain why? You should have been made aware when you received your key it is not meant to go out to anyone else."

Harry blinked, "I wasn't told anything when I received my key, but last year due to the Quidditch World Cup I gave my key to a friend's mother. Due to the incident after the game and the game itself I forgot to collect it before we set off for school the next day. Now I have summer plans I'm sure that she wouldn't approve of, and I doubt she'd give me my key if I asked. I believe that she'd insist that I remain in the muggle world, or stay with her if I were to see her in person. It's not that I don't trust her, but I want to completely lock down my trust vault since I don't plan to remain in the country this summer, I don't want anyone, for any reason, to access my account without my permission, and set up a plan so that you know if I want access, or if someone whom I trust is trying to take money."

The goblin folded its long fingers together and stared intently at Harry, "The account can not lock you out, as it was a trust vault set up for you to access. Since the key was entrusted to someone you no longer trust," the goblin stalled Harry from interrupting, "If you trusted her fully you wouldn't come here to lock the account, regardless of your wishes, the only way to prevent them from accessing the vault, is to close it, and because you are currently not emancipated, or of age, you can not close either of your vaults."

Harry sat back and thought about his options, according to the goblin he can't close his vaults, and he can't lock everyone out of them since the key was given to Mrs. Weasley in trust. Something Daphne had said about him trusting people too easily had drawn his danger sense. He felt that if he didn't deal with his accounts immediately something bad would happen to them. "What it sounds like is that my parents created a trust, and because of everything, I essentially gave the trust to Mrs. Weasley." At the goblin's nod he continued, "What if, because I own the trust, I gave control of my account to someone else? Then because she wasn't given the trust by the person in control of it, she couldn't access it, right? That would also solve my problem with not being able to lock the account, if I gave control away to someone who would put me in trust, then because I plan to leave England this summer the account would remain untouched!" Harry thought he had found a good way to solve all of his account problems at once.

The account manager on the other hand had noticed a flaw in Harry's plan, "Who would you give control to? You can give control to an account guardian, but this would be your magical guardian, and since you haven't brought this person, I'll make the assumption that you're concerned about trusting them as well."

Harry smiled at this, "That's the easy part; my magical guardian should be Sirius Black, but since he is a criminal, and no one has come to me explaining they are my guardian, and after this last year I was put into a tournament that was supposed to be for people of age, I have no clue who my magical guardian is, so as far as I know it's me. Would it be possible for me to give control of my accounts to a goblin? Currently I trust goblins to protect them, so I don't have an issue entrusting the accounts to you to do what is in my best interest with them until the end of summer."

The account manager looked at Harry interestedly, "Interesting, it is true that Mr. Black is your guardian, but he was never officially tried, and therefore his standing in Gringotts is fine. I do believe that coming here immediately was a good idea Mr. Potter, if you wish it we could draft up a contract for you to give control of your accounts to Gringotts for the summer, in which we will keep protecting the accounts and utilize them for the best interest of the account holder, you."

Harry was happy with the idea, and a little less then an hour later a contract was made and signed by Senior Account Manager Wraithorpe, Harry James Potter, and two other goblins acting as witnesses. The contract stipulated that until August the thirty-first the goblins would have singular trust of his account. Since the goblins couldn't formally own a wizarding vault, they had to make it so Harry specified that only goblins could access his vault, essentially locking himself out of his own vaults, for the rest of the summer. Since Harry had never been contacted by his magical guardian, both (it turned out Daphne was right, he had a family vault) of his vaults would get an inventory check, and his account would get a full audit. Anything missing, or any transaction that didn't have the account holders express signature or permission, would be considered theft, and an equal amount would be taken from the thief. The audit would date back from August first three years ago, all the way to November first the morning after his parents died. Harry would be putting his faith into the goblins to not only run the audit, but protect his account and his account's interests, for the service, the goblins could once again use his account for investment, with a partner share of the profits on investment. The goblins were happy with this setup since for a little under three months a lot of idle money in the bank would be used for investments, and they fully expected to make money. Harry was happy because he essentially blocked everyone from accessing his vaults, and because the payments would be written off into the profit of investment he was essentially getting free service while he left. Wraithorpe also left five hundred galleons in a separate personal vault that Harry could access, for emergencies while traveling this summer.

Once the contract and the copies were signed and secured, Wraithorpe addressed Harry, "Well Mr. Potter, I believe with this we have covered everything you asked for at the front counter, any other business with us today?"

"I guess we should setup a safety method in case I return to England earlier then expected, and need to do business here before then, right?" At the goblin's nod he continued, "How about if I ever need to come here before our appointment at the end of August I request a meeting with you by name, and I'll use your name as the requester too, its simple but I doubt anyone will know of you by name."

