Chapter 3

"Harry, will you please stop fidgeting!" Ginny's sharp shrill pierced the air, just as her mother's had. They were in the living room of their small cottage in Godric's Hollow. "I'm sorry, it's just I've gone through this before, I know some people in the ministry will hold grudges against me. It'll be hard enough for him, he's only nine, I have no idea why they think it's alright to try him for attempted murder, it's absurd!" Ginny went back to setting the table.

"I know you're upset about it, but if he's innocent, there will be no way for them to arrest him. We've been over that a thousand times with him, he's never varied in his stories, to me that means that he's innocent." She was right and Harry knew it. He just hated to think that his godson would have to experience the horrors that he had. The only thing that could comfort him was the fact that because Teddy was not yet eleven, Harry was allowed to be in room during the trial, though he was not allowed to say anything, for or against Teddy.

"Harry, stop beating yourself up over this, it's not your fault. Just because he was there when Shirley was injured, doesn't mean he was the one who thrust the knife."

"Yeah Ginny, you've told me that every time this happens, yet it never makes me feel any better!"

"Well then, I guess I should just leave you and your troubles alone, shouldn't I?" With that she stormed from the room. Harry immediately felt sorry for the words he had said, Ginny was always so understanding of how he felt about Teddy being treated the same way he had been just because Harry was his father, but he was still deliberating many different things in his head, he wasn't in the mood to apologize right now. He took a deep breath, then let it out, he decided that it would be best to start out for the ministry sooner rather than later so he went upstairs to check on Teddy. When he pushed the door open, Teddy turned his head to look at his father. "Are we leaving?" he asked in a tender voice. It was obvious that he was worried about the trial too.

It's not fair, Harry thought, just because Teddy had been in the house, did not mean he had stabbed his grandmother with the knife. The ministry was only calling this hearing because they wanted to check in on Teddy, it had been nine years since the minister had seen him, they were probably itching to find out how well his magical skills had developed, Shirley had even testified against him, saying that it wasn't Teddy who had stabbed her, but since her memory of the potential murderer was fuzzy, the Aurors hadn't been able to catch them.

"Okay bud, let's get going." They walked side by side until they reached the port key that Arthur Weasly had arranged for them.