Title: Judgement
Author: Hila
E-mail: hilapeer@hotmail.com
Rating: I don't know, PG? help me ppl!
Pairing: HxL
Disclaimer: doesn't belong to me. nope, never did never will.
Author“s Notes: well, answer to the Drabbles week chalenge thing ^^ I tired
to be original. I'm sorry, I'm a bit over the word count .

Word: Contumacy
Word count: 584 words
Time taken: 50 minutes

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Judgement
Lucius was sitting, cold and dignified, silently daring any of the observers
to comment.

The judges were deliberating.

What a word: deliberating. More likely they were lounging about, relaxing,
having made up their mind before the trial had even started.

Laughing while he, Lucius, had so much to lose.

No, Lucius would not openly defy any decision this court made. He knew
there were others who would do that for him, others whose voices would be
heard louder then his. Lucius would not openly protest. No, he would use
his connection, his money, anything really, to reverse the court's
judgement. And he would succeed. After all, if he had managed to prove
himself "not guilty" as to his connections to Voldemort seventeen year ago,
with a baby son and a wife on his hands no less, he would certainly be able
to solve this matter.

But he had just as much to lose this time. Not his life, he had made sure
of that, but something almost more important.

He would be separated from his lover.

They had worked through the war to make their relationship stable. They had
worked for over two years now to be able to trust each other, to protect the
frail flame of their passion and turn it into something more: into love.
Then, for five painful days they have worked to gain the acceptance, and
even the blessing, of their friends and family.

His son, surprisingly, was their first supporter. He had turned into their
confident early in their relationship when he, inadvertedly, walked in on
them in his father's room. He had asked no questions and only smiled at
them. He had known that his father had been too lonely: his position of spy
for Dumbledore insuring it was so. He was only glad that the one his father
chose was able to stand up to the man, to match his usually controlled
temper, to love him fully regardless of anything. And he knew Harry could
do that.

His own rivalry with the other boy had slowly died and they were mostly
ignoring each other at school since their fifth year. With a bit of good
will on both sides, and Lucius as an irresistible motivation, they had
worked out their differences and, after two or three fistfights, were now
cohabiting peacefully.

His wife didn't care. She was more interested in her lovers than his.

Harry's friends had been less accepting but, after those five painful days,
they had accepted them too and were now standing behind him, behind them, in
silent support of the lost cause.

They were the ones that were ready to draw their wands at the first mention
of the word "guilty". Black, Lupin, half the professors of Hogwarts,
numerous Weasley's, all of them war-heroes, all of them ready to defend the
one they considered family.

But fudge, vindictive bastard that he his, had to charge him with
involuntary homicide. Had to charge him with the death of Dumbledore no
less. As if the countless deaths of this war didn't already weight on his
shoulders!

The judges came back.

"We, judges, find Mr. Harry Potter guilty of involuntary homicide on the
person of Albus Dumbledore."

The predicted uproar was heard, wands were drawn, and he, Lucius, just sat
there holding his sobbing lover. This will not do. But he knew, with
absolute certainty, that this judgment was not irreversible and that it will
be reversed, no matter what he will have to do.

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A/N: so? what did you think? I tried to be original, since everybody was
writing fics where Lucius was being tried...sorry for the unoriginal title
('m not good at those)