Harry was lounged in his living room with the five founder seaters, himself and Sirius Black. Sirius who had arrived last night, they were currently discussing the trial, which was set for a few hours from now. The problem was the entry.
"So how exactly is Sirius going to enter the Trial, as soon as he enters the ministry the kiss on sight order is going to take effect and he is going to die before we get there" asked Susan who was sat on a love seat with Neville, not one of them had noticed what type of seat it was.
Harry chuckled then replied, "That's easy he will go in Padfoot form"
Luna who was dreamily looking around the manor said, "Padfoot form works for Stubby"
Ignoring her, Hermione spoke, "that'll work, and he will have to register of course afterwards"
Sirius chuckled, "I am registered, all four of us are, and we registered in France so you don't find us in the public record, but makes it legal"
"Oh", Hermione replied
Harry turned to her and said, "Hermione you have to remember that when we are there, this isn't your world, this isn't the muggle world with muggle laws, you have the seat to learn the way of our world"
Hermione smiled sadly, "I know"
"Just remember anything you do reflects on me, if you start raving about laws, I will have no choice but to kick you of the seat"
"I Don't Rave!" she replied hotly
"Do you understand!" harry asked cutting over her
"Yes" she answered quietly
"Good, right, on the seats of power, I can't interfere at all, actually I can't interfere before usually but because of the trial we setup I have that privilege. We all know and trust his story but this trial isn't for us, it isn't for our mind-set, it's to set him free in the public eye."
Nodding, they got up and prepared for the trial
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A couple of hours later, at 1 o'clock in the afternoon they arrived walking into courtroom ten, with the trial being posted publicly, the viewing boxes were full. The group walked forward, Sirius who was still in Padfoot form walked with them before stopping at the chained chair, when the six had taken seats, Sirius changed forms, causing shock then outrage when they realised he had the Wizengamot robes on.
After a moment Amelia took the podium, Dumbledore being unavailable that day, "Welcome to the trial of Sirius Black, for the Murder of James and Lily Potter, Peter Pettigrew and twelve unnamed Muggles, how do you plea?"
"Not guilty to all charges"
"Before we continue, Sirius is legally allowed to where his robes as he as yet has been charged, now please give him some Veritaserum."
Sirius opened his mouth and allowed the drops to put in, Amelia then spoke, "let it be noted he took the potion willingly, what is your name" directing the first question to the scribe, then next to Sirius
"Sirius Orion Black"
"When were you born?"
"Third of November 1959"
"Alright, check complete", "were you the Secret Keeper for James and Lily Potter"
"No, I let Peter be it, it would have allowed Voldemort to chase me and the secret be save". There was outrage at this statement, after a few shots from Harry's wand the hall quietened
"What happened in that street?"
"when I arrived going to confront wormtail, he shouted how could I betray James and Lily. He then blew up the street, cutting of his finger in the process, due to being knocked back I didn't have time to react as he changed form and proceed into the sewer".
"So you didn't murder Peter Pettigrew"
"No, wish I did though"
"Alright so, request to ask about escape of Azkaban"
"Seconded" said a voice from the Wizengamot
"How did you escape Azkaban?"
"I Transformed in my cell to Padfoot, then walked through the bars and swam to shore"
"How? you need a wand on person to transform?"
"No, the blacks all have slight Metamorphmagus abilities, it is enough to force a transformation"
"Why did you escape now and not earlier?"
