Authors note: I do not own any characters created by J.K. Rowling. Full credit goes to her for all situations and information mentioned in any of the 7 books or interviews, etc. as well. However, the storyline of this fanfic is all me and the little voice in my head.

*year 3 - age 14*

"Guilty"

NO!

They couldn't do this!
How could they do that?

They didn't even listen to all of our arguments!
And those arguments would've gotten him free, I was sure of it!

Weren't they supposed to be fair and impartial?
Instead of bringing that promoted butcher here right away?

It was almost as if they already knew what the outcome would be, no matter what the defence - and the defence was good!
I'd spent hours looking up all the info on hippogriffs, I'd gone through numerous law books, researching every detail I could find.
If they would have heard Hagrid out, there would've been no way they would have been able to get away with excecuting him.
Or, well, at least not legally.

I hated this!

I hated that some spoiled brat like Malfoy could just get to decide on the life or death of such a beautiful creature, just because his daddy was rich.

I hated that the law system, the very thing that was supposed to prevent such a thing from happening, not only allowed it, but gladly went along with it - perhaps even was sponsored by/because of it.

I hated that a minister - the person who was supposed to be a good example for his ministry - was so corrupt, biased or simply blind that he would practically promote such behaviour.
Well, at least he still got the 'example' part right.
Just a shame that he was anything but a good one...

I hated that nobody even seemed to mind that such a thing happened, or that they simply were too used to it to even try to change it anymore.

But most of all, I hated that there wasn't a thing I could do about it.
There weren't any law books left to search for some possibility to make it right, there were no more documents that I could look into.

I had already done all of that stuff.

And it didn't help a thing.

They would just go on like they were used to, too stuck and set in their ways to even think about changing.

So they'd just execute him, a creature which, compared to them, wasn't even half as

"Guilty"

Hermione really was meant to be someone to fight for justice - it's not until fourth year that she really gets at it with S.P.E.W. but Buckbeak's proces really was like something to get her going I think, something that made her realise that she wanted to fight for things like this.
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