Hey everyone,
This chapter will be very exciting as it will be the full Cooper line as well as the Wizengamot versus Dumbledore and Snape. Now I know what you're thinking; wait full Cooper Line? Didn't Sly agree to let Carmelita handle the situation due to his own reputation? To this I ask you back; when has Sly ever kept to the rules?
Have fun,

Venquine1990


Chapter 11
One Family Rises, Another Falls

Sly's POV

"Sneaking into the head base of an entire magical community through a telephone booth and a vent that was once used by owls to deliver letters. This is easier than sneaking into Heathrow Prison. Why didn't those dumb wizards just lock this whole set of vents down when they changed those owls for those memo-things?"
Goes through my mind as it is only too easy to make up the plan for my son to prove his innocence as well as get his revenge against the man who took him from us as well as his little delusional servant, watch my family leave for the plan and then distract my team before sneaking out and following my wife and son.

After this I just waited till I saw where their entrance was and after making sure that the two of them have sufficiently started using the entrance themselves, did I feel very happy that I had quickly shoved my signature card between the door, making it not entirely close and making it easier for me to slip onto the roof of their lift.
Yet I am nothing if not a true Master Thief and had sensed that, once their lift had reached bottom, I would be in full plain sight and so, while remaining crouched on top of their lift shaft, had I let my eyes roam around and to my enjoyment had I actually seen two air vents appear on both of my sides, me shooting onto one.
And just in time as, looking back, I had seen my son and disguised wife arrive in the middle of a gigantic hallway, yet after seeing them pass through a large mass of people, did I switch between the two shafts in order to keep up with them and since then have I followed them and their progress during the trial.

And because of that, am I now stretching my arms and legs out to the four corners of the circular dome-shaped ceiling of the courtroom, did I see how Rin-Gin showed up the entire what is called Wizengamot, how he showed them their true enemies and how he one-upped Snape and Dumbledore with practiced ease.
Yet I am also looking down at how the chained man, who had luckily enough been disarmed after being taken down by Murray, yet who had tried to dispute my son's accusations, only for my little Rin-Gin to give exactly the pieces of evidence to smite the man and prove his guilt even before the case even started.
Yet it seems that there is one aspect of Snape's character that even Dumbledore himself didn't know about and that is that the man is apparently capable of using Wandless magic as he suddenly shouts something that sounds similar to what the wizards call the Killing Curse and a curse with a green outlining shoots at my son.

Instantly I let go off what holds me up against the ceiling and use one of my free hands to grab my cane off my back before I use several summersaults to slow down the speed of my fall and just when I am nearing the point where the spell is heading for my son, do I stretch my body out and with the end of my cane do I strike.
The golden bent tip of my cane hits the transparent part of the spell, making the green outlining turning brighter, yet while I land on both my lower legs, do I feel the power of the man's anger driving the spell on, yet while this fuels my own rage for the currently shocked man, do I snarl: "Not my son, you don't!"
And with that, before the spell can move any closer, do I twist the direction of my cane's swipe and with a powerful move of my arm, do I divert the direction of the spell away from my son and wife and over to one of the high walls separating my family, Dumbledore, Snape and myself from the rest of the Wizarding Court.

The spell hits the wall and dissipates, causing all to look at where it hit with wide eyes, yet before the startled caster can get over his shock, have I jumped back with a flip, swiped my wife off her shock pistol, aimed it and shot a bullet of electrical energy at the man, the power ripping through him and knocking him out.
At this Carmelita looks at me as I put back her shock pistol and I say: "In name of my son, would I like to add attempt of violation against his person on the charges put up against the man known as Severus Snape." And while some are still looking at the spell's hit point, do others look from it to me with wide eyes, due to my stern voice.
"This was no attempt of violation, Lord Cooper." The woman who had spoken at Dumbledore when he woke then tells me and when I turn to her, does she say: "That was an attempt of mental murder, which is of equal violation of the law as the three Unforgivables as well as raping a minor and thus – a one-way ticket to Azkaban prison."

This alone makes me smirk, mostly because Sirius had told me all about his experiences with Azkaban and I have long since agreed that a place like that would be the perfect punishment to people as manipulative as the old man before as well as those as delusional and petty as the man now scared for his future.
"Speaking of Azkaban." Rin-Gin then speaks up and we all look at him as he says: "I will admit, Minister, the way that Dumbledore tried using the Giants and Dementors to make you believe in Voldemort's return, not to mention his plans for them, were just pathetic, incomplete and perfect reason to be hesitant of belief."
And while this makes the man in question make my son send a betrayed look, does Fudge seem shocked that my son is actually agreeing with him over the events of a month or so ago that started practically everything that transpired this summer, yet Rin-Gin doesn't focus on him as he instead continues and says:

"I mean, sent an envoy to the giants? Sorry to ask, but – what is Hagrid for? Didn't he get revealed to be a Half-Giant only half a year before this all happened? Why didn't Dumbledore offer to let the Minister borrow Hagrid's skills to send the envoy to the giants? Wouldn't that, say, show willingness to cooperation?"
By now Dumbledore seems ready to pop a vein, something I love as it proves that Rin-Gin really is my little one as I love antagonizing my opponents as my son is currently doing and while, in the background, I can hear more and more wizards mumble amongst each other, does Rin-Gin ignore them as he says:
"And what about that other plan of yours? I mean, sure keeping Death Eaters around beasts that once served that mad monster is indeed a bad idea, but if you plan to switch these beasts around and leave that task to the Minister – then maybe it would have been better to suggest this at a later date or, say, discuss the replacement?"

