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Chapter one

At the beginning of fifth year, Harry Potter thought his life couldn't get any worse. He had the Voldemort back who was still determined to kill him, he had Umbridge and her nightly torture sessions. He had ministry out to get him and they were using the Daily Prophet to make Harry out to be crazy attention seeking liar. So most of the people in magical Britain weren't sure if Harry was telling the truth or not. Only the ones closest to Harry knew he was telling the truth.

Within a month of Harry starting at Hogwarts, he received a letter from Sirius, he explained about Sabastian Green, the Potter family lawyer. Sirius wanted to help Harry with what he was going through, the lies along with the ministry lackey, Umbridge. Since it seems no one else was going to help Harry and Sirius couldn't actually do anything because of how everyone thought him to be a killer, he knew a lawyer could.

Harry could have kissed Sirius after hearing about Mr. Green. He asked Sirius to meet him in the Shrieking Shack at ten. Harry planned to sneak out before curfew and just wait in the shack for his godfather. He told Ron to tell everyone he went to bed early and to try to make sure no one looked behind his curtains on his bed. He promised Ron would know what he was up to, just not straight away, he needed to work things out first.

Harry stood up when he heard a noise downstairs, he had his wand even though he believed it was Sirius, which it was. The big black dog bounded into the room, tackled Harry until he fell onto the bed.

'Sirius,' Harry laughed as he pushed his dogfather off him, then waited until he changed.

'Even though you knew it was me, you still just stood there.'

'I wasn't expected you to tackle me Padfoot.'

'I couldn't help myself. So, did you contact Green?'

'Yes, we have our first meeting in a few days, I explained in my letter that I know how to sneak out of Hogwarts. He's going to meet me outside the Three Broomsticks, he knows I'll be under my cloak, then we'll go into a private parlour in the pub.'

'Good, from what your dad told me, he's good at what he does and he's not scared of taking on the big jobs, even if it means ruffling feathers.'

'That's good since we will definitely be ruffling feathers, namely Umbridge, Fudge and even Dumbledore.'

'I can't believe he's allowing her to use that thing.'

'I told McGonagall, she went straight to Dumbledore. I still ended up with her doing a second lot of detentions, then again the last few days. I doubt these scars will ever fade.'

'I've been working on an ointment, it takes time before it's ready. It should reduce them until they will be hard to notice.'

'I can wait Sirius. But Dumbledore is hopeless, last year and what happened, now allowing that bitch to get away with using a blood quill. He also doesn't bother to say anything about the slander. Maybe he's too old to run a school, he doesn't seemed to help the kids when they need it, or when they end up in danger he doesn't do anything. He doesn't know how to deal with kids anymore. I mean look at how he treats some adults, like they are kids. No, I think he needs to leave Hogwarts, whether he leaves himself or he is made too.'

'I believe you're right Harry, he cannot connect with children today. He still lives in the last century, he can't see how the world has changed especially how kids think and what they want. Let's hope Green can help with all these problems.'

Harry and Sirius weren't sure if anything will help, but they had hope that hiring a lawyer just might be what is needed.

Sabastian Green asked the right questions and also saw a lot of Harry's memories. He told Harry about an old custom that hadn't been used in more than three hundred years, Harry knew this could help. People would finally know he was telling the truth, it would also get rid of Umbridge at the same time, not to mention it would eventually get Fudge out of office. Sabastian was going to bring charged against Cornelius Fudge for slander, but also for his part in assigning Delores Umbridge to Hogwarts and giving her permission to use any means necessary to silence anyone that tried to say Voldemort had returned. Which means he would go for being an accessory in the torture of children. He would also have Fudge charged with making Harry stand trial for a simple case of underage magic, he was using his position in the hope he could get Harry expelled. Sabastian was also going to sue on Harry's behalf, the Daily Prophet and Rita Skeeter for all the lies they printed about him. He would start by making sure he had every copy of the paper, from the time James and Lily died, to the day he would take them to court.

Using his cloak, the map and the knife Sirius had given him, Harry had snuck in to Umbridge's office. He made a copy of the letter that the ministry gave to the toad giving her permission to do whatever she deemed necessary to make the students fall in line. Meaning that anyone that spoke out about the ministry or minister then she would use anything she wanted to punish them. He snuck out and up to the owlery where he sent the letter with Hedwig to Sebastian.

After their first meeting, they mainly corresponded by letters. Hedwig would fly in every morning with a letter and usually Harry sent one out. Sebastian helped Harry out with another problem, one that Albus Dumbledore would hate, but Harry loved it.

Even though Ron and the twins knew that Harry had been planning something since his first detention with Umbridge. They could not get him to tell them what those plans were. They knew it was good because Harry couldn't stop grinning. Harry had promised to fill them in, just not yet.

Hermione tried constantly to find out why Harry was acting so strangely, why he seemed happy. Most of the ministry believe Harry was lying about Voldemort, even students inside Hogwarts thought he was lying. For some reason none of this seemed to worry Harry anymore, not like it did at the start of the year. She was frustrated that Harry refused to tell her what was going on, but she knew he could be stubborn, she just never realised how stubborn he was, until now.

Harry had been fed up with the headmaster's lack of help during his time at Hogwarts. When he didn't do a thing about Umbridge and her blood quill, that's when Harry realised just how useless Albus Dumbledore really was. He knew that if he wanted anything done then he would have to do it himself. But he also thought Dumbledore was dragging his feet when it came to trying to clear Sirius' name. Harry knew it had something to do with the fact that if Sirius was cleared then Harry would get to live with his godfather and he would finally have a magical adult have the right to decide things for Harry, where Dumbledore normally makes those decisions.

Sirius had explained that Dumbledore had no legal say, not when Sirius had been named guardian. But since Sirius was still considered a murder who escaped Azkaban, then Albus had basically assigned himself as Harry's magical guardian. Sebastian was working on clearing Sirius' name, so even if the Wizengamot clear him for the murders back in nineteen eighty one, Harry knew they could still charge him with escaping Azkaban. When Sebastian told Harry that since Sirius was not given a trial then he technically was never a convicted prisoner of Azkaban, in the legal sense, so he could not be charged for escaping. Another thing Sebastian was working on after seeing Harry's memories, he was going to charge Severus Snape with child abuse. Not physical abuse, but emotional and physiological abuse of children, mainly for the way he treated Harry. If he was found guilty he would be sacked from Hogwarts but he might also do some time in Azkaban, it wouldn't be a lot, maybe a few months at most. Harry didn't care, he just hoped Snape was gone from Hogwarts.

When things began to fall into place, Harry met Sabastian in the Shrieking Shack and led him through the tunnel to Hogwarts. Harry had explained to his head of house that his lawyer was coming and he was going to work on Umbridge.

Even though Harry thought McGonagall never did enough for her students. She did not like Umbridge so she allowed Harry to bring in his lawyer, but to also keep it quiet so no one could inform Delores. She never asked Harry what was going to happen, mainly because she wanted that woman gone from Hogwarts as well. She had told the headmaster what Delores was doing in her detentions with students, so far Albus had not done anything to protect the students. Hopefully Harry Potter could finally do what Albus couldn't, or wouldn't. It concerned her that Albus was leaving the students to be hurt, some would even call it tortured. She could not understand why but she also knew Albus, he always had plans, she just didn't know what they might be. With the way things had been for Harry Potter since he arrived at Hogwarts, she had a feeling that whatever Albus was planning, it had to do with Harry.