Harry Potter is not mine. This is a story from a fan.
When you're done, You're DONE.
Ch 26. The day It all started.
Tonks took Harry back to his room and crawled beside him where they would sleep until Molly screamed and Arthur tapped on the door. When they looked at the clock Harry groaned at the time. The last thing he wanted was to get woken up at four in the morning by a screaming Molly, who could only scream at Arthur to leave the spoiled, ungrateful brat alone. So for a second time, he kept his mouth shut and dressed himself after a shower, hoping to get out of there sooner than later. "You better hurry or I will be joining you in a moment" Tonks screamed as loud as she could.
It was the last thing she would do that morning. But Molly's screaming about the dirty things happening in their room was too good to be wasted. Wait when did it get our room? As she sat on the edge of the bed she started to get lost in her thoughts. Somehow it all started to get weird. One moment she was standing on the corner looking out for a kid. The next she was lying next to him dressed in nothing but her underwear. The strange thing about it all was that it felt right. She could even say she loved that kid and not as a brother. It was at that moment Tonks knew she was in love with Harry Potter and it didn't feel like it started two weeks ago. No according to her feelings, it started fourteen years ago or even longer.
When she got back down she saw Harry standing near the door of the kitchen. Everyone else was eating but he wasn't. While she looked around the table she could see plates everywhere except for two places. In silence, she mouthed our places and Harry just nodded at her. She didn't need to know what was happening at this point. It was clear she didn't get any food because she wasn't in the order anymore. For Harry, it was just as simple because Molly screamed it the moment she got to them. "You have your own house elf, so let him get you some food. It is clear that you do not appreciate the effort I have been putting in the food I have been making for all of you". Tonks just shook her head and walked back into the hallway. Harry was standing near the painting of Walburga Black. She wasn't screaming or shouting. No, Walburga was just looking on while she gave dirty looks at Molly.
"It's time to go," Mr Weasley said as he walked up to Harry. "We will be going by muggle transportation so it might take a long time before we are there".
Harry gave a deep sigh as he thought of Mr Weasley looking at everything muggle and asking hundreds of questions about it. For a moment he looked at Tonks but she was already at the door. He didn't know what she was doing but before she left he could see her hand disappear into nothing. So he patted his pocket and found it empty. She was still looking out for him even if she was not allowed to bring him herself. So when Mr Weasley walked past him and asked him to come along. At the door, he waved at Sirius and went after Arthur.
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Amelia came home at four in the morning and slept until seven-thirty in the morning the same day. They had only watched the same memory she had looked at first. That resulted in a discussion of how powerful Harry Potter was. In the end, they had to see it to be sure because one thing was sure they could not measure it.
Still, with the sleep rubbing from her eyes she sat down at the breakfast table. While she had Breakfast she asked Susan if they were ready. Susan only nodded at her as she smiled a wicked smile at her aunty. "Okay, I understand no questions so I can not tell a thing". It was only a couple of minutes later she got to her Floo and stepped out in her office. In her left hand, she had a couple of tubes with white mist in it. They all contained memories from Harry of the things he had been through. According to Andromeda, she could be in them for quite a long time, so she put them on the side and told herself to view them later. After the first one, she would not do it alone, that was one thing she was sure of. If it were up to her she would do it with Harry at her side and Andromeda to hold her back if she got mad enough. That way he could answer her questions while they looked at it together. While Andromeda could stun her as she rushed off. So she looked at the clock and saw that she had another two hours before the session of the Wizangemot would start.
So she grabbed the sheet of paper Andromeda had given her last night. In it were the questions she could ask Harry to get the trial their way. That was if Fudge was going to derail everything to get Harry out of Hogwarts. Something she was sure he would do as long as Lucius and Deloris were pulling his strings. "Wait, Arthur was bringing Harry here so he must be here already if he would start at the right time". She closed her mouth and looked around herself. She was glad her door was still closed because the last thing she wanted was her aurors thinking she went nuts by talking to herself. Just as she wanted to think more about it she remembered that Harry was a couple of floors down with Arthur and she could get him to her office first.
#*
"Now tell me Harry, What is the definition of a rubber duck in the bathtub".
Harry looked at Arthur and right after it at the door. The one thing he wanted now was for someone to get him out of there. He had just spent an hour answering questions about escalators. the underground and the muggle telephone. After it was about Muggle money, Muggle train tickets, and those little doorways that you had to go through to get on and off the platform. He loved Mr Weasley, but he might not like him at the moment. But this was making it very hard to take him seriously.
