Chapter rewritten on 8/11/12
Chapter 5:The first week back
The next morning Daphne slowly awoke and saw that besides her the bed was empty. She frowned for a moment then she decided to check up why Harry wasn't still in bed. She put on a bath robe and walked to their common room.
When She entered the room she saw that her husband was sitting next to their 'post box' and to his right was a pile of letters she assumed he already read.
''Couldn't sleep?'' she asked him.
Harry looked up from the letter he was reading and shook his head. '' I had a dream about the attack on Greengrass manor. I couldn't sleep anymore after that.''
Daphne placed a hand on Harry's shoulder and said. ''Like you said it will not happen again, we will make sure of that.''
Harry nodded at that. ''Anyway, since I could sleep, I decided to start looking trough the post.''
''Was there anything interesting?''
''There was a pretty accurate article regarding what happened last night in the prophet. They imply that Dumbledore is to blame because he refused to make that oath. Other than that there were several letters from people demanding information. There were also letters congratulating us on our marriage, although I am not entirely sure of 'good job in marrying a pureblood' is a compliment. Then of course there were a couple of howlers. I am glad that you're box managed to transform them in regular letters.''
He then picked up a letter from the stack he had already read. ''And then there were these.'' He spat out clearly disgusted by them.
Daphne accepted the letter and started to read it trough.
Dear lord Potter,
I lord Malfoy, head of the noble house of Malfoy herby offer you a most generous offer. I offer you a marriage contract between your daughter and my oldest son. Your daughter will be my sons second wife and is therefore able to keep the Potter line and therefore keep the noble line alive. For this generous offer we expect a dowry of no less than fifty thousand Galleons.
Yours sincerely,
Lucius Malfoy
''There were several more letters like that.'' Harry commented after he saw she was finished reading.'' Bunch of vultures probably only she the titles.''
"Can't say I didn't expect this, Lucy stands to inherit quite a bit if we die, especially so if we inherit the Black and Greengrass titles before we move on. And people want to marry her to improve their own position.'' Daphne said.
"Like that is ever going to happen. She is free to decide who she wants to marry when she is older, we are not going to force her into a contract like Dumbledore try to do to me. '' Harry said in serious tone.
"What are we going to do with that contract anyway? The contract is active again now that we are back.'' Daphne asked.
"Not sure,'' He said while shrugging his shoulders. "We could invite her parents to discuss dissolvent in the near future.''
Daphne nodded. ''I just want that done as soon as possible. I have no intentions of sharing you and I am sure that Dumbledore can use that contract to screw things up somehow.''
''Don't worry, I know this is important, but for now Voldemort is a bigger threat and has to be dealt with after that we can really start working on neutralising Dumbledore.'' Harry said. ''Now why don't you take a shower and I will see if I can get Lucy out of her bed.
''Good luck with that.''
After thirty minutes everyone was ready and the three Potters made their way to breakfast.
The hall went silent when they entered and once they were seated, the whispering started. Harry and Daphne ignored the whispers. Lucy however didn't even seemed to notice since she had her full concentrations at the task at hand, eating her breakfast.
'At least this is better than the glares from last time.' Thought Harry while subtlety putting up a privacy ward around the three Potters.
''It seems our plans worked somewhat.'' Harry said to Daphne.
''A simple contract, a vow and making sure the right people got the knowledge.'' She said with a smirk. ''That is all it took to get most people sympatric to us or at least neutral. And thanks to this morning Daily Prophet everyone will know what we did and that under Dumbledore's watch two people were entered in the tournament who didn't enter themselves.''
''How long do you think it will take before people will figure out the vow is useless and the contract has a major flaw in it?'' Harry asked.
''I doubt they will figure it out before we will tell them and that won't be anytime soon. '' Daphne replied.
They were interrupted in their conversation when they saw someone screaming to them. Unfortunately or fortunately depending how you looked at it, they didn't hear him thanks to the privacy ward, who blocked both sound going in and out of the ward area.
Harry pulled the ward down and asked. ''Sorry, can you repeat that Weasley?''
