hogwarts blast

Time has quickly come to the last few days of the Christmas holiday.

In the early morning of this morning, Harry and Sirius left the Black House at 12 Grimmauld Place early.

This day is the day for the retrial of the case between Sirius and Peter Pettigrew, so the two of them seemed so anxious.

Because after this trial, which had already been predetermined as a formality, Sirius would be able to officially get rid of his identity as a criminal and live under the sun from now on.

At that time, Harry would no longer have to live with the Dursleys every summer vacation, but could move to the Black Mansion and live happily with his godfather.

As Harry's godfather, Sirius can be said to be Harry's only relative in the world who cares about him.

A three-story, bright purple bus was parked on a desolate side street in London.

Harry was no stranger to the dilapidated red phone booth on the roadside.

Because he had only been here a few months ago, when he accompanied the Weasley family to attend the awarding ceremony of the Order of Merlin to George and Fred.

However, there were some changes in the phone booth this time compared to the last time he came.

The two of them stood in the phone booth, which seemed so crowded that Harry was pressed against the phone equipment.

When they came here before, the phone booth had been cast with a traceless stretching spell, and it looked quite spacious even with a dozen or twenty people standing inside.

But that was a face-saving project specially created by the Ministry of Magic for the investiture ceremony.

Otherwise, given that the phone box can only transport two people into the Ministry of Magic at a time, the family members of the medal recipients and the guests using the visitor's passage would have to wait in line for five people on the street outside under the scorching August sun.

It took six minutes for the team to get down to the Ministry of Magic below.

Is this how the British Ministry of Magic welcomes guests?

If you don't get sprayed with blood, you'll be a ghost.

Soon, the door of the phone booth opened again, and Harry and Sirius were now standing at the end of a long, splendid hall with a polished dark wooden floor.

The peacock blue ceiling is inlaid with gleaming golden symbols, like a huge high-altitude bulletin board.

The walls on all sides are paneled with glossy dark wooden boards, and many gilded fireplaces are embedded in the wooden boards.

After going through a series of inspections, Harry and Sirius had to follow the crowded crowd to a nearby hall full of elevators.

With the clicking sound of the chain drive, an elevator slowly descended in front of them.

The golden grating door slid open gently, and Harry and Sirius walked into the elevator.

The location they are currently in is the main hall of the Ministry of Magic, eight floors below.

There are only two floors further down, the ninth floor where the Department of Mysteries is located and the tenth floor where the trial chamber is located.

Although there were many people coming and going in the Ministry of Magic, there were not many people going to these two floors, so there were only two people in the elevator, Harry and Sirius.

Just as the elevator door was about to close, a hurried figure squeezed into the elevator.

"Mr. Weasley." Harry nodded at the man when he saw the red hair on his head.

"Oh, Harry."

Suddenly hearing Harry's voice, Arthur Weasley's expression was very surprised.

"How will you be here?"

Until he saw Sirius next to Harry, Mr. Weasley slapped his head and said, "I forgot that today is the day of judgment."

"Hello, Arthur."

Sirius took the initiative to extend his hand to Mr. Weasley, "Thank you for taking care of Harry."

After the greetings were completed, Mr. Weasley noticed that the elevator was going down instead of up.

His office is on the second floor of the Ministry of Magic, which is the second underground floor. You should go up.

The golden grating door of the elevator has been closed. Mr. Weasley, who took the wrong elevator, obviously cannot get down halfway.

As the elevator slowly stopped, a woman's cold voice also sounded in the elevator, "Ninth floor, Department of Mysteries."

The tenth floor of the Ministry of Magic cannot be reached directly by elevator. You must first take the elevator to the ninth floor and then walk down a corridor.

The road is a bit circuitous, and Harry and Sirius, who are unfamiliar with the place, will probably have to search for a while to find the courtroom.

Mr. Weasley was not busy at work, so he simply took Harry and Sirius to the tenth floor.

After walking for a few minutes, several people appeared in a corridor.

The decoration style of this corridor is exactly the same as the corridors in Hogwarts that lead to the old Bat's underground classroom:

Rough stone walls, with torches stuck on brackets. The doors they passed here were all heavy wooden doors with iron latches and keyholes embedded in them.

The place where Sirius is about to be tried is the first courtroom.

The higher the courtroom number is, the more heinous the criminals being tried. The first courtroom is basically used to try those Death Eaters who followed Voldemort.

The decoration style of the trial room is similar to that of the corridor outside, both made of black stones.

Placed in the center of the room are two armchairs with iron chains on the armrests.

Both chairs were empty, no one was sitting on them.

In front of the two chairs where the prisoners on trial sit, there are rows of seats that gradually rise.

At this time, there were quite a few people sitting on the seats.

The wizards sitting in the seats in the front row were all wearing purple robes, with a delicate silver letter "W" embroidered on the left chest.

Behind them were some invited spectators, and Harry would join them later.

Facing so many eyes, even though Harry was not the one waiting to be tried later, he was so nervous that his palms became sweaty.

Seeing the nervousness in his godson's heart, Sirius patted Harry on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, everything will be fine."

After saying that, he smiled and walked to the interrogation chair in the center of the room and sat down.

Harry was relieved when he saw that the chains did not bind Sirius.

After Harry took his seat in the back seat, two Aurors walked in, escorting a frightened Peter Pettigrew.

Different from Sirius's treatment, as soon as Peter Pettigrew was pressed onto the chair, the chains on the armrests on both sides automatically wrapped around Peter Pettigrew's body, tying him tightly.

"The trial is here," Fudge said in a booming voice, "let's get started."

At this time, the whispers in the courtroom also stopped.

"The trial on January 8th will re-open the case of Sirius Black who indirectly killed the Potters by seeking refuge with a mysterious person, and violated the law of secrecy by releasing a curse in a Muggle neighborhood that killed thirteen Muggles."

"Interrogator: Cornelius Oswald Fudge, Minister of Magic; Amelia Susan Bones, Director of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement..."

After rattling off a long list of interrogators, Fudge then read out the names of those being interrogated, as well as the crucial witness—Albus Dumbledore.

When he heard the witness's name, the slightest trace of uneasiness on Harry's face disappeared.

To use what Kyle said before, that is - the presiding judge, judge, jury, witnesses, all units are my people, how can you fight with me?

As far as Dumbledore's presence as a witness is concerned, Sirius' case is a sure thing this time.