Harry was rather nervous about his upcoming disciplinary hearing. Despite knowing his innocence, he doubted that the ministry would see any reason to believe him and would much sooner see his wand snapped than actually listen to reason and drop the undeserved charges.
"It's rather strange, don't you think?" Began Hermione when Harry, Ron, Herself, and Ginny were all sat on the floor between the two beds in Ron and Harry's room.
"That Harry almost immediately gets sent a letter after allegedly breaking the law after he was attacked by two dementors, I've never heard of dementors going rogue, nervemind somehow wondering to surrey, especiallyconsidering the distance from Azkaban prison" Said Hermione thoughtfully.
"The ministry are in control of them, its obvious that someone wanted to silence me." Said Harry.
"Well, the ministry does have control over the dementors like you said, so it is very likely that someone like Fudge or maybe Malfoy sent then after you." Said Ron.
Sirius opened the door and looked somewhat alarmed. "I've just gotten word from Kingsley that your trial time has been changed. It's in half an hour, you better get ready."
"Why didn't they even bother to tell me?" said Harry as his friends left to give him some privacy.
"They are trying to make you look more like a fool. It's fortunate that Kingsley told me." Said Sirus.
Harry whipped on the smartest clothes he had tried to sort out his hair, but it was no use. He hurried downstairs, and Arthur Weasley was taking Harry to the ministry.
Arthur took Harry by the arm and side along apparated to a street somewhere in the centre of muggle London.
"It's just round here," began Arthur as he made his way down the empty street. "There's an entrance around here to the ministry, and it's used only by visitors."
They stopped at an out of order telephone box, and Arthur ushered Harry inside.
"Now, let's see." Arthur said to himself as he dialled in a five digit number that Harry could not tell.
"Please state your name and reason of visit." Said a cool female voice.
"Arthur Weasley, I'm taking Harry Potter to his hearing." Said Arthur clearly.
A few badges dropped into a small tub connected to the far wall of the telephone box, Harry put one of them on as the telephone box began to sink into the ground.
Harry stared in awe at the inside if the ministry, its had walls of black marble and glass, with a large Atrium with many small rooms along a large wall that looked to be offices, with glass windows. A fountain with five golden statues consisting of a wizard, witch, goblin, house elf, and a dragon.
A large sheet hung from the ceiling. It was a large black and white picture of Cornelius Fudge, as it was displayed prominently for all to see.
Arthur and Harry manoeuvred through the crowd towards one of the lifts that no one was using. Arthur dialled in for level nine, which housed the entrance to the department of mysteries and courtrooms one through ten.
"Strange how these courtrooms are being used," said Arthur as they exited the lift. "These courtrooms haven't been used since the first war, normally death eaters where tried and sentenced here."
Harry didn't like the sound of that but knew that this was a psychological ploy from Fudge to make him feel self conscious and sow doubt into his mind, he knew he was innocent and that was what mattered.
"Well, I'm not allowed in. I'm afraid I'll have to wait out here for you," said Arthur. "Good luck, Harry."
Harry smiled his thanks to Arthur Weasley before he opened the door to courtroom ten.
A large crowd of wizengamot members and high up ministry employees were present, including Fudge himself.
Harry also spotted Percy in the row of seats nearest the minister of magic and knew he wasn't on great terms with the rest of his family at the moment.
"You're late. it's four-thirty, and your trial was scheduled for a quarter of an hour prior." Said Fudge in an annoyed tone.
"My letter said half four, minister." said Harry as he made his way to the chair in the middle and sat down.
"A letter was sent to your address. It is on you to be on time." Said Fudge.
Bell end. Thought Harry to himself.
"Anyway," began Fudge, ignoring what Harry said. "The trial against Harry James Potter, commencing the 22nd of August, 1995, Judge, Cornelius Oswald Fudge, court scribe, Percy ignatius weasley and Head of the department of magical law enforcement Amelia Susan Bones." Began Fudge, who paused to let Percy scribble it all down.
"Now, the trial in question is the prosecution of Harry James Potter. You are Harry James Potter?" Asked Fudge.
