49). The Wizengamot
Harry POV
As the five of us walked into the lobby of the Ministry of Magic, I couldn't help but marvel at the size of it. We literally just came in through a telephone booth. As we walked around, a white-haired man approached Mr. Weasley.
"Ah, Perkins," Mr. Weasley greeted him kindly. "Good morn-"
"Arthur, they changed the time of their hearing," Perkins said. "Addison's hearing has just finished. Free of all charges"
"Blast! Dumbledore thought they might try that. But good on Addison"
"It started at eight!"
"Good lord!" Mr. Weasley said as he looked at his watch. "That was five minutes ago! Come on, you lot!"
He guided us through the Ministry as Lana, Hermione, Y/N and I followed after him. Hermione and Y/N walked together hand-in-hand while Snuffles was sitting in a pocket in Hermione's bag. He looked comfortable there.
"Department of Mysteries," The voice from before said.
"Department of Mysteries?" I asked.
"Yep, I've got no idea what they get up to in there," Mr. Weasley said. "It's top secret."
"Is everything in this place top secret?" Y/N asked.
After a while, Mr. Weasley and the four of us arrived near the chamber. "There we are." He said to us. "Hermione, you're mostly likely going to have to stay in the lobby here. Only Harry, Y/N and Lana can go in."
"Oh, okay," Hermione said with a sad look on her face. As Y/N looked at her, he wrapped his hands and hugged her from behind, making her yelp a little. As she turned around to see Y/N, he kissed her softly and pressed his forehead on hers, making her smile a little.
"We'll be fine, 'Mione," he said. "You said it, they'll let us off."
She smiled back at him. "If you say so," She said. "I'll be waiting for you, Love." She kissed him again as she waved goodbye to us.
"You really do love her, don't you?" I asked him as Lana smiled and he did too.
"Of course I love her, Harry," He said. "She's the love of my life."
We entered the chamber to find many wizards around in it along with Fudge sitting in the front. The room was very dark with just a light above us and three wooden chairs with chains were facing Fudge.
"This looks nothing like Law and Order," Lana said. "This looks worse."
"You've seen Muggle TV?" I asked.
"Harry, we were staying at Hermione's all summer," Y/N said. "Of course we've seen Muggle TV."
"You're late," Fudge growled at us.
"Er... Sorry," I said as Y/N muttered, "Dickhead." under his breath.
"No matter," Fudge said. "The accused will take their seats." As we took our seats, a voice came through the halls as one we recognized wholeheartedly.
"Witness for the Defense, Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore." Dumbledore said to the Wizengamot.
"Ah... you... er... got our message that the time had changed, did you?" Fudge said.
"Must have missed it," Dumbledore said with a smile. "However, due to a fortunate mistake, I arrived at the Ministry three hours early."
Dumbledore conjured a chair next to us as he took a seat, staring Fudge in the face with interest.
"Well. The... ah... Charges!" Fudge said as a woman, who introduced herself as Susan Bones, looked through her notes.
"The charges against the first accused shall now be read into the record:" Bones began. "That the first accused did with deliberation and fore-knowledge of the illegality of his actions, produce a patronus charm in full sight of a Muggle." She looked at me in my chair. "You are Harry James Potter?"
"Yes," I answered.
"And you conjured a patronus on the night of the eleventh of August?"
"Yes, but-"
"Within full sight of a Muggle?"
"Yes, but-"
"You produced a Patronus? A fully-formed Patronus, with a clear defined shape?"
"Yes."
"That is most impressive, Mr. Potter," Bones said as she looked at her notes again and said, "The charges against the second and third accused shall be read into the record: threatening a Ministry official, moving said Ministry official's son's mouth, threatening students of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and use of a spell known as Protego Diabolica."
She turned to Y/N and Lana in their seats. "You are Y/N Ronan Lovegood and Lana Skylar Lovegood?"
(A/N: Yes, kinda basic middle names.)
Y/N POV
"Yes," Lana and I said.
"According to Lucius Malfoy," Mrs. Bones said. "Y/N Lovegood had threatened him with quote-on-quote, 'something worse than Azkaban and the dementors.' Why was that?"
"Lucius Malfoy was working under the influence of Tom Marvalo Riddle," Lana said. "Otherwise known as Lord Voldemort."
"Nonsense!" Fudge said as the court muttered amongst themselves.
"Minister Fudge, I am the one speaking, so do not speak out of turn," Mrs. Bones said to him.
