The courtroom rematerialized as Harry's memory faded. Harry grimly continued. "I can take veritaserum, if the Wizengamot believes it to be necessary, but I will state right now that Pansy Parkinson, Theodore Nott and Daphne Greengrass all took the same unbreakable vow that night."

As the Wizengamot conferred quickly behind a powerful silencing charm and the courtroom quickly broke into whispers and further speculation. Hermione and Ron could hear snippets of the conversations swirling around them. One Witch was wondering why the two Malfoy's were sitting with the others since it seemed that Harry had not taken an unbreakable vow with them. Another wizard theorized that Harry wanted them to pay the most, which earned him a withering glare from Ginny, which only Hermione noticed. Suddenly the courtroom was silenced by the rap of Kingsley's gavel.

"The Wizengamot have come to a unanimous verdict regarding Pansy Parkinson, Theodore Nott, Daphne Greengrass and Blaise Zambini…" Ginny held her breath and gripped Hermione's hand so hard that she lost feeling in her fingers. "… on the count that they were in league and supporting of You-Know-Who, we find them all "not guilty." Ginny released the breath that she'd been holding and slowly started to release Hermione's hand. "….however…." at this Harry's eyes darted from staring at Ginny to Kingsley's. "…regarding the charge that they were Death Eaters, the council finds the defendants "guilty"." A gasp rose from the courtroom and people started to mutter, Ginny's face turned ashen and she sat back down. As the courtroom started to descend into chaos, and Kingsley was unable to call the proceeding back to order, Harry calm stood up and without a wand and against all the wards on the courtroom, casted a Silencio and Petrificus Totalus on everyone. "Please, let Kingsley issue the sentences"

With a nod, the courtroom was back to normal, with everyone starring in awe of Harry. There was one blonde however who was smirking with an eyebrow raised in the corner. Kingsley, a little shaken at what Harry's display meant for the wards on the Ministry, continued, "…being however that after they became Death Eaters, they all aligned themselves differently and paid the wizarding society back by aiding in the destruction of You-Know-Who, the Wizengamot has decided that for these four brave souls, that their time as Harry's spies and allies more than covers any punishment that would have been allotted. Time has been served then and they are to be given clean records. I hear by declare Pansy Parkinson, Theodore Nott, Daphne Greengrass and Blaise Zambini to be free of all charges. I declare a short recess in court before we continue with the next two defendants."

For the first time that day, a genuine smile graced Harry's face, and it broke out into a grin when he saw Blaise jump the divider between the defendants and the courtroom and Ginny jump out of her seat and into his open arms. Ron's face was priceless and it almost made Harry laugh, Hermione however couldn't keep the mirth in and she giggled a bit at Ron's obvious discomfort in trying to reign in his temper.

Ginny just smiled sweetly and turned to the other two, "Ron, Hermione, I would like you to meet my fiancée, Blaise Zambini." At the word fiancée, Ron went as red as his hair and Hermione raised her eyebrows almost to her hairline. Ginny just sat down with Blaise and waited for the storm to blow over and the trials to re-start.

Hermione was of course the first to come around. She sat down next to Blaise, and extended her hand. "Hullo Blaise, perhaps we should start fresh…" Blaise smiled at her and took her hand. "It would be a pleasure, I look forward to you knowing as much about me and I do about you." At this, Ron looked at Ginny and asked "How long?" Ginny responded, "We started to know each other before I dated Dean. I wanted to be with him, but Blaise felt that it was too dangerous and cut off speaking with me… I talked to Harry about how crushed I was, and he told me that I needed to make Blaise see what he was missing. I asked Harry to help me by pretending to date me, but he refused." At this both Hermione and Ron looked confused…. "But you did date Harry…" Ginny cut them off "… that was later, at this point, Harry confided something to me that made me understand that if I wanted to live, I needed to choose someone else to get through to Blaise." At this statement Blaise chuckled and interjected "…and how glad am I that you did… I don't think that anyone could've talked him out of hurting you if you had convinced Harry!" Ginny chuckled as well. "Anyways, I thought about it some more and realized that Dean Thomas had been following Daphne Greengrass around the same way, so I thought "hey, let's kill two birds with one stone." Dean agreed and so our farce began. I admit that it took longer than we thought that it would take, and required Blaise and Daphne to figure out what was going on. But in the end it all worked out fine."

At this Ginny nodded to Dean and Daphne holding hands in the back of the courtroom next to Theo and Pansy embracing, Ron exclaimed " I thought that Pansy was with the Ferret!" at the nickname Blaise tightened his grip on Ginny, but other than her eyes briefly flashing, she didn't say anything. Blaise explained the confusion away. "Yes, it's all a ruse. Theo and Pansy have been together since before the Yuletide Ball, but Pansy was betrothed to Draco and Daphne was betrothed to Theo, it made the most sense to not ruffle our parents' feathers. We couldn't afford for them to start poking around our lives more than they already did."

Hermione nodded, but Ron still looked unconvinced, "But what about Harry and you Ginny? You seemed happy together and that was after Dean!" Ginny was more than ready to answer this question, "Yes, Ron, that we did. But if you remember Harry's testimony this morning, me and Blaise being together was the reason that he knew Blaise the best out of the four of them. In reality, our fake relationship came out of a coincidence. I won the game for Gryffindor and Harry was so relieved, it was a huge issue for Harry, that ill-conceived kiss, but eventually it was clear that he only loved me as a sister." Blaise chuckled again, "Right, after we nicked some veritaserum from Snape's stores!" Ginny smiled at the memory and continued, "Afterwards, we discussed it as a group and decided that it was actually a really good cover and that we would continue with the charade as it made it easier for all of us."

Ron relaxed as he realised that there was nothing wrong with how Ginny treated Harry or vis-versa. He just stated to her "Although I don't really like being a mushroom about this, I accept that you were doing the best in a tough situation." Upon standing up, Blaise also rose, "Even though I am not the eldest Weasley, I would like to formally extend our welcome to you to our family." He extended his hand towards Blaise, who quickly nodded and shook. Both Ginny and Hermione had tears in their eyes.

Meanwhile, Harry was fidgeting on the stand. He had refused to leave his seat for the break and seemed to be lost in his own world. Both Ron and Hermione tried to get his attention and motion for him to join him, but he steadfastly would not meet their eyes. Blaise walked over to him and in hushed tones reassured Harry. "It'll be fine, 4 down, 2 to go! You don't have anything to worry about mate; it'll all sort itself out today!" Harry managed a weak smile, and turned to Blaise, "I know that I can do it, but at what cost? How much am I going to have to reveal?" Blaise nodded understandingly, "Probably more than you ever wanted to, but in the end, it'll be worth it." Harry's jaw set firmly and he looked at Blaise square in the face "There is nothing that I wouldn't tell them and nothing that I wouldn't do…" Harry trailed off… "A muggle TV show once said "true love is breaking someone out of jail…"

Blaise smiled at this, and replied "Well Harry, worst comes to worst; you have the ability to do that as well!" Harry looked grim again, "And I will, if that is the only answer."

Cheers to whoever knows what TV show this was in! Hope you are all enjoying this story, it was on hiatus for awhile (SORRY!) As I have another story that is eating up my writing time, if anyone wants to Beta that one for me, that would be fantastic, I know that my grammar is not great and that this story would probably be better with a Beta as well The good news is that I am almost finished the fourth chapter as well… I think that this story will be 5 chapters in total.