Chapter 4 I'm Sirius, and I don't Know who my Lawyers are!

A/N : Remember this Chapter as a the origin for Harry to begin thinking about Fleur, even if he doesn't explicitly do it in this chapter.

"I testified at Sirius' trial, and it was surprising how little he knew about his coming trial. I will be honest, the French Minister was hell bent on convicting Sirius. I think his name was Jean Delacour? Related to Fleur maybe? Not sure, but that is a name Tommy Boy tells me to make sure to remember. Chilly and the rest of WJMS were completely annihilating the Prosecution. They had come prepared, and were calling witnesses that even Sirius wasn't sure had even been there. They were setting a Civil Lawsuit up as well, so some of the witnesses were Goblins who testified that Pettigrew had been receiving money, as well as others, to frame Sirius. Oddly, it all seemed to point back to Dumbledore."

" Are you Sirius Orion Black?"

Sirius sat on the stand, " Yes! I don't even know who my solicitors are!"

Charles "Chilly" Waldren laughed. It was true, poor Black didn't even know who they were. Chilly was huge, as in he weighed at least three hundred pounds, and was six foot nine. He had played thirteen years in the NFL as a Defensive tackle before an injury forced him out at age 34. He would probably be in the Hall of Fame, but he would have to wait longer once again. Despite almost a hundred and fifty sacks, and ten interceptions, most of a D-Linemen in history, not to mention, five Super bowl rings. Chilly was a former Yale student who went to Harvard for his degree in law. Chilly specialized in Criminal Law, and was a bombastic presence that you couldn't ignore when he spoke.

Fredrick Johnson was the second Lawyer at Sirius' trial. He was a wiry kind of fellow who had dabbled in the MLB before a failed Tommy John surgery ended his career. People compared him to several famous pitchers of old before he had to retire. Afterwards, he had gone to Yale and gotten a law degree.

Andrew Scott was a Georgetown lawyer who helped fund the firm when it was first started up. He was a hunter that even Goblins respected in his ability find facts amid lies. His father's law firm had been outlawed because of a big legal scandal. He had been working in the OPD in D.C before joining WJMS.

Leroy Mcdill was the Civil Law specialist, but adding to the intimidation factor of the Firm, was that he was six foot eight, and weighed two hundred and seventy pounds. He was an ex-Marine Drill Sergeant, who had also served a stint in the Navy. He was also the oldest of the Firm

The Prosecutor, a man named Jean Delacour, asked, " Mr. Black, is it true that you betrayed the Potters?"

Chilly shouted, " Objection Your Honor! Said Question has been asked and answered several times!"

The Judge shouted, " Sustained. Move on, Mr. Delacour."

Delacour sighed in frustration. Chilly had made sure to cover his bases several times before allowing Delacour to have the floor. Delacour asked, " If you were not the Secret Keeper, then who was?"

Sirius answered, " Peter Pettigrew."

Delacour shouted, " Ah! But he is lying!"

Chilly smiled, " If he was, he would be dead. I made sure my client swore an Unbreakable Oath to tell the truth."

The Judge commented, " Well done, Mr. Waldren. Continue?"

Delacour shouted at Sirius, " Then, What happened to Peter?"

Sirius laughed, " Like I know? He used his unregistered Animagus form to blow up the street, kill thirteen Muggles, and run off pinning the blame on me! I don't know where he is now, but…"

"Objection! One of my witnesses says that he has the answer that question."

The Judge shouted, " Overruled. Mr. Potter will have to wait until next recess to inform the ICW of Pettigrew's whereabouts."

Chilly heard Freddy curse. Chilly was in control, there was no need to jeopardize the situation. On the other hand, Jean Delacour was hoping that they would overextend themselves and let him back into the picture. Up until that point, he had been getting raped and he knew it. The Americans came to play with their A game running at full throttle. Maybe he had his opening?

Luckily, Chilly still had his ace. Seeing that Jean Delacour was about to pull something, he shouted, " Badgering the Witness!"

The Judge agreed, " Mr. Waldren is correct. Have a seat Mr. Delacour. Mr. Waldren, your next witness?"

Chilly turned at Johnson, Mcdill, and Scott. They nodded. Chilly stood up, pointed, and shouted, " The Defense calls Albus Wulfric Brian Percival Dumbledore to the stand!"

