The Wizards of the Djinn.

Chapter 4; Escape from Azkaban

Azkaban; October 27th

Harry stared at Bartimaeus; he had been impersonating Ron as he told of what he heard in the Great Hall and had taken on the form of the youngest male Weasley.

"You say that the Headmaster noticed that you were weird?"

"I am not weird!" He said in Ron's 'I'm afraid of spiders' voice which cracked slightly. Harry tried not to laugh and pointedly looked at 'Ron.' "Oh," was all he said before he changed shape and shrunk slightly to become Luke.

"You were saying?"

"Right, um, I don't know if he noticed I was different," he said with emphasis on the word different, "he probably only noticed that I was the only owl that had remained. Problem is I had to go through a wizard's ward to escape, so he probably knows I am different actually." He was almost speaking to himself when he said this.

"Do you think we can trust him with our secret?" He asked knowing that Carver would answer too.

'I'm not sure really,' Carver answered as Luke just shrugged.

Harry was prevented from answering by the sounds of approaching Aurors. "We must act quickly, they come to collect me and my troops will attack once the boat docks. Luke you must go quickly, follow the Headmaster and find out if he is trust worthy and whether we should make him an Ally since you have that strange ability to ascertain someone's allegiance."

No sooner had he finished then Luke vanished with a faint scent of Brimstone. And only a moment later the click was heard from the steal door that sealed him in this tomb. He turned to face them and it wasn't until he spoke that Harry recognised the leader.

"Potter!" It was Shacklebolt, In the time it took for Harry to look surprised to see the group he wondered my Shacklebolt would risk his cover being blown as an Order of the Phoenix agent. If they really thought that Harry was a traitor then why risk it. "You are to come with us for a re-trial at the Ministry of Magic."

Harry decided to be sarcastic. "You mean your going to take such a dangerous person as myself away from the mighty guardianship of the Dementors and into the Ministry of Magic?"

"We don't know how you seem to be keeping the Dementors away from you but you are still no match for the five of us, especially without your wand." Spoke an Auror that was obviously very arrogant.

"You assume I need one?" He figured that he would just be truthful, they wouldn't believe him anyway.

"Very funny, Potter." Shacklebolt said dryly, "No matter what visions of grandeur you are having in that twisted mind of yours we are leaving now. Take my word for it you useless brat, if you make once offensive move then I will kill you myself."

Harry's humour died very quickly at that comment. And his eyes narrowed in a look that rivalled one of Snape's. The look, aided of course by Carvers presence was enough to make the three younger, inexperienced Aurors cower behind the older Aurors who still were forced to take a step back.

Harry would have laughed but he was too angry at the blatant betrayal that he had been reminded of so rudely. He had used Carver's presence within him to cause the Aurors to fear him, it was the first time that he had used it and was pleased that it worked so well, he was sure that against students and civilians it would work a lot better and planned to use it.

He still went with them though, his plan relied on it. He kept pulsing out fear though on the way up. It was good practice and whilst doing it he had more protection thanks to Carver.

As they came to the entrance he got a handy hint from Carver to prepare for the sudden bright light which was actually late afternoon but compared to the darkness that he had had to use his Djinn sight to see through it would be extremely painful. He was still taken by surprise when he exited though. After almost four months in almost pitch blackness even a little light seared his eyes. Even squinting as he was when he came outside it was still very painful and to his fury he heard five Aurors laugh in amusement at his expense.

'Carver, can you help with this? It damn well hurts!' He pleaded with his companion.

'I'll take care of it!' He felt his magic flow towards his eyes and after a strange feeling he risked opening his eyes. He managed to stop the gasp from escaping for he everything looked strange, everything was just in basic colours, mostly reds. The whole island was just shades of red but still just as clear. He could even see a gold coloured shield that he assumed was a magical wall. He then turned his new eyes onto the arrogant Auror. He was a silver/grey colour, but the thing that he really noticed was the red/yellow outline around him, all of the Aurors were lined by it.

