"Order! Order in the court!" The judge banged his hammer down, the court room slowly began descending into silence. While Andromeda Tonks wasn't Harry's lawyer, she did make sure that the odds weren't against Harry. She spent a lot of hard work in making sure that the jury would all be non-death eaters and checked for their mark, she also made sure that nobody who was a member of Fudge's party would be there as they would be biased on behalf of Fudge.
Speaking of Fudge, he had tried to make himself judge for the trial, but that was quickly shot down by multiple people. It was clear that he was obviously biased against Harry and there was no way that he would be allowed to act as Judge. Dumbledore also tried the same but he was also denied as he could act either in favour of Harry or against him. If he did act in favour then Harry would likely kill himself before admitting that he owed Dumbledore anything.
"Bring in the defendant" The judge ordered. The doors opened and Harry Potter came in, followed by two aurors. Harry had his hands handcuffed behind his back while his head was moving from side to side as he was quietly singing to himself.
"I am a nightmare walking" Harry had his eyes clothes as he walked in "Psychopath talking. King of my jungle. Just a gangster stalking..."
"Mr Potter" The Judge spoke and Harry opened his eyes "what are you doing?"
"Oh, sorry" Harry smiled sheepishly "I was bored and that song was in my head and I wasn't paying attention"
"Where are the dementor?!" Fudge demanded "The boy was supposed to be escorted by dementors" Dolores Umbridge was nodding furiously next to him, approving of anything that meant punishing Harry
"W...well sir" One of the aurors said nervously "they um...appeared to stop working"
"What is that supposed to mean?!"
"Well..." The other auror spoke "they didn't seem to affect Mr Potter at all, so we figured it was better to keep them outside because if they don't affect him then there was no point in the rest of us feeling bad"
"What do you mean don't affect him?!"
"Minister!" The judge spoke "Control yourself!" Fudge didn't like it but he sat down and stayed quiet. "Gentlemen" The judge added to the aurors "please place Mr Potter in his seat"
"Yes sir" The aurors nodded before escorting Harry to the chair in front of the chair.
"Remove his handcuffs" The auror on the right said to the auror on the left
"No need" Harry said as he removed his hands from behind his back and showed the handcuffs in his hands instead of on his wrists, he tossed them aside and sat down, ignoring the gaping aurors and crowd. As soon as he sat down, chains wrapped around his arms and legs to keep him in place "you know, if you really want me to stay in one place then you could say please"
"Mr Potter" The judge frowned "please stop acting like this whole things is a massive joke"
"In my defence, nearly everything the minister is part of is a joke" Harry said calmly, not looking at the minister who was turning an impressive shade of red "including but not limited tto he election where he bribed and tricked people into thinking he'd be a good minister, his marriage with his wife who probably only married him for the money, his affair with Dolores Umbridge which is frankly just disgusting and his birth, also known as the day 'two idiots experimented with the theory "two wrongs make a right" and failed miserably'"
"How dare you?!" Fudge jumped to his feet, turning an even more impressive purple "I am the..."
"Minister of magic" Harry finished for him "yes, I know, it's not like anyone can forget with the amount of times you mention it. Honestly, it's like you think I've forgotten, because if you do then I haven't, I just don't care"
"Enough" The judge slammed his hammer down "let's get on with this shall we?"
"We shall" Harry nodded, the judge glared at him "sorry" He apologised
"Now Mr Potter, you are charged with kidnapping Bellatrix Lestrange, stealing, vandalism, assaulting and killing large amounts of people including some of our very own aurors, resisting arrest, and escaping from ministry custody. How do you plead?"
"Not guilty" Harry replied
"Are you sure?"
"Well...I actually just want to drag this thing out so yeah, I'm going with that" Harry nodded
"Mr Potter, be serious" The judge said
"I cannot" Harry shook his head sadly
"Why not?"
"He's over there" Harry gestured with his head to where Sirius was sitting with Remus and his parents "hi Sirius"
"Hi Harry" Sirius waved before Lily slapped him in the arm
"Uh...right" The judge said "bring on the first witness"
The first witness came in the form of Lisa Matthews, the second and third were her parents, who had told the court preciously what Lisa had told everyone on the radio, except in more detail. Dumbledore, who was also sitting in the crowd along with Snape and McGonagall, was listening carefully. While it pleased him to hear Harry had chosen to rescue those people, it saddened him to hear of his extreme methods. Dumbledore knew the boy was more than capable of taking his victims in alive yet he chose not to. Dumbledore, as stubborn as he was, was beginning to lose hope in Harry Potter. This trial may be his last chance to get Harry on his side.
"Thank you Mr Matthews" The judge said after he was done "Mr Potter, do you believe the Matthews claim was true?"
"Might I make one small change?" Harry asked
"You may" The Judge nodded
"Well, when he said I hit the one person with a bone breaking curse, it was actually a bone shattering curse. Slight difference"
"Excuse me" The prosecutor stood up and addressed the judge "your honour, I'm sure that I'm not the only one who is curious as to how Mr Potter is able to find death eaters so easily?"
"It's rather simple" Harry shrugged "I had Narcissa Malfoy spy for me, along with several other spies, they informed me of times when death eaters would meet or locations of death eaters. I know for a fact that Voldemort has killed at least five of his men trying to find my spies"
"Who are your spies?" The prosecutor asked
"Now, I'm no expert but I think revealing the names of my spies rather compromises their positions as spies. If I tell you about them, they could die or no longer be able to spy for me once I'm out of here"
"Out of here?" The prosecutor blinked "You believe you won't go to prison"
"I believe anything is possible" Harry smirked
"Fine, how long has Miss Malfoy been spying for you?"
"Officially she only started a month or so after Voldemort's return, before that she wouldn't risk contacting me"
"How did you convince her to spy for you?"
"Life debts are a brilliant thing" Harry replied "of course, I didn't need to invoke my debt to get her to do it, but I'm sure you can fit the pieces together"
"How does she owe you a life debt?"
"Objection" Harry said to the judge "irrelevant to the case".
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