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A/N: again I'm sorry that i having been updating but my computer wasn't working for some times and i just recently got back on. just pray that it won't happen again. Well another chapter. this one's my favorite out of all my chapters and i hope that you enjoy it to.

ChapterXVII: The Trial.

"All rise for Magistrate Sewall."

Everyone stood up and a man walked into the room.

"You may be seated," said Sewall when he took his seat. "Reverend Hale you may begin."

"Thank you sir," said a young man. "As you may all know that this town is being bewitch by an evil spell. As being the reverned of this town it is my duty to rid the evil souls and to clean all the good ones. My firstwitness sir is Marry."

A young girl walked up and went to the reverend. She placed her right hand on the bible and raised the other.

"Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god?"

" I do."

she then took a seat in front of him.

"Marry, tell me why you are here?" asked Hale

"To tell you all that Katrina Dollamon is innocent. That she didn't make that doll that I did," said Marry.

"Then what about the needle?" asked Hale.

"I put it in the belly of the doll so I wouldn't lose it," answered Marry.

"Explain to me why was a needle stabbed into Demona's stomach," said Hale.

"She put it there herself," said a man. He stood up. "She put it there because she saw Marry stuck it in the doll."

"But why would she do that Dorian?" asked Hale.

"Because I had an affair with her and she still loves me," answered Dorian.

"You commented adultery?" asked Sewall.

"That's not true," said a young woman.

"Demona, quiet down please," said Hale. "Do you have any proof?"

"My wife was the only one that knows. Bring her in, she speaks nothing but the truth."

"Okay then, bring her in at once," said Hale.

Two guys ran out and with in 5 minutes they came back with a woman all filthy.

"Mrs. Dollamon please come forward. Don't look at your husband just look forward. Now would you please answer our question? Did your husband, Dorian Dollamon commit adultery with Demona Williams?" asked Sewall.

Katrina look at him and then at Hale. Her eyes wanted to gaze to Dorian but she couldn't without moving her head.

"Mrs. Dollamon , would you please answer the question," said Sewall.

She took a deep breath and believing that she would save her husband she answered," No he did not."

"Oh Katrina I already confess," said Dorian.

"Oh dear God, oh no," said Katrina. She turned and faced her husband. "I'm sorry. I didn't know."

The two guys grabbed Katrina and took her away.

"Dorian Dollamon your wife said no," said Sewall.

Dorian put his head down and sat down, "I know."

"AHHHGHHH," screamed Demona.

"Demona dear what's wrong?" asked Hale.

"I'm cold, freezing cold," said Demona.

"She is like ice," said a woman.

"BRRR. Oh no AAAAHHHH," screamed Demona and she ducked down. "Get, get away. Leave me alone you foul creatures. AAAHHGHH."

"What do you see Demona?" asked Sewall.

"Birds, black birds from hell," cried Demona. "They've come to peck my eyes out. AAAHHGGHHHH."

Demona then fell to the ground.

"Can't you all see that she is faking this. All of this is false," said Dorian. He walks over to her and picked her up. "Tell them the truth."

"I'm sorry my love but I have to do this," she whispered. "AAHHHH, I see, I see you have the devil's eyes. Get away from me."

"Take this man away," said Sewall and the two guys grabbed Dorian and took him away. "Reverend Hale please continue."

"I would like Sarah Sandersen to approach the stands."

The girl next to Sirius got up and walked forward.

"Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you God?"

"I do."

"Sarah I have here in my hand a conviction that you're a witch. Is that true?" asked Hale.

"No," said Sarah.

"Then can you explain to me why Betty filed the report?" asked Hale.

"I-I do not."

"She said that she saw your soul came out and tried to attack her at night. Now is that true?"

"No," said Sarah. "I would never harm her."

"Three other girls said that you've talked to a man in black every night. And that you received a spell book from him," said Hale.

"The only book that I have is the Bible."

"Who have you been seeing at night," said Hale.

"No one."

"TELL ME!"

Sarah looked at Sirius and then she wiped her tears away.

