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Chapter Six: The Year Before Hogwarts Part Two

On February 1st, 1991, Harry started to be drilled in the laws, how court proceedings happened, the level of control Albus Dumbledore, as the Chief Warlock, has on Wizengamot proceedings (as he had the power to take away and give the floor to the people he wanted the court to hear).

He even went through hundreds of different staged court proceedings that will be similar to the one that Sirius Black would be in, with the goblin Axeblood, the Account Manager for Ravenclaw, taking the undesired role as Albus Dumbledore (Harry at first had difficult time facing the goblin who was actually laid-back and humorous, for a goblin that is).

Several scenarios played out. One was where Axeblood pretended to never see Harry and Harry had to claim his right on the middle of the court (which meant he had to climb his desk, in front of which Axeblood was sitting on his exact replica that Dumbledore uses in Hogwarts as his "Headmaster's Throne"). Another even had Axeblood trying to place him inside of a legal corner using several different interpretations of several key Wizengamot laws that were suppose to protect the court's power from the outside and inside.

Harry had, with intelligent and quick-witted ancestors and parents, was able to find ways to come out of these situations. He wasn't allowed to sleep until he could do one type of situation (be it with Dumbledore against him, sugaring him up, trapping him with questions, etc.) without any guidance or until he passed out. But he was not complaining, if anything the more he failed the more he wanted to succeed and stay awake.

Finally, two weeks passed until the portraits and goblins declared his skill "good enough" for the task at hand. The following two days, he had a couple of hours of practice and the regular lessons in magic that was delayed for two weeks. He know that his ancestors considered "cramming" for a court case will be chaotic, so he had, with them, avoided the it so that he would not be crushed by that fact that if he was to fail, Sirius Black will never get out of Azkaban without escaping as a fugitive, which was something that the portraits, goblins, and Harry wanted to avoid.

Harry had (as Stanford Clay), during this time had went to Hogwarts and had called the Governors and dismissed them, only keeping three as advisors-Augusta Longbottom, Amelia Bones, and Richard Abbott (the father of Hannah Abbott). This was because he found out that as the Heir Apparent and Lord of the Hogwarts and the Hogwart's Four's family Houses (as opposed to the school houses) he had the ability of passing amendments to the charter. He had then changed the clause about who he can select as his proxies and had appointed Richard Abbott (after seeing that he was a true Hufflepuff and a very formidable wizard) as his proxy to all four of the Hogwarts votes on the Wizengamot.

He had also contacted Andromeda Tonks to become his proxy for the Black family after publicly admitting Andromeda back into the family and acknowledging her marriage to Ted Tonks and their issue, Nymphadora Tonks (as Lord Black, of course).

On the same day that he had done these changes and appointments, he had also been invited to visit Lady Longbottom at her manor in Aberdeen, Scotland. Harry had convinced Madam Longbottom to also invite Madam Bones, Andromeda, and Richard Abbott (or, as he preferred to be called in private, Richie)

The manor itself was lavish enough to hint the Longbottom's wealth and their prestige, but not enough to make it blatantly obvious. The hallways in the manor was lined with several portraits, including some from his own family; however, Harry knew that they will not recognize them (as his parents, after gaining the possession of the trunk from Harry's grandfather who had removed the portraits in the trunk and placed them in the Potter Castle, had to make the fifty portraits from their own memories, meaning that they were not the authentic portraits that are usually commissioned right after a wizard's death).

When Madam Longbottom greeted him, Harry was struck by an image of Professor McGonagall from one of his brief encounter and small conversation with her at Hogwarts as Lord Hogwarts.

"Hello, Harry." Madam Longbottom ran her eyes up and down his attire, which was a semi-formal robe. "Tut, tut. You should have worn more formal clothes that befits your station."

Harry looked down feeling slightly underdressed compared to her hilarious vulture hat and her overly formal dress robes that she was wearing with such grace and dignity that reminded him of a royal princess or even a queen.

"I normally would agree; however, I was in a meeting that I soon will explain once the others shows up." He triple checked his Occlumency shields. It would not do to make alienate her by acting like a child or being to childish.

