Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, dogs and cats, i give you another chapter of this story. i warn you that this holds a cliché court scene and manipulative Dumbledore. Enjoy and leave a review with praise and/or constructive criticism.

That was the scene that Hogwarts was treated to that night; Harry Potter, and a convicted murderer who was sleeping on a werewolf. Believe it or not it wasn't the murderer or the fact that the boy-who-lived was walking casually beside him. No, it was the fact that it was a tame werewolf who was carrying the murder and was walking beside the boy who lived almost as if he was a dog following his master. By the end of the night the rumour mill will have produced at least fifty different tales of how Harry had tamed a werewolf.

Harry made his way to the headmaster's office and found Draco sitting at the bottom in deep meditation, Harry sighed knowing he would either have to wait or he would have to cause Draco to feel something that could break through his state of mind, Harry then smirked realising the only way to do that was pain. Either that or he goes and finds a woman who can arouse him enough. Harry held a bolt of lightning and reduced its power to minimal. Harry then shot it at Draco but kept the connection at his fingers making it a continuous bolt. After a minute Draco's arm started to turn black but he shot up like a bullet making the connection disappear.

"What you do that for?" Draco screamed as he healed his arm.

"Because you twit you were meditating. Where you not expecting me?" Harry retorted

"Well I thought you'd be longer seeing as how you decided to fight a werewolf."

"Very well but for now how about we get the hell upstairs and free my godfather." With that Harry waved his hand and opened the passage to the headmaster's office.

Ten minutes later Harry and Draco was standing behind a bound serious watching as Dumbledore poured veritaserum down Sirius's throat.

Sirius began stirring slowly, the Veritaserum forcing him awake.

"What is your name?" Dumbledore's voice demanded sharply.

"Sirius Orion Black."

"What is your date of birth?"

"March 21st, 1960."

"Why did you betray James and Lily Potter?"

"I didn't."

"How could that be?"

"I was not the Secret-Keeper for Godric's Hollow."

"Then who was?"

"Peter Pettigrew."

"And you killed him."

no reply, it wasn't a question

"Why did the Potters make everyone believe that you were the Secret-Keeper, if it was in fact Peter?"

"It was a piece of misdirection; since I was also going into hiding, it was believed that Voldemort's forces would come after me, rather than Peter."

"Ah..." Dumbledore nodded. "What happened with Peter Pettigrew on November 1st, 1981?"

"I found Peter in Birmingham, his home town. When I went to confront him, he already had his wand drawn, behind his back. He shouted loudly 'How could you? How could you betray James and Lily?' Before I could draw my wand, he'd sent a Bombarda hex at the street, detonating the gas main. With a manic grin, he cut off his finger and transformed into Wormtail, escaping into the sewers."

Dumbledore nodded slowly. "Why didn't you tell anyone this?"

"I was stunned by the first Auror on the scene." Sirius droned. "When I woke up, I was in Azkaban. The guards told me that my wand was snapped, and that Crouch had ordered a life-sentence."

"Why did you break out of Azkaban?" Dumbledore asked, looking intently at Harry over Sirius' head.

"I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for."

"Peter Pettigrew?" Dumbledore asked this time forcing Sirius to answer.

"Yes, he was the rat of the Weasley boy (Harry growled causing Dumbledore to frown at him) I saw him in the photo of the daily prophet when fudge inspected Azkaban in June last year"

Dumbledore nodded slowly. "Sirius, what are you intentions towards Harry Potter?"

"He's my godson. I want to protect him, and getting rid of the rat would certainly do so."

Dumbledore had no more questions and so he gave Sirius the antidote, his first act was to jump onto Mooney in an attempt to subdue him screaming run all the while. About a minute later he saw the amused face of Dumbledore, the blank faces of Harry and Draco. "Err…sorry about that." He said reminding Harry of when Hagrid broke down the door when he first saw him.

Harry watched as Dumbledore drew a silver strand out of his head with his wand and then turns to the room. "I shall take this memory to the minister; with any luck Sirius shall be free by nightfall. Harry I trust you shall accommodate Sirius for the night, after all if I can't find your room I doubt a student can."

Harry nodded, "very well headmaster, I shall look for your owl in the morning." With that Harry, Draco, Mooney and Sirius walked out of the room.

Just as Harry reached the door Dumbledore called out to him, "Harry I trust you won't tell Remus of his…. Domination." It was obvious that Dumbledore couldn't find any other word as his discomfort with the chosen one was evident.

Harry's face adopted a grin that reminded Dumbledore of a time when three students attended his school "Headmaster does that sound like anything I would do?" with that he turned and left the office.

"I don't know any more Harry, I do not know." Dumbledore whispered to the door.

The next morning in Harry's room was….chaos. Sirius had awoken with a shit eating grin on his face and decided to prank everybody in the room, Harry awoke due to a bucket full of water. Draco awoke due to a bull horn with a sonorous charm. And Remus awoke because Sirius was screaming like a girl thanks to Draco and Harry electrifying him.

Breakfast was served, or it was almost served considering the fact that Draco and Sirius were laughing themselves silly at the fact that Harry had basically told Remus he would be Harry's bitch unless he takes wolfsbane.

