Raven sighed as he sat in the hospital wing watching everyone get checked up on by Poppy. When the nurse learned what happened, she had immediately began checking everyone over, even him, but he was quick to past inspection.
Honestly he was processing things he should have done last week before he ran off for a whole week. The whole Sirius Black thing was for sure the same as the other universe, minus the extra two years in Azkaban, apparently they started at eleven in the other universe instead of thirteen here.
Then there was the other stuff he learned from that worlds Albus Dumbledore, Horcruxes. He needed to do some research into that soon, and of course do a better scan of Rose in regards to the former soul shard that had been bound to her scar which had faded up recently becoming a small thin healed scar.
He had offered to heal it, but she declined, it was a reminder of her past, to not forget the person she doesn't want to become.
Though he had to admit, she would make a fine Dark Lady to rule over these morons in the wizarding world.
"and that's everything for you Ms. Granger, you all seem to in good condition besides some small scratches. Mr. Weasley I'm sorry to say you will have to stay overnight to fully heal up." Poppy said, though Raven knew it was to watch over him encase he was infected by something, like say the curse of a werewolf.
Speaking of, Raven wanted to do a indept study of werewolves, perhaps he could kidnap some rouge ones who prayed on people for amusement to study them down to the atoms.
"Raven, Ms. Potter, let us talk real quick in my office." Albus said as he walked into the hospital wing with the potions Professor and gestured witu his hand. "Severus, Poppy, please watch over the students for now, the auror's will be here soon to take their statements." Albus said as the potions master and school nurse nodded their heads in understanding.
Ensure they don't say too much.
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"Now Rose, after some deliberation with Professor Snape, your punishment is that you will be teaching first year potions the coming year and spend the remaining school years scrubbing cauldrons." Albus said and Rose slumped with relief. She thought she might have been getting expelled for attacking a teacher.
"Now, soon Minister Fudge will be coming by, and I have no doubt he will try and have this stuffed under the rug, so to say. He will try and have Sirius kissed by a dementor to forget about it." Albus explained how the current minister worked.
"Not untrue, Lorelei complains about his incompetence, but doesn't bother with it since she doesn't deal with such weaklings. As for the dementor issue, I left something to ensure that no dementor tries to kiss him." Raven smiled as his eyes linked with the body double in his Animagus form watching over Sirius' improvised prison cell inside one of the towers.
"Good, now the matter is convincing the minister to listen." Albus said with a stare aimed at the two sitting in front of him.
"You want to use our fame, and his infamy, to make the minster pardon Sirius." Rose said as she gestured to Raven at the infamy part.
"Correct, the minister is a man who accepts bribes and is easily swayed to intimidation. Some well placed pressure and sweet words, he will follow through with freeing Sirius." Albus agreed and Raven smiled.
"I'll take care of it, I'm used to regularly dealing with people like him." Raven smiled coldly, both headmaster and student were well aware of the fact he meant that in a way saying they disappeared, from life.
Magus society was to walk with death after all. It was the first lesson taught to anyone learning magecraft.
"Very well." Albus agreed before the three, plus Fawkes, made their way down to the hospital wing just before the auror's arrived.
"Madam Bones." Albus greeted as he saw who had arrived.
"Headmaster, I admit I was surprised to receive such a call late in the night, but this is definitely a good reason." Amelia Bones, Head of The Department of Magical Law Enforcement for The British Ministry of Magic.
Raven had to admit she was surprisingly competent for a wand waver. Didn't take bribes and did things by the code. A fair and just woman.
"Yes, definitely a surprise just before bed." Albus agreed.
"Right this way, the students and staff involved are over here." Albus said as they moved into the hospital wing.
"Right. Everyone, I am Amelia Bones, Head of Magical Law Enforcement, besides me here are Rufus Scrimgeour and Kingsley Shackbolt. They alongside myself shall be interviewing you over what happened, since you are all minors, we shall be interviewing your potions Professor first and he shall accompany each of you for the interview." Amelia said strictly as she asked Poppy if she could use her office as a interview room. Permission was given.