"You will no longer control me," she said. "It's him. I go to him every night and he puts some spell on me" She points to Sirius.

"What?" asked Sirius

"I've seen him too, outside my house along with his friends," said a woman.

"That's impossible, we just got here today," said James.

"Sarah, thank you," said Hale. "You boys come."

James and his friends got up and walked over to Hale.

"Are you four witches?" he asked.

"No, sir," said Sirius. "We're wizards."

Everyone began to whisper.

"Sirius!" screamed Remus.

"What? We're not girls," said Sirius.

"So you admit that you're with the Devil and you bring darkness here to Salem," said Hale.

"No," said Remus. "We're here for a school trip."

"So you've received a spell book. You know how to do magic?" asked Hale.

"Yes but-"

"You hear this," said Hale, "they know how to do magic. They can put a spell on us right now if we don't put a stop to this."

"How do we know for sure. They're only kids," said a man.

"Yeah, just stupid kids that know nothing," said Peter. "Please, let us go we didn't do anything."

Just then the candle's flame became brighter and bigger. A gust of wind blew opened the doors.

"You see, the Devil himself is calling for them," said Hale.

"We're telling you the truth, we're not evil and we do not work for the Devil," said James.

A gust of wind blew by them and their cloaks began to move wildly around and without notice their wands fell out.

"What are these?" asked Hale.

James looked to the ground. He bent down in attempted to pick them up but Hale grabbed them.

"I'll ask again, what are these?"

"They're nothing. Just some sticks," answered James.

Hale smiled at them.

"Liar. These are your wands to do magic." He then snapped them in two and tossed them to the ground. "Looks like you won't be needing them."

The boys just look at their wands.

"My wand," cried Sirius. "Look at my wand.

"Your wand, all of our wands are snapped no thanks to you," said Remus. "All you had to do was to keep your mouth shut but no you had to say, "No, sir we're wizards." Stupid."

"Just because you're smarter than me doesn't make me dumb," said Sirius.

"Enough," said Hale. "Guards take them away to the holding cell and tomorrow we'll take them to Gallows Hill," said Hale.

"Now why does that hill sound so familiar?" asked Sirius.

"That's the hill where they hanged the witches," answered Remus.

"Oh yeah."

He then looked down but then he just realized something and he look at Hale.

"Hang?"

Hale smiles at him and the guards took them away. When they were escorted out, the church slowly got emptied. Soon only Lily, Hermione, Ron and Emmett were the only ones there.

"Okay what just happened here?" asked Ron.

"I don't know," said Emmett.

Lily just sat there not saying a word.

"Lily are you alright?" asked Hermione.

Lily turned to look at her and she was ghost white and was shaking.

"This can't be happening," cried Lily. "They didn't do anything."

"I know, we all know," said Hermione.

Lily turned her head and looked outside.

"Well we got to save them," said Lily.

"You guys follow them to the holding cell and I'll bring Binns," said Hermione.

They were tossed in a small stone room with hay all over the floor.

"You better get yourself conformable boys," said one of the guards. "This will be your last night alive." And they left.

"Damn it," said James. He kicked some hay and then he sat down. "What kind of mess did we get ourselves into?"

"James."

He looked around.

"Lily? Where are you?"

"By the window."

James got up and went to the small window that was located in the back. He pushed back the cloth curtain and saw Lily's sweet face.

"Oh it's good to see you. Get us out of here."

"Hermione went to get Professor Binns it won't be long."

"Hey Lily are you going to break us out?" Came Sirius' voice.

"No, I'm not. As I said to James Professor Binns will be doing that."

"Well what is taking him so long. He should be here by now," said Peter.

Ten minutes went by and Hermione finally came.

"There you are," said Lily. She saw that she came alone. "Where's Professor Binns?"

"I couldn't find him, he's gone," she answered. " The bus is also gone."

"Why would he leave us?" asked Emmett.

"I'm guessing something important came up and he needed to leave," said Hermione.

"What are you talking about?"

They turned to face James and the others.

"We can't get you out," said Hermione. "Binns is gone.

