Chapter 11-The Divorce
Disclaimer- I don't own anything except the plot and the judge.
A/N: Guys, I feel really bad that I've kept ya'll waiting so long! I already said sry in my other a/n so I'll just shut up and write the story. Does anyone really read the author's notes? *crickets chirp* I didn't think so.
The next few days went by so quick it seemed a blur to Harry. It was Thursday morning and Harry had everything ready, he just needed to stop by and pick up Hermione. When he arrived there, he had to knock on the door several times. And when Hermione finally answered, he was lost for words, his mouth slightly open.
"What's the matter with you?" Hermione asked him. "Um-uh-you look-uh…." he paused and cleared his throat. "We're just going to court you know." Hermione looked offended but embarrassed. Quite an odd combination. "Well, it's always good to make a good first impression." He was still staring at her. She was wearing a strapless, skin tight black dress, with shinny black high heels. On her lips she coded a shiny strawberry lip gloss. Her hair was neatly put up in a clip which she found in a book.
And when Harry moved up a step closer, the aroma of sweet pea vanilla perfume filled his nostrils. "Yeah…yeah. First impression good." he said stupidly. Hermione stifled a laugh. "Well, you look very nice too." Harry was wearing a stylish black suit, with a white shirt on underneath. And to pull it all together he sported a red tie with white diagonal stripes. Harry cleared his throat. "Well, let's go then." He turned on the heel of his shiny white dress shoes and opened the door of his silver, Honda Rx7 for Hermione, then drove off to court.
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Harry sat at a table in the front of the empty throne for the judge, fidgeting his hands nervously under the table. Cho and Draco sat at another table beside him with Hermione next to him. She was showing no sign of nervousness which Harry admired and was grateful for. 'At least one of us knows what we're doing.' He thought. The judge walked in and an officer said, "All rise!" Everyone stood (Harry with difficulty) and the judge sat in his seat and droned almost in a bored voice, "Be seated."
And everyone sat. The judge was a good looking man, around his early thirties it seemed. Everyone sat still and there was the loudest silence Harry had ever heard. Only the judge seemed to be at ease as he shuffled the papers at his stand. When he finally spoke, Harry jumped in his seat. "So we've got a divorce case. Will Mr. Harry Potter please have his witness rise?" Harry looked at Hermione and she stood up, biting her lip. She didn't look too brave anymore. "You may sit at the witness stand." He motioned his hand at the stand to his left as if she had a choice.
She sat uncomfortably in the wooden chair. An officer approached her with a bible and held it out to her. "Please place your left hand on the bible and your right over your heart." She mindlessly did so. "Do you swear to tell the truth and nothing but the truth so help you God?" "Yes." she said almost too quickly. Harry looked up at the judge and discovered that he was greedily checking out Hermione. A hot surge of anger spread through Harry's face and his fists clamped into balls under the table while his teeth clenched threateningly.
Then the judge spoke to Hermione, "So what did you witness?" She took a deep breath and tried hard not to stutter. "I was taking a walk around the neighborhood, and I saw through a window, Cho Chang, well Potter, but I didn't know then. Well anyway, I saw her kissing Draco Malfoy." The judge looked at her in a way Harry didn't like. But then he accused her, which didn't match with his expression. "How do you know it wasn't a friendly kiss?" "Well, I um, I could just tell by looking." "I see. And are you an expert on kissing?"
Hermione was not expecting this at all. "Well um…I -" He cut her off. "Have you kissed before? Say, perhaps, Mr. Potter?" Hermione lost it. "Now that's enough! You've gone too far! That's none of your business, and that's beside the point!" she shouted. The judge was no longer bearing down on her. "We're not here to see who kissed who," Hermione continued, on a softer note. "They just want a separation, not accusations." The judge cleared his throat. "Well. I guess you've made a point."
The judge had a nervous look about him and kept glancing to Harry's right. Harry turned to look, and saw Malfoy, glaring at the judge with a look that said, 'What are you doing?! You're messing it up!!' with his hands in the air, palms up. Just at that moment, Harry figured it out! It all made sense now! Why the judge was acting weird and jumping to conclusions. Malfoy had bribed him to make them look bad. 'That's just the thing Malfoy would do.' he thought. And he didn't even need to! They were just getting a divorce! Harry would bet his Gringotts vault that that's what was going on here. 'Like father like son.' he thought viscously.
Then he turned his anger toward the judge. As he was announcing their divorce, the accident happened. Harry's anger was once again magically released by mistake. The judge stopped in mid sentence and a look of great pain replaced the smug expression he was wearing. He looked like he was going to faint, he turned all pale, and opened his mouth wide like he was going to scream. But instead, something much worse happened.
Out emerged a gold galleon covered in brown slime that seemed much too big for his small mouth. Followed by it were more galleons, some sickles, and a few knuts. When the last was out he whimpered "Oh Lordy." and passed out. People were stunned at first, but then they started to panic and scream and they all ran for the exits. After a few seconds of complete chaos, the Ministry arrived and put the judge right while trying to catch all the muggles to put memory charms on them.
One of the Ministry members had managed to save the paper for the divorce and gave it to Harry, although it was covered in slime. "Sorry mate," he muttered. "hope it's all right." Hermione noticed that the judge managed to sign it before he started producing wizard money. "So that means you're officially divorced Harry!" "Really? I thought I'd ruined it all." He walked over to Cho and showed her the paper, explaining what it meant.
"I know what it means, I'm not stupid! In other words, I'm not stuck with you for the rest of my life." Harry responded dully "Yeah sure. That." And he walked out happily, hand in hand with Hermione.
A/N: YAY!!!!!!! MY STORY IS FINISHED!!!!!!! don't worry though, there's a sequel, it's called Blue Eyes and it'll be coming soon to computer near you! He he. Ne ways…I've already got the first chapter written and I'm working on the second. The chappies in this story r a little longer though, I thought u peeps wanted longer chappies…or some 1 did…ne way! Get ready for sum mushy stuff! At least the first couple chappies ne way. As you can see, I don't know much about getting a divorce in court, but I did my best so who really cares!! Please review if u read it, I don't care if u just say "hi" or "it was good" or "I hated it" I just want to see how many peeps actually read my story, not just the peeps that review it.