Chapter Seven
"Merlin, Sirius! Why don't you just go talk to her already?" Remus asked, exasperated with his friends antics. It had been a week since the first scouting by Voldemort, and since then, Sirius had taken to following Cassandra whenever he could. He was obsessed, and it was driving Remus crazy.
"Are you kidding?! I can't talk to her! She probably thinks I'm guilty! She's got no reason to think I'm innocent! She'd probably sic those two sword fighters on me the minute she saw me!" he said, his voice getting higher.
Remus rolled his eyes. "She loved you, remember? I'm sure she'd hear you out first."
Sirius just raised an eyebrow. " Why would she? No one else did." he said bitterly. Remus winced and looked away, feeling the familiar feeling of guilt wash over him. "Look," he finally said, breaking the thick silence. "Just find someway to talk to her. Send a letter or something. See if she'll see you." Sirius was silent, contemplating Remus' idea. "I don't know. . ." Remus just sighed and rolled his eyes.
"At least stop stalking her! I doubt she doesn't realize that you are." Sirius shrugged.
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"Argh! I can't stand it! What does he think he's doing? Following me around like some kind of ...of.. Love sick puppy dog!" Cassandra cried, at Harry, annoyed, unable to think clearly enough to come up with something better to call Sirius. Harry just leaned back in his chair and smirked. "I think he IS a love sick puppy dog." he told her. She glared at him. "He didn't seem love sick seventeen years ago!" Harry just shrugged. "He was an idiot. He was 20 years old, and was basically a big kid with a gun, erm, wand. . ." Cassandra glared at him again.
"What are you saying?" she demanded. Harry's smirk widened. It was hilarious to see the redhead angry. "I'm saying, I think he does love you. He was an idiot and he knows it. He probably thought he would have time to make his stupidity up to you. But then you dissapeared." "Are you saying it's my fault that this happened? Because I was kidnapped by the past?" Harry rolled his eyes again. "NO. I'm not saying that. I'm saying he was an idiot, and had no idea he wouldn't be able to fix things the next day after you left his house. Neither of you did."
Cassandra groaned and dropped into the chair next to Harry's. "Why won't he just talk to me? Instead of stalking me like some phsyco?" Harry gave her a look. "Could it be because he's afraid you think he's guilty and would kick his arse on sight? Or that he's a convict on the run for murder he didn't commit and wanted by the Ministry? He probably thinks you'll turn him in."
"I wouldn't do such a thing! I still love the fool, I know he's innocent. Sirius would never betray Lily and James. I know that. I can't believe he would think I think he's guilty."
"Cass. . .Can you really blame him? Everyone who knew him longer than you, his last Best Friend, Remus, even thought he was guilty! Even Dumbledore was sure of his guilt. Everyone he thought he could trust, turned their backs. They didn't trust him, or know him, as well as they claimed. He spent twelve years in Azkaban because his friends didn't trust him." Cassandra sighed.
"You're right. Okay, so I can't blame him for not trusting me. But I can still be angry at him for seventeen years ago!" Harry nodded.
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Harry and Emerald were sitting at the large study table in their library. They were pouring over blueprints for one of Voldemorts hide outs. Allegra had found one of his lairs, and Harry knew that this was where Wormtail was hiding. Harry and Emerald had decided to sneak, alone, into the hideout and retrieve Wormtail.
Harry wanted to prove his Godfathers innocence. Aside from giving Sirius his freedom back, Harry hoped Wormtails capture would give Sirius the courage to approach Cassandra, and apologise.
"We'll enter through this side entrance. These stairs lead down to the dungeon and 'throne room' corridor. He will most likely be down there, or in the kitchens, which is on the main floor, stuffing his face with food." Emerald said, pointing out the area's she was talking about.
"There will be about thirty to sixty Death Eaters there, so we'll need to be cautious. Voldemort shouldn't be there, but you never know. He could show up with another ridiculous idea to gain world dominance and 'cleanse' the world of those beneath him." Emerald nodded and rolled her eyes.
Harry studied her. "Are you sure you want to do this? We won't have any backup, it could be dangerous. And Cassie is going to have our heads when we get back for not telling her what we are planning. .."
