Harry had just finished meditating in his room when Mrs. Weasley knocked on his door telling him it was time to go. Harry took his usual potions and felt invigorated. He walked down to the kitchen for an early breakfast. Harry was the picture of tranquility. The Weasley parents assumed he would be nervous. Harry was reviewing the trial calmly. He knew how they would attempt to trap him using his own words. He was planning to defend himself in a much better fashion than the Harry from the books.

They departed the home to wishes of good luck. They arrived at the ministry and sure enough his trial had been move up an hour early, hoping to fuck with him. He said goodbye to Mr. Weasley as he entered courtroom 10 for his hearing. He saw that the room was filled with members of the Wizengamot in full garbs. He was led to a chair in the middle of the room by Percy Weasley as a gavel was heard.

"We call this full meeting of the Wizengamot on the 12th of August 1995 for one Harry James Potter on the charges of willfull underage use of magic and using said magic in the presence of a muggle, thus endangering the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy" said Fudge with a grin. "How does the Defendant plead?".

Harry looked around the room and asked "Is it customary to hold a full meeting over the use of underage magic?"

Murmurs could be heard as members whispered among themselves confirming the oddity of the case.

"That's neither here nor there" said Fudge. "How do you plead?".

Harry looked at him "Where's my defense?"

"What?" asked Fudge.

"Well this is a trial. By law I'm allowed a defense. You also switched the time of the meeting at the last moment. Makes one wonder what your intentions are".

"Enough" said Umbridge. "The minister asked you a question".

"And who might you be?" asked Harry.

"Dolores Umbridge, Senior Undersecretary to the Minister".

"Making you irrelevant to this case like everyone else" said Harry. "Problems with underage usage of magic are dealt by the DMLE, not the Wizengamot".

Harry looked at Amelia Bones. "Tell me madam, is this not odd?".

"Yes" she said. "My department usually handles these kind of cases. The minister has chosen to overrule me, and called for a full meeting".

"It appears the minister has an unnatural interest in me, but to answer your question minister I plead innocent to the charges".

"Lies" shouted Umbridge. "We know you used magic".

"How?" asked Harry.

"How?" she repeated quizzically.

"How do you know that I used magic?".

"What are you on about boy?" asked Fudge.

"I'm wondering how you can prove I used magic".

"We can detect magic you fool" said Dolores.

"But not who actually used magic. replied Harry.

"What do you mean?" asked Amelia.

Harry turned to look at her then faced the Wizengamot. "Three years ago, a house elf used magic in my home. Then I was simply blamed for it with no further investigation taking place".

"What?" aksed Amelia.

"A house elf" said Harry. "He used magic in my aunt's home".

"More lies" cried Dolores. "An elf in a muggle home is preposterous".

"Be that as it may, it happened".

"Back to the case" yelled Fudge. "I know you used magic".

Murmurs arose once more as Harry said "I don't deny that" in the hope of moving the trial along.

Fudge was pleased as was Dolores.

"Aha!" she said. "You just denied the charges, yet you admit using magic".

"Wow. It appears that becoming the Senior Undersecretary to the Minister doesn't require much intelligence".

The room laughed angering Fudge and Dolores.

"The charges were willful use of magic. I used the Patronus charm in defense".

"The Patronus?" inquired Amelia. "A fully corporal Patronus?".

"Yes" said Harry as he took at his wand. "May I?".

Amelia nodded.

Harry shouted "Expecto Patronum" and Prongs sprung from his wand as usual impressing many with his size and likeness.

'Still hasn't changed?' thought Harry.

"Yes. That's very impressive and all" began Fudge. "But you still used magic in front of a muggle".

"That muggle happened to be my cousin who is already aware of magic, ergo I didn't endanger the Statute of Secrecy".

Fearing he was losing Fudge looked to Dolores for help.

"And why would you require to use such a spell?" she asked.

"Man you really don't pay attention do you?" mocked Harry causing more laughter. "I said it was in defense".

"Defense?" asked Fudge. "Defense from what?".

"The Dementors that attacked my cousin and I".

"You fool. Dementors reside in Azkaban. They wouldn't go into a muggle neighborhood" shouted Fudge.

"It's simple minister" said Dolores. "The boy is lying, because he knows that muggles can't see them. He can't provide a witness".

"Yes" said Fudge sitting up straighter. "Where's your witness?".

"I don't have one" said Harry causing Fudge and Dolores to jump in their seats with glee.

