Tomorrow came the day of the trial, Harry was feeling pretty confident, especially since he may have slid the minister a couple of hundred galleons. He also managed to make evidence of the fact that he had done so in case Fudge becomes a problem later. Before he got to the trial however Harry was amazed when a demntor came by, it was following an auror, and everyone felt cold. Everyone but Harry at least, the dementor stopped by him, everyone presumed it had gone rouge and was about to attack. But then it surprised everyone by turning to Harry and bowing it's head, Harry bowed back and the Dementor went along with it's business.
At the trial everything went just as Harry expected, Dumbledore argued that Harry wasn't in the right state of mind to make this choice and how Remus couldn't look after him. The teachers and Ginny also played their parts. Harry made his arguments, that combined with the letters and pensive memories put the court firmly in Harry's favour.
Dumbledore had to use all of his achievements, resources and favours owed to reduce the damage caused. Eventually it was agreed that he would be removed from the position of chief warlock, all those he had guardianship over would become under the guardianship of the ministry unless someone else takes them, he'd also have to pay one thousand galleons for each year that Harry had spent there, another three thousand for taking their pensive and a thousand for any other additional items they found that belonged to the Potters.
He'd also have to return the pensive and any other items he had taken from the Potters, and all of his possessions would be checked to make sure there his and not the Potters by specialist goblins who can determine the fact by checking the magic surrounding it. Magic reading was dead useful, Harry used it all the time, and at the very least the bright colours entertained him.
Dumbledore was allowed to remain headmaster but he was put on probation until further notice and if the court heard a single complaint about a matter concerning him outside of school then he'd be fired. Needless to say, only the most loyal of his followers remained supporting him. Including one Molly Weasley, who due to a combination of the court results and what Ginny had said had told her not to invite him to the burrow until she fully manages to convince him.
Eventually Ginny managed to change her mind by convincing her it'd be easier if Harry spent all his time around a light family and that the family abandoning him could result in him getting pushed further into the dark and away from Dumbledore. Soon Remus and Harry went celebrating with Sirius, soon the day ended and the two returned to Hogwarts as expected Remus was fired and Harry was called back to Dumbledore's office.
"Yes sir" He entered, finding an irate Dumbledore sitting in his chair
"Sit" he ordered
"I'd rather stand" Harry insisted
"Fine" Dumbledore gritted his teeth "I'd like to ask you some questions, the first one is why you felt the need to do this?"
"If what you saw at court didn't fill you in then I doubt any explanation I give could help"
"That was the best place for you" Dumbledore growled
"Not really" Harry's lips curved up "the best place for me to grow up wanting a saviour like the grand Dumbledore maybe, or the best place for you to keep an eye in me. Now before you decide to continue with your questioning I'd like you to imagine what would happen if the next prophet article has the headline 'Dumbledore unsympathetic to Harry Potters childhood trauma'."
"Very well" Dumbledore sighed "my second question is where you're living, as headmaster I want to know and you will tell me."
"I rather not and your rights as headmaster do not permit you to force this topic seeing as it's not school related. Now unless there are further questions I'd like leave, me and my girlfriend need to have a discussion about why she didn't testify at court. Excuse me"
"Two more" Dumbledore spoke "I'm told a Dementor bowed to you, is this true and if so then why?"
"Yes it's true and no I don't know why, maybe it was just polite. Now goodbye"
Harry left leaving Albus in thought, at least Miss Weasley was still firmly in the light, according to her mother and Harry she didn't testify. She didn't seem to be the sort of girl who would lie to her mother, as for Harry Dumbledore was quite worried, mostly because unlike with other people he could never tell if Harry was telling the truth or not. However the boy in two days cost him nearly all of his money and made things incredibly more difficult, Dumbledore couldn't even do anything more to Remus or Black to stop them from being Harry's guardian. At least his staff supported him but it didn't help much.
He had managed to fire Remus because he was revealed to be a werewolf but he couldn't harm him or Black as that would raise questions, and the worst part is Harry wasn't living with the two. He still had no idea where Harry lived, the place could be useful for the order and Harry was also outside of Dumbledore's reach. Dumbledore couldn't even find the letter box that the owls sent the letters to and he suspected heavily that it probably transported the letters directly to his house or to another letter box. That seemed like the kind of thing that Harry would do. If he wasn't so important Dumbledore would have got rid of the cocky arrogant brat.
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