Emerald locked eyes with him. "I want to do this, Harry. I don't care if Cassie yells. Sirius' freedom, and bringing your parents betrayer to justice is more important than a lecture. So I'm going.I know it could be dangerous, but so what? What's life without a little danger? Besides, I have every confidence in our abilities to take on what ever comes at us."
Harry grinned. "Alright then! Suit up, kid." He said, getting up and heading towards his room. He ignored the glare Emerald sent at him for calling her kid. They both knew he was only teasing.
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Harry signed his name and and passed the letter to Emerald to sign. She did so quickly and then sealed the letter. It was a letter to Cassandra, Tera, and Allegra.They had written it in the off chance that they didn't make it back. They told the others what they were doing, and when they expectedd to be back. They didn't reveal the location they were heading to, they didn't want to be followed.
They were dressed in battle robes of deep blue(Emerald) and deep, emerald green(for Harry). They're wands were tucked into their sleeves, swords strapped to their backs, and daggers tucked into their boots, and strapped to their waists. They were prepared as best as they could be.
They mailed the letter, looked at each other, and then shimmered[1] to their location.
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Cassandra was sitting in the Great Hall with Tera and Allegra. She was trying to ignore the heavy stare of the grim like dog resting on the floor by Remus Lupins feet. She looked at her watch and sighed. "Where are Josh and Emerald? Their late." she said grouchily. She wasn't really upset with them, she just was tired with Sirius' staring.
She was putting meatless spaghetti on her plate when the owl arrived. It was the Elementals owl, the one they had bought a month after Harry had joined them. She petted the golden brown owl before taking the letter.
Her eyes roved over the words, going wide, before she dropped it. "WHAT are they thinking?!? Are they crazy?!" " What's wrong?" Tera asked. "H-Josh and Emerald have went and broke into Voldemort's hideout!" This caught the attention of everyone at the table, but the three woman took no notice. "They did what?! With no back-up?" Allegra gasped, shocked as well.
"Josh and Emerald never do things like this! Where did they go? We have to find them. It's not safe for them to enter his hideout without back up! " Allegra said, worry lacing her voice. They all knew the two were more than capable of taking care of themselves, but that didn't lessen the worry any.
Cassandra scowled. "They didn't say. They didn't even say WHY they were doing this in the first place! They are in sooo much trouble when they get back!"
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Harry made sure the hood of his cloak was pulled up over his face, while creeping around the side of the building. Emerald was behind him, keeping an eye out. They arrived at the side entrance and Harry whispered a spell and the door unlocked. He pushed the door open and listened for any noise coming from the inside. He could hear men's laughter coming from upstairs, but other than that, it was silent.
He motioned for Emerald to follow him, and they went inside. They kept their ears trained for any noise as they crept towards the stairs that would lead them to the dungeons, making no noise as they walked along.
They walked down the steps, pulling out their wands as they went. Harry kept his other hand hovering over one of his dagers, just in case. When they reached the bottom, they were in a corridor that strenched a long way both to their left and right. It was dark, and they could barely see.
They made eyes contact and spoke with their eyes. They nodded and lit their wands, and turned to the left. They walked along, peeking into every room they came across. They had yet to see Wormtail or any Death Eater. A deep frown marred Harry face. Finall, they reached the end of the corridor. They turned around and headed back the way they came. The then went down the right side.
They found something, or rather, someone, in the the first cell they came across. A young man, about eighteen years old, lay in a crumpled heap on the floor, a puddle of his blood and vomit forming around him. Harry seethed in anger at the sight and with a spell, opened the cell door and entered. He waved his wand at the man and the blood and vomit dissapeared. He cast another spell and the boy dissapeared.
Emerald looked at him in surprise. "Where did you send him?" she whispered.
"To the Hogwarts infirmary. I'm sure Madam Promfrey will take care of him." he whispered back. They continued down the corridor. Each cell they passed held one or more prisoners. Harry's scowl got darker as the peoples injuries became worse. He sent them all to the Hogwarts infirmary.
