Hello everyone, I would like to apologise for the extreme length of time it has been the final year of university is a killer and I have little time to write properly.
I hope you all enjoy.
Great hall, next day
Inside the great hall everyone was keeping a close eye on Harry, but Draco had a vindictive smile on his face. If his father's letter he received late last night was anything to go by then today would be an entertaining day the only problem was his father did not say if it would be an entertaining morning or afternoon.
While eating some toast and butter Harry sees Hermione walk into the Great hall followed by Dumbledore and Sirius, Hermione darted straight towards Susan and Hugged her tightly he also noticed tears in their eyes, as they sat down to eat at Susan's eyes caught Harrys and mouthed a silent 'Thank you'
Smiling in response Harry gets up to leave the hall having finished his food when suddenly the Minister and Lucius Malfoy burst through the doors of the Great hall followed by six Aurors "ahh, Minister how may I help you" Dumbledore asked in a humble greeting, Harry knowing what was coming next instantly went into defensive mode not wanting to be taken in by knowing it's going to happen anyway.
"I am here for the boy Dumbledore I have a warrant for his arrest" Fudge stated waving the warrant in front of him scanning the room.
"surely this could have been done without it being in public like this, surely he should get a second chance, after all most of the people who served Voldemort-" almost everyone yelped or flinched in the room worse being the minister "-done much worse crimes and got a second chance" Dumbledore tried to reason but also took note that people have not stopped fearing the name of a man who is dead.
"be that as it may, no one was six or younger when they cast a killing curse, better yet how did he cast it" Lucius said with a smirk "I thought that no one was allowed a wand till the age of 11 and they had a Ministry trace on the wand if he has not got a traceable wand that makes him a lot more dangerous"
As Lucius finished his speech and Dumbledore was about to respond from the corner of the room came a voice and something happened that no one expected.
"Incendio!"
Suddenly the warrant that was in his hand burst into flames causing the minister to yelp and drop it to the floor while looking affronted and angry at where to voice came from seeing a boy.
"I really do not want to be arrested for something I did not have a choice in" Harry said looking towards the Head table to look for support al he saw was Dumbledore, Sirius and the others shaking their heads in disbelief while James had a wide grin like the cat who ate the canary and slowly stood up.
"WHAT ARE YOU LOT WAITING FOR HE JUST ATTACKED ME! GET HIM!" the Minister shouted.
Suddenly the Aurors burst into action firing stunning spells towards Harry who had cornered himself into avoid the other students getting hurt and started to return spells towards the Aurors starting with small Ice spears being launched individually with careful aim so that way he did not hit any of the students.
'you are weak brother, you expect me to go down without a fight all for a charade, guess again' the voice inside Harrys head said to him dragging his conscious away and taking over the driving seat.
'no Hadrian, we need to do this, it's the only way we can't keep hurting people' Harry tried to reason with himself expect he was not listening.
Slowly Harrys face started to change, and a grin became more apparent on his face slowly the spells started to increase in frequency and the spells got more dangerous as the students almost got hit and started to run out of the hall for safety while the Professors helped guide them out.
"stop the Harry! There is still a chance for redemption!" Dumbledore yelled in hopes of getting through to him.
"do you think I am so weak that I would willingly give up Dumbledore?" Harry said with a grin one that does not belong on young Harrys face.
"fast isen!" Harry shouted as two of the Aurors got caught in the ice's path and got turned into a solid chunk of ice this in turn caused Hermione to scream as she had not long been released from the spell while Susan gave Harry a look of being betrayed before dragging Hermione from the doorway.
"Harry please this is not you" a shy voice from beside Harry called to him.
"I know we haven't spoken much but that is the house's fault not ours, please calm down go peacefully and we will work through this" a second voice with slightly more confidence called out.
Looking over to the voice he saw Hestia and Flora looking at him with sadness in their eyes "we're sorry Harry, please we can all work this out together" they said in unison.
Before Harry could respond Dumbledore saw the opening and cast the stunning charm hitting Harry knocking him out.
Once everything had calmed down the Aurors took Harry to a ministry holding cell and Dumbledore got everyone back into the Great Hall.
"If I could have everyone's attention, please" the headmaster announced as all heads for once snapped round to look at him and the whole hall went silent.
"In light of events tonight-" he sighed thinking how to phrase the next part.