"Ah, I see." The wrinkled around her eyes became more prominent. "Unfortunately, Heir Longbottom,"-Neville, Harry thought automatically-"is visiting his great-Uncle Algie."

"Oh, I did not realize that he might be in another place." Harry hesitated. "I wanted to offer my very belated condolences for the horrid condition his parents are in. He has it worse then me." Even with his shields up, the last sentence had came out softly and Harry for a second felt vulnerable.

But Madam Longbottom's expression had softened considerably and she to looked vulnerable. "At least he gets love from his parents every now and then. You, however, will never meet your parents. Much less receive their love. Now enough of this formal business. Since my daughter-in-law is your godmother, I insist that you call me Gran or Grandmother unless if we are in formal situations. Am I understood." Though she was stern, she had the workings of a smile in her eyes.

Harry nodded slowly, "Yes… Gran." The last word came out slightly difficulty. Sure he called Euphemia Potter "Gran" but she was a painting. Here was a real life person that he was calling "Gran", even if she was intimidating.

The made some small talk over dinner, and Harry was very relieved that his mother was right, 'Gran' only followed Dumbledore because he was the only leader of the light. If he managed to give her enough incentives and reasons to create her own faction of light, then Gran will stay away from Dumbledore and will only trust him the distance she could "throw her own manor" (his grandfather's words, not his). The same advice came for Andromeda and Amelia Bones (who, Harry realized, was a watered down, younger version of Professor McGonagall and Gran). There was slight hesitation with Richard Abbott, so Harry did some of his gentle telepathic probing and found the man weary of the old coot.

The rest of the meeting included him himself to Richard Abbott and Andromeda Tonks, and they only saw him as Lord Hogwarts and Lord Black, respectfully. Then, he shocked everyone by telling them that he was a metamorphmagi, and transformed to Lord Hogwarts and Black while changing his rings to match the station of his persona.

There were even more startled when Harry revealed some of the more finer details of his powers, past, his "relationship" with Dumbledore and what he had done to Harry, along with how he had found out that he was a Sorcerer and was able to do some awesome feats of magic. He had even told them that Sirius Black was innocent and that one February 16th, Harry was going to try to get Sirius Black his freedom back. He also had told them that tomorrow (the fourteenth) the Daily Prophet was going to issue a "staged" interview in which Harry will reveal to the public of how his godfather was captured without a trial and that Peter Pettigrew could be the Secret Keeper if his father's portrait could be trusted and if his father's journal was telling the truth.

Harry will also be putting the act of being a child and wanting revenge by declaring that, "I want to avenge my parents by calling this up in the next meeting. Think of the irony, he betrayed my parents and now I get to put him into Azkaban with a trial; thus, getting my legal revenge against He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named."

Harry had left the manor with four new allies that were sworn to secrecy about his secrets and swore to help him in his endeavour.

Then, the night of February 15th had came upon the manor-inside-of-the-trunk, and one could feel the tension. Tomorrow was an important day. Harry had, during these two weeks, continued to build his influence as much as possible even going as far as to donate a hundred galleons in front of a crowd and the press to St. Mungo's' Hospital in London. The reason was simple: so he can have as much weight as he could in the court.

The next day, Harry had sat up in his bed and stared at the opposite wall with the sky seemingly on his shoulders. He slowly got up and methodically did his morning ritual and eat a rather subdued breakfast that one of his elves had prepared [AN: Please see the AN at the end of chapter five for more info, I had forgotten to include this detail into some of my stories.]. Once finished, he went over to the already gathered goblins and portraits and went over some of the points in their plan.

The plan was simple and seemed easy. First, Harry had to successfully get his motions of sponsorships for his two proxies acknowledged (Harry will introduce Gran as his proxy in the next meeting). Second, Harry or one of his five allies (Gran, Andy, Aunt Amelia, Richie, or Fudge) had to get the floor. Then they had to make a motion for the court to hear a court case (which the Wizengamot cannot ignore if three people acknowledge it, which was step two-point-five: get the motion passed). Step three was setting the mood of the case by describing how it came to their attention, etc. During this time until the end of the case, the person who passed the motion held the floor indefinitely. During this time, Harry was vulnerable. If, however, someone else picked up this case, like Gran, then Harry would be more worried than being on unstable ground. But it was more of a race to get the motion passed.