They were almost to the end of the corridor when they heard a womans pained screams. The two ran to the cell it was coming from. Emerald stared in shock as a short, bald man tortured a half dressed woman. She was laying on the floor, screaming as he held her under the Crucatious spell. He had a bloody dagger in one silver hand, and his wand in the other, normal hand. Emerald's eyes widened as she realized who the man was, and Harry was already in action. He raised his arm and hit the man hard over the back of the head. The man collapsed in pain and shock. The woman stopped screaming, but her sobs were still there. Her arms were wrapped around her midsection, as if trying to protect it. She kept whispering the word 'please' over and over again, tears falling down her cheeks.
Harry restrained the man and placed an anti-animagus spell on him, to prevent him from changing into his rat form and running away. Harry had yet to say anything, and Emerald could see the fury in his eyes. He gave a good hard kick to the mans stomach before turning to the woman. Emerald knelt next to him as he poured an After-Crutacious potion down the womans throat, then began casting healing charms on her, to stop the bleeding and heal the bruises.
"Ma'am? Can you hear me?" The woman moaned and opened her eyes to look at him. Her eyes widened when she looked at him. "Harry Potter!" she rasped. Harry's own eyes widened. She saw through his disguise! How? She seemed to sense his surprise,worry, and suspicion.
"Don't worry, Mr. Potter. I will not reveal your identity. The reason I can see through your disguise is because I am a semi-Seer and have the gift of seeing through desguises." she stopped talking and her eyes showed how much pain she was in.
"Hold on just a few seconds, ma'am." Harry asked her softly. He walked to Wormtail and pressed a portkey into his hand. A second later, he dissapeared. Harry had sent him to one of the holding cells back in their rooms at Hogwarts. A Top Security holding cell. No way was he getting out.
He walked over to the woman and gently lifted her into his arms. "I'm going to take you back to Hogwarts with us. Please don't call me Harry in front of anyone but Emerald and the other Elementals,okay? They don't know I'm alive." She nodded and rested her head against his shoulder and closed her eyes. Harry nodded at Emerald and they both shimmered out of the dungeons.
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They reappeared in their Infirmary. Harry layed her on a bed and began grabbing potions of the shelves. She took a few of the pain relieving potion, but refused the others.
"No." she said quietly. "I am dying, and none of these potions will help me. Only make me sleep, and I need all the time I have left to talk to you, hier of Slytherin and Gryffindor."
Harry nodded and took a seat next to her. Emerald joined him. "Who are you?" Emerald asked. "My name is Ella Jonesathan...The last living heir of Helga Hufflepull and Andrew Hesheir." Harry and Emerald's eyes widened. "That is why Voldemort kidnapped me and my Husband. He killed Eric right away." She said sadly. " You see, I am not as powerful as I should have been, due to a backfired spell when I was three. It put an irrevocable block on a large part of my magic. When Voldemort found this out, he was livid. He now couldn't use me against the lightside as he had intended. He would have killed me, had he not found out I am pregnant." The two teens gasped and Harry immediatly jumped up and began waving his wand over the Ella's stomach. Now Emerald realized that the woman had been trying to protect something when she had had her arms wrapped around her stomach.
Harry sighed in relief when he found the baby to be perfectly healthy, unharmed.
When he sat down, Ella began talking again. "My baby will have all the powers and magic it's supposed to when it's born, as long as nothing happens to it. That is why Voldemort kept me alive. So that he could have the baby when it was born. I can't let that happen, Harry, Emerald. If he got ahold of my baby, things could go very bad. I have to tell you now, my baby will be born within a half hour."
The two were shocked. Then both jumped into action. Emerald began giving orders to Harry, who had no real idea what to do. He grabbed hot water and a cloth, and a soft, small yellow blanket to wrap the baby in. Emerald just cleaned her hands and made sure she had her wand ready. Harry grabbed some extra pain relief potions.
Ella smiled at them. "Thank you." she whispered. A few minutes later, she went into labor.Emerald went to work.
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The screams of the baby filled the air. Emerald wrapped the baby in the yellow blanket and placed the baby girl into Ella's arms. Ella stared, enchanted[hey!! Ella Enchanted!!!] by her baby. tears started to fall from her eyes. "I just wish I could stay around to raise her myself." Ella whispered. Emerald began to cry as well, and even Harry felt his eyes began to fill.
