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Once Dumbledore was gone she rounded on everyone. "I leave the floor open to suggestions as to what should be done about him. I want you to state what you think should be done about him in a calm and orderly manner!" she said as Dolores Umbridge stood while everyone waited for her to speak.
"To be honest Amelia I am indeed against some of what he said however some of it is true too. I mean for example he's hardly wrong when he says purebloods get all the best jobs here because they do. I was for a time head of HR here and I can guarantee that it is true. Often times the muggleborn students applying for jobs were better but the people on the judging panels with me wouldn't give them the better job because a prestigious pureblood also applied for it. We need to do something about that because I do believe purebloods should have the best jobs anyway but we need to find something useful to do with our muggleborn students so they don't feel too left out and revolt or something!" she said as a few people in seats around her nodded a bit in agreeance. Dolores while vile was right about some things. It did happen and it shouldn't happen.
Lucius Malfoy stood up then everyone looking at him. "To be honest whether we like it there is nothing cunning or even remotely good about our children getting good grades simply because the muggleborn students don't have the answers in their heads any more. If our children are not good enough then that is on them and not us. Possibly if we did stop whining a lot it would certainly help out. I know I'm guilty of it myself and I hold my hands up and say I am wrong" here he paused to gather his thoughts before continuing.
"From now on Draco is on his own and if he cannot get good grades by himself then his future career will mirror that. He will have to live with the consequences of his actions. I do believe however those muggleborn students he has erased the memories of should be given back their memories and allowed to test again to be completely fair. I will not have a pureblood in a position in here who got here simply because Albus Dumbledore is a cheater!" he snapped his ire rolling off him in palpable waves. He was quite clearly furious and his ire was affecting a lot of people in there who were indeed furious. Augusta Longbottom stood up next.
"What Albus Dumbledore has done is shocking indeed. The fact that he quite obviously obsesses so much about the destruction of Lord Voldemort that he cares nothing for Harry Potter or his welfare is simply not on. Now personally I have never believed he's truly dead but unlike what Albus just said I have never once thought that it should be Harry Potter who should kill the man. I have always thought it should be an interdepartmental affair where everyone bands together pooling their resources to get it done. Could I be so bold as to ask someone to read out the transcript of the Prophecy made all those years ago? It could have just as easily affected my Neville who was born on the 30th and I wish to know what it says!" she said as Amelia nodded in deep thought.
"Augusta you are right. I will ask for the transcript to be given to me and I shall read it out to you all. It would seem Albus Dumbledore clearly thought very highly of it and also thought we should too. I do admit to feeling remotely ashamed I didn't know of its existence until he mentioned it to us just now!" she said as the written highly confidential transcript of the prophecy was retrieved for the purposes of being read out in the trial. Auror Green left and returned with Unspeakable Croaker who handed over the transcript to Amelia. It read: The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches born to those who have thrice defied him…born as the seventh month dies and the Dark lord will mark him as his equal but he will have a power the Dark Lord knows not and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives… the one with the power to vanquish the Dark lord will be born as the seventh month dies.
Everyone who heard this gasped audibly. Harry Potter did have a scar after all but who could say for sure that the Dark Lord had given it to him. It could have happened from the falling debris in the explosion. Also Lily was well documented as one of the best people ever in their world at that time at runes. It was more then likely that she had built in the strongest rune cluster known to man in his cot to protect him. It did stand to reason that her sacrificing herself with pure love for her son would have made the protections in the rune charge and then work against even the foulest spells. In fact that was what had happened but a lot of people didn't know that. Dedalus Diggle stood then everyone looking at him to see what he would say.
"We must admit that while Harry Potter does indeed have a scar on his forehead it could have easily come from the blast which occurred in that cottage on that fateful Halloween night in '81. The point is we weren't there and as a consequence we all assumed Voldemort gave it to him. The point here is that Albus Dumbledore did state it was not his wish to kill the boy however I can indeed see he truly doesn't value his life at all. The life of Harry Potter I mean" he said pausing for a moment and wondering if he should say what he wanted to next. However as he looked around at everyone else he sighed as he would have no choice.
"I too have never viewed him as a soldier per say but I am guilty of thinking that should Voldemort ever return he'd be the one to do him in because he did so the first time. I feel very sorry indeed for my assumptions. I know he did something remarkable which has never been achieved before but I'd hardly be the first person ever to state that Lily Potter nee Evans was a prodigy at runes. I worked with her a few times and let's just say there was nothing she couldn't do. She even invented the now common runes for lighting items and hiding them from view should you wish to do so. Some of you may not know because I was asked by my boss at the time to keep it quiet but Lily had a mastery in runes and was a top warding expert already. Essentially I was told she'd liked studying a bit too much!" he said feeling relieved to have gotten it all off his chest. It was like a sort of weird therapy for him. As he glanced around the room he could see people also agreed with him.
