Harry Potter and the Escape of the Anchor Chapter 2, a harry potter fanfic

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Guest User-There was four Baby Basilisk eggs in total and now that Draco has a spell to render them safe...Hagrid with set them up with a little nest in the Forbidden Forest and they will live there...they may make an appearance every now and again further on down the line. Thank you for your review!

Ckg883-So the anchor is one person that will connect with all four soul bonds...hopefully it will become clearer the further into the story I go! Thank you for your review!

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Chapter Two

The two weeks since school had ended had passed quickly for the Soul bonded children. Harry, Ginny, Hermione, Ron, Neville, Luna, Draco and Daphne were kept extremely busy, more so than they probably should have been but they were nothing if not overachievers. Every week they had a Legilimency lesson with Severus which had proved a lot more successful and progressed at a quicker pace than Occlumency. Harry had been the quickest to progress out of everyone and considering he felt like the weakest at the Occlumency he felt proud of that feat that the other aspects of the mind arts was easier for had frequent visitors daily now as their friends from the fitness class had joined them on different days for their meditation, sparring and exercise.

Seamus, Dean, Fred, George and the whole Gryffindor Quidditch team, Cedric Diggory, Susan, Hannah Abbott and the Hufflepuff Quidditch team, Cho Chang and the Ravenclaw team, Tracey Davis, Marcus Flint and the majority of the Slytherin team-were included. A few obvious exceptions including Zabini and his posse were excluded but were told if they wised up and acted like adults they could be involved but they couldn't swallow their pride long enough to commit especially Pansy whom was still carrying a grudge that her father was in prison because of the events that had unfolded after the Chamber of Secrets fiasco.

So all in all the majority of the houses were getting on well now, as well as they could anyway, the Black household had been in wedding planning mode and Sirius was getting more and more excited to call Amelia his wife and Susan was going to be his sort of niece. After the whole thing with Tom Riddle the red headed Hufflepuff was coping well, Amelia had her in counselling for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. She had night terrors for the first few weeks as she remembered what had happened and uncovered the memories that Riddle had stolen from her. Everyone was healing and all of the souls bonds were getting closer and closer as the days progressed and Draco and Daphne had finally crossed the final barrier and kissed a few days previous. They were standing sparring and when Daphne beat him she knelt over him on the ground and he just reached up and kissed her.

So far none of their peers seemed to come to them and claim they were the anchor which was worrying Harry slightly, the founders did say that they would gain not only the magic but the memories of the last Anchor or Guardian or whatever they were. Their magic had been continuing to destabilise and their inner connection was not consistent anymore, some days they could communicate and some days they couldn't. It was even affecting their spell casting, Harry had cast a simple levitation spell on his books to put them away and it flew through the ceiling it was so forceful.

Daphne had been duelling Hermione and she flew her so high the Hufflepuff landed in a tree twenty yards away. Their lack of control on their magic was scaring them all slightly and now that the final barrier was removed in the form of Draco and Daphne kissing they knew they were on a time limit. It was early morning and Harry had been awake for two hours after he had a bad dream, a young woman had escaped from the ministry in the form of a swan and apparently she was some sort of prisoner. Once Harry had woken up he was unsure what it meant but knew it couldn't be good, he tried to reach out to Ginny in his head but there was just radio silence and he felt so frustrated. He heard a soft knock on his bedroom door and after calling to come in Draco popped his head around the frame to see Harry as wide awake as he was.

"Hey couldn't sleep?" Harry shook his head and tapped the bed before lifting out a bag of Bertie Botts every flavour beans to share and they were a little unsure what to say to each other but Harry could not sit in silence.

"Why can't you sleep?" Draco peeked at his brother and shrugged and blushed slightly which definitely caught Harrys attention. "What's wrong?" Draco let out a breath and put his bag back down to the bed before looking up at him.

"I had a really weird dream...there was this woman and I think she was being held captive, not in Azkaban though but behind a really weird door in the Ministry..." Harry's eyes went wide and he looked at Draco to make sure he was being serious.

"She escaped and transformed into a swan before you woke up?" Draco nodded as Harry with even wider eyes as he finished his sentence off and they both glanced at each other. "Ok if you dreamt it and I dreamt it then it's only plausible the others did too. Get your mirror the inner connection isn't connecting. Call Daphne tell her to call Ron and I will call Neville and he can call either Luna or Hermione...it would be so much easier if Hermione still lived here..." At that they split up to their respective rooms and asked them all of meet an hour earlier that morning for training. All of them nodded their heads in agreement and once it was realised they had the same dream they were all freaked out ten times more. None of them know who the woman was but were intrigued to say the least as to why they were all dreaming about her. Once Hermione, Luna, Daphne, Neville, Ginny and Ron made their way to Black Manor they immediately went to their own soul bond and hugged them tight to their bodies. The dream had made them all uneasy but now after hearing the others had dreams as well had caused them to become even more freaked out.

