At last, the long awaited Chapter 10
Chapter 10
The Ministry of magic, Courtroom 4
Harry had taken couple of hours to prepare for the trial, he had made some new runes both offensive and defensive, he had made amulets for his group of friends and bore some himself and even one completely new that he had spent half the night developing, it was supposed to defend him from mind intrusion but he had no mean of testing it, no one of his friends had the slightest Legimancy talent.
Beside the fact that he had enough firepower to destroy the ministry, he had Remus tell him about wizarding laws and Tonks telling him about the Black family rules.
After they teleported into the Ministry and the portal amulet had destroyed itself they were met by Graknic.
"May the ancestors bring you wealth" she said "and good luck, you seem to need it"
"And the same too you Graknic" Harry answered for the group "anything new since last time?"
"We found out that Dumbledore will be representing Shakebolt" she answered.
"Damn" Harry and Remus shouted for two different reasons, then Remus took a Galleon from his pocket and flipped it over to Harry, mumbling about "schoolchildren taking the poor werewolf's money" and "like you weren't rich enough before."
"How long do you think this will last?" Harry asked "will there be enough time to get my emancipation signed?"
"You should have..." Graknic answered but as she said that the door to courtroom 4 opened.
They walked in and found their seats.
Harry noticed that they were before the whole Wizengamot, and rightly so, the Potters had a seat in the Wizengamot and an Auror tried to steal from them.
The judge came in and everybody rose, it was neither the minister nor Amelia Bones because Amelia was head of the Aurors and there fore the Kinsleys boss, and the minister would automatically try to judge against Harry and because this was an open trial that wouldn't be good for his political career, but that didn't stop him from being in the audience.
"Defendant rise" the judge called "Kinsley Shakebolt you are accused of trying to steal money of a Wizengamot family namely the Potters and to have previously succeeded on numerous occasions, how do you plead?"
"Not guilty" Kinsley answered immediately, no shame in his voice.
"Ok then" the judge said but meanwhile thought: 'there went the chance to settle this peacefully, if he didn't have the key to the Potter vault the goblins are out for blood, but still Dumbledore is defending him, this is not good, not good at all.'
"Accuser your first witness" the judge continued.
As Graknic stood up and prepared to speak a unknown Wizengamot member shouted: "What is a goblin doing in here, throw her out, this is all human buissness"
Harry stood up, pure furry written on his face, a green aura surrounded him as he began to speak: "She is here under the protection of both the Potter and the Blacks, and I understand that they have such a large number of seats that I could Vote the Griphook family into the Wisengamot and even if all of you would resist she would still be made an member, the Potter's and the Black's have 27 percent of seats and to vote someone into the Wizengamot you only need 25."
Harry was going to continue his rant but stopped once Remus put a hand on his shoulder and told him to "calm down, your aura is visible" Harry got a panicked expression and sat down "the….."He said and pointed at his forehead.
"No" Remus answered the green one; Harry signed in relive and told Graknic to continue.
"We are trying to end this as soon as possible" Graknic said "so I call forth Mr. Kinsley Shakebolt."
Kingsley was lead to the witness stand.
Graknic continued "my client demands that the witness will be given Vetiveraserum."
At the judges nod a Auror stepped forth and administered the Vetiveraserum.
And so Graknic began the questioning.
"Where were you at 5pm the 10th of July?" she asked.
Kinsley thought for a minute and answered "I was standing on the steps of Gringots."
"Where were you going?" She continued her questioning.
"I was on my way to vault 195" he answered immediately.
"Why were you going to vault 195?" Graknic asked.
"I was going to take some money from that vault" Kinsley answered.
"Were you aware at that time that young Mister Potter was in the possession of that vault?" Graknic continued.
For the first time in this trial Kinsley was visibly fighting the potion "Y-Y….Yes."
"Why were you going to take money from that vault?" Graknic asked.
"Because I was ordered to" said Kinsley, seemingly more relaxed.
"Who ordered you to?" Graknic asked.
"T-th... the he…head o-of the O…O…Order o-of the P-Ph…Phoenix" Kingsley answered fighting the potion as well as he could.
"I rest my case" Graknic said.
"Defender any questions?" The judge asked.
"Yes your honor" Dumbledore Answered and stood up.
Dumbledore started his questioning.
"Where, to the best of your knowledge, any legal difficulties related to taking money from that vault?" Dubledore asked.
"No" was Kinsley's short answer.
"Why?" Dumbledore asked.
"Because the Potters will read that the order could take money from them after their death" Kingsley answered.
"I rest my case" Dumbledore said.
Before the Judge could say anything Graknic spoke: "Permission to speak up?"
"Granted" the judge said.
"I have here the will of the Potters" she said and held up a folder, "it specifically says: 'IF the war is not over by our demise The Order of the Phoenix may take 500 galleons a year for ten years from our demise or until the war is over.' Now as both 10 years are over since the demise of the Potters, and the war was stopped, then Mr.Shakebolts actions were illegitimate."
The judge just nodded and stood up "one last question for Mr.Shakebolt" he said "who is the head of The Order of the Phoenix?"
