This fic is based a lot on A Second Chance at Life by Miranda Flairgold so if you like mine and even if you don't I recommend it, it's really good.

'Nother note connected to the above, I recently read Bloody Skies by Toki Mirage which is another story that Miranda Flairgold's story has inspired and my story also has a lot of the same things as that one...it's kinda creepy... But apart from that it is a really good story and like the above mentioned story I recommend you to read it.

oOo Last Time oOo

"Demers? You mean Dementors? Merlin Harry, that's, that's, I don't know."

oOo Chapter 1 oOo

"Harry?" Harry looked up from the book Snape had given him on potions, "Hermione just arrived, she was on a graduation trip with her parents and assumed everyone would be here, she was is just now being informed that you were proven innocent. Do you want me to send her up?"

"Ya, I've gotten much better at my empathy so it won't take long to find out weather she is concerned for me or wants to use me like Dumbledore and Ron and co."

Remus nodded and left to get Hermione while Harry quickly hid everything (mostly under the bed) and stared blankly at a wall. It didn't take long for Hermione to run into the room and hug his unresponsive body.

"Oh Harry," she whispered into his chest, "I can't believe they would allow you to go to that horrid place."

"Ya, me neither."

Hermione squeaked and jump back. Harry gave her a cheeky grin and a small wave. Hermione squealed and hugged Harry again.

"I'm so glad you're ok! Tonks told me that you were lost to us!" Hermione's eyes got a glint in them. "Why would she tell me that?"

Harry sighed and patted the bed beside him. Hermione obediently sat down and cuddled up to Harry who put an arm around her shoulders.

"While at Azkaban I gained the ability to, well, see emotions. Whenever guards find prisoners they beat them, so I always pretended to have lost my mind, I've gotten pretty good at it. When they came to release me I acted the same but ended up fainting in Remus' arms. Later when I came to I pretended to still be asleep. I found out that Ron and Ginny had my stuff and didn't want to give it back, and Dumbledore has been taking my money, some to bribe and most likely for himself. Lovely, ain't it?"

Hermione sighed and burrowed her face into his shoulder whispering, "I know."

Harry looked down at her and nudged her until she was looking at him.

"Will you help me find a school?" Hermione looked at him confused. "Well I was thinking, 'Hey, I didn't finish my Hogwarts classes' and seeing how Voldimort, you know what, I'm just gonna call him Tom, has graduated from Hogwarts as Head Boy and has more experience, if I fought him, I'd be screwed. So I decided to find a different school to go to. I've been meaning to do research and find one but I've been busy with idea's I had in Azkaban, and that I only get a wand whenever Remmy or Tonks' can lend me theirs. You wanna help?"

"That's brilliant Harry! …umm where's the library?"

Harry grinned and pointed at a grim statue. "If you take out the left eye jewel there's a button. The library is behind that wall. 'Member 'Mione, magic."

Hermione shut her mouth and blush. She went to the statue and did as Harry told her. Harry could have sworn there were stars in her eyes as she saw the enormous library.

Harry sighed as he closed Snape's book. He had to admit it, the man was a genius when it came to potions. He already knew certain potions he thought up wouldn't work because of conflicting ingredients. He was ready to borrow Hermione's wand and try a few now.

"Found anything yet 'Moine?"

Hermione jumped and looked at Harry.

"Well. With our restrictions, there's only one, but it's not exactly that safe."

"Let me see and what do you mean 'we'?"

Hermione handed him an open book. "I mean we as in I'm going with you."

"There's no way I'm talking you out of it, am I?" Harry asked reading the text.

"Nope."

Hermione leaned back and watched Harry read.

"Well, I think we should start getting to work."

Hermione's mouth dropped. "You're not serious are you? There are werewolves and vampires and other dangerous creatures going there!"

"I am serous, besides, we have a werewolf here. The classes are in our favor and it's in Canada so we'll be fine with language, 'though we should work on getting rid of our accents. I'll start learning how to physically fight to keep us both safe that way and you can learn lots of spell to keep us safe that way. You can also buy some stuff since I can't exactly waltz out of here."

