Disclaimer, Summary, Warnings and Important Notes are in chapter one.

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After their hectic dinner, Theo, Blaise and Damien made their way back to the common room. Too much had happened at dinner for them to talk about their holidays and such.

"So, how did your father react to the Blood Quill?" Theo asked curiously,

"He was oddly calm about it…I half expected him to blow up."

"He did." Came a drawled voice from behind them. It was Severus Snape,

"Professor?"

"After you went out to Diagon Alley to see your Weasley twins. Your father summoned Lucius and I. He'd blown his office to shreds. I was surprised by the lack of Crucio's." Snape continued to explain how horrified and -for lack of a better word- pissed off Tom really was about the Blood Quill.

—LINE BREAK—

The week passed quickly and Dumbledore finally discussed the situation with the DADA professor.

"I trust you have all used your free periods wisely." He murmured silencing the chatter amongst the Great Hall, "I have appointed Professor Snape as your new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor and in his place as your Potions professor, I would like to introduce you all to Professor Slughorn." Eyes slipped across to a pudgy, balding old man. Dumbledore continued to go on about the man before finally allowing everyone to eat.

"That's odd."

"Sorry? What's odd, Blaise?" Damien asked the boy in front of him,

"Well Professor Snape's been after that position for an awfully long time and I'm just surprised as to why Dumbledore finally gave him it." Blaise then shook his head, "Don't worry about it Dami, I'm just rambling, I shouldn't be so suspicious." Damien shared a look with Theo and they shrugged shoulders.

—LINE BREAK—

The second week of school came around quickly, it would be a busy week trying to get used to their new DADA and Potions professors, but Damien was sure nothing would happen -well, he wasn't sure, rather he was hopeful. Yet as Damien sat in the gradually filling Great Hall eating breakfast and listening to the mindless chatter amongst him, he couldn't help but feel dread swim around in his stomach as the many owls entered with parcels, letters and papers. The magnificent snowy owl flew down to Damien and gave him the Daily Prophet and a few letters. Choosing to read the letters at another time, the raven-haired boy gave Hedwig a piece of bacon before reading the paper.

DAILY PROPHET:

Dolores Umbridge using Blood Quills on innocent Hogwarts students! Turn to page 3 for more information.
Sirius Black has been wrongly and falsely accused of murder and was put in Azkaban without a trial! Turn to page 9 for more information.

Damien, after moments of having an inner battle over what to read first, begrudgingly turned to the Umbridge story, choosing to save the best for last.

DOLORES UMBRIDGE TORTURES STUDENTS!

My dear readers, I have some shocking news to tell you today!
Dolores Umbridge, the Senior Undersecretary to the Minister for Magic. Well, at least she was until revelations came out. Umbridge has always been a horrible woman and used this to get places in the Ministry of Magic. Minister Fudge assigned Umbridge to Hogwarts under the attempt to put Hogwarts in the Ministries control and to put a stop to Headmaster Dumbledore and Harry Potter's comments on You-Know-Who's return. However, as Mr Potter didn't show up at Hogwarts, this was an unnecessary action.

Back to the matter at hand (no pun intended). Over the Christmas holidays, the father of Mr Damien Riddle, a student who recently started Hogwarts despite being in his fifth year, found an odd scar across the back of his son's hand. Unfortunately, Mr Riddle was not the only student being forced to use the malicious quill.

Damien skimmed over the details, he was, after all, there when everything happened. Before coming to a stop as a certain word caught his emerald gaze.

Certain circumstances rose early yesterday morning. Auror's Tonks and Kingsley were going to collect Umbridge to take her to her trial. However, when they arrived at her cell within the Ministry (for those who do not know, there is a prison inside the Ministry, where criminals awaiting trials stay before their fate is decided [AN just made this up don't know if it's real]), she was not there. After interviewing several Auror's, we are lead to believe that it was an inside job. But, was it really someone helping Umbridge? Or was it someone wanting revenge? That is up to you my readers, you'll find that at the Daily Prophet we have a small vote going on about what you think really happened to the despicable toad.

By
Rita Skeeter
Daily Prophet.

"What do you think then?" Asked Blaise after he read the article in his newspaper,

"Truthfully, I reckon dad took her," Damien answered quietly, Theo and Blaise nodding in agreement, before going back to their papers and breakfast. Turning to page 9, Damien continued to read the usually scandalous, offensive articles that Skeeter wrote up. A brief smile covered his face, obviously the ones in the Daily Prophet today were nothing but the truth.

SIRIUS BLACK INNOCENT?

Yes, you did read that right, my dear reader.

In 1981, Sirius Orion Black of the Noble and Most Ancient House of Black was arrested on sight after allegedly causing a huge explosion with a Blasting Curse, murdering twelve Muggles and killing Peter Pettigrew! However, an anonymous note managed to make its way to my desk:

'Dearest Rita Skeeter,
I felt that you should know that Peter Pettigrew is in fact alive. He framed Sirius Black.
To make matters worse, Sirius Black of the Noble and Most Ancient House of Black was arrested without a trial. This is a disgraceful act for someone of his status. I understand that in Mr Harry Potter's third year at Hogwarts, the boy claimed that his godfather, Sirius Black, was, in fact, innocent along with the fact that Peter Pettigrew was alive. According to Mr Potter, Pettigrew had been living as the family pet of the Weasley's for twelve years before running away.
 This concerns me deeply as the Minister of Magic brushed the youth's claims away as delusions. I believe that once Sirius Black is found he should be trialled with Veritaserum to prove his innocence.'

I happen to agree deeply with this letter. So I took it to Madam Bones, where she stated and I quote "Sirius Black, should he make his location known, can be guaranteed a trial immediately. Personally, I am deeply ashamed that my predecessor never gave Mr Black a trial."

So let us all hope that Sirius Black reads this and can prove his innocence. Finally, the Auror's have told me that should Peter Pettigrew be alive and spotted, the spotters are to immediately inform the Aurors.

By
Rita Skeeter
Daily Prophet.

Damien smiled to himself, finally, his godfather -yes he still considered Sirius his godfather- would have a chance to prove his innocence. This must be what his dad meant and for that, he was very grateful.

Authors Notes:

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