"Professor." Amelia gestured as she and her two auror's went with Snape into the office.
"Hmm, I do believe I sense a man and two dementors." Raven looked at Albus who nodded in agreement.
"The minister has arrived." Albus said simply.
"Albus! I hear you've captured Sirius Black." The pudgy man said as he made his way into the room.
"Minister, I'm glad you could make it. Yes indeed, Sirius Black was finally captured, however I had nothing to do with it, instead these students and my two staff members managed it." Albus gestured just as Amelia, Shackbolt, Scrimegour and Snape made their way out of the makeshift interview room.
Raven wondered what he said about the moment of Rose attacking him, or if he just didn't say anything and side stepped it enterly.
"Madam Bones! I'm surprised to see you here as well." The minster said surprised and a touch disappointed. Probably because he can't fully sweep everything under the rug like last year with Hagrid.
"You seem amused and annoyed." Rose whispered and Raven turned to her with amusement dancing in his eyes.
"I am, it's amusing to be ignored this long by government officials, and it's annoying to be ignored this long without a single greeting. My seniors would definitely do something in annoyance." Raven responded in a normal volume as the three chatted away.
This caused the three oldest people in the room to turn towards him and Rose.
"Seniors?" Madam Bones repeated before it clicked for her as she moved forward and offered a small bow.
"Apologies Mr. Inanis, I didn't expect you to be involved in such a thing. I am Amelia Bones, Director of Law Enforcement. It is a pleasure to meet a Magician in person." She said without a moment's hesitation and Raven smiled, his ego growing a little.
"Glad to know someone recognizes me upon a mere glance. Now I purpose perhaps we should reconvene at another spot, perhaps the headmasters office for security." Raven suggest as he looked at the few injured students in the hospital wing, some asleep and some paying attention to the conversations.
"Yes yes! We should do that, you wouldn't mind if we use your office right headmaster?" The pudgy minister said quickly with a slightly pale face.
"Of course not Minister. Mr. Inanis, Ms. Potter, Madam Bones if you would follow me." Albus said as they left after a moment of Madam Bones telling her two auror's to finish the interviews.
•~~~~~•
"and that's when Raven arrived." Rose started the story and finished off her part. Everyone turned to Raven who had taken this time to mess around with Fawkes.
"Mr. Inanis I must ask, how did you know what was going on?" Madam Bones asked.
"I noticed my apprentice was very emotional and her power was spiking, so I made my way over to see what was happening." Raven said simply, that was only half the truth of course, the moment he felt her power he had used a spell to watch over the area.
Divine beings are capable of splitting their essence and seeing through that them, so he mimicked the power, albeit to a much weaker degree by spawning one of his doll bodies and using its Animagus form to watch everything. Then he made a spell that let him see around a certain area of a marked spot, so attaching the spell to a rock to be dropped was easier to do then having a bird fly into the shack.
Was quite simple.
"Your apprentice?" The two government official's muttered.
"Yes, you know Rose Potter, The-Girl-Who-Lived, my apprentice." Raven grinned at Rose who was glaring at him, her eyes promising payback. He welcomed it.
"I see." They muttered, but clearly they did not based on their reaction.
"Anyways, I was quickly able to suppress the rat Animagus after a brief, interrogation, and then we made our way back here, curious thing though, on my way here the dementors swarmed at me, and if I remember correctly all dementors are under control of the ministry, more specially, The Minister only. So Mr minister, something you wanna tell me?" Raven asked with a friendly smile at the end.
It wasn't friendly at all.
"I didn't order them to do anything except find Sirius Black!" The minister cried out quickly and Raven narrowed his eyes.
"Oh? That's all you ordered them to do? Not to try and not attack anyone else? To avoid the students and staff? None of those protective measures were added into their orders?" Raven asked with his voice dropping as he asked softly.
"I told them not to attack anyone except Black!" The Minister cried out and Raven smiled.
"Yet they almost attacked the girl who lived on the train, and multiple times afterwards, and I've found myself swarmed a couple times, it just ignites my anger." Raven said frowning as he summoned his wand and began idly spinning it around.
