Harry looked back and forth between the older members of the council and Delacour. "If I must step aside, then how will we have enough to make the required number for the Council to sit in judgement? Or is it possible for me to choose not to be a witness and remain on the Council?"
"It is possible for you to decline, since you are also a member of the Council," Delacour responded after looking over a section of the procedures that governed these types of hearings that had been handed to him by his assistant, "but the case against Cornelius Fudge would be stronger if there were two main witnesses… you… and Albus Dumbledore."
The older members of the Council conferred for a few moments before Perrivor told him, "While it hasn't been done in some time, even on the Wizengamot, you can choose to appoint a proxy to cast the three votes you hold. As for who would be your Proxy, you simply choose one of the other members of the Council and they will cast your votes for this issue only."
Harry sat there in thoughtful silence for several minutes then said, "Very well, given I do not wish Fudge to be able to wriggle out of this, I yield my votes to Lord Weyland."
As soon as Harry said those words his robes returned to the state they had been in when he entered the room.
Getting up from the curved table, he took one of the chairs in the first row behind the Protector's table.
As soon as he was seated the door opened again and this time two people came in. Harry recognized them as Madame Bones and Fudge. He couldn't believe that Fudge had chosen to wear that horrid lime green robe. The man clearly had no sense of taste. As Fudge passed by him, Harry couldn't resist humming a funeral dirge out loud.
Fudge stopped intending to berate the person who would dare treat him like the condemned, but the words never left his mouth as he realised it was Harry Potter. Potter just smiled at him, but it wasn't a friendly smile, In fact Fudge felt like he'd just been put on someone's dinner menu. Fudge felt relieved when the boy's attention turned to Madame Bones.
"Nice to see you, Madame Bones." Harry greeted her pleasantly. "Were you assigned prisoner escort detail? If so I must say you seem to have come down in the world from the Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement since last I saw you."
Amelia smiled enjoying the look of discomfort on Fudge's face as Lord Potter called him the prisoner . "No actually, I received notice I was to be his Defender at this hearing."
"Ouch, that's even worse than doing prisoner escort duty. No offence intended Madame Bones, but unless you have a really big surprise waiting to be sprung, then the defendant should get ready to lose everything… especially if I have anything to say about it." Harry told her.
"How could you possibly have anything to do with it?" Fudge bristled, annoyed that the brat wasn't showing him the proper respect he was due. He was still Minister by Merlin and deserved to be treated with respect.
Harry's smile became even more menacing as he told the petty bureaucrat, "I'm one of the chief witnesses against you . And if you weren't told before the charge is High Treason against the magical world." Harry just loved the horrified expression on Fudge's face at that bombshell.
Harry glanced at Madame Bones and saw the smirk on her face. "I take it he didn't know the real charges?"
"I didn't want him trying to make a break for it." Amelia told him. "I told him the hearing was about his being removed as Minister, which was true, I just didn't mention the rest of the charges. If he'd known he was to be charged with High Treason, he would've disapparated so fast his clothes would've been left behind."
Fudge seemed to be hyperventilating and then there was a sudden pop and he was no longer beside Madame Bones. There was a second popping sound at the far end of the room near the door. Fudge tried pulling the door open, but it wouldn't budge. He vanished with a pop but reappeared a moment later in a different corner of the room. A third popping sound was heard and he appeared back in the original corner.
Grinning. Harry pointed his staff at Fudge and a bolt of blue light shot from the stone at the tip, hitting Fudge as he disappeared again. When he reappeared, he had a tail, furry ears that would've looked at home on a mouse or rat, a long twitchy nose, and a pair of huge buckteeth protruding from his mouth.
"It's like watching a mouse try and get away from a cat isn't it?" Harry commented to Amelia as she watched Fudge pop from one corner to another, unaware of how ridiculous he looked.
"Fudge!" Dantes finally shouted, after Fudge's tenth attempt to leave the room. "Stop right where you are! You can't get out of this room. It is useless to continue trying. You will face long overdo justice for your actions if you are found guilty. Now act like a man instead of a mouse."
Fudge reluctantly took the seat at the other table. Madame Bones joined him a few moments later.
"Lord Potter, would you please undo the spell you placed on Mr. Fudge?" Dantes requested.
"Do I have to?" Harry whined like a little boy. "He makes such a cute mouseman."
"Yes." Dantes was firm, though there was grin on his face.
Looking disappointed, Harry pointed his staff at Fudge's back and another bolt of light shot from it. This time it was yellow and once it hit the Minister the mouse features returned to normal human ones.
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