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Disclaimer: Disclaimer: I do not own the Harry Potter universe Jk rowling and Warrner brothers has that right. I just play with the boys :) oh I also make no money from this

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Disclaimer: We do not own Harry Potter or any of its characters, places, creatures etc. that is the sole property of JK Rowling, Scholastic, and Warner Bros. We make no money for this writing, this is purely a work of fiction and any resemblances to real people are coincidental and not the intent of the authors.

Synopsis: Ten years after the Great War the wizarding world seems to be in a state of utopia, but things aren’t always what they seem.

Warnings: First of all this will contain slash for those of you who are not a fan you will be disappointed, for those of you who want it to happen now, or even in the next few chapters you also will be disappointed. This is the first book of a trilogy that Smaddox and I have mapped out already. This is not a lovey feel good story, there will be death, there will be gore, there will be foul language and most likely at least one explicit M/M sex scene. This story is not an AU in the truest sense of the word it will be DH complaint although we disregard the epilog. Please do not tell us we have our facts wrong all of the changes we have made will be explained by the end of the book. We promise.

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Book one of the

Verum Increbresco

Trilogy

Chapter Fourteen

In Ut Altum

A quick tempus told him it was half past seven in the morning. Sounds from down the hall indicated the rest of the family was up and about. Pulling on his dressing gown, he walked to the bathroom and showered quickly. He dressed before making his way down stairs to the breakfast room.

Andromeda was there with Narcissa. Both women were chatting over tea and an English breakfast. Teddy was reading a large tome and muttering to himself through a piece of toast. Madam Barns was thankfully absent. Harry didn’t think he could deal with the blunt woman that morning.

“Morning Teddy, Dromeda, Cissa.” Harry greeted the group and took a seat next to Teddy. “What are you reading?” He asked peering over the young man’s shoulder.

“Umm it’s supposed to teach me to decipher my dreams when the Madam isn’t around but… I’m not sure I completely understand yet, I’m going to have to ask her to clarify a few points.” Teddy explained stuffing an egg in to his mouth as the last word escaped.

Harry smiled and shook his head ruefully, Teddy reminded him all too much of Ron at that age. Breakfast was a quick affair. Andromeda and Narcissa were going shopping in Diagon Ally that morning; so they left soon after Harry sat down to breakfast. Teddy had morning lessons with Madam Barns so he too vacated the breakfast room.

It was in this early morning peace that Harry began to plan his long overdue tour of Azkaban Prison.

He went into work early that morning, his attendance causing more than a few heads to turn. It had not occurred to him how often he had been absent from the day to day lives of his employees. Miss Longbottom certainly seemed surprised when he turned the corner in to his hall. Her pretty blue eyes opened wide in confusion before she lost her precarious perch upon her tilted chair and crashed loudly to the ground.

“Do you need some help?” Harry asked staring down at the disheveled woman.

“Uh… nope.” She replied trying valiantly to right herself while keeping her skirt in place.

“So is this what you do when I’m not here? Because I’m not sure that painting your nails is part of the job description.” Harry scolded his amusement leaking through his tone.

“Nail painting is a very important part of my secretarial duties. We learn it in filing 101.” She quipped finally righting herself and the topped chair.

Harry rolled his eyes but smiled indulgently at her and greeted the Aurors standing in the hall.

“Well consider me rightly chastised then.” He told her grabbing his messages off her desk. He grimaced at the messy scrawl that greeted him. “Are you sure you’re a secretary and not a medi-witch?”

“I will have you know I wrote those when I thought you were never coming back.” She called after him as he walked in to his office. Harry shook his head and wondered not for the first time what it would be like to have a secretary that actually respected him.

The room was just as he had left it, papers lying haphazardly on his desk, chocolate frog wrappers littering the floor.

A knock on his door made him jump. “Yeah come in!” He called after he sat behind his desk.

Ron peaked his head in. “You got a minute mate?”

“Yeah of course.” Harry nodded; Ron entered, shut the door and threw himself in to the chair across from his desk.

“So let’s talk about why you and my wife are keeping secrets from me.”

“Uh well… I mean… there is something going on with my dream guy and Hermione has been helping me with it, that’s all Ron.” Harry explained throwing his hands in the air.

