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Validated
She stood in the witness box.
"I'll tell the truth regardless, the potion is unnecessary," she murmured, eyes on Kingsley. "If you give me Veritaserum, you may not ask the right questions."
He nodded, looking thoughtful. "Very well. But know this, Miss Chang. If at any point, I believe you are lying to me, I won't hesitate to order the use of the serum."
Cho nodded her assent, and took a deep breath.
"I stabbed and murdered Marcus Flint in cold blood, knowing exactly what I was doing at the time I was doing it. He deserved it. He was bragging, bragging about a child that he had forced to watch as he murdered her mother. Marcus Flint avoided the justice of the court, and I had no proof as to his words."
"Surely you could have gone to the Auror's anyway?" Kingsley asked, raising his eyebrow. "You could have shared the memory of his 'bragging' and allowed them to do their jobs and apprehend Mr Flint as a suspect."
Cho snorted. "He got away with it once before; who is to say that he wouldn't walk free again. He didn't have the mark on his arm, wasn't a suspected Death Eater. Who is to say that the Auror's would've believed me over him?"
"So you chose to stab him over and over and over?"
"Yes. I stabbed Marcus Flint once for every person I've lost over the course of the war and beyond. Perhaps I was unfair; he certainly wasn't present for many of those deaths, but, well, most of those murderers have already been placed in Azkaban or thrown beyond the veil, and are out of my reach."
"Do you have any remorse at all for what you have done, Miss Chang?"
Her eyes hardened. "No. Under the circumstances, I believe Marcus Flint got exactly what he deserved."
Cho was led back to her seat, and she sat primly, awaiting the end of the trial and the judgment she knew she would face. There were a few witnesses, found by her court appointed lawyer, that argued for mitigating circumstances, but Cho knew the defence would never work.
She had damned herself both with her actions and words, and she would only feel more validated when her punishment was handed to her. Criminals, murderers, deserved to be punished, and she was now amongst those who could claimed they'd taken a life.
Marcus Flint had made a grave mistake when he bragged about his deeds that evening in the bar he frequented, buoyed as he was by alcohol.
Cho had already been mostly certain that he'd been the monster to murder her mother and younger sister, and he'd confessed his sins to her greedy ears.
She would never regret that she'd taken his life, as he had taken theirs.
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Showtime;3. Bragging
Hamilton Mania; Act 2, 12. Cho Chang / Extra, 28. Circumstance