"Who do you think she is? Do you think she is real?" Luna nodded her head and took out a hand drawn photograph from her pocket she had taken from the chamber of Secrets along with the necklace she almost always wore now. "I think this is her...when we found this at the end of last year Remus made a joke about Salazar having a mistress..." All of them were even more offended at Luna even suggesting it but she shook her head at them all.

"No I am not saying he did but she obviously has something to do with the founders so I think we should ask them when we go back...our magic is getting more and more volatile, I don't know if this is connected or not or if it was even real but regardless we need to treat it like it is..." They all nodded and one by one all of their friends were staring to arrive for their morning session and so they tried to put it to the back of their minds in the hopes it was just as simple as being a bad dream...they knew they were not that lucky.

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The eventful start to the day was enough to give Amelia a headache, she was well and truly pissed off at the mess that the Ministry has created. When she was given the file on the missing asset/terrorist/whatever in Merlin hell she is what Amelia had found was not what she was expecting. She was captured after someone had reported her for using dark magic to cause herself not to age, after numerous failed experiments on the poor girl she had been subjected to blood tests and even bone marrow tests or at least what passed for the barbaric procedures that Healers were using back then. The institution that Amelia had dedicated her life or at least what they were before the Ministry became what it is had essentially kidnapped and tortured this girl and kept her captive in a room and when they didn't know what to do with her they placed her under a sleeping beauty charm.

The Sleeping Beauty Charm of Endless Sleep as it used to be called was outlawed for a reason, whatever it was to cause it to break had Amelia baffled as it wasn't a kiss from a prince as the legend suggested, according to the Magical signature readings from the room it was more of an eruption of magic energy one so high that has never been recorded before. Both her right hand woman Nymphadora Tonks and her right hand man Kingsley Shacklebolt could not fathom how such a colossal ball had been dropped for centuries. To make matters worse she had another two high profile prisoners escape from Azkaban Prison, Peter Pettigrew and Lucius Malfoy has somehow managed to escape from the Prison and no one could figure out how. Amelia had assigned Kingsley as head investigator on the Prison and Dora as head investigator on the Ministry Mystery and she would be intermediating both cases.

As the day drew to a close she knew she was going to have to go home and explain to Narcissa that her crazy abusive ex-husband had broken out of jail along with the man who was responsible for not only James and Lily Potter losing their lives but also for her soon to be husband to lose eleven years of his life and why he still wakes up with night terrors. She hated this day...this day was a pretty crappy one and she wished she could rewind it with the knowledge she now has and prevented this, Harry was whole and healed or at least as much as he could be and she didn't want this to effect him whereas Narcissa was in a functioning relationship with Charlie and this was going to throw a spanner in the works.

Not too mention the mystery escapee which Amelia had no clue what was going on there yet but knew her team was screwed...damn Cornelius for landing this on her lap. She packed up her things and made her way out off the Ministry to break things to her family. As she met Dora in the Atrium they each Flooed together and came out to find the house eerily quiet and considering it was two thirty in the morning that wasn't surprising. As Dora went up to Remus's room Amelia stopped in and checked on all of the children and they were all sound asleep. After watching them for a while she made her way to her bedroom she shared with her Fiancée and after putting her Pyjamas on she crawled in and sought out the heat of Sirius. He turned around almost immediately and saw her eyes watching him and he could see her stress and tension in her shoulders, she leant forward and pressed her lips to his allowing her to relax for the first time that day.

"Bad day?" She could only nod her head and smile at him, as she drew in a breath Amelia had never felt so nervous in her life. "What's going on?" She shook her head and let out a deep sigh she was unsure how long she was holding in.

"We had a high profile target escape from the Ministry..." At his confused expression she nodded her head at him in agreement because when she first heard it was a person she too thought she was insane and hearing things.

"When you say target...do you mean a person? From your expression I take it the person was not in a holding cell?" She shook her head and he looked shocked at that before turning into serious Sirius and sat up in bed to press his back against his pillows resting on the headboard and pulling her into his chest.

