Dorlynda Pritchard sits alone at the ministry courthouse and watches as one of her dearest friends gets hauled off to jail. She can only mime the words 'I'm sorry' as she realizes that nothing that she says or does will help him. A thousand needles pierce her already breaking heart. She lowers her eyes and lets the tears fall. It wasn't supposed to end like this.
The darkness behind her closed eyes allows her a few minutes of reminiscence. She thinks painfully of the day that she gave Peter weapons to give to James and Lily to protect themselves against their nemesis, Lord Voldemort. She had the means to do it. She was from Oz. Her land was ancient and very powerful, in fact, it was one of the only all-magic lands left. With her position in its ministry, she couldn't spare the time to stand in battle with her friends;she thought that lending James and Lily the weapons was a fool-proof solution. In addition, leaving nothing to chance, she gave Peter the famous 'kiss of protection' that Glinda gave to her ancestor, Dorothy Gale. With this kiss, no one dared to harm a hair on Pettigrew's head while he delivered the weapons . She was a hundred percent positive that James and Lily were promised an indubitable victory with the help she sent them. Lord Voldemort shouldn't have stood one iota of a chance. She still can't believe that they're dead.
Her mind fast forwards to the moment that her spirit shattered into a thousand splinters as she listens to a diplomatic emissary tells her what has happened to the Potters two weeks later. It doesn't add up in her mind. Sirius didn't have the power to kill Peter; he could hurt him somewhat, but not kill him. Her kiss protected him as long as she lived, since she was the giver.
She confronts Minister Crouch several times about the situation before the sentencing. He refuses to hear her; he even goes so far as to forcibly remove her from his office, offering her a viciously snide reminder to keep to her business and to let him keep to his.
She opens her eyes to face reality. Sirius is going to spend his life in jail, while Peter was out there somewhere frolicking freely planning to start his life over somewhere else. She knew that this mess was all her fault. She trusted Peter, that damned traitor. She gave him everything he needed to............
" The court is dismissed," Minister Crouch says closing the session.
Her heart falls, and she stands trying to catch her breath. She looks upwardly at the ceiling and says 'forgive me.' Dorlynda lowers her eyes and lets them wander to the threshold where Sirius last stood before being dragged off to prison, and she tearily accepts that this is her last good-bye to her friend.