The fourth step was to preside over the case with the Chief Warlock contesting for your presiding status. The rest was pretty much directing the case so that the evidence could be pulled out and could be used to prove Sirius's innocence.

The first and the last few were the most difficult to do. The first was difficult was he had to be three different people simultaneously. Luckily, Harry had told the person that arranged the seats in the Wizengamot the move Gran's, Richie's, Lord Potter-Peverell's, Lord Hogwart's, and Lord Black's seats into the same bannister, so that he may just walk until he disappeared and then reappear as the appropriate Lord.

The last few was going to be hard because Dumbledore could, if he found enough reason to do so, recall the floor if he had found the presiding person biased toward the case. Thus, Harry and the rest decided that either the Minister or Lord Abbott should be the one to preside this case.

But this plan was taking into account that Sirius has gone insane from his time with the Dementors. If, by god's grace, Sirius was sane and knew enough of wizarding law to permit the court to question him using Veritaserum, then all the defense had to do was present more evidence, and Sirius was off scot-free if the majority of Wizengamot voted to save Sirius. Harry already had ten of the fifty of the Wizengamot votes in hand. All he needed to have is compelling evidence. Which he had. He considered himself being helped by God ever since since finding out that he could access the evidence for the Sirius case, and saw that all of the evidence (including Sirius's wand, his clothings, even his watch) was all there pristine, and neatly folded and organized. Using Prior Incantatem, Harry saw that the wand would support them in the case. As quickly and quietly as he had came, he left.

His formal, Potter head robes were worn with accuracy that only came with practice. He then teleported to the down to his own Floo and used it, using the "Ministry of Magic, Wizengamot Chambers" address. Once he felt a tingle going through his body, he said the password, "ut serve iustum est et aequum," which was latin for "To serve justly and fairly."

He stepped out of the fireplace, regally. He had a small smile on his face, a tall and strong stance, and a powerful stride that he used to make him look as much as a Lord as he could. Instead of going up to the bannister where his seat was, he started to socialize with the other Lords and Ladies in the chamber, making sure to avoid some of the pureblood bigots and the the five strong Dumbledore supporters. He especially made sure the talk with the neutral factions, led by the Greengrasses. All of his allies, in order to avoid the appearance of being in a coalition, did not talk, approach, or look at one another. The instead did their best to garner support to Sirius and "sniff the battleground" to see how well they might succeed. Harry realized that if played right, nothing to horrible will happen.

Finally, Dumbledore and the Minister along with his Department Heads came in and called for attention. Harry quickly went to his seat, where he used his magic to switch his seats with the the Lord Hogwarts dummy and make himself into Lord Hogwarts. Once order was restored, and Dumbledore called out for motions, Lord Hogwarts stood and announced that he wanted to appoint one proxy, Richard Abbott.

Dumbledore, hesitating (as he was his boss) nodded his head before summoning the proper committee. The motion was passed quickly. Harry switched to the Black seat and changed himself into Lord Black. The same thing happened to his appointment of Andromeda Tonks as his proxy, though he realized with a smile that many of the "innocent" Death Eaters looked angry.

However, his smile slipped from his face when Richie-er, Lord Abbott-stood up and said the words, "Chief Warlock, I wish to pass a motion for this esteemed body to hear a very important and controversial case."

One Dumbledore accepted, Harry leaped onto his feet and said, "I move to hear this case." Gran also stood up, and then-to the surprise of the chamber-so did Cornelius Fudge.

Dumbledore had no other option. "Very well, Lord Richard Perseus Abbott, you have presiding powers over the next court proceedings as per law." Dumbledore stood up and went over to sit in the Dumbledore seat, while Richard went up to the Chief Warlock, aka the Presider's seat.

Harry saw Richard finger his wand, and he declared to the chamber, in a strong confident voice. "The person to be heard, since you may or may not know, is Sirius Orion Black who, after checking our records, is confirmed to be imprisoned to Azkaban without a trail, a clear violation of the Charter of Rights, sixth section, fourth subsection [I am making things up here]."

There was murmuring. Harry knew that none of them was surprised that this case was going to happen, Dumbledore leaned forward along with Harry, who wanted to keep an eye on the very formidable Professor.