Harry kneeled beside her. "May I place your memories in a pensive? So that we can make sure your daughter knows you? You'll be able to tell her more about you than we will." Ella nodded. "yes, I want her to know me, and her daddy." Harry nodded and pulled out his wand. He waved it around in a fancy pattern and a light black silver bowl appeared. It was filled with a silvery liquid that wouldn't spill. Harry then put his wand to Ella's temple and began chanting. A long silvery strand came out and Harry directed it into the bowl.
While he continues to place copies of her memories in the pensive, Ella named the baby. "Her name is Anna Demeter Jonesathan. Take care of her." then she leaned close to her baby's ear and whispered "I love you" before her arms went limp and her eyes closed.
Baby Anna began crying and Emerald sniffed as she leaned over to take Anna from her mothers arms. The silver strand stopped coming from Ella's temple and Harry completed the pensive. he sighed and stood up. He summoned a sheet and covered Ella up with it. He turned to Emerald, who was trying to calm the screaming baby.
"I guess we should go get the others. They need to be informed, about Anna, Ella, and Wormtail." Harry said softly. Emerald nodded. "You're right. Do you want to hold her?" She asked, standing up and holding the baby out to Harry. Harry's eyes widened. "Hold a newborn baby?! A screaming one at that? I don't think so! I'd drop her!" Harry said, shaking his head and backing away, acting like the typical male.
Emerald laughed. "No you won't, now take the child and try to calm her down. I need to get Pettigrew." She placed Anna in Harry's arms, instructed him on how to hold her and then left to get the rat.
Harry looked down nervously at the baby. "Shhh shh..." he tried to calm her down. To his utter shock and amazement, Anne stopped crying and started to sniffle. He smiled and began to babble softly at her. Emerald came back, Pettigrew floating behind her. "You have a gift," she said, looking at them in surprise. Harry just grinned at her, never taking his eyes off the now sleeping baby.
"Let's go." he said.
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Cassandra was pacing back and forth in the Great Hall. It had been three hours since she'd gotten Harry and Emerald's letter, and they still weren't back. She was worried.
"WHAt the HELL were they thinking?!" she asked for what seemed to be the millionth time. Allegra and Tera just sighed and rolled their eyes.
"Well, we were thinking there was someone at that lair we needed to apprehend, and we suceeded. But something happened, and we need to talk to you A.S.A.P. We have a. . . situation on our hands." Jousua's voice spoke from the door.
"HA--JOSH! EMERALD! WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN? WHAT DID YOU THINK YOU WERE DOING? GOING IN THERE WITHOUT BACKUP! WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE IF YOU'D BEEN HURT OR---" Harry cut off Cassie's ranting. " CASS! Please lower your voice! You'll wake Anna!" Harry said quickly, in a soft voice.
Cassie frowned. "Whose Anna?" she asked, confused. "The baby!" Emerald said, as if they should know. Cassie's frown deepend and Allegra and Tera looked at each other with raised eyebrows. "What baby?" they all asked.
"Our baby, of course!"Harry said, sounding insulted, refering to all five of them. The three woman thought he meant his and Emeralds baby. "WHAT!?" they shrieked. Harry frownd. "Yeah, Ella wants us to take care of Anne. Look, we'll tell you all about everything in a minute. We need someone to deliver Pettigrew to the Ministry and make sure they pardon Sirius Black, and we have a body down in the Infirmary. We need to contact next of kin, if she has any, and make burial arrangments. We have alot to tell you guys."
Harry showed Anna to Cassandra, Allegra and Tera, while Remus Lupin adn Sirius Black stared at the group in shock. They had Wormtail? Sirius growled, snarling as he finally caught sight of his once best friend hovering above the ground. He made to make his way over and rip the rat to shreds, but Remus held him back. He led them over to the group of cooing woman and cleared his throat.
Harry looked up at them, startled. "Erm, yes?" he asked, placing Anna in Tera's arms.
"Did you just say you had Peter Pettigrew with you?" Remus asked, hardly daring to hope. Harry smiled. "Yes Mr. Lupin, we do. Would you and your. . .pet. . .care to accompany me to the Ministry? I'm sure you'd like to clear Mr. Blacks name, eh?" Remus looked surprised, and a little suspicious, but nodded anyway. "Yes, I would." Harry nodded. "So would I." Then, under his breath, "I've been waiting four years to turn this bastard in."
Remus looked at him sharply, but said nothing.
