A portly little man with rumpled grey hair was staring at his mirror. He put on his lime green bowler hat, he sighed. He stepped into his fireplace and threw the ashes down “Ministry for Magic.” He walked out of the fire, a man at the entry to the main area of the ministry held his hand out “Minister Fudge, may we hold onto your wand while your inside.”

Fudge smiled “Of course my good sir.” Fudge gave the wizard his wand, he shook his head. He never wanted this job. Lucius was an incredible thorn in his side and the less to be said about his Undersecretary the better. Playing the fool was hard and today he had no intention of playing the fool.

As soon as he entered his office, Lucius was already standing there waiting outside. Fudge grimaced as he entered his office and took his seat. Lucius smirked “Fudge, the Auror Office is an unnecessary expense. The Dark Lord has been defeated.”

Fudge frowned “Lucius, the Auror Office exists to maintain Law and Order. The ICW requires every nation to have such an office. Failure to do so would cause the ICW to seize control of the Ministry. I have covered for you quite a bit, and without me being in charge they will come down on you hard.”

Lucius paled slightly “I see, thank your for you time Cornelius.” Fudge smirked as Lucius left, he wasn’t very good at being a Slytherin. Fudge had been very good at that, he had worked hard in his youth. He had a perfect record, outstanding in all of his NEWTs but due to being a half-blood he was treated as lesser wizard.

Fudge had feigned incompetence to avoid the notice of purebloods and got a cushy job in the ministry. Becoming Minster for Magic threw his plan for a loop but Lucius was an easy pawn to play. He took his bribes which were quite large in exchange for passing laws that cut the budget for Aurors while anonymously donating the bribes to Auror Office so they could continue to run as effectively as they did before.

Fudge shook his head as he took a seat at his desk, he took sorted through the papers when he came across a multiple page document. It had multiple stamps on the front page that he recognised, he stood up immediately and bolted out of his office, pausing only to lock the door behind him.

Fudge stormed through the ministry with the paper in his hands. He burst into the office of Amelia Bones, slamming the paper on her desk. He looked at her with a grave expression “We need to something about this now.”

Amelia Bones eyed him carefully, this was the first time the minister had visited her office and he was usually jovial when she met him. The expression on his face didn’t bode well. She picked up the paper and read it, her eyes narrowing as she read the document “So Sirius has yet to receive his trial after a decade.”

Fudge nodded “We will correct the oversight immediately. We will head to Azkaban and get him his trial, the paperwork can be filled out later.” He then frowned “I will go personally. It would make other suspicious if you were to leave.”

Amelia nodded “Use my personal floo, it will be faster.”

Fudge nodded, stepping into the floo. He appeared in a small building with three aurors playing card at their desk. They turned to him “Forgive us Minister.”

Fudge chuckled “Between you and me, if someone was able to get past the Dementors then you probably couldn’t do that much anyway.” He then scowled “Sirius Black needs to have his trial.” He stormed out of the building, pulling out his wand. He winced as he felt the unnaturally cold air surrounded the area.

Fudge pulled out his wand and without a word, his wand created a fearsome glowing white snake that slithered along the ground beside him as he walked up the stairs. The snake lashed out at any Dementor that got too close. The made his way to Sirius Black’s cell, he man in the cell looked like a corpse but despite his incarceration he forced himself to his feet. He approached the cell door “Am I finally getting my trial?”

Fudge’s wand glowed “Yes, you are getting your trial today. Ten years overdue as well.” He took Sirius out of the prison, several prisoners shouting at him as they went. He then took Sirius through the flew network to Amelia's office.

Ten minutes later Fudge was in the office, his undersecretary Dolores was underneath him. Dumbledore was in his spot as Chief Warlock. The two wizarding political parties were on both sides, Amelia Bones was standing there. Lucius was commanding the Pureblood Champions party as he called it. Lucius frowned “Why have you called us here Minister Fudge?”

Fudge frowned “After ten years of bouncing around the request for the trial of Sirius Black ended up on my desk. I’m sure both sides can agree that leaving someone locked up in Azkaban for ten years without trial is unacceptable.” He then turned to Malfoy “Your party should be involved to, Sirius Black is a pureblood and if this applies to him then it applies to all of you as well.”

Lucius stiffened. Amelia Bones then interjected “Let’s get the trial underway.” A cage emerged from the bottom, Sirius Black bound within.

Amelia Bones nodded to Fudge, Fudge looked around with a smile “Here we are to correct an injustice.” He then turned to Sirius “The accusation against you is of the murder of several muggles, the murder of Peter Pettigrew and the betrayal of Lilly and James Potter. What do you have to say in your defense.”

Sirius nodded his eyes firmly fixated on Fudge “I swear on my life and magic that I did not betray Lilly and James Potter nor murder nay muggles that day. Peter Pettigrew was the one who betrayed James and Lilly Potter.” The room glowed as a surge of magic filled the room and then silence.

Fudge nodded “I see. You are free to go. Still one final question, how did he escape.”

Sirius frowned “He was an Animagus like me, we were both unregistered.”

Lucius stood up “He just admitted to be an unregistered Animagus, that is a crime.”

Fudge glared at Lucius “Sit down, that is not part of this trial. Also that is a crime punished with a fine, not Azkaban. Furthermore as an act of good will for his false incarceration in Azkaban I will wave the fine and provide him with the paperwork to fill his registration.” With that the trial was finished as quickly as it had started.

Author's Note

I hope you enjoyed this chapter.