Then she added her own statement that all she ever wanted was to be left alone and how she absolutely despised Dumbledore for putting up the blood wards that robbed her of her ability to have another child after Dudley. It had come very close to causing her marriage to fail.
During her own testimony she also added how many times she remembered trying to get into Diagon Alley - she remembered the name - and couldn't. And had taken Harry there to see if Harry could get her through whatever it was that blocked her.
That led Harry to remembering one of those times.
She also spoke of how the only idea she had that her sister had been killed was by a letter, signed by Dumbledore that had been left in Harry's baby basket on her doorstep.
"The old man didn't even have the common decency to tell us to our faces," she angrily snapped. "He just told us as in writing with a 'by the way, your sister is dead' in his letter. We didn't even know how she died until Harry told us once he returned from his first year at Hogwarts, almost eleven years later. And we had no way of finding out."
Besides the video camera, that was also something Harry didn't know.
By the end of Vernon and Petunia's statements Harry could tell the whole demeanour of the Member's, including Ogden, had changed. It had gone from a sense of them wanting to toss the three of them straight through the Veil as soon as the trial finished, to actually stopping and thinking about what to do with them.
After asking Petunia if her statement was completed, and her nodding back, Ogden turned to Harry and said, "As promised, Lord Potter, the final remarks before sentencing come from you."
Harry, who had been thinking hard about what to say, quietly stood and moved closer to the middle of the floor. However, he stayed well out of arm's reach of the Dursleys - all three of them. Old habits died hard.
"Thank you, Chief Adjudicator Ogden," he began. "I remind you all of the following facts. Firstly: to the best of my knowledge the only person my aunt and uncle, Vernon and Petunia, have physically harmed with everything they have done is me. However, I cannot say the same for Marjorie Dursley. I do not consider the woman a bigot because she simply hates, berates, verbally attacks and even sics that foul little beast of a dog of hers onto everyone, irrespective of their background unless they're named Dursley. So, please do not judge my aunt and uncle on the behaviour of Marjorie Dursley and vice versa.
"Secondly, what my uncle said about how the only way they could contact the magical world was by knowing Dumbledore - and I happen to like the name Fumbledork, by the way - would turn up if I was beaten to see me healed? That, too, makes a lot of sense. I mean, think about it. As they have testified, they could not go to Diagon Alley. I doubt, very much, they know how to find Saint Mungo's or the Ministry of Magic; as they've never had cause to be shown either. They cannot get to Hogsmeade or Hogwarts. They do not have access to a floo. They do not have access to portkeys. They cannot apparate and, even if they could, they do not know where to apparate to. They do not have an owl, nor can they purchase one because they couldn't get into the Alley. They do not own house elves, nor could they purchase one for the same reason. And they do not know where any other magical lives. So, they had no way to contact anyone in the magical world. All, that is, except Dumbledore; and, even then, only by triggering Dumbledore's little blood monitoring trinkets that were illegally attached to my health and well-being."
Holding his arms out to his side in a major shrug gesture he turned on the spot. "How... else... would they have contacted him or any other magical?"
Turning back to the Members he asked, "And, how was this possible? How was Dumbledore able to do this? It's quite simple." Jabbing his index finger at various Members he said, "Because you let him! And, you! And, you! And all of you who sat on those seats back in November of 1981. The law was on your books as to what was and is supposed to happen regarding the dispensation and handling of an orphaned wizarding child. It's even more specific when that child is the heir of a Noble House, let alone a Noble and Most Ancient House. And, yet, you all decided... just because Dumbledore said so... 'You know those laws we're supposed to obey? Fuck 'em! Let Dumbledore deal with the little brat; because it means we won't have to!'
"So, that all means that, while you're in the process of deciding the fate of my aunt and uncle - I really couldn't care any less than I do right now what you do with 'Marge the Barge' - remember this: You, too, should be sitting down there being sat on in judgement of your own actions regarding my being sent to the Dursleys.
"As the victim here, I'm telling you I do not want to see them gaoled. I do, however, want to see whatever these blood wards that are on their property, plus any others, be immediately removed if they haven't already. And I want them to be granted their wish that they not be bothered with any witch or wizard in the future. To that end, I want a Wizard Notice-Me-Not placed on their property and for it to be monitored by the DMLE and, any witch or wizard who manages to get past that Notice-Me-Not ward, find themselves immediately transported into a DMLE cell so the aurors can deal with them; and that includes me.
"Thank you, Chief Adjudicator, for the opportunity to speak." Then he spun on his foot and stalked back to his chair and quietly sat down again.
No, Harry did not want the Wizengamot to decide the fate of his relatives. Harry wanted to decide their fate, himself; but not until he'd taken plenty of time to look back on his 'incarceration' at Privet Drive without being swayed by his temper and anger. He'd deal with them, in his own way, once he'd completed his schooling.
It took about five to ten seconds before Ogden seemed to shake himself out of his shock and say, "Errr... Thank you, Mister... I mean Lord Potter."
The end result was Vernon and Petunia, plus Dudley as he still lived there, got exactly what Harry wanted. But Marge the Barge was taken back home, had her memories of the magical world Obliviated, but also had all her bulldogs euthanised, so she could never again sic them on anyone - and that included her prize hound, Ripper.
Aside from the chamber, Madam Bones also later informed him that Marge's attitude was readjusted so that she would never again have any desire to raise or breed any animals.
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