Bedlam ensued. The Judge, an ICW judge who predated Dumbledore, shouted, " The Defense is allowed to call ICW members to the stand if they have a connection to the case. Since your name has already been mentioned several times, Albus. You are required to testify, or I shall hold you in contempt of court and Obstruction of Justice!"

Dumbledore growled, but entered the Witness stand. Chilly shouted, " State Your name!"

Dumbledore clearly growled, " Albus Wulfric Brian Percival Dumbledore."

Chilly pulled out his trusty Bible, " Raise your right hand, and place your left hand on this cover."

Dumbledore did so, and Chilly continued, " Do you, Albus Wulfric Brian Percival Dumbledore, swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?"

Dumbledore answered, " So help me God."

A flash of golden light burst out, and the Oath of Truth was sealed. Chilly asked, " Were you the one who suggested the Potters go into hiding, when they would have been safe at Potter Manor, which is warded almost as heavily as Hogwarts?"

" Yes."

" Why, then, did you allow them to set Peter Pettigrew to be their Secret Keeper?"

" Because they wanted to let Sirius be it."

" Did you know that Peter was a Death Eater?"

" Yes."

The Court room gasped at this revelation. The Judge silenced them. Chilly asked, " Why did you allow them to have Peter as the Secret Keeper if you knew he was a Death Eater?"

" Because Peter was so low ranking, that I didn't think his testimony would be received."

Harry heard Tom in his mind, " That's what you think, you old bastard. Peter may have been a coward, but he was a more fearless spy than Severus."

Chilly also knew this, but held quiet. He declared, " No More Questions, anything else he is guilty of will have to wait to another day."

After that came the closing arguments and after that came the jury deliberation. The court was put on recess until they rendered a verdict.

(After the Recess)

" Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury, have you reached a verdict?"

" Yes your Honor."

" Hand the Bailiff the verdict please."

The Judge read off, " We the people of the Jury find Sirius Orion Black not guilty of all charges. We the members of the jury recommend a fine for him being an unregistered Animagus, but all charges are rendered not guilty,", he turned to Sirius, " Very well. Lord Black, you are free to go. Please see the Head of the Improper use of Magic for an Animagus licensing and to pay the fine of one thousand galleons for first time offense. Good day sir."

Harry grabbed Sirius by the arm, and pulled him out of the Court room, followed by Chilly and the lawyers. Sirius' mouth was open like a fish out of water. He asked, " Harry? How did you even know all that stuff?"

" That's for later Sirius. Just follow us out here, and we can get back to Grimmauld Place."

" How?"

Harry sneered, " Don't ask, all will be explained."

( Grimmauld Place 12)

" Well, welcome home Sirius."

Sirius chuckled as he sat down in front of his mother's portrait, " Harry, I have absolutely no idea how in the hell you knew this was here. After all, it is under the Fidelius Charm. A very special Fidelius charm at that."

Harry laughed, " Well, Sirius. Swear that you will not reveal this to anyone. I know you are an accomplished Occlumens, so I don't need to worry about Dumbledore or Snape mind raping you to find out."

Tom sneered in his mind, "Oh don't worry about Severus. I….can fix him."

Sirius swore, " I, Sirius Orion Black swear on my life and magic to uphold the secrecy of Harold James Potter's secrets. So mote be it."

Sirius flashed black and his oath was sealed. Harry said, " You aren't going to believe this, but I am actually a time traveler. I am not the eleven year old Harry Potter everyone thinks I am. I am Sixteen year old Harry Potter who was forced through the Veil of Time."

Sirius broke in, " So that's why I suddenly woke up in Azkaban…"

" I see that you remember being forced through the Veil by Bellatrix's Stunner don't you?"

Sirius smiled, " I really shouldn't have goaded her now should I?"

" No you shouldn't have."

" So what did you go through for?"

" Well, let us see. After the DOM fight where you were forced through, I was essentially kidnapped by the Goblins while I was sleeping in the Hospital Ward at Hogwarts. They left a Cursebreaker behind with the Polyjuice on. My magic was unbound, and it was revealed that you left me to become Lord Black. I also found out that my attraction to Illusionary charms like the Disillusionment Charm was because my mother was secretly a Half Blood."