"What? What do you mean he's gone?" asked Sirius.

"I mean that he's gone, vanished," said Hermione. "He took the bus and left.

Sirius covered his face with his hands.

"Wait a minute. We can climb out this window," he said. He tried to stick his head through but the window was too small. "Hey why don't one of you use your wand to get us out."

"We can't," said Hermione. "Binns told us to leave them behind, remember?"

"Oh yeah."

"Too bad we didn't listen to him," said Remus.

"We need to get out of here," said Sirius. "I'm too young to die."

"Don't worry, Professor Binns will be back soon and when he does you'll be out," said Lily.

"So what do you expect us to do by the mean time?" asked James.

"Stay here."

Hours went by and Professor Binns had yet returned.

"What is taking him so long?" asked Peter.

A guard came and opened the door.

"Are we free to go?" asked James.

"Dinner," said the guard and someone came in and passed them a bowl of soup and they left.

"Hmm, this ain't bad," said Peter as he ate his soup.

The rest began to eat.

"Blah, this is awful," said Remus. "I want to go home.

"It's getting dark, Professor Binns haven't returned and I'm getting tired," said Lily.

"Binns probably can't get here. So I'm guessing we better find a place to stay for the night," said Hermione.

They went around to see if they could stay the night but they would be turned down, they either already have some students or they just don't have the space. They were giving up hope. If they were turned down one last time they would just sleep outside. They went to the last house and knock on the door. When the door opened they saw Edmund, the guy they saw at the stables.

"Hi you guys."

"Hi Edmund," said Ron. "Our teacher that brought us here left and we are stuck here and we were wondering if we could stay here for the night?"

"Sure, but you would have to stay in the barn. You might find it comfortable."

"Thanks."

Edmund took them to the barn. Inside were some pigs, horses, and some hens.

"You can make some beds out of the hay and here are some blankets. You might not need them, the past couple of nights were warm."

He left and they began to settle in.

Ron began to smell the air. He didn't like what he was smelling. He looked at the horses and plugged his nose.

"God I hate horses," he said. He looked at the others and they were all fast asleep. He shut his eyes and he too was asleep.

A rooster crowed and Emmett opened his eyes.

"It's morning," he said. "Hey everyone get up, it's morning."

They slowly got up.

" Oh crap James," said Lily. She got up and hurried off to the holding cell, the others followed her.

When they got to the holding cell there was a big crowd outside yelling.

"Kill them. Kill them."

Then James and his friends were brought out and the guards took them to a carriage. They were tied down and the carriage began to move away.

"Oh no, we're too late," cried Lily. "They're going to be hanged."

"Lily, I want you guys to follow them to the hill and I'll go see if Binns is here," said Hermione.

At the hill they had four nooses ready for their victims. They pushed them onto the platform then wrapped their hands. After that they placed the noose on.

"Any last words?" asked a man to Sirius.

"Yeah, how about loosing the knot and letting us go?" he answered.

The man laughed and tightens the noose even more. Lily pushed her way around the crowed until she saw James."

"Lily."

"James, Hermione went to find Binns. Stay calm."

"Stay calm! I have a noose around my neck, how can I possibly stay calm?" said James.

"Ron."

Ron turned around and saw Harry.

"Ron what are they doing?"

"Yesterday they were convicted of witchcraft and now they are to be hanged," said Ron. "But don't worry, Binns will be here. I hope."

"People of Salem Village take a good look at these boys. They may look innocent but they have the heart of evil. With their deaths there would be less evil in this town," said Hale.

"Wait, wait a moment," came a voice.It was Professor Binns, "What do you think you're doing?"

"Hanging these boys for witchcraft," said Hale.

"You can not do this," said Professor Binns. "I'm responsible for them."

"So you're their teacher?"

"Yes."

"Then after they are dead we will kill you for teaching magic," said Hale. "Pull the lever."

James looked at Lily in tears.

"Oh Lily I-"

The executioner pulls the lever, the trap doors opens and . . .

A/N: I forgot to add the end to the chapter oops. sorry to anyone who didn't read the end