"Yes Dedalus you are of course right. Even Albus Dumbledore himself like the rest of us assumed the scar had been from Voldemort and not falling debris. I highly doubt it was caused by Voldemort now because if it had been it would have been red, swollen and highly infectious. His scar although shaped like a lightening bolt is indeed feint and you have to be looking for it to even see it in the first place. I know I did when at the school. Now Mr Potter is here and I will have him escorted into the room should any of you wish to ask him something! I will be asking him some things myself too first!" she said as Harry Potter walked in coolly. He approached the witness stand and sat down calmly. Internally he was riddled with nerves but being a Slytherin house member would not allow him to show it one ounce.
"Welcome Mr Potter to the Wizengamot and trial of Albus Dumbledore. Can you please tell us calmly in your own words what he did to you earlier on?" she asked as he took a drink from the glass of water there for him to settle his nerves and also so he could speak clearly.
"Well he called me to his office for a chat and when I arrived there was a huge golden mirror which was loud and garish like him. He's about a subtle as a brick with those damn robes. When he asked me what I thought of it I told him I thought it was loud and garish a bit like him. I guess he didn't like it because he attempted to imperious me but wasn't successful. My family ring protects me from it. He managed to get me to stand in front of the mirror and then the spell essentially fell off me after being on me for like two seconds!" he said as everyone gasped.
"What did he ask you to do while he had cast the spell?"
"He asked me to look into the mirror and tell him what I saw in there. I saw myself and my best friend in the entire world Dean Shafiq both married to beautiful women and with six kids each but you see therein lies the problem. I don't know that I want to be married and would never ever want six children. When I told him his mirror was ridiculous and pretentious like him those images faded and I saw only myself smiling brightly which I told him. Something in his eyes changed all grandfatherly twinkles now gone from them. He was palpably furious. He cursed me and fed me a potion I don't know the name of. I basically couldn't feel anything!" he said as they all gasped at him.
"Please continue Mr Potter in your own time. Tell us all what happened next if you will!" she asked kindly as he smiled at her in thanks. She was being ever so patient with him and he really appreciated it.
"Yes of course Madam Bones. I think he had tried to obliviate me but my family ring protected me from it so I could remember him trying to do that. Then I was met with a starving and furious hell hound or Cereberus as you lot would know them. I was furious myself. This poor helpless beast told me all about how he loved Hagrid but said Hagrid had been abusing him and not feeding him properly! The disgust that flashed through me at that moment was palpable. I totally abhor the abuse of animals and will no longer be silent about it either. He asked me for food and told me about Acromantulas living in the forest which he wished to eat. He then proceeded to tell me that, that oaf Hagrid had called him Fluffy the damn fool. I summoned the acromantulas to him however as I hadn't specified the amount they all came there and tried to kill me forcing me into the now broken trap door below Fluffy. He essentially ate and killed all of the acromantulas so there are none left now!" he said as she asked him to again continue in his own time. He gathered his thoughts taking another drink as most everyone there looked at him with some level of pity. Dolores Umbridge looked furious in general but he couldn't tell if that ire was aimed at him or Albus Dumbledore.
"I had landed on a spongy plant which tried to wrap itself around me so I set it on fire to get it away from me. It was so creepy. Next I blasted through a door and found a chess set. I was mightily confused. Why would fluffy be guarding a large chess set. It truly made no sense. However I think I must have been terrified totally or something from my near death experience with the acromantulas that suddenly all I can remember is being blasted into a chamber containing a red ruby stone or the so called Philosopher's Stone. I then asked the head elf of Hogwarts to help me to the hospital wing. She gave out to me for even being there but then when she found out is was Professor's Dumbledore's fault she was furious with him. I have no idea what she did to him but I would not like to be him right now!"
"Thank you Mr Potter you have been most helpful. Did anything else happen to you?"
"Yes it did. Fluffy who I renamed Spike said he had bonded to me as my familiar and said I was the first person who could talk to him and attend to his needs properly unlike Hagrid who never had. Hagrid had never understood him at all and had been underfeeding the poor boy. I was never angrier or sadder. I mean that poor dog never asked for that kind of treatment!" he said letting out a small sob as a few tears leaked from his eyes shocking everyone present. It would appear as though he was more concerned about Spike and his welfare then his own.
"Why didn't our Caring for Magical Creatures teacher try and tell him how to raise him or something? I mean I didn't think to ask it at the time but I am indeed asking now. Thankfully Spike has his own warded paddock in the forbidden forest in which only I may enter now. He is free to roam and catch and kill any and all dark beasts in the forest but cannot in any way approach the school. It is perfect for him. I am now caring for him properly and he is beginning to gain back some of the weight that awful man Hagrid was making him loose. I want to know where in the hell he got it in the first place? Hagrid is not the smartest tool in the shed so why was he even able to get one? There should be laws against it if there are not! I will not stand for the bad treatment of magical creatures of any kind!" he said passionately as someone from the audience shouted out but what about what happened to you?
"Whoever that was I don't truly care about what happened to me. My ring protected me there but as I said what I want to know is why Hagrid the absolute fool was able to break so many laws? He didn't even pass through school properly I overheard someone say the other day. He's not that smart, someone is quite obviously helping him and I want to catch whoever that is. Someone was trying to kill him by supplying him with a dragon egg and a Cereberus. He lives in a wooden hut ladies and gentlemen. If that is not attempted murder I don't know what is. He had a dragon egg and I know this only because he was boasting to a Professor I don't know the name of about it but whoever she was she dismissed him!" he said as they all collectively gasped.
