Harry Potter and the Betrayal of a Mentor

Chapter 3 - trial continues

Dumbledore was getting agitated he had never thought of this happening, too many friends for once, Albus Dumbledore leader of light seemed to have doubts about wither he would get through this his popularity still intact. Thinking he would have Harry Potter at his side by the end of it made him shrug it off, he had no idea how wrong he was. He would never again manipulate people's life. No one saw the beetle that had came in on Ginny Weasley's hair clasp apart from one Harry Potter, when he did he just smirked.

The man who was just back after running from the court room, who now had the Veritaserum in his hand, he walked over to Severus and held up his hand for silence as he administered the Veritaserum, the Longbottom's and H.A went and sat on the front bench, Severus' face went slack as the Veritaserum started to work.

Harry told his lawyer want to say having no idea what to say to the man, but Harry gave him a list of things to ask quickly as he could. He nodded and walked over and he began asking the questions,

"When was the first time you saved Harry Potter?" asked the lawyer,

"First time was when I told his parents and they went into hiding," said Severus.

"You have saved Harry Potter more than once?" asked the lawyer already knowing the answers Harry having told him all he could within five minutes, which was quite a lot.

"Yes, I saved him falling fifty feet of his broom stick his first time on a broom," said Severus.

"Name the other times you saved Harry Potter please" said the lawyer knowing they had won it bringing up how many times he had saved Harry, they would believe him anyway he hoped anyway.

"I was going to stop the snake from attacking Harry Potter when he began talking to it, the other time was putting myself in front of a werewolf that Dumbledore had let into the castle I had told him he would help his friend in and he was, I was in front of Hermione Granger, Ronald Weasley and Harry Potter, I tried to get Harry out of the tournament and it was all for nothing, the Headmaster was adamant that he compete" said Severus

"So you have put your life on the line to Save Harry Potter time and time again?" he finally asked

"Yes" was all that was said.

He spoke to everyone "Ladies and Gentlemen why do you all want to arrest Severus Snape when he has saved Harry Potter time and time again, not just that but he really does have the best interest for his students".

Turning back he asked, "Who do you spy for?" everyone held there breath this was the moment of truth.

"I spied on Voldemort for Dumbledore!" said Severus, everyone let out a breath they didn't know they were holding the truth was out and Dumbledore's game is over. Before it had even properly started, but the lawyer continued questioning him.

"How long were you spying?" he asked,

"I was initiated as soon as I left school, I went right to the Headmaster and turned myself in, he said I could spy for him, it would keep me out of Azkaban, I agreed and here I am after agreeing with him," said Sev.

"All those years of spying for the man who is now shoving that in his face how does than make you feel?" asked the lawyer,

"I was shocked at first but I was reminded that he left Harry Potter to rot in Azkaban, he knew Harry would not do nothing like that but left him there none the less I even told him there was a plot to set Harry up, but he would not listen, when Harry was proven innocent he was right there and begging for Harry's forgiveness, I think he wanted Harry under his control, I think is why he is doing this" said Sev.

"No further questions your honour," said the lawyer sitting down the other lawyer got up and started questioning him.

"So you were never really a Death Eater were you Professor Snape?" said asked the man.

"No" was the automatic answer having no control over speaking.

"Did you or did you not kill people" asked the man.

"Yes"-said Sev.

"And rape them?" asked the man.

"No, after my initiation I never took part in that again," said Sev.

"So you did everything a Death Eater did?" asked the lawyer.

"No, I didn't rape and didn't kill every night and didn't take part in the torture," said Sev.

"What did you know who have you do for him then?" asked the man.

"Most of the time make Potions for him, poisons and that also potions that cause pain" said Severus.

"So you still killed people?" the lawyer asked.

"YES"-said Sev.

"I see and you think you should get away with what you have done, you have killed people and made illegal potions for you know who and you think you should get away with it?" asked the lawyer in disbelief.