"Mr Weasley, if you do not mind I will be taking Mr Potter with me so we can have a talk before we bring him to the firing squad".
Harry did a double-take when he heard the words. He looked behind him and saw an older lady standing there looking at him and at Mr Weasley. He did not know who she was but she looked a little like Susan Bones. "Miss Bones" Arthur called out. Harry smiled, thinking that he was right when he thought she looked like Susan. "I'm not sure" Arthur called out, "Albus asked me to take care of him and I".
"I do not care what Albus asked you" Amelia jumped in. She liked Arthur but she hated Albus more and more. "As far as I know Mr Potter had to be here to talk about his underage magic. The last time I looked I was the head of the D.M.L.E. That title alone gave me the right to scare the underage enough to crap into their pants to never do it again. That title also gives me the right to outrang Albus in this case because he is not his guardian".
Arthur looked at her and Harry had to hide his smile behind his hand. He knew she knew about Sirius and he also knew Arthur knew about it. His problem was the thought of how Miss Bones knew it. Just as he was about to say something Amelia cut him off. "Mr Potter has to be there at ten thirty. It is nine and I still have one and a half hours to help him. I want to know what happened because I was kept out of the loop. Not only by Fudge but also by Albus. I also know about the Order of the Phoenix because as you know I have been a part of it, a long time ago". Amelia had to say the last thing fast because she saw the look from Harry go from fun to anger. "I was never a part of it as you are now. But I did provide Lily Potter with the things she had to know from our end".
"You knew my mother, what was she like".
Amelia blinked when she heard the words. Tonks had told her a lot and she knew he had been held in the dark. But for him to ask that kind of question told her he knew even less than she thought. "Mr Potter what do you know about your mother"
Harry looked at the ground and started to shuffle his feet. "I know she was called Lily and that I have her eyes".
Amelia waited for more but he wasn't telling her anything else. She did have a look at Arthur and his look told her the same thing. He was just as surprised as she was. "Are you telling me, that no one has ever told you about the things she did at Hogwarts. Who her friends were, and how she went after your father hexing him all the way to McGonnagal's office".
"McGonagall told her to get him to her office".
"No, Mr Potter, Your father played a prank on her. He made her red hair blue and she went after him. He was running to the office of McGonnagal to look for cover. He was a very brave man, but he was shitting himself when Lily got mad at him. She was also a very nice person to the people who were bullied. My Susan told me the same thing about you. So you not only have her eyes, you also have her personality, because James Potter wasn't that nice in the beginning".
Before she could go on a little paper airplane hovered before her face. She grabbed it out of the air and looked at it. The curse she let go made Harry burst out laughing. "Mr Potter, I know it might seem amusing to you but I just got a note that the trial of Potter was at ten thirty. It has been rescheduled and it is starting in five minutes".
"So in other words I will be too late because I could never be here on time," Harry asked as his voice started to get a little sarcastic. Amelia smiled at his words because she liked people like this. "The only thing I want to know now is who was the one who asked for it because that is the one I have to kill first".
"Mr. Potter, I would like to have a front-row seat to that meeting, But we have to take you down now or you will be too late. I will change your appearance a little bit. Let us see what they will say while they think you are not there yet". It was after that she let go of a couple of Patronusses and looked over her shoulder. "Alright, Tonks get in here. We have a job to do and you have to get the prisoner to his day off doom".
Tonks pulled the Invisibility cloak from her head and smiled at Harry. His eyes lit up when he saw her and smirked back. "I'm not sure Tonks, but I think your boss likes it when she can get people down there to have her wicked way with them".
Amelia frowned at his words but started to shoot stinging hexes at both of them when she heard Tonks say the next thing. "You don't know have of it Harry. You know she has got a chair down there with chains and everything".
"He has to go to the chair," Arthur asked in horror.
Harry and Tonks hadn't heard a thing Arthur said, because Tonks had them pull out of the way from a stunning hex and rushed down the hallway to get him to his trail. On her way down to the chamber she waved her wand at Harry and changed his appearance. When she got to the chamber she pulled him to the side and looked around. Some were already there but a lot of members were still to come. Lucius and Dorothea were already there just like some of the other members of the dark side. Fudge was standing at his little table with his hammer in his hand. He was looking at the clock and Tonks knew he was itching to call the Trial. With a deep sigh, she saw that her boss walked in. With another sigh but this time a sigh of relief she saw that she was joined by Augusta and her mother.