Meanwhile in his anger Ron had turned a interesting shade of red. His angry mood had kept increasing the last two days. First his breakfast was interrupted by the two people in front of him. Then it turns out one of those people is his supposedly best friend Harry. The other however was really the one who got his blood boiling, it was a Slytherin who claimed to be married to his friend. She must have used some kind of dark magic to accomplish that because his mother always told him that Harry would end up with Ginny. He had tried to warn his friend, but he didn't listen. Then he sprouted some kind of nonsense about being time travellers and he had the nerve to disobey the great Albus Dumbledore before leaving the hall and not to be seen for the rest of the day. The entire day everyone seemed to want to talk about those two, as if the-boy-who-lived wasn't famous enough already. Then yesterday his breakfast was interrupted again. This time it was in the form of a howler. His mother had caught wind of what happened the day before and she wasn't happy. Apparently she expected him to both send the news immediately after it happened to her and to stop him from disobeying the headmaster. He was so ashamed form the howler that he had spend both dinner and lunch in the kitchen instead of attending the feast in the great hall. Then when he arrived in the Gryffindor common room he heard that both Harry Potter and the Slytherin bitch entered the tournament and apparently the were blaming the headmaster. And people believed it too! And now they even have the nerve to ignore him.
"I said, Why did you enter in to the tournament and what is that snake and snake spawn doing at this table.'' He half asked, half shouted.
"Didn't you hear what happened or read this morning Prophet?'' Harry asked deciding to ignore the later part of the redheads question for now.
"What are you talking about and why would I read a newspaper.'' He exclaimed.
Harry groaned in frustration. He knew Ron would never read something voluntary but he had faith in the Hogwarts rumour mill to have informed the guy.
''Weasley, both me and Daphne swore a oath on our life and magic that we didn't put our own name in to the goblet. And since we are still alive, it proofs that we didn't enter ourselves.'' Harry said.
"You obviously cheated, you are married to a filthy Slytherin so you probably used dark magic to enter the tournament.'' Ron ranted.
'Did he even hear a word I said to him' Harry thought.
''Weasley, I honestly could care less what you think, so let's just agree that we will disagree over this and move on with our live.'' Harry said.
"I knew it, I am right so you are giving up trying to convince me.'' Ron said.
'This is getting really annoying.' Harry thought.
Harry glanced to his side and saw that his daughter was finished eating and was now curiously watching the loudmouth. He made eye contact with his wife and a silent message was sent. She nodded, she too wanted get away from the redhead. They could eat breakfast somewhere else.
"'Weasley, believe what you want to believe, but the evidence is there. Now if you excuse me I have to talk to McGonagall.''
After that the three Potters left a sputtering Ron Weasley behind and made their way to the head table. Daphne was about to speak to McGonagall when she was interrupted by the headmaster.
Dumbledore already knowing what they came here to do said. ''Harry, I am afraid I can't let you leave the castle. We have much to discuss and I am afraid you can only leave after you told me everything.'' The old man said.
Ignoring him Daphne said. ''Professor McGonagall we are here to tell you that we will leave for the weekend on family business. ''
"I already told you, you can't leave.'' The headmaster said.
''Do you understand professor McGonagall.'' Daphne continued.
''The headmaster said ….'' She began weakly.
"The headmaster had nothing to do with this. If there is nothing else?'' she waited a couple of second. ''No? then we are leaving. Have a nice weekend.''
The three turned around and had walked a couple of steps away from the table when the headmaster gained the attention of the whole hall by loudly saying. ''Come back here right now you are not allowed to leave.''
Harry slowly turned around and said. ''You have no right to keep us here. So I suggest you don't attempt to.''
"But I really need to talk to you.'' Dumbledore said.
''About what.'' Harry replied.
''It's better if we discuss this in my office, if you would follow me than we could do it now.'' The Headmaster said.
''If you don't tell us what this is about than we will leave.'' Harry said.
''I need to know what you did to professor Snape because we couldn't revive him.
''Don't worry, Snape will wake up before Monday.'' Harry said. ''At least I thinks so.'' He added after that sounding totally unconcerned
Daphne said. ''I think we wasted enough time on this, let's go.''