The Minister paled as it would spin slower when pointed in his direction.
"The Ministry offers their deepest apologies for this Ms. Potter and Mr. Inanis, is there anything we can do to apologize?" Madam Bones took over, and Raven mentally pouted, he wanted to see if he could turn the man chalk white and sweating like a hose.
"Apologize? I'm sure I can think of something, Sirius Black, I want him given a proper trial and pardoned." Raven grinned as Rose nodded in agreement. Albus meanwhile watched on at the side silently.
"He's a criminal!" The minister cried out and Raven waved his finger.
"He's not though, let's say he did sell out the Potters, he never was given a trial, and as such is technically not a criminal by the law. I'm sure though, if The Minister was seen trying to fix the mistakes of his predecessor, he would be seen in a favorable light, why I'm sure Rose would be quite grateful for her sworn godfather to be given a proper trial." Raven grinned as he leaned closer.
"Headline, Minister servers out justice for the Potter and Black family! Peter Petegrew caught by The Minster of Magic! Proper justice served!" Raven spoke softly as the man's eyes glazed over as he thought about it.
"Yes, you make a good point." The man said after a moment.
"Glad to hear, and here I was afraid I was going to have to destroy your ministry to get proper justice done for my apprentices godfather." Raven laughed joyfully as everyone in the room paled, because while the two who didn't know him believed it, the other two knew he would do it for sheer amusement.
"Well we wouldn't want that." The minister said seriously. "Amelia, get your auror's and grab Sirius Black, I will call an emergency meeting once I return to the Ministry." The man said as he left via the floo a moment later.
"Come along then, I will show you where we have Sirius locked up at currently." Albus said as he guided Amelia out the office.
"You meant it." Rose stated and Raven turned to her and smiled, it was a mix of kind and scary.
"I did, after all they are-" Raven was cut off as she hugged him tightly and he sighed and held her as she just stayed there for a few minutes.
Raven took this moment to take full control over the doll body watching over Sirius.
•~~~~~•
"Mr. Black, we chat again." Raven said grinning as he changed back to human form and sat on the ledge of the barred window looking down at the rough looking man.
"Raven Inanis." Sirius muttered as he stared at the teen who was grinning at him.
"Hello. Our time is short, so I offer you two options." Raven leapt off the window ledge and softly landed on the ground as he walked closer to Sirius and held up a finger.
"One, I blow a hole in this wall and you fly off on a broomstick to escape and remain a fugitive. A unknown path, but the end results no different then as you've probably thought." Raven said before a smile formed on his face as he raised a second finger.
"Two, you go with Madam Amelia Bones and her two auror's to an emergency meeting of the Wizengamot. She and The Minister have been, appraised, of your innocence and lack of a trial. So you can go with them and receive your freedom." Raven smiled coldly down at Sirius.
"I'm sure of course you'll take option two, because why wouldn't you want to be able to claim proper guardianship over Rose so she would have a proper and loving home after so long, I mean being stuck with abusive relatives and then a detective who can't spend much time with her, I'm sure you would want her to be happy." Raven turned around to hide the amusement in his eyes.
"Now I bid you to choose Sirius Black, you have thirty seconds before the choice is made for you." Raven turned around, his expression dead cold.
"Escape or Freedom."
For twenty five second Sirius sat quiet.
"Freedom. For her." Sirius whispered and Raven smiled.
"Well said, just remember to get healed and mentally sane, as much as you can anyway, soon Sirius Black, it would be a shame if Rose became sad because you couldn't get well." Raven said as he took on his crow form and flew off.
Two seconds later the door was opened by Albus and Amelia with her two auror's.
"Hey there Amelia, looking pretty as ever." Sirius grinned at the head of law enforcement.
Raven in his crow form laughed before the body double flew off to start reading books.
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Even when the hands of fate try to weave the same story, it's snipped into pieces as one who doesn't carve for the tapestry comes running through it like the coolaid man.
"OH YEAH!"
Anyways, I hope you enjoyed the chapter, it's been a fun write.
Until next time!
Bye~
-Voidy, The Insomniac Writer