Hermione huffed and glared at Harry. "Fine, what do we need?"

"I need wizard clothing, we can get muggle later, lots of potion ingredients (take Snape with you), cauldrons, an appointment with the goblins, weapons (daggers, ect. Cheap ones for now), muggle weight equipment (take Remus to do memory charms and to shrink everything so you wont be suspected of anything later), and books on fighting."

Hermione sighed. "You're lucky Dumbledore has been bribing me with your money as well. I'll get Snape and we'll get everything in Diagon Alley then grab Remus and get everything in muggle London.

"Harry, you are a potions genius."

"Thank you 'Moine, 'though I can't take all the credit, Snape helped a lot."

"Ya, I just wish most of your creations weren't pranking material."

"Ahhh come on, I'm the son of a marauder. But apart from that, you ready to sign?"

"Harry, there's still two and a half weeks till the school starts."

"Ya, and we have to find out if we can even go tot the school, go to Gringotts, and make our way to Canada as well as small thing here and there."

"Fine."

They both punctured right thumb and pressed it to a page in a book. The blood absorbed into the book and shortly after where their thumb prints were was now the word 'accepted' in green ink.

The two smiled at each other then froze as they heard talking downstairs that was more then Remus, Tonks (who helped Harry, turns out he was a metamorphus), and Snape. They were quick to action, they threw everything into either the library or the training room (a button for that in the other grim's eye), sealed them off, leaving no trace of what they were doing and climbed into bed. Hermione sat with her back against the wall and Harry snuggled up to her side adopting the blank look in his eyes and Hermione took out a low level rune text and started reading to him.

"Ah, I see what Tonks said was true, he certainly is improving if he is seeking physical affection."

Hermione stopped reading and saw Dumbledore at the door. It took all of her strength not to yell and jinx him.

"It's the least I could try sir."

"Yes, yes, good work Mrs. Granger. I have come to tell you that I'm afraid you'll have to keep up this effort by yourself longer. With the new school year coming up me and Mrs. Weasley will be busy and Mr. Weasley has taken a more active place in the order and will be away. We all will come and visit at Christmas to give you some quality time away from Harry. Good day Mrs. Granger."

"Good bye sir."

Once Dumbledore's back was turned Harry glared and stuck his tongue out at him. The two waited until Remus popped in and told them it was once again safe to move around.

"Thanks Moony, we're gonna pack up and head out now. I'm thinking a little before Christmas you can call Dumbledore in a panic and tell him me and 'Moine are gone."

Remus nodded. "I'll miss you cub, you too Hermione."

Remus left to let them pack. Hermione shrunk and put feather weight charms on everything and Harry packed it. They said good bye to those in the house and left good bye messages for those who weren't and stepped out of the house. Harry stretched and smiled, it was his first conscious time outside in a very long time.

"So to Gringotts?" Hermione looked at Harry shifting her small book bag.

"Nope, muggle London, I need some colour contacts."

"Smart, you should get them prescription too so you can get rid of those glasses."

Everyone in Diagon alley knew Hermione, she after all was the-boy-who-lived's best friend and there was that whole scandal with the two of them in their forth year. But they couldn't figure out who the hansom man she was with was. He walked with pure blood confidence and he wore expensive robes that made his greenish golden brown eyes stand out. Most just shrugged it off or assumed she was seducing another pure blood wizard.

The two walked into Gringotts and walked up to a goblin teller.

"Excuse me, we would like to talk with someone privately about my inheritance and vaults."

"Tilhank will be right with you." The goblin didn't even look up.

"Thank you."

Harry and Hermione stepped back and waited until they saw a goblin coming towards them.

"You the ones wanting to know about inheritance and vaults?"

"Yes."

"This way please."

The goblin led them away from the front and slightly away from the path to the vaults. The stopped at a door and the goblin opened the door. The humans entered as the door was closed behind them to see another goblin behind a desk. Said goblin motioned for them to sit.

