Chapter 20: Chapter XIX: Misdirection
November 13th of 1991
"Did you hear that Professor Quirrell is still bedridden in bed?" A student in the corridors muttered.
"Nobody knows what actually happened, but he started to cough blood out of nowhere on the Quidditch game."
"I hope he gets better, even if his muttering is annoying, he is a kind Professor." Another one commented.
What happened to Quirrellmort is not a secret in Hogwarts and I must say that I am pretty satisfied with the results, maybe I will change it to have less impact on the body of the jinxed person. My initial goal was something kind of the spell Ron used in the second movie to make people puke slugs, but since I will use it against people that are pissing me off, I made it slightly different.
"Yozora! Save me!" A distressed Tracey screamed as soon I reached the table.
I raised my eyebrow looking around not seeing anything. "What? Unless you are being attacked by the hollow man, there is nothing here."
"Is Daphne!" Said the girl almost in tears.
"Don't be a baby and eat it" Said in an aloof tone.
I looked in Blaise's direction. "Pimentos again?"
"Yes." Sais Blaise with an exasperated expression. "Every Wednesday is the same."
"Daphne if you drop it, I will make you a dessert," I said to the girl and in less than a second threw them away not caring if they fall in someone.
"Thank you Yozora you are the best!" Said Tracey cheerfully. "I really hate pimentos it is too bitter."
"No biggie." I said as I sit at the table making a little boundary field around so nobody could hear us and took my lunch out of my dimensional pocket "Changing the subject, has anyone of you felt anything strange?" I ask them since even if Dumbledore isn't as stupid as I say, one can't be cautious enough.
"Everything is fine," Daphne said briefly and started to eat…my food.
"Yeah, no creepy old man, trying something funny." Said Tracey as she… was stealing some of my food.
"Yeah, besides he can't be that stupid, doesn't he? By the way, can I grab some of your food?" Said Blaise while steering at my food. 'Well, at least he asked.' I thought as I passed him a share.
"That's good," I said as I started to eat what was left of my lunch.
And as any day dozens of owls entered the hall, dropping letters and packages to everyone, usually I don't receive any of that since almost all the people that I know here at Hogwarts. But this an owl arrived at my place handing me 2 letters and a package.
After petting the owl and giving it a treat, I opened the first letter that was sent from the Ministry.
British Ministry of Magic
Department of Law Enforcement.
Minister for Magic: Cornelius Fudge
Mr. Hoshimura
I am pleased to inform you that your complaints had been informed to the Wizengamot and a hearing has been set for the Saturday 16th of this month at midday. Please arrive fifteen minutes with your legal guardian and if you decide, a legal consultant. A person from the ministry will wait for your arrival at the entrance to guide you toward the courts.
Yours sincerely,
Amelia Bones
Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement.
"The hearing will be this Saturday," I said to the Slytherin Gang. "If I have to be honest, I am rather surprised that they even let me have a hearing considering well you know."
The three of them nodded at my words and made complicated expressions. "Mate, I know that we already ask, but are you sure you don't want to ask our families to support you?" Said Blaise with some concern in his voice.
"Blaise is right Yozora." Said Tracey. "Even if you are sure that nothing bad will happen to you, a little bit of help won't hurt."
"I am worried about you." Said, Daphne in her usual tone but her eyes tell another story.
I couldn't help but smile at their words. "I appreciate your concern my friends, but you must first think about your family. Even if I constantly undermine the situation, that's only because is me the one doing it. And before you say something this is not me bragging about how awesome I am. Gramps is my only living family and in case things go west we could always leave the country and return to Japan." I said half lying. I would never run from him or anyone from Britain, but I can't just say that I could blow the whole ministry if necessary.
"Fine," Blaise said with some exasperation. "But if you need any kind of help you must tell us!"
"He is right! If anything, bad happens to you I will kick your ass!" Said Tracey not caring about the irony.
"I will help you." Muttered Daphne.
"Okay, okay if I need help, I'll tell you," I said as I started to read the letter that Ragnuk sent me.
