Chapter 40: Judgment

Waking up in the morning I was able to see various notices of new abilities.

[Auras and Essences: Skill "Essence of Bard" Obtained]

[Auras and Essences: "Ballerina Essence" Skill Obtained]

[Auxiliary: "Bard's Ear" Skill Obtained]

-Bard's ear-

-Whenever you listen to music you will be able to receive/improve attributes or characteristics depending on the lyrics, intension, melody and/or rhythm of this-

This ability together with [Music] is a terrible 'Power Up', I can practically strengthen myself in any battle by playing some Dragon ball Z song...

-Ballerina Essence-

* Natural talent for dance.

*Improved speed of learning to dance.

*It becomes almost impossible to lose your balance while dancing and your understanding of space increases.

*Your movements will be fluid and graceful, making the simplest of them part of the most complex dance, 'existence'.

-Essence of Bard-

* Natural talent for instruments and singing.

*Improved speed of learning to sing or play instruments.

*You will have a magnetic, rhythmic and melodious voice.

Okay, I think I could be a good artist with this, not that that was my goal, but it's not bad. I suppose that now I will be able to take better advantage of the guitar I buy, it will be good to put it to use...

"Aaughh... it's time to get up and get ready..." I woke up, but when I heard myself speak I realized... my voice sounded like I was singing "... It can't be..." I said and again it sounded the same.

For a while I didn't stop saying things trying not to sing them, but it was useless, not only that, but when I walked I could notice how my body moved differently. With Tenebrius it was not so noticeable, I judge by the modifications that he has in his body, but with Red it was something very outstanding.

Auxiliary-type skills can be turned off at will, but blood magic and aura skills are not so easy. They can be controlled with will, but it is more difficult, that is the reason why everyone in Hogwarts feared me, I could not control the effect of my auras very well, since it is like learning to contort an underused muscle, it takes time. Controlling my voice will be quite complicated, I barely control some auras... but at least with Tenebrius it will be easier, in clones the minimum of the aura skills are less, so I can live normally with him, with a little With practice I can also solve this, but with Red...

"Tenebrius... are you awake? If not I'll wake you up the same way you did with me" Tonks' voice was heard behind the door, I had been in here for a long time concentrating on my problem.

When I heard her I went directly to open the door, on the other side was the pink-haired girl who came to wake me up, I think, because she is waiting for her breakfast.

"We have a problem…" I told him.

"Which?" I ask confused by the way I said it.

"My skills developed again"

"And what's wrong with that? Isn't that good? And why do you sing?"

"I'm not singing and that's the problem, I can't stop doing it"

"..." I stare for a moment, but I could tell that I couldn't contain his smile "hahaha can't you really stop putting that tone in your voice?" She laughed in disbelief at my situation.

"This is serious" I reprimanded her.

"Let's see say: 'the bravest and most talented, of women the most beautiful, she is Tonks the wonderful'"

"The bravest and most talented, the most beautiful of women, she is Tonks the wonderful" I repeated, fulfilling her wish.

"Hahaha, don't go on like this you'll make me blush" she laughed and patted me on the shoulder "You seem to be serenading me"

"Could you take it a little more seriously"

"No... it doesn't matter, you sound amused and it seems that your voice is nicer, it wouldn't bother me if you stayed like that, now go prepare breakfast I'm hungry"

I rolled my eyes and realized that I had chosen the wrong person to discuss these kinds of 'minor' issues. I went to make breakfast and after that, we were about to leave, but I stopped Tonks for a moment to say something to her.

"You know that today we will possibly see rivers of blood, right?"

Waking up in the morning I was able to see various notices of new abilities.

[Auras and Essences: Skill "Essence of Bard" Obtained]

[Auras and Essences: "Ballerina Essence" Skill Obtained]

[Auxiliary: "Bard's Ear" Skill Obtained]

-Bard's ear-

-Whenever you listen to music you will be able to receive/improve attributes or characteristics depending on the lyrics, intension, melody and/or rhythm of this-

This ability together with [Music] is a terrible 'Power Up', I can practically strengthen myself in any battle by playing some Dragon ball Z song...

-Ballerina Essence-

* Natural talent for dance.

*Improved speed of learning to dance.

*It becomes almost impossible to lose your balance while dancing and your understanding of space increases.

*Your movements will be fluid and graceful, making the simplest of them part of the most complex dance, 'existence'.

-Essence of Bard-

* Natural talent