It had been two long years since Harry and Adora's disappearance after she had broken him out of Azkaban Prison. Two figures cloaked in black with hoods covering their faces moved through a decaying old neighborhood. As they approached their destination they both thought "The headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix is at Number Twelve Grimmauld Place" From nowhere a large house seemed to squeeze itself into existence between two homes. Looking at each other they both nodded and turned invisible. Making their way into the house they moved silently through the shadows down into the kitchen where members of the Order of the Phoenix were assembling for a meeting.
Albus Dumbledore was preparing to call the meeting to order when he noticed the kitchen door swing part way open before closing again. Looking closely he was able to locate two individuals using extremely advanced transfiguration to hide them selves. He knew whoever they were they had to be extremely powerful to perform that level of magic and they were doing an amazing job of it. Something felt familiar about their magic and his eyes began to twinkle in an almost manic way as he realized who the unannounced pair was.
"If everyone is ready I would like to get started." said Dumbledore, "But first I believe introductions are in order."
Everyone was looking around in confusion except Dumbledore who was beaming. He was also staring at a blank portion of wall to one side of the door. Everyone followed his gaze and a few seconds later Harry and Adora faded into view.
"Harry! Tonks!" The pair was immediately accosted by the majority of the room. After many hugs, handshakes and greetings they were finally able to sit down at the table.
"What happened to you, where have you been?" Hermione was grinning widely thrilled to be able to see her best friend again after such a long time.
Harry was about to answer when Severus Snape decided it was time to add his two knuts. "Well, well, well… Potter. The arrogant brat finally decides to return. Tired of hiding with your tail between your legs or are you planning on hiding here like that mutt of a godfather of yours did."
Before anyone could blink Snape found himself pinned against the wall. Adora's left hand held his throat tightly while her right held a white ball of energy that seemed to crackle with power only inches from his chest. He found himself frozen with fear as his eyes met hers and he gained a glimpse of the amount of power she now wielded.
"I made a lot of promises to Harry most of which he didn't want me to make, but I did anyway. One of them was that I wasn't going to put up with you harassing him any longer so let me make myself perfectly clear to you 'Snivellus'," Her magic could be felt thick in the air as her aura began to glow. Tightening her grip around Snape's throat she continued in a menacing voice "The next time you so much as sneeze in Harry's direction I will show you exactly what this ball of magic is capable of." She waved the ball she was holding in his face one last time before letting the magic dissipate and returning to Harry's side.
Harry wrapped a protective arm around her as she sat down beside him. The others present were surprised that far from being upset about the potion masters comments Harry seemed rather amused by the whole exchange.
Ron was the first to regain the ability to speak. "That was wicked Tonks!"
His comment earned him a glare from the potions master and a smack in the back of his head from Hermione. "Honestly Ron."
Harry chuckled. "Well the first thing we should probably get out of the way is that you can't call her Tonks anymore, she goes by Adora now."
"What? Why's that Ton...I mean Adora." said Hermione.
Adora shot a wicked grin towards Harry before holding up her left hand displaying a stunning diamond ring for all to see. "Because my last name isn't Tonks anymore, it's Potter." She beamed as she delivered the news she had been dying to share with her friends since her wedding.
Once again pandemonium reigned as the young married couple was given another round of hugs and handshakes as well as congratulations.
Albus Dumbledore's eyes were twinkling brightly as he addressed the pair. "If you're up to it I would very much like to hear everything that happened to you after I broke Harry out of Azkaban." He grinned and looked at Adora as he made his last comment.
A blush appeared on her cheeks. "Sorry Professor, it was the only thing I could come up with."
"Not at all Mrs. Potter." he replied merrily.
"Well after we port keyed away we took a muggle taxi across town to a small flat I rented under an assumed name the week before. We stayed there for about a week to let Harry recover from his time in Azkaban." She spat out the name of the wizarding prison with obvious loathing.
"I was stuck in bed for most of the week, she was worse than Madam Pomphrey!"
Everyone in the room laughed and Harry received a playful punch in the shoulder for his comment. He tightened his grip on her pulling her closer to him. "I was absolutely amazed at what she'd done for me. What she'd risked. The first thing I did was ask her to marry me." The entire room was silent as Harry and Adora shared a quick moment before Harry returned to their story.
"Well, we knew we couldn't get married using our real names in Europe so we decided to go to the states and ended up getting married in a muggle ceremony in Nevada."
Hermione was getting noticeably excited. "Oh Adora was it beautiful?"