This alone makes me smirk as I know just fine that, just last night, the Cooper Order already decided on a little plan to see this idea be put to use as we do all agree that the Dementors and the Death Eaters need to be separated so that the latter won't continue feeling like their imminent release isn't all that imminent anymore.
"Sure hope you can pull through, Murray." Goes through my mind before I focus back on my son as Rin-Gin says: "Let's face it, Dumbledore. You not only spoke to the Minister when he was trying to do some damage control, making him even more agitated than the damage must have done, your plans were incomplete and tactless.
Voldemort may have ruined the greatest accomplishment in Minister Fudge's reputation as a leader, but you only made things worse for everything that happened after it by picking several inconvenient times, sounding half-baked, using a man who nobody in their right minds actually trusts and offering unfinished plans and ideas.
Voldemort may have started the upcoming war with the murder of Cedric and his return to a body – but you made our chances absolutely appalling with all the actions you partook in after his return. And that's just in regards to everything that happened over the last two months – not even taking the other events into account."

And while many eyes are wide at how awful my son is making the ancient man look and sound and by this time has Rin-Gin pulled his own cane from his back, something Carmelita had hidden from sight by pretending to be a backpack and has he moved over to where Dumbledore is seated. He glares at the man and shocks us.
With incredible swiftness, does he have the man's white, waist-length beard cut off, obviously to get his own bit of revenge against the man and then moves his cane sharply under the man's chin, his eyes blazing with raging fury as he hisses: "The one question, however, I am sure is right now on everyone's mind – is why?"
And just a single look around the room makes me know that my son is right as this makes every witch and wizard, even the Minister and his two lackeys, lean so far forward in their seats, some of them leaning so far forward I am kind of surprised they're not falling over the wall separating them from us before something happens.

My son seems to have pushed Dumbledore beyond too far with his little show of evidence as the man's voice has turned harsh and cold, actually reminding me of only one other enemy I have ever faced that made me feel as uncomfortable as this man does and while he opens his mouth, do I mutter the name:
"Clockwerk." Carmelita sending me a worried look and while I feel glad that I have yet to put my cane away and move my body in such a way I can dash over and pull my son away from the man at a moment's notice, while at the same time Carmelita tenses her muscles and pulls one arm behind her to her shockgun as Dumbledore says:

"Because I believed that using a filthy little beast like you could help me make up for the stupid mistake made by that once proud idiot named Potter when he, instead of just letting that Mudblood bond to another Mudblood and have them make a somewhat decent Halfblood, went and married her himself instead.
I have been working several decades to make sure Halfbloods marry Halfbloods and that Mudbloods marry each other and then the Heir of one of the strongest right-sided, Greater Good believing families had to go and ruin everything by publicly courting and declaring his wrongfully romantic emotions to that – bookworm.
And then, when Potter got his rightful due by discovering he had married an infertile beast, of course he came and asked me for help and I – being the Greater Good worshiper that I am – went for any family that could be just as powerful as his own. However, I could not pick an English one as we were – as you know – at war.
No, I had to pick something of the foreign countries and then I discovered yet another atrocity to proper rights and the Greater Good. There was a family much older and stronger than that of the Potter line – and it was led by a bunch of filthy, stealing beasts. So I decided to hit two Pixies with a single Stunner."

This alone shocks me as I had never expected the man to be a bigger purist bigot than those Sirius had spoken of when discussing his disgusting family with me and then Dumbledore goes on: "I believed that, with your family, the Potter Heritage and my influence, you could be the next generation to keep up the proper ways and rules.
I believed you could be the perfect mascot for all that the Greater Good stood for. That with Potter money I could help those that deserved compensation for their loyalty to my cause. That you could help me, my beliefs and ideals, become as immortal as Merlin and change the Wizarding World for the better of the Greater Good."

And at this point do I again feel as I am back at that same Volcano, floating above the hot, molten lava with nothing but a jetpack that is equipped with rockets meant to shoot Clockwerk out of the sky and listening to him as he explains me all the reasons behind his hatred for my family and his murder of my parents.
By now, while Dumbledore hasn't noticed it and while even Snape has turned white as he must be seeing Dumbledore for the monster that he actually is, have I moved myself to stand in the near shadow of my son and do I have my cane held in such a way, the golden bent tip can pull my son away at a moment's notice.
And then Dumbledore ruins it all as he coldly spats: "But it seems, I – was – wrong." And the way that he speaks those three words, his eyes locked with those of my son, seems to trigger some kind of spell that makes my very blood run cold as suddenly Rin-Gin drops his own cane and reaches with both hands for his neck.

