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HP: In The Magical World As a An Extra [ Chapter 134 ]
🕑 Added 2024-11-08 15:26:07 +0000 UTCAs the last members trickled in taking their seats, Magnus could see the room was practically packed, he could see Andromeda eyeing various people and giving various nods to some, clearly the chambers weren't this full on all occasions.
It was a couple of minutes after everyone was seated that Minister Fudge and his Toady, Umbitch, made their appearance from a second door in the back, nodding to various people in greeting as they made their way up to their seats with a pair of aurors behind them and another pair taking position at the doors.
That was precisely when Magnus finally noticed the dozen or so blue robed aurors that were already dotted about the room against the walls as if they had already been there.
Noticing his reaction to them Andromeda smirked slightly, "Disillusionment charms, they've been here the whole time, another rarity, usually it's only half these numbers." she explained.
Magnus gave a single nod of his head to show he understood, Madam Bones was taking no chance for anything to go wrong, that made him feel a little better.
Once Fudge and Umbridge took their seats, Dumbledore began to rise and moved up to take the podium for the chief warlock position and nodded to Fudge who lifted the parchment in front of him and began to read from it.
"This emergency session of the Wizengamot has been gathered to hear testimony and evidence of the events that took place during Samhain of nineteen eighty one and the days that followed, to judge the guilt or innocence of one, Sirius Orion Black." He read out, and immediately the courtroom was thrown into chaos.
As a number of Wizengamot members rose from their seats and began to cry out in denial, while others rose up to yell at them, clearly there were alot of mixed feelings about this trial, and whether it was even justified at all. The sight made Magnus' left eye twitch in irritation.
The yelling continued for a full two minutes before finally Dumbledore raised his wand and Magnus had to cover his ears as he released several loud cannon blasts from its end in order to gain silence in the chamber.
"That will be quite enough," Dumbledore stated as he looked around the chamber, "now while in a grave many may feel that this trial is unjustified, and others may feel that it should have happened a long time ago, it is neither here nor there, it will be happening now regardless."
He said plainly, his expression blank as he gave one more passing look around those seated before nodding to Madam Bones who was seated in the front row.
At the nod Madam Bones stood up from her seat clearing her throat, "Due to the state of affairs at the time among other things, there is was server lack of physical evidence that was collected at the time, no witness statements were taken, no spell signatures record or memories recovered from any near by muggles before they were obliviated, and as it has been well over ten years since the time of the events it is next to impossible for any new evidence from those days to be gathered."
She said as she leveled a disgusted glare at Minister Fudge, and she wasn't the only one, everyone knew it had been him to capture Sirius Black all those years ago.
It had been one of the things that had started his rise to power it had bolstered his reputation at the time and began his assent.
Fudge seemed to shrink back a little the number of glares being sent his way and perhaps wisely decided to remain quiet.
Getting no response from Fudge, once more Madam Bones cleared her throat and recentered her attention.
"Still despite the abysmal detective work done at the time, there are still two avenues open to us to explore" she said before looking to the main doors, "Bring in the accused"
At her command the doors to the room were opened and for the first time Magnus laid eyes on his uncle as he was escorted in between four aurors, two in front of him and two behind him, all four with their wands drawn and at the ready, with Ted following them in a few feet behind.
From what Magnus could see of him, he looked just as rough if a little less so than what he would have when he would have broken out in two years, gaunt and weak, filthy but all and all still standing.
There was a lot of unpleased grumbling from around the chamber as Sirius was lead to the middle of the room where the accused chair was stood.
And he was moved to sit down in the chair, where chains immediately sprouted from its body and wrapped loosely around him, making the grumbling grow several octaves.
"Well that should go a long way," Andromeda mused next to Magnus.
"Explain?" Magnus requested as he looked around at a few of those muttering.
"The chair is spelled, it reads the intent and emotions of those who sit in it, judges them in a way, those who are innocent rarely find themselves bound by it, those who regret their actions will be bound but loosely so, and those who are guilty and do not regret their actions in the slightest will find themselves bound the tightest," Andromeda explained.
"Rumor has it that dear sister Bella was almost strangled by the chains when she sat in it, they bound her so tightly, broke a few bones during her trial though still sat on the chair like it was a throne." She said, shaking her head.
"So with Sirius only loosely being bound?" Magnus asked as he tried to work it out, he knew Sirius wasn't guilty.
"Suggests that he is guilty, or feels guilty for something, and regrets his actions." Andromeda stated as Dumbldore quieted the room once again.