This time the headmaster didn't interfere when they were leaving. It wouldn't do if the public saw him arguing too much with the boy.
The first stop after they had left the castle was Gringotts, they had some shopping to do during the weekend and they needed their money for that. First they got to their vault. A journey Lucy greatly enjoyed, because she asked if they could ride it again some times. After that they exchanged their Galleons for pounds.
The next destination for the three was Greengrass manor were they left Lucy in the care of her grandparents for the day. Daphne had after that apparated to her home in Milham. When she was there she checked the work the elf's had done and started the long process of adding her own security wards to it.
Harry however had another destination. He put a notice-me-not spell on himself and then apparated to street with houses that all looked almost exactly the same. He had apparated to the place where before the war his worst memories came from. He had apparated to Privet Drive.
He walked up to number four, knocked on the door and let the notice-me-not spell on himself fall. Moments later a person stood in front of him he hadn't seen in many years.
''Yes, can I help you?'' The person asked.''
''Hello aunt Petunia'' Harry greeted the person standing in front of him casually.
Daphne had been busy constructing the wards now for over a hour. It was strange for her to see the house she had lived in for the last couple of years, yet it was slightly different. All the security had to be reapplied again too.
Suddenly she heard a pop nearby and she turned to see Harry appear holding a large stone. She had offered to go with him, but he had told her that this was something he had to do on his own. ''I see you were successful.''
Harry nodded. ''Let's put up as much as we can today. Then we can go shopping tomorrow.''
They worked for a couple of hours more before they called it a day. They apparated back to Greengrass manor where they had lunch. During lunch they told the real story of Harry's godfather, Sirius Black and of his upcoming trial. Lord Greengrass promised them that if the story proved to be true then he would support them in the wizengamot.
The next day was spend shopping for furniture for their home. They couldn't take the furniture of their in the future with them because even with shrinking charms there were limits to what they could take with them.
The shopping proved to be a wonderful experience for the three Potters. It was the first time as far as Lucy could remember that she ever was in places like that. The two elder Potters were just glad to be to walk in the open without any immediate death threat.
After dropping the stuff at their home they had one last meal at the Greengrass household and after promising to visit soon they left for Hogwarts.
On Monday morning they allowed Lucy to have a lie-in. The first class of the day was Potions and it was decided that is wasn't wise to have to have three Potters in the same room as Snape. They also didn't want her anywhere close to defense against the dark arts professor. So they wouldn't see her anymore until lunch. After making sure that Tammy would watch her and give her breakfast when she was awake they left.
They made their way over to the dungeons and waited for Snape to appear while having small talk with Hermione and Tracey.
One minute before it was time the door to the class local opened and they heard Snape say. ''Enter.''
Once everyone was seated Snape began one of his favourites hobby's. ''A Mr. Potter how nice to see you again. I hope that you got somewhat smarter after a decade.'' He said, after a moment pause he added. ''Somehow I doubt it.''
He turned his attention to Daphne and said, ''And Greengrass how disappointing of you to marry a Potter, I am sure you had your reason, but surely you weren't that desperate.''
Daphne gave the man a smirk and said. ''What can I say professor? Potter-man are irresistible after all.''
Harry had to stifle a smile at hearing his remark. The comment was a obviously reference to Snape one-sided love for his mother.
''Potter men are nothing but arrogant, useless, ...'' Snape began ranting.
''Snape I will not listen to you take you pity grudge against my father out on me. I know what you did during the war. I also know who pointed Voldemort to the one who is born as the seventh month dies. So I really recommend you don't test me.'' Harry warned in a low voice.
Snape paled considerably when he heard the part of the prophecy. No one was supposed to know about that except for Dumbledore. If the brat knew that then he most likely also knew his involvement in the death of his parents. And unlike his fourteen year old counterpart this Harry Potter wielded considerably more influence. Perhaps it was for the best not to antagonise him too much.
He sneered at them and addressed the entire class. ''Today we are making are making the draught of peace. The instructions are on the board, you have a hour the time. Begin.''