"I received a newspaper that showed Harry was in danger"
Harry spoke up at this point, "Madam Bones, I perhaps can explain this better"
"If you can, I will need to confirm it though"
"Of course", he paused for breath then spoke to the courtroom
"Last year, sometime over the summer, Cornelius Fudge came to Azkaban for an inspection, due to the knowledge of being innocent Sirius was still sane, when he came upon Sirius who asked for the Newspaper in Fudge's hand claiming to miss the crossword.", he paused again allowing the room to soak this in, "what the original intention for the newspaper im unsure but as Sirius received the newspaper he found an article on the front page, the Article that showed The Weasley family winning the Prize draw last year, upon the youngest son's Shoulder was a rat, a Rat that was missing a finger of its front left paw", the Curiosity grew in the room but harry continued, "Sirius immediately knew I was in trouble, if Voldemort ever rose, if he ever came back a Death eater would be in perfect position to kill me, Perfectly placed to kill me whenever such time happened", he paused then explained further, "you see Sirius Black, Peter Pettigrew and James Potter", Harry's voice cracked at the last name, "all became Animagus in their fifth year to accompany Remus Lupin on his monthly trips at Full moon, under their care he became more human and more controlled", he paused again, "Sirius Black was a Dog, more like a Grim as you have seen on the way in, Peter Pettigrew was a rat, and James Potter was", he paused just for a second then said clearly thinking of Sirius's Freedom, "Expecto Patronum", A silver stag Broke out of his wand and cantered around the room then fading, after it faded he continued bringing all eyes from the spot where the stag faded to him, "A stag, so when he saw the rat in the picture he knew that Peter was alive and waiting for the moment to kill me, Doing what every Godfather does he tried to help, he broke out of Azkaban and made his way to Hogwarts, he slipped through the grounds and past the Dementors and into Hogwarts, at least twice to try and kill the Rat. Eventually he captured the rat, me, the Youngest Weasley and miss Ravenclaw here", pointing to Hermione, using here formal seat name, "Where we tried to send the rat to the castle, under guard at the time, it was the changing of a Werewolf that changed the outcome, allowing the rat to slip free". He finished
Amelia who was still shocked, turned to Sirius and asked, "Is this True, all points factual"
"Everything, all though at the time in Azkaban, I really did miss the Crossword"
The crowd chuckled, the Amelia spoke again, feed him the Antidote", when it was fed, she spoke again, "raise you wand if you think he should be cleared of all charges", all wands raised.
"Cleared of all Charges"
The Crowd shuffled out, followed by the Wizengamot members, including the now free Sirius Black. Once outside the courtroom, Harry and Sirius bid goodbye to the others then followed Amelia to the DMLE head office. When they arrived, she passed him a wand, some really old clothes and a small key that looked like it belonged to a motorbike.
Later that day you would be able to find two black haired men flying around on a motorbike, under an invisibility charm over the top of London, when they eventually landed in Potter Manor, in mid wales, several hours later, they dreaded the talk with Lily Potter, even if it was a Portrait.
When he entered the Study, Sirius who had conveniently needed the toilet, he was still dreading the talk. When he closed the door, Lily Spoke up, "how was the Trial, im guessing you did something fun, for it to take this long to get back"
Yeh we did, might do it again as well"
"What did you do?" she asked eying his nervous stance
"Well… you know Sirius has this Bike, this Flying motorbike?"
"Yes…." She said slowly, making Harry Gulp
"Well we flew it home, across the middle of London in broad daylight"
"WHAT!" she screamed, as James, Godric and Salazar roared with Laughter.
"SIRIUS ORION BLACK!" she screamed from the Canvas
"Oh no, triple name" Sirius Bolted into the room, wand out expecting trouble
When he saw Lily he smiled and said seductively, "oh, hey lily"
James spoke out, "hey that's my wife, stop it Pads"
Sirius whined then agreed, looking to Rowena, he started, but she cut him off, "if you even try, I neuter you"
He asked, "How you're a portrait?"
Rowena smiled evilly and looked at Harry, who groaned then said, "Go try use your charm on Amelia Bones, I know you had your eye on her, I really don't want to end the Black line"
"Then why Neuter me, she can't do anything about you not doing so" black said
"She could stop teaching me, and trust me I don't want that" then he added, "Is your famous black charm so bad that you can't hook up with a living person?"
"No" he said indignantly, "it works fine"
"Prove it" Harry Challenged, "go and get Madam Bones", "she's infamous for being Hard to get"
Sirius Puffed out his chest and left the room.