Adora sat up in her seat leaning on the table in a very excited and very girly pose. "Hermione! It was everything I wanted it to be!" she paused briefly for dramatic effect before finishing. "Fast!"
Hermione was stunned her excitement changing to a mixture of shock and curiosity.
"Excuse me?"
Adora was laughing at the look on Hermione's face. "Sorry Hermione, couldn't resist." She laughed, "No we got married by an Elvis impersonator in a walk in chapel and left to a rock and roll version of the wedding march."
Remus almost fell off his chair in hysterics. Tears of laughter were streaming down his face as he managed to sputter out, "Harry, you just lived Sirius dream wedding!"
Harry grinned widely at the comment and chuckled thinking about the comments Sirius would have had about his wedding. "Well, it was kind of funny."
Everyone laughed heartily picturing Harry and Adora's wedding. The couple smiled seeing the mirth in each others eyes as they looked at one another. When the laughter finally died down Harry continued.
"We spent the next couple days wandering around Las Vegas enjoying our honeymoon. I think it was our third day there, we had just finished watching one of the shows and literally ran into a wizard named David Filch." With a grin directed at Professor Dumbledore he continued. "Apparently our esteemed Headmaster asked him to check on us and we ended up staying and training with him for about a year."
"I am curious about the power Mrs. Potter displayed earlier. I'm quite certain she was not that powerful before you both left." Dumbledore said with his eyes still twinkling.
Harry grinned and Adora blushed slightly also grinning. "That was actually an accident. Are you familiar with 'Communico Alucinor' Professor?"
Dumbledore nodded. "Harry please tell me you didn't, that spell can be extremely dangerous."
Noticing the looks of confusion Harry addressed the entire group. "Basically it allows two people to communicate telepathically though it's actually a spell and not true telepathy."
Dumbledore assisted in the explanation. "It's extremely dangerous until mastered as you can easily loose pieces of your mind to the one you are connecting to, if the wrong part is lost for example the part which controls your breathing you can easily die."
Harry could see the shock on everyone's faces. "True Professor however Occulmency can eliminate most of the danger."
"That is also true Harry. What exactly happened in your case?"
"The spell has an operating range which depends on your level of magical power. The spell works by creating a thread of magic between the two individual's magical cores. As you get farther apart the thread stretches and eventually breaks ending your connection. During training we wondered if we could create a larger thread by both casting the spell at the same time thus increasing the distance over which we could communicate. Apparently instead of creating one larger thread we still created two but the attraction of the two caused a rush of magic to fill the space between them. We ended up with a permanent channel between our cores large enough to not only share thoughts but raw magic and our abilities as well. Basically when it comes right down to it we combined and now share our magic."
"Fascinating Harry, how powerful do you believe you are now?" asked Dumbledore.
"That's actually another interesting bit. It seems the killing curse left a bit of dark magic behind which has been inhibiting my power all these years and the influx of Adora's magic washed it away. Also the link wasn't stable at first so the magic made Adora's core grow to match mine. I'm just guessing but right now I expect were about twice as powerful as you are Professor."
Everyone wore astonished looks on their faces except Dumbledore who was grinning and twinkling more than he had in a long time. It was Minerva McGonagall who spoke next. "Mr. Potter you said you trained for a year but you've been gone two years. Where have you been?"
Harry and Adora grinned at each other before Harry returned his gaze to his transfiguration professor. "Capturing Death Eaters."
Snape finally regaining his composure stood and pointed to Harry. "You're the one responsible for the missing Death Eaters?"
"Yup, but I had help." he said pointing to Adora.
"Harry," interjected Professor Dumbledore, "are you trying to tell us the two of you are responsible for the 86 missing death eaters?"
"Yes."
"Not possible." muttered Snape though he sat quickly looking abashed when he noticed Adora eyeing him and playing with a small ball of energy.
"I don't suppose you could elaborate for us Mr. Potter." said McGonagall.
Harry rubbed the bridge of his nose and slowly exhaled a deep breath before beginning.
"Well grab a drink and get comfortable it's kind of a long story."
After saying their goodbye's the Potters left the safety of David Filch's home and returned to England to search for a good site to put their plans into motion.
After weeks of searching they discovered a large abandoned bunker leftover from a muggle war. It had five large underground chambers connected with a maze of passages and appeared perfect for their needs.
They began by casting the Fidilius Charm on the structure to hide it making Harry the secret keeper. Once hidden the pair spent the next week setting up every kind of ward they could think of pouring their combined power into their protections and defenses until it was one of the most secure locations in England.