"Yes, minister." Said Harry.
"Harry James Potter is here before us on the account that he performed magic for the second separate occasion in the presence of muggles. Do you Harry James Potter deny these accusations?" Asked Fudge.
"No minister, but i-"
"Did you Harry James Potter know fully well the consequences of your actions?"
"I did minister, but -" Harry was cut off again.
"Witches and wizards of the wizengamot-" Fudge, this time, was interrupted.
"I did it because of the dementors." Said Harry, glaring at Fudge.
"Dementors?" Questioned Amelia bones though Harry could tell that she was more curious than thinking he was lying. "In little whinging?"
"Precisely Amelia, there are no records of dementors in little whinging." Chuckled Fudge.
"The boy is clearly concocting a lie into hoping that he'll be let off the hook." Said a high-pitched voice from a plump woman next to Fudge who looked like a toad.
"WITNESS FOR THE DEFENCE!!" Boomed a loud voice.
Harry turned to see Dumbledore stride into the courtroom. His eyes ignored Harry but were solely focused on Fudge.
"Dumbledore." Said Fudge, looking even more annoyed.
"I have evidence that proves that what Mr. Potter is saying is, in fact, the truth." Said Dumbledore.
"I'm sure you have Dumbledore, but my schedule is running tight." Said Fudge.
"The defence has the right to bring forward any witnesses it wishes during a trial," said Dumbledore, his eyes twinkling. "Surely you would not forget about such laws."
"Laws can be changed." Said Fudge through gritted teeth.
"I wouldn't be so sure, minister." Said Dumbledore.
"Very well," Fudge sighed. "Bring forth the witness."
What followed was Mrs. Figg explaining to Fudge about her seeing the dementors move in on Harry and his cousin and how he used the magic to save his life.
Afterwards, it seemed Fudge didn't believe her.
"I don't think she was telling the truth." He said.
"No, it was a very accurate account of a dementor attack, considering she is a squib as well." Said Amelia.
"Very well." Fudge said as he turned back to Harry. "We shall commence the vote, all in favour of clearing the accused of all charges."
Many hands shot up, and Harry could tell he'd won.
"And all in favour of charging the accused for breaching the statue of secrecy." Said Amelia.
Mostly Fudges cronies and people like Lucius Malfoy voted, but there was nowhere near enough people to force a re-vote, it wasnt even close.
"Very well, case dismissed." Said Fudge as he banged his gavel on the desk.
People began to file out, and Harry met up with Arthur Weasley.
"I saw Dumbledore come through I asusme-" began Arthur.
"Cleared of all charges." Said Harry with a happy smile.
"Never in doubt, come on, let's go. I'm starving, and we've got to tell everyone the good news." Said Arthur.
Harry spotted the door to the department of mysteries, and in that moment, he felt drawn to it, like there was something there he needed.
He shook it off and caught up with the Weasley patriarch, and together, they made their way out of the ministry and back to number twelve, Grimmauld Place.
Harry and Arthur Weasley quickly made their way towards the number twelve Grimmauld place, Harry had a grin on his face as he went inside.
Pretty much all the Weasley's, except Percy, Hermione, Sirius, and Remus were waiting in the kitchen whilst Molly was preparing lunch for them.
"Cleared of all charges," said Harry as he sat down next to Ginny before anybody asked the question all on their minds
"I knew you'd be fine." said Ginny as everyone cheered loudly.
Harry hugged her and thought everything was going well so far.
"Carter," said one of the other researchers. "We've got to do our check for damages on SCP-096s containment cell."
Dr. Carter set his file down on his desk and got up from his chair.
The two researchers were escorted to 096s containment chamber, they entered a large open concrete room with a steel box in the middle, there were computers set up and a circular device that connected with wires towards them.
Dr. Carter was to oversee the checks. This was to make sure that SCP-096s containment did not contain amy holes or dents that could cause a person to accidentally observe SCP-096s face.
The device mounted to the steel walls were thermal and laser sensors that could give them an idea of 096s pattern and whether it was within the cell.
It took around fifteen minutes before the checks came back clear.