Everyone began making the potions, most of the people looked every other moment at the instructions to make sure they didn't make any mistakes. Hermione, who shared the table with Harry, Daphne and Tracey noticed that neither Potters even once looked at the instructions. And sometimes they did things that weren't in the instructions.
''How are you doing that.'' She hissed at the two.
Daphne raised her head from her cauldron. ''What do you mean?''
''You two haven't looked once at the instruction. Yet you seemed to know exactly what to do. Even if some of the things you do aren't on the board. Your potions still looks like they are supposed to according the instructions.''
''Potions making is more than following a recipe Hermione.'' Harry interjected wile continuing his own work. ''Certain ingredients give certain reactions, while others cancel certain effects out. The same goes for the numbers of times your stir and the heat you make you potions on. If you understand what each ingredient does to a potions then you can basically create any potion without a book. As long as you understand how the potion works.''
''And when are we thought that?'' Hermione asked intrigued.
''It isn't taught at Hogwarts. I am sorry, but the whole 'instructions are on the board you have so long the time' will continue to the end of your seventh year. I learned it at a summer-course offered by Salem Institute of Magic during the summer in-between my fifth and sixth year.''
''Summer-course?'' she asked questioningly.
'' They offer specific courses for anyone who want to learn a subject better. As long as you are magical and pay, they don't mind who you are or if you are currently attend another school.''
''I didn't even know such thing existed.'' Hermione admitted.
''I didn't either. Daph informed of its existents.'' Harry said. ''Foreign schools aren't allowed to advertise or recruit in Britain. So it is no surprise that you don't know of it.''
''Why aren't they allowed?'' Hermione asked. ''Wouldn't be better if we got a choice?''
Harry shrugged. ''Probably to protect Hogwarts reputation. They say that Hogwarts is the best school and I thought that too until I visited Salem. That place is without a doubt a superior school. Anyway we should probably shut up now. Snape is glaring pretty hard at us.''
Hermione glanced towards were Snape was standing and quickly went back to her work after seeing him scowl.
The rest of the lesson was spend in silence. When the lesson ended the four of them put their potions in a vial and put it on Snape's desk. Harry had added a unbreakable charm to his vial out of force of habit, but it proved not necessary.
After they said their goodbyes to Tracey. The trio along with the rest of the Gryffindors made their way over to the defence against the dark arts classroom. If Harry remembered correctly they had spend this period on working to throw off the effects of the Imperius curse.
His memory proved true when the fake Moody started putting people under the Imperius curse making them do things. Harry was sickened when he saw most of the class laughing at the antics of their classmates. They had no idea what this curse could truly do. To completely rip someone free will away and make them do things completely against their will. This curse was most likely the most dangerous of the three so called unforgivable. The killing curse could kill, but with the Imperius you could just make someone else do it.
When it was Harry's turn he effortlessly fought the curse off. His younger self had already shown that he could throw it off with some difficulty, so there was really no point in hiding.
When it was Daphne turn she too was able to fight it off. After some bad experience curse with the curse she had allowed one of her allies to keep throwing the curse at her until she was able to throw it off.
Charms lesson were pretty entertaining for everyone. They had to practice both the summoning and the banishing charm on pillows. Of course with all the pillows flying trough the classroom it was only a matter of time until the less mature of the group turned it in a large pillow fight. Lucy absolute loved it. Especially when her mommy banished one of the pillows to the back of the head of the one who had been shouting at mommy and daddy before they left to grandpa and grandma, with enough force to send him flying forward.
After Lunch Lucy joined them again for transfiguration. McGonagall kept close watch over all three of the Potters during the lesson, she probably wanted to see if Lucy preformed magic again. Unfortunately for her she didn't get to see anything. That was because they were practicing vanishing spells again. And this time everyone except for Ron managed to perform it. Resulting in Lucy only watching the people perform magic. Harry personally thought they all had practiced because they didn't want to lose to a little girl.
Tuesday was a relaxing day for the Potters, they had only two subjects that day. Ancient runes that wouldn't start until one o'clock and astronomythat wouldn't start until midnight.