The goblin nodded, "Yes Mr. Potter most wizards tend to not to bother using our names, or remembering them, even if I'm not available, I'll make sure that if someone matching your description enters asking for me by name, and using my name to request a meeting, they will be shown the senior account manager that is active. You will of course be expected to go through the Thief's Downfall without complaint again Mr. Potter." With Harry's assent, the goblin again requested for any additional business.

"Two more things actually, one is a warning about Voldemort. I've been told not to try to preach to everyone about him, but I think it is a good idea to warn Gringotts about his return. Do with that information what you will, I believe he is back, I plan to prepare for when he tries to kill me, and you can believe me or choose not to. I won't argue for or against his return with the goblins anymore. I have warned the ministry, Dumbledore and now Gringotts, I don't think there are any more major parties to address with my warning. The last thing I wanted to talk about was how I leave, is it possible for me to have a private room to leave from? Our meeting has taken some time and I believe some people who may want to control where I go this summer will be out looking for me, first stop on their list would be here." Harry finished up his mini speech with a hopeful look at the goblin. If he couldn't use Dobby inside of Gringotts his only backup plan was to get caught and call Dobby after the Dursleys fell asleep.

The goblin looked at Harry, "I will ensure your warning is passed on, and Gringotts' will use that as your official position on the topic. It does not take a genius to see what the ministry has been attempting to do to Dumbledore and yourself, since you have given us authorization, we will handle your public image that the ministry is trying to take down. For your question, Gringotts could rent an unwarded office for you to use for an hour, otherwise you'll have to exit our bank like every other customer Mr. Potter."

"Would you be willing to remove the gold from my vault? Otherwise I'll have to leave through the normal exit."

"Of course Mr. Potter, one of my associates will lead you to your office if that concludes your business with us. I shall see you in a few months with a full audit, and a full account summary." Wraithorpe, started filing papers and waved Harry in the direction of the door.

Once out the door he ran into another goblin, and was led through more corridors and hallways until he was pushed into another office, "One unwarded office, you may do what you want in here, if you are still here at the end of your hour it will cost you twenty-five more galleons to extend it another hour, or you will be forced to leave, good day."

"How that goblin knew I asked for an office without any outward appearance of being called is something I don't think I'll ever learn," Harry said while shaking his head. "Dobby!" when the elf appeared Harry smiled, "Let's go home now." With that, the two disappeared.

A week later both Harry and Daphne were finishing up preparations to leave. Over the past week with Harry's help Daphne had completed the four runic wards. They had finally decided where to place the three ghost runes for the last three wards. Although the runes were unheard of in the name of warding, they didn't want to give away their existence. Hopefully with their hiding spots no one would ever think to look for a rune stone outside of the ward, and anyone who does wouldn't ever locate them. The second layer's ghost rune went on a different post on the same dock as the first layer's ghost rune. The hope was that if one was found the person destroying them wouldn't look in the same spot for a second stone. The third and fourth layer's ghost runes went into a small cave on the island. The four of them searched the cave and found it amazingly empty. Shortly after they decided that it would be the perfect place to hide the final two ghost runes, hopefully in the dim light it would be harder to see the inscriptions in the stone walls.

After securing the wards, both Harry and Daphne had originally planned to help the elves fix up the house and the island around the house, but both were shot down before they could even lift a finger in aid of the elves. When the elves found out that their masters were trying to help with housework they ended up throwing a fit and both Harry and Daphne had to calm them down and assure them that they weren't going to be replaced for not working hard enough.

Since the elves made it clear early on the house was their domain, Harry and Daphne spent all their time studying and getting to know each other. Neither shared anything intimate, but by the end of the week they had progressed in their relationship to friends, not just co-conspirators.

Daphne once again looked through their belongings and groaned, "Potter why is everything you own old and ragged?" This was not the first time she had complained about his wardrobe, but with any luck it would be her last. "Second stop Potter, right after we get different wands, you and I are going shopping, we are going to buy you new clothes, and we are going to buy me new clothes, no excuses."

One major point that Daphne insisted upon was getting a new pair of wands. Only aurors or criminals generally carried more then one wand. Since, as children, they'd only be checked for one wand at any given point, having a second wand to protect themselves with, while keeping the wand everyone would check clean, meant they could do more to protect themselves without getting into trouble. Also, a woman after his father's heart apparently, Daphne pointed out they could "play" with Malfoy without getting caught, as long as they handed their original wand over to whichever teacher called them out.

Dobby had already tested out whether they could escape or not, so currently they were just waiting on him finding them a wandmaker so they could each purchase a new wand. What better time to get a pair of wands, then when they would be sneaking into another country.

"I understand the wands Daphne, but do we really need to get new clothes?" At her glare Harry flinched, "Daphne, really?"