"-It has come to my attention that Mr Richards has a mind fracture" he said as whispers started going throughout the hall.
"For anyone who does not know what a mind fracture is, it is when something traumatic has happened in a person's life and the mind splits itself creating a second personality" with that the hall was silent again.
"Professor, if that's the case, which Harry was real? The one who cursed Hermione or the one who wanted to help?" Susan asked while comforting Hermione.
"Good question Ms Bones-" dumbledore said with a twinkle in his eye "-the answer is both unfortunately they are two minds of the same person for this reason I do not want anyone to think badly of Mr Richards for this reason I will be finding out more in two days' time in a Wizengamot meeting" Dumbledore said.
"Thank you all for listening classes for today are cancelled. I want everyone to take time to relax and if needed be Madam Pomfrey will be on hand to talk and listen" as Dumbledore finished his speech everyone started to leave the hall.
Wizengamot trial room 4 three days later,
"Welcome lords and ladies to this emergency meeting-" Dumbledore said as chief warlock.
"Meeting?" Fudge said looking annoyed "this is not a meeting this is a trial" Fudge said going a light shade of purple causing dumbledore to sigh.
"Fine, Trial then of Harry James Richards, being him in" Dumbledore said as a dark skinned Auror and another brought Harry in and placed him in a chair in the centre.
"Thank you Shacklebolt you and Dawlish can go now" he said and received and nod as they went and stood by the door.
Looking around Harry saw all the lords and ladies of the ancient and some noble houses in front of him, to his right he saw Susan, Lily, Natalie, Rose, and Hermione.
On the left he saw what looked like reporters, one man looked like he was spaced out with silver hair, and there was a woman who he could clearly see to be Rita skeeter.
"We will start the trial of Harry James Richards, to clarify the charges are one account of cursing a student with a dark elemental curse, multiple accounts of injury of Aurors and death of one Auror, and the casting of two of three unforgivable curses. How do you plead?" Once Dumbledore finished looking apologetically at Harry while the whole room looked shocked and the sound of quills scribbling on parchment.
"I don't know how to plead, part of me says not guilty part of me says guilty" Harry replied honestly.
Fudge glared at the boy, "we shall use Veritaserum then!" Fudge shouted, getting replies of agreement.
"You can't sir" Harry said, getting glared at by fudge who was now turning purple.
"I have a mind fracture, I read somewhere that Veritaserum is useless on people with fractured minds, I will take a wizards oath to tell the truth though if that's better" Harry said looking around.
Suddenly James lit his wand.
"the floor recognises lord Potter" Dumbledore said as James rose from his seat.
"he has pleaded guilty why don't we just send him to Azkaban or the veil?" James said causing a stir between the three factions yelping sound coming from Lily
"Lord Potter, of all people here I would of fault you would want a fair trial for your son" Lucius said with a smirk causing a stir in the dark faction.
Dumbledore was looking from the side of the light to the dark before deciding on his next decision hoping it is the right one "Lord Potter, by the law of the Wizengamot itself every person presented before us has a right to trial, therefore your point shall be dismissed, Mr Richards please make a truth and honesty vow please"
Taking a gulp Harry looks around before taking a deep breath.
"I, Harry James Richards formerly Potter, from this time on till the trial is over shall tell the truth deemed truthful by lady magic herself other I shall be stripped of magic, so mote it be"
Suddenly a flash of light appeared around Harrys abdomen, Harry looked around to see who would be first to speak.
"you say are formerly from house Potter? Why?" Lucius asked with a curious face then looked at James to see him looking red.
"you see sir." Harry sighed knowing the vow meant he had to be truthful.
"when I was younger, James, Lily, Rose, and baby Natalie went to a party of some sort cannot remember the details properly. I was left with a babysitter who fell asleep, and I went for a walk in the forest nearby" Harry said who looked angry.
"WAIT!" James shouted.
"I remember that day, the child minder said that you had not left your room all night and I would like to point out that you did not want to come with us, and I quote 'to an annoying fancy get together'" James said looking at Harry.
"well yeah, there is only so much hand shaking and false smiling you can do in one night, Merlin I hope I never have to do them" Harry said not noticing some of the looks he was receiving.
"plus, the sitter just slept from when you left till you came back, hope you got your three galleons worth" he smirked at James rection.
After he continued on with his story of how he met Bella in the forest and her teaching him spells that made him feel really good, happy, and excited the Wizengamot of the light and some neutral factions paled at hearing how using the killing curse and cruciatus curse made him feel.