"Which one of you will I be working with today?"

"Me."

"What do you wish to know?"

"Everything."

The goblin nodded and grabbed a blank piece of parchment from a drawer from his desk. "Put a drop of blood on her please." Tilhank handed him the parchment.

Harry took a deep breath and punctured his thumb with one of his daggers that he resolved to carry with him wherever he could. He and Hermione waited with baited breath as a drop of blood welled on his finger and fell in what seemed like slow motion onto the parchment. Black writing started to appear like a wave in all directions from where the blood landed. Before they could get a good look at it Tilhank snatched the parchment and read it over himself.

"Well Mr. Potter we were wondering when you would come. As Mr. Sirius Black is wanted by the minister we were not able to have a will reading however we still carried it out. In his will he states that you are to gain what is left in Black vault once other the beneficiaries items have been removed as well as the Black title, once you put on the ring you will in effect gain Black blood. You also have from your parents will the Potter title, the Potter vault, and the personal vault you have been using quite frequently. Any questions?" Tilhank handed Harry two rings which had the Potter crest on one and Black on the other. Harry immediately put them on.

"Wow, that's more then I thought. In fact, I just figured that Dumbledore was stealing from me and that was all. Okay, here's what I want to do. I want you to stop any interest on my personal vault and continue to allow withdrawals as I don't want Dumbledork to know what occurred or even that I was even here." Harry looked at Tilhank to make sure that was possible and Tilhank guessing that's what he wanted nodded and motioned Harry to continue. "Now all I need is some way to spend large amounts of money in both wizarding and muggle worlds, especially muggle, without lugging it all around. Me and my friend also are going to North America, to Canada, how would we access the vaults?"

"Both answers are very simple. Although not many have them we have 'debt cards' that you can use in muggle area's that will charge it to your vault that it is connected to. For wizarding we have bottomless bags that you can carry around. As for your move, it doesn't affect anything. All Gringotts are connected and every vault is magically duplicated between them."

"Great, I'll take two debit cards and two bags, one for Potter and one for Black. That's all I have other then going to my family vaults, is there anything else you need?"

"There is nothing I need at this point but you will have to stop in for you cards and bags once you're done in your vaults. Griphook should be waiting to take you done to your vaults."

"Thank you," Harry and Hermione stood up and Harry offered Hermione his arm. "Shall we?"

Hermione giggled and looped her arm around the offered one. They found Griphook waiting like Tilhank said and Harry talked with him on the way to the cart with Hermione occasionally added a comment. On the cart the two humans threw their hands up and laughed like it was a rollercoaster.

"Black vault, follow me."

" 'Moine?"

"No, you go, I'll join you in the Potter vault but this one should be just you, and besides, I'm slightly afraid." She gave a sheepish smile.

Harry gave a small smile and followed Griphook to the vault door. Griphook trailed his finger down the door like Harry remembered in his first year. The only difference was this time, instead of opening, a black marble ball can out of the door instead of opening.

"Put you hand with the Black ring on it palm down, you'll feel a prick."

Harry nodded and placed his right palm on the marble sphere. He felt a small prick and a small draining of his magic. He didn't remove his hand though and watched as a blood red colour spiraled into the black and then slowly vanished. He finally pulled his hand away when a neat crack appeared and opened like a dome to reveal a black marble key.

"That is your vault key, I'll wait in the cart."

Harry took the key and the sphere closed and melted into the door which then opened. Harry walked in and looked at everything in awe. The vault was made of black marble and the most prominent items were emeralds. Harry walked around just looking, deciding to get some books form here if there was any and gallons from Potter vault. Once he found the area that stored books Harry was in total awe, for an evil family, they sure knew beauty and quality. He gathered five books and wondered around a little more until a box of junk that looked like it had been there for a very long time caught his eye. He knelt beside it and dug around. At the bottom of the grimey box, covered in grime itself, innocently sat a large egg. He picked it up and made a 'gross' face before putting it back down. He pulled off his shirt and used it to clean the egg before picking it back up. It was pure black and seemed to suck the light from around it and turn it into shadows. He cradled the egg in one hand and picked up his shirt and bogs in the other. He left the vault and chucked his shirt in front of Hermione.

