"Well, I'll be damned, and you have Black too, I'd really like to hear the explanation of this Almbus." Said Fudge interested by the sight before him.

"Sirius, Said Dumbledore kindly. If you would be so kind as to tell Fudge of the little dilemma before us please."

Sirius cleared his throat.

"He framed me." He said pointing a vicious finger at Peter.

"Did he now?" Asked Fudge, a smile slowly sliding onto his face.

"What about the Thirteen Muggles eh?" He asked.

"He did it, I swear he did it! He curses them, and then the next thing I knew he had vanished! He had turned into a rat, which ended up belonging to one of the students here. I saw him in the Daily Prophet, and noticed his missing finger. I undoubtedly am also an unregistered Animagi. I turned into a dog in Azkaban, because Dementors can feel the feelings of dogs, they can only feed of human emotion. And I slipped right past them one night, they didn't even know I had gone until someone had actually checked."

Fudge's jaw hung open. "That's bloody brilliant! No wonder though, you are a criminal mastermind, no wonder Almbus here believed you were innocent!"

"Don't tell me what I believe Corneilus, I'm sure I'm capable of doing so myself." Said Dumbledore.

"Well what do you have to say?" Fudge looked down at Peter.

"I'm innocent! I swear it! He LIES!"

"For god sake! This is insane, he's Voldermort's second hand, Minister you have to see that!" Pleaded Sirius.

"Be that as it may," Said Fudge, what do you want me to do about it? What proof is there pending against him anyway?"

Sirius went towards him, and gripped Peter's hand showing Fudge the missing finger.

"Dear god, it is him! Can I take him Almbus?" Fudge asked.

"Please, please do." He said relieved.

"As of now Mr. Black, you're a free man, I'm glad we've got the right one this time."

Sirius had never been so happy in his entire life.

"Shall we go now?" Asked Dumbledore.

Sirius looked at him. "Professor?" He asked.

"Yes?"

"Can I walk back, you know. As a dog?"

"Most certainly,"

Dumbledore Apperated, and Sirius formed into the shaggy black dog, and romped down the hill gleefully, every once and a while slipping in the snow. He got into the castle, and kept going, and went all the way up to Dumbledore's office, shaking himself off.

"You did it!" Exclaimed Harry.

"Marvelous," Said Hermione looking at the shaggy black dog with shining eyes.

I just smiled, at a loss for words.

There was a knock on the door of the office, Dumbledore opened it, and I smiled even wider.