Harry and Draco spent the day hanging out with Sirius; it wasn't unusual for them to miss out on class so they weren't particularly bothered. Sirius told them stories of pranks he had accomplished while Draco and Harry told him of their adventures, when Sirius doubted they had slain a sixty foot basilisk the two summoned the swords as proof.

One thing that nobody saw throughout the bonding was that Harry's eyes were starting to show one thing they hadn't in two years since had mastered occlumency…emotion.

With Dumbledore

Minister of magic's office

"Cornelius, Some new evidence has surfaced tonight…. It appears to me that a great injustice has been done 12 years ago, and Sirius Black is in fact innocent." Dumbledore calmly stated as he popped into the minister's office

"What are you trying to say? That man is a murderer!" Fudge said incredulously, Dumbledore began to think that he should have eased into this conversation but time was of the essence.

"Peter Pettigrew is alive, he was on the grounds tonight, and it appears that he framed young Sirius all those years ago and we in fact put the wrong man in Azkaban and without a trial no less…" He seemed to be lost in his thoughts for a second.

"I have now come to believe that the Potter's made Peter their secret keeper and not Sirius as he would be the obvious choice, no one would think Peter would join Voldemort." Fudge flinched at the name. He was unsure what was happening but he was thinking about the future of his office if what Dumbledore said was true.

"But what about all those Muggles killed!"

"They were all killed by Peter. It is well known that the largest part of Peter that was found was his finger, and that is because he cut it off himself. The missing link that was unknown all those years ago is that he is an illegal animagus, a rat to be precise, and that is how he escaped, he shifted into his form after yelling out "Sirius, how could you…", it was the perfect set up and we all bought it without a second thought."

"This is all well and good, how is the public going to react? They are not going to like it" Fudge fidgeted, racking his braining thinking of a way to not destroy his career.

"Tell them the truth. If I am right an innocent man has spent 12 years in Azkaban while the real traitor was on the loose. You must set up a trial as quick as possible. I have the means to contact Sirius." He said seeing the minister looking ready to disagree he tried another option, "Think of it as an opportunity Cornelius, the public has always been wary of you due to the fact that it was Bagnold who saw the defeat of Voldemort. Use the fact that he allowed an innocent man to spend twelve years of his life in Azkaban."

"I will bring both him and Peter to the trial myself, to ensure his safety." Fudge looked like he wanted to protest but quickly agreed.

"The fact that Black could be innocent will be even bigger news than if he would guilty and captured! What a mess this is… going to be hard to clean up…" Fudge was told to himself more than Dumbledore.

Dumbledore wasn't listening, instead he simply disaparated out and back to his office.

So when Harry and Draco finally appeared at Lunch having left Sirius to clean him up the first thing that happened was a phoenix dive bombed the two with a letter in its beak.

"Fawkes gives me the letter you flaming pigeon," Harry growled as he tried to swat the bird out of the air.

"Blood fire parrot," screamed Draco as he whipped out his wand and tried to shoot it.

Five minutes later after the school had had its laugh Fawkes decided to finally relinquish the letter. It simply read. Could not set Sirius completely free but trial will take place next week before school ends, be ready as you and Draco will be key witnesses.

Time passed slowly till the trial, but eventually it came. Harry and Draco were sitting alone in their room (Sirius had been moved somewhere in the castle to prevent them from changing their stories) pacing. Harry was worried because this was one of the last chances he had to finally get a family and Draco was worried for the simple fact that if Harry didn't get a family he would remain cold and distant for the rest of his life.

"Everyone ready?" Dumbledore asked as the entered his office. "Good, everyone just grab onto this book, I'll make it into a portkey." Everyone did and Harry felt a jerk and all of a sudden landed in a heap in the Ministry Atrium. That was his first portkey experience, and with any luck it would be his last. He looked around and was mildly impressed with the atrium. They walked quickly walked past a security wizard who took one look at Dumbledore and then went back to his newspaper. They went into a lift and they rode it down until a voice announced "Department of Mysteries, and Courtrooms".

They made it into the courtroom and the first thing he noticed was that it looked like the full Wizengamot was there, presumably because it was the biggest case in years. Sirius made his own way over to the chair in the middle of the room. Shackles popped out of the arms and clamped him down. He didn't indicate any signs of discomfort, even under the glares of the members of the court, the majority of them who still think he is guilty until proven innocent.

The judge banged her gavel to bring order to the court. "Settle down everyone. We are here today to give trial to Sirius Orion Black in the light of new evidence to that fateful night 12 years ago. I assume everyone is familiar with the story as we currently know it. We will be using Veritaserum to ensure everything that is said is the truth."

"First I would like the Defence to bring forth the new evidence." Amelia Bones said.