Dr. Carter was about to leave when they all heard a loud bang on the metal.
"The fuck was that." Said one of the researchers.
One of them checked a monitor and flicked to the laser image, 096 was banging on the metal and clawing at it.
Dr. Carter grabbed a intercom radio to alert the site.
"SCP-096 AS BROKEN OUT OF ITS CONTAINMENT, CLASS A NERVE AGENTS WILL BE RELEASED!" was relayed to the whole site.
He ducked under the table as the sounds of metal being bent and ripped apart was heard.
"Shit, i saw it." One of them cried out as he attempted to run but was grabbed and had his face smashed into the ground, killing him.
The guards in the room fired their weapons, but to no avail as SCP-096 advanced on them, killing both of them incredibly quickly.
The nerve agent gas began to flow into the site, making all the people unconscious so that they would not see SCP-096s face.
SCP-096 screamed as it ran at blistering pace towards the other researchers who had all looked at its face, they could do nothing but scream in pain as they were ripped apart, mutilated until there was nothing but just a small pool of blood where they had once been.
A death eater entered the chamber once SCP-096 had calmed down. It had sat down on the floor and began sobbing and babbling incoherently, its hands covering its face.
The death eater pressed his wand into its dark mark, alerting the dark lord that the specimen had been secured and ready to be taken away.
Voldemort apparated before the death eater along with many of his other comrades.
"Be careful not to look at its face." Said Voldemort, conjuring a leather bag into the death eaters' hands
The death eater nodded and cautiously approached the entity, keeping his eyes firmly on the ground. It only took around ten seconds before the bag was over SCP-096s head, and a pair of chains attached to his hands were conjured and locked his wrists.
"Foundation presence, five miles and closing." Alerted one of the reconnaissance death eaters.
"They're early," said Voldemort. "Let's go."
Voldemort apparated away along with all the death eaters and SCP-096. It had been only a few minutes before it was announced that Mobile task force unit nine tailed fox had entered the facility.
The captain walked into what was SCP-096s containment area and saw the pools of blood. They had checked some of the bodies and found they had simply been knocked out by the nerve agent and would awake in ten minutes.
"Site command," said the captain into his radio. "We have reestablished control of the site, SCP-096 has breached containment, and we don't know where it's gone."
"Affirmative team, hold down the area until the staff awake from the nerve agents sleeping effects, the 05 will need to hear about this." Said a voice through the radio.
"Roger," said the MTF captain before shutting off his radio and rejoining his squad.
*
Harry wasn't a particular fan of the massive order guard that he and his friends were being escorted by to platform nine and three-quarters. However, they all understood the importance of it, particularly for Harry.
Thankfully, they arrived at the station quickly and were ushered onto the train by Remus, Sirius was in his dog form and had been adamant about seeing Harry off.
"See you soon, snuffles." Said Harry as he scratched the back of Sirius's ear affectionately.
The dog barked happily back and wagged its tail before Harry got on the train. He found the compartment his friends were all in and sat in the far corner next to Ron, it was only those two and Harry reckoned Ginny must be with people in her year.
"It's going to be an interesting year." Said Harry.
"Couldn't put it better mate." Said Ron.
"We need to be careful," began Hermione. "The ministry have probably tried to dig there claws into Hogwarts now that Harry wasn't expelled."
Hermione checked her watch and realised the time. "Oh I almost forgot, Ron we have a prefect meeting in five minutes."
Ron rolled his eyes and Harry grinned at him, they left quickly and Harry simply stared out of the window, admiring the countryside view from his seat on the Hogwarts express.
He heard the compartment door open to reveal Ginny standing there.
"Alright if I join you?" She asked. "My brother and Hermione seemed to have abandoned you."
"Yeah, sure." Said Harry with a smile as Ginny shut the door, he failed to notice that she had locked the door and shut the pull down curtain as well.
Ginny sat down very close next to him and Harry noticed she was wearing a pair of brown leggings that looked like they had been painted on and hugged her legs tightly and she had a white crop top on with the Holyhead harpies crest.