Richard commanded, "Bring in the accused."

There were five aurors leading in a man that looked he needed to shave, take a shower, and a good hair cut. There was also the malnourished look and a very wide eyed look on his face that made Harry feel disappointment. The man had a look of insanity and instability on his face. Harry was hoping to the higher powers that Sirius was not really unstable and insane. That will make it that bit more difficult.

Harry was also hoping that everything will go as planned. Sirius Black's long belated trial is now finally being held. And Harry was a ten year-old in place that could either save him, or give the poor man false hope of escape from Azkaban only to send him back because Harry turned out to be a failure. Even though it had been ages since he had last been called a failure, Harry could still see his relative's sneering faces when his uncle wiped him on the back with his belt screaming "FAILURE! FREAK!"

For the first time in a couple of years, Harry felt doubt in him.

"Sirius Orion Black, you are charged by treason by betraying Lord James Potter and Lady Lily Potter-nee-Evans to Lord Voldemort-thus, ensuing their murders-and charged with murder with the wizard Peter Pettigrew and thirteen muggles. How do you plea?" Richard looked and sounded like he was in his home element.

"Innocent."

"Who shall take up the defense for this young wizard?"

"I shall." Gran's strong voice rang through the chamber.

"Who shall be the prosecutor-" Richard was cut off from the raspy voice from Sirius.

"I plead to be questioned under Veritaserum." Harry felt intense amounts of relief. This type of request cannot be denied by one of the Wizengamot unless if there was reason to believe that Sirius could fool this truth potion. Harry felt a smile coming to his face. His earlier doubt vanishing and his thoughts turning to what it will be like to have a godfather.

Richard turned to look around the chamber. "Does anyone object to this request." There was silence. Inside, Harry was laughing. How can anyone tell the chamber that they think that Sirius will be able to fool the potion after nine year in Azkaban with constant presences from the Dementors and under almost constant supervision from Aurors, etc. Objecting will be a political suicide.

Richard nodded. He turned to the accused and told the nearby Aurors to administer the potion. Once administered, Richard started his interrogation.

"Were you responsible for betraying the Potters to He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named?"

"No, I loved James as if he was my brother and considered Lily my sister-in-law. I will never betray them."

Richard nodded. "Did you kill the muggles in any shape or form?"

"No, that was Peter. He had sent a fire spell at a nearby gas pipe causing it to explode."

"If you did not kill Peter, then did this explosion take him out."

Sirius shook his head. "He cut off his thumb and then transformed into his animagus form, a sewage rat." The murmurings, which Harry now noticed as they were quite loud, quickly amounted to a dull roar until everyone was yelling to be heard. Harry noticed Dumbledore standing up and walking over to where Richard sat. They whispered to each other for a few seconds, before Dumbledore nodded and sat back in his family seat with agitation.

"Order! Order!" Richard had to take take out his wand to silence the chamber. "Please try to keep order in this chambers. Thank you."

Does this chamber wish to hear more evidence or is this enough?"

The chamber quickly agreed for a vote, and Harry raised his hands when Richard called, "Those who sees the accused innocent, raise their hands."

Harry had to reinforce his Occlumency shields when he saw that they had won this case.

Richard, with a large smile looked over to the Minister, leaned in had a small conversation and then nodded.

The Minister of Magic rose to his feet, "The accused is now found innocent of all declared crimes. His records shall no longer contain this message. Also, the Ministry wishes to express its condolences to Sirius Orion Black about his unfair and illegal imprisonment by giving the him fifty thousand Galleons [248999] and the Order of Merlin, Third Class. We also, in the face of evidence of Peter Pettigrew's guiltiness revoke his Order of Merlin, Third Class. Also, we declare three other Orders of Merlin, First Class, to be given to James Fleamont Potter and Lily Potter-nee-Evans, posthumorously, and to their son, the Boy-Who-Lived, Harry James Potter.

There was a large round of applause as everyone turned to look at him. Harry's eyes went wide. This was surprising. He felt and elbow nudge him in the ribs, taking the cue, he stood up and smiled at the audience. Once the applause died out, he sat back down and the Minister continued on with his speech. Once done, Richard redeclared all of the Minister's points to make them official court orders.