"Clean that for me will you?"

Hermione took out her wand and said the cleaning spell.

"Do I want to know why you're without a shirt and why said shirt is dirty?" she questioned handing his shirt back.

"Not really, but this is the end result." He handed the egg to Hermione and sat down as the cart started moving.

"I wonder what kind of animal it is."

"I don't know but I intend to try and find out."

Hermione laughed a little and shook her head. She pointed her wand and the egg and shrunk it. Harry put it into a small pocket in his bag and shoved the books into the bigger part.

"Potter vault."

They left their stuff in the cart and followed Griphook to the door.

"Similar to Black vault put whichever hand the Potter ring is on onto the picture of the key there in the middle."

Harry nodded and placed his hand on the engraving of a key. He felt a prick like before and shortly after felt a key press into his hand. He pulled his hand away and looked at the key he now held.

"Cool."

"Key please."

Harry handed the key to Griphook and stepped back. When Hermione saw the contents which consisted mostly (at first glance) of rubies and gallons. Harry slightly grinned and gently led her into the vault.

"Hey 'Moine, there's some shelves over there, why don't you pick out some books while I look around." He gently nudged her towards the books.

Harry walked around until he found the section he knew his dad and Sirius would have put in there and picked a few things out. He walked around a little more to give Hermione some time with the books. He wondered upon a glass box trimmed in gold. Inside was a baby griffin that was sleeping on its stomach with its paws stretched in front and behind it. There was a plaque in front of it and an envelope attached to it. Harry leaned in and read what was on the plaque, whispering it to himself.

"In times of peril in which a Potter is in need of a protector that which they descend from ((Gryffindor)) will be of aid."

Harry blinked then grinned. He picked up the box and was surprised at the lightness before blushing and realizing there was probably lots of magic on the box and was thankful Hermione wasn't there. He wandered over to Hermione holding a bag he had found and put to use and the box. She had apparently had gotten over her shock for she had a large pile of books and was still picking more. Harry chuckled and shook his head.

" 'Moine, you only need books for one day, you will still be able to get these books when we're in Canada."

Hermione blushed and put some books back. Holding seven she had decided on she turned to Harry. Seeing the griffin her eyebrow rose in a silent question.

"Well I figured I have whatever the egg is, and I thought you might feel left out, so, griffin for Hermione!" he grinned.

"It looks like it's in status."

"It probably is. I think this," he flicked the attached envelope, "explains everything. But I think I should grab some money just in case while you shrink everything other then the books (so their bags don't seem empty when going through the scan at the airport) and get outta here."

Hermione agreed so Harry handed her his stuff and pulled out his almost empty money bag and filled it. It didn't take much longer for them to finish business at Gringotts and back into the alley.

"So now what Ha-ummm…"

"Zain, I've always liked the name after reading it in a book Dudley discarded. But now we work on getting out of the country muggle style."

"Are you sure this will work?"

" 'Moine, you're a muggle."

"And?"

"And muggles go traveling ill prepared for kicks all the time, you should know this."

"Ya, sorry, just nervous."

"Now boarding London to Vancouver."

"Well, that's us."

"Now what?"

"Now? Now we get a map."

"Uhuh, and then?"

"Then we rent a car."

"You can drive?"

"No, but I know you can."

"Oh, but where are we going?"

"Falls Lake."

"And why are we going there?"

"Because the letter I got says to."

"You got a letter and didn't tell me?"

"Uhhh…yes? Eep! Don't hurt me!"

"Fine, I won't (for now) but shouldn't you find a wand maker first?"

"…Damn. Well we'll do that and then go to Falls Lake."

"Soo…Where's the wizarding part of this city?"

"How should I know?"

"You can go freaky eyed and find where there's a large group of magical people."

"But I'll go blind."