"Well she took out the big guns for this," Harry said as he looked over her shoulder, making her smile.
Harry sat down at the side and felt something on his head. As he looked at his side he saw a crumpled-up piece of paper on the floor. He knew it had to come from up in the balcony and he looked that way. The next thing he did was to look up and saw a redhead waving at him. His eyes grew big as he saw not only Susan looking at him but also Neville, Luna Fleur, and little Gabrielle. To his surprise, he saw Daphne Greengrass and Tracy Davis standing between them. They were Slytherins and on his side. As he looked on he saw more and more people looking down at the floor. Susan must have told his friends what he looked like. Or she knew he would be standing next to Tonks. But as he saw Rita Skeeter standing there. He wanted to say something but looked up when Tonks told him she was at his side.
As he wanted to say another thing Fudge started to hammer his hammer on his little table. They didn't say a thing. Harry wanted to but Tonks stopped him just in time. It was thirty minutes past nine and it was still an hour to his original time. But it was clear Fudge was not going to wait for it. "Well, I have asked you all to come here because one of our own has put the wizarding world in real danger. I have to tell you all that Harry Potter has done magic in the muggle world to impress his friends. With doing that he exposed us to all for them to see".
"He makes a good point," Harry told Tonks as he looked at her from the side.
"Are you crazy".
"He, you said I was so don't ask surprise". Tonks just slapped the back of his head as she laughed a little at his words.
Fudge hadn't seen it and went on. "Now I wanted to snap his wand right at that point and bound his magic. Albus Dumbledore who is helping him, took that from us and said we should have a trial".
"Now Albus didn't tell us he suggested a trial, I know my Boss stopped it and said you had to report to her office. It is what was normally done. But now it was Albus who had arranged this. It must have happened when she pulled me outside the day you killed those things. I was still in the order and Albus could not see me there. So if he arranged this then he isn't your friend, because I do not think he would arrange this to get you out".
"No, Tonks, If he did this he wanted a place where he could save me and for me to drop on my knees and thank him," Harry told her forgetting the thing about him killing those things.
"As you all can see, Mr Potter has not arrived and it tells us the disrespect he has for our system," Fudge said with a smirk making some members laugh.
"The funny thing is, I was already here, but you are so full of yourself that you didn't even see me," Harry said as he waved his hand over himself making his features appear for all to see. Not only that but the moment he did the balcony erupted in cheers. Harry bowed at them and turned back to Fudge. "Now I do not who has arranged this but I'm innocent because".
"Don't give us your lies" Fudge screamed.
"Cornelius" Amelia screamed as she got to her feet. Harry sat down but Amelia stepped to the middle of the floor. "You are accusing Mr. Potter of a very terrible thing he did, according to you".
"You are blinded by his boy who lived image" Fudge sneered at her. "But you are the head of the D.M.L.E you are not above me".
"That is where your wrong" the voice of Andromeda sounded from the side. Fudge stopped and looked at his side. He never liked it when people interrupted him. So this time was no exception. But as soon as he wanted to react Andromeda went on. She had played this game before and she knew she was good at it. "You are the minister of Magic. That means you are here to get the praises for things well done and taking the shit for when you screw or the ministry screws up".
Fudge started to splutter at her words while Harry was laughing his head off. "I now know where you get your dirty mouth," He told Tonks who was standing behind him. Before she could say something there was a sound coming from the balcony. She looked behind her and saw Molly standing there screaming at her. "When I need help she can't be bothered, but now she is standing on the first row. Glad to be wanted" Harry said as he turned back to Andromeda.
"As for your thoughts of being above the D.M.L.E. Like I said, you are wrong. Misses Bones is the director and there for the last one who can decide on these things. You are here to stand by her and deliver the message when it is going to be for all the wizarding people. Now this looked like a simple case of underage magic".
Fudge didn't wait for her to start again and jumped in. The moment he did Andromeda smiled and Amelia sat back. "This is nothing like simple underage magic. he placed the whole wizarding world at risk by doing magic in the muggle world".
"HE PROTECTED HIMSELF YOU ASS" Susan screamed from the balcony. Amelia wanted to jump up but thought differently about it at second thought.