"I can of course provide a memory or take Veritaserum to prove my claim. Dementors seem to have a thing for me" he added.

"Memories? Veritaserum? That's preposterous. Such methods are for serious trials not commmon cases such as this one".

"If it's such a common case, what's with this charade?" asked Harry pointing around the room.

Harry could see Percy was looking like Harry personally insulted him.

"That's true" said Amelia. "You can't have it both ways minister. I say we view the memories".

"i said it isn't necessary" insisted Fudge.

Harrry loked around the room. "There you have it. Minister Fudge refuses to allow me to defend myself, yet wants to condemn me without following your very laws. Is this what has become of the Wizengamot? Even muggles don't blatantly disregard their own laws".

Converstaions broke out once more. Shouts of wanting to see the memory were heard and the media took notes of everything that was said.

'What's the point' thought Harry. They'll end up writing whatever Fudge wanted.

Amelia took charge and made Percy bring them a pensieve. They talked among themselves while waiting.

Amelia set the pensieve and asked Harry for the memory.

"Can you assure me no one will stop the memory before it's finished?".

Amelia looked at Harry critically, but nodded.

Harry smiled as the opportunity arose. He thought of a way to help Sirius. He fished out the memory and deposited it in the pensieve. The pensieve projected an image on the bare wall like a giant screen.

At that moment Dumbledore walked in followed by Mrs. Figg claiming he was there for Harry's defense.

"You're late" said Harry.

Dumbledore ignored him and looked around courtroom.

"Sit down" said Amelia looking at Dumbledore who immediately complied. He of course sat at a distance from Harry.

The memory started playing as it showed a younger Harry trying to stop Dobby who used a hover charm to make a mess with pudding. They see a letter from the ministry arrive warning Harry.

Harry had seen Mr. Malfoy recognize Dobby and smiled.

Next it showed Harry on the Hogwarts Express. It showed the Dementor attack Harry, and everyone present could hear and see the image of Lily Potter pleading with Voldemort and the flash of green light. The image darkened and showed Harry flying on his broom in the middle of a swarm of Dementors. He weaved through them, but was eventually caught as they attempted to kiss him and he fell from his broom.

"What's this got to do with the case?" asked Dolores.

"Quiet" said Amelia, then turned to Harry with a questioning gaze.

"I'm merely establishing proof that Dementors have some obsession with me".

The memory changed once more showing Harry and his friends in the Shrieking Shack with Sirius Black and Peter Pettigrew. Everyone gasped as Peter admitted to betraying the Potters and killing the muggles, framing Sirius.

"Stop this at once" shouted Fudge.

The shouts continued and Amelia used her wand to create a loud bang. She declared that she's using her authority as head of the DMLE to continue to view the rest of the memory as it pertained to an open case.

They all saw Harry pleading with Fudge about Sirius being innocent and Fudge dismissing his claims. They saw Harry using his Patronus against well over 100 Dementors. Harry had conveniently left out when Remus attacked them or the time travel.

The memory shifted to him and Dudley being attacked by two Dementors and Harry once more defending himself. It showed the squib Mrs. Figg telling Harry to keep his wand out as she clearly witnessed the attack.

Everyone was convinced Harry only used magic in defense. They all thought the memory was over, but Harry had a surprise for them. He left the memory for the end just in case.

An image of Cedric and Harry trying to convince each other to take the cup began. Amos Diggory immediately sat up straight. The memory continued as they held the cup activating the portkey and depositing them in a graveyard. Several members of the Wizengamot knew what this was. They began to shout trying to stop it, but Amelia ordered her Aurors to silence them.

They all saw Cedric get killed by Peter. They were shocked at his death and Amos began to weep. Then the memory showed them Harry being tied up as his blood was forcible taken. They were aghast as Voldemort rose once more.

"Stop!" yelled Fudge. "This memory has been tampered with".

"I assure you it hasn't" said Harry.

"Nonsense" said Malfoy. "These are clearly the delusions of a boy who witnessed a dear friend get murdered in front of him by Pettigrew. We should thank Mr. potter for informing us that Mr. Pettigrew is indeed alive".

Harry laughed. 'Well played'.

Fudge of course jumped on Malfoy's train of thought. They all declared that Harry was clearly distraught over Cedric. Amelia was forced to stop the memory. Harry approached her and took his memory back. She eyed him and he whispered "You need only ask to see the rest".

They declared Harry innocent on the charges. Amelia had gotten them to rescind Harry's first warning on using magic.

