Chapter 4
Busy Day.
Sophie apparated Regulus to the Ministry. He was furious, he wouldn't take no for an answer when he demanded his brother's release.
Charging right up to the Minister's office, fist clenched, he banged the door open to see a startled Cornelius Fudge.
"What is the meaning of this?" Fudge asked, annoyed and slight frightened.
"I want my brother released." Regulus said bluntly. He didn't care if all the aurors in the world came after him. He wold not stop until his brother was released.
"I'm afraid that can't happen, Mr Black."Fudge replied coldly.
"I . ." He said getting angrier by the minute.
"He has proven to be guilty-"
"WHAT BLOODY EFFING HELL DO YOU MEAN!? YOU NEVER GAVE HIM A CHANCE TO HAVE A BLOODY TRIAL AND YOUR ACCUSING HIM OF BEING GUILTY?" Regulus was fuming, while Sophia was attempting to calm him.
A few people started to look around, wondering what the commotion was about.
"Do not raise your voice at authority-"
"I wouldn't care if you were the bloody creator of this world. I. WANT. my ." Regulus said in a deep, threatening voice.
Regulus raised his wand. "That's unless you don't want to see the sun ever again?" he spat.
"F-fine. I-i'll uh arrange a trial for Mr Sirius Orion Black and- and I-i'll have the whole wizengamot there." Fudge said shaking.
"Great. I'll arrange when it'll be hapenning. Right now." Regulus said calmly.
"N-now?" Fudge asked incredously. "b-but it's such a short time of notice and-"
"I don't care. Call everyone to drop what their doing and be there. I'll call Dumbledore." growled Regulus.
Fudge nodded and left the room.
Regulus and Sophia entered the court room. Everyone was there looking surprised and confused.
Sirius would be hurled in there any moment now.
He heard a crack and turned around.
"Dumbledore." he said, nodding.
"Regulus, I received your patronus. I'd also like to talk to you and your wife later. About the whereabouts of Harry Potter." Dumbledore said quietly. "But alas, let us watch now and do everything in our will power to release Sirius." Dumbledore smiled.
"Of course sir." he said and walked off to find an empty seat.
"Ahem." Fudge said appearing behind a counter thing. Everyone stopped talking, curious to know what was going on.
"You are all aware of the crime Sirius Black comitted?" he asked. Lots of people nodded their heads.
"Well, he, i- uh. He was never given a chance to have a trial, and I have called you all here for the trial of Mr Sirius Black as some people believe he was er framed."
Everyone started whispering.
The doors opened and a man with long black wavy hair and sadness in his eyes entered, hands tied up together. He walked in, srrounded by guards. Sirius Black looked up to see his brother Regulus smiling at him.
He sat down in a chair and his arms were chained to it, heavily guarded.
"Sirius Orion Black. You have been called here today to have a trial. You will be given verisaterum so you can answer truthfully."
Sirius nodded.
He was handed a vial of clear liquid which drank from.
"What is your name?"
"Sirius Orion Black"
"Why are you here?"
"To have the trial I never received."
"What school did you used to attend?"
"Hogwarts"
"Who were your best friends?"
"James Potter. Remus Lupin, and Lily Evans."
"What about Peter Pettigrew, where you not his best friend?"
"I was until I found out the truth."
"The truth?"
"Peter was the traitor.". Many people gasped.
"How do you know? You were the secret keeper were you not?"
"No I wasn' the last minute, James and Lily decided to change their secret keeper to Peter Pettigrew, no one would expect it."
"Tell me the full story" Fudge said surprised.
"When James and Lily decided to change their secret keeper, they had no idea Pettigrew was a traitor. They expected Remus to be. No one would ever expect Pettigrew to be secret keeper, so they went along with it. Voldemort convinced Pettigrew to become a death eater or he would kill him. Pettigrew being the coward he is, accepted. He told Voldemort the whereabouts of Lily and James. On the night of Halloween, Voldemort showed up to their house and killed James. He offered Lily the chance to survive if she let him get to Harry. Lily refused. She loved her children too much to let them end up killed by a dark lord. Voldemort killed Lily, and he tried to kill Rose but failed because his aim was bad. He got Harry right on the forehead and left Rose with a small scar on her shoulder. Harry was invisible, so when Dumbledore came to retirieve the surviver o the curse, he only found Rose. I do not know where she is now, but after an hour or so, muggles found Harry and the police (muggle version of aurors) tracked down his only living relatives, the Dursleys, which were related to him from Lily's sister Petunia. Harry ended up with the Dursley's and Rose, I have no idea." Sirius finished.
"Who is Rose? and why did you say Lily had children? it was only known to the world that she had a son. Explain"
"Rose Potter is Harry Potter's twin. The results came out wrong, Lily had not a boy, a girl and a boy,Harry the oldest by 1 minute. She could not tell anyone of the mix up though because by that time, she was already under the fidelius charm. Pettigrew had no idea she had twins, or a girl at that, leaving everyone in the wizarding world to think she had a son, an only child. When Voldemort tried killing them he paid no attention to appearances, thinking Rose was the boy."
"But then what about Harry? Surely he would have seen Harry"
"No he didn't see Harry, as Harry and Rose where under the _. Obviously as babies, Rose removed it, but Harry didn't, he still had the _ on him, leaving Voldemort to think they had only child."
"The what? What were they under that made you-know-who unable to see them?"