"ORDER, ORDER" Fudge screamed back. He was still wondering how all of them got here so fast because he wanted the boy alone. His thoughts were if he started ninety minutes earlier then the boy would be easy prey. That Amelia and Andromeda were in his corner was worse than Albus who he had thought would be here. "I'm here because this is for the safety of the nation. I will also be handling it because I'm the minister and as a minister, I'm the face of the ministry. Harry Potter has to pay for doing it".
"You mean he has to stand trial for the nation and under the whole of the Wizangemot" Amelia asked him looking at a smirking Andromeda. Fudge nodded and Amelia knew she had him. "If that is the case then I as the head of the D.M.L.E have the right to ask the questions. Not only that, Mr. Potter has the right to be represented by counsel" and she pointed at Andromeda.
As Fudge started to turn white there were two voices screaming the same thing at the same time. "WHAT, YOU CAN'T WIN FROM THE BIG BAD ANDROMEDA".
"Susan" Amelia screamed.
"Harry" Tonks screamed from the other side.
"Sorry, Aunty Andy" Susan called back.
"Hem, Hem".
"Shut up you toad" Amelia screamed at her as she looked pointedly at Delorus.
Fudge was looking at it all and didn't know what to say. The silence it brought gave Andromeda room to jump in. "Now that we have got that straight I will be representing Mr. Potter and Amelia will be doing the questioning".
"I will be doing the questioning" Fudge screamed. This time Harry thought Amelia would jump up, but she didn't. Harry frowned and Amelia just smiled a knowing smile that didn't make any sense to him. When he wanted to speak up she placed her finger on his lips to keep him silent.
Fudge was looking at it and was just as confused as Harry was. But before she could cut him off he went on. "We are here to judge when we have to snap his wand".
"OBJECTION" Andromeda screamed.
"This is the Wizangemot, not the American court" Fudge screamed before he controlled himself and said it again a little softer.
"I know it isn't but the way you said it makes me think Mr. Potter will not get an honest trial because you already wanted to snap his wand. It is good that I got here so I want to know why you want to snap his wand".
Fudge was opening his mouth and closing it a couple of times. It took him a while to formulate his words and it only made Andromeda smile more. Amelia turned around a little and looked at Harry. in a soft voice, she whispered "She is making him doubt himself, so he will be making mistakes. Be ready, you might be up in a moment or two".
It took another couple of seconds but Fudge gave the answer. "We have seen he has done magic in a muggle place and that is illegal, We have to hold him accountable for all the damage he has done".
"Fair, fair" Andromeda said and saw that Amelia was just in time to stop Harry from speaking up. She could hear her say not yet. "So what did the ministry do to repair the damage done by Mr Potter. Did they have to repair muggle buildings". Fudge shook his head. "NO, alright did you have to take care of medical issues where muggles were harmed in any way". This time Fudge looked over at Lucius and when he saw him shaking his head, he did too. "Another no, did you at least have to wipe some memories. You know from the muggles that had seen it".
Harry looked on and Amelia saw him with a You're up hiss. Harry nodded and said, "The only one who saw it was my cousin and he already knew about magic".
Andromeda smiled and turned back to Fudge. "So what exactly did the ministry have to do to save this revealing of the magical world". There was no answer and a little laugh escaped her throat. "So you didn't have to do anything, does this mean no one saw it and there was no big revealing of the magical world".
"He was telling a bull story about performing a Patronus".
This time Amelia was too late to jump in and stop Harry before he called out. "I had to do it because of the Dementors".
Amelia had to think fast so she said, "Dementors in Little Whinging" she called out. Between her teeth, she hissed at Harry. They can't see what spell you have done, so someone had to tell them. By you calling it out they have something to hit you with".
Harry looked at her and had to think a little before he got what she meant. Andromeda was asking questions they had to answer with a yes or NO. if they would have said more it would only lend them in more trouble. He just jumped in a big pile of pixy shit. So as he realized his first mistake he thought about why Amelia asked the other question.
"Don't you know what he is telling you?" Fudge asked her like he was talking to a child. "It is very clever you know. Muggles can't see Dementors, so by saying he saw them he was a hero to a damsel in distress".
"YOU'RE JUST JEALOUS YOU CAN'T DO ONE YOURSELF" Susan screamed from the balcony getting a lot of cheers from around her. "WE KNOW HARRY CAN SO THAT MAKES HIM BETTER THAN YOU".
