The Real Harry Potter

Harry was currently sat alongside Sirius during Severus Snape's trial, when Snape had been brought in he was wearing the exact same clothes from when he had been captured. He also looked very roughed up, that did not surprise Harry, Snape had no shortage of enemies. The idiot bullied and insulted whoever he could, especially children, then expected Dumbledore, Voldemort and his positions to save him from suffering the consequences of being a first class asshole.

The aurors shoved him into his seat, a little but rougher than necessary, chains rose up from the chain and wrapped themselves around a tired and livid looking Severus Snape. Snape glared at everyone in the courtroom, especially Harry and Sirius, not something that helped his case.

The judge for this case was Amelia Bones, previously the head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement but was now the new Minister of Magic. The trial started with listing all of the various crimes Snape was accused of, including the ones he was accused of before the last war had ended, because apparently Snape had got off last time thanks to Dumbledore's claims that Snape was a spy for him all along which had pretty much shut down the trial nearly immediately. That excuse wasn't going to work as well seeing as he was being accused for killing the old fucker.

"How do you plead?" Amelia Bones asked once the long list of charges was read.

"Not guilty." Snape said without hesitation, even if he didn't look very confident.

"Defiant to the end." Harry whispered to Sirius who snorted in amusement.

"He always was a stubborn bastard." Sirius agreed.

"Very well," Madam Bones nodded as if she was expecting that answer. "let us continue." She said.

What followed was roughly about an hour or so of various people who knew Snape and Dumbledore discussing Snape and answering questions, including the Hogwarts teachers. The other three head of houses very coldly informed them of the uncountable times that they had received complaints about Snape only to be brushed off by Dumbledore who would always say that same things, either he trusted Snape or he would talk to Snape, only one of those sounded true.

Sirius was even given the opportunity to speak up against Snape, Sirius had to restrain himself and was barely able to keep the gleeful look off of his face. Sirius began talking about all the many times he had argued with Dumbledore about having Snape, not just as a spy but also as a teacher for Hogwarts. He also talked about how Snape was the one to stop him from catching Pettigrew during Harry's third year, something which did not help Snape's case.

Eventually Harry was called up to speak, Harry had to stop himself from looking too happy, much like Sirius had. Harry had calmly walked to the witness box, Snape was snarling at him the whole time. Not something that helped his case but he either did not notice or care that everyone else in the court was noticing his reaction to Harry.

"Mr Potter." Amelia Bones spoke. "You have known Mr Snape since your first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, is that correct?"

"Unfortunately." Harry nodded.

"What is your relationship with the accused?" Amelia Bones asked.

"The best way I could probably describe it is regular guy meets psychopath stalker." Harry replied.

"Explain." Amelia Bones frowned.

"Well Snape over there has made no secret of the fact that he hates me, yet the majority of the time it is him who approaches me." Harry shrugged. "Now I am no expert but I would imagine that a mentally healthy person would take steps to avoid someone they dislike but in Snape's case he does the opposite and actively seeks me out to taunt and bully me. I have lost count of how many times he has done that then relied on his position and Dumbledore to protect himself. As you can imagine I was not able to retaliate against Snape when I was eleven years old and forced to listen to him insult my dead father in front of me." Harry said, earning gasps of disbelief from the court.

"He insulted your father?" One member of the court asked.

"Allow me to explain," Harry said before taking a deep breath. "during my first potions class I had entered the classroom, and I was admittedly rather excited as the subject had sounded quite interesting to me. But then Snape stormed into the room, when he took the register he mocked me for being a celebrity despite the fact that I had not said anything to him. He then singled me out and asked me some very advanced questions that we were not expected to know for our first class.

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