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Summary: Harry Potter was sent to Azkaban for the murder of Dean Thomas. Five years later the wizarding world realized that he was innocent. How will they be able to make it up to him? Will Harry ever forgive them? ( powerful harry :) )
EM: Thank you for the reviews glad you liked it.! I know it is fake but Sirius was on the run so he couldn't do anything about it until it was too late and his opinion wouldn't have matter in a trial because he's an escaped convict and I guess Sirius could have believed him but Harry wouldn't know that and Sirius would blame himself anyways. : ) On with the story! (Hope you like) and the formating got messed up on the news paper. so sorry. hope this works better.
Dark Betrayal
Chp. 2 Disappearing
Once the little boat stopped, and they all got out, Dumbledore and Sirius starting walking towards a little pub that they could floo to Hogsmeade from. They stopped and turned around waiting for Harry, but when he didn't follow, they walked back over to him.
"Come on Harry. We're going to floo from that pub over there to Hogsmeade. I bought a house there a couple days ago." Sirius told him. The only response he got was a cold,
"Why would I go with you?"
" Well, Harry you will come with us because you are not healthy, you need a new wand and you have no where else to go."
"I'm perfectly healthy, I don't need a wand, and I have plenty of other places to go..." He was cut off by Sirius "And where would that be?" "Mind your business! I'm leaving and I plan to ever see either of your faces ever again." Harry turned around and briskly started to walk away.
"What should we do now?"
" I believe we should make him come with us."Dumbledore stressed the word "make" and Sirius said
"Oh, right...." Sirius hesitated for a moment, before coming to the conclusion that it would be better for Harry, then yelled " STUPEFY." A red spell flew out of Sirius's outstretched wand, making straight for Harry, who , caught by surprise, fell for a moment before leaping up and turning angrily blazing green eyes on Sirius.
" I told you, that I am NOT going with you." Harry said in a deadly calm voice.
" T-T-That was a-a-a s-stunning s-s-spell. You-you can't just , just throw it off!" Sirius stuttered out, looking confused and worried.
"Well aren't I full of surprises today." Harry said sarcastically "Now I am leaving and you two are not going to follow." With that Harry Potter disappeared with a quiet pop leaving a shocked Sirius Black and a semi amused Albus Dumbledore.
"Home sweet home." he muttered to himself before taking a couple steps and disappearing again, this time without any sound at all.Mrs. Molly Weasley was in the kitchen cooking breakfast for her two youngest children, when an owl swooped in the open window and flew over to her. Mrs. Weasley untied the Daily Prophet newspaper from one of it's legs and put a couple knuts in the little bag tied to the other leg. The owl hooted in response then flew back out the window. Mrs. Weasly checked that the bacon and eggs were at a place that wouldn't burn if not tended to for a couple minutes before unfolding the newspaper. What she read made her gasp in shock before falling into a dead faint.
That's how Ronald Weasley, her youngest son, who still lived with his parents, found her a couple minutes later. He woke her up by putting a cold wet towel on her face. "What's wrong mum? Are you ill? Do you need something?"The only response was a shaking finger pointing towards the newspaper. Ron frowned then picked it up. The front page story read:
Harry Potter: INNOCENT.
by Celest Cebry
The capture and interrogation of Peter Pettigrew (who we all thought to be a dead hero) , a.k.a. Wormtail, has shown that Harry Potter, Boy-Who-Lived, was wrongly accused five years ago of the murder of Dean Thomas. Sirius Black has also been freed off all charges against him. (Page A3) Pettigrew confessed , under Veritaserum, to have snuck into Hogwarts, five years ago, in his animagus form ( a rat) , going through a secret passage (which is now blocked off) to use Polyjuice Potion, a potion that can make one person have the physical appearance of another person for an hour time, to impersonate Potter, who had been drugged with a sleeping potion by a student, who's name is still unknown. Pettigrew then murdered Dean Thomas, in the guise of Harry Potter. Shortly after confessing Pettigrew was given the Dementor's kiss.
Potter has been taken out of Azkaban Prison by none other than Sirius Black, his godfather, and Albus Dumbledore, current headmaster at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and wizardry. Shortly after he was freed, Harry Potter disappeared.
We, at the Daily Prophet, hope that our young savior is in good health and will be coming back soon. Full story page A2.
By the time Ron had finished reading, his freckles stood out starkly on his pale face and he was shaking like his mum if not worse.
"What have we done? What have we done?" His mum kept asking herself. 'I didn't believe my best friend was innocent, when he really was. How could I do something like that?' Ron thought to himself. They heard the Ginny, the youngest child and only daughter, walk into the kitchen and ask
"Mum, Ron are you two alright?" "He was innocent Gin, he was innocent." "Who are you talking about?" Ginny asked. "Harry. Harry was innocent." " I know Ron." Ginny said softly "I never believed that he would or even could do something like that. I never believed that he was guilty. I tried saying something to Dumbledore and dad but they wouldn't listen. I'm glad the world finally knows."
"My little sister believed him but me, his best friend, didn't." Ron said bitterly. Mrs. Weasley said quietly, while wiping her eyes.
"You two go sit at the table. I have to make a new batch of breakfast so it might take awhile." Ginny helped Ron off the floor, who in turn helped his mum up, then they both walked towards the table. Ten minutes later Mrs. Weasley, Ron and Ginny all sat in silence eating very little, all thinking of one person, with various degrees of guilt.Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge sat at his desk in his office reading the front page of the Daily Prophet with despair. His career was over. Now the Potter brat was going to get it out that You - Know - Who is back and the public will kick me out for lying to them. Damn Damn Damn. I've done so good at hiding all the murders! I thought I had gotten rid of the brat permanently but nooo, Peter Pettigrew had to be captured and ruin everything! What am I going to do now? "He apparated."
" I am aware of that fact Sirius."
"But, but, but he apparated."
" I know Sirius."
"He never learned how to apparate."
"I have told you Sirius. Harry Potter is an extremely powerful wizard. That is the reason I believed him capable of murder. Tom Riddle was also very powerful and unstable, I wanted to make sure that history didn't repeat itself."
"Well that might happen now. Harry thinks that everyone betrayed him, and he's right, I wasn't there for him.."
" No, not everyone thought him guilty."
"Who?"
"Ginevra Wealsey."
"Ron's sister???"
"Yes that's her. She tried telling me that Harry couldn't do something like that, I didn't listen."
"Does he know this?"
"Yes, I do believe he does."
"Good. That's good."
"Yes it is."
(TBC)
Em: Hope you like this chapter!!! Please Review and tell me!1 :) (El: Edited this! Hope you still like it. Tell me if you see any problems or anything. The reasonI'm updating, is like some reviewers said, reading everything in one paragraph is extremely annoying.)