"Lucius Malfoy, as a supposed Ex-Death Eater," I said. "knew of our heritage and threatened to tell the Minister of our lineage if we were to tell anyone what he did that year."
"And what did Mr. Malfoy do?"
"He slipped a diary with the memories of Lord Voldemort who controlled Ginny Weasley to open the Chamber of Secrets and release a Basilisk on the students." I said calmly.
"And may I add," Dumbledore said as he rose. "That Y/N killed that very same Basilisk with the Sword of Godric Gryffindor?"
Murmurs spread throughout the Wizengamot as Fudge looked at us. "I removed Draco Malfoy's mouth because he was glad my now-girlfriend was petrified by said Basilisk." I said again.
"As for Protego Diabolica," Lana said. "Harry, my brother and I were attacked by Death Eaters, including Malfoy, during the third task and we needed a way to defend ourselves from Voldemort."
"An interesting story," Mrs. Bones said. "We will take your description into fact."
"But they're lying!" Fudge said. "It doesn't matter how impressive the Patronus was or the fact they pulled off a powerful spell!"
"But I did it because of the Dementors!" Harry exclaimed.
"What do you mean?" Mrs. Bones said.
"My cousin and I were attacked by Dementors," Harry said. "That's why I had to use the Patronus, to drive them away!"
"Ah yes, yes, another cock-and-bull story," Fudge said. "And why should I believe the word of the grandchildren of Grindelwald? Lucius Malfoy has helped the Ministry many times."
My eye glowed with rage as I glared at Fudge was a look of death. Lana was doing the same and scowled as she did. Dumbledore had brought Mrs. Figg as a witness to the Dementors, which Fudge still didn't believe.
"Excuse me, Dumbledore," A sweet but sickly voice said. I hated to hear it already. "But did you just accuse the Ministry of Magic of ordering an attack on this boy? Could it even be the twins? They have shown great magic, they could have sent them."
I stood up from my seat and looked at the woman in the pink. "Why the hell would we do that? Harry has been my best friend for years, why on Earth would we do it-"
"Miss Dolores Umbridge."
(A/N: Yay, Um-BITCH. Hate this bitch so much, I want to rip out her throat and throw it to the Dementors.)
"I didn't ask your damn name," I said coldly.
"But why? Please explain, and if any of you have read Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander, our mentor," Lana said to the Wizengamot. "any of you, including this toad, would know younger people can't control Dementors."
Umbridge looked astounded as she looked at us.
"Y/N and Lana are quite correct," Dumbledore said. "If the Dementors are taking their orders from the Ministry exclusively, then it must certainly follow logically that someone in the Ministry ordered the attack."
"And Harry was acting in self-defense," I mentioned. "And it is allowed in Clause Seven of the Decree of Reasonable Restriction of Underaged Wizardry."
"But-but-but..." Fudge said.
"Butts are for sitting," Lana said.
"Very well," Fudge said in defeat. "All for clearing the accused of all charges?" Many hands were raised as Fudge looked around. "All opposed?"
Only a few, including Umbridge, went up. Clearly, they weren't winning.
"Fine!" Fudge said angrily as he glared at the three of us. "Cleared of all charges!"
"Excellent," Dumbledore said as he was glad he pissed off Fudge.
Harry, Lana and I got up from our seats as the court cleared themselves out of the chamber. We exited the courtroom to find Mr. Weasley and Hermione standing outside, smiling at us. Hermione ran to me and hugged me tight in her arms.
"You all got off?" She asked.
"We got off," I said with a smile. She smiled wickedly and hugged Lana and Harry as well before taking my arm with hers and kissing me.
The whole of the Wizengamot exited the chamber after us. "You three were tired by the full court?" Mr. Weasley asked.
"I think so, yeah," Harry said.
"No matter," He said to us as Mum came and congratulated us. "Let's go home."
"You've been cleared of all charges?" Mum asked me and Lana. "That's incredible! The same went for me!"
"Yeah, there was this one bitch in there," Lana said. "She thought we sent the Dementors."
"Language!" Mum scolded. "Wait, was it Dolores? Dolores Umbridge?"
"Yeah, that's her," I said. "Super obsessed with pink."
"Nevermind, you can call her that," Mum said. "She is a massive bitch."
Percy had just walked by behind us and I couldn't help but flip him the grandest of birds behind my back. He was always my least favorite Weasley, so uptight and ambitious and high on the Ministry of Magic Kool-Aid. Along with Percy, he had walked over to Fudge and guess who -- Lucius f***ing Malfoy.
