AN: I hope you enjoy!
*** Fudge's office
"No Amelia, you most certainly cannot!" said the Minister as firmly as a man of his stature could.
"Yes I very well can and you can't stop me."
"Why are we even here anymore?" wondered Harry.
Amelia Bones had exceeded expectations and found enough evidence to get SIrius a trial at the very least. Legally, there was no reason for them to still be in Fudge's office, but he had insisted on trying to talk Amelia out of the interview.
The third auror, Bevis strode into the room, looking like he was on the brink of death. He coughed up blood, before pulling something out of his pocket, his arm shaking as he did so.
"Ah, the aspirin, finally, I need one about now!" Amelia said, smiling for the first time that day. She snatched the thing from Bevis' outstretched hand.
It was bubblegum.
"WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS!" Amelia roared.
"Oh, you see, I was on my way to the store but there was this cat that was sitting all funny, so I went up to the cat and I was like, I'm an auror, so sit properly cat, and the cat was like MEOW!, so I was like-"
Amelia stupefied the auror before adding a Petrificus Totalus, a Jelly Legs jinx and literally all of the schoolyard hexes and jinxes that she could think of.
She looked around at the present company.
Fudge had fainted.
She looked at Harry and Dick.
"Say a word of this to anybody and you will be worse off than him" She gestured to Auror Bevis.
*** Courtroom
"This is an emergency meeting of the Wizengamot, called by Madam Bones, under her authority at the head of the DMLE."
A man with shoulder length blond hair spoke silkily.
"May I enquire as to why this meeting was called."
"I am unaware of the reason, Madam Bones was… abrupt in her conversation with me." said Albus looking disgruntled that he did not actually know what was going to be discussed.
Amelia cleared her throat.
"We are here for the trial of Sirius Black…"
The reaction was immediate. The uproar was humongous.
The entire crowd was yelling angrily, the only person who thought about it rationally and came to the right conclusion was Albus.
He paled and nearly fell out of his chair.
"SILENCE!" called out Amelia.
A toad-like woman in the first row cleared her throat loudly.
"Why, Madam Bones, Sirius Black had already had his trial and been deemed guilty by this very committee. The only reason why there would be a retrial administered is if, pardon my assumptions, you were in league with Black yourself but I'm sure that you have a better reason."
The toad smiled, her unsubtle sarcasm obvious to all but the three aurors standing behind Amelia.
"Of course. The truth is, Sirius Black never receive a trial. There exist no trial records. He wa signed off straight to Azkaban on my predecessor's authority, and now I'm using the same authority to grant him the trial that he never received. Auror Vibes, bring in the prisoner.
The auror walked in, proudly holding… a prank wand that promptly turned into a duck when everybody in the Wizengamot looked at it.
At the opposite end of the room stood Sirius Black, spinning his shackles around on his right pinky finger.
"You really need better security."
Amelia frowned.
Vibes blushed.
Sirius grinned weakly and walked to the trial chair and let it shackle him.
"Let my trial begin."
"Sirius Black, you are charged with association with a forbidden terrorist group, and 14 counts of murder, how do you plead?" Amelia intoned, feeling like she had said the exact same words a billion times over in other 'universes'.
'God, I AM going crazy…' she thought.
"Not guilty." said Sirius feeling cliched.
"Do you submit to questioning under Veritaserum?"
"Yes."
Veritaserum was administered.
"What is your name?"
"Sirius Orion Black."
"Are you a Death Eater."
"If you bothered to look at my arm, you'd know I'm not a Death Eater."
"Did you betray the Potters' location to He-who-must-not-be-named?"
"No, that was Peter Pettigrew." Sirius spat out the words.
"Very well. All who think that he should be cleared of all charges and compensated by the ministry, please light your wands."
All of the light faction raised their wands, including a very faint looking Dumbledore. Most of the grey faction also raised their wands. A few of the dark faction raised their wands but most followed Lucius Malfoy's example and kept their wands firmly down and unlit.
"Sirius Black, you are hereby cleared of all charges and will be compensated 100,000 galleons by the ministry for the time you spent in jail under false charges. For exposure to dementors, you will be treated in St. Mungos hospital, the costs of which will also be compensated to you by the ministry."
Harry rushed out of the spectator stands and hugged Sirius.
"You MUST come to Gotham and meet my father!"
Albus walked up behind them, still looking somewhat peaky and shocked.
"May I be the first to congratulate and apologise, Sirius." said Albus, his grandfather face half on-half off.
Harry stiffened.
"Dumbledore!" he spat out with venom.
Sirius narrowed his eyes.
"What did you do to my godson!"
"Merely a Misunderstanding, Sirius, merely a-"
"He kidnapped me." spat out Harry, interrupting Dumbledore's sentence.
Dick walked up behind him.
"And if what ALfred says is true, he also got one of Harry's father's friends to try and guilt trip him into attending the Pigfarts school."
He glared at Albus as well.
Sirius pulled out a wand (that of auror Vibes, who left it sticking out of his back pocket) and brandished it at Dumbledore.
"If I hear you've been attacking my Godson again, I will personally kill you on behalf of James and Lily. Now, if you don't mind, I have 11 years of gifts and godfather-ness to make up for."
Sirius spun around and strode off in the direction of the exit, ignoring Amelia who was yelling for him to go to St. Mungos, and beckoning for Harry and Dick to follow him.
*** End of the chapter
An: I hope you enjoyed, thanks for the reviews.
Also, the reason the aurors are comically incompetent is because the funding for the DMLE has been cut multiple times by Malfoy and all of the people on his payroll to the point where there are only idiots left who will accept the dirt cheap pay and all of the seniors are retiring or switching to personal bodyguarding.