His neck, where a spiked purple and brown striped collar with black trim is suddenly shown to be around his neck and which is tightening with increasing speed around my son's neck, while the purple and brown stripes light up one at a time, first the purple ones, then the brown ones, and with each light that passes, my heart breaks.
Breaks because it makes my son scream in pain, proving that the lights are spells that course first through the collar and then into my son and while hating how I can do nothing to save my son from this pain, does Carmelita dash forward and shock me senseless as she presses her shockgun against my son and pulls the trigger.
Yet the tip of her gun is actually placed exactly between the bottom of the collar and the top of my son's spine and so the electricity, which I am sure Carmelita has lowered to its weakest level, gets divided between the piece of cloth and my son's body and to my utter relief does this seem to be exactly what is needed.
The collar seems to get overloaded, proving that whatever the magic is, it isn't resistant against electricity, and falls apart at the seams that keep the purple and brown parts together while at the same time my son gets shocked just enough to lose consciousness, Carmelita using her other arm to catch his lifeless form.

Yet, while Dumbledore seems shocked to see his attempt of murder having been spoiled, do I also notice how everyone else is just too shocked at what they just heard the man confess and then attempt to do and I growl, drawing everyone's attention and snapping them from their stupors as I almost snap with a feral tone of voice:
"The Greater Good is not a force that should be used as an excuse for one single person to believe they can decide who should fall for who. You may believe yourself a great wizard, but you are no God. And I may know nothing of this Merlin person, but I am pretty sure he would never interfere with the bonds of romance."
By now a lot of people are nodding and I continue: "Two people, who had just gotten the worst news any newly-married couple could get, trusted in you. They expected you to help them get an heir. And what did you do? You misused that trust, broke up another newly founded family and probably lied to them to end it all off.

Lily and James died for a son they may have known was not really their own, but the fact that they died for that child should have given you the cue that you should return said child to his family. Not use the child and his unwanted, undeserved and disrespectful fame for your own bigoted, biased, purist believing means.
Lily and James may have been a Pureblood who, in your eyes could have been better off with his own brood and a Muggleborn – no, I am not using that word – but the fact that they died for a child that wasn't even their own – that makes them in so many ways so much better than you could ever be – I don't even know where to start.

Oh wait, I do." At this, even my own wife turns to me in shock, yet Rin-Gin and I had, this morning, agreed that we would both be allowed our own little bit of revenge against the man and I smirk, feeling like I just defeated Clockwerk for the third time in my life as I say: "I named Lily and James – honorary Coopers."

And this silences the entire hall for yet another time, while I personally smirk and pull the Thievius Raccoonus from my own backpack and open it at one of the final pages before showing said page to the entire court, their eyes widening as they see copied signatures of both the late witch and wizard written there.
"I went to Gringotts just last night and got copies of documents signed by the late Lord and Lady Potter and placed those within this here family manual. And trust me, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Wizengamot, the Thievius Raccoonus holds enough magic – it knows why and doesn't accept such feats without true reason.
However, as far as Cooper Lore now beliefs and what will be told to all future members of the Cooper line is that Lily and James Potter were adopted into the Cooper Line and are considered the brother and sister of my own father, Sir Connor Cooper. The Potters and Coopers are officially one Most Noble and Most Ancient House."

And with that do I turn to Dumbledore who looks as if he just got told that he was to become a Muggle or – even worse – marry Voldemort that same evening as I put the book back in my backpack and say: "So with that act and your confession, I think it's safe to say that today one Family rises, yet another falls.
And I don't think I need to explain which did which now, do I?" Yet Dumbledore seems too struck with shock to respond, probably mentally going crazy over how we just broke each and every one of his plans to smithereens and while I can almost feel the approval of my father's spirit, do I instead focus on something else.
"You lost, Dumbledore. And now, if the Wizengamot will be so kind as to excuse me, my wife and I are going to take our leave, head for our friends and tend to our son, who just had two attempts on his life, thank you very much." And without waiting for a response, do I escort my wife out of the room, while she carries our little boy.


Hey everyone,
I just want to start with saying one thing. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWW! My mind can be SO gross sometimes. I mean, Dumbledore and VOLDEMORT? I can get Dumbledore and Grindlewald, those two have been shipped since the coming of HP, no matter how gross it is, but Dumbles and Tom?
Good Merlin, I have issues! Still, I think this chapter went rather well, a lot has happened, Dumbledore has confessed to some of his crimes, Rin-Gin has brought a few others out in the open and now – it's up to Amelia Bones to get to the bottom of everything else! Yes, the Dumbledore Punished Arc continues.
Have fun,

Venquine1990