Sirius broke in, " Wait, you're telling me Lily was a Half-Blood?"

" Exactly. She was the eldest daughter of a Squib and the last daughter of a very prestigious American line of Illusionists known as the Andersons. They had a long line of circus boys in the family, for example, the Ringling Brothers, Barnam and Bailey were like my great, great, great uncles or something like that. I also found out that my father was the descendant of Gryffindor and Ravenclaw. He was also descendant of Ignotus Peverell through Gryffindor, so they decided to just add the two houses together rather than give me another ring. My heritage has been confirmed by the Goblins, who have sworn oaths of allegiance to me."

Sirius' eyebrow rose to the top of his hair. He whispered, " The goblins swore allegiance to you? Do you know how important this is? You essentially hold all the world's money in your hands!"

" I know. But let me continue. The Goblins knew I needed more than what Magical Britain could offer me to fight Tommy Boy. They implanted special Augmenters to allow me to learn faster, move faster, fight stronger, and cast faster. I can mutter verbal spells in a fraction of the time it takes normal men. I can draw runes on any surface, and the wards will be as powerful as Blood Wards."

Sirius looked at his godson, and whispered, " Holy crap Harry. I don't think Voldemort, Dumbledore, Alastor, and James put together would be powerful enough to do that."

" It gets better. So the Goblins sent me to America. They secured a special room in Salem Witches Academy where I could study my heart out. It was similar to the Room of Requirement. It was at the Witches Academy that I met Holly Allison. I began to fall in love with her, Sirius I really did. Now for the real shocker.

" I discovered an ancient Native American Spell that had been modified and improved by American Presidents throughout the years. It is called the Leeching Soulstorm. I tested the spell out, but I didn't realize Holly was behind me at the time."

Sirius spoke up, " I'm sorry pup. I know what happened. You killed her by accident."

" Yep, but the spell also absorbed all of her magic, and added it to mine."

Sirius was awestruck, " You mean you became even more powerful? You know what your Ganter Index is right?"

Harry laughed, " Back in fifth year, during the Umbridge McGonagall Show, McGonagall told me that my Ganter score was 529. It was the highest of all wizards in Britain at the time, only that it was bound by some spell. Even Dumbledore's was only 523."

Sirius chuckled, " Unbound, your Index is about 1230. Lily had it measured at St. Mungo's shortly after you were born."

Tommy chuckled, "No wonder my damn Avada Kedavra couldn't kill you. My score is only 522."

Harry continued, " Well, I got back, and the Goblins told me what was going on. I went on a Death Eater Killing Spree. I killed 40 Death Eaters, and I was caught by Narcissa Malfoy because I bragged about killing Draco and Lucius. Then the real fun began. I broke free in the middle of the Ministry while awaiting trial. I killed Nymphadora Tonks first, and then Moody. Then, I ended up in the DOM all over again. I faced down over one hundred Aurors, Students, Teachers, and Members of the Order of the Phoenix. I took the magic of all of them, and killed all of them except Dumbledore."

Sirius almost passed out. He spat out the wine he had just taken a sip of, " WHAT? Dumbledore's magic? One hundred others? Holy shit Harry! Your Ganter index must be over 9000 at least!"

Harry smiled, " That's what Tommy Boy said."

Sirius' face blackened, " I guess that the Sorcerer's stone thing happened again didn't it?"

" Not exactly. This time, I was able to get old Tommy's magic too. There was one side effect. You see, Tommy accidently created a Horcrux out of my scar, but when I hit him with Soulstorm, it absorbed his mind as well. So yeah, Voldemort is in my head, and I control him."

Tommy said, "In your head baby!"

Sirius frowned, " Harry, we have got to tell Dumbledore!"

Harry shouted angrily, " NO! We will not tell that meddling old fool anything! He has ruined everyone's life, as you saw in the courts!"

Sirius sighed, he was right of course. Dumbledore could have come out with that information anytime yet he let him rot in Azkaban for awhile anyway. So Sirius could understand why Harry would be loathe to tell Dumbledore anything. Sirius asked, " What about Ron and Hermione?"

