Hadrian sat in a waiting room with Anna. They were waiting for their meeting with the Minister. Hadrian observed his wand. Black and red wood entwined together, at the hilt some wood stuck out slightly like tree branches. 12 " surprisingly flexible.
Hadrian looked down at Anna, who was observing her own wand. It was light brown in color. It was smooth besides some small runic designs. 10" quite bendy. She stared at the wand in awe. Her very own wand, that she can do magic with!
"Hatchling is adorable when excited." Nix suddenly spoke up, he had been quiet for a while.
Hadrian nodded slightly to himself. 'She's innocent, I'll make sure she stays that way for as long as I can.' He gently ruffled her hair when she wasn't paying attention, which got him an angry cheek puff.
"You'll have to scare away potential suitors." Nix pointed out.
'Let them come, I'll burn them. No one can touch my baby sister.' Hadrian frowned to himself.
"I will help in that conquest. No one is good enough for our hatchling." Hadrian couldn't agree more with him.
"Mr. Potter." An ugly toad like women in complete pink called him up.
He pulled his mask on and held a hand out to Anna, who took it. He soon followed the woman back. "Minister Fudge will see you now." She opened the door.
"Thank you ma'am." he gave her a small head nod before walking in.
Minister Fudge was signing some things on his desk. It didn't look like he would look up at him soon.
Hadrian guided Anna over to a chair. He let her sit down before turning back to the Minister, who still hasn't looked up. Something must have happened if he was this focused on paper work.
Minister Fudge nodded to himself before he looked up. "Ah, Mr. Potter. Lady Malfoy did say you wanted to talk to me." He soon realized Hadrian did not look the same and that he had an extra person with him. "And, who is this?" He gave a soft smile to the young girl.
"This is Anna, my cousin sir. I came to tell you about that night, from my own mouth, and not from some senile old man."
Fudge turned his full attention to Hadrian. "He's not back Mr. Potter." He spoke lowly.
Hadrian nods once. "I am informing you that I don't know what happened that night." He watches Cornelius eyes widen as he seems shocked to hear this from Hadrian himself. "All I remember is me and Cedric landing in a graveyard and someone yelling the killing curse. Everything after that is a blur. I was in shock sir. I didn't tell Dumbledore anything he told you. I told him that we were portkeyed away and that Cedric was killed. I don't know who killed or why. All I can think of is that someone was angry at me, for any reason you could think of. I have guilt that I am the reason Cedric is dead. I can't apologize enough for that."
"Dumbledore….lied about you-know-who being back?"
"I'm afraid he's lied about many things sir. Did he tell you that I grew up spoiled?" Hadrian watched him nod. "I didn't, I grew up abused. Same with my sweet Lily flower here." She nervously looked at the Minister. "I can tell you that he's lied about a lot of things to you. Like that my Godfather was the one to kill my parents."
"But he was their secret keeper!"
"No, he wasn't, Peter Pettigrew was. They said it in their wills. Dumbledore was there when they changed the secret keeper. Dumbledore illegally closed the wills. And, Peter Pettigrew is alive, he's an illegal animagus."
Cornelius had to sit back. He could tell that he was telling the truth. He had no reason to lie. He had no reason to lie about his family, no reason to lie about his home life. He should have known Dumbledore was lying to him, he had caught the man lying on many occasions.
"What are you going to do Minister?" Hadrian was honestly curious on what the man would do with this information.
"I'm going to get Amelia Bones up here so you two can work on getting your Godfather a trial." He rubbed his eyes.
"What about Dumbledore?"
"I have a plan to have one of my own to be the new defense teacher."
"Please tell me it's not that toad of a woman that walked us here. Sorry, that's offensive to toads."
Cornelius laughed. But he soon nodded. "Yes, I planned to have her."
"I would advise against it. She didn't look like she would be good with working with children. Could I perhaps request someone?"
"Who would you request Mr. Potter."
"Both of my Godfather, and his mate, and Kinglsey Shacklebolt when Remus and Sirius have to go into the forest for full moons."
"You are saying I put a werewolf in the position?"