Fudge was trying to leave when Harry said "Aren't you all forgetting something?".

They all stopped.

"What?" asked Fudge.

"You all saw proof that my godfather Lord Sirius Black was indeed innocent and was wrongfully incarcerated without a trial. Are you going to do your jobs and declare him innocent of the charges and rescind the Dementor's Kiss on sight order?".

Dolores tried to fuck with Harry again. "Without him here the proof is moot. No one knows where he is".

Harry laughed. "Did you know that Phoenixes are wondeful creatures? They truly are. They have the ability to find anyone if they so desired".

Harry turned to Dumbledore who averted his gaze. After what felt like 10 seconds to Harry, he saw the man reach a decision.

"Fawkes" cried Dumbledore.

"The phoenix appeared in a flash of flames making everyone stare in awe.

"Can you bring us Sirius Black?".

Fawkes flashed away and came back after a few seconds with an unsuspecting Sirius Black who looked around like a man lost.

"Arrest that man" barked Dolores.

"You truly are an idiot" said Harry. "You've seen evidence he was framed, yet you still want to send the Lord of the Noble and Most Ancient House of Black to Azkaban without a trial for the second time".

Sirius caught sight of Harry as he stood in front of Sirius while he talked to Dolores. He relaxed somewhat as Dumbledore came up behind him for extra protection.

Amelia took over once more. She had Sirius sit on the defendants's chair. Harry stood next to Sirius. No one told him a thing. They could all see he was clearly ready for trouble as he held his wand.

They questioned him with Veritaserum and he answered all the questions. Fudge was once again forced to declare another man innocent. Some members of the press took off back to their offices as their partners stayed behind to hear more. Sirius was awarded G500,000 for his troubles. Harry and Sirius were assaulted by the media as they walked out of the room. The people outside were terrified of Sirius, believing him to be the psychotic killer he was portrayed as. The aurors formed a shield around them both. Dumbledore addressed the media on their behalf. Harry locked eyes with Amelia before he disappeared into the floo. in that quick exchange he deduced that she was holding him to his promise to show her that memory.

Harry and Sirius walked out of the fireplace to a group of nervous friends.

"I'm free" yelled Sirius jumping around.

"What?" asked Remus still worried from when Sirius disappeared in front of him in a ball of fire.

"Free, Moony. I'm free" he said. "Harry got me a trial".

"How?" asked Hermione.

"I don't know" answered Sirius. "One minute I'm with you lot in the kitchen, then I'm in front of the Wizengamot as Harry tore into this toad woman".

Harry laughed. She really was a toad. He was surprised he was able to keep a straight face during the trial.

"What did you do?" asked Hermione.

"I'll tell you all later" said Harry. "Let's party".

Sirius called Kreacher and asked for bottles of liquor.

"Sirius" said Harry.

"What?" asked Sirius.

"You must have one relative you'd like to celebrate with you?".

Tonks looked at Sirius who nodded and disapperaed into the floo. She retrurned with a woman who was obviously her mom and with a man who could only be her dad.

Sirius ran to Andromeda and hugged her causing her to stiffen up. "I'm free" he declared. She smiled and patted his back.

Ted Tonks shook Sirius' hand in congratulations.

Harry chuckled and approached the pair. "Hi I'm Harry Potter".

"Ah Mr. Potter. We've heard all about you" said Ted Tonks.

"Good things I hope".

Andromeda laughed "Somewhat".

"I see where Tonks gets her beauty from". He then turned to Ted. "So does that mean she gets her clumsiness from you?".

Ted laughed.

"That's all her" informed Andromeda.

Tonks groaned loudly causing them all to laugh.

Molly began to prepare a celebratory feast. Harry had convinced Molly to use Winky and Dobby.

Harry had asked Kreacher if he could bring the family pensieve to show the memory of the trial as people kept bugging him about it. Kreacher complied and popped away.

"Everyone quiet down" said Harry who by now had a glass of liquor in his hand.

"Harry!" said Molly looking at the glass.

"Mrs. Weasley i appreciate you worrying over me, but I'm a big boy. I've faced Voldemort more times than any of you have combined".

Harry placed the memory of the trial into the pensieve. Sirius and Harry laughed their asses off. The Weasley twins enjoyed Harry insulting the toad woman. They were all impressed how Harry had handled himself.

The girls in Harry's life were saddened to know that he would hear his mom's last moments whenever a Dementor was near him.