Lucius Malfoy stood then as everyone looked to him to see what he would say.
"Mr Potter I am Lucius Malfoy and my son is Draco Malfoy in Slytherin with you at school. I am a member of the Board of Governors who manages the school and often recommend people for the staff positions available. Before we get to my main question is there anything you think Hogwarts should have that it does not?" he asked addressing Harry who smiled.
"Yes indeed there is. History is taught by a fifty year old dead ghost who can remember no ones name or the fact that he has taught the same lesson for two weeks in a row. He thought we were fifth years until we told him otherwise. He needs to be replaced at once. Secondly why are some students allowed to come to school without their own wands because they cannot afford them? Not only is it dangerous but it should be supplied by the board of governors if it cannot be afforded by the family in question. I'd rather not get in trouble because they don't have their own wand sir. You really do need to be more involved in the hiring process of the school. Professor Binns sucks and while we're on the subject Professor Quirrel stutters so much in his lessons which are on DADA that I cannot take down notes. Please explain why someone who is terrified of his own shadow is teaching DADA? Does he do it on purpose to make us feel uneasy before he'll eventually start teaching the lesson properly?" he asked as Lucius was stumped.
"Well thank you for that. I will help to assign a new History teacher as soon as one can be found for you. As for Professor Quirrel I actually don't know anything about him so we will have to observe one of his lessons or something to see how he behaves first before we deal with him. He might be cursed or something so I might need to bring a curse breaker with me to his lessons. I will look into this I promise. Can I please ask you although probably not really appropriate how is my son in his lessons?" he asked as everyone else around him groaned.
"Thank you for looking into it. It is good to know the Board of Governors actually cares and hey now at least I can put a name and face to one of you if I should ever need to lodge a complaint in the future. Draco does fine in his classes. He's a bit highly strung and thinks a bit much of himself but he's quite good with me. It might be wise to remind him though that he's not a peacock and people don't fear you. He has already said that his father will hear about whatever it is a few times!" he said as Lucius groaned face palming.
"Now to my last question what would you like us to do Albus Dumbledore as he must be punished for his actions against you?" he asked as everyone sat forward more in their seats eagerly awaiting his response.
"Jail would do no one like him any good as I can see he would learn nothing from it. I don't wish him to die either. Might I suggest snapping his current wand so he needs to get a new one, erasing his memory of certain spells and taking over full control of all the hiring and firing of staff in his school as he clearly can't do it properly? Professors Binns and Quirrel being a case in point!" he said seriously as they all looked at him in awe. He had been far more lenient then they might have in his position. Maybe he was a truly light and good boy after all.
"Mr Potter before you go which spells wee you thinking of erasing from his mind if we do decide to do that?" Amelia asked him living his thought processes.
"Well I was thinking the spell to obliviate others and the three darkest spells in our world. This way he cannot make people forget what he does to them. Also I would like him to forget how to use legillimency and occlumency altogether. An older Slytherin has explained the terms to me so that is why I know of them at all. If he has less power he might be better off mentally as well but it's just a suggestion from me ma'am. I would never presume to tell you how to do your job!" he said politely as everyone smiled at him no one more then Lucius. Oh this was Slytherin and cunning at it's finest. Removing the memory of how to do spells and making him get a new wand. It would make him think he hadn't been punished at all.
"Thank you Mr Potter you have been most helpful. You may return to Hogwarts now dear and we'll let you know what has happened later on this evening in the mail. He will be held here overnight and then returned to the school in the morning pending on our punishment regime we choose!" she said as he thanked them all for helping him so much and left. As he left the room and the doors were closed she once more turned to everyone present.
"To be honest I couldn't think of a better punishment myself. To remove some of his power and yet allow him to keep the position believing he is very much still in control although he won't be would be an ideal punishment. Those in favour of doing as Mr Potter has asked of us light your wands now!" she intoned as every wand in the whole building lit up at once. He was then brought back into the room in the prisoner cage to await his sentencing.
"Mr Dumbledore for your crimes against Harry Potter your wand shall now be publicly snapped in front of you and you shall have to get yourself a new one on the way out. We feel that after this is done you may return to work!" she said obliviating him of the spells Harry had mentioned to them all at once and then snapping his wand in front of his face as he cried out in anguish.
"BUT THAT'S NOT… the Elder Wand! You've broken the Elder Wand. I cannot believe it! What shall I do without it now!" he moaned as they all looked at him in disgust.
"Mr Dumbledore as further punishment all hiring and firing capabilities now fall solely on the board of Governors. Mr Binns shall be removed from teaching as soon as possible and Mr Quirrel will be investigated. You will spend one night in a cell here and then you are free to go back to work. We are giving you a second chance here as you do yourself to many others. Please use it well!" she instructed as he was taken away again. The power of the elder wand however didn't die as it had passed on to Harry when he'd disarmed Dumbledore at the feast before and so he now still had all of it's powers within him not that he knew it of course. It had been a most interesting trial.