Harry Malfoy's Trials | Book One

| Harry Malfoy's Trial

HARRY POTTER LIVES!

We all know the story of The Boy-Who-Lived and He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. One stormy Halloween night, the Potters cozy in their homes were just about to go to sleep with their one-year old infant after a tiring day when all of a sudden, he strikes. Invading their home and heartlessly murdering the parents, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named turned his sights on a little defenseless baby, not even one-year old. Surely this was going to be the end of the child's all to brief life! But somehow when the Dark Lord strikes the killing blow the boy survives! Leaving only a lightning bolt shaped scar on his forehead. This is the heroic story of Harry Potter. And it is this reporter's great duty to announce to you all that Harry Potter is back in the wizarding world! There have been many questions after that faithful night: Where did the boy go? Who is raising him? Is the boy even safe?

Today we are finally getting the answers to these questions, and delve into the scandal that is Harry Potter's living conditions. This information comes from two respectable sources who, for both their safety as well as my own, will remain anonymous.

We all have been wondering where Harry Potter went to after that night. The answer? Apparently Harry Potter, the Boy-Who-Lived, had muggle relatives where he spent a majority of his small life ignorant of his magical heritage! One of my anonymous sources confirms that this decision was made for the boy's safety, hiding him away from any remaining Death Eaters who would want to avenge their lord. But now the Death Eaters are gone as well as He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. That just leaves the question: Do we still need to worry about Harry Potter's safety? And how did he get to a wizarding family?

Somehow, someway, Harry Potter got away from his muggle relatives and found himself in the home of a wizarding family, a wizarding family who is currently anonymous but works for my second anonymous source. This family adopted little Harry, and cared for him for almost a year! But here lies the problem. My first source declares that the patriarch of the family was once a suspected Death Eater, the same people who the source was trying to hide Harry from, but my second source, who has all authority, states that the patriarch has been cleared of all suspicious, being forced to act under the Imperious Curse and is now a loving father for his new son.

My sources have conflicting ideas that culminated to this ultimatum: Should Harry Potter stay with his current family?

Should Harry stay with his family of a year in the Wizarding World, despite the allegations of being Death Eaters? Or should he be forced to return to the Muggle world and never think or see magic until the age of eleven, seven years down the road? Or, perhaps, Should Harry Potter be removed from his current wizarding family and placed in a better, more loving one? These questions where thrown into this argument of ideas that this reporter has witnessed, and it all culminated into one decision.

Harry Potter is going to trial; and us, the Wizarding community, will decide where he lives as this issue is taken to a full Wizengamot. While this reporter wishes to be natural, she cannot help but think that if Harry Potter should live in the Wizarding World, shouldn't it be with a family who was with the Ministry through the entirety of the war? What do you think? Send your comments to the Daily Prophet headquarters in Diagon Alley and let your voice be heard!

"Despicable woman!" Mr. Malfoy snarled at the breakfast table. "To think that anyone would be foolish enough to—I'd sued her in an instance for reporting about Harry!"

Harry turned his head at the mention of his name. "Daddy... what is it?" he asked.

"Hmm? It is nothing for you to worry about Harry," Mr. Malfoy said, giving the newspaper to his wife. "It is just something that adults have to deal with."