Harry snapped his fingers and Pettigrew appeared in a puff of smoke before the court "As you can see Peter Pettigrew is not as dead as we have all thought for the past 12 years." Dumbledore said calmly with a twinkle in his eyes. "The story we have all been led to believe is wrong. The Potters never made Sirius Black their secret keeper. For those of you unfamiliar the Fidelus charm, essentially no one can get into the house without knowing the secret, and only the secret keeper can give out the secret. Sirius was the obvious choice, so they made Peter it instead. He was the always overlooked one at school, and no one would think he was it. It was a good plan, but they didn't think he was going to become a traitor. Peter then gave their location up to Voldemort." He paused for effect. "After the events, a distraught Sirius went looking for Peter, and he ended up getting framed. He encountered him on the street, and Peter blew up the street up, along with 12 muggles. He cut his own finger off, transformed into his rat form, and escaped down the sewer. You can clearly see that Peter is missing his finger, the one he cut off himself. He has been living unknown to the rest of the world as a family pet, and recently was found alive. I ask that we use the Veritaserum now"

DMLE Director Bones nodded. "Very well, we will hear from Mr. Black first."

An Auror walked up and poured a few drops onto Sirius' tongue.

"Please state your name"

"Sirius Orion Black" he said in a monotone voice.

"Were you the Potters secret keeper?"

"No." Madam bones immediately had to bang her gavel to maintain order.

"Who was it?"

"Peter Pettigrew. I would have been the obvious choice."

"Did you ever serve The Dark Lord?"

"No." The talking got pretty loud from the audience but quickly died down after Amelia banged her gavel again.

"Did you betray the Potters?"

"Never. I would never betray James and Lily, they were my family!" More talking from the crowd, and another bang of the gavel.

"Did you kill those 12 muggles on the day you went after Peter?"

"I did not." Sirius was crying heavily by this point, at the mention of his best mate.

Amelia Bones called out "That is sufficient, let's hear what Mr. Pettigrew has to say for himself."

The serum was administered again.

"Name?"

"Peter Charles Pettigrew"

"Were you the Potters secret keeper?"

"Yes. No one would suspect me"

"Did you betray the Potters secret to The Dark Lord?"

"Yes " he whimpered.

"Did you serve "The Dark Lord"?"

"Yes" he started crying by this point but he would still be forced to answer.

"Did you take the Dark Mark?"

"Ye-ye-yes" the answer was barely audible through his sobs. An Auror walked over and rolled up his left sleeve, and there for everyone to witness was the Dark Mark. It was just the scar left over, but almost no one noticed that it was slightly darker than what it should be. Harry did however notice it and pointed it out to Draco.

Amelia stood up this time and announces "We will now deliberate and convene back here in 1 hour with the verdict."

Harry looked around and noticed Dumbledore deep in thought, no doubt about what. He saw Sirius sitting alone looking hopeful, a feeling that Harry couldn't help but share his feelings, he might finally get a family who loved him somebody who he had no problem loving back, somebody who could let him drop his mask and finally be himself other than Draco.

An hour late all members of the Wizengamot came back into the room.

Director Bones stood up to announce the verdict.

"All those in favor of dropping all charges against Sirius Orion Black." Nearly every hand went up in the group.

"All opposed?" No one raised their hand, but some people didn't vote, probably to save face.

Harry smiled it was time for Wormtail's verdict.

"Crimes of Peter Pettigrew are as follows; Member of a known terrorist organization. Murder of at least 12 muggles…" She listed a few more, but Harry was looking at Wormtail. He has never seen a sight so pitiful, he was cowering, shaking, crying, he knew he was done for.

"For crimes against humanity, we sentence Peter Pettigrew to the Dementor's kiss. He cannot be held in Azkaban and so we have no choice."

"To Sirius Orion Black we give you three million galleons to reintegrate back into society. You are hereby cleared of all charges, and are free to go. You have all of our apologies. This court is adjourned."

Harry stood up with Draco and the two made their way over to Sirius who was talking to Dumbledore, "Well, I plan on adopting Harry and he is going to live with me."

"I'm not sure that's a great idea Sirius; there are strong protective wards on Privet Drive that keep Harry and his relatives safe from the outside world…" Dumbledore sighed. He needs to keep Harry protected. "There are still followers of Voldemort out there who would love nothing less than to get revenge for their fallen master."

"If I may sir?" Harry spoke up. "Knowing that my Godfather is free and has a home to offer, I do not consider the Dursleys to be my home anymore, and I hope I will never have to see them again." As soon as he said that of flash of light was seen alerting Harry that the wards had fallen.

Harry turned and walked out of the room, he had seen a side to Dumbledore he did not want to see again but he knew he would eventually. He was Harry James Potter- Gryffindor Slytherin-Ravenclaw-Hufflepuff and he would not be controlled and if Dumbledore didn't like that well then he would either have to step aside or be pushed aside.

So the year ended, Harry and Draco were top of their year again much to granger's ire, Dumbledore had tried to convince Harry to persuade Sirius to let him be placed somewhere Dumbledore said was safe but he was rebuffed every time. Remus had to retire because Lucius Malfoy had put in a complaint to the board of govenors (translation, he bribed, threatened, bitched and moaned) stating that a werewolf was too dangerous. Neville's end of year test from Harry showed that he was almost ready to start training alongside he and Draco. And finally Harry wasn't so sad about this years end because he had somebody who loved him to go home to.