Ron’s face looked suspicious for a moment before he hesitantly nodded. “I guess that makes sense, but you don’t need to keep me out of the loop Mate, want to help too.”

“It’s complicated Ron, I’m worried that the people who are behind what’s happening work for the ministry and that’s how they got to some other people… I wish I could be less vague but I can’t risk them getting the information from you. You are alone here all the time and… Guh, this is hard.” Harry explained

“Is that why Herm put off coming back to work?” Ron asked fervently.

“Yeah… it’s why I’ve been away as well, we need to be careful, if you guys would just come stay at the manor then you wouldn’t need to work either and…”

“Stop Harry, that’s not happening, you both have reasonable excuses for not being here, don’t. It would bring up too many questions if I just quit and Herm, Rosie and I all moved in to the Manor.” Ron rebuked him rolling his eyes.

“Yeah I guess…” Harry replied wishing Ron wasn’t right.

“I want you two safe and if that means not knowing what’s up… well I guess, I’ll live with that. I’ll try not to be alone with any one person, Harry, and I won’t work late okay?” Ron smiled and stood. “Mione needs to speak with you so floo call her yeah?”

Harry nodded and watched still slightly dazed as his friend walked from the room. “Huh… when did Ron grow up?” He wondered, idly playing with his wand. Ron said Mione wants me to call her… but I’m not sure she is going to approve of this Azkaban business, Hell I barely approve of it. He rolled his neck and stood. No I’ll call her when I get back, how long could this take? I pop in, tell the guards I’m checking up on the prison, it is my jurisdiction after all, and pop back once have what I need. Hermione doesn’t even have to know I’m gone.

Harry turned to walk out of his office down to the apperation area but stopped short of the door. When does anything go that smoothly? He wondered turning and staring at the large fire place. I might as well call her that way if I get lost or hurt or what have you then someone will know where I’ve gone. He shook his head once more and strode to his fire place, grabbing a handful of powder he threw it in to the fire and called. “Hermione and Ron’s!” The flames burst green for a moment and before he knew what he was doing he stepped through.

Hermione was sitting in front of him when he emerged, her face looked inquisitive but she shot him a small smile.

“What brings you here in the middle of the day Harry?” She asked standing and putting a sleeping Rose in to a nearby bassinette.

“I’m going to Azkaban.” He announced.

“Uh… what for exactly?” She asked motioning for him to follow her in to the kitchen.

“Well I think I can find more out about Draco there.” He explained looking around the cozy home as they crossed the hall in to the large kitchen.

“Yes, well why do you think that?” She wondered sitting at the kitchen table and looking at him warily.

“Teddy seems to think it’s where I should go, he had a vision and it felt like I needed to go there.” He explained sitting across from her.

She nodded and harry had the feeling she was mentally debating something with herself. Maybe I should have just gone without telling her after all.

“We should keep in contact when you go, I am going to go get a muggle radio set that I’ve tinkered with, I think it should work.” She explained standing and rushing from the room.

Harry blinked stupidly; I can’t believe she took it this well…

Hermione reentered the room just as abruptly as she had left carrying two small black objects. “I’ve made it so we will only be able to hear one another.” She explained handing Harry one of the black things and sliding the other one in to her ear. “Come on now out it on it’s not going to bite.” She admonished as he stared blankly at it.

“Why do you have these?” He asked unsurely.

“Well why do you think Harry? I knew you would want to go after Draco at some point and I thought it might be best if we could keep in contact that way if anything happened to you I would know. And no wizard would know what these are, some muggles wouldn’t know.” Hermione explained taking Harry’s from him and slipping it in to his ear.

“Oh right… this is not how I imagined this conversation would go.” He commented playing with the strange ear piece.

“Yes well I’ve found that your imagination runs away with you quite often.” She admonished as she sat back down in front of him.

“Thanks Mione… I’m not sure I could do this without you behind me.” He said softly.

She beamed at him and waved her hand. “That’s what I’m here for Harry, now you meet me back at the Manor by dinner tonight you hear me? I’ll make sure we have some time alone to talk about this then.”

“Yeah sounds good, have Teddy and Madam Barns there as well, this is their clue.” He replied standing and hugging her.