Fudge started to hammer his hammer again and looked up at Susan with an angry look. He pulled his wand and the next moment he was looking at the wand of Harry. Tonks jumped up behind him and felt a wall of Magic being pulled up.
At that same moment, something happened at the bottom of the ministry.
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Allan Croaker was still looking at the doorway and saw the woman walking through the door so to say. "Morganas Tits" he screamed out.
The woman walked up to him and looked him in the eye. Her lips weren't moving but Croaker could swear he heard her talking. "You are not allowed to talk about my tits" and she slapped him across the face. She looked back and waved her hand. The other woman he had seen stepped out of the doorway and he instantly knew who she was.
"Dorea Potter, I thought you were dead".
"Allan" Dorea spoke up. "In this world, I would have been yes, But before I died I went here with Charlus and stepped through the doorway back to Avalon". Allan Croaker looked behind her and saw the other world on the other side. "Sorry, Allan" Dorea told him. "You can not cross over because you need to have the Magic and the Blood to get in there. I have it just like Lilly had it. She did not make it but Harry will. I'm here with Morgana to tell him what he has to do".
Allan just pointed up at where he would be. The look from Dorea darkened and she made her way to the one place she hoped she would not find him.
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"I'm not sure what you wanted to do, but throw one spell at Lady Bones and you will die where you stand. I'm innocent but looking at you, you are guilty".
Tonks was slowly pulling him back while she smiled at the way Fudge was hanging back in fear. He might not have been afraid of Harry being the boy who lived. But he was definitely afraid of the power he felt from him.
Amelia had been standing back and felt the wall of magic go up. It was the first time she felt it and she had to say she was impressed. It was at that point she remembered Susan telling her she had also felt it at Hogwarts. She did wonder why the girls hadn't jumped him while he was there. So she shook her head and turned from Fudge back to Harry. "So you produced a Patronus, what form does it have".
Harry looked at her and wondered why she asked it. He didn't understand it because he was sure Susan had already told her. So he asked the only thing he could, "What".
"The form Mr. Potter, What shape does it have".
"A stag, it is always a stag," Harry told her getting even more confused by her asking it.
"You have done it before?"
Harry started to get even more confused as Amelia went on. "I can do it from my third year. I needed it because of the Dementors that were floating around the school". It was at that moment that the eyes of Harry became very big. He understood that they had been stuck and it was a way out or to go on.
"Well, I know that the ministry had arranged for dementors to circle Hogwarts as long as Sirius black was not captured. So I do not know why you should have learned it. I'm still not happy that the minister decided that without asking me". Amelia gave a deep sigh to collect herself before she got mad all over again at the thought of the minister speaking for her without talking to her first like he did that day.
Harry smirked at Amelia and looked up at the balcony. He already realized that if he spoke up the minister would object. If his friends did it he could not. So he looked up at Susan and said. "We first saw them".
"ON THE TRAIN" about fifty of his friends screamed back.
"The second was time".
"WHEN THEY CAME ON THE HOGWARTS GROUNDS DURING OUR QUDITCHMATCH".
"That was when I learned the spell. The third time".
"WHEN DRACO DRESSED UP AND TRIED TO ATTACK YOU" Luna screamed while the others had a clear look of Yes, we forgot that one.
"The last one".
"WAS WHEN YOU HAD TO SAVE SIRIUS BLACK FROM THE MINISTRY".
The moment they all said the last thing Fudge started to bang his hammer again. "That has nothing to do with this. He did that spell in a muggle town and that is forbidden".
"Wrong again," Andromeda said. "Every magical town might have wards to keep the muggles from seeing it, but it is still in a muggle area. Take this building for instance. It is in the middle of London and it uses a Muggle telephone booth to get from the Muggle world to our world. That alone is a violation of the use of Muggle artifacts. So that is saying the pot is blaming the kettle. We are also all using magic in a muggle area".
"YEAHHH" Susan and Neville screamed.
Andromeda just looked at Fudge, while he was looking down. He had to think twice and he also had to look at Lucius and at Umbridge. Both of them nodded but didn't have a word to say.
"ALBUS DUMBLEDORE COUNSEL FOR THE DEFENSE".
This is it again for this time see you all in two weeks.
Gr Winmau