"So? You're not driving."

"…Fine."

Harry closed his eyes and concentrated. When him and Hermione where experimenting with his empathy they found a way to make Harry see it instead of feel it. This way he won't get an overload of emotion and pass out. He can have different levels with his eyes and the final one is the one he wanted now. His whole eye changed, his pupil turned into a slit with black horizontal lines surrounding the sides and his eye colour changed to silver. He in a sense went blind but he could see through buildings and saw any living creature and could tell gender, race, magic level, ect.. Harry slowly opened his eyes half way and lazily looked around.

"Up and to the left."

"Looks like a restaurant. It's actually looks pretty nice, nothing like the leaky cauldron."

Harry deactivated his final eye form and put on sunglasses just in case he need to activate his eyes again and offered Hermione a hand.

"Shall we?"

"We shall."

They walked together looking to the world like they were a normal couple that was going for a bite to eat. As soon as they opened the door a guy was there.

"Would you like to sit in muggle section or somewhere more private?"

"More private please, we may be half muggle but that's not why we're here."

"Ah yes, so you don't support that new Dark Lord then."

They both tensed.

"No."

"Well then I'll warn you now that in this alley you will find supporters but they will leave you alone if you leave them alone, this is like neutral ground. Here we are, just tap the door twice and it will open to Cour Alley."

The man smiled and walked back into the main part of the restaurant. Hermione took out her wand and taped the door twice before opening it. They easily walked in like they did this everyday thanks to the fact it wasn't too different then Diagon Alley. They walked around for a while trying to find a wand shop but after awhile they (meaning Hermione) decided to ask for directions.

"Excuse me miss, where can we find a wand shop?"

"Not from around here then, how long have you been here?" the woman asked curiously.

Harry frowned and answered, "This is our first day, how'd you know?"

"There is no wand shop. A child will go through life collecting things for their wand or buying things they feel a pull towards and when they go to school the wand is made usually by the parents. Almost every shop here you will find items for wands, all you have to do is get a book on how to make wands and then wonder and find as many as you can, the more the better."

"What if there are specifics that they stores don't have?"

"Then you go to the owlry and get them to make a portkey for where ever you want to go."

"Thank you miss."

"Not a problem dears."

Harry and Hermione walked over to an ice cream store, ordered, and sat down.

"Now what?"

"Well, we should go through your life and find out what items we need to get."

"Well let's see, other then become the-boy-who-lived nothing happened 'till I was eleven. Summarized year one was the stone, but I can't exactly get a piece of that."

"We'll buy a stone that looks similar to represent it."

"Ok, second year, the basilisk. I bet the one I killed is still in the chamber of secrets."

"How will we get into Hogwarts?"

"My invisibility cloak and the map, with other students there no one will notice two extra magical signatures. Third year, Sirius breaks out."

"We'll have to buy some grim hair but we should ask Professor Lupin for some werewolf hair, there's got to be some where he changes, they're both to important to leave out."

"Ya, you're right. Forth year, tri-wizard tournament."

"Well we can go to the dragon reserve and try to get something for the same dragon and we might be able to get something from the mermaids when we go there for the basilisk, I don't think you want anything form the third task though."

"No, I don't. Fifth year, nothing I want to remember there, nothing after that either actually."

"So a stone, something from the basilisk, grim hair, Professor Lupin's hair, something from a dragon, and something from the mermaids. Hmmm…" Hermione suddenly grinned and snapped her fingers. "Do you still have the wood from your Nimbus?"

"Yes…"

"We can use that for the shaft of the wand."

"Hmm, good idea. So we need portkeys to go to the Romanian Dragon Reserve, Grimwald Place, and Hogwarts, could have been worse."

Hermione nodded in agreement and they finished off their ice cream.

"We should rent a room for the night then, that way we have more time to make the wand."

"Ya, come on, I saw a hotel over there."

They rented a room for one night not to far from the owlry.

"Which bed do you want?"

"Doesn't matter."

Harry shrugged and tossed his bag onto the nearest bed.