Malfoy had seen us and walked towards us. "Well, well, if it isn't Patronus Potter and the Lovegood twins. The Minister here was just telling me how very lucky an escape you just had. Quite astonishing... snakelike, in fact."
"Bitch please," I said. "You're Snakeface's bitch."
"What are you doing here?" Harry hissed at him.
"Come now, Potter," Lucius said. "I really don't think private matters between the Minister and myself are any concern of yours."
"They are," Lana said. "If they are related to Voldemort."
"Where's my brother, Lucius?" Mum hissed angrily as I saw her eye glow. Lucius's prideful expression diminished and it was replaced with a look of fear.
"I-I-I don't know where Nathan is. He disappeared after your son cut off his arm. I swear..."
"Good," She hissed again. "Cause if he tries to hurt my son, my daughter, my future daughter-in-law or any of their friends, I will kill him myself."
Lucius looked back at Fudge and told him a few words before they walked off together.
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"I knew it!" Ron shouted as we entered Grimmauld Place later that day. He was standing in the entrance with Luna, Ginny, Fred, George, Sirius, Lupin, Mrs. Weasley and Tonks as the other Weasley children were doing a weird, strange jig.
"They got off, They got off, They got off!" They chanted as Luna hugged me and Lana in a sisterly way.
"Good to see you again, Lu," Lana said as she hugged her back. I had also hugged her too and pecked her on the head.
(A/N: This is what I envisioned for Y/N and Lana's relationship with Luna. It's so adorable...)
"Settle down, all of you!" Mr. Weasley said as he turned to Sirius. "Sirius, we saw Fudge with Lucius Malfoy on Level Nine again. Tell Dumbledore, next time he comes in, would you?"
"Yeah, of course," Uncle Sirius said.
"Well, I'd better be off," He said. "I've got a bewitched vomiting toilet to deal with."
Fred and George looked at each other. "George, remember that concept," Fred said. "Vomiting toilet."
"Right you are, Fred," George concluded.
"Also, I'm covering for Tonks on guard duty later tonight, so I won't be back until late." Suddenly, Harry dropped to the ground, and clutched his forehead, where his scar laid on his forehead.
"Harry!" Sirius said as he went down to Harry's level.
"Are you okay, Harry?" I asked as well.
"Yeah... just... my scar..." He said. "The pain is getting stronger." Sirius looked at Lupin as he helped Harry to our room. Mum walked over to me and Lana, "Hey, can I talk to you two?" She asked kindly.
"Sure, Mum," I said to her before turning to Hermione. "I'll join you soon, okay?"
"Sure, I'll wait for you," She said as she kissed me quickly. "I love you."
"I love you too," I said to her and kissed her again before following Mum. As the three of us were all alone, Mum pulled out two things from her pocket, one was a letter and the other was an enchanted picture. She pushed the picture to us and pointed out to the members.
"This was the original Order of the Phoenix," She said. "I found it in some of my old belongings."
We looked at everyone. They were all younger and smiling, as if nothing happened to them.
"That's Mad-Eye and Dumbledore," Mum pointed to the older gentlemen. Dumbledore was looking at a younger Peter Pettigrew who looked in every direction. "Right next to Dedalus Diggle; Marlene McKinnon, she was killed two weeks after this was taken."
"I'm guessing these two here are Neville's parents?" I asked. "Frank and Alice Longbottom?"
"You're absolutely correct," Mum said. "They were tortured into insanity by Death Eaters, Barty Crouch Jr. being one of them."
"There's Remus!" Lana said. "He had some real long hair back then."
"Yep," Mum said with a smile. "Edgar Bones right there, they only found bits of him; Caradoc Dearborn; vanished six months later; Hagrid; of course; Gideon and Fabian Prewett, it took five Death Eaters to finish those off. Sirius, my dear cousin is right there, next to me... and there they are!"
Her finger traced down to a pair of familiar faces. Ones that we saw last year. Lily and James Potter. Harry's parents.
"I bet Harry misses them," Mum said with a tear in her eye. "I do, too. Lily always wanted to call me her sister; I was happy to be called that. It's not fair to Harry that I spent more time with his parents than he did. We all joined after Hogwarts, after your father died."
"Mum also gave me this," She said as she opened the letter. "It was a letter Lily was writing... before Voldemort killed her and James."
She opened it to reveal Lily's neat handwriting in cursive with the following.
Dear Addison,
Harry has been a bundle of joy in our lives and he has put nothing but smiles on our faces. He is just so adorable, James reckons he's got my eyes. Hopefully when You-Know-Who is defeated, Y/N and Lana would get to meet him.