Once the location was safe and secure they began their renovations on the inside. They sectioned the first of the large chambers into several rooms creating a comfortable living area for them to stay in as well as what they dubbed the command center, a potions lab, a large area for training and a very large kitchen. Once the areas were completely setup and furnished they moved on to the next phase of their construction project.
The remaining four chambers were sectioned into small cells measuring 10 foot square. Each cell was equipped with a thin mattress and a muggle toilet. The entrance to each cell was protected by a heavy wooden door with no handle on the inside and a slot along the bottom through which a tray of food could be pushed. From outside you could see through the door into the cell. A complex set of wards were added to each room which prohibited magic from being performed and disabled magical forms of transportation such as port keys and apparition to anyone except those keyed into the wards. They were able to create 500 of these holding cells in the four chambers.
It had taken two months for Harry and Adora to complete their new Death Eater Prison and they were sitting around a table in their command center which contained a large map of the world they had been working on.
"Well luv, we'll need to catch a death eater to finish the map. And we also need to get in touch with Dobby."
As soon as the name Dobby left his lips a very excitable house elf popped into existence in front of the pair and launched himself at Harry.
"Harry Potter sir called Dobby! Dobby is so happy a wizard as great as Harry Potter is wanting Dobby! What can Dobby be doing for you Mr. Harry Potter sir?"
Harry glared at Adora as she bit her finger to keep from laughing at the situation Harry found himself in, but smiled as he turned to Dobby.
"Hello Dobby. It's good to see you again. I was wondering if you would like to work for me and Winky as well if she would like to."
Harry almost laughed out loud afraid Dobby would pass out if he became any more excited and Adora's snickering wasn't helping him keep control.
After several minutes of bouncing around in excitement the little elf finally managed to respond. "Oh Harry Potter sir! I is liking that very much! I is also knowing Winky is not happy not working for a family."
Dobby disappeared and before Harry could wonder where he went reappeared with Winky.
"Hello Winky, it's good to see you again." Harry said in greeting to the shy elf.
Winky curtsied before speaking. "I is honored you is wanting me to work for you Master Harry Potter sir."
Harry chuckled, these two would never change he thought. "I'm happy to have you here Winky. There won't be a lot of work for awhile but hopefully if everything goes to plan you'll be kept extremely busy a few months from now."
Dobby and Winky both looked excited at the thought of all the work they would have to do.
Harry and Adora started to show the elves around but were quickly told by the pair it was not necessary so they settled for explaining what they had in mind and would need from them in the future.
Once the house elves were settled and began going about their tasks Harry and Adora used their metamorphmagus ability to change their appearance and apperated to Hogsmeade.
After arriving they made their way to the Hogs Head and took seats at a small table near the back of the pub where they could observe the patrons. It wasn't long before they recognized Walden Macnair enter the small establishment with two men in cloaks that they didn't recognize.
'What do you think Adora?' Harry asked his wife through their mind link as he sipped on his drink.
Adora took a quick look around the bar. 'The other two are probably Death Eaters too. There's only them the bartender and another pair in the far corner. We could stun them all.'
'Right, can you take out the two in the corner and the bartender?'
Adora nodded and stood up. Harry waited for her to reach the pair in the corner before moving. As soon as he saw her cast the first curse he started sending stunners at the Death Eaters. In a manner of seconds the six people in the bar were unconscious. Checking everyone's arms they found that the two in the corner were also Death Eaters and immediately created five portkeys to deliver them all too holding cells back at their home base. As soon as they finished the left the bar sending an enervate at the bartender as they walked out the door.
Apperating back to their Death Eater Prison they entered the cell's where the prisoners had been transported directly too and searched each one of them. After removing all of the items on their person they dosed each one with Veritiserum and asked a standard list of questions they had composed recording the entire conversation with a verbatim quill. Some of the questions were to find out general information such as their names, the crimes they had committed and their position within Voldemort's organization while others were to find out about the about the organization itself such as names of other Death Eaters, plans and who or what was being recruited.
The entire Order of the Phoenix was hanging on Harry's every word as they listened to the tale of the pairs last year.
"Once we had a Death Eater we were able to add the Dark Mark to the map."
"What do you mean Harry?" Dumbledore asked curiously.
"The large map we made in the situation room is basically a Marauders map only instead of displaying names it shows were people with the Dark Mark are." Harry told him with a grin.
McGonagall and much of the rest of the Order looked excited at the thought of the map. "Are you saying Mr. Potter that you know where all of the Death Eaters are?"