"I would rather have not done it but Dumbledore kept telling me it was for the greater good and eventually I believed him, I killed people because he told me too, I was just a lost teenager who was forced into something I didn't want to do, I have never had someone to be proud of me and he was I did it for him, and how stupid I was" said Severus.

The people in the room were all feeling pity and sorrow for the man sitting in the chair, there was a few of them looking at Dumbledore dirtily, for doing that to a lost boy by the looks of things wanted love, and Dumbledore had used him to do his dirty work and then send him to the dogs once he had done what he was useable for, most in the Wizengamot were muttering about not helping him do that.

The Slytherins in the room looked ready to murder the man in the stands, Dumbledore was the one in the stands, and Neville's mum also looked ready to kill. Many of the Wizengamot were looking at him like he was Voldemort and more were looking at him like they had never saw him again, and others were looking at him in disgust and pure and utter disbelief.

The courtroom was a mass of noise, people screaming in denial shouting things at Dumbledore and asking each other things and trying to get over the fact that the Headmaster they trusted as there head of Wizengamot was no better than Voldemort himself.

"ORDER, ORDER!" yelled Madam Bones.

After it quietened down the Wizengamot left, to make there decision, Severus sitting on his chair nervously not as nervous as he should be, he thought tonight had ended better than he had hoped a lot better, Harry, Neville the rest of the H.A were sitting patiently for the Wizengamot to come back in, they left and didn't come back for an hour, which was quite long usually it would only take them half an hour.

"How do you find Severus Snape? Guilty? Or not guilty?" said a voice.

One witch got up, took the paper that was in her hand and opened it, and she stood there for a good few minutes before she let the words escape her lips "Not Guilty!" the screams were higher than ever screaming at the top of there lungs happy that Severus had gotten off.

Sirius looked like he had been denied his bone in dog form, Lupin looked like he was told he was going to be a werewolf more than just once a month, Dumbledore looked like he had just been deflated, the Weasley's looked like they had been told they were fined money that they would not be able to afford, Hermione looked like she had just been denied the most precious book in the world, but the judge was not done yet.

"Also would like to use Veritaserum on Albus Dumbledore we need to be sure that he has the students welfare before everything" said the woman who looked like she was enjoying giving the news she had been the one to hate Dumbledore, well perhaps not hate but distrust him. The Headmaster got up and tried to leave, only to find himself at wand point from every Auror in the room. With a sigh, he knew he was truly screwed.

The Auror's forced him into the chair that Severus had just been in, he had been told to sit elsewhere, so he decided to sit next to Harry, relaxing more and more realising this trial was going to their favour. Neville's mum came over again wrapped her arms around Severus, Harry felt a pang of anger when she was touching his Severus 'my Sev now that's a scary thought' was all Harry could think. They all quietened down to here what the Headmaster would say under the affects of Veritaserum; after it was in affect Dumbledore's lawyer began asking questions.

"Do you care about the fate of the wizarding world?" he asked.

"Yes" muttered Dumbledore, as he began to sweat trying to fight the affects of the Veritaserum but he could not, not even the most powerful wizard could.

"Would you leave Hogwarts to Voldemort?" asked the man.

"Never" said Dumbledore, still trying to fight it even thought he knew he could not no matter how much he tried.

"That's all the questions your honour" said The lawyer sitting down, then all of the people in the court room looked at the other lawyer who was sweating looking at Harry he bent over and said "What do I say?" he asked "I've not got questions to ask because u just hired me I know next to nothing about this case!" said the man, Severus had just about too sneer at the man, when he had told them that he knew nothing about the case, the sneer went to understanding, Harry whispered to him telling him what to ask. And ask them he did.

"Did you or did you not leave Harry Potter at the care of his abusive relatives knowing how he would be treated?" asked the lawyer going with the question he wanted to know more about it.

"Yes" said Dumbledore, slumping a bit, he was doomed, the room was a cry of outrage. Either it was because Harry was abused or that Dumbledore left him there they didn't know.

"You knew they hit him yet you did nothing to help him," he asked, filled with anger at the thought of trusting that man.