"Hey, we should bring your griffon out of status."

"Ya, ok."

Hermione took out the shrunken box and enlarged it. Hermione handed the not to Harry.

"Read it so I can do whatever I need to do while you read it."

"Ok, In this case is a female griffon that has been put in status. To bring it out someone needs to allow a couple drops of blood on the case. This will tie the griffon to whoever's blood it is. The griffon should wake. All that is left is to name her."

As soon as Hermione's blood touched the case it opened and the griffon slowly woke. When it was awake Hermione picked her up and smiled.

"Miri. I'll name you Miri."

"Good name. It says here that when she gets older because of the blood bond you will be able to mind speech with her. Hey you think this will work for my egg?"

"Can't hurt to try. At least we hope." Hermione mumbled the last part.

Harry ignored her and took out his egg for her to enlarge. When it was back to its original size Harry repeated what Hermione did (only blood on the egg, not a box). The egg cracked and the shell split in two. A small black dog tumbled out that they both instantly recognized as a grim. Harry and Hermione blink.

"Well that was interesting."

Hermione gave Harry an 'Uhuh' look. She picked up the small grim and shortly after handed it to Harry.

"It's a male, what are you going to name him?"

"Hermione! That's a male's private spot! You don't just look there!" Hermione glared at Harry. "Raw."

"Raw? Isn't that an Egyptian sun god?"

"Yup."

"Harry, he's a grim, a shadow animal."

"Right, but when he was in the egg he was sucking the sun up and turning it into shadows, he so rules the sun. …Or at the very least bends it to his will."

Hermione rolled her eyes but didn't bother saying anything more on the subject.

"Guess we can use his hair in your wand, then it'll have double meaning."

It took awhile for them to attain the dragon's blood but in the end they did get some but it took no time at all at Grimwald where Remus happily supplied hair and Harry retrieved the splinters of his very first broom. It took significantly longer at Hogwarts as they collected parts of the basilisk and stored them (the merpeople giving hair and taking the basilisk fang that pierced Harry's arm).

They bought the jewel and a book on wand making before heading back to their room for the night. Before going to sleep they put the wood in the dragon blood to soak, ground the basilisk tooth to a fine powder, liquefied the jewel, and braided the hairs.

In the morning they mixed the liquefied jewel (that was kept in low heat the entire time to say in liquid form) with the powdered tooth, suspended the braided hair in the mixture, and when it was ready put it into the now blood red with brown grain shaft of wood that was already shaped like a wand.

"Hey 'Moine, I was thinking we should that the car back today and just take a portkey to Falls Lake, we also need to get you a new name."

"Sounds good. Hmm, a name…Oh, I know! When I was a little girl I absolutely loved the animation Vision of Escaflowne, my favorite character was Merle, so that will be my name!"

"Ok Merle, lets go get that portkey!"

"Ok, we're at Falls Lake, now what?"

"Now we fall in."

"Uhuh."

"Ya, we'll use that rock over there," he points to a rock "put it near the edge and then fall over it."

Harry grinned and jogged over to the rock with Hermione following a little slower. Before they could get the rock Harry slipped and started falling. Hermione ran to him and tried to help him but he was already too far in the fall and she ended up going with him. So they both fell and hit...grass.

"Ok, that was just weird."

"Ya."

"…Hermione, I love you, really I do, you're the sister I never had, but can you please get off me?"

"Oh! Sorry!"

Hermione scrambled off Harry and helped him up. They looked around themselves in awe. They were in a relatively small clearing surrounded by trees except a little path leading to where they assumed the school was.

"Toto, we're not in Kansas anymore."

"Thanks for that brilliant deduction M-erel."

The two walked towards the path as it was the only way to go. They walked for about five minutes before the trees cut off and they found themselves at the edge if a large clearing. Positioned down a walkway in front of them laid a castle grander then even Hogwarts.

"Screw Kansas, we skipped Munchkin Land and the yellow brick road and landed all the way in Emerald City."

Hermione could only numbly nod.