Lily glanced over at Sirius. His fists were clenched so tightly that his knuckles had gone white. His hollow expression was replaced by unformidable one. She leant over to him.

"He's on our side!" She whispered. He glanced back up at her, confused.

"Excuse me?" Fudge asked incredulously.

"You heard me. We found Pettigrew, Just in time as well it seems." Snape replied coolly. Fudge sat, opening and shutting his mouth like a goldfish.

"Wonderful. We can get right to questioning him now." Dumbledore said. He swished his wand and a rigid chair appeared right next to Sirius, who was glaring at Snape and the rat in his hand.

"On second thoughts, perhaps not the best idea.." Dumbledore said, swishing his wand again, this time the chair moved a few feet away from Sirius' chair.

"Wait a minute! You can't just come barging in here! How do we know that is not just a common garden rat!?" Fudge cried.

"Ah, I happen to know what to do. Severus, please place Pettigrew on the chair. Stun him first, though. we don't want him escaping now, do we?" Dumbledore said.

Once Snape had Stupefied Pettigrew, Dumbledore slowly stood up and made his way down to the chair.

"Place him on the ground please- I will use this spell to force him out of his animagus form. Ho-"

"Now wait! How do we know you won't just use a spell to disguise the rat as Pettigrew?" Fudge cried.

"Good point, minister. How about you ask someone you trust fully to perform the spell then?" Dumbledore replied calmly.

"Delores, you know the spell. you do it!" Fudge ordered. The witch stood up and sauntered down to them, she simpered at Dumbledore as she raised her wand at the stunned rat.

"Homorphus!"

A blue jet of light hit Pettigrew and he slowly morphed into the still form of Peter Pettigrew. Witches and wizards from around the courtroom gasped. Sirius, James and Remus all growled as Peter was dragged into his chair by the dementors stationed at the doors.

" Awaken him" Fudge ordered. A shocked umbridge brought her wand up to Peter.

"Ren- Rennervate!"

Peter jolted awake and looked around him, taking in where he was. He met The glares of Sirius, Remus, James and Lily and gave a squeak of fear.

"I think you recognise Severus Snape and Molly Weasley." Dumbledore said to Fudge.

"Erm, yes. Please step up and tell us how you found Pettigrew."


Snape and Molly walked up to the front, Percy clinging to Molly.

"Lily, Remus, James and I , over the past six weeks, have been looking for Pettigrew in his rat form. Lily's sister and I stayed back this morning, to look after Harry and Dudley, whilst the others attended the trial, when Molly flooed me and said she'd look after the children. I flooed to her house to give her the children when Percy ran in with his 'pet rat' that he had found recently. I recognised him immediately and, with Molly and Percy, we flooed here as quickly as we could."

Fudge nodded. "Would Mrs Weasley and Percy Weasley please step up."

Molly took in a breath and, with Percy clinging to her, stood up.

"Is this all true?" Fudge asked.

"Yes it is."

"And tell me, how you found the Pettigrew."

"It happened 7 weeks ago. We were at home when Percy came running in, he said that he had found a 'pet'. At first i was reluctant but Percy wouldn't take no for an answer, so he named him Scabbers and he's been living in our house ever since. " Molly said

"And were you aware, that this was not a normal rat?"

"No minister."

"Percy Weasley, how did you find, er- Scabbers?" Fudge asked.

"I was playing in the gawden when the wrat came to me. He was nice so I showed him to mummy." Percy said, meekly.

"uh huh, what did the rat do when you had him as a pet?"

"Nothing. He just sleeped and ate food." Percy replied.

Fudge nodded.

"Okay, thank you all, Please take a seat." Fudge addressed.

The group all sat down, squished onto the bench. Lily looked over at Sirius, who was straining against the chains, glaring daggers at the cowering Peter.

"We will now vote." Fudge announced. "All in favour of accused being guilty."

Delores Umbridge began to raise her arm, but, glancing at Fudge, quickly lowered it.

"All in favour of clearing accused of all charges?"

The whole jury raised their hands.

"Cleared of all charges." He announced. The chains sprung off of Sirius' body and not a split second later, The group had run off to Sirius. Sirius was knocked over by Remus, James and Lily and cameras went off everywhere. Lily noticed Dumbledore and Severus talking, before Severus discreetly walked out the courtroom and Dumbledore casting a spell which cast a small glimmer in the atmosphere. He too, then walked over to the group. He leant over to Lily.

"A memory charm, it wouldn't be advisable for future if severus was recognized as, well, one of the 'good guys'." He whispered to her.

"Attention!" Fudge yelled, pounding his gavel. The crowd all went silent. "The jury and I have discussed and we feel that there is no need for another trial, Peter Pettigrew is charged as guilty and is charged to a lifetime, in Azkaban. "

The two dementors glided forward and seized Peter, they dragged the struggling Peter out the other door and all was silent, except for the sound of cameras clicking, as the group watched.

"Sirius Black will also be paid 20 000 galleons in compensation and the animagus fee will be removed, however you will have to be registered by October. Session finished!" Fudge banged his gavel and stood up .

The group cheered as they led Sirius out the door.

Sirius was free.

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