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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 4: The Chaos of a War and Secrets of a Castle

The war Voldemort started had started to take its toll on the Light side as soon as Harry was framed for murder. The attacks grew ten fold on the muggles and muggle-born witches and wizards. Voldemort had also gained many followers. The Ministry of Magic was in chaos and Fudge had stepped down. No one had heard from him again. Dumbledore hadn't taken the position of Minister, and suggested that Arthur Weasly was the perfect candidate for the job. He was in near instantly. Both the Order and the Ministry recognized each other officially, and kept fighting back Voldemort, but never going on the offensive. The Wizarding world also made the decision to reveal themselves to the Muggles in hopes for a new ally, and they were quick to accept to stop these killings. Voldemort still had the advantage though and had brought the war all over the globe. Once he had heard that there was a prison break out in Azkaban, he quickly took the opportunity to ensue more attacks against the Light than ever before.

In short, the Light side needed a miracle. And they knew they weren't going to get it.

Dumbledore knew that they needed Harry to win this war, but nearly every single soul on the planet knew about him and his 'betrayal.' No one wanted his help, especially after he escape with 2 known death eaters and one that was to become a death eater, or so people thought. He still had Hogwarts, but instead of a school, it became more of a shelter for people in the immediate area and for the former students and their parents. It was also the headquarters for the Order, which was in the middle of a meeting at the moment.

"We're getting no where. I spy for you and what do you do? You try to defend against the planned attacks. If we could just attack Voldemort's weak points, he might pull out!" Snape was getting more frustrated every meeting due to Dumbledore's lack of trying to lure away Voldemort's troops from places that were important to the Light side. "It could cost us troops that we can't spare!"

"Severus, I concur with the fact that all of our troops are important, but if we lose those strongholds, which includes the Ministry of Magic, we will suffer much more greatly." Dumbledore had solemnly spoken to the potions master.

"What about the prison break?" Kingsly spoke up as it was finally going to be released who escaped Azkaban to the public.

"That, we can do nothing about." Dumbledore's eye had not twinkled since the night of the betrayal.


"So, does the owlery still actually have owls?" Harry asked as him and Charlie headed east.

"Unfortunately, no. But we could go and buy a lot of owls." Charlie suggested.

"That would look very suspicious, you know that."

"It would work though."

"Still, very suspicious. Besides, you know that my accounts and funds were seized by Dumbledore and the Ministry after we were incarcerated." The mention of the loss of enough money to keep them well off for years put Charlie into a slightly depressed, but not long-lasting, mood.

While Harry and Charlie were out pacing on the grounds of the castle, the rest were out and about cleaning and dusting and viewing certain rooms and items that its many owners had left behind. Draco and Cho were in the equipment room, admiring all of the swords, shields, and many other items used in age-old warfare. Neville and Luna were busy finding some of the hard to get plants in the wizarding world in the greenhouses. Ginny and Bella were looking at some of the books.

"Hey, Ginny. Look at this book!" Bella called out to Ginny who was on the other side of the library at the moment. Ginny quickly sprinted over. "What's so special about it?" Ginny had asked as soon as she saw it. There was no title on the book, and it nothing about it looked magical. Bella opened to the first page:

THE TOME: MAGICKS OF ALL TYPES

BY THE WIZARDING WORLD

She quickly turned to the next page:

O reader. This book is a tome of all spells casted throughout time and their descriptions. It contains magicks with a magical enhancer, or wands as some call them, magicks without an enhancer, or wandless magicks as others would call it, magicks of the mind, light, dark, times, and of the elements: basic elements and natural elements. This book will automatically sort the magicks in any which way you wish to have them in. There are other types of books such as this. If you were to find them, they would help you to train your mind, body, magick, and soul to be one of a god. The spell in which would help you find these other books is that one of a non-magical body could cast. A simple incantation: Accio Brother Tome.

Good luck!

Bella was dumbfounded even though she had read the opening of the book several times already. Ginny, however, snapped out of her state in a few moments and quickly duplicated the book enough times for all of them and summoned the other books. The other books quite quickly landed in front of them. "All of them…here in this library. This would definitely be a great place to start our…new training.

