Hey everyone,
I just want to start this all by saying: I am SUPER excited about this chapter. I love Bashing and Dumbledore is a character I will never like, not in the HP Cannon or out of it and I love lots and lots of chapters that have Dumbledore Bashing, the same for Ron, Molly, Ginny, Bellatrix and Umbridge Bashing.
However, a few characters that I never want to see bashed are the Weasley Twins, Harry, Remus and Sirius as I love the five of them just too much, which I am sure you can see no matter which story of mine you read. Also, while I am not against bashing, will Fudge play a large and supportive role in this story.
Okay, enjoy,

Venquine1990


Chapter 10
Setting up The Cases

Amelia's POV

While I have always been pretty much neutral when it comes to the man that is now seated and for who we are waiting for him to awaken before we prosecute him, do I not believe we should do this because of Fudge's beliefs of the man, but do I still feel as if we are doing the right thing thanks to the speech of Inspector Fox.
Yet it's not just her words that make me feel determined to see this through, but those of her son as well, even though until a few minutes ago I didn't even know the person who is now a Fox-Raccoon Hybrid was her son as, until he changed back, I believed the boy to be our national hero and the Heir to the Potter line.

This thought then reminds me of something and I cough to get the attention of the others before I ask: "Heir Fox, if you really are who you claim you are and Lord Dumbledore is really guilty of your kidnap as your mother implies, then what does that exactly mean for the fortune belonging to your former line and House?"
The others look shocked that I am sounding so distrusted of what we just heard, yet the boy himself seems not at all effected as he smiles at me and says: "No need to worry, Madam Bones. My family and I have already visited Gringotts and the Goblins have accepted for my mother to take over the title of Lady Potter from me."
To this I nod and then my partner on my right asks: "That is good to hear, but – seeing your new looks –." And while the man himself, who is Lord of a family that is smaller than mine in heritage and in alliance with my own leaves the question open, does the hybrid not take them as an insult as he keeps smiling and says:

"I am Rin-Gin Cooper-Fox. I am the son of Inspector Carmelita Fox and her husband, accepted by Interpol, Master Thief Sly Cooper. And because of that, do I still have a huge heritage attached to my name as the Cooper Line can be traced back all the way to Ancient Egypt, which is 400 years older than the House of Potter."
And while I am shocked that the boy knows this, do I not even take insult to the fact that a well-known and well-liked Officer of the Law has married an infamous Master Criminal and then the one thing we have all been waiting for happens; the man held by the Judgment Chair starts to stir as he slowly but surely wakes up.
Instantly the officer that has grown within me the longer I have worked for the Department of Magical Law Enforcement rears up and I look at the man with a look in my eyes and slightly hidden behind my monocle to prove that I am ready to question him, get to the bottom of all his hidden truths and dark secrets and judge him accordingly.

Albus' POV

I don't know what is happening, but the first thing I notice as my consciousness returns to me is that I am not only wandless – not that this is really a problem to my years of skills in training in Wandless Casting – but also apparently chained up and my first thought is that those mongrels must have locked me up somewhere.
That is my thought until I actually open my eyes, the both of them widening the second I realize where I am and in what position. As in some way or another, it seems as if those dirty beasts managed to keep my sedated from the day after the brat's arrival at London all the way to the day of his actual hearing – in a Wizengamot Chamber.
And to make matters even worse is the brat himself again looking like the beast that I tried to keep him from being, is his fiend of a mother standing behind him, her outfit proving she is on duty – not that I believe a beast like that capable of working a proper job – and am I actually the one seated in the Judgment chair.

I look around me and my eyes widen and my heart sinks even more when I see Severus, chained up in a chair similar to my own and with his body still limp, proving that while I have awoken from whatever knocked me out, the hit that the man received from that half-sized hippo is still strong enough to keep him knocked out.
I try to use Wandless magic to cast the Legilimency spell, if only to send the man a magical mental jolt and wake him up so he can help me escape from here, but then a voice that I often wondered whether its owner was loyal to my cause or not speaks and her words not only distract me, but frighten me considerably.

"Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore. You are seated before a court of your betters in order to be trialed and prosecuted on grounds of kidnap of the Heir of the Most Noble and Most Ancient House of Cooper. You will be questioned under Veritaserum and the court of the Wizengamot will be the Judging Body."

So speaks the voice of Amelia Susan Bones, who has often supported some of my claims and a few of the laws I have wanted to put into action to help sustain our world, yet who has also often been a fierce competitor against other laws I wanted to put up, believing them – as she called it – a violation of rights, truth and honor.
"Good Merlin, what do any of those things matter in light of the Greater Good? Does that woman not realize that she is trying to trial the best undercover leader this world has ever seen? The man that is meant to be immortal thanks to his decisions on law and justice?" Goes through my mind, yet I do not speak these thoughts and ask:

"And your evidence for this?" Not above making them feel stupid if it helps getting me the upper hand, but then the boy that I thought could help me outcast Fudge when the time was right actually speaks up and says: "Just look to your right, sir. You have the living breathing evidence right there besides you."
At this I want to sneer at him, but decide to just play along with his little game and say: "All I see is two animals. Did someone decide to bring their pets to this meeting? How delightful." And while I can only just conceal my smirk at how more and more people are growing affronted, do I then get angered as the boy says:

"Oh great Riochi, this guy has older tricks than my family has ancestors." This makes those that had begun to get angry turn to the boy, making me want to grumble before he asks: "The old Blinded by anger technique? Really Dumbledore?" To which, while hating that I will have to confess to his human nature, do I say:
"Young man, you are clearly old enough to –." And the boy interrupts me as he says: "Consider you my Headmaster were we to be at Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry, which we are not, so to me and my personal life, your title is futile. Sorry Headmaster, try again." And his ending smirk almost makes me pop a vein.

