Chapter 16
The Trial Of The Red Haired Turncoat
The trial of Bill Weasley (a.k.a. the red haired turncoat) took place yesterday, August 29th, at 10:00 AM. He was tried for treason and attempting to gain immortality for Voldemort. He was captured by the Order and confessed to being guilty under the influence of Veritaserum. He also claimed to have been threatened with his family's life. Before the Veritaserum wore off he muttered something like 'the light is gone' and had seizure-like convulsions. The trial proceeded as follows…
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August 29th
"Bill Weasley you are under trial to see if the sentence of a Dementor's Kiss still stands" says the man at the pedestal to the red haired figure slouching in a chair, arms and legs chained to it.
The man in the chair gulps and sits up slightly more though he is kind of drained from being in Azkaban for a couple days. He looks around at the people who are there. Four people with their faces covered by cloaks are sitting to the right of the pedestal along with some other people of high importance in the wizarding world and some very good aurors. He looked in the other places for viewers of the trial and family and friends. He saw a line of his same red hair halfway back along with a black haired person and a brown haired person sitting at the end of the row.
He looked back up at the man behind the pedestal as he spoke again. "You are accused of becoming a spy for Voldemort and attempting to use your FORMER job position to try and help him get what he needed to become immortal. Do you deny it?"
"No sir. I'm guilty." Says the man in the chair looking down into his lap. "B…B…but I was threatened with the life of my family s…s…sir."
Bill gulps and starts to cry his shoulders shaking. "I went too far over to the Dark Lord's side and I was consumed by the darkness. I didn't remember what good or evil were I only knew of power…" Bill's head droops more and his breathing becomes irregular. "Power is what he said mattered and I became consumed in a quest for more once he gave me the power to set my family free and they were… or… I thought they were freed by the Dark Lord but I found out a man who could use fire and a boy who could use ice freed them. But he already had me ensnared in his hold by the time I found out the truth 5 days later. It was terrible then I…I…I started to want to leave him but his latest talks of power and glory kept me snared in my power quest. He spoke of some jewels I had seen before during my treks through pyramids in Egypt for Gringotts. I told him I knew how to find them and how to get free access to them. I told him other information about the other sub-elementals and the telepath… I was totally gone from the light then. But when that order caught me in the pyramid tomb and gave me that Veritaserum/something else stuff… well the something else in it knocked me into a comatose state during which my subconscious searched through my soul and mind to figure out how I really should be acting and it found the light I needed in the form of…of…of m…my f…f…family." Bill breaks down into shoulder shaking silent sobs and one of the men hidden behind a cloak nods his head pleased.
"Well now that you have heard his story how many of you here think his sentence should stand?" says the man at the pedestal looking at the people to his right.
A good few raise their hand, mostly aurors, almost a majority, but the four cloaked figures stand and approach the man at the pedestal.
"Sentence changed." declares a short one under an icy colored cloak.
"I second that motion." Says a tall man under a brown cloak.
"We third and fourth it." Says the remaining two men one under a sea blue cloak and the other under a flame red cloak.
"The order has spoken." Says Albus Dumbledore standing up now. "What do you say?"
The man at the pedestal looks uneasy shifting his weight from foot to foot. "Sentence…."
The crowd watches with bated breath as the four cloaked men start to get angry and antsy.
"CHANGED!!!" yells the man under the flame red cloak dangerously.
The four cloaked men go down around Bill, who is still chained to the chair.
"We have made our decision make yours and make it good before we have to use force to achieve ours." Says the man under the brown cloak calmly.
"…Changed…" says the man at the pedestal making the four heave a collective sigh of relief.
"…to life in Azkaban." The man at the pedestal adds to that quickly shuffling away quickly but stopping halfway gone.
Bill's head suddenly jerks up and his tear stained face looks scared and desperate as he struggles against his chains. He turns to face his family and finds his mom crying on his dad's shoulder with Harry and Hermione comforting Ron. He struggles while he's turned and a sickening, loud pop is heard. It's followed shortly after by a loud scream of pain.
The man in the icy colored cloak and the man in the brown cloak round on the man who gave the sentence while the other two break the chains off of Bill. The man in the brown cloak grabs the judge.
"YOU AREN'T WHO YOU APPEAR TO BE! I can tell." Says the man in the brown cloak with a dangerously loud whisper. "You are not the real judge."
"Y…Y...yes I am." Says the man.
The guy in the brown cloak shakes his head and lifts the man up putting him down into the seat as Bill is removed and binding him there. The man in the brown cloak looks at him and points his wand at him.
"Praebeo Statem." He says calmly.
The man's features start to change and part of his face melts away revealing Lucius Malfoy. He sits there staring around then staring at the man in the red cloak.
" 'E did t'is t' me." Says Lucius.
Lucius snarls at him and gives him a death glare. He then starts to struggle against the bonds and succeeds only in breaking his right arm. He spits at the man in the brown cloak his spit red. It burns a hole in the bottom of the cloak where it hit.
Suddenly a door opens at the far end of the chamber and a man walks in. The man looks like Lucius did before he was revealed.
"Sorry I'm late my broomsti… Did I miss something important here? Who is that man in the chair? I thought Bill was supposed to be there." Says the man.
The man in the brown cloak explains how the trial went and how Lucius impersonated him. The man considers all this.
"Ok then. Sentence changed to 2 months in Azkaban instead of life." Says the man turning and leaving as two Dementors come in and take Bill after the man in the sea blue cloak heals him.
Bill gets real pale and starts to shake and struggle as it becomes clear that the Dementors powers are taking effect. Bill faints, very limp, pale, and sweaty, from the Dementors' draining, as he is taken out of the door.