Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - Description of the Dementor Attack
Amelia Bones:
Please describe the attack. What did they look like?
Mrs. Figg:
Well one of them was very large, and the other rather skinny.
Fudge:
Not the boys, the Dementors!
Mrs. Figg:
Alright, right, well um, big. Cloaked. Then everything went cold, as though all the happiness had gone from the world.
Fudge:
Now look here, Dementors don't just wander into a Muggle suburb and happen across a wizard, the odds are astronomical.
Dumbledore:
I don't think anyone would believe the Dementors were there by coincidence, Minister.
Umbridge: [clears her throat]
I'm sure I must have misunderstood you, Professor. Dementors are after all under the control of the Ministry of Magic. So silly of me but it sounded, for a moment, as though you were suggesting that the Ministry had ordered the attack on this boy.
Dumbledore:
That would be disturbing indeed, Madame Undersecretary, which is why I'm sure the Ministry will be mounting a full-scale inquiry into why the two Dementors were so far away from Azkaban and why they mounted an attack without authorization. Of course, there is someone who might be behind the attack. Cornelius, I implore you to see reason. The evidence of the Dark Lord's return is incontrovertible.
Fudge:
He's not back!
Dumbledore:
In the matter of Harry Potter, the law clearly states that magic may be used before Muggles in life-threatening situations.
Fudge:
Laws can be changed if necessary, Dumbledore!
Dumbledore:
Clearly, it has become practice to hold a full criminal trial to deal with a simple matter of under-age magic.
Amelia Bones: [Fudge raises his hand followed by some other people including Umbridge]
Those in favor of conviction? Those in favor of clearing the accused of all charges?
Fudge: [reluctantly; as he bangs his gavel]
Cleared of all charges.
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - Dumbledore Addresses Charges at the Hearing
Dumbledore:
Witness for the defense, Albus Percival Wulfric... Brian... Dumbledore.
Fudge:
You-you got our message that the time and place of the hearing had been changed, did you?
Dumbledore: [Pause]
I must have missed it. But by a happy mistake, I arrived at the Ministry three hours early. The charges?
Fudge:
The charges against the accused are as follows; that he did knowingly and in full awareness of the illegality of his actions, produced a Patronus charm in the presence of a Muggle. Do you deny producing said Patronus?
Harry:
No, I—
Fudge: [deliberately interrupting Harry]
And you were aware that you were forbidden to use magic outside school while under the age of seventeen?
Harry:
Yes, but—
Fudge:
Witches and wizards of the Wizengamot—
Harry:
I was only doing it because of the Dementors!
Amelia Bones:
Dementors? In Little Whinging?
Fudge:
That's quite clever. Muggles can't see Dementors, can they boy? Highly convenient.
Harry:
I'm not lying! There were two of them, and if I hadn't—
Fudge: [interrupting Harry again]
Enough! I'm sorry to interrupt what I'm sure would have been a very well rehearsed story, but since you can produce no witnesses of the event—
Dumbledore:
Pardon me, Minister, but as it happens, we can.
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