Leaving aside the shit tone of flattery and him cursing the audacity of Dumbledore with a lot of words that I didn't even know could be used as an insult. The letter's main points are that Gringotts fully supports me in the trial, and I wanted to use… less legal ways, I'll keep their words for the moment. And that they had contacted the best law firm in magical Britain and I just need to tell them the date and the hour of the hearing. 'Maybe I should do something for them.'
"Who is that letter from?" Asked Daphne.
"Is just a friend who owned me a favor," I said nonchalantly but this caused everyone to gasp. "What?" I asked them while rising an eyebrow.
"You have friends outside Hogwarts?" Tracey said with an unbelievable expression. "I thought you annoyed everyone to death."
"Tracey be realistic." Blaise intervened. "Statistically speaking is not impossible, it's just hard to believe."
"I am stunned," Daphne said with her usual monotone voice, but a little smirk was visible on her face.
It is really hard to answer that as I annoy most people, even gramps was chuckling at the word. "Okay, I brought this to myself. Anyways I need to talk with Hermione, see ya"
I went directly to the Gryffindor's table where I saw the "golden trio" reading a lot of books, even Ron who looked like he would rather do anything else but that. "Morning Guys."
"Sup Yozora." Harry greeted me.
"Morning…" Said Ron tiredly.
"Hello, Yozora did you find anything about Nicolas Flamel?" Hermione greeted me…?
Before anything once more I set a boundary field "Sadly, I haven't found anything related to him." I lied since I need Harry to find the mirror of Erised "But I will still search in my free time, but that's not the reason I came. I wanted to know if they sent you anything."
Hermione sighed at this. "Luckily they didn't, but since you are asking, I assume that they already gave a date for the hearing."
I smiled at her words. "Sasuga Hermione-sama, as cleaver as you would expect from the brightest witch of our generation." But Hermione just rolled her eyes. "Okay jokes aside, the hearing will be this Saturday, so things will get hard from now on"
"Are you sure, you don't want me to go?" Hermione asked with a lot of concern.
"I'm sure, you didn't even notice when Professor Dumbledore did that, so they will try to use that to their advantage. But I appreciate the feeling."
"Don't know if you're brave or just mental," Ron muttered
Harry slapped the back of Ron's head. "Quiet you." Said Harry reprimanding the boy. "Yozora I know that even if I am "the boy who lived" I can't help you right now, but if you want to create mayhem after the hearing, being famous have its benefits," Harry said the last part with a big smirk on his face.
"Harry, Harry, Harry, I knew that you were one of mine."
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November 16th of 1991 British Ministry of Magic 11:45
Today I will start the rumb- *cough* *cough* I mean I will make Dumbledore regret his poor choice of how handling people. I was wearing the best suit that the goblins could get me, while wizards have their own formal garments, I wouldn't wear them unless it was for a mission. While I love a lot of things from the magical side of the world, their fashion sense is not one of those things. Lucky for me, some muggleborn people decided to dedicate themselves to the tailoring industry, so getting a suit with the best magical materials available.
I decided to go with a two-piece double-breasted black suit made of acromantula silk, with silver buttons and cuffs that have the emblem of the Lucis-Caelum house. With a black shirt and tie and black shoes made of dragon hide. Besides looking good I enchanted the whole suit with runes and wizarding magic, that is the reason I used expensive and rare materials for it. Gramps on the other side decided to go with a three-piece grey suit made of the same material with a black fedora. I think we look badass.
"Excuse me." A blond fair-haired man with a big belly talked to us. "Good morning, my name is Edward Tonks I was sent from Wilson & White to assist you in this hearing."
'So Nyn- Tonks's father is a lawyer, well they never said much about him in the books'
"Good morning Mr. Tonks, I want to thank you for your assistance on this day. My name is Lee Hoshimura just call me Lee" Said gramps while extending his hand to greet the man.
"Not all Mr. Lee, I admit that I took this rather personally since my daughter also goes to Hogwarts. I didn't think that Albus Dumbledore would be capable of doing that to a student."Mr.. Tonks said with disappointment in his voice.
