Chapter Three

"The oath has been broken again as the deceiver fled, allowing an innocent to suffer."

"Our King was betrayed once more. We must punish the deceiver this time."

"No." All eyes jerked to their most faithful, "hear me out. We sworn an oath that death could not break not without punishment. We swore to our King but not the darkness surrounding him. The Mistress we fought against still whispers. Can you not hear her? She isn't happy with what happened to her child."

They fell silent to hear the soft chanting, "She does still live."

"Her blood does as does her magic but not her." They inhaled sharply, knowing her magic was powerful, as strong as Merlin's was. "We pledge to the Light as she pledged to the Dark. We watch over him as she does."

"And the betrayer?"

"She has plans for him as we cannot interfere with prophecies. No being can when one is spoken and brought to life."

Morganna giggled as her magic flowed about upon the wind, causing shivers down their spines, "This one you cannot play fully to your oath as the prophecy does not demand."

They glared at her voice, "We swore to our King!"

"But he is my son first."

"And now half our King as he is the last of the royal line!"

"Yes, still his faithful warriors, aren't you? As his mother I have as much power and sway over him as you do." Then it seemed as if she had a change of heart, "one cannot interfere but may aide." She then vanished from their senses.

"Do we trust her?"

All eyes peered at the weakened leader, it was he who had brought them forth and aided their King in his time of need, "She spoke the truth. We hold equal power. We will do what we can to aide our King as we swore."

"And the witch?"

"She will hold only the power her blood as mother can allow. Her magic will do what it can to punish who tried to harm her son."

Ministry Courtroom

"We call this court to order to hear the sentence of the accused, Sirius Black."

Chained to a chair a lone dark haired man, fuming silently as he glared at a smug Minister. Sirius was raging at the implications that he was a traitor and the cause of the almost deaths of the Potter twins. Many automatically assumed he was Dark simply because of his family, despite how he left the Black family. He wasn't evil nor Dark but no one wanted to believe that now as he and James had at one time made people believe he was the Secret Keeper to the Potters. Maybe we should have listened to Lily.

"For crimes as a Dark wizard and supporter of You-know-who, you are charged with life in Azkaban. For crimes of the deaths of twelve Muggles and Light wizard Peter Pettigrew…" here Sirius refused to listen after hearing Peter's name. The little blighter wasn't as dead as everyone assumed. Little Peter turned traitor against his friends, telling the dark Lord where to find the Potters and then setting Sirius up for the fall, all the while disappearing down the sewers as a rat Animagus, leaving behind only a single finger as proof of his death. Sirius had been leading the Death Eaters on, not knowing Voldemort already knew the whereabouts of one set of rivals were. Lily had been right all along, Peter wasn't to be trusted. And they paid with the injuries of Ember and Harry.

"Sirius!" He jerked back to reality at the sound of a relieved James.

Everyone glanced up to find James and Lily Potter storming inside with a wizard lawyer at their side. "Mr. Potter?"

James glared at the Minister, not happy with what was happening, "We have the right to know why you are charging the wrong man?

Fudge spluttered in rage, "wrong man? What are you on about? This….Death Eater was found guilty. He betrayed the Wizarding world by leading You-Know-Who to your doorstep."

Lily interrupted, "Sirius wasn't the Secret keeper!"

That caught everyone's attention as one Amelia Bones immediately took charge from the minister, "Aurors arrested Sirius Black at the scene of twelve Muggles' death as well as Peter Pettigrew. Witnesses said he confronted Pettigrew only for Pettigrew to demand why he betrayed the Potters. Black then blew up the street in retaliation."

"He wasn't. Sirius was a cover story. Everyone knew that Sirius and I were close, even to assume he would be my first choice for Secret Keeper. He was but he talked me out of it, saying it was too obvious but a perfect ploy for someone else to be the Keeper. I chose Peter because he was my friend and I thought he would never betray us. Remus wasn't a choice, simply because we kind of thought he could be a spy. His affliction would give him a good choice to change sides but could also be another obvious second choice as Keeper. Lily tried to talk us out of using Peter but we were so sure he was the right choice. We were wrong."

Voices murmured as they went over the new evidence brought to light. They didn't even bother thinking any part was a lie as the Potters had publicly stated they were going into hiding with someone of their choosing. But they never thought it was a ploy to hide the real Secret Keeper.

Once again, Amelia Bones took charge, "Bring in the Veritaserum. We shall question the night in question as well as the charges of twelve Muggles and Peter Pettigrew's death."