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The Brotherhood
A/N - I had some time, while sitting in the library, to write and so I managed to get another chapter done. It isn't really that great, and there's very little dialog. Mostly, it's just a filler chapter. The next chapter will progress the story further.
~~~ Chapter Forty Five ~~~
Harry stared at the wall of the cell he had been placed in. He was having flashbacks to the day he had been arrested the first time. Neither time he had been expecting it, but this time, he should have. He had forgotten that he was still a fugitive. At least, he mused, they hadn't given him the Dementor's kiss right away. At the moment, he still had a chance to somehow get out of this.
He looked up at the sound of footsteps, but they passed by his cell. Evidently, there were people patrolling the hallway of cells.
Harry turned his thoughts away from the grim thought of what they might do and him and concentrated on those he had left behind. Ginny, for one. She had thought he was dead, as did Sirius, Remus, and Dora. He had sent her to tell them of his arrest, but would they even believe her? Might they think that she was simply imagining things? If they didn't know, who could do anything about it?
Harry scowled at the thought of the crime he had committed. He hadn't made much of an effort to figure out who it had been who had framed him in the first place, and now, he was kicking himself for it. If only he knew, he could tell the aurors under Veritiserum. Now, all he could say was that he was innocent, and why would they ask him to say that under a truth potion? His situation seemed a little hopeless, and Harry found himself asking why everything had turned out the way it had.
Voldemort was, according to Ginny's reports, dead. He was finally free from being attacked from the man who had caused him so much pain. He hadn't even had time to celebrate that death before he was captured again, this time by someone who could almost be considered worse.
The Ministry would either sentence him to a Dementor's Kiss, which was quite likely, or put him back in Azkaban. Harry dreaded both, but found that he almost wanted the Dementor's Kiss. Just let him die and get it over with. At least he would be back with his parents.
~~~TB~~~
Sirius didn't know what to believe. First Dora had said Harry was dead, then Ginny comes in and says he is alive, but in Ministry custody. Sirius was obviously hoping that the latter was right. If Harry was at the Ministry, there was a hope of getting him back, especially with Dumbledore on his side. Dumbledore would at least push for Harry to get the trial that he had been deprived of in the first place, and with any luck, he might be able to have his name cleared.
Thus, Sirius found himself standing at the door of Dumbledore's office, waiting for the man to open the door and let him in. It only took a few moments, and the door swung open, revealing Dumbledore sitting behind his desk, a large tome open in front of him.
"Ah, Sirius. How can I help you?" Dumbledore asked, closing the tome and giving Sirius his whole attention.
Sirius sighed and took a seat across from the Headmaster. "Ginny just came back from Hogsmeade, and she reported that she met Harry there, but he was arrested by the Ministry before he could come up here to us," he reported, his voice low.
Dumbledore's brow furrowed. "She is positive that it was him?"
Sirius shook his head. "I don't know. She said that he came down from the sky as an eagle and turned into him. She thinks that he taught himself to be an animagus while with Voldemort."
"If we had known he was an animagus, then we would know for sure that it was him. As it is, it could have been someone impersonating him," Dumbledore mused.
"But what if it was him? He's been taken to the Ministry! What if they send him back to Azkaban, or…or," Sirius couldn't say it. He couldn't bear the thought that Harry might be executed in such a way, especially since Sirius had already thought he had died once.
Dumbledore didn't answer, only looked at Sirius thoughtfully.
"I will go down to the Ministry and do some investigating, I think," he finally said.
"Please save him, Albus. Please," Sirius begged.
~~~TB~~
Ginny sat, curled up on a seat in the hospital wing. Dora was now asleep, and Remus was dozing in a chair beside her. The Hospital Wing was almost eerily quiet and Ginny couldn't help but wonder what was happening to Harry.
She hoped, due to his not struggling when they arrested him, they went easy on him, but she doubted it. He was a murderer, in their eyes, and even more so now, since he had been found out to be a deatheater. It didn't even help him that Voldemort was dead, since there was no real proof, just rumours.
Still, Sirius had gone to the Ministry, with Dumbledore, to help him, and Ginny knew that if anyone would be able to get him out of everything, it would be that pair of men.
A/N - Please review...Oh, and about the title of this chapter, I couldn't think of a chapter name and so I asked my sister to read it and give me an idea. Instead, she told me to call it 'The Chapter of Doom!' and so I did. If you have any ideas what to call it, you can let me know and I'll change it, but for now, it is called 'The Chapter of Doom!'.