"He taught my third year, Remus Lupin. And Sirius Black knows how to calm him. And Mr. Shacklebolt is an Auror, so that's someone in the ministry. And Remus and Sirius are more loyal to me than they are to Dumbledore. And Professor Snape can brew the Wolfsbane potion for Remus."
Hadrian could see the gears turning in Cornelius's brain. He hoped he would be able to get through to him. This could be good for a lot of people.
"Mr. Fudge sir….I've seen some of Hades books, and I feel like the school is really lacking, maybe Mr. Shacklebolt would be able to get more teachers in for new classes?"
Both Hadrain and Cornelius looked at her. Hadrian soon nodded.
"Yeah, the school is really lacking. So many abandoned classrooms that could be used. And, and, a class on etiquette would be good, so we can get muggleborns to understand how important Pure-blood traditions are."
Hadrian grinned when he saw him nodding along.
"You would be right. I'll call Amelia up, she might be able to help with some of these things." He moved to the floo in his office.
Hadrian seemed to deflate in relief. He smiled down at Anna. She really helped him there. "Thank you."
"Anything for you Big Brother." She smiled brightly back.
"Alright Mr. Potter, she will be up here shortly." With that he went back to the paper work on his desk that needed to be done.
Hadrian nodded and sat down next to Anna, who engaged him into a game of rock-paper-scissors. She won most of the games.
"How are you so good at this?"
"You just need to read someone's body language. I could usually tell which one you were going to use."
He let out a light chuckle. "Alright. I'll start doing that." He ruffled her hair.
"Big Brother!" She let out a giggle as she tried to get his hand away.
They stopped when someone knocked on the door. Hadrian pulled her close when Cornelius told whoever was out there to come in.
Amelia soon walked in. "You wanted to see me?"
"Ah yes, did you bring what I asked?"
"There were no files on Sirius Black."
"He didn't have a trial?"
"It seems so." She nodded, it was clear that she was not happy.
"He was thrown into Azkaban without a trial!"
"I'm afraid so." She nods.
"Well, I hope that you can work with Mr. Potter on getting his Godfather a trial."
She turned and looked at him. "I will need anything I can get. And I am sorry that he was thrown in without a trial."
Hadrian nodded. "It's okay Madam Bones. I'll gladly help if it gets my Godfather free."
She nods and starts to work with him in what they can bring to the trial, and how to get Sirius here.
"I can fire call him. Explain everything to him, I'll have to make sure Dumbledick isn't in the room, or anyone but Moony is in the room."
"You can go ahead and use the floo Mr. Potter." Cornelius was still going through paperwork.
Hadrian nodded and went to the fireplace. He thought of where he wanted and threw floo powder into the fireplace.
Amelia went over what she'd have for the trial. Hadrian said he'd get his parents' will's. And that Sirius would agree to Veritaserum. All that Albus was not allowed to be present.
Cornelius had gotten out courses and classes at Hogwarts. Ones that were dropped and ones that were active. After the trial, he was going to talk to Sirius, Remus, and Kinglsey after the trial.
Hadrian soon lifted his head away from the fireplace. He looked at them. "He said he'll come, but only if it's Kingley and Tonks escorting him.
Amelia nodded. "That will be arranged. If you could send words to the Goblins about the wills, that would be greatly appreciated."
Hadrian nodded and began to write letters. "I'll be writing to my other Godparents. They would want to be present for the trial."
"Who are your other Godparents Mr. Potter." Cornelius was still going through papers.
"The Malfoy's."
Both adults stopped and turned to him.
He soon looked up at them. "You didn't know? You know what, I'm not surprised by that. Lady Malfoy had been very close to my Mother."
Amelia and Cornelius looked at each other. The Potter's must have kept it a secret for a reason.
"I'm going to write to them and invite them."
"Alright Mr. Potter." Amelia nodded. She stood up. "I'll be going to get a courtroom ready. Public, correct?"
"Yes, this needs to make the front page on every paper in the magical world."
Amelia smiles. "It will." She soon left to get everything ready.
"This is the start of Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore's fall." Nix's booming laugh startled Hadrian a bit, but he couldn't agree more.
-SIDENOTE: Wanna make some friends?-