After they had gotten ready for the day, Harry announced that he was going to fly. Daphne knowing his love for flying agreed that it was a good idea, since they needed to relax from time to time. Daphne herself decided to visit her sister since she too had the morning off and spend some quality time with her after so long.
''Can I can come with you, daddy?'' Lucy asked in a hopeful tone.
"Of course.''Harry agreed. He gave Daphne a kiss goodbye and when he saw her warning look he assured her he would fly careful with Lucy on the broom. Knowing his skill with flying, she relented her warning look and wished them both a good time.
''Do we have to be invincible again?'' Lucy asked, while they walked down to the stairs to the entrance hall.
''Invisible,'' Harry corrected her. ''And no, we don't have to become that again. This time it doesn't matter if people see us.''
When they reached the grounds, Harry took out his shrunken broom for his pocket and enlarged it to its original size. In his hand he held the Lightningflash, the successor of the Firebolt. He had bought the broom after Sirius had died. He didn't want to lose one of the few things he had received from the man, like he lost his Nimbus the broom was drastically superior to his predecessor didn't hurt either.
He let go of his broom and it automatically stayed hovering in the air. He then picked up Lucy and put her on the broom while he himself climbed behind her. She used both her hands to hold onto the broom, while he used one of his hand to hold her around the waist and the other to hold and control the broom.
He kicked off and for the next hour, they raced around, went up high and shoot back down, made barrel roles and loops. He didn't go as fast as could go since only had a single hand to control the broom, but he didn't really mind, it was still nice to be back up in the air. And Lucy seemed to have enjoyed herself, if the enormous grin on her face was something to go by. He only hoped Daphne had watched out of a window when they made that one dive, he didn't think she would appreciate it.
They started to land when Harry saw some familiar people below waving at him. When they landed Lucy, observed the three people who they had landed next to, curiously. She wasn't completely sure, but she was pretty certain she had met the three before.
''Lucy, they are the people I played with on the Quidditch team, Angelina Johnson, Alicia Spinnet and Katie Bell. You have met them before, but has been a while so I am not sure if you remember them.'' Harry told his daughter before turning to his former teammates. ''Ladies, this is my daughter Lucy.''
Katie snorted, ''I highly doubt there is anyone in magical Britain who doesn't recognize her Harry.''
''Anyway,'' Angelina commented '' We saw you flying and decided to come see how you are doing. And maybe we can get some information out of you regarding next year's season.''
''You know if you ware Wood then I am sure he wouldn't have asked so nicely.'' Harry commented dryly.
Angelina gave him a mock glare. ''Don't even compare him to me. I will never be as fanatical as him about Quidditch.''
'I remember you channeling Wood pretty often during my fifth year.' Harry thought inwardly. Out loud he said. ''We will see.'' After a moment he added, ''Good luck next year, you two, you will need it with your new captain.''
''As for information regarding next season?'' Harry continued before they figured out which two he was talking about. ''Normally I wouldn't talk about what will happen in the future, but since my leaving the school next year already affects the team, I will give you this piece of information. The replacement for Wood was for lack of better words a terrible player. He had potential, but had some serious confidence issues that curbed his abilities as a keeper. My recommendation is that you recruit a new seeker and keeper and possible a couple of reserves and continue training this year. Because there is no cup this year, the other teams don't train, but if you train the entire year …''
''Then we have players with more experience and we have allowed our new players some time to train without the pressure of upcoming matches.'' Angelina finished for him.
Harry nodded, he was pretty sure the other teams would start training again too if they saw that the Gryffindor team did it, but that didn't really matter, the most important part of starting this year were the new players.
''Hey Harry, I was wondering,'' Alicia said. ''That broom that you are holding, it looks like your Firebolt, but it looks slightly different. What's up with that?''
Harry held his broom so that all three of the chasers could see it. ''That is because this isn't my Firebolt, it is a Lightningflash.''
''Can't say I have ever heard of it.'' Katie commented.
''I would highly surprised if you did. They didn't even start development until of this broom until February next year.''