Ginny noticed his gaze on her exposed breasts, but pretended to act like he was staring at her new top. "Fred and George got it for me."
Harry nodded and gulped as Ginny moved much closer to him, he could smell her scent and it was intoxicating to him. Ginny had shifted her bum so that she was now very close to him, Harry felt the sudden urge to capture her lips with his and snog her senseless.
Might as well act now. Harry thought before leaning in and kissing Ginny.
She was shocked that Harry had moved so quickly, but then her lips molded immediately with his as they kissed deeply, Harry's right hand rested on her back whilst the other was in her vibrant red locks of hair.
Harry and Ginny eventually pulled away, Harry had an almost dazed expression on his face and he looked much happier than he ever really had before from what Ginny could gather, she could feel herself buzzing and the two kissed again quickly and much more lovingly this time, kissing with hunger and desire.
Ginny was pressing up against Harry by the window of the compartment that showed the view of North East England. Harry felt like he was in heaven as Ginny's hands slid into his sides as the two kept kissing.
Ginny's left hand had moved up to stroke his hair as they kept their heated make out session going, it was sticking up in the usual messy manner that it was but Ginny could feel something else of Harry that was beginning to stick up.
Before there already heated kissing session could progress any further, there was a knock on the door and the sound of Hermione and Ron's confused voice.
"Don't worry about fixing yourself up Harry," said Ginny when Harry tried to smooth his hair out. "Hermione will figure it out on the spot and it's better we face the music from Ron now then later."
"Your right," Hsrry said cupping Ginny's face in his hand. "I assume this makes us a couple now." He finished with a sly grin.
Ginny punched his shoulder playfully. "Prat, you are about as thick as my brother."
Harry unlocked the door and lifted up the glass door curtains and Hermione and Ron entered, Hermione sent curious glances before her eyes lit up and she gave Harry a brilliant smile. Ginny wasn't wrong about Hermione's deduction skills.
Ron looked very confused seeing the state Harry was in and that Ginny had appeared out of nowhere, both of them were sat together, much closer than friends normally sat as well.
Then the thought clicked and he was half tempted to lay into Harry about dating his sister when he realised that Ginny would probably not react well.
He sat down as Hermione asked them if anything interesting happened, to which Harry and Ginny blushed at the remark.
Harry looked at his best mate and Ron looked back before speaking.
"So you two are?" Ron said crossing his fingers, he couldn't even say the words.
Ginny's hand found Harry's and she squeezed it tightly. "Yes Ron, we are dating, do you have a problem with this?"
"If you must." Said Ron which surprised the two of them about how calm Ron was about the two of them being in a relationship, but definitely wouldn't do anything further than hand holding in Ron's presence, not wanting an outburst and to merely humour him.
*
SCP-1853 stepped through its portal, the blue light making the investigation team squint as the anomaly entered the mess that was 096s containment area.
"What happened?" SCP-1853 asked, normally he wasn't much of a conversationist but he needed to know what happened, especially since Voldemort was involved.
"A large group of what we have identified as wizards breached the facility and have abducted SCP-096 from the facility." Said the lead investigator, brushing some sweat from his forehead, his eyes were tired with overwork as he held a small cup of black coffee in his hand.
SCP-1853 nodded, it would need to find out about SCP-096, from the sounds of it, this anomaly was a particularly dangerous anomaly, he would need to find away to gather info on other SCPs as well if Voldemort planned to capture them for his nefarious purposes.
The lead investigator watched as SCP-1853 left the area and headed further into the site, orders from the 05 council were to not interfere with SCP-1853s activities or intentions, as it could react with hostility if it feels someone is obstructing him from his goal.
SCP-1853 formed another portal infront of him and stepped through, he found himself in the 05 council room.
Many guards in the room raised there weapons but a harsh reprimand from 05-1 made them lower there weapons.
"What is it you are here to discuss?" Said one of the other 05 council members.
"I need information on every anomaly you have in your containment." Said SCP-1853.
One of the guards was ordered to escort SCP-1853 to the administrators office in the unknown site building.
