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Summary: Harry, Ginny, and Charlie are framed for a murder and are sent to Azkaban. They break out with other prisoners and still fight against Voldemort.

The Darkest Days and the Brightest Nights

Chapter 1: Azkaban

The dementors roamed the hallways of Azkaban as usual. They were dark creatures, sucking all of the happiness out of whoever they passed and keeping it forever if they performed their infamous 'kiss'. They were the ones who could cause a fate worse than death. Azkaban was full of people who deserved a fate worse than death, but also a few innocent people who did not belong in the horrid prison. Among those innocent people, there were three names the wizarding world had learned to despise. Harry Potter, Ginny Weasely, and Charlie Weasely. Ginny and Charlie were near instantly disowned and from what the 'witnesses' said, all three must have killed that person in Grimmauld Place 12 approximately five years ago.

Five cold, hard years as innocents in Azkaban.

Yet Harry, Ginny, and Charlie, were the only ones left that were fully sane after one year and still were. They were determined to get the person who framed them to this hell on earth.

All three of them knew each other inside out by know. They shared a cell together, shared stories from their former glory days in Hogwarts, or out in Romania in a dragon preserve, or in the burrow, which was once Ginny's and Charlie's home. That was the only place Harry had ever considered he had family. But now, all three agreed that the only family they had was each other in this prison. A family needs friends also, and they had friends. Neville and Luna had come and visited frequently to update them, knowing none of them would have done such a horrible thing to a person that didn't deserve it. There was also the cells around them, which ironically held Bellatrix Lestrange, Draco Malfoy, and Cho Chang. Bellatrix had officially apologized to Harry for killing his godfather, Sirius Black. She had said she was partially insane, constantly thinking that the death of most of her family was Sirius's fault. The only reason she was here was because she was captured in a death eater raid 3 years ago. Draco had also been caught, but he was there because he was a spy for the Order. The same Order that they had all learned to despise. Especially Cho. Snape had received some information from the inner circle one day that the Changs were to become Death Eaters whether they liked it or not. The rest was Mad-eye Moody's fault in thinking they were doing it voluntarily and had taken it upon himself to take a squad to the Chang's house and take them out. The Minister of Magic, Fudge, had thought it was a good idea and officially sided with the Order after that raid, so no Order members complained. No one had come for them. The wizarding world wanted them all dead for various reasons, even though five of them were actually innocent. During the day they would talk about their lives before Azkaban.

As Ginny put it, "It was like heaven, but they threw us out like we were demons. Things that should have never been treated well at all, but constantly tortured."

"Well, all of the bloody angels got their happiness." Draco spit out his hatred for everything in the wizarding world that he could live without. His father and Voldemort were at the top of the list, while Dumbledore and the Order were somewhere in the middle.

Cho was constantly worrying about Draco's diminishing hope and growing depression. It was the only thing that kept her sane. "What about your mum, Drac?" The group of friends had grown accustomed to the shortening of their names. "What about my mum? If anything, she was the only thing that loved me at the time. My father, Voldemort, EVERYONE saw ME as a weapon to help THEM. Except you guys." Draco quickly fell back into his depression because of his recently deceased mum. Harry chose that moment to pipe up.

"I've been thinking lately. There has to be a way out of here. A way to escape Azkaban. If Sirius did it, we can."

"But how did he do it? It might be near impossible for us to do it." Bella asked knowing that they would probably never get out.

"He told me that he used his animagus form. But none of us knows how to do it, do we?" Harry told his group of friends. "Lets just try to think of another way tonight. For now, I'm pretty tired from last night and I need to rest." All of them knew what the dreams were, Harry have telling them that he had visions of what Voldemort was doing and feeling it all at once. All of them had nightmares, but not as many as Harry had, and definitely not as bad. They decided to talk about it later. For now, they would rest because they all had been woken by last nights nightmares.

All of them dreamed of that one person they always wanted to be with once they fell asleep.

Ginny was sleeping with a smile on her face as her dream had all of them, including Neville and Luna, living in a castle, with Ginny as queen and Harry as king.

Cho and Draco were both having similar dreams. Both were dreaming they had a house, living together with a small family. Draco had vowed to never treat his children like his father had treated him and knew Cho constantly blushed, if it were possible in Azkaban, whenever they talked about old boyfriends and girlfriends and they both knew that they loved each other.

Bellatrix and Charlie were dreaming of playing with baby dragons. Charlie being a dragon taimer knew how friendly baby dragons could be and Bella had grown a want to know a dragon and live with it since she was a little girl.

Harry dreamt the one thing that could only make him truly smile with love. He dreamt he was up on a throne with a wife named Ginny Weasely.

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