''Then how did you….'' Alicia began before she had a realization. ''Right time traveler.''
Katie then noticed, that the little girl, Harry had introduced as Lucy was hiding behind her father, only her head looked past him.
Harry noticing the chasers gaze said. ''She didn't often meet new people, so it is a bit overwhelming for her.''
Katie nodded and got down to eye level with the child and smiled at her. She had some experience with children since her older sister brought her young son over to her parents house to watch over him occasionally and she had learned that a child felt better if you were on equal height as them. ''Hey I am Katie, I am a friend of your daddy. Do you like to fly too?''
Lucy got behind her father legs, the lady was nice and after seeing the smile, the feeling that she knew her and could trust her increased. ''I am Lucy, I really like to fly. I even have my own broom, but It can't go really high and it won't go as fast as daddy's.'' She said happily until she got to the last part there she sounded a bit dejected.
Harry placed a hand on her shoulder and said. ''You can have a real broom when you are a bit older. I didn't fly in a real broom until I was eleven either. ''
Addressing the three chasers he said. ''Anyway, it was nice seeing you girls again. Maybe we can have a couple of friendly matches during the year, but for now, it is almost lunch time, so I will see you girls later.''
After a lunch, they made a quick trip to Tracey's room who had offered to look after Lucy during Ancient Runes. Since Runes was a mostly theory based subject and Tracey wanted to know the little girl a bit better. She didn't have any classes at the moment anyway and the only other thing she would be doing otherwise was her homework. So the offer was quickly made.
The Runes class, Harry had to admit was very interesting. The teacher had been sceptical to allow a student in her class, who had never taken a class in the subject, she had originally intended to ask the man a couple of questions to gauge his level, but that turned in two hour discussion involving the entire class regarding several different types of runes and their applications.
After the class ended they met up with Tracey and Lucy in the great hall. Tracey seemed to have taken a liking to the young girl.
Astronomy was, in Harry's opinion just as pointless as the last time he had it. As far as he knew the subject was only useful for two thing; rituals and divination. He wasn't even sure why this was a core subject since almost all rituals are illegal in Britain and divination was a elective. At least he didn't need as much sleep as he did back then.
On Wednesday they began with Care of Magical Creatures. It had been a class he had both been looking forward to and been dreading. He had honestly missed Hagrid. He may have been a staunch Dumbledore supporter. He was still one of the kindest people Harry had ever met. Unfortunately he had also a rather different view on what was harmless in comparison what other people thought. One of the things he thought were harmless were the reason Harry was dreading the class so much and why they left Lucy with Astoria who had the first period free.
''Class, today we continue with finding out what the Blast-Ended Skrewt likes to eat.''
Harry groaned, this was one of the reason why he highly considered trading Care of Magical Creatures for arithmancy. Unfortunately he couldn't do that to Hagrid and from what he had heard arithmancy was even more boring than history for magic.
In the end, he managed to go through the lesson unharmed. This might come due to the fact that his clothes were a lot sturdier then normal clothes and were fire-proof to a certain degree. He even got to introduce Daphne to Hagrid. And after insuring that she isn't evil just because of her house. He eventually warmed up to her.
After Care they were supposed to have history for magic, but they skipped that since the teacher never took attendance anyway. It would probably not even notice if the entire class was empty. Besides if you want to sleep you could just do it in your own bed instead of on a uncomfortable table.
Charms was another fun lesson, although the professor was a bit more stricter this lesson. He didn't mind that the students had some fun occasionally, but they still had to learn. The rest of the lessons of the lessons that week were similar to the ones earlier that week. The only remarkable things was that in transfiguration now everyone was able to vanish their slug. Harry was pretty sure it took longer for the class the last time around.
After their final lesson they made their way back to their room. Harry and Daphne changed in their formal robes with the Potter crest on it and made their way to the entrance hall.
Waiting there was Hermione. During the week Harry had exchanged several letters with Madame Bones and when she found out that Hermione also saw Pettigrew alive, she wanted her there as an additional witness.
''So are you ready?'' Daphne had asked after they had passed the gates of Hogwarts.''
