Title: Snape's Revenge
Rating: K
Summary: Voldemort makes Snape Headmaster but when Voldemort tells him who will be Muggle Studies Professor and Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor Snape has his own ideas on who would be perfect for the positions. Guess who comes to Hogwarts?
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Harry Potter characters, they all belong to J.K Rowling, but I do like to play with them.
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Chapter 8: Snape's Trial
When Snape returned to Hogwarts he presented the head of Voldemort for everyone to see. That started the chain of events that led to the removal of the Minister of Magic and the arrest of Ministry members that were known Death Eaters. However the death of Voldemort and the hand that Snape played came back to hit Snape as he was led away to Azkaban. He yelled at Flitwick, telling him that he was the temporary Headmaster until Minerva could come back.
Thankfully Remus had made sure that Snape was carted away to Azkaban right away. Most of the staff knew what Snape had done in the short time that he had been Headmaster and when Snape thought that he would end up like Sirius, without a trial, a stocky woman came in and told him that she was his attorney.
"You mean I'm being represented," Snape said.
"Yes," the woman said. "My name is Maria Fairchild."
"Severus Snape," Snape said.
"Your trial starts tomorrow," Maria told him. "And the first person to speak out against you will be Harry Potter."
"No surprise there," Snape said. "How are the cats doing?"
Maria looked at him and Snape had to explain that he had two cats back at the castle.
"Oh their doing fine," Maria said. "Though Flitwick says that the male misses you."
"And I miss him as well," Snape said.
Snape didn't sleep well that night and the next morning he looked as though hell froze over on him. When he was led in he wasn't surprised to see Lucius Malfoy there as well as Narcissa and Draco. They were all in chains and not looking happy. Snape thanked the Gods that the Ministry hadn't brought back the Dementors.
"Narcissa Malfoy, come forth," said a stern-looking man that Snape had never seen.
Narcissa came forth and Snape listened.
"You have been brought before the Department of Magical Law Enforcement for your crimes as a Death Eater," the man said. "That includes allowing You-Know-Who to live in your home, keeping captive Mr. Ollivander, taking part in the belief that Muggleborns had stolen magic, and housing known Death Eaters. How do you plea?"
"Guilty," Narcissa answered.
"Let this trial begin," the man said and the first person that came up was Mr. Ollivander. "Mr. Ollivander when did you arrive at Malfoy Manor?"
"Around July," Ollivander answered.
"Did you see Narcissa Malfoy when you arrived?"
"Yes," Ollivander answered.
"Did she torchure you at anytime?" the man asked him.
"No, she was scared," Ollivander answered. "You-Know-Who had forced himself on them and was living with them as part of their punishment."
"And what punishment was this?"
"I don't know," Ollivander said.
"Did she cast any known Unforgivables on you?"
"No, she was just a servant in her own house," Ollivander told him. "But she did mention that she blamed herself for where she was in life."
"And did she tell you what that was?" the man asked him.
"Yes, she said that she was the one that killed Dumbledore," Ollivander answered and those words caused a stir among those in the courtroom.
"What do you mean that she was the one that killed Dumbledore?"
"She wouldn't say," Ollivander said. "But she was very firm about it."
"Thank you," the man said and motioned for Ollivander to leave. "Narcissa, come forth."
Narcissa once again stepped forward and he spoke.
"Please explain what you told Mr. Ollivander?" the man asked her.
Snape wondered what Narcissa would say and if it would get him cleared.
"Last year I went to Severus house to talk to him about what the Dark Lord had asked Draco to do. I told him that I wanted to save my son from whatever fate awaited him as I knew this was punishment for what my husband had failed to do."
"Get the prophecy," the man said and Narcissa nodded. "Go on."
"I asked him to take an Unbreakable Vow that he would do what Draco had to do if Draco was unable to do it. He agreed and Bellatrix was our bounder. I had no idea, at the time, that it was to kill Dumbledore so that the Dark Lord could get the Elder Wand. It was only after Dumbledore's death did I find out."
The room started muttering and Snape knew they all knew what was entailed in an Unbreakable Vow.