"These servers here contain data on every single SCP we have contained, this USB stick here should plug into your EXO suit and upload all your information for you to access." Explained the administrator as he fumbled for the cable and removed the protector off of the cable.
SCP-1853 took a hold of the cable and a small port shifted on his suit, revealing a matching port for the cable, he plugged it in and the servers began to copy and distribute all the files on all the SCPs into SCP-1853 exo suits storage system.
It took many hours as SCP-1853 stood there motionless, letting the raw data be processed, he would need it for fighting against some of the anomalies. Once he was done, SCP-1853 left through its portal immediately, it had work to do.
*
"To our new students welcome, to our old students, welcome back." Began Headmaster Dumbledore as he stood on his podium up at the head table.
No one had failed to motice the somewhat plump woman wearing all pink clothes, a small pink fluffy bat with a large black bow on the top, her face was pudgy and looked rather like a toad, Harry wouldn't be surprised if her tongue shot out and lapped up the bow like a fly in the air.
"Now we have had a change of staff, first off I would like to welcome Professor Grubby-plank as our temporary care of magical creatures instructor, whilst professor Hagrid is on temporary leave." Dumbledore briefly paused before continuing.
"Now I would also like to welcome our new defence against the dark arts teacher professor Delores Umbridge."
There weren't many claps apart from the people at the slytherin table particularly the more rotten lot of the slytherins, Harry had pointed out Malfoy and his goons.
"A reminder that quidditch tryouts take pla-" Dumbledore was interrupted by a quiet but extremely irritatijgnligjt coughing sound from Professor Umbrdige as she stood up and made her way to the podium.
"Thank you, Headmaster, for those kind words of welcome. And how lovely to see all your bright happy faces smiling up at me. I'm sure we're all going to be very good friends." Began Umbridge with most of the student paying barely any attention.
"That's likely " Said Ginny sarcastically as Harry patted her leg.
"The Ministry of Magic has always considered the education of young witches and wizard of vital importance. Although each Headmaster has brought something new to this historic school," Umbridge motioned to Dumbledore. "Progress for the sake of progress must be discouraged. Let us preserve what must be preserved, perfect what can be perfected and prune practices that ought to be prohibited."
There was a soft applause, most of it coming from the slytherin end of the Great hall.
"What a load of waffle." Said Ron quietly as the applause died down.
"Thank you professor Umbridge, that was a very illuminating speech." Said Dumbledore though somewhat unenthusiastically.
Dumbledore was allowed to continue though there was some quiet murmuring between Harry and his friends.
"What does it mean anyway?" Said Harry.
"It means the ministry is trying to take over Hogwarts." Said Hermione.
Dumbledore dismissed them all as Harry and Ginny lagged back to enjoy some alone time as Hermione and Ron, with the redhead being unenthusiastic about it, lead the first years to the Gryffindor common room.
"Hey." Harry said playfully as the two of them found themselves in quiet part of the castle on the fourth floor, most people were heading for their common rooms, so the couple would not have to worry about being interrupted.
"What is it Harry?" Asked Ginny noticing he was looking a bit confused and maybe a little down put.
"I'm confused Ginny," he began. "I like you, alot but I have no clue on how relationships work."
"Well you certainly did back on the train." Said Ginny with a somewhat playful tone, which made Harry smile, Ginny's face softened.
"I know we've already began snogging but we can always take it slow if you want." Said Ginny.
"No, that's not an issue, I'm just worried about what other people will think." Said Harry.
Ginny had a blazing look on her face, full of determination. "You and I shouldn't care what people think, I don't care what Ron or my brothers will think, and if they pressure you then I'll deal with them."
"Thanks Gin, but I think we should use our mouths for something other than talking." Said Harry, trying to sound romantic or charming.
Ginny giggled. "Good try Harry, but I have to agree."
The two if them the pulled each other in for a kiss, there bodies pressed tighter together as they enjoyed the moment of passion.
A/N: I have decided that chapter will be put out on a bi weekly basis unless I am little bit behind, please review the chapter as well if you wish, and I hope you enjoyed the Hinny goodness