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Harry and Remus walked up to the ministry building, Snuffles trotting nervously beside Remus.Harry pulled the wide, double glass doors open and motioned for his companions to enter. They made it as far as the center of the room before they were stopped by a loud ringing sound.
Snuffles whimpered, as they all realized what was happening, and tried to get away, but was trapped in place by magic. The magical alarms that alerted the Ministry that dangerous and/or fugitives had entered the building were going off. Remus had gone pale, temporarily forgeting they had Pettigrew, and Sirius was beating himself up for forgeting about the alarms, he was probably going to lose his soul now.Harry smirked. 'Good. I'd rather have a large crowd of whitnesses anyway.' He thought
Ministry Aurors were coming from all over the room, surrounding them, their wands trained at the three. One pointed his wand at Snuffles and began muttering. A second later, Sirius Black was standing there, pale faced, but trying to look unafraid.
Several people shouted out in surprise, and a woman screamed before fainting. Harry rolled his eyes. "I demand to speak with the Minister immediately. As you can see, Sirius Black and Peter Pettigrew are here and have something to say to Fudge."
Eyes shot towards the floating Pettigrew and people gasped. Remus looked in surprise at Harry over Josh's apparent lack of surprise at seeing Sirius. It was as if he'd known the grim like dog was Sirius. But he couldn't have, 'could he've?' Remus wondered.
"That's IMPOSSIBLE! Black," a man pointed at Sirius," murdered him," he pointed at Wormtail, " sixteen years ago!" the man said, eyes wide and shaking slightly in shock and fear.
Harry glared at him. "Mr. Black has killed no one, I assure you. Now, why hasn't anyone retrieved Minister Fudge? I am sure he would want to be here right now, don't you? After all, he's going to want to give a speech to the media explaining his blunder. I'm sure everyone would like to know why an innocent man was locked up in Azkaban with no trial while a murderer ran and walked freely. Now,please go get the Minister."Several aurors scurried away to find Fudge.
Harry turned to the crowd. "Are any of you reporters?" he asked calmly, but projecting an air of authority and power. Several people stepped forward. "Please tell me your names and which paper you work for." Harry asked politly. A short woman, with dark hair and eyes stepped forward. "I am Olivia Detchman with the Daily Prophet." A medium height man with graying hair stepped forward to stand next to Detchman. "I am Roal Dellian with the Prophet." A tall man stepped forward. "Loco Lovegood, The Quibler." Then a short, perky blonde woman stepped forward. "Hi! I'm Lora Lyvings from Witch Weekly. Would you mind if we got a picture of you for our next issue? I think your face would look great on the front cover! Would you mind if we----" Harry cut her off. "No, Ms. Lyvings. I'm afraid I don't have the time or patience for your magazine." Harry turned his attention to the woman standing next to Lyvings. "Please, Ma'am, introduce yourself."
The older woman smiled at Harry's politness. "My name is Mrs.Vegen. I'm a freelance journalist." Harry smiled. "Thank you, Ma'am. all of you. I would like each of you, if you will, to copy down everything you hear in a few moments. I want you to tell the world the real, honest-to-Merlin story of what happened sixteen years ago. I want you to only publish the facts. Anything more, and well, lets just say you will all never again get work with a reputable publication." Harry warned in a soft voice that demanded obedience and promised hell if not obeyed.
"WHAT IS GOING ON HERE? WHY HASN'T BLACK BEEN GIVEN THE KISS YET? WHO ARE YOU? I DEMAND THE DEMENTORS BE BROUGHT UP IMMEDIATLY!" A high pitched voice yelled from the back of the crowd. The crowd parted and Fudge walked through, flanked on either side by two armed and ready Aurors, with three more behind him. Fudge's face was an ungly shade of purple-red and a vien on his temple was throbbing violently.
Harry held back a snarle of disgust when he say the Minister. he forced a smile on his face. "Hello, Minister Fudge. I am Joshua Roulette. You know Sirius Black, don't you? And Remus Lupin and ---" "ENOUGH!" Fudge roared. There was a slightly panic look in his eyes, as well as fear. "I know who they are! Sirius Black is a wanted murderer. He signed his death warrent when he escaped from Azkaban. I want the Dementors NOW! They are to administer the Kiss immediatly!" he demanded. Harry's eyes narrowed. He took no notice of the two Aurors running to find the Ministry Dementors.
