"It is your turn to listen, and I beg you will not interrupt me, be cause there is very little time," he said quietly. "There is not a shred of proof to support Black's story, except your word — and the word of two thirteen-year-old wizards will not convince anybody. A street full of eyewitnesses swore they saw Sirius murder Pettigrew. I myself gave evidence to the Ministry that Sirius had been the Potters' Secret-Keeper."

"Sirius has not acted like an innocent man. The attack on the Fat Lady — entering Gryffindor Tower with a knife — without Pettigrew, alive or dead, we have no chance of overturning Sirius's sentence."

"But you believe us."

"Yes, I do," said Dumbledore quietly. "But I have no power to make other men see the truth, or to overrule the Minister of Magic. …

Harry stared up into the grave face and felt as though the ground beneath him were falling sharply away. He had grown used to the idea that Dumbledore could solve anything. He had expected Dumbledore to pull some amazing solution out of the air. But no … their last hope was gone.

(Chapter 23 – PoA)

Power of Chief Warlock

"Why are you lying to us, Headmaster?" came a cold voice.

Harry turned to Hermione in shock. He had never heard her talk back to an adult before, and he had never heard her speaking that coldly before either.

"I beg your pardon, Miss Granger," asked Dumbledore.

"Aren't you the Chief Warlock on the Wizengamot?" she asked coldly.

"Yes, I am."

"Then why are you telling us you don't have the power when you yourself have the power to give an individual a trial," she thundered. "Or in Sirius' case, a re-trial."

At that moment, Dumbledore's face betrayed him, and Hermione saw the sudden but brief fear in his eyes. Understanding immediately, she started shouting.

"YOU DIDN'T GIVE HIM A TRIAL," she roared in fury. "That is going to change right now. Leave this room, find that damned Minister, and tell him that Sirius Black is now under your protection as Chief Warlock until he receives a trial."

"But, Miss Granger-," started Dumbledore.

"NOW," she roared in his face.

Dumbledore didn't waste any time. He left the room before Harry could blink.

He turned to his friend. Hermione seemed calmer now already, but Harry was not one for stoking the fire.

"Hermione," he said. "If there's one thing I've just learned it's that I should never, never get you angry."

"Thank you, Harry," she smiled. "But a piece of advice. Don't ever get any woman angry."

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Four Weeks Later

Albus Dumbledore was mad. No, he was beyond furious.

He had done what Hermione Granger demanded of him. He caught Cornelius on time before he summoned a Dementor and put Sirius under his protection. Sirius received his trial two days later. He was hoping to delay it until late August so that Harry could be at the Dursley's until then, or maybe four years when Harry turned seventeen. But Cornelius wanted it done and over with.

Sirius had been freed instantly after a Veritaserum trial. Peter Pettigrew was now being hunted. Dumbledore himself was being investigated by an ethics committee for his part in not giving Sirius a trial and incriminating himself by telling the Wizengamot lies that Sirius had been the Secret Keeper for the Potter's when he had no way of knowing it otherwise. His words that James Potter told him he was going to make Sirius the Secret Keeper wasn't accepted by anyone because it didn't verify that Sirius agreed. His reputation in the Wizengamot that he was fair and just had plummeted and now there was talk about replacing him as Chief Warlock as he didn't arrange a trail thirteen years ago.

But the absolute worst was that Sirius had obtained custody of Harry. He tried to convince Sirius to send Harry back to the Dursley's only to receive a punch in his chest. Sirius had lost his faith in Dumbledore after his trial since the old man didn't give him one all those years ago. And also because he found out from Harry how the Dursley's treated him.

Sirius Black was now somewhere unplottable with Harry Potter. He knew this because Fawkes had no idea what to do when he tried to send a letter. The Black's had a lot of unknown properties. There was no telling where he and Harry were

Albus knew he had to tread a thin line around Harry Potter now. Not because of Sirius. Not because of the Wizengamot.

It was because Miss Hermione Granger was terrifying.

AN: I never believed for a moment that Dumbledore wasn't powerful enough to overrule Fudge. The man was Headmaster, Chief Warlock and Supreme Mugwump. He is already practically the Minister. Running politics and education. I myself think he refused to give Sirius a trial (during PoA) because then Harry would have been able to live with Sirius instead of the Dursley's. I don't like the man, and I certainly don't trust him.