A/N: I know I have updated in like a year, I'm an ass, sorry. I have edited this chapter and reposted cause the old one was going to fast for me. So I'm rewriting and changing it up a bit.
WARNING:: Not Beta-ed? Betaed? I don't know, I just don't have a Beta and I suck. So if you see any mistakes tell me and I'll eventually get around to it :)
I am not going to be copying straight from the book unless there's a line I really like and then I'll state which it is at the bottom once again claiming, hey not mine. So I'm a slow updater and you have Rose Night 3 to thank for this (and I'm quite fond of her stories which you should check out like damn there's something for just about everyone) cause I'm a dunce who forgot and started to watch SPN.
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter. Harry Potter and all its characters are the property of J.K Rowling, and did not spring forth from my mind like Athena from Zeus. There is no financial gain made from this nor will any be sought. This is for entertainment purposes only. Enjoy!
Chapter 1- Breakfast Interruptions
Harry snuck into his dorm room to gather his clothes and soap for his shower; he could hear the others snores assuring him that they were still asleep and would not interrupt him. It had been a rather long night for him; as usual he kept seeing the results of his weakness, Cedric's death, Voldemort rising again, all the pain he'd caused his friends and his family until he couldn't sit there any longer. He grabbed his invisibility cloak and snuck to the room of requirement to train.
This had become a common occurrence, as he could never get to sleep anymore. He would lay in his bed pretending to sleep until he was sure his friends were, then go to the room of requirement in an attempt to better himself and to exhaust himself. Then he would come back shower, cast a glamour, and then slip into bed and no one was the wiser.
Today Harry crawled out of bed when the other boys in the dorm were all basically done getting ready. He told Ron he'd be waiting in the common room and left the dorm. When Ron and Hermione had both ascended the stairs they all left for breakfast, making idle chat as they went. As they arrived in the great hall they saw that Umbridge was smirking, they all paused a moment before heading to the Gryffindor table fully aware that the crazy cat ladies eyes were following them.
The hall was now filled and the trio was half way through their breakfast when the temperature dropped drastically and Harry could hear the long, hoarse, rattling breaths of dementors. Suddenly the doors to the great hall slammed open; walking up to the staff table towards Umbridge was Amelia Bones, Head of the department of magical law enforcement, along with Rita Skeeter, a small squad of Aurors and dementors.
Umbridge smirked and said in a sickly sweet voice "You're here; finally, I was beginning to worry," She pointed one manicured pink finger over at Harry and said "Take him to Azkaban."
There was a silence in the hall. "Under what charges?" Questioned Dumbledore, the usual twinkle in his eyes gone, he was not amused nor was he pleased. He did not approve of having the dementors this close to his students, or having them take Harry away. "I was under the impression that he was cleared at court. Was he not?"
"Oh he was, the previous charges were dropped. But now he is plotting against the minister of magic, you see. Spreading rumours about you-know-who being back and trying slander the minister's good name, and who really knows what happened to poor Cedric in that maze. Until there is better evidence, we will have to contain him." Umbridge paused a moment passing an eye over the students gathered in the hall and grimacing (but it might have just been her trying to smile) "For the students safety of course, professors, and you know if I didn't do this there would be a serious questioning on the staffs part, of do the professors really care about their students safety. Oh it simply would be awful, the school would have to, well it would have to close, or be completely reformed" she ended with a smirk, clearly either option was good for her.
Dumbledore and McGonagall turned to Amelia Bones and started to discuss something rapidly in hushed voices. They were not going to let them take Harry away, even if it costed them his trust. They were not letting Harry go to Azkaban.
The students fell silent as the dementors swopped over to the Gryffindor table and the Aurors hauled out their wands. The DA started to rise but Harry sent them a look and they all sat down again their faces filled with worry and confusion.
Hermione went to protest but Harry stopped her with a hand on her shoulder. "Don't worry" he said, "I'll be fine." As the threat drew nearer Harry steeled his nerves and walked up towards the front of the hall away from the tables. 'Stay calm, do not panic, remember your training' Harry mumbled quietly to himself. He was ready. Now he could see if any of the late nights in the room of requirement payed off.
The dementors were now upon him with the Aurors close behind, all the students were watching intently wondering what Harry would do.