"She was captured hundreds of years ago because apparently she wasn't ageing and the Ministry or what was the Ministry before it became what it was suspected really dark magic. So they performed experiments on her and the girl was deemed to be dangerous and so they locked her up in a cave with a bed put into a sleeping beauty spell and she was basically forgotten about for centuries...yesterday morning she broke out of the spell and broke the door with her magic before kicking the unspeakables arse with wandless magic and turning into a swan to escape..." He looked at her and even though he knew she was being serious he could not bring himself to say anything.

"To make matters worse she is a young girl with wild and uncontrollable magic not too mention she has been asleep for hundreds of years and so much has changed in terms of technology etcetera she is bound to be scared." Sirius again could only nod his head and pulled her in tighter before she held up her hand to let him know she was let finished.

"Look this is going to be a bit of shock for you and the others but I unfortunately have some more bad news, Lucius and Peter escaped Azkaban last night also...I don't know how but they did." Sirius was rooted to the spot and he knew that Cissa and Harry would take it hard and he was glad Amy told him first to give him enough time to adjust before comforting them. If he had been told with the others he was unsure if he could remain strong enough for them all.

"I am gonna tell them at Breakfast and I don't want the kids especially Draco and Harry leaving the house without an or yourself would do but I also know Narcissa can handle herself with a wand but I want her escorted to the shop I know construction is still going on and Dan is an ex military man but has no Magical capacity at all so I want them protected...I can assign an Auror..." Sirius shook his head in denial, he wanted the responsibility. They continued to talk and he gave her the best back rub she had ever had in her life before they fell over to sleep dreading the conversation that was going to take place the following morning.

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Breakfast the following morning was a quiet affair and all of the children had already arrived before Sirius and Amy had came downstairs. Their morning exercise was done and all of the extended children were gone leaving behind the soul bonds, Susan, Dan and Emma. The Grangers were practically family and they did not mind sharing this with them, the children themselves looked downcast and Amelia could not pinpoint why and Sirius did not give her a chance to ponder anymore.

"Ok we are going to have a little family meeting..." Harry nodded his head and they all peered up at the adults in confusion, Amy looked nervous as hell and Sirius did not have any of his usual joking smirk plastered on his face. Remus and Dora were looking the same way and Amy knew that the younger woman had already told him because the young Metamorphagis had asked her permission before going home the night before and the expression on Remus's face was like an open book.

"Realistically this is going to effect everyone because tomorrow the goblins will be coming to the house and putting new wards into effect both here, the Burrow, Greengrass Manor, Longbottom Manor and The Grangers home. Whoever is going to continue to come to your little sessions will need to be keyed into the Wards and you need their parents permission for that and anyone that doesn't want keyed in or that you don't trust we will apparate to their house and collect them in the mornings..." All of the children knew this was not a normal family meeting and both Harry and Draco were so confused, Narcissa was sitting next to Charlie looking intrigued but not too worried.

"Now before I start I don't want this to turn into a free for all. Once I am finished speaking you can all take it in turns to say your piece okay?" The children themselves were nodding their heads but the adults were worried.

"Yesterday I got a visit from Kingsley Shacklebolt with some unsettling news, there was two high security prisoners escaped from Azkaban..." Neville, Harry and Draco sat forward in that moment as their families were directly involved with prisoners, they held their breaths Amelia continued on and explained to Dan and Emma.

"Azkaban is our Prison and it is not a good place to be, it is guarded by dementors..." Having had a brief history lesson from Remus Emma nodded her head as did Hermione. "Lucius Malfoy and Peter Pettigrew escaped at eleven thirty last night..." Draco immediately stood and walked over to his mother and held onto her shoulder in moral support and Ginny gripped onto Harry's hand along with Sirius whom stood behind him. She went on to explain to them about the extra security measures that were going to be put into place, and then she went onto her next one.

"Another problem that came up last night was another high profile target escaped from Ministry custody." After she explained to them all what had happened, who she was and what was being done to find her the children found their shoes very interesting.

"Ok what's going on?" All of the children could not bring themselves to look at the adults but they knew them and knew the guilty looks on their faces. "You are keeping something from us what is it?" Harry looked up at her and sighed.

"I think we dreamt of her escape...I don't think she is a threat..." Luna stood up and nodded her head at all of the adults in a room.