Harry sighed. "Well, not exactly. Turns out most of Voldemort's locations are unplottable so when Death eaters go there they don't appear on the map. There also not as easy to catch as you would think. Most of the time when we show up their either in a large crowd or they disappear before we can get there or it's Snape."
Several members chuckled at the Snape comment though the man in question just growled.
"I must say that's brilliant Harry. So you just wait to find them alone and stun them before port keying them away?"
Harry shook his head. "No, that's what we started out doing but it was a bit clumsy and dangerous and like you said they hand to be alone or mostly so. We found a better way."
Ignoring the curious looks he was receiving Harry reached into his robes and pulled out a small glass marble and passed it to Hermione who was sitting next to him.
"It's a marble." she said.
Harry nodded. "Yes, a simple muggle marble. Pass it around so everyone can get a look."
The marble was passed around until finally it was passed to Snape. The moment he was the only one touching it he disappeared. Several of the Order members jumped up pulling their wands but settled down when they noticed Harry and Adora chuckling.
"Don't worry everyone, he's ok." Harry said. "It's a special portkey we designed. It's set to activate when it touches someone with the Dark Mark. You'd be surprised how easy it is to catch Death Eaters when all you have to do is say 'Hey!' and toss it to them. It's a natural reflex to catch it and then their gone. Since they can't do magic in the cells and we can it's easy to stun them to do the search and questioning."
"I must say I'm very impressed, you two just continue to keep surprising me. But I must ask what you have done with Severus." Dumbledore said his eyes twinkling brightly.
"It's a surprise." Harry chuckled. "He'll be back in a moment. I made his portkey special there's something I wanted him to see." Harry and Adora shared a knowing grin as they waited for Severus to return.
A minute later he did wearing a look of total shock on his face. Looking at Harry he barely managed to stutter out "D… D… Draco."
Once again the room went wild. Finally Dumbledore sent up a blast from his wand to regain everyone's attention. "Is this true Harry?" he said with no small amount of hope in his voice.
Harry just nodded smiling widely. "Caught him about two weeks ago."
"Then you can prove your innocence! We should take him to the Ministry!"
"No, there's too much corruption there right now and I'll not let that little basterd buy his way out. I'll worry about clearing my name when the wars over."
Dumbledore sighed and nodded in understanding "I am curious Harry you've been in the country for about a year now, why did you not come back to us sooner? And to continue on that line of questioning if you're not here to clear your name, then why have you come back now?"
Harry took a deep breath and let it out slowly. He seemed to age several years as he put his thoughts in order. "We've discovered something that we don't understand but think it could be a big problem."
All eyes were on Harry taking in his grim look as he removed a map from within his robes. "This is a map we keep, marking the locations where there has been Death Eater activity. I know the aurors keep one like it and I'm sure the Order has one too." he said as he unrolled the map of the United Kingdom. The map was an outline of the UK with all the larger cities and wizarding communities clearly marked. Scattered across the map were various marks where the Death Eaters had done their vile work.
"We do have one but yours looks a bit different from ours." Mad Eye Moody said.
"It is, ours is if far more accurate than yours is." Harry replied receiving many grumbles from the Order. They were all silenced with a look from Harry. "This map, like yours, shows all" he said emphasizing the word all, "Death Eater activity. Have you noticed that there have a lot of Death Eater attacks where they haven't sent up the Dark Mark?"
"Yes we have wondered about that." Dumbledore said with a thoughtful look on his face as he examined the map wondering where Harry was going with this.
"We wondered about that too." Harry replied. "Here, look what happens when you remove everything except the attacks where a Dark Mark was sent up." Harry waved his wand over the map leaving only the locations where the Dark Mark was sent up remaining. Everyone in the room gasped at what they saw.
Harry was nodding as they began to understand. "Right. The locations were the mark was sent up when looked at in the context of the UK form an almost complete Dark Mark." Harry paused to let everyone take in the information. He was not the least bit surprised by the look of horror on many of the faces of the Order members. "We believe the random activity where no mark is sent up is to hide this. We visited several of the sites and if you look carefully enough you will find residual Dark Magic in and around the site. What's more after tracking several of the locations over a period of months we've found that the magic is slowly growing, spreading towards the other sites. What we don't know is what will happen when they all connect."
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Author's Notes: Hey all, sorry it took me so long to get this out my muse for this story seems to have taken a hike. I love the way the story starts but haven't been able to get this chapter out to save my life. I actually rewrote the first half a couple times. I'm still not as happy with it as I'd like to be but oh well I wanted to get it out, hopefully I'll be able to deliver the next one a bit quicker but no guarantees.
Thanks to all of you who review, I really appreciate it!