"No one could Mr. Tonks," I replied to the man. "Let me introduce myself, I am Yozora Hoshimura first-year student at Hogwarts, but I assume that Ragnuk sent you my general information."
"He did, everyone in the firm was surprised when he came in person to ask us to represent in his words "a friend of the goblins", a young wizard, something that most of us thought that would never hear." Said Mr. Tonks with some amusement in his voice. "And on top of that a case that involves Albus Dumbledore, that alone made most of the lawyers wary of taking the case."
"So why did you take the case?" Grampas asked while looking the man directly in the eyes. "Don't misunderstand me, Mr. Tonks, while we appreciate your cooperation with the case and you said that this case was personal since your daughter also is a student at Hogwarts there are other ways to protect her or show your disagreement against him." Gramps made a pregnant pause "Even if I am not part of this wizard community, little Yozora has told me how everyone sees that petulant old man and his influence here, helping us will put you on a hard spot, so why did you decide to take the case?"
Mr. Tonks didn't respond instantly and sighed profoundly. "But what if it was her? What if he already did it? After knowing that I can't sleep in peace without thinking that if he did that to a student why wouldn't do it to my little girl? As a parent, I can't just let things like this go and if I can help to prevent things like this from happening in the future, I don't care if this could make put me on the bad side of Dumbledore's fanatics or Dumbledore himself."
"You are a good man Mr. Tonks." Said, Gramps. "If you need help in the future you can come to us."
"As Gramps said, Mr. Tonks, even if it doesn't seem like it, I can assure you that we're people with many resources," I said to Mr. Tonks. I like his guts, he didn't utter a single lie.
"I appreciate your feelings." Said Mr. Tonks with a small smile.
"Sorry for interrupting your conversation gentlemen, but I am here to take you to the courts." Said a man with long hair like a mane "My name is Rufus Scrimgeour, and I was instructed by my boss Madam Bones to guide you to the courtroom."
"Very well Mr. Scrimgeour, please lead the way," I said to the Auror.
As we walked to the court Mr. Tonks gave me some glances from time to time as if he wanted to ask me something but was hesitant.
"Mr. Tonks as my lawyer you can ask me a question if you want," I stated.
After a few seconds of having what it seems an internal conflict within himself Mr. Tonks decided to ask. "Who are you Mr. Hoshimura? We were given information about you by the goblins and I am fully aware that you are not faking being a muggleborn, but having the goblins support you just months after being introduced to the magical society doesn't make any sense."
I could help but smile at his question. "You'll see Mr. Tonks."
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November 16th of 1991. Ministry Courtroom. 12:00
3rd Person POV
"Order in the court." A man wearing a black court dress said. "The Hearing of the 16th of November will start, with the involved parties present being Yozora Hoshimura represented by Edward Tonks being the accuser party against…" The man swallowed hard before continuing to speak. "Against Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore the accused side, for the presumable crime of using magic toward a minor."
Many people inside the court gasped at the charges since they couldn't believe it and many others were outraged since in their minds there was no way that Albus Dumbledore was capable of doing that making a little uproar in the courtroom.
*bam* *bam* "Silence," said the man while hitting his hammer. "Interrogator Cornelius Oswald Fudge, Minister of Magic, maybe both parties give their initial declarations."
"Thank you, Minister." Said Mr. Tonks giving a small bow. "The last 31st of October, an incident occurred in the walls of Hogwarts where a Troll infiltrated inside the castle creating havoc. This incident was informed by one of the Professors in the great hall at dinner time, Mr. Dumbledore instructed every student to evacuate to their respective dormitories, the most logical decision for the situation." Mr.Tonks made a pause to let everyone digest the information. "But unluckily Mr. Hoshimura wasn't present when this was announced, and he alongside another student got spotted by the troll, if Mr. Hoshimura was a regular first-year student the most probable scenario is that he and the other student would meet their inevitable doom." He made another pause.
"But luckily he is not your regular student, and with his own means that I am not at liberty to disclose, he was able to stop the troll and make it unconscious before the teaching staff arrived at the scene."