"I know she is not a threat..." They trusted her but that still brought to the forefront of their minds that Lucius Malfoy and Peter Pettigrew were a threat and no one really knew what to do about that. Narcissa excused herself from the table and both Charlie and Sirius went to go to her but Draco just shook his head and told them it was best if he went. Knowing the boy was right they let him be and he walked up into his mothers bedroom and found her sitting in the window seat absentmindedly staring at the plans for her Café she had decided to open in her hands.

"Are you Ok?" Draco immediately took offence at that and walked over and sat beside her. The fact that she automatically makes sure everyone else is alright instead of herself goes to show the testament of what kind of mother and person she was.

"Shouldn't I be asking you that question?" She laughed at her son and was inherently pleased with how much he had grown and knew that Daphne and the people under this roof were a big reason for that.

"I am ok...he was an arse but he was still your father and I think what I am most worried about is him coming and taking you from me...sounds silly I know..." Draco nodded at her in unison causing them both to smile.

"The only way he would be able to achieve that is if he bonked me on the head and took me by force. The others would find me...that's what I am worried about as well him coming after you...also Charlie...I don't want him caught in the crossfire because my dad is a dick..." At any other time she would reprimand him because of his language but in that moment she found she couldn't agree with his sentiments more.

"We will be fine and I feel a lot better knowing that you will be at Hogwarts with Albus, Severus and the others watching out for you...watching out for all of you." He nodded and lifted the paper from her hands and noticed she had changed things again.

"This looks different..." She smiled and laid it across their knees and explained that the bookshelves were too small to accommodate all of the stock she had ordered and so they made the ordering counter smaller in the front but with larger display cases in the back.

"We should be ready to open before you go back to school..." He was in awe of his mother and what she was accomplishing, she had taken Dan, Molly, Dittania and Frank and Alice Longbottom and created something remarkable.

"Well Dan and Molly are our chefs obviously because I can burn water..." Draco laughed at her as she continued. "Dittania creates these beautiful scented everlasting candles, you have seen them in the Greengrass Manor they are extraordinary. Frank is helping me with the books and inventory and Alice created wonderful soaps, oils and shampoos etcetera." He nodded at her in understanding and he could see it in his head. The space in Diagon Alley that Harry and Hermione gave to Charlie was essentially three shops long and just as wide behind not to mention it had three or four stories to accommodate everything Narcissa wanted. She didn't want to create a cramped space such as Flourish and Blotts or The Apothecary she wanted comfortable seats for the patrons to veg out in with a good book and a coffee.

"I can't wait to see it..." She smiled and nodded at her son before a soft knock on the door sounded and Harry poked his head in to check on Draco and Narcissa. The older woman had truly became a mother figure to the boy and he was worried about her.

"Hey you I brought you some of Dans camomile and lavender tea..." He walked in and set it in front of her and all she could do was smile at the young boy whom she loved as much as her own flesh and blood. As she pulled them both in for a hug they clung to her in need and knew the three of them were the only ones who could imagine how the others feel. Sure Sirius and Remus felt the sting of Peter even still to this day but Harry, Narcissa and Draco were forever changed because of Lucius and Peter. Harry's parents were dead because of the man and Narcissa had almost died at the hands of Lucius throughout the years.

"How are you dealing with this?" She asked him and Harry being who he was just shrugged his shoulders at her in a typical teenager way. "Harry..." She gave him that motherly look that would put the fear of god into your entire being and he gave in.

"I am not really sure what I feel to be honest...Peter Pettigrew was not a problem that I ever thought I would have to worry about but even now he keeps finding ways to make life more difficult. You are happy and safe and Lucius had thrown a spanner in that and it pisses me off." She didn't reprimand him for his language either knowing he was angry and had every right to be.

"I just I know that Peter wasn't the brains behind this operation and it just makes me wonder what The end game is for Lucius?" Draco nodded his head at his brother in that moment and Narcissa was unsure what to tell them.

"Look whatever it is, we will be fine. Sitting here speculating and worrying is exactly what they want now, I am not making my life harder for them and neither are you. We are going to have a wedding, I am opening the shop with my posse and you will get your Hogwarts letters and we will go to Diagon Alley like normal." Both boys were sceptical at the upbeat woman in front of them who could not help but laugh at her.

"We are not going to stop living because my idiot of an ex-husband and his sidekick decided to do a runner from jail. Understand?" They only nodded at her and admired her can do attitude before they slowly but surely made their way out of the room and down the stairs towards the others.

"What the hell was in that tea Harry?" Draco snickered and Narcissa just giggled at both boys and reunited with the group allowing the woman to press a small kiss to Charlie Weasleys lips looking for reassurance to which the younger man accomplished.

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