He knew exactly what Fudge was doing. He was avoiding the fact that Pettigrew was here. He was hoping that he could get rid of Sirius before Pettigrews presence was brought to his attention. Then he would try to find someway to disprove their story.
'No way is he going to take my Godfathers' soul! I'll kill him first! And what is the black surrounding his aura? It looks like. . .SWEET MERLIN! Why am I surprised? Fine then. We can finally get a competent Minister in office. . .'
Harry pulled out of his thoughts when the lights flickered and a dementor floated in. Several people whimpered and moved to get away. Fudge pointed at the now petrified Sirius. The Dementor moved to stand in front of Sirius, who was now trembling in horror. Remus had gone completely white and started towards Sirius but found his feet locked to the ground by magic.
"Sirius Lee Black, you are herby sentenced to the Dementors' Kiss for the betrayal of james and Lily Potter and the murders of thirteen muggles and Peter Pettigrew on the thirty-first October, nineteen-eighty-one and being a Death Eater.Sentence to be Carried out immediatly." Fudge said in an official voice. Then he nodded an the Dementor grabbed the whimpering Sirius.
"NO!" Remus yelled fearfully. Harry waved his hand and a blast of shimmery white light shot out at the dementor. It gave an unearthly sound like a scream and let go of Sirius as if burned. It floated back several feet, leaving Sirius on his knee's, panting, tears on his face. Everyone stared in shock at Josh.
Harry glared at Fudge. "Minister Fudge, if you had stopped to listen for a moment, you would know that Mr. Black could not have possibly murdered Peter Pettigrew, as he is currently floating a few feet away from you. That alone should be enough to prove to you that Mr. Black is innocent of all crimes against him.If this is not enough to convince you, then administer Veritaserum to Pettigrew and you will be told the entire truth. That Mr. Black did not betray Lily and James Potter to Voldemort, "he ignored the shocked gasps," that Peter Pettigrew was the Potter's secret keeper and betrayed the Potters to his master, Voldemort. The Potters switched secret-keepers at the last minute." Here he stopped at Remus' surprised asp. He leaned towards the man. "Right?" Harry asked. Remus nodded dumbly, surprised and suspicious of how Josh would know. Harry turned back towards Fudge. "Mr. Black is innocent of all charges against him. I demand that you release him immediatly." Fudge sputtered in shock.
"Th-this is per-perpostrous! There were twenty witnesses that saw Black blow up that street!" he argued. Harry responded with a growl and "Administer the Truth serum, Fudge." Fudge was sweating steadily now and looking increasingly nervous. He kept eyeing Pettigrew.
Fudge waved his hand and the dementor went after Sirius again. This time HArry waved his hand and a large wall of firey ice shot up around the dementor. Harry then cast a silver shield around Sirius to protect him from any other attempts on his soul.
Angrily, he faced Fudge. "Why are you so against the truth, Minister? Why are you afraid for Mr. Black to go free? Is it because if Pettigrew proves Mr. Blacks innocence, he'd also have to prove you're loyalty to Voldemort and your status as a Death Eater?" he asked with a calm smirk.
Fudge went completely white. "I--I don-don't now wh-what you're talking a-about! The Minister of Magic, a Death Eater! What an I-idea!" he stuttered. Harry smirked. With no apparent movement, Harry caused a strong wind to swirl around Fudge, causing his sleeve to lift up. Harry whispered a spell and the Dark MArk appeared on his upper forearm.
There were shocked gasps from everyone. Every eye was glued to the soon-to-be-impeached Ministers arm. There was absolutely no sound in the room.
Harry cleared his throat. "Who has been appointed the the acting Minister for emergancies?" Harry asked. A woman stepped forward. "That would be me, Mr. Roulette. I am Heather Ambroise. I-I guess we need to get this all sorted out. Aurors, please take MR.Fudge to the detention cells. I want five people watching him at every minute. Misters Roulette,Lupin and Black, if you would follow me to the Magical Law Enforcment floor, we can settle this mess."
Harry nodded and released Sirius from the silver shield and and freed the dementor, which was waved away by Ministress Ambroise back to wherever it came from.