" I have made no effort to rekindle my friendship with them. I know that they will choose Dumbledore over me. Hermione was the first victim of the Final Battle in the DOM. I killed Ron to get to Ginny. Neville was there, but he was Imperiused. I am planning something big Sirius. The Wizarding World will fall to my Fist. Magical Britain at any rate. Me, the Goblins, and the Dwarves already have alliances. The Dwarves, Goblins, and House Elves are building my Fortress beneath Hogwarts. They are expanding the Chamber of Secrets. It is there that I need Tom's help. I know that the Basilisk can only be controlled by the Heir of Slytherin. But, since the Evans line was a distant descendant of Slytherin, I believe that with Tom's aide, I can control the Basilisk. In due time, I would breed more and use them as part of the force. That was Tom's idea actually."

Sirius laughed, " I am shocked, I must admit, that Tom would willingly join you."

Harry laughed back, " I'm afraid he didn't have a choice in the matter. Put it this way, all the Death Eaters are under my command now, though I do have some business to clean up. I know that Bellatrix Lestrange's sanity is almost damaged beyond repair, but I also know that it was because of her husband and his brother."

Sirius frowned, " I was aware that my dear cousin was not marrying into a good family, but my father Orion had no say in that side. I am also aware that Andromeda caused all of it by defaulting her Marriage Contract to the Rodolphus in order to marry Ted. Bellatrix was supposed to marry Lucius Malfoy, who had been a good friend of hers in Hogwarts, and Narcissa was to marry Aldarius Rosier. But that got all fucked up when Andromeda ran off."

" Let me guess, in order to appease the contracts and uphold the agreed upon alliances, Alphard Black just changed the names."

Sirius smiled, " You sure you aren't pureblood? You just figured out in about ten seconds what took me a year to figure out. But yes, that is what happened. Because the Lestranges and Malfoys were more powerful, Bella and Cissy ended up having to lose contracts for their school sweethearts and go with people they weren't very compatible with. Cissy ended up with a man who was a closet homosexual, and Bella ended up with a man who was too impotent to produce a child, even though he refused to recognize this."

Harry laughed, " Wait? Lucius was a closet Pouf?"

" You mean you didn't know? Why do you think Lucius only has one son? He has such an attractive wife, hell, if she weren't my first cousin, I would be tearing that ass up! And I heard Cissy is such a screamer too…,", Sirius mused off. Tom filled Harry in, "Yep. They call him Lucy for a reason you know. And Rodolphus and his brother really did do some truly atrocious things to dear Bella. But I'm not complaining, she ended up being a valued member of the Inner Circle. Her willingness to kill first, ask questions never was something most people just don't have."

Harry openly mused, " I knew Tom would have a different perspective than everyone else."

Sirius laughed, " I guess he said he was ok with it because Bella ended up being his best servant right?"

Harry nodded, causing Sirius to burst out laughing. He said, " Figures Tommy would think that. Anyway, the story goes is that Bella ended up marrying into the Lestrange line. The line was so inbred that BOTH, not just one or the other, but BOTH, Rodolphus and Rabastian had lost the ability to reproduce. It has something to do with their genes, but they were both so impotent that they couldn't reproduce. But that didn't mean they didn't try, oh no! I hear they had to put Bella under the Imperius just to get her to let them have sex with her."

Harry answered, " Tom says that is exactly what they did. If she didn't comply, they would often put her under the Cruciatus Curse. She would also be forced to talk like a baby all the time as well."

Sirius chuckled, " Oh, Bella's always been like that. She was born that way. Magical Speech impediment. We never knew how she got it either. It isn't hereditary, and no one else has it. "

" Well, if we could get her out of Azkaban, I could probably fix the damage. Oh, and Tom? I don't mean breaking in and completely destroying Azkaban. After all, she doesn't exactly have an easy out route like Sirius did."

Sirius added, " Well, give it a couple of years. Then, it wouldn't be so outrageous. Now, I need to go see the Goblins don't I?"

Harry nodded, " And I need to see to the Basilisk. By the way, Tom? Is it true that the snake's name is Selene?"

" Indeed it is. Listen, I didn't name the snake, Salazar did, and I don't question my ancestor."

Harry laughed, " Well, looks like I have a snake to go talk to."

A/N: Inspirations for the Lawyers.

Charles Waldren's NFL Career is a combination of a variety of players.

Andrew Scott is inspired by one of John Grisham's many great novels.