It was surprising how much a single person's existence could change so much, but then again, it was not every day someone reborn with foreknowledge decides to play Seer and mess with what is to come.
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( BLACK ) ﾟ.☆*✷･.✧ﾟ･ﾟ.☆*✷･.✧ﾟ
SIRIUS BLACK FOUND INNOCENT, REAL OFFENDER BEHIND BARS
There was quite the uproar in the Wizarding community when the renowned white sheep of the Noble and Most Ancient House of Black, Sirius Black, was taken into custody for the murder of 12 muggles and former Hogwarts classmate Peter Pettigrew, on the night of All Hallows Eve following the most celebrated defeat of you-know-who.
However, it has recently come to light that Black was in fact framed, the mastermind behind the plot being Pettigrew, who staged his death by cutting his little finger and disappearing by transforming into a rat Animagus, an ability he kept illegally hidden, which prevented the Ministry from being able to find the veracity of the matter, which would've been possible if not for the missing information.
Following the apprehension of Pettigrew by a Ministry Official, the wizard was given a dose of Veritaserum to confirm the events that lead to the massacre for which Black was condemned, and all were shocked to find the truth, which absolved Black of all crimes and placed Pettigrew as the sole perpetrator. The man in question is now in the custody of the Aurors and will be facing a trial in the upcoming weeks.
This morning, Black was escorted from the Azkaban cell he had been in ever since his arrest and was given a trial to clear him of all previous charges, leaving him a free man.
This turn of events if quite shocking, but we couldn't be more glad that the truth has its way of coming out, and that the Ministry valiantly did not rest until all facts were presented.
Gardenia wanted to laugh at the poorly veiled excuses for the Ministry's actions, disguised in praises that were not truthful, but she managed to control herself, and simply smiled at the copy of the Daily Prophet she managed to get her hands on.
It didn't take long for the news of Sirius' innocence to be publicly announced, his crimes and arrest had all been very broadly broadcasted, which Gardenia could've guessed by the fact that when he escaped in 1993, everyone except Harry seemed to know the extent of his crimes. She was glad he was being publicly exonerated, that was the least he deserved after spending a couple of months in Azkaban.
She would like to keep tabs on his situation, especially where it concerned Harry Potter, but she knew that her family wasn't involved with him on a personal basis, only that her father was put in charge of clearing his name due to having brought Pettigrew in.
Gardenia wasn't sure that Sirius would manage to have custody of Harry with Dumbledore pulling the strings to keep the boy in the blood ward, but she could hope. She always found ridiculous that Harry had to endure years of abuse for protection she had suspicions could be replaced with some other type of powerful ward if Grimmauld Place was anything to go by. Maybe Sirius free to do as he pleases will succeed to change that, she might never have personally met him, but Gardenia suspects he won't go down quietly if he's refused guardianship of his godson, especially once he finds out the circumstances in which he has been in.