''I think so. I couldn't find too much information about how trials work in the library, but from what you guys told me I only have to stand in the witness box when requested, answer some question and possibly give up a memory.''
''A copy of it.'' Daphne corrected. ''You don't actually lose it.''
''Oh,'' Hermione responded. How are we going to get there anyway? Floo network? Nightbus? Portkey?''
''We are going to apparate.'' Daphne said. ''Do you know what it is.''
''Yes, I read in a book that..'' Hermione began.
Daphne interrupted her by saying, ''Right that was a stupid question. I assume you have no experience with the practical part?''
Hermione shook her head, ''No, I thought you needed a licence to do it.''
''We will take you by Side-Along Apparition. You just have to hold my arm tightly and I will apparate both of us.''
Hermione took hold of her arm. ''Like th..'' Hermione managed to say before Daphne apparated both away.
''Come on lets follow them.'' Harry said while picking up his daughter and following his wife lead. When he arrived he saw Hermione glaring at Daphne and Daphne was grinning at her. ''Welcome to Greengrass manor.'' She said.
Completely ignoring Daphne's words Hermione snapped. ''You could have warned me, instead of leaving in the middle of my sentence.''
''Forgive my daughter, she sometimes acts a bit rash.'' Hermione heard of voice say to the side of her.
Hermione for the first time since arriving averted her gaze from Daphne and toward were the voice came from.
She saw a couple standing just before a open gate. Behind them was one of the largest houses she had ever seen. Remembering her manners she said. '' Mr. and Mrs. Greengrass it is nice to meet you. My name is Hermione Granger.''
"It's nice to meet you too Ms. Granger.'' Samuel Greengrass said. ''Unfortunately we don't have time for pleasantries since we have a Wizengamot to attend. Are you three ready?''
"Yes, I received a message yesterday that the last part of my plan is in place so we are ready.'' Harry answered.
Daphne crouched down to eye level with her daughter and said with a smile. ''Your daddy and I are going with grandpa to the ministry for a while. Have fun with grandma and behave.''
''Okay!'' Lucy replied while smiling innocently.
After saying their goodbyes, two Potters, a Greengrass and a Granger apparated to a apparition point within the ministry specially reserved for Wizengamot members and their guest.
Off all the things Harry had encountered in the magical world the Wizengamot was by far the most logic defying place. Almost everything that was important in the county was voted on in the Wizengamot. This includes the punishment for criminals and the making of new laws. Now where things get really weird is how the votes are divided. The most Ancient and Noble houses hold fifty percent of the votes. This is divided equally between the houses. So the other most Ancient and Noble houses get more power every time most Ancient and Noble house dies out. Half of the reaming votes go to the so called Noble houses. The noble houses are the houses who have significantly contributed to society. Unfortunately this also includes a lot of families that saw the sudden need to give large donations and the end of the war. Fortunately unlike the most Ancient and Noble seats, the noble seats aren't heritable. The last reaming twenty-five percent of the votes belong to the ministry themselves. Who is represented by several department heads, the minister himself and his senior undersecretary. Finally there was a Chief Warlock. It was his or her task to oversee the meetings and to make sure they stayed on topic. The position itself held no real power. It is usually occupied by a someone who is already a member of the Wizengamot. The current Chief Warlock is Albus Dumbledore of the Noble house Dumbledore and former acting head of the most Ancient and Noble houses of Potter and Black. The biggest flaw in Harry's opinion is that you are still a member until you are found guilty of a severe crime. Members of the Wizengamot were literally allowed to vote for their own innocence. That is why Harry never understood why voldemort didn't try to grab power with politics.
Harry, Daphne and Samuel entered the room where the Wizengamot meeting would be held today. Leaving Hermione behind with a Auror since she had to wait in a separate room until she was called up.