“Go.” Hermione said smiling.

He nodded and walked out to the back porch where there was a break in the wards to allow him to apperate out. He turned and smiled at Hermione before apperating away.

Azkaban Island looked just as dismal as he had always imagined it would. The large craggy shore was being ravaged particularly fiercely by the ocean that day. Foam hit his face and neck making a chill take him. The path to the prison however was unimpeded and looked to be in some state of disrepair.

“Harry can you hear me?” Hermione’s voice startled him and he began to look around for her before he remembered the ear piece. “Press the button on the front of the ear piece and talk.” Her voice came again this time a bit more modestly. “I think I forgot to tell you that.”

He rolled his eyes and pressed the button his fingers found. “Yeah I’m here Mione, I don’t see anyone. I was expecting guards or something.” He told her as he walked slowly up the un even path. The prison looked dark and uninviting ahead of him.

“Well that is strange isn’t it?” She muttered her voice sounding confused.

“Yeah… I’m worried Hermione it feels weird here… if I didn’t know better I would say it felt like a dementor was nearby.” HE told her looking around the steep terrain for the shadowy creatures.

“Well that’s not possible now is it? The ministry destroyed all the dementors after the war.” Hermione admonished.

“Well how can we be sure? I’m here because there are things we can’t remember, why couldn’t the dementors be one of them?” He asked stopping in his tracks.

“I think someone would have noticed if there were dementors in Azkaban.” Hermione replied sounding less sure of herself.

“Who? Who would have noticed Hermione? I was the one that was supposed to be checking up on this place and that hasn’t happened. How do we know escaped death Eaters aren’t behind all of this?” Harry felt his chest heave, What if they aren’t here… what if this is a trap?

“Harry the prisoners families would have noticed and so would the guards.”

Harry felt like the world was going to collapse in on him at her words. “Who guards Azkaban Hermione?” HE asked quietly.

“Well I mean it’s Aurors isn’t it?” She asked confused.

“I don’t know.”

“What do you mean, you don’t know?”

“I… I just don’t know I’ve never assigned anyone, never seen any sort of schedule never signed a pay check. I have no clue who is stationed here.” Harry replied feeling the panic well up within him.

“Well does it matter now? You said Teddy sent you there, that his vision said you needed to go there. You’re there now Harry and you need to see this through you know how fate is, trying to ignore it is not an option.”

Hermione’s voice sounded sure and strong, Harry felt himself calming and nodded. “Yeah okay Mione.”

“If something happens you know Ron and I will come after you Harry, you’re not alone in this, you have never been alone in this.” She told him her voice sounding choked.

“I know Mione, I trust you guys.” Harry tried to sound comforting. He started walking up the long winding path again feeling less alone and more ready to face what was waiting for him.

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The sun felt warm on his skin as he lay watching two little blond children play with a red headed girl. Draco was soaking up the sunlight with The Weasly’s, Lovegoods and Pansy as company on the shore of the large lake just outside of the village. The children were laughing and their voices carried from where they were playing a few meters from the adults.

“It seems like whoever is keeping us here got the weather figured out.” Pansy commented to the new Mrs. Weasly, Draco thought her name was Fleur.

“Yez I agree with you, it iz ze zame zeazon all of ze time now.” She replied her French accent marring her words.

“Hmm if we could see the others it would be quite an ideal way to live don’t you think?” Lovegood replied her voice sounding dreamy. “The children do love it here.”

“Yeah if only someone wasn’t holding us captive and erasing all of our loved one’s memories then this would be so bloody perfect.” Draco snapped sitting up and glaring at the group of women. “You are all so inane.” He snapped, standing to leave.

“Oh Draco we are just trying to find a bright side in all of this.” Pansy admonished looking embarrassed.

“There is no bright side Pansy we are prisoners! That is the only ‘side’.” He responded turning and walking off towards the house he shared with her.

Those women are insane, what kind of paradise is forced upon you? Draco glared at the happy people lining the streets of the town. Why isn’t everyone as miserable as I am? How can they pretend this is okay?

Draco sighed and walked in to his house, maybe I’ll take a nap, Harry seems to be going to sleep earlier and earlier maybe I’ll catch him.
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