Kinsley visibly fought the Vetiveraserum he was red in the face from trying to force his jaws together, he fisted his hands so hard that his fingernails pierced his skin and blood flowed from his palms, after almost 10 minutes of struggle he whispered something too low for anyone to hear.
After he finished speaking his skin began to glow red, not the soft red color that Harry connected to his rune ability but blood red then with the sound of a paper ripping the glow ripped in two and flew in each direction from Kinsley's body and he slumped down in his chair, dead.
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After Kingsley had been confirmed dead and the court was adjourned, Harry's group sat at the Ministry cafeteria.
"What was that?" Harry asked no one in particular.
Remus answered "the old geezer made the spies of the order sign a magical contract, but I didn't dare to even think it was a blood oath."
Harry started to tap his left hand to the back of his right hand in agitation and started to think of a new way to torture the old man.
"grumble grumble and then a Isar and grumble grumble" he was so preoccupied in talking to himself that he didn't notice that when he said 'Isar' the spot where he had taped began to glow the familiar shade of red and the Isar rune appeared carved in the flesh and began to bleed.
On the other hand Remus had noticed the wound on Harry's right hand and was so surprised that he dropped the glass of water he had in his hand.
Harry with his seeker reflexes, of course caught the glass before it hit the floor, but when Harry touched the glass the water in it instantly froze.
As most people know, when water freezes it expands and that's why the glass exploded.
The first thing Harry felt after he caught the glass was a stinging pain in the hand, he looked down and saw that the only thing that he held was a cylinder made of ice and shards of glass embalmed in his palm. "Ok" he said "what the hell just happened?"
Remus pointed soundlessly on the back of his hand.
"Isar that explains it" Harry muttered.
Harry waited a few moments for the wound to heal, he expected it like any other runic wound, to heal nearly instantly after being used, after two minutes he gave up on waiting, also the wound seemed to bleed much faster than any wound of this size should be able to.
"Erm… Does anyone walk around with a bandage, here?" Harry asked sarcastically.
"Actually…" Graknic spoke as she fished a roll of bandage from her pocket and gave to Harry.
"Wow… Do all Gingots employees walk around with bandage?" Harry asked.
"No" Graknic said "All Goblins do."
"Why?" Hermione asked curious.
Graknic thought for a while and said: "You know that magic is in your blood?"
Harry just nodded thinking about his rune magic.
"Goblins believe that magical powers can be drained from the body with blood so the try to bleed as little as possible" Graknic explained "but I'm surprised that you know that magic is in the blood" She continued "most humans seem to have forgotten it" she said "but there were a few exceptions for an example there is an gate way, here in the ministry made entirely with some sort of blood magic, but…" she stopped abruptly when she saw the frozen look on Harry's face "is something wrong?" she asked him.
Harry just stood up and ran to the nearest elevator, his friend's right behind him.
As they came to the floor with the Department of Mysteries they ran out of the elevator in the direction of the DoM.
When they at last were at the door Harry tried to open it, it was locked. "Damn it" He said "back a few paces will you" he said then he took a chicken bone from last nights supper that he had cleaned and etched some runes on and hanged it on the door, then his hand started to glow red for a short while, when the glow stopped, he touched the bone and ran to his friends.
BooM
Where before was a door was now a hole in the wall.
Now once again they stood in the round room and Harry asked Remus "How did you find us in this…" and waved his hand indicating the room.
"oh" Remus said "its simple when you enter the room the door to the room you want to enter is always the one opposite to the one you came thru."
Harry ran and opened the door opposite to the hole-nee-door and was in the so called death room.
He ran straight to the weil and started examining the columns that held it up, he seemed unhappy and stepped one step back, set his hands in front of him, and started concentrating.
The others saw his hands begin to glow, and then they looked at him and saw the look of pure concentration on his face, no one dared to ask in fear of ruining his concentration.
Then they saw the archway it was beginning to glow too, but it glowed deep purple, then runes began to turn visible on the seemingly unscratched stone.
When the archway was covered in runes Harry began to laugh, all his friend stared at him in disbelieve, at last Hermione spoke "what is so funny Harry?"
"Harry shook himself from the laughter and asked Remus "you used this for execution?" he said pointing at the weil.
"Yes" Remus said "nothing ever came out of it so everybody assumed they were dead."
Harry began laughing again.
At last Tonks snapped "What is so funny."
"This" Harry said pointing at the archway "is a food preserving mechanism"
"A refrigerator?" Hermione asked
"Something similar" Harry said "this stops time, in a pocket in space."
"So…" Tonks said
"So…" Harry said "Everything that has been put inside this thing is in the same state as when it was put in"
"That means" said Hermione "that anything dead put in there would be forever dead but anything living…"
"Would still be living" Remus finished for her.
"Can you shut it off?" Tonks asked hopeful.
"No" Harry said.
"Why not" Remus asked.
"Cause then we would have 500 years of death sentenced criminals on our hands, isn't one Voldemort enough for you?"
"Ohh" Tonks said "what will we then do?"
"Well this is rune magic so I should be immune" Harry said and jumped through the weil.
HARRY! Two voices shouted.
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