Sirius had become teary eyed at that.

"Now you know why I bugged you so much to learn the Patronus" joked Harry to Remus.

Remus gulped.

The memory endedd with cheers erupting through the living room.

"Wow" said Hermione impressed with her friend. "You played them all for fools".

"They made it easy" shrugged Harry.

"No wonder you weren't worried" said Ron.

Ginny was silent until then. "What about that last memory. Can we watch it?"

"it's a little violent" said Harry. "Are you sure?".

"We want to see it" said Hermione.

"Okay" said Harry.

Harry inserted the memory and left the room. No one had noticed as the memory began.

Everyone gasped and cursed during the expected times. Tears adorned many set of eyes as Harry was hit with the torture curse again and again. They watched in awe as the dead came to Harry's aid. "Prongs" had shouted Remus and Sirius together. Then came Harry's great escape. The memory stopped. Nobody knew what to say. They looked around for Harry.

"Harry" called out Sirius.

Harry walked in from the kitchen.

"Oh it's over" he said. "I was checking on the food. It's almost done".

Sirius hugged Harry tightly. As Sirius let go, Harry was hugged by Hermione. This went on as everyone in the room hugged him except Ted amd Andromeda who barely knew him. They shook his hand congratulating him.

"I can't believe you survived that" said Tonks.

"It was luck" answered Harry. "We all know that. Which is why I'll do my best to be ready next time".

"Aye" said Moody. "It was luck, but there was some skill as well".

Harry shrugged.

Ginny once again spoke up "I wan't to see the memory with the basilisk.

"What?" asked Harry.

"I wan't to see the basilisk memory. I deserve to know" she said.

Harry looked around the room seeing curious faces and nodded.

"Stop" yelled Dumbledore as he appeared into the room.

"Why?" asked Arthur Weasley. "We deserve to know exactly what happened to our daughter"

"He's right Professor" said Harry. "You wouldn't deny a father his right would you?".

Dumbledore wanted to say no of course, but the horcrux was top secret. He thought it over carefully. He was sure none present would know what the diary was.

"Of course not. You may show the memory".

Harry said "Alright. Oh and professor Dumbledore, I'm keeping the carcass".

Dumbledore nodded absently. He had forgotten about the wealth under the castle. He added "Perhaps Professor Snape can help?".

"No, that's okay" said Harry. He recalled all the things Snape had done. Not only did he insure his parents were targeted leading to their deaths, he put in the effort to make Harry's life at Hogwarts miserable. He tried to get Sirius killed at the end of 3rd year, and the only helpful thing he did was provide Harry with the Sword of Gryffindor during the Horcrux Hunt.

'And people buy into that whole he loved Lily all along bullshit'.

"I'll find help on my own".

Harry added the memory. It began to play and he watched himself and Ron push Lockhart down the hole. He busted out laughing alongside Remus, Sirius, the Weasley twins, Ron, and Ted. Moody had cracked a smile.

Ginny watched in awe as her brother and Harry jumped into the unknown to rescue her.

"Thank you guys" she said.

Ron and Harry nodded in understanding.

Arthur had joined in on the drinking once the memory showed Ron and Harry jumping into the entrance of the Chamber of Secrets. He and Molly recalled the helplessness they felt when Ginny had disappeared. Molly hugged Ginny tightly. They all saw Harry enter alone to find Ginny on the floor. They saw Voldemort out himself as a half-blood. Then the basilisk made an appearance.

"Holy shit" said Sirius.

"Bloody hell" said Ron. "I thought you exaggerated a bit. Turns out you downplayed its size".

The adults stared at Harry in awe. The boy had a habit of coming out on top of difficult situations. Tonks was impressed by Harry. At 12 years old he faced a danger most wizards she knew, wouldn't survive.

'I'm an idiot' thought Harry watching his younger self.

The memory ended with silence falling into the room.

"Cool huh" said Harry.

"That's worth a lot of money" said Remus.

"Really?" asked Harry. "How much?"

"Hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions".

"Can you help me render it? I'll give you half" asked Harry as everyone contemplated the amount of money Harry had seemed to dismiss.

Remus thought hard on it. "I can try, but I'm no expert. Perhaps using Snape is a good idea. He knows how to handle rare ingredients like that".

"Damn" said Harry.

"You can help" said Ted looking at his wife.

"Harry turned to look at Andromeda. "Can you?".

She nodded. "I was a potions mistress before Nymphadora was born. I still dabble now and then".