Upon entering Harry let his eyes drift around the room. The room was build up similar to a auditorium. At the very front of the room was a chair, Harry remembered sitting in himself at one point. This was the chair were a accused sat on. There was a bit of open space then came the first chairs. The first couple of rows were reserved for public and press when they were allowed to attend. The chairs looked uncomfortable and were made of cheap material. Going higher than that you got the seats for the Noble houses. The seats of the Noble houses were of significant better quality and had the name of the family on it. Going even higher than that you got the seats that the ministry held. They too had comfortable chairs of similar quality as those of the Noble houses. Here was also were the seat of the Chief Warlock was. And finally on the highest row were fifteen chairs that could easily pass of as thrones. On the chairs were the coats of arms of the families.
The three of them made their way over to the highest row under a lot of stares and whispers. Samuel sat down in the Greengrass seat, Daphne sat down in the Potter seat and Harry sat down in the Black seat.
After waiting a additional ten minutes waiting everyone was seated and Dumbledore stood up from his seat. He wasn't aware what was about to happen, but when he saw Harry and Daphne enter he was sure they would complicate things for him again.
''Welcome everyone to the fourth fifth meeting of the Wizengamot of the year 1994. We are gathered here today on request of Madame Bones. She as head the department of magical law enforcement had found some interesting things in of her cases which she wish to address today. Madam Bones you have the word.''
''Members of the Wizengamot as many of you probably will remember Sirius Black was sentenced to live for the betrayal of the Potters and the murder of thirteen muggles and one wizard at the end of the war. I however have recently came in the procession of evidence that proves he is innocent.'' Bones said.
Suddenly she was interrupted by a toad like woman who loudly exclaimed "Black was proven guilty, this farce of a trial is just a attempt for more attention from that half-blood Potter brat.''
''I assure you madam Umbridge that I personally examined the evidence and I believe this trial is necessary and please use the proper titles while we here.'' Bones said with a obvious annoyed look at her face.
Umbridge gave her a creepy smile and said. ''Of course, I just don't want everyone to waste their time.''
The DMLE director continued while trying to erase the mental scaring image of a smiling Umbridge. ''As I was saying we have found evidence that proves Black is innocent.'' She pulled out a paper and with a flick of her wand all the people in the dungeon had a copy. ''What you have for you is the will of the late lord and lady Potter. The will clearly states that Sirius Black was not the secret keeper of the Potter instead it was Peter Pettigrew.''
Lord Nott stood up and said. ''This is preposterous, it was well know that Black was the secret keeper and even if he didn't betray them he still killed Pettigrew.''
''It may have been a well known rumor but that doesn't mean it has to be true. We all know that information in that time wasn't really reliable.'' Bones replied. ''As for killing Pettigrew, I have obtained a memory of a meeting between Black and Pettigrew last year.''
After she had said that, she gave the memory vial she received from Harry to one of her aid. The aid Put it in a special pensive that would show the memory above it.
The pensive projected the meeting between Harry, Hermione, Ron, Sirius, Pettigrew, Remus and Snape. It showed the room that the rat was alive. It also showed his confession that he was the one who killed the muggles and had framed Sirius by transforming in to his rat form. It also showed in front of both a full Wizengamot and several journalist how utterly incompetent Snape was. From him completely ignoring what the occupants in the room was saying, to his deranged look with the prospect of a dementors kiss for both Black and Lupin and finally him being blasted away by mere disarming hexes cast by third year students.
There was silence after the recording ended. Most members of the Wizengamot had troubled faces. They knew he was innocent, but if they would vote him innocent then they had to admit that they had made a mistake.
One of the lords of the Noble houses stood up and said. ''Although this evidence is interesting I am afraid it is not enough. We can't be certain of his innocence if we don't have better evidence. We all know that memory's can be fabricated.''
Harry stood up and said. ''Madam Bones, yesterday I found another witness besides the one who gave the memory. Do I have got permission to get him here?''
''If this involves the case than yes.'' Bones replied.
"Tammy.'' Harry said.
With a pop the house elf appeared next to him and bowed. "What can Tammy do for master?''
''Please bring our guest here.'' Harry ordered.
The elf made another bow and moments later she was back. When she came back she was holding a man with long black hair. She let go of the man and with another bow and pop she was away.
''Hello again Sirius.'' Harry greeted the man.
Pandemonium broke out when the people recognized the wanted mass murderer.