"Mr. Yaxley you have been found guilty of being a marked death eater, for multiple acts of terror on our nation and of hiding from justice for five years. Do you have anything to say for yourself before you are sentenced?" Amos Diggory asked the accused.

"I feel I've been punished enough and should be set free." He stated emphatically.

"How do you figure that?" Amos asked his voice full of sarcasm.

"You set Potter and Weasley on me." He stated as if it were something terrible, "They chased me into that place you put all the bad stuff. That horror was more than anyone should be subjected to."

"Where are those two?" Amos asked turning towards the head Auror sitting by him.

"Witness stands." Robards replied pointing.

"Ah, I see." He noticed they were already making their way down to the main floor. He waited until they made it down before asking, "Where did you chase him to`?"

"We were called to the Danger Zone for a possible dragon breech." Ron began.

"Please for the sake of the courts, state what the Danger Zone is please Auror Weasley." Auror Robards stated.

"Of course. The Danger Zone is the new zone set up to hold dangerous animals that can't exist in the reserves normal for their kind. They are for one reason or another too dangerous to be with regular animals." Ron stated, "We had been called to check for a possible dragon breech when we spotted Yaxley near the eastern edge which is the dragon section."

"Was there a dragon breech?" Kingsley asked.

"No sir." Harry answered.

"What happened next?" Arthur Weasley asked sounding quite excited.

"Ron was inspecting the wards and I was keeping watch." Harry explained, "I noticed a person slip out of the forest nearby but he was looking away from us. It isn't illegal to be that close to the zone so I didn't do anything but I kept an eye on him because he looked suspicious."

"How was he suspicious?" Robards asked.

"He kept looking over his shoulder and away from us. I knew it was only a matter of time before he looked at us." Harry shrugged, "I wanted to know when he did in case he was aggressive. He did look our way once he was nearly to the boundary line. When he did I realized who he was and sent a stunner and got Ron's attention. Yaxley ran right into the zone and we felt we had no choice but to follow and save him from himself."

"I see." Kingsley nodded, "Did you run across anything?"

"Several." Harry nodded his head.

"It was horrific." Yaxley added.

"The first thing that found us was the mad Horntail." Ron shuddered.

"Didn't you perform the required spells before entering?" Robards asked.

"We did but he didn't." Harry pointed to Yaxley, "We couldn't put them on him until we caught up and preferably had him in custody."

"That is a point." Robards conceded.

"What did the Horntail do?" Arthur pushed.

"It tried to eat me!" Yaxley exclaimed.

"It did not." Harry shook his head, "He was treating you somewhat like a cat does a mouse. He was obviously only playing or you would be dead."

"What did it do specifically?" Amos asked.

"It batted him around a bit and watched as he'd roll one way or the other." Ron scratched the back of his head, "It would let him get a little space and then it would drag him back. Then it tossed him in the air a few times."

"You should probably tell Charlie about that behavior." Arthur suggested, "He'd be able to tell you if it was normal or not."

"I will." Ron answered.

"How did you get him away?" Kingsley brought them back to the story.

"We didn't. It threw him too far one time and he landed in the lake." Harry shrugged, "We dove in after him but were too late. The merpeople already had him. He had a bubble head on though so he wasn't in any danger of drowning."

"Isn't that the group that tried to kill those wizards when they went to swim in their lake?" Amos asked.

"They did." Ron confirmed.

"They were going to eat me!" Yaxley yelled again.

"They were not." Ron huffed, "They were tying you up for trial. It is normal behavior for merpeople."

"What did they do to him?" Robards asked.

"They questioned him and then tossed him out the other side of the lake." Harry explained, "Evidentially the dragon throws things into the lake fairly often and they just throw it out. The questioning seemed to be making sure he wasn't hunting them."

"Was that it then?" Arthur asked.

"No!" Yaxley exclaimed, "They tried to eat me!"

"The next section was the Chimeras." Ron stated, "They did seem to want to eat him."

"How did you stop them?" Kingsley asked.

"We didn't. That part of the Chimeras grounds is fairly narrow. It's their path to the water." Harry explained, "He basically out ran them and we were just trying to catch him."

"What came after the Chimeras?" Arthur asked.