"I cannot tell you, if the _ is not currently in possesion with the heir(s) to it, then it can not be spoken of, as it has a very advanced spell to unallow anyone to say who currently owns it. Once the heir has it in their possesion, the charm will be removed."
"So Harry Potter and...his twin are the heirs to it?"
"Yes, they are."
"Now let me ask you one last question. Are you or are you not the person who deeserves to be in azkaban?"
"No. Also I should tell you one last thing, Pettigrew is an unregistered animagi, he can turn into a rat, he cut off his own finger, transformed and dissapeared, making it look like I was the the one capable of all his crimes."
"Okay. Those in favour of keeping Mr Black locked up, raise your hands." A few people like Dolores Umbridge raised her hand.
"and those in favour of releasing him. Raise your hands." More than half of the wizengamot raised their hands, even Fudge.
"I hereby declare Mr Sirius Orion Black free of all charges, and released from Azkaban. I want this on the front page of the Daily Prophet." Fudge said to the editor of the Daily Prophet.
Sirius was released and people started to clear out.
"Sirius!" Regulus shouted running up to him. "Regulus!" He shouted back, embracing his brother. "It was you. wasn't it?" asked Sirius.
Regulus just smiled. "so where will you live?" asked Regulus.
"I'll probably find a job, live in an apartment..But I am NOT going back to grimmalud place."
"Come live with me, I have a surprise for you. Two actually." Regulus commented.
"Ooh you got me presents!" Sirius barked. They both laughed.
"Regulus." Said Sophia.
"Who is this?" asked Sirius.
"My wife." replied Regulus.
"You got Married!" Sirius said surprised.
"Yes, I did. Now I have something to do before we come to my place, and if you go it'll ruin the surprise. So go with Sophia to the leaky cauldron and I'll meet you both there. Then we can go to my house."
"alright." Sirius said happily.
Regulus apparated near an empty park in Little Whinging. He conjured expensice muggle clothes onto him and an expensive car. He knew the Dursley's liked associating with people of "their level". He drove down to 4 Privet Drive. Once he left the car he came up with a character. He was going to be a rich man, adopt Harry, get his things and then leave. He knocked on their door. Petunia opened it, wearing a cheap $200 dress.
"How may I help you?" She greeted kindly.
"I'd like to speak to Mr and Mrs Dursley." he said.
"Oh I'll just call my Husband, one moment." She said.
She arrived later, with a whale of a man following her.
"Yes? he said rudely.
"Hello, wonderful environment you live in," He turned around gesturing to the street, purposely allowing them to see his expensive Bentley.
He grunted, and then seeing the car, quickly covered it up saying, "Ah yes, one of the most expensive. You know us rich folk, can't stand living somewhere with lesser people." He faked a laugh.
"Would you like to come inside." Petunia asked.
"Of course, I'd love to see your even more wonderful home." Regulus said following them inside.
Mr Dursley led him into the living room and he sat down.
"My name is Vernon Dursley, and this hear is my wife Petunia." Vernon said.
"Yes, my name is John Smith. My wife Sally, was unable to come unfortunately." Regulus said, faking a character.
"Oh, that is very unfortunate indeed, is there anything you'd like to discuss in particular?" asked Petunia, pouring him tea.
"Ah yes actually there is. You know Mr Harry Potter, I am correct?"
Vernon and Petunia seemed to freeze at this.
"Aaaah, yes." Vernon said nervously.
"Good, I'd like to adopt him." Regulus said bluntly.
"What? I'm not sure I heard clearly." said Vernon.
"I'd like to adopt Harry Potter, and I will not take no as answer."
"Er. You can't he's disabled, he does very weird and unusual things."
"Are you saying I'm disabled, and that I'm weird and Unusual?"
"N-no! why would you ever think that?"said Petunia.
"It's just Harry thinks "Magic" is real, and he likes to think he goes to a magic school, he even has his own twig where he pretends it's wand." Vernon gulped.
"Yes i know, that is why I want to adopt him."
"B-but he-he's a-"
"Wizard." Regulus finished for them.
Vernon and Petunia gasped. "H-how do you know!?" asked Petunia.
Regulus took out his wand.
"Your one of them! hm your'e probably not even rich." said Vernon.
"Oh really. Come with me." said Regulus.
He grabbed them both and apparated to his mansion.
"What is this?" Vernon asked angrily.
"This, is my home. Where Harry will be living. If you weren't so nasty to him, you would probably be living here too."
"we'll be better to him! we will! we promise, please!" Petunia and Vernon begged on their knees.
"That's too late." said Regulus, and he apparated them back to their living room.
"Now I want Harry's stuff." said Regulus.
"You will never get them! They're locked in the cupboard, we destroyed the key!" yelled Vernon
"Wow. You really are as stupid as they say. Idiot, I'm a wizard." Regulus said impatiently, he felt like he was dealing with a pair of children. Except real children were smarter.
Regulus walked to a cupboard and twisted the handle, it was locked.
"Alohamora!" he said. The door unlocked and a trunk, quidditch broom, and books lay there. Regulus took everything, put them in Harry's trunk, and minimised it.
"Bye" Regulus smirked.
Sirius and Sophia had been talking, getting to know each other, until they heard a crack. They both turned their heads to see Regulus, in muggle clothing.
"Hey! you took long enoguh, and why are you wearing muggle clothes? did I finally rub off on you?" Sirius said smirking.
"It's a long story.." said Regulus. "Come on lets go, you do wanna see your surprises don't you?"
"alright" Sirius grinned.
Together, they apparated back to the mansion.