Azkaban Escapee Presents
The Strange Looking One Part 1
A nervous Harry Potter gripped the side of the peu in the wizard courtroom. For some reason, they had made the witness's bench as uncomfortable as 'the stand' as they called it.
As they waited for the court to begin, he stared at his godfather on trial and found his thoughts drifting away to a few weeks ago when he read The Daily Prophet's headline Black re-captured at last!
The infamous Azkaban escapee Sirius Black has been recaptured, following a large stakeout set up by the Hit Wizards. "We knew that Black travelled as a large black dog, thanks to information from Hogwarts professor, Severus Snape," Says Hugt Ridgy, Hit Wizard Sergeant.
"So all we had to do was set a trap for him, and capture every black dog around the last Black sighting. It wasn't very long until we found the right one."
A surprising move by Harry Potter, the Boy Who Lived, who called a re-investigation into his parents death. This meant having a trial for Black (who had not had one in the first place, the first time he was sent to Azkaban.)
The trial had been set for the 7th of September, and will be expecting a large turnout of people who are eagerly awaiting Black's Demetor's Kiss.
Harry still couldn't believe that his godfather had finally been caught. But he couldn't really expect him to be on the run for this long, either.
He leaned forward and stared at his friends. Hermione, who was in tears, and sniffling softly, Ron, who had his arm comfortably around her, kissing her hair and whispering soothing words in her ear.
He looked the other way, and saw Professor Dumbledore, who's twinkle in his eyes were conspicuously missing, was talking in a low voice to Remus Lupin, the last, free marauder. He sighed and stared at his feet. A voice caught his attention. A girl with long, black hair was talking to Sirius' lawyer. There was another girl too, she had light brown hair, and a nervous look on her face. The black haired girl spun around, and Harry caught her face. She had beautiful emerald eyes like his, and large glasses that were much larger than her eyes. She spoke a few words to the brown haired girl and they both ran off, to sit behind Harry's peu.
The trial began a few minutes later. Minister Fudge walked in as the judge. If he was judge, then he must have some influence over the jury. Harry found himself wishing that they had caught Pettigrew.
He was called up to the stand. Harry told the court that wild story that happened two years ago.
Hermione and Ron were also called up. Then, all the evidence about Sirius guilt, was dredged up again, and their stories were compared with one another, and marked its possible amount of truth against wild rumours flying all around the country side on both when Sirius was taken to, and escaped from Azkaban.
It didn't look good. The two girls behind him, were fidgeting. They kept glancing at the door, as if expecting someone to come through it.
At last, Sirius himself was called up to the stand.
He was drilled, argued against, threatened, insulted for at least an hour and a half.
The jury went in to discuss the verdict. Harry slumped. This definitely didn't look good.
One of the girls, the one that looked a little like him, leaned forward.
"Excuse me," She started. Harry turned around. "Have you seen a tall girl with muggle combat boots?" She asked hopefully. Harry shook his head, too upset about Sirius to talk. The girl seemed tho sense this, for she nodded and said, "OK, thanks anyway."
The jury filed in a few minutes later. "We find Sirius Draco Black guilty of all charges. He is to be given the Dementor's Kiss in 10 minutes." Fudge banged his gravel.
Harry fell back down on the seat, tears streaming down his cheeks. He looked up and Sirius, who was talking to Remus. Sirius hugged Remus, and walked over to Harry. He whispered a few words of encouragement to him, and scooped him up in his arms. This was the first physical contact that Harry had ever had that didn't involve a frying pan or a wand to heal a broken arm. He hugged back for goodness knows how long.
"Mr Black, its time."
Sirius broke away, and was just about to follow the Dementor out of the courtroom, when--
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