"Filthy little mongrel." A voice then suddenly sounds from my right and while I want to bless the gods for waking the man up, do I also hate how he actually fell for Cooper using my trick against him as I had hoped he would realize his need for silence once he woke and instead of that, do his words draw everyone's attention.
"Ah Severus Snape, so good of you to join us. Heir Cooper, do you perhaps have any charges we can prosecute the fine Head of Slytherin for?" Amelia then asks and then it seems as if Severus has fully grasped the situation he is, including how he is locked in his seat as he starts to vehemently try to free himself from his chains as Cooper says:
"Not much. There is the case that he threatened me with Veritaserum without legal permission from any of my actual guardians, namely my parents, plus the case where he endangered the lives of myself and my friends on the fourth of June in 1994, but –." Yet here Severus seizes his attempts to get free as he shouts:

"I DID NO SUCH THING!" And while I wonder how a man that can spy on Voldemort so brilliantly can not keep his temper around the supposed son of his dead enemy, does Cooper go on: "Oh, but you did. But I guess in your madness back then, you didn't see the danger you were causing, so allow me to point out the finer details for you."
And while I'm sure that Severus hates it just as much how Cooper is treating us as if he is the teacher of a class of preschoolers, does he say: "Let us go back to the school year of 1993-1994. I'm sure that all those who had kids going to Hogwarts in that year can testify that the guards of that year had a most unsatisfying effect on me."
To this more members of the Wizengamot than I had expected actually nod, some of them probably because they have friends who indeed had kids going to school back then and Cooper says: "Yes, and this is something that was known by the teachers at the time of the fourth of June when Professor Severus Snape –."

"TRIED SAVING YOUR SORRY HIDE, YOU UNGRATEFUL BEAST!" Snape snarls in fury, yet Cooper actually remains calm and say: "I will admit that I was in the presence of a person who had yet to be questioned for the crimes he supposedly committed, but I doubt that is any reason for you to insult me so, professor."
And while many gasps go through the Wizengamot and I personally hate hearing these as I have yet to actually bring forth the statement that Sirius had gone to Azkaban without a trial, regardless of the man confiding that with me earlier during the last school year, does Severus again keep his quiet as he glares at Cooper who goes on:
"However, while I had been in the presence of a most unsavory person was it also true that this same person, Sirius Black, admitted to being willing to follow Severus Snape to Hogwarts castle as long as Ronald Weasley would take his pet rat, Scabbers, along as well. However, it is Severus Snape's response to this that is the core of the issue."

By now many Wizengamot people are looking between the furiously glaring Potions Master and the small looking heir to a beastly inheritance and legacy and Cooper says: "Professor Snape admitted that he had no desire of even reaching the castle and that he planned on summoning the Dementors after leaving the Shrieking Shack.
This in itself proves that, while there was a Kiss on Sight demand on Sirius Black's head, Professor Snape also felt he had the right to take justice in his own hands. However, that is not my issue. My issue is that, Professor Snape was willing to do this, after night had fallen, which is when Dementors – are at their strongest."
By now I myself as well as several others are starting to realize where Cooper is going and then, to my great disgust, does the hybrid turn my way as he says: "Professor Dumbledore, you know myself and Professor Snape the best, so I believe you are the price candidate for answering the upcoming question for this here court.
Do you know if, at the time of this event, Professor Snape had the ability of conjuring the Patronus charm or – seeing my lessons with Professor R. J. Lupin – do you believe I would have been able to summon such a Patronus while witnessing or after having witnessed a victim having fallen to the Dementor's Kiss?"

"YOU INSOLENT BRAT! LUPIN WAS THERE TOO THAT NIGHT!" Snape then snarls, his white façade proving how frightened he really is and how he is obviously picking at straws, yet Cooper again remains calm and retorts: "Yes, tied up in ropes that you conjured because you believed he had been working alongside Black.
Didn't you say that you were even planning to have the Dementors kiss both Sirius Black as well as Professor Lupin? I mean, I know Black had his orders, but I don't believe those counted for Professor Lupin as well. Doesn't that make you, at the very least, guilty to an attempt of murder? Let alone endangering three Hogwarts students?"
And this alone seems to seal the fate of the man if I have to go by how many faces are now glaring at the man in question, yet Severus seems to have finally gone beyond reason as he suddenly shouts: "MENTIS HOMICIDIUM!" And a spell that has a transparent color with a terrifyingly green outlining bursts from his actual hateful glare aimed at the pesk.


HOLY MERLIN!
WHAT? Did Snape just try to kill Rin-Gin through a mental murdering curse? Has Snape really gone beyond all reason and sanity? And will the curse even hit? Sorry, I really wanted to get to the actual case, but there will be so much the Wizengamot will be able to prosecute Dumbledore on, I decided to handle Snape first.
And then the cliffie came,

Venquine1990
PS. Mentis Homicidium is Google Translated from English to Latin and literally means Mental Murder. I changed Legilimence Kedavra into this to make sure I wouldn't get any Copyright problems, so yeah.