"Step down," the man ordered and Narcissa returned to her family. "Does anyone in this room believe that the crimes that she committed warrant her to spend a life time in Azkaban?"
Several people raised their hands but not enough to warrant a guilty verdict. The chains came off and one of the Aurors escorted her out.
Snape then watched Lucius come forth again and once again he was found guilty of what he did and was led away. However Draco was freed because he didn't actually kill the Headmaster and thanks to Ollivander he was freed of using the Unforgivables. No one had found Bellatrix or her husband and Snape knew that McGonagall was in danger so long as the Death Eaters that weren't locked up by the Ministry was still out there.
"Severus Snape, come forth," said the man and he came up to the front. "You are charged with the murder of Albus Dumbledore, participating in Death Eater activities, the assault on Harry Potter, and using a dark potion on another living being. How do you plea?"
"Not guilty," Snape answered.
The man narrowed his eyes at him.
"Fine, we'll start with the first charge," the man said, "The murder of Albus Dumbledore. According to Harry James Potter you used the Killing Curse on our popular and powerful wizard that night on the Astronomy Tower. Of course what made it worse was the fact that you returned to Hogwarts to fill in the post of Headmaster. Did you actually think the staff was going to accept you?"
"They did," Snape told him. "I got rid of the Carrows because they posed a threat to the school and I brought Remus Lupin back as the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher and his wife as Muggle Studies because she knew a lot about muggles. I've done nothing that's against the law during my time as Headmaster."
"Yes you did, yes you did," the man said, almost leaping off his seat. "You assaulted Harry Potter with a vial potion and you forced yourself on Minerva McGonagall with a dark potion. She's gone, no doubt murdered by your hands, and I want to know where her body's at, and you fowled the Great Hall with those horrible paintings. That last part should be a crime itself."
Several people giggled and Snape had to crack a smile.
"Um, sir, bad art isn't a crime that we punish here," a younger man replied.
The whole room laughed and the older man sat down.
"For your information Minerva McGonagall is safe and sound and under a Fedelus Charm."
"For what reason?" the man asked.
"I'm not going to tell," Snape said. "If I did then she would be in greater danger. Also the dark potion that I had brewed I didn't brew myself. Miss Granger brewed it for me. However I won't have you putting her on trial. I did that to protect Minerva from Tom Riddle's punishment."
"Tom Riddle, who's Tom Riddle."
Snape was surprised and then he remembered that Dumbledore had said that not everyone knew that Voldemort had once called himself Tom Riddle.
"The Dark Lord was once called Tom Riddle," Snape told him. "Dumbledore told me that years ago."
"Fine," the man said. "But Minerva isn't here and therefore can't come to your defense."
"Actually she can," Maria said, presenting a roll of parchment. "Everything that she remembers is on this parchment and it's enchanted to tell me if she's lying or under a spell to lie. If she lied about anything then it would turn black but the parchment is still white."
"Let me see that," the man said and Maria brought it forth.
For the next couple of minutes he read it and Snape wondered what McGonagall had said. When he was finished he looked up, looking even madder then before.
"Fine the charge of murdering Dumbledore and giving Minerva a dark potion are dropped but your activities as a Death Eater aren't."
"And what activities are those?" Snape asked.
"Anything that was done on You-Know-Who's orders while you were Headmaster."
"Which was only connected to the crime that you cleared him with," Maria told him.
The man glared at her. "Fine," he said. "Does anyone in this courtroom believe, like I do, that Severus Snape is guilty?"
More then half raised their hands and Snape had a feeling that they were doing this because he had taught them.
"You are removed as Headmaster of Hogwarts and assigned to work at the Daily Prophet as part of reforming it," the man said. "You will receive your final payment as Headmaster and report to the Daily Prophet office in a week…next."
Snape breathed a sigh of relief as the chains were taken off.
"Well that went sort of well," Maria said but Snape turned to look at the golden trio and all three of them were mad.
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A/N: Well Harry can't be the hero all the time. Next up: Snape gets his revenge on Rita Skeeter.