At Mr. Tonks's words, many of the present people had incredulous expressions plastered on their faces, since their common sense told them that it was impossible for a person of my age to single-handle a troll. Others had curiosity on their faces since they wanted to know how I was able to do it and why I kept it a secret and a minority had shamelessly shown their greed.
"Understandably the professors were curious about how Mr. Hoshimura a first-year student was capable of such a feat. But he didn't want to answer the specific details, stating that it was a family secret. Something that he was fully entitled to since he is protected by article number 2 section 7 of the Magical British Law which states that "Any wizard has the right to keep to themselves any kind of magic that is developed by themselves or their family unless it breaks any stated law." But it seemed that this wasn't good enough for Mr. Dumbledore and he knowingly and in full awareness of the illegality of his actions and used Legilimency on the other student that was present when the events occurred not being happy enough he tried to do the same with Mr. Hoshimura. So here we are demanding justice for the illicit acts made by Albus Dumbledore."
Whispering started enveloping the whole court, not believing the events that transpired. For starters, Hogwarts didn't inform the authorities or the parents of the students that a troll infiltrated the castle. Many of the people were infuriated since they had their kids attending the institution. And regarding the use of Legilimency against the students the majority of people were skeptical since their image of Professor Dumbledore was one of a person who always follow the rules no matter what and an offense this big was even harder to believe.
*Bam* *Bam* *Bam* "Order." Shouted the Minister. "Albus if you may."
"People of the wizengamont it is to my utter disappointment to tell you that every word spoken by Mr. Tonks is true." Said Dumbledore without blinking.
Silence permeated the whole courtroom, no one muttered a single word. After all, they couldn't believe that Albus Dumbledore shamelessly accept the charges. Disappointing was evident in the face of many and a grin was present on the faces of the dark families since they finally got to see the so-called perfect wizard getting in trouble for the first time.
The silence was broken by the same person that did it happen. "In my more than 30 years being Hogwarts Headmaster my most important mission was and still is the well-being of every student at Hogwarts. I did what I did for their own good."
"Explain" Said Fudge almost instantly as if they were it was planned.
Dumbledore closed his eyes and started to speak. "Even since I was made in charge of Hogwarts there was never that risked the lives of the students until this year that is." Dumbledore moved his hand in Mr. Tonks and Yozora's direction and opened his eyes. "The events occurred almost exactly as they were described by Mr. Tonks but left aside the state of how the troll was found out after Mr. Hoshimura, "handled" the situation."
After saying that, he took out a picture of his robes and, with a wave of his wand, used the Doubling Charm to create multiple copies of it, and a single copy of them floated to the hands of every people in the court.
The picture in question showed a berated Troll with its wrist twisted at an angle that it is not supposed to be, the same could be said for one of his ankles but what stood out the most was the deep bleeding wounds on its legs that created a pond of blood. And on the side, there was Yozora standing looking down at the troll.
"What you see, is the outcome of the confrontation between Mr. Hoshimura and the troll. The bones of the right hand were almost pulverized, and multiple bone fractures in the left ankle severed tendons in both legs, and dislocated jaw. These were the injuries present in the troll's body and as you can see on the right side of the picture there is Mr. Hoshimura without a single injury on his body, something fortunate if I may add" Dumbledore explained to the people of the court. "As most of you may know, trolls even if they have limited intelligence, are dangerous creatures that Aurors have problems handled them, yet Mr. Hoshimura single-handled one while protecting another student, something that many would say is admirable, and I would agree with them."
"But one wonders, how it was possible for a barely first-year student who didn't know the existence of magic until a couple of months ago, to do such a feat easily nevertheless an Auror the best that our ministry can offer would have trouble doing the same. I never tried to prove the personal information of Mr. Hoshimura all I did was for the security of my students, after all, two seemly impossible things happened the same day, it would be hard to believe such a coincidence," Said almost innocently but the implications behind his words were not subtle at all.
"Mr. Dumbledore, are you implying that my client had something to do with the troll attack?" Spoke Mr. Tonks don't believe the audacity of…Dumbledore.
"Not at all Mr. Tonks, I just wanted to…" But before Dumbledore could end talking, someone interrupted him.