"The worst thing I have ever seen!" Yaxley shuddered violently, "I will have nightmares for the rest of my life. They were that horrific. That alone should get me a pardon."

"The least dangerous and he's petrified." Ron huffed.

"They tried to eat me!" Yaxley yelled even though he was still shuddering.

"They did not!" Ron and Harry replied together. Both were getting exasperated.

"They did too. I was in its mouth and half way down its throat!" he exclaimed.

"What was it?" Amos asked.

"Well you remember when George was experimenting last year?" Ron asked.

"Ron, George is always experimenting." Arthur pointed out.

"This is when he had 'The Accident'." Harry was struggling not to laugh.

"Remember the Big Puffs?" Ron asked, "The aurors were asked to dispose of them but none of us could kill them because they were too cute. We put them in the Danger Zone. They've grown."

"They tried to eat me!" Yaxley nearly screamed.

"Puffs don't have hands." Harry pointed out, "To find out what something is they lick it. You just stuck to its tongue."

"What do you mean they've grown?" Arthur asked.

"They're all about six feet tall now." Ron answered, "I think there may be more of them. I'll need to check in with George to be sure."

"The new ones are the same size?" Kingley wondered.

"If there are more they are the same size." Harry replied, "But we could neither remember how many were supposed to be."

"Check in with Auror Durbin." Robards told them, "He was responsible for the count."

"You should have disposed of them." Yaxley complained, "They were horrible, they tried to eat me."

"Shut up about the eating you already." Amos finally exploded, "Or I'll sentence you to time in the Zone for your punishment."

"NO!" Yaxley yelled too horrified to think straight, "Anywhere but there."

"How about Azkaban?" Harry asked, "No Puffs there." Yaxley wisely shut his mouth but he didn't stop shivering.

"So what happened with the Puffs?" Kingsley asked.

"He was looking back over his shoulder at the Chimeras when he ran face first in to the purple one." Ron explained, "It was about the same color as Arnold."

"Arnold?" Amos asked.

"My sister's pigmy puff." Ron explained, "She got him from the twins years ago."

"Not a giant one then." Kingsley confirmed.

"No its regular sized." Ron nodded.

"When he ran into the Puff it turned on him and licked him." Harry continued the explanation, "It then spit him out and made an odd noise."

"What kind of noise?" Arthur asked, "I thought they didn't make any noises."

"I felt it more than heard it." Harry shrugged, "Whatever it was it brought in more of them."

"A call of some sort." Arthur said thoughtfully.

"Exactly." Ron agreed, "I think there are about one hundred now."

"And they all came out?" Kingsley asked.

"Yes." Harry agreed, "We think so. Anyway it seemed like they all wanted a taste of him."

"And they left me there." Yaxley hissed.

"It could be dangerous to interfere with their study." Harry shrugged, "You weren't in any danger."

"They were going to eat me!" Yaxley yelled.

"They were not." Ron and Harry yelled back.

"Physically it isn't possible for them to eat you." Arthur explained, "Their throats are too small as are their stomachs."

"They just have large mouths." Harry added, "Everything they want to know about goes into their mouth and then they spit it out, unless it's their favorite food."

"So he was licked by about a hundred Puffs?" Amos asked.

"Essentially yes." Ron agreed.

"Then what happened?" Arthur asked with trepidation wondering when it would get horrible.

"When the Puffs were done with their licking they left." Ron shrugged, "We washed him down and arrested him."

"And you believe that is enough to get you free?" Kingsley asked.

"It was truly horrific." Yaxley explained, "I wouldn't wish that torture on anyone."

"Mr. Yaxley, we are adding the charge of illegally entering a restricted zone." Amos intoned, "For the crime of being a death eater you will get the mandatory sentence of 65 years. For the multiple additional crimes you have been found guilty of it equals 50 years. For running from aurors you will get 5 years. For entering the restricted zone you will get 2 years. The total is 122 years in Azkaban."

"No that isn't fair!" Yaxley yelled and began to fight his bonds.

"Shut up or we'll convince him to make it worse." Ron said as they pulled him from the chair.

"What could be worse than 122 years in Azkaban?" he asked clearly upset.

"We could put you back in the Danger Zone." Harry commented lightly.

"Noooooooooooo!" Yaxley continued to yell as they drug him away.