"I have here a note from Sirius Black confirming that he believes Harry to have a fractured mind causing him to have what muggles call a split personality which means that there were two minds in one body" Dumbledore stated then looked around
"who did you kill then?" Madam Bones asked in an authoritarian tone being head of the DMLE she was not happy that this was kept from her.
"it was the first friend I made I think she was a muggle-raised definitely wasn't a mud-blood though as she knew about magic" hearing Harry say mudblood caused gasps from the Wizengamot and from the watchers.
"what why is everyone gasping? Ohhh, I said mud-blood again, didn't I? um I meant muggle-born" Harry said as if not caring about his words.
"why did you kill her and what was her name" Madam Longbottom asked.
"well Aunt Bella only showed me two spells and they were great spells shamed they are banned really, anyway her name was … ohhh what was the name I think it was Fern something" Harry said thinking.
"was it Fern Harrison?" Hermione called out with a shaky voice before anyone could say anything.
"THAT'S IT!" Harry exclaimed before it sank in what just happened 'ahh shit this isn't going to end well'
"excuse me miss but what's your name and connection to ether the victim or Mr Richards?" Lucius asked in a soft but sharp tone.
"sorry sir for interrupting, my name is Hermione Grange muggle-born, my connection to Harry is that he froze me on ice using a dark spell for two months and my connection to the victim is that she was my cousin before mysteriously disappearing one day she knew about magic because her mother was a witch it is how my parents knew I was a witch before my Hogwarts letter" Hermione explained now crying.
Harry looked away from here hoping to not look her in the eyes.
"if it helps, I do feel bad about it, but it was the only spell I was taught by Aunt Bella, she said it was one of two spells I would ever need, but I did think of her as a friend if I knew other spells I would of used them" Harry said ignoring a voice in his head telling him how good it felt to kill.
Fudge not being one for idle chit chat wanted to end this soon.
"Right!" he squeaked bringing attention back to him.
"I will now say the charges and we will vote on it, Mr Harry James Richards formerly Potter, you are accused of multiple accounts of underage magic, illegally owning a wand before the age of 11 and multiple accounts of Murder" Fudge stated
"I would like to point out for the members of the Wizengamot that young Harry here is suffering from a split mind, so his action is not all that of his own" Dumbledore said hoping to have some say.
"all those in favour of Azkaban light your wands" around twenty-five wands lit up consisting of some dark families and mostly light families including James.
"al those in favour of forgiving the crime under the account of trickery and corruption by Bellatrix Lestrange" only fifteen wands lit up consisting of dark families and a couple of light families.
"I take it to mean that the remaining 10 is undecided and are hereby voided, Harry James Richards you are herby sentenced with the MOST leniency of 10 years imprisonment in Azkaban, you are to have your illegal wand snapped your proper wand is to wait judgment upon the end of your 10-year imprisonment" Fudge said hitting is hammer down.
"as stated earlier this is the most leniency, I can give given the situation of him being under the influence of dark magic and corrupted by Bellatrix Lestrange" Fudge said as Aurors came to collect Harry.
'It's a good thing I hid my wand and trunk and obliviated the elf then' Harry thought to himself.
"where is your wand boy, we only have one" the Auror said harshly causing Fudge and Dumbledore to come over to see what is wrong,
"Auror Dawlish what is the meaning of this take his wand and take him away now" Fudge said turning a shade of pink.
"I can't Minister, all I can find is his Apple Wood wand there is no other" Dawlish said causing the Minister to go from pink to red.
"boy where is your other wand hand it over otherwise, I will reconsider the length of your incarceration" Fudge said doing his best to not cause a scene and Dumbledore was trying to give his best grandfather face but was slowly losing his patience with Harry.
"sorry sir, I must have lost it during the fight earlier as when I woke up, I could not find it anywhere and this guy had my main wand" Harry said trying to sound innocent then looked at Dawlish.
"you would make a bad ice sculpture Hermione made a beautiful one" Harry said his voice sounding distant and dreamy like (think Luna but in a male voice).
"get him out of here Dawlish hopefully the Dementors will loosen his tongue" the Fudge said which caused Dawlish to take harry away.
I hope you all enjoyed the story so far leave a review if you have and as you can see Harry is going to be having a interesting time from here on I wonder what will happen next