Misery [T. Higgs] ✔

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The news of Sirius Black breaking out of Azkaban reached Helena and Terence two days before wanting to visit the Weasleys. There they'd meet her dad and Tonks too Helena immediately freezes when she sees the picture. "It can't be." "Don't worry beautiful. In Hogwarts you'll be safe." "Thats not the problem. Terence. This is the man that came to my home back then. He clutched tightly onto my dads body and said something about 'Pettigrew' being a traitor and that he'd destroy him for killing his brother. Terence! I know this man. He is Harry's godfather! He would have died before he'd have told anybody where we were! He didn't even know until that night when my dad sent him a patronus. He begged not to be made secret keeper. When he was visiting my father picked him up! He is innocent." Terences jaw drops. "Are you kidding me?" Helena shakes her head. "I couldn't remember his name. And dad never talked about what happened too much. I.. I think I have to talk to the minister and a few other people. That would make me oficially Helena Potter.. But I can't.. They'll execute him for a crime he never comitted. Terence.. fuck being on time to meet the Weasleys. This is more important." He nods and they apparate to the ministry.
Helena had a mission.

Marching up to the secretary Helena waits impatiently. But the woman just chews some bubblegum and lazily talks into the phone about some friend of hers having a divorce. Helena gets pissed. Slamming her hands onto the desk she makes her shriek and drop the phone. "Listen, woman! I need to talk to the minister of magic right now. I don't care about what meetings he has or if he has important matters to see into. I will go see him. If with announcement through you, if you can actually bring yourself to do your job or I'll make my way in there manually." The woman stutters a few words that make no sense, then dials a number and looks up. Her hands shaking slightly. "Who do I announce and with what matters?" "Helena Lily Potter! And the matter is that you idiots have arrested Sirius Black in Azkaban for twelve years although I know he is innocent." The woman gapes and stutters the words into the phone, while all the wizards around them stare at the girl.

"Helena Potter.." "The older Potter sibling.." "... still alive?" "Black... innocent..."

All those words are muttered. "P..Please follow me.", the secretary says, jumping up. Terence wraps his arm around Helena who sends him a quick smile and kisses his cheek, before following with a determined expression.

They enter the wizard gamott. A whole trial had been summoned to discuss the matter. The minister, completely out of breath and his robes disshevelled stares at Helena as she enters with Terence. He kisses her temple one last time, then stays a few feet away. "I needed to come fourth with this information the second I saw the picture of Sirius Black, Minister Fudge. I recognize him very well. The night my parents were killed I saw him. They were already dead when he burst into our home. He embraced my father and cried there. For more than half an hour. He said that Pettigrew was a traitor and that he'd make him pay. I have read through the article. If it is true what you have written there, I can assure you that he is innocent. The muggles were killed shortly after my parents died. 10 minutes maybe. Not more. He was there longer. I know that. You can do a heritage test. You can have the memory of that night. Everything you want. I just ask you to try and find this Pettigrew. A finger was all that was found? What if it was simply cut off? My father and this Pettigrew were unregistered animagi. I have memories of him in his animagus form as well if you need them. They became animagi when still visiting Hogwarts. Peter Pettigrew was called Wormtail. A joking way to say what he was. A rat! Peter Pettigrew is a rat! And I didn't even know you arrested anybody for the murder of my parents until this day. So excuse the late notice. But I am not joking and I swear on my name, my blood and my life: Sirius Black is innocent!"

Helena had been pacing back and forth in front of the witches and wizards listening with shock and disbelieve in their eyes. "We do need that proof. Those memories. Freshly right now. And the heritage test.. Miss Umbridge. Would you please.."

The pink clad woman prances towards Helena with a cocky smile, a form in hand. "I'd need a bit of blood from you, Miss 'Potter'..." Helena, without hesitation, takes the pen the woman has in her pocket and stabs it into her palm with such force that it pierces her skin and then presses her hand onto the paper. Handing back the pen, after wiping the blood off on the document that as well. It seeps into the fibres and Umbridge takes a breath, a cocky smile still on her face. "We have here He..." Her cocky expression falls. "... Helena Lily Potter. Daughter of Lily Evans Potter And James Potter. Born August 25th 1976. Relations: Brother Harry James Potter, born July 31st 1980. Adoptive father Remus Elliot Lupin, born March 10th 1960. Fiance Terence Higgs, born July 18th 1973." The jury exchanges glances. This truly was Helena Potter. Would that mean... "The.. memory please. Miss Potter. The pensieve is over there." Helena does as she is asked and extracts the memory from her mind. Letting the strand sink into the water. The minister himself walks up to inspect it.
And all the pain, fear and deadly grieve of the girl flood his whole body as he watches from a position that is most unusual but still very clear the person that is indeed clearly Sirius Black talk to the dead body of James Potter. He even witnesses him run off, shouting something about Pettigrew. The girl did not lie. And finally he watches a memory of James Potter and a man that is clearly Peter Pettigrew transform into animagi forms, while Sirius Black holds the girl on his arm and Remus Lupin watches half amused from behind a newspaper. Lily Potter enters with Harry, who is still a small babe. Maybe at most a month or too. Helena is handed over to Remus Lupin into whom she cuddles happily while Sirius Black with a bright smile holds Harry on his arm. "Thats right. Come to uncle Sirius."

Fudge pulls out of the memory, his heart breaking for the girl who had witnessed too much already in her life and now gave up the safety her new name provided her with to save a man they had terribly misjudged. An unforgivable mistake. "Sirius Black is.. innocent. And since Remus Lupin ever so lovingly raised Helena Potter here I doubt it was him. The man we have to find is Peter Pettigrew. The ministry has made a mistake.. an unforgivable, horrible mistake. We have broken an innocent man what may be beyond repair. The dementors need to get a new command. Look out for an animagus of a rat with only one claw also known as Peter Pettigrew. And the wanted posters need to be removed. The world needs to know that Black is innocent!" He looks at Helena. "Though I have one question. Why did I see the scene upside down?" Helena, without much hesitation begins to levitate and flies up to the ceiling where she sits down. "I survived because I often did this in my sleep. And back then I couldn't control it. Fear basically glued me to the ceiling while everything happened." She levitates down and the man nods. Helena flees toward Terence and they leave, while the daily prophet issues a new article.