A Glimmer within a trial

A/n: Well, the next part's out, and you didn't even have to wait very long. I would complain about the lack of reviews, but I realize that the author alert is down, so hopefully that is why I didn't get as many. Thanks to everyone who did review, you all are great!! This part has more of a plot, Yay!! Sorry if I have any grammar mistakes, lately I've been having quite a few, so sorry again. I know I have bad grammar; reading comprehension was my lowest in my ACT's (I only got a 20 on that part)!! Enough of my babbling.

A Glimmer within a trial

Part ii

Ginny immediately felt embarrassed as everyone's eyes fell upon her at her outbreak. She had heard all about the man in the room, but she never seen him face to face before. He reached out his hand to introduce himself, and she hesitantly shook it.

"Er, nice to meet you Mr. Black," she said shakily.

"Miss Weasley I presume? Please call me Sirius."

"All right, nice to meet you Sirius, then," she laughed nervously.

"Harry has told me a lot about you." While she was blushing, he added, "I must say you are quite the charmer."

"Thank you." Ginny was really starting to like Sirius. She couldn't believe just a few minutes ago she was frightened of him.

"Now that Mr. Black and Miss Weasley have been introduced, it's time to get to business," Dumbledore proclaimed. He continued once Ginny got seated. "I have asked you all here, because we could really use your help. As you know, with Voldemort back…"

"Say You-Know-Who," Ginny pleaded.

"No, we must acknowledge him as Voldemort. By calling him You-Know-Who, or He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named we are simply showing our fear of him," Dumbledore told her. "As I was saying, with Voldemort back, we could use all the help on our side as we can get. Sirius is a very strong man to have on our side, however he is unable to give us his fullest potential due to the fact that the ministry is continuously out looking for him. In order to give our side more support, and because of that little fiasco this summer, I have decided we need to give Sirius a fair trail to prove him innocent. Right now, we can't risk turning Sirius in for a trial because we have no evidence. This is where you four come in. You are the only one's who know about Sirius, and I need all the help I can get finding the proof we need to set Sirius free."

"So…it's all up to us," Harry asked.

"Well, you will have a little help."

"From who," Ginny asked.

"Don't tell me I have to help these ingrates," Snape snarled, walking into the room.

"Now Severus, you agreed to help. You won't be alone either. I have notified a couple others on Sirius' situation, and they have agreed to help." As Dumbledore stated this, Harry heard a knock on the door. Two women came in; one had dark black hair that stopped at her shoulders, and sparkling blue eyes. The other had long blonde hair, a lot like Kimberly's, and the same light blue eyes.

"Oh my God, Sirius," the black haired woman cried, rushing up to hug him. "Shelby? I can't believe it's you," Sirius exclaimed. Ginny noticed the blonde women start to rush up and do the same, but she hesitated as if something held her back. Instead, she bowed her head out of courtesy, and plainly stated, "Black." "Fahren," Sirius replied back. Ginny realized this woman must be related to Kimberly.

"I've missed you too, Severus," Shelby said, giving him a similar hug. Now Ginny thought she'd seen it all, and by the look on Harry's face, so did he. A friend of Sirius was hugging Snape? That was crazy.

"Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny, I'd like you to meet Shelby and Liberty. They are old friends of Sirius'. They used to hang out quite a bit with your mother Harry.

"Bless you child, your eyes are just like your mother's, and you have so much of your father in you," Shelby said soothingly to Harry.

"I miss your parents so much. Perhaps sometime we could share stories with you about our younger, wilder days," Liberty said. Ginny was curious as to why Liberty seemed so distant to Sirius if they were suppose to be such good friends.

"Now, we will meet in here at the end of each day to share our discoveries. Everything we share in this room I expect to stay in this room, got it," Dumbledore asked.

"Got it," everyone replied at once.

"Now kids, I understand that you have a lot of studying to do this year. I just ask you to do as much research you can in your free time." They all nodded their heads in agreement. "See you tomorrow then," Sirius turned into a black dog, and Dumbledore lead them all out of his office. Ginny noted that by the time they got down the stairs, it was time for breakfast.

"Aunt Liberty," Kimberly yelled, running toward them. "What are you doing here?"

"I was just on some business," Liberty told her. "Are you still planning on coming up for Christmas dear?"

"Yes, can't wait."

"Good, your friends are invited also if they'd like to join."

"That'd be great, what do you think guys?" They all agreed it would be fun to spend the holiday together, and Ginny was interested in hearing about Liberty's story. There had to be some reason she and Sirius were acting so uncomfortable around each other. She turned to Harry, and he seemed to be thinking the same thing. Kimberly decided to go to breakfast with her aunt, so Liberty could meet Neville.

"So…what did Mrs. McGonagall want," Harry asked her as they sat down at the breakfast table.

"What do you mean?"

"Before you came upstairs. She stopped you so she could talk to you."

"Er, nothing important," she didn't want to worry Harry over nothing, she was pretty sure she didn't want to go to Beauxbatons.

"Did you notice the awkwardness between Sirius and Liberty," Ron said laughing as he took a seat across from Harry.

"Yes, I have quite a few questions I'd like to know about those two," Hermione said, joining into their conversation.

"And why did Shelby hug Snape? It's not everyday you see a Gryffindor hug a Slytherin," Harry added.

They were still discussing their meeting with Dumbledore that evening, when they decided to go to the library to see if they could find anything to help them prove Sirius' innocence. They grabbed a few books, and sat on a table, looking through every book they could find.

"This book Wizard Trials might be of some use," Hermione said, picking up a book.

Ginny looked up from Potions Proving Innocence to see the Hufflepuff girl Ron was staring at the other day walk into the library, and sit on another table. Ron saw her too, and gazed over that way.

"Ginny, don't even think of talking to her," Ron whispered to her, so Harry and Hermione wouldn't hear.

"But, doesn't she look lonely," Ginny whispered back.

"I don't care, I don't want you near her, she creeps me out."

"Have you found anything yet," Harry leaned over to ask her.

"Nope, not yet. How about you?"

"No. Ron, Hermione, did either of you find anything."

"Nothing in Wizard Trials."

"If it wasn't for that stupid Wormtail," Ron hissed.

"Yeah, too bad we couldn't capture him. That ought to be proof enough," Harry said.

"You guys are geniuses," Hermione exclaimed giving Ron a hug.

Ginny caught on quickly, and gave Harry a similar hug. "Good thinking Harry."

Both boys looked confused, but happy for the unexpected praise. "All we have to do is find a way to capture Pettigrew when he is not around Voldemort," Hermione explained.

A/n: Weird place to stop, but I need time to think before I write any more. The next part will probably come out sometime during the Thanksgiving weekend. Please review…

One more interesting tidbit. In my last part, I was thinking of a last name for Kimberly, and the first thing that came to my mind was Fahren. About a day later, I was studying for German, and I realized it was one of my vocabulary words. I was like, der, I knew what it meant, it just didn't register in my head when I wrote it down!! Anyway, Fahren means "to travel" in German.

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