*Clap*
*Clap*
*Clap*
Everyone looked at the source of the sarcastic applauses just to find one of the involved parties.
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Yozora's POV
"Brilliant," I said sarcastically. "Not only you are one of the "greatest" wizards in the world, but also a good street performer, Professor Dumbledore, a person of many talents."
Mr. Tonks was dripping in a cold sweat. "Mr. Hoshimura is not the time for jokes."
"Oya, but I mean it Mr. Tonks, after all almost everyone was falling in his wiles."
Dumbledore at my words couldn't keep quiet. "Yozora my boy, while I found your sense of humor amusing, I would appreciate it if we can keep things serious."
I sneered at him. "Who says that I am not taking things seriously Professor? I really mean it when I said that you are a good street performer, after all, your use of misdirection is one of the best I had seen."
Dumbledore frowned and tried to feign ignorance. "I don't know what you are talking about."
"Are you sure? So it was a coincidence the way you structured your words and lead the audience from the main point. Putting yourself in the spotlight accepting your wrongdoings just to change the subject to your well-doings as the headmaster and your seeming concern about the student's security taking advantage of that many of the people present here are either the parents or the family, then praising me for accomplishing something almost impossible from your average joe just to sow doubt of how did happen to finally making it to seem like this entire situation is my fault." I made a small pause so everyone could digest my words.
"So, tell me, Professor Dumbledore, does this sounds like a joke to you?" I said with a smirk leaving my face.
Once more, muttering started to fill the whole courtroom.
*Bam* *Bam* *Bam* "Silence" Fudge ordered. "Mr. Hoshimura please refrain from creating havoc and just get to the point."
"As you wish your honor," I said with evident sarcasm in my voice. "So, Professor Dumbledore you are saying that the sole reason that you intruded on a student's mind and tried the same with mine, was for the sole reason of keeping your students safe, am I right?"
"Yes." Dumbledore said without a hint of doubt in his voice.
"If that is the case, why were you spying on me a whole week before the events of Halloween happened.?" I ask with a grin on my face.
I could see with my clairvoyance that he was shocked by my word but a person with his experience would show it easily. "Yozora my boy, even if you are the current top student in your year, you must be confused," Dumbledore said with his "grandfatherly" tone "I have no reason for doing such a thing, even if you are the current top student of your year."
"First of all, don't call me "your boy" Professor Dumbledore," I said with clear annoyance in my voice "We are not friends nor have a good relationship as a matter of fact. So just call me Hoshimura or by my other title that you are aware of and the reason behind you spying on me." I said with a sly leer on my face.
I changed my gaze to the people of the Wizengamot. "As you seem confused, let me enlighten you."
"Yozora my boy, you should refrain from doing this," Dumbledore said with a little bit of concern in his voice, not for me of course.
Of course, I ignored the old hat "As you know my name is Yozora Hoshimura, a first-year student at Hogwarts from the Slytherin house as well as a proud muggleborn." After saying that some people showed disgust either externally or deeply hidden, but I ignored this.
"Also, the current and sole heir of Lucis-Caelum, the most ancient and noblest house in the whole of magical Britain," I said with a grin on my face.
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Hello everyone, I hope you enjoyed the chapter.
So finally, the audience started and Dumbledore tried his shit of the greater good and manipulative skills to have his way to clear his name. Ironic, isn't it? So, this is the stage where the storm to the whole British magical community will start and maybe the world. In the next chapter we will that the name Lucis-Caelum is not just for flexing so wait for the next chapter to see what is going to happen that most likely will be released either Friday or Saturday. Also the countdown for the end of the first-year arc is just 4 more chapters and from that onwards like I said before the whole Harry Potter world will start to move faster so we can move to the next world. Also, I saw your comments about the next world and most of you liked the idea of going to Everyone Else Is A Returnee or Shaman King which were my favorite options along with The Second Coming Of Glutonny hahaha. I forgot to tell you guys that there will be a travel to the Nasuverse for a grail war, can you guess which one? Leave a comment with your guess.
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