"Great" said Harry."I rather you get the money than Snape".

"Professor Snape" chimed in Hermione and Dumbledore.

"Great. When can we go?" asked Harry looking at Dumbledore.

He looked back at him and said "Tomorrow would be good. The professors aren't back yet and I'd rather Severus not be present while I let a wealth of potions ingredients escape him".

Harry looked at Andromeda. "I'm thinking noon. Does that work for you?".

"Yes" she responded.

"Cool" said Harry. "Thank you".

Winky popped in letting them know the food was ready. Harry took his memories back and followed the crowd to the kitchen. Dumbledore resumed to ignore Harry. Harry found it very amusing. 'Idiot probably knows ignoring me doesn't help with anything, but he's stubborn that's for sure'.

Harry and his friends had lots of fun. The Weasley boys had managed to snag some liquor with Harry. Molly was too busy mothering Ginny all day due to the memory she saw.

Hermione had elbowed Ron trying to stop him from drinking, but didn't succeed. After Ron bugged her to try a little Hermione relented and spent her time talking with Tonks and Harry who flirted with each other. Sirius and Remus drank in Harry's honor. They had called him out to commend him. Harry had raised his glass accepting their toast. Ron had almost fucked up by lifting his glass and shouting "To Harry". Molly had missed the glass by a second. Ron would regret that moment the next day. At this point he had a healthy buzz going. If he had stopped, he would've been fine.

The Order had arrived for the meeting Dumbledore had called and the kitchen became off limits to the teens. Harry waited in the living room drinking alone as Molly was walking about trying to send her kids to upstairs. When she went back to the meeting, the other teens came out of hiding. They continued for about another hour. Ron agreed when the twins suggested he chug the bottle.

Molly came out as soon as Ron finished.

"Ronald"

Ron looked to the source of the sound and even though he was drunk, he knew he was in trouble.

He gulped. "Hi Mom"

The Weasleys had never seen her so mad.

"Upstairs all of you. You too Harry" she yelled.

Harry remained seated as his friends ran upstairs.

"I said upstairs young man" added Molly.

Sirius walked into the room unaware of what was happening "Come on Harry, we're all in the kitchen now".

"Cool" said Harry following him

Molly sighed and shook her head. She decided to go and berate her children.

Harry had walked into the kitchen to find Ted,Remus,Moody and Tonks drinking whiskey while Andromeda sipped on wine.

"I got something good for you all" said Harry. "Dobby" he called.

The elf popped in.

"Could you bring me one of the bottles of liquor in my trunk? Oh and here" he said handing Dobby a bag of coins. "Don't forget to buy a ton of hangover potions".

Dobby was glad to be of assistance and left.

"You have your own bottles of liquor in your room?" asked Tonks. "You're only 15 for god's sake".

"Really?" asked Sirius. "After seeing those memories, him drinking at 15 is a problem for you?".

"Well no. He's been drinking all night. I thought it was a one time thing".

"Yeah right" said Sirius. "The boy puts away almost as much liquor as I do".

Dobby popped back in giving Harry the bottle.

Ted Tonks whistled seeing the bottle. "Damn. Tequila? Really, Harry?".

"It's very good" commented Sirius. "And Harry loves it".

"I've never had it" said Tonks.

"It's great" chimed Harry going to the fridge to pull out the limes.

"Where's the salt?" he asked looking around the kitchen.

Remus stood up and grabbed it for Harry. Noticing Harry was very drunk, he shook his head and offered to cut the limes himself. In moments they all had shots with limes in front of them. Andromeda had accepted a shot after Harry had showed them all how some choose to drink tequila. He grabbed a lime and licked the area connecting his thumb and index finger on the back of his hand as he sprinkled salt. He licked the salt, threw his head back as he downed the shot, and bit into his lime.

"Ready?" asked Harry after they all waited for him to get a refill.

"Yes" they all said.

"To Sirius finally being free!" he shouted.

They all shouted "To Sirius" and followed Harry's previous example. Harry skipped the lime and salt the second time. This was Don Julio. He didn't think it needed anything. The wizards liked the drink. Tonks loved it. She decided to drink that the rest of the night. Andromeda had a few more and decided to head home with Ted. Sirius had told them to choose a room. The house had plenty of clean rooms, thanks to the elves. They agreed and rest of the men and Tonks drank well into the night once more. Harry and Tonks flirted all night while the group laughed at them.