Harry spent the last few weeks mainly training in several extracurricular activities, with Sirius now free, the Weasley twins, Ron and Hermione all came every day for at least one hour to try and find their form. With Harry's Core shields being reinforced by Goblin magic, he had to spend a lot longer trying to weave and worm through his shields without destroying them. Harry had also started to learn about Mermish lungs, because their lung structure is similar to humans, he could copy theirs and then be able to breath underwater, he decided that he wanted to learn this when he remember that the Chamber of Secrets is beneath the lake, he wondered whether there was another entrance. He had also remembered the Prophecy and had submitted the memory to the Department of Mysteries, Fudge was now working overtime trying to keep it covered up. He had also gradually changed the letters he sent to Fleur, at first they were his Diary entries as such, but as time went on, she talked him through her day, what she did, now almost 8 weeks later, they were best friends, she knew more about his past and struggles more than Ron and Hermione, with them dating each other it had caused a strain on their 'Golden Trio' relationship, with it being to awkward with Harry there. Susan, Neville and Luna had also been invited to come and go everyday as well. Harry and Charlie had spent one afternoon in the Forest near Potter Manor, they had discovered that it was called Potter Wood, a Neutral Forest for all Magical Creatures, they had discovered a settlement that contained: Goblins, Centaurs, Veela and even werewolves. The Werewolves had been out of society for so long that they hadn't realised that there was now a method of controlling their other side, as they liked to call it. With the new recipe, Harry had forged a bond with the faction.
With Sirius now free he had decided to sort out the affairs of the Blacks, he had reintroduced Andromeda to the Family, and cancelled the Lestrange contract and kicked her from the Family. He had also issued a formal warning to Narcissa, that if Mr Malfoy decides to Re-join Voldemort, he would cancel the Contract. Since the trial, Remus had sent a letter then turned up, after meeting harry he had decided to join the werewolves into forest, so he could teach them the schooling they missed.
Harry was currently sat reading the letter fleur had just added to the folder, it contain information all about the tri-wizarding Tournament and that fleur was selected to go to Hogwarts in chance to join the tournament. Even though Fleur was a fourth year, she was amazing skilled a fire elemental magic, something of which Madame Maxime had hoped would help in the Tournament if chosen. She had asked him to continue to write when time came to hand in the folders.
His parents who were always sat above the folder, had noticed that harry became more happy whenever a letter came and was always eager to write back, each time spending more and more time on each letter, they smiled to themselves as they watched harry eagerly write another letter to this 'Fleur'.
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Dumbledore was walking up to Gringotts, it was the last day of term and he knew that harry had bought all his books, therefore no longer needing the gold in his vault, tomorrow it would be updated anyway, he had spent a long amount of time with the other school head teacher's Madam Maxime had wanted the age rule to be lowered, with careful though it would be a perfect opportunity to get the boy to learn more advanced defence, preparing him for his age. He didn't normally need the gold he took from the boy's vault, but with the need to keep the politics at a standstill till the defeat, it took a lot more gold than he had, causing him to take from the vault. It wasn't like it mattered anyway, unless he found a way of removing the Horcrux, the boy would die anyway. walking forward he met the Potter Vault Manager, he didn't personally know the Goblin, as long as he got his gold, none of that stuff mattered. When he was in front of the Goblin he spoke, "I am Albus Dumbledore, the Guardian of Harry Potter, I need to withdraw some gold for school supplies for him".
This was a standard speech that always worked with the Goblins, so he was Surprised when the Goblin replied, "no you're not".
"Sorry? What do you mean? no im not?" he asked, secretly hoping it wasn't what he thought it was".
"You're not his guardian, with the trial of Sirius Black, Sirius has taken place of guardian"
"what trial of Sirius Black", he had fall stalled the trial as much as possible but with the all the duties and the Tri wizard tournament he had left in the hope that fudge would not give one, beside the order for kiss on sight was still on, and Harry wasn't exactly going to walk into the Ministry was he?, he was sure the boy didn't even know where it was?
"There was Trial for Sirius Black, he was cleared and with the help of Lord Potter, he was granted guardianship over the accounts"
"oh", his mind which was still working on how this affects the chances of Harry winning against Lord Voldemort didn't register that the goblin said 'Lord Potter' not 'Mr Potter', still working on the problem he asked to see his vault, knowing that it was still full on the Dumbledore fortune and the Potter gold he had taken.
The Goblin replied again, in what was clearly a bored and irritated voice, "The Dumbledore account has been closed, with the mix of payments back to the Potter account, you did not have enough to keep said account open, we have removed all items from the vault for you", he passed Dumbledore a Book on Homosexual Relationships and ten galleons.
Dumbledore looked at the book and went a slight tint of pink, he had forgotten that he had bought the book in his youth, in the hope he could have a relationship with Gellart and keep the Dumbledore name going, only to be turned down by Gellart. Nodding sadly looking at the book, he left the bank hoping that this didn't mess up all his plans.
