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Chapter Sixty - Six (PART TWO!)
They entered the court room and sat down waiting. Minister strolled in a couple of minutes later when
Everyone else had come back and been seated too and he banged the gavel on the desk to hush the chatter. “I bring this court to order” He paused “Mr Malfoy you’ll be glad to here your mother is fine, she is awake and accepting treatment at St Mungo’s where a portion of her sentence will be carried out until she is fit enough to be moved to Azkaban” Draco let out a sigh of relief and nodded unsmilingly at the minister.
“I now call to the stand Walden McNair”
The man stood up the smile still on his face,
“You are charged with the murder of your wife Edith McNair, you are charged with the murder of five muggles, and the grievous bodily harm of one wizard which contributed to his death. How do you plea?”
“Guilty my friend” he smiled “Guilty as sin”
“And how does the court wish to sentence this man?”
“Life imprisonment” said one,
“Death” called out another,
“He’s a danger to those inside and out”
“Dementors will keep him inside”
“They let ten of them escape”
“Under Voldemort’s rule – he’s gone there under the ministry command now”
“How can we be sure the other who have been given life won’t escape if we’re just worried about this one” the arguing was coming from a few different people in the Wizengamot and Scrimgeour banged his gavel once again to get peace and to say “In this case, I think life imprisonment is an appropriate sentence, they will not escape, and we as a community will see to it they stay in the prison they deserve”
There was a general nodding of heads and he called a vote that was unanimous. They seemed all to be in favour of life instead of death.
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Ginny sat waiting patiently, her hand holding on to Hermione’s tightly as they sat in silence. Ron was pacing up and down, Luna was writing her Father dictating to her and professor McGonagall and Willow with Caleb were talking quietly away from the others.
“You think he’s alright in there chained to them?” Asked Ginny to Hermione and Ron.
“He looked ok to me Ginny, I’m sure he’s fine just wants to get it over with”
“When will we be called up do you think?”
“Well the think is they haven’t called any witness’s for any of the others so I think they might not want us after all” Replied Hermione to Ginny's question,
“I thought we had to, I mean they sent us letters and everything”
“I depends on what they want to show Harry as, I mean if they question us and we all say he wouldn’t have done what he did without reason or that he’s not mad they there not going to want us telling people that”
“So we’re actually just sitting here waiting to see if he’s going to come out in chains or not then Hermione” Said Ginny her patience wearing thin over the last couple of hours.
She looked at her watch it was nearing half past eleven when the doors opened and two women were dragged out. One was screaming and crying the other pulled her along.
“DRACO! DRACO YOU PROMISED, PLEASE DON’T LET THEM DO THIS!”
“I’M GOING TO STOP THEM AMY, ITS GOING TO BE OK HARRY’S GOING TO TRY AGAIN FOR US DON’T WORRY, I LOVE YOU I’M NOT GOING TO LET THEM HURT YOU”
The doors slammed shut on Draco's shouting and the Ministers shouts along with the banging of his gavel. Ginny stood up and ran over to them,
“What’s happened? What have they done?” she asked a guard, as Amy fell to the floor in tears and Angie yanked on the chains trying to pull her up.
“They’ve both been given life in Azkaban”
Her hands went to her mouth, “But -”
“Look missy it’s not my call, you want to argue take it to the minister”
“Don’t think I won’t” She strode over to the doors all eyes on her until Hermione and Ron grabbed her and pulled her away.
“You don’t even know if she’s guilty or not” Said Ron,
“I trust Harry, if he thinks she doesn’t deserve it so do I, I mean come on does that reaction look like someone who is guilty” Ginny replied quickly and made a move for the door again,
“We don’t know the full story; let it wait until Harry’s back” Said Hermione letting go as the Professors and Caleb came over.
“Not when I could be doing something now” She said and pulled her arm away from Ron’s grip, but this time it was McGonagall’s hand that stopped her,
“Ginerva my child let it wait a moment think about what would happen to Harry is you went in there now”
“Professor she’s innocent I know it, I know Harry, he wouldn’t defend a death eater unless he had a good reason”
“Yes, but if you go bursting in there now you risk his freedom not just hers”
She thought about it and nodded after a minute “Ok, so tell me what I can do?”
“Sit and wait until Harry needs you, if you know him like I think you do you’ll be able to understand what happened without even stepping foot in the court room”
She sat down and closed her eyes feeling there eyes on her. She let her mind wander until it fixed on Harry. Everything went black when suddenly there was an explosion of colour and the room came into focus. . .
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RIP JD Salinger |