Thank you to the betas of this chapter, icedawn12193, and Willofhounds.

Chapter Twenty-One - Trip to The Ministry Part One

Poppy and Minerva watched in dismay as Harry broke down over his scrambled eggs this morning. Today was the day when they had to go to the Ministry to find out the ruling from the judge. But there was a small problem, Severus wanted to get there a couple of hours earlier than needed but to do that he needed to wake Harry up two hours ahead of his normal time and Harry wasn't enjoying the routine change.

Harry had his first meltdown when Severus was getting him dressed this morning. Then his second when Severus was brushing the boy's teeth and combing his hair. This was the third meltdown the child was having within the two hours.

"Come on Harry, just a few bites and then you be done," Poppy spoke calmly but all she got was a scream from Harry as he pushed his plate away.

Both ladies frowned as they looked at the child in front of them, tears and snot running down the child's face as he screamed himself rare.

"Alright...alright," Severus spoke out of breath as he entered the kitchen, throwing Harry's bag on the table that he just packed before picking Harry up.

"Did he eat anything?" Severus asked, taking a wet cloth and cleaning the child's face.

"No," Minerva spoke, concern clear in her voice.

"Alright...I packed some snacks for Harry so he should be good," Severus said over the child's cries.

Severus was already terrified about today and just thinking that Harry may have a meltdown in the middle of the judge ruling didn't help matters.

"Severus you still need to get dressed, I can look after Harry," Poppy said before standing up and taking the child's in her arms which only increased Harry's screams.

Severus frowned but nodded. Somehow of all the days, the clocks seemed to be going faster.

Any other time when he was teaching his class it seemed that time had slowed down to a snail pace but today it seemed like someone spread up time just to torture him.

"Try and get him to calm down," Severus said before quickly heading off to his room.

Poppy shushed Harry as she made her way over to the window with the screaming child.

"Look, Harry!" Poppy cheerfully said as she pointed out the window at Buckbeak who was flying around this morning, "Who's that?"

"Mmmmmmnnnnnnn...buck...beak" Harry cried, snuffling back a sob.

"That's right, Buckbeak. What do you think he is doing?" Poppy asked, getting Harry to talk to her.

Harry let out a few more sobs before he answered, "...fly...ing"

Poppy gave a small nod, "Do you think Buckbeak likes flying?"

"...yes...flying...fun" Harry whimpered.

"Really?" Poppy said sounding excited before grabbing a tissue and bringing it up to the child's face, "Blow."

Poppy had to hold in her laugh as Harry sucked in instead of blowing out, "Wrong way silly, try blowing out this time."

Harry closed his eyes tightly as he blew into the tissue, letting out a small cry afterward.

"That's a good boy," Poppy soothed.

"I know, no one likes waking up early do they?" Poppy spoke as Severus entered the room and took Harry back into his arms.

"Is everyone ready to go?" Severus asked, rubbing Harry's back a little in an effort to keep the child calm.

"What about Remus?" Minerva asked.

Everyone was going to be there today. Severus, Minerva, Poppy, Remus, and even Hagrid were making his way to the ministry. And there was no doubt that a fair amount of witches and wizards would be there as well since the news about Harry was out.

Everyone would want to know what was going to happen to the boy who lived.

"He's going to meet us there along with Hagrid," Severus explained, picking Harry's bag up that he packed before stepping into the fireplace.

Both Poppy and Minerva took a deep breath as both of them stepped in with Minerva taking the floor powder.

"Ministry of Magic," she called out before dropping the powder and the four of them disappeared.

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Severus underestimated how many witches and wizards were going to be at the ministry. As the four exited the fireplace they noticed that the halls were crowded, barely any room to move around nevertheless walkthrough and with all the noise and commotion only worsened Harry's anxiety.

"Severus," Poppy spoke nervously, seeing that they had ten seconds before Harry had another breakdown that morning.

"I know," was all Severus said before he started to make his way through the crowd of people as Minerva and Poppy stood back to do crowd control, keeping everyone away as Severus made his way to the private room that the Ministry set up for them which everyone was grateful for. It quickly became clear once they exited the fireplace that Harry wouldn't be able to handle all of these people.

…

Severus let out a long breath once he made it to the room, letting out a long breath as he looked around.

The room was small and cozy, couches sat around a large coffee table where a pitcher of water sat along with glasses.

"You're ok Harry," Severus soothes, sitting down on one of the couches with Harry still in his arms.

Harry let out a small moan, pressing his face into His Daddy's robes. All he wanted was to go back home, back to bed. He didn't understand why he woke up early, he didn't understand why he was here. Harry didn't understand anything of what was going on.

"I know it's hard...but hopefully we will be home soon," Severus soothed, taking out a book from Harrys bag. He flipped to Harry's favorite story and started to read.