'This is our kind's optional sight, you're looking on the different plains but I will explain it later but that red tinge is fear and confusion." Carver informed him quickly, "It's due to the look of your eyes."

It was true, when he had looked up and the Aurors had seen his eyes they had been terrified and confused for his green iris had turned yellow and closed completely over his pupil and melded over so no light got in.

He just looked at the Aurors until they got over themselves and their outlines changed a bit more towards the yellow but they were still scared of him. So much for Auror bravery, though he was technically putting them under a spell. He talked to Carver on the way down the concrete pathway down to the docks.

'Can this be permanent?' He asked.

'It is a part of being who you are. Ever since your family and mine formed our bond our ability to see the lower plains has passed onto you. You can call this forwards at any time, it only uses a bit of you magic and once I train you in it then you will be able to keep it up permanently. And you should be able to switch between and maybe merge you original and new sight together so that you can still see on the first plain clearly without the disruptions of magic that you see now." It was the most that he could get out of Carver though as they had arrived at the dock. He concentrated as he was nervously pushed into the boat to warn his fifteen Djinn of his approach.

He could count the number of times he had been in a boat on top of water on one hand. All since he was eleven. His trip to and from the island hut before Hogwarts, his boat ride when he saw Hogwarts for the first time and then his dreaded arrival at Azkaban.

Again he was forced to hide his amusement at the Aurors as they settled in the boat, all with their wands on him but being very obvious in their attempts to get as far away from him as possible in the fifteen foot long boat.

"Remember Potter," Harry turned to Shacklebolt whose voice he recognised if not the shape in front of him made up of a yellow/brown colour surrounded by the red outline of fear but with a slight flair of grey which Carver pointed out was malice. "One wrong move is all I need to give you the death you deserve."

"Whatever traitor," he muttered loud enough for all to hear, but the others chose to ignore the comment about being a traitor.

It took almost half an hour to reach the shore and the weather was slowly becoming colder and colder as the late October night took hold. They were quickly met by another ten Aurors as they arrived at the dock and no sooner had he stepped off the boat onto the shore then his Djinn began their assault.

"Death Eaters!" Came a cry from one of the Aurors and no sooner had he finished his shout were spells being fired. Harry heard Shacklebolt curse.

"Come to save you have they Potter!" It obviously wasn't meant to be answered but he did anyway.

"Actually I doubt it, Death Eaters would want me dead more then they would want you dead."

Shacklebolt ignored Harry and started firing off his own spells, Harry just stood still waiting for what he knew was going to happen. While he waited he spun a Djinn spell around him that would dissipate most of the Aurors spells if they decided to send any spells against him even if he was chained up.

He had summoned fourteen high level Djinn for this task, all of which could imitate the spells used by the modern Wizards and had been following Death Eaters to work out how they thought. The last of his summons had been a mid level Afrit that had taken on the charge to imitate the Dark Lord Voldermort and he had yet to arrive as was planned.

He watched as one of his Djinn supposedly fell when really they were just pretending to fall. Already five of the Aurors had fallen, not really harmed but unconscious none the less. Harry almost counted down to the arrival of Voldermort and did indeed count as his Djinn slowly pretended to fall to the mighty Aurors till there were only five left fighting against the remaining eight Aurors.

That was the Afrits cue to arrive and in a loud crack the Aurors became fearful and started to back up at the appearance of You-Know-Who.

"Move aside you fools!" 'Voldermort' shouted at the Aurors. "You don't have to die just yet; we are here to kill the boy that you so kindly took out of that prison of yours."

He sauntered towards the Aurors slowly with his fake wand in front of him. Harry silently complemented the Afrit for sounding just like Voldermort.

Shacklebolt was probably the most shocked of all at this supposed revelation. Harry didn't feel guilty about tricking the Aurors, after all he was innocent of the alleged crimes.

Harry was shocked though as half of the remaining Aurors fled the scene apparating, leaving only four to 'protect' Harry.