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SIRIUS BLACK INNOCENT!
MINISTER REVIELD TO BE DEATH EATER
AND INVOLVED IN BLACK INNOCENCE COVERUP!
Report by Olivia Detchman
Cassie squeled, startling Tera and Allegra from their near asleep-state, a state Cassandra herself had been in only a few moments befopre. Now she sat staring, her eyes wide, at the Prophet, which she held tightly in her hands. The cause of her squeling was the large black block letters on the front cover, proclaming Sirius's innocence. It wasn't hard thing to see that she was happy.
"What's wrong with you?" Allegra demanded, still somewhat aslepp, and not knowing what was on the cover. Tera was asleep again. Cassandra gnored her, her eyes scanning the article. It told about Harry and Sirius showing up at the Ministry, Pettigrew in tow. It told about Sirius being proved innocent, and the Minister turning out to be a Death Eater.
Apparently, Fudge had been a Death Eater for two years before Harry was orphaned, and was as high up in the DE ranks as Lucuis Malfoy and the Lestranges. When Voldemort had 'died' and Sirius went after Pettigrew,and Pettigrew blew up the street and faked his death, Fudge had used his position as Minister to make sure Black was sent to Azkaban without trial. He wanted to make sure that there wasn't even the slightest chance that Black could pin him as a loyal Death Eater. As it was, Sirius never knew in the first place.
Although they knew yesterday that Sirius would be pardoned, it seemed so much more real to see it on the front page of the paper. It set it in stone somehow, now that the world knew, that the evidence was out there, the truth known, nothing could happen now to turn this all around. Sirius was completely free, they couldn't put him in AZkaban or give him the Kiss. Absolutel free.
Cassandra queled again. "Will you stop that?" Allegra and Tera asked at the same time, sighng. "Were is Harry? And Emerald?" Cassandra asked. Tera shrugged. "Harry is probably still asleep, and Emerald is with the baby."
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It had taken a few hours to sort everything out at the MInistry. They had to enter the evidence, admister truth serum to everybody, draw up the papers for the file, give Sirius the deed to his house and return the rest of his confiscated property and belongings. They they stayed while Pettigrew was booked and charged. Pettigrew would be held in Azkaban untill after his and Fudges trail, then he would be given the Kiss.
By the time they got back to the Castle, it was after dark. The three men hada decided to go down to the kitchens and celebrate. They would have gone out into town, but they decided that, since Sirius' innocence was not yet common knowledge, it wouldn't be the safest. So they settled for the kitchens.
When Harry woke up the next morning, he was slumped over a table, his hair plaster to one side of his hair with doghnut powder and butterbeer. Harry blinked the sleep from his eyes and looked around, a feeling of de 'javue washing over him. he saw Sirius laying on the floor,a bottle of firewhisky held loosely in one hand, and a bottle of cherry coke in the other. His mouth was open slightly, and he was snoring softly. Harry rolled his eyes. Remus lying on a counter, legs curled up close to his stomach. His face had chocolate frosting smeared on it, and he was holding a bottle of spiked coke to is chest.
Harry looked at his watch and saw it was six a.m. The place was a mess, and Harry blushed, feeling guilty and embarresed, knowing the house elves would be in soon to start breakfast, and would have the extra mess to clean up. He stood up and began to clean up what he could. He put dishes in the sink and washed up the table he had been sleeping on.
He threw bottles away and was about to wash the dishes when the large staff of Houseleves entered quietly, wide eyed. They seemed to be fraid of what they would find. Harry smiled guiltily. "Hello, guys. "He greeted. Several jaws dropped and sqeaked. On elf ran to take the dish brush from him. "That is being alright, Master Josh! We is doing the dishes!" it sqeaked. Harry smiled. "Sorry about the mess, guys. we got a bit carried away last night." they all told him it was fine, and HArry waved his hand the the two maurauders dissapeared into their rooms.
He left, and headed back to the Elementals rooms.
Chapter: 5816 words:-) Sorry it took so long, guys! I wanted to make this chapter much longer than the rest:-) And I've succeeded! Yay! It's still not as long as I wanted, but still good:-)I had another scene planned for this chap, but [sorry Cassie!] I couldn't write it right, yet, sorry:-) I'll try to get the next one out soon:-)
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