Harry could feel the dementors sucking away the happiness, he started to hear Voldemort taunting him and laughing at him before he took a deep breath and started to clear him mind. (He never let Snape know how good he was getting at occlumency, but Harry was, in his opinion, pretty decent at it now.) Just as the Aurors were about to take his wand Harry lashed out and nailed the tallest Auror in the face and in one fluid motion ducked under the barrage of stunning spells that followed and shot two back. But before he could go any further the voice of Amelia Bones cried out. "ENOUGH!" while Dumbledore simpley said "Harry". And Harry immediately stopped everything allowing the remaining two Aurors to bind him and innervate the others, while Dumbledore cast a patronus to get rid of the dementors, sick of having them in the school.
As Harry was being dragged to the front of the room Amelia spoke out "As Madame Umbridge just stated we need more proof. To ensure that he is not lying we will be using Remento verumtetis. It's a different form of Veritasium that we are beginning to use in cases like these, unfortunately there are still a few kinks "
Several (almost all) of the Ravenclaws began to haul pieces of parchment out from their bags to take notes which they would compare later.
"We can ask a question and instead of you having to say your answer it will come straight from your head as a projection or a page or two of parchment. It will slowly remove all spells and enchantments from the subjects every few minutes," She paused and turned to Harry "The kinks I mentioned were; once we start we have to finish or you will lose all of your memories and you will have to feel or relieve the events that we view or read, all the pain will stop when it does is the book." As she said this Harry paled thinking of the grave yard and the basilisk amongst other things, he also started to debate if going to Azkaban was so bad. "Pardon the interruption Ms. Bones but how many years in Azkaban would I have to serve?" The hall was shocked and Umbridge quickly took the opportunity.
"Have something to hide Mr. Potter?" She asked as she transfigured a chair in front of the staff table for him to sit at. "Sit down Mr. Potter while Mr. Filch fetches it. The whole of Hogwarts will serve as witnesses and will be strongly encouraged to write home." Having no choice Harry sat down staring at the hundreds of faces in the hall varying in emotion. "I knew he was lying" or "Surely there's a mistake" and various other whispers went around the hall. Harry ignored them all and sought out Hermione and Ron with his eyes. Upon finding them he gave them a comforting glance and basically told them to brace themselves.
A few minutes later Filch rushed back into the hall with Mrs. Norris at his heals. Huffing and puffing he ran up and handed the potions to Umbridge.
"Ah, thank you Mr. Filch, open wide Potter." Harry opened his mouth only slightly causing Professor Umbridge to squish his face together with one hand forcing his mouth to open wide, and poured the whole vile down his throat. It tasted disgusting, Harry went to spit it out but found that he couldn't, he had no choice but to swallow. "Surely that's more than what they're supposed to use." Hermione whispered to Ron "I'll go to the Library later and check it out." Ron not usually being one to go to libraries nodded his head in agreement to make sure there would be no side effect on Harry.
"Hem, hem, hem." Umbridge said in an attempt to silence the great hall before turning to Harry "What happened in the thir-" she was cut off by Ms. Bones.
"So sorry Delores but I'm afraid that as the head of the department of magical law enforcement I will have to ask the questions for it to be official." Umbridge sneered as "Of course, how silly of me"
Ms. Bones turned toward Harry, "Now I want this to be as easy as possible, while still finding out the necessary information." She turned to face the rest of the hall "Since he is only under trial for plotting against the minister by saying You-Know-Who he is back, that's all the information we need so any other rule breaking can not and will not be punished."
By now the staff had all moved their chairs to opposing wall behind the students (Madame Pomfrey, Trelawney, Hagrid and Filch included), and the Aurors stationed themselves at several points around the room for security (From what? I'm not sure), Rita Skeeter had made herself comfortable and Ms. Bones was ready to proceed.
"Headmaster Dumbledore will be the Wizengamot representative for this trial, the students are the witnesses, and the scribes are our minds. Harry lets start with something simple, the day you get your letter and any important events leading up to your sorting."
As she said this Harry closed his eyes as his mind immediately brought up the required memories and several pieces of parchment fell from the sky on the the stand that appeared out of nowhere behind Harry and a voice started to read out...
Attempting to update once a month (cause I have to write up the things they're reacting to as I am not copying from the book.) I was going to post this on the very last day of the month but I'm going down to the island and won't have internet (if I do it'll be crap).
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