The rest was all planed. The Aurors in a dramatic turn of events started fighting and pushing Harry back. But the Afrit was more then a match for twenty Aurors let along four and easily managed to throw them harmlessly aside. They could do nothing but watch as Voldermort turned his spells carelessly towards the convict. Throwing a supposed killing curse at Harry who dodge and for good effect threw a couple of spells back making sure to make them look like wandless spells rather then his Djinn Magic.

Harry allowed one of the Afrits more or less harmless spells to hit him and let it throw him backwards.

"Get out of here!" Harry shouted at the Aurors desperately as he pulled himself to his feet and used his magic to Apparate away from the scene.

He reappeared successfully –for his first attempt –outside of Hogsmeade just in front of the entrance to the cave that Sirius had hidden in.

Almost two tense minutes later fourteen Djinn and one Afrit appear around him and quickly took on their preferred forms. In their own forms they were only energy but were forced to take on a physical form so each had a form they liked the best. Like Bartimaeus' preference of taking Luke's form a few other Djinn took on the forms of humans.

Around him there were eight humans of different ages and sexes. Also there was a collection of two ravens, one vulture and three tigers of different descriptions. The Afrit was obvious though, they almost always took on the form of a humanoid and this one was no exception, he looked like a human but was made of red and brown molten rock but there was no heat that Harry could feel off of it from his position five feet away.

The vulture spoke first, in English as they always did even in an animal form, "All of the Aurors left taking their fallen with them as soon as Jellever turned on them." He reported indicating the Afrit when he spoke of Jellever.

"Thank you," he smiled at them, "I need a couple of Djinns to remain to stand guard of the cave where I plan to stay for a while and someone to find me something comfortable to sleep on and some good clothes and food."

He quickly got five volunteers for the jobs and the others took their leaves banishing themselves from this world for the time being. The three Tigers took to the surrounding forest as one of the ravens went in search of food and bedding in Hogsmeade and the last who was at the time a sixteen year old boy turned into a perfect replica of Harry's body with a different face and nodded as he vanished. Obviously choosing to get him new clothes that would fit him from a shop rather then stealing like Harry had intended. Harry didn't mind that they had thought about it, they were after all a lot older then he was. Some almost three or four thousand years old.

Harry headed tiredly into the Cave to await his food and bed do that he could fill his stomach for the first time in months and then to sleep for a couple of days before he came up with a plan.

A/N;

There's the great escape for you, his innocence won't be that easily proved though.

Filius Flitwick; It's Mr. actually but I don't take too much offence at that although it is said in my user area but I know most don't read them anyway. As for allies, his only true allies will be the Djinn race and maybe a young boy in future chapters that he comes across but that is only in the planning stage. He will come across allies in the Wizarding world but won't completely trust them.

DJ Rodriguez; You say that as if people in reality are not narrow-minded, much of the human population is extremely narrow-minded. With me being gay you'll have to trust me on that one.

Kaaera; Harry wont be returning to Hogwarts I don't expect, might give in and place a spy in there though. I will attempt to remember to check your area around the 29th but feel free to send me a reminder so that I can read your story!

James; I hope that is dramatic enough for you, I didn't want to make his escape too dramatic because it would be to unrealistic and I always seem to get moaned at for being unrealistic which is stupid because we're talking magic here. Though honestly you just don't dramatically escape from prison (not that I have ever tried it…lol) it's always too risky.

Wytil; Thanks for the review, I know you always review my stories, can you tell I don't really like Ron though it doesn't seem that you do either, he just strikes me as a bit narrow-minded to use the words of DJ Rodriguez above.

This chapter was actually written a week ago and I will try to get another one out soon but because of recent reviews, mainly on my other stories I am going to have to spend more time planning on the other ones because they are by far more complicated then this one and therefore my updates on all three will be slower. Plus I am doing a total of 90 hours work this week and next week. Sorry for all those that don't think that my chapters should be both more frequent and better!