The rest of the meeting continued with small proposals of laws, before Harry leaned over to Gran, "Might was well get you onto the Potter-Peverell seat, I am too young for this."

Gran's lips twitched. "I am getting too old for this."

Harry rolled his eyes before standing up and declared that he wanted to pass a motion of Madam Longbottom becoming his proxy. It was quickly accepted, and the session came to a close.

With some nervousness, Harry approached Sirius from the behind (he was talking to a well-wisher).

"Hiyah Padfoot," he said, biting down the urge to laugh when Sirius jumped startled. "How was Azkaban doing for you?"

Sirius smiled, "Did you arrange this?"

Harry winked as he denied Sirius's accusation, using the excuse of him being too young and inexperienced to do anything on this magnitude. Sirius looked at him unbelievingly, forcing Harry to sigh. Didn't Sirius have any backbone for subtlety and cunningness. Sure, if he hated his family because of their pure blooded ways with these skills, that didn't mean that he shouldn't use it, especially in a chamber with politicians that were masters of subtlety.

Harry grabbed Sirius's arm and said, "Let us go home, Sirius. You need a bath, then shave, get a haircut, and eat as much as you could and then some more.

Sirius let out a happy laugh that made Harry's heart jump. "You sound like your mother, Harry!"

They left the chambers leaving their laughter and happiness for the press and the court to witness. Nobody realized that Dumbledore is starting to fall from his almost absolute power.

The rest of Harry's year before Hogwarts was exciting for him. Sirius made him feel right at home, and had revealed some parts of his parents plans for him.

Apparently they had a five-part plan with Sirius (this plan was made some weeks before they went into hiding, but a month or so after they had heard the prophecy). The first part was for him included him to be in a safe place. His mom probably thought that they, as his parents and as the Chosen One, were going to be targeted (which she was right about) and that Harry had a high chance of survive because of the prophecy hinted at a final encounter, with its Neither may survive while the other lives nonsense.

The second part included in him getting as much political influence and political training so that he, along with his allies like Sirius and Andromeda, can start getting the magical world more prepared that it already was (this part Sirius changed slightly as the original part assumed that the First Wizarding War still continued on).

The third part included him getting magical training until he gave Dumbledore a run for his money. Harry realized that though he could do some wandless magic and sorcery, he was far behind Dumbledore, as the Professor had probably forgotten more magic than he had learned so far. The portraits were apart of this plan. About a month before his parents heard the prophecy, his grandparents had died and James was so distress about his parents death (whom he loved to the ends of the world, just as they loved him). This forced his parents to relocate, as James and Lily could not bear to live in the same house as they had lived, with it's still-fresh memories. This meant that the original portraits of his parents (that they had completed before they had moved to the Cottage) and his ancestors were still in the Potter Castle (which was and still is under full lockdown, until the end of May), as his grandfather liked to live in the Castle more than living in the manor that was inside of the trunk.

So they had recreated as much as they could of the portraits from their own memories and used some of the enchantments that they knew of. As a consequence, these portraits will not last so long, and they did not have the full range of emotions or sentience needed to fully emulate the real life person. Not only that, the portraits were rather one sided and the personalities were quite simple because the only memories of them were from James and Lily. This meant that almost all of the Ladies were almost clones of Lily, and the Lords were almost clones of James (besides his grandparents, as James understood them almost perfectly, they were after all, James's parents).

The fourth and fifth parts of this plan were rather plain. The fourth plan had Harry staring incredulously: Defeat Voldemort. The fifth depended on defeating Dumbledore and then living a happy life with his wife and children.

Of course, Sirius withheld much information from him saying that they needed to be finalized, and that if Sirius was to tell Harry, then he would be working towards something unnecessary or will be wasting time and energy on something that had no importance or will not help him at all. Harry had relented. After all, he was a ten-year-old Sorcerer/wizard that was trying to carry the burden of the sky. Wasn't he allowed to share the burden with those that wants to.

For his birthday present, Sirius promised to start introducing his properties and lands to him, which was something that Harry could not wait to do. Especially the Potter Castle, as it had the full paintings of his family members.