"Yes Harry, clothes. I will not be seen with someone who looks like he deserves to be thrown in a dumpster. All we need to do is get a few new clothes for you, and some for me. Be a good boy and I'll model a few new outfits for you. How you look has an effect on how you feel. One thousand galleons are more then enough for us to survive a few months. A bit of shopping shouldn't even make a dent." Daphne really did want to get Harry to at least look better, the past week she enjoyed Harry's company. With a few touch ups he could easily become someone desirable. He was already proving to be worth her time, she just had to iron out a few of his more problematic issues.

She noticed whenever the conversation led to their lives before Hogwarts Harry would be vague or steer the conversation to a different topic. Since Harry effectively was avoiding his friends to not go back to his muggle relatives, Daphne figured that she'd have to find out exactly what happened to Harry over his years there. If Harry was abused then she'd have to get revenge for him, he would probably never think of getting even with someone who had hurt him. Luckily Daphne didn't mind coming up with a few plots here and there. They were friends, and Daphne didn't have many friends, so she'd protect the few she had, in her own way.

Another of Harry's problems that Daphne didn't really like, was his aversion to studying. Although she had already gotten to work correcting his study habits, when he wasn't with Weasley he was perfectly willing to learn. Maybe it was because of his new attitude, but he was willing to put in the effort to his studies ever since they had finished setting up the wards. He really seemed taken with runes and kept stealing Daphne's books on the subject. This would be refreshing if Daphne didn't want to read those same books, but all it was doing was pushing her patience to her limit. Perhaps they'd go buy some runic tomes while they were shopping. At least it was a subject they could talk about during the trip, if all else goes wrong.

The last thing she needed to work out was his need to save people. Although heroism was a nice trait, it was also the main reason that he rushed into things without thinking so often. If she could make him stop and think things through before acting, she could put up with him trying to save people who probably didn't need to be saved. Or deserve to be saved by him, she certainly didn't think some people would deserve him coming to their rescue, but knowing him he'd still at least try.

"Daphne?" She snapped her attention back to Harry, he had a worried look on his face and was holding a hand out to her. A quick check around showed Dobby had returned and was eagerly waiting to take them away to start their vacation.

"Sorry Harry, just thinking about a few things, nothing you need to worry about." She took his hand and smiled. "Dobby lets start our vacation now." Harry smiled too and with a crack Dobby whisked them away for their journey.

So, this was my second chapter, a bit more into the story mostly setting up a "home base". I really wondered why I have never found anyone use the island Vernon ran to as a location for Harry to hide on with stories like this. None of the Dursleys would remember where it was (I remember a lot of "throwing them off the trail" going on) and Hagrid probably wouldn't remember the island, he was more interested in talking to Harry.

This was the initial first chapter of the story, what spawned this idea, I added the introduction afterwards because I felt like some form of backstory would be needed, like why are they together and where did the meet.

First to answer the three big topics brought up in reviews (Thank You all so much, I'm surprised there is interest): 1) Story/Chapter Length: The first chapter was really short, I'm sorry, it was just an introduction to the story, I really like teasers to start a story, the rest of the chapters should be longer, although there is a problem with this I'll address in a bit. 2) Harry's lack of Knowledge: I don't like how some other stories have arguments about Harry's lack of knowledge, unless its some misunderstanding when they meet that gets corrected. In this story Daphne knows Harry doesn't know much, and she plans to teach him aspects that he should know and she feels are important. I don't plan to have her be a walking encyclopedia, remember she is running from that type of life too, but she will teach him a few things to help with next school year. ;) 3) What did she teach him: This was in the first review, so I felt like I should bring it up, almost everything she'll teach him will end up brought up by the 6th or 7th chapter, as mentioned, she's not going to make him a walking aristocratic encyclopedia, just teach him a few things he can get away with, and a few things to help him get out of Dumbledore's reach.

To try and stop a question about this, Daphne's helping Harry because he can free her, and Harry helps Daphne, because she can free him. Daphne has the skills (Warding) to hide the two of them, and Harry has the money and location (along with elves) so they can't be found. If not for Harry, Daphne would get hungry and need magic, if not for Daphne, Harry would be found by the Order/Ministry/Death Eaters within hours of going missing, even if he hid in the muggle world. As of this chapter, there is no ulterior motive, though you can guess (by my tags) that there'll be a new reason sooner rather then later.

Finally I'd like to just make a point that I write really, really slowly. I originally planned to do one chapter a month, if I could make that, but I'd feel really bad if I left that short intro as the entire story until June, so I'll post this one. If I ever miss an update I'm sorry, I probably didn't spend a lot of time writing that month, I do it to relax, I'd rather not make it stressful by trying to meet some arbitrary deadline.