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A/N my first reaction to this chapter HOLY HELL ITS CHAPTER ELEVEN ALREADY!! That had to come out. oki now comes the time for me to answer reviews! -yay in my own little world- (might be some from other chapters and sorry for the length!) Kaikiki deserves appluase me thinks, because she is awsome at fixing up some stuff and improving the story so much more. and loves this chapter to death, so it must be a good chapter! -yay-

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Harry paced in the common room; he had to go to the ministry for the trial in an hour. His nerves were shot and he was terrified. Rushing through his wracked brain were a multiple of thoughts: Boot, facing Boot, having Malfoy help him, Boot, knowing that Ron and Hermione would be there and... Boot. The thoughts were not helping, to say the least.

"Harry, you're going to fall through the floor," Hermione said, watching Harry's feet as they walked back and forth on the red carpet.

"I don't care, I can't feel any worse then I feel right now." Harry said, groaning inwardly.

"We'll go and put Boot away, and in the process stop Ron from killing him." Hermione said, a wry smile on her lips.

"But I have to face him Hermione, what if I'm too weak to do it?" Harry asked looking rather worried.

"Harry, you're not weak. You'll get through it" she said, but Harry was still worried and truth be told, he didn't look too good.

"I can't do it!" Harry said, trying to get out of the room, but Malfoy and Ron had both his arms and were restraining him from going anywhere. It was an interesting sight because Ron and Malfoy had agreed to get Harry in there, stating they would insult each other later.

"Harry come on, pull yourself together. You can do this!" Ron said, trying to pull his nervous friend to the other side of the door where they had just been called out.

"Could Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy please come out now?" the voice called again, and Harry started to hyperventilate at the thought of going in there among the many people who showed up, and looking Boot straight in the eye and telling the truth.

"Ron and I will be out there Harry, don't worry." Hermione tried to say consolingly, but it didn't help his state much.

"Potter come on, we are being called. Stop being a bloody coward." Malfoy hissed, pulling Harry out of the door and into the other silent room. Harry glared at him, but it made him feel better that Hermione and Ron were among those many people staring at him, as he walked up to the platform to be questioned.

Boot was staring at him from another platform to his right, and Malfoy gave him a glare that Boot returned. Harry just averted his gaze from Boot and looked at the questioner. He felt his stomach doing summersaults.

"Harry Potter, you have pressed charges on Terry Boot for rape. You will answer honestly" the questioner said to Harry, and a silence fell over the crowd as they listened to Harry.

Harry nodded and whispered yes, clutching Malfoy's arm tightly. Malfoy just gave an exasperated sigh and ignored Harry, as much as he was able to.

"Mister Potter, what is your account of the night you claim this first happened?"

He took in a breath and said as best he could without sounding to shaky, "I was walking to meet my friends when I was pushed to the side of the corridor by Boot. He grabbed my arms and bound them with magic. After that he put a silencing charm on me and picked me up, taking me to an empty classroom." Harry stopped not wanting to go any further. He couldn't will himself to explain some things he didn't want to explain.

"And after that Mister Potter?" the questioner prodded. Harry didn't want to go on but a kick from Malfoy encouraged him to.

"He unbound me, but threw me onto a table and ripped my clothes off. He, well, then he... he raped me" Harry finished abruptly, now visibly looking shaken, but he held on to what was left of his wits.

"You didn't tell anyone after this did you Mister Potter?"

"No, I didn't." Harry answered simply.

"Why not?"

"I felt... dirty, weak... like no one would believe me." Harry answered, feeling somewhat more confident as he went on.

"But they did."

"Yes, and I'm grateful they did. I would have never said anything about it if they hadn't pushed me to do so." Harry replied.

"You could have made the whole thing up over something entirely different; you didn't do anything right away. One would think you would do something right way." Harry hated this now, he really did.

"Well, I'm sorry I felt scared. I'm sorry that I'm human and I felt helpless" Harry said, growing angry.

"Thank you, that's enough questions." the questioner said, now turning to Malfoy. A break of talk broke out through the crowd but they were silenced as the questioner started to interrogate Malfoy.

"You claim to have seen this in action. Would you please tell your side of it" the questioner asked Malfoy.

"Yes I did. Harry and Boot were in a rather...interesting position when I walked in on them one night for prefect duties." Malfoy said. How could he sound so calm?

"What did you make of the situation at the time?"

"Potter seemed to be scared, I had noticed throughout the week he seemed more distressed and he was skipping classes, not a normal thing for him to do. Boot said they were just having some fun, but Potter seemed to be relieved I had interrupted. He got defensive, yes, but he seemed to be trying to hide something." Malfoy said, stopping to think about something.

"You don't cry and break down in front of someone who has been nothing but horrible to you for almost seven years of your life just because they found you with a secret lover" Malfoy stated thoughtfully, looking over at Harry with some unknown emotion.

"Thank you Mister Malfoy" the questioner said, and Harry knew it would be over after he had to listen to Boot's garbage of how they were just fooling around. He just hoped they would believe him and Malfoy, and not Boot's awful lies.

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