I hope you are doing better after Langden's tragic death, just know that James and I are here for you if you need anything, anything at all. You have been like a sister all these years. Which is why I wanted to ask you something...
James has made Sirius godfather to Harry in case anything was to happen to us. I thought we should have something in case if something were to happen to Sirius.
Which is why I want to ask you if you want to be Harry's godmother.
Lana POV
"Wait, hang on," I said. "Harry could have been our godbrother?"
As Y/N and I read the letter, Lily had seemed to have stopped after that sentence.
"I could have been his godmother if I got this," Mum said. "That way, Harry could have had the life they wanted for him, not with Petunia and her excuse of a husband. Mum found this a while ago and thought to give it to me. I don't know how Harry would accept that..."
"If he did get to know," Y/N said. "You would be the closest thing to a mother Harry would have."
"I have to tell him sooner or later," Mum said. "Cause I do want Harry to be happy."
"You will, Mum," I said as I patted her shoulder. "I bet Harry would be happy he has you in his life."
The door behind us opened as a house-elf (not Dobby) came in. This one was ugly, and I didn't like to call him that.
"Blood traitors and scum," the house-elf muttered. "And the Mudblood with the scar... he cries, why does he cry so?"
"Kreacher, out!" Sirius bellowed as Harry walked in after. "Get out of here, now!"
"Oh, how the old Mistress would weep to see the traitor in her house..." Kreacher ignored him as he walked out.
"Who... who was that?" Harry asked as Mum put the picture and letter back in her coat pocket.
"Kreacher," Sirius said. "He's been alone with the house for years, he's gone a bit funny."
Suddenly Hermione ran into the room with some letters in her hands. "Our letters from school arrived!" She gave us our respective letters to all of us. Luna, Ron, Ginny and the twins came in, already opened their letters and read what they needed for the year.
I opened my letter as I felt a small bump in the letter as I opened it, revealing my letter for our 5th year at Hogwarts and a letter I didn't expect at all.
Dear Miss Lovegood,
We are pleased to inform you that you have been selected to serve as a Prefect for Ravenclaw House. Your school record shows that you have exhibited creativity, the ability to lead others, and the wit that Ravenclaws have long been lauded for.
We are certain that you will continue to be a model for your peers and take your new responsibilities seriously. Enclosed, please find your Prefects Badge, which should be worn on your school robes at all times. Congratulations!
Sincerely,
Filius Flitwick
Head of Ravenclaw House
I looked down at the page and found the badge at the bottom right corner. Penelope told me I had potential to be a Prefect. Did she vouch for me?
"Hey sis?" Y/N said as he was about to open his letter. "Everything okay?"
"Yeah, just feeling the moment," I said excitedly as I held up the badge, to which Mum squealed and hugged me. "Oh, I'm so proud of you, sweetheart! You've gotten Prefect! I was one too back at Hogwarts, same for Ravenclaw!"
Hermione POV
After I heard Lana got Prefect, I opened my letter to find my letter and another letter similar to hers, but had a Gryffindor Badge in place.
"I got Prefect too!" I said to everyone's delight. Harry and Ron smiled while Luna hugged Lana and then me. "But who's the male Prefect?"
"Umm, that would be me," Y/N said as he held up a badge in his hand. I couldn't believe it, my boyfriend's a Prefect too! We could have some time alone with each other with Prefect duties!
I rushed to him and kissed him straight on the lips. "This is amazing!" I said. "We're Prefects together!"
"Yeah, we are," he said with a smile. "I'm glad it's none other than you, babe."
As we separated, I looked at the letter to find the message,
Dear Mr. Lovegood,
We are pleased to inform you that you have been selected to serve as a Prefect for Gryffindor House. Your school record shows that you have exhibited quick-thinking, the ability to lead others, and the bravery that Gryffindors have long been lauded for.
We are certain that you will continue to be a model for your peers and take your new responsibilities seriously. Enclosed, please find your Prefects Badge, which should be worn on your school robes at all times. Congratulations!
Sincerely,
Minerva McGonagall
Head of Gryffindor House
"Congratulations Y/N, Hermione..." Harry said as his voice drifted off.
"It's alright mate," Y/N said as he placed his hand on Harry's shoulder. "Something tells me you have something looking forward to soon enough."
He looked at Addison who smiled softly as we all went to our rooms, waiting for the train ride tomorrow. I sat down and laid down on Y/N in his bed while the others talked with each other and soon enough, I couldn't help but fall asleep in Y/N's arms.
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