Once Ginny duplicated the other books, she and Bella headed back down towards the Great Hall. As they made there way inside, everyone else was inside already. Harry was busily cooking a meal for them all when he saw both women walk in. "Did you find anything useful?" Harry had asked. The women both put one of each book in front of each person. "And these are…?" Luna questioned. "Something that will change us forever." Ginny stated. "Could you be a little less cryptic please." Neville sarcastically asked. He had been in a foul mood since one of the plants had almost sliced his right arm off. "They're books of everything known in the wizarding world. Physical training, spells, potions, legimency, wandless magic…the list goes on." Bella elaborated for them.

"This would be a good chance to test those information transferors." Charlie told Harry.

"And what would those be?" Cho asked while Charlie dug out something that looked like a plastic bag attached to a wire. The wire had a small point on the other end of it.

"And would that be the 'transferor?'" Draco looked very perplexed at the odd looking object.

"Got it in one." Harry quickly said.

"Let me demonstrate." Charlie took one of the books and laid it down in front of him. "The process is almost painless from what we know." He laid the bag-like end on top of the book All of a sudden the bag-like object glowed a distinct green. Charlie then took the point on the other end and stuck it on his forehead. The wire turned from its blackish-grey to a brilliant blue, while a light around it looked as though it was flowing into Charlie's head. The transfer lasted a few minutes, and as soon as it was done, he had gone into an annoyed state. "My head is hurting like it got shot…"

"Here, take this." Luna pulled out a reddish potion. "It's an anti-hangover potion, but it should work with these headaches."

As Charlie downed the potion, his headache died down to almost nothing.

Draco put on his smirk. "How many of those potions do you have?"

"Enough for us to get drunk later" Luna smiled as the realization sunk in that they would probably be the people to take on the wizarding world. They would have to face the good and the evil that was present.


Ron and Hermione had just muggle London and were going into Diagon Alley. Both were torn between guilt and betrayal. They knew that Harry and their friends would never have killed somebody, but the evidence kept them from straying away from the fact that they had to be the ones that killed them. The hole in the wards only helped the case against Harry and the others, even if no one knew who tampered with them. As they went inside one of the cafes for lunch, Ron picked up a copy of the Daily Prophet.

"Hermione. Look at this." Ron passed the newspaper over to Hermione as she gasped at the headline: Mass Escape from Azkaban!

"It says that Harry, Draco, Charlie, Ginny, Cho, and Bellatrix all escaped from the prison…" Both were very confused as to why Bellatrix and Draco would help the others, but they still rejoiced as the light side might actually have a shot at beating Voldemort now. Dumbledore had told most of the prophecy to the Order, but they had changed their thoughts that Harry was the marked one to Neville having to end up killing Voldemort. The only problem was that Neville and Luna had not been seen since the prison break. Many assumed that they had been killed in one of the many raids in the past few days by Death Eaters.

"Do you think that Harry is a Death Eater now?" Ron was terrified at seeing his ex-best mate turning evil.

"I wouldn't blame him…" Hermione was genuinely frightened at the prospect that one of the strongest wizards, probably stronger than the world had ever seen, would side with one of the most evil beings the planet had ever seen. Not only that, but there was always the smallest chance that Harry and the others were innocent of their crimes, and that they had felt betrayed enough to go after their former friends and families.


Harry and the others had gone to sleep for the night. While they were dreaming, one of the largest magical disturbances began to fester in the Great Hall; their resting place for the night.

It has begun.

Everyone was having the same dream, and the dreams were connected to each other.

Who's there!

Ginny's figure could be made out in the darkness.

It is I. Grim. Honestly, you'd think that a voice wouldn't be so hard to remember.

Slowly, the others' figures appeared in the dark glow.

Where are we?

Bella was starting to look very nervous.

It's a vision, isn't it Harry?

Harry looked over towards Bella.

Is this where the Voldemort is?

No.

Slowly, something, or someplace, became very visible: Diagon Alley. It was in flames with bodies everywhere. The street torn up with blood stains all over the place. A Daily Prophet flew by them. Charlie saw the date and gasped. The date was only a few days later than what day it actually was.

Looks like we have some ass-kicking to do in a couple of days.


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