"Yes"-said Dumbledore.

"Even when it stated in Lily and James' will that he was with no circumstances was he to be placed with the Dursley's?" asked the man, trying and failing to keep his anger in.

"Yes" he said.

"Why?" asked the man, in a strangled voice, he was not angry because he was the wizarding world hero, but because a defenceless two year old had been left to be beaten and abused. The thought that his own child being left like that made him angry, lily died for her child not for her child to be beaten and abused for god sakes!

"I had to put him there if he was brought up in the wizarding world he would have been arrogant and would have been harder to control. So I put him with his relatives I remember Lily telling me they would abuse him, after me saving him I knew he would be grateful to me, and it worked," said Dumbledore, pride colouring his voice at his accomplishment.

People in the room could not believe that this was the grandfatherly man they had knew from school the order or the one they had heard from all the papers his accomplishments. Alice long bottom had a death grip on both Sev and Harry's hand she was clutching while sitting in her husbands knee. H.A were in a state of shock they knew he was manipulative but this was beyond there expectations.

"You knew Harry Potter was innocent?" asked the man.

"Of course I knew he was innocent it was I who did it" said Dumbledore, that was it the magic was swirling out of control, Harry would have ended up cationic if not for Severus to bring him back and calm him down, or his magic would have gone ballistic and there would not have been a ministry left.

"How is it that you did it?" asked the lawyer managing to get the words passed his lips without cursing the stupid man.

"I have more than one spy no one knows about him, he did it for me, he gave Lord Voldemort the idea and I had told him to give and it got him into his ranks a lot higher, he was just glad to get rid of Harry Potter, I knew he was innocent I was also losing control over him, so I needed him so I got him put in Azkaban I knew he heard his parents dying over and over again I knew he would be devoted to killing the man if he heard his mother dying over and over again, and I was right it just was not beside me" said Dumbledore.

"Why did you want Harry beside you?" asked the lawyer who was now breathing heavily not only was this kid left to be abused but was left to rot in Azkaban hearing Voldemort kill his mother he felt sick and very faint.

"I wanted to kill him; he was a threat to my power and position who would want an old man when there was a saviour two times around about? No one I would have killed him then took his money," said Dumbledore.

"Why the Dumbledore's are rich" asked the lawyer, rubbing his face tiredly, wondering what else the headmaster had done.

"I used it all with the first war financing the order," said Dumbledore.

"Why did you want Severus Snape in Azkaban it's obvious that he really was a spy all along for you" said Harry's lawyer.

"Because he took Harry from my control, he belonged to me, it's my power my money and my fame" said Dumbledore it was becoming apparent that he was insane.

"What were you going to do with Harry Potter under your control?" asked the lawyer almost dreading the answer.

"I was going to rape him, again and again, until he was pregnant then I was going to take a de; aging potion and turn into a teenager again, and use the philosophers stone, he would stay with me then, he only ever wanted a family, I was then going to force him to bond to me, and I was going to pose as Albus Dumbledore's grandson, and get all the credit I deserve" said Dumbledore.

A few people puked Harry was shaking with suppressed emotions, tears coursing down his face, he had only wanted to help Sev not listen to Dumbledore admit things he didn't want to hear, as Dumbledore spoke the last bit of Harry Potter's innocence was ripped from him. Everyone looked at Harry with pity, where upon Sev scowled telling them to leave him alone.

"Did you know who the real secret keeper was" said the lawyer getting to one of the questions Harry had asked him to ask, Harry knew something was not right there was no way Dumbledore would have agreed with them no questions asked.

THERE WE GO! THE MOMENT OF TRUTH WILL DUMBLEDORE REALLY HAVE BEEN THAT EVIL TO SET VOLDEMORT ON THE POTTERS? WILL HE BE EVIL ENOUGH TO HAVE CAUSED THE DEATHS OF TWO POWERFUL ALIES ON HIS SIDE? R&R PLZ AND GOODBYEEEEEEEE