"Is it true Mr. Potter that you kidnapped Mr. Pettigrew and not only kept him captive but also Denied him basic human necessities such as food and drink?"
James knew he was in deep. And the fact that THAT RAT had caused it all was enough to make his blood boil and have to struggle to keep his veritaserum face on. If things go well here, and given how it's three to one he hopes it does, then he would get to keep that rat peter in a cage for the rest of that bastards long immortal life. So he took as big a breath as he dared to without being in danger of giving himself away and spoke.
"I did."
The murmurs that swept across the courtroom like a wave were silenced when the Chief Warlock spoke again. This time with obvious effort to keep anger out of her voice.
"And what the reason behind those actions Mr. Potter?"
This one was easy. He was gonna damn that rat to hell for causing him this much trouble.
"Peter Pettigrew murdered my wife and son in cold blood."
Loud gasps echoed across the room and people began to murmur unintelligible shock to each other. After the Chief warlock had gotten over her own shock she called everyone to order. Something a surprising amount of people listened to given the nature of what he just said.
"Are you aware that you are on trial for the murder of those very people and several others Mr. Potter?"
"I am."
"What makes you believe that Mr. Pettigrew killed them?"
"I saw him."
"You saw him kill them?"
"I did."
"Are you aware that Mr. Pettigrew has provided memories of you killing them?"
This fact came as a momentary surprise to James. He faked memories? What is that rat up to?
"No."
"Would that change your answer?"
"No."
"So you still believe that Mr. Pettigrew killed your wife and son even though he has provided evidence against it?"
"Yes."
The silence in the room was deafening. Only the faint sound of a quill scratching on parchment to take all this down could be heard. There was a slight hesitation in her voice before she asked the next question.
"Would you be willing to give us those memories?"
"Of course."
James swing the invisibility cloak over his shoulders and walked confidently down the hall to where he knew the others were being kept. He titled his head at the ministry workers guarding the room. A smirk crept it's way onto his face. They looked so sure of themselves. So sure that they could keep two parts of Death inside. So naive…
He should do something about that. No point in letting them stay naive it just makes everything worse for everybody else. James pulled his hood up just enough so you could see this mad grin on his face and he stared at the overconfident guards and waited for them to notice him. With a jolt of surprise the first man noticed and sent a stunner at James. James slid to the left and then appeared behind him and wrapped an arm around his neck and held tight so the man couldn't breathe. When the second man started shooting spells, James got bored of choking and just walked straight through the spells coming at him and stabbed the man through the heart with the elder wand. As James pulled the wand out and the man fell to the floor Remus walked through the door into the hallway not even stopping to open it and just walking straight through the wood. Sirius followed soon after from a door directly adjacent to Remus's. Remus barely glanced at the bodies before looking at James with an amused expression.
"Could you not have waited for us Prongs?"
"They just looked so…."
Sirius interrupted with a jerk of a head toward the bodies.
"Innocent?"
"Well...Yes."
Remus looked even more amused and nudged one of the bodies with his shoe.
"And you wanted to ruin it."
"Of course! Wouldn't you?"
Sirius bounced up from where he was kneeling by the bodies and gave a crazy grin.
"Definitely! Are we leaving sometime soon by the way? This place is too dusty."
Remus rolled his eyes with a fond smile and kissed Sirius on the cheek.
"That's only cause you were in your grim form trying to scare everyone who walked in most of the time."
"Symbol of death!" Spouted Sirius cheerfully.
"That's right" said James "And speaking of death we have work to do."
Remus looked at his watch and nudged Sirius. "Exactly."
As James opened a portal with a quick swish of the elder wand and all three started toward it Remus said "Any ideas what is going on with Peter by the way?"
James stopped in front of the portal and turned around "I'm not sure yet. Best hope it's not Azkaban though. We will be dead for sure."
The other two nodded grimly and walked through the portal after James. With another swish of the elder wand the portal closed. Leaving two dead bodies in an otherwise empty hallway.
