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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 2: Plans, Escape, and Fugitives

The dementors of Azkaban seemed to come by the cells less often. Day after day, their visits became less and less frequent. Although many of the prisoners found this to be a very good thing, Harry knew exactly why there weren't as many dementors. Right after his dream about Ginny, he was instantly pulled into a vision of Voldemort's. He was calling out to the dementors, promising as many souls they wanted. He was gaining more and more each day. Soon, Harry had nightmares and visions every night, even without the dementors around.

Draco, Cho, Ginny, Bellatrix, Charlie, and Harry had started to figure out a plan to escape, but they would need Neville's and Luna's help. Seeing as how the whole prison was starting to be guarded by aurors, all they needed was a distraction to get all of the guards away form the prison, or at least a route to get out. The day Neville and Luna came, the plans were shared. Luna had decided to make the distraction by luring out most of the guards. She simply had to say that they were being chased by death eaters on the way to the prison while they were traveling. Luna would make a bunch of portkeys and slip them into the guards pockets or robes and once they apparate in the fields outside of Azkaban, they would instantly be transported to the Forbidden Forest. Harry knew exactly why to. The centaurs still hadn't chosen a side to the war, and still hated humans. Once that was done, Neville would steal the keys to the doors and get them out while ridding the place of the rest of the guards.

"Seems simple enough." Luna said.

"There is only one flaw in it. I need to protect you guys while being disguised." Neville knew that he would have to disguise himself to keep him from being discovered.

"Carry a black, hooded robe and a white mask under your other robes. Once Luna has lured out the guards, put them on to look like a death eater." Harry ordered Neville. The escape was to go down as soon as the whole prison had lost its dementors. Which Harry knew was tonight, because his last vision was Voldemort was planning to address the whole dementor population from Azkaban tonight.

Tonight was it. They would be out of hell on earth, more commonly known as Azkaban, tonight. It started at six thirty. Neville and Luna came panting up to the prison and telling the guard at the front gate a really big lie. Which worked wonderfully.

"Help! Death Eaters attacked us on the way here. We came to see our friends who are here once more before we might die." Neville told them when they were attacked and how.

"But where?" The guard questioned Neville. "It would be better if she showed you. She is great at charms and stuff and has a bunch of talismans to protect us from immediate danger. She always has a bunch with her, right dear." Neville told the guard so he would summon most of the guards and have them take the fake talismans. Once all of the talismans were taken, the main guard asked where the death eaters were. Luna told them to follow her to a field a few mile south as she apparated.

As soon as the last guard apparated, a huge grin appeared on Neville's face. He quickly changed into his disguise and quickly dispatched a few guards still left and took their keys to open the cells that contained everyone else. As soon as the seven got outside, Luna appeared very pleased with herself.

"Those aurors wont know what hit them." Luna smiled.

"Now then. There is a cave to the south of here. Neville and I have been there already and we could apparate you there. Sound good?"

"Can't wait." Draco said happily as he finally had fresh air in years while they left with small pops.

Pop!

Harry and Ginny instantly cowered in fear. They had both already seen the symbol on the side of the cave. It was the the grim.

"What are we doing in a cave with the mark of the grim!" Harry and Ginny were instantly angry.

"Look, we never said you had to explore the cave, you can just use the entrance for shelter." Neville explained on how to make a fire without a wand as only Neville and Luna were the only two left with wands. Luna and Neville were about to leave when Luna nearly forgot to ask something.

"I almost forgot. What were your wands like? I'm going to go into Diagon Alley first to see if Ollivander would have any spares for you guys."

"Wait, Ollivander was with us the whole time?" Cho questioned Luna.

"Yes, and he said if he could get the parts he would remake the wands for all of us." Luna whipped out a piece of parchment and a quill as the group started telling her what their wands were like. Once she was finished, she said she would have them in five days at most.

"We'll be back in about an hour with food, some strengthening potions, and hopefully your new wands." Neville said as soon as he apparated back to his house. "See you soon." Luna said as she rose and apparated to Diagon Alley.

From this day forward, all eight of them were fugitives.

But innocent fugitives. Fugitives who were friends. Fugitives who would never back stab each other. Fugitives with a very large thirst for revenge on those who caused them to be thrown into hell on earth. Fugitives that would prove their innocence to their former friends, who were now enemies. Fugitives that had the wizarding world as enemies. Every last witch or wizard wanted them to suffer for crimes they had done or had not done.

They had to find a real place to stay though, and the first thing they would do would be to explore around the cave, hoping for a castle. None of them thought they actually had their hopes to high. Cho remembered that during some random goblin rebellion, there was a castle to the south of where Azkaban stood now. That jogged Charlie's and Bella's memories. Bella remembered that Voldemort had used it as a base at one point and that it was directly four miles south, but forgot what it looked like. But Charlie seemed to also of been there. He remembered that it had an invisible barrier around the grounds. He accidentally stumbled on it one year when he flying around England for a job and knew it was abandoned centuries ago.

Later that night, about an hour later, Neville and Luna came back with food and all of the wands.

Harry and Charlie told Neville and Luna about the castle and was wondering if they could find their exact location. After a quick spell, they realized they were right next to the castle. As everyone finished their food, all they had to do was walk about 20 feet south of the cave. They walked and were stunned.

The castle was bigger than Hogwarts and Hogsmede combined. There was only one problem. There was no entrance, and no windows close enough to get through, even with the levitating charm. As they walked around the castle, Harry and Ginny saw a symbol for the second time that evening on one of the walls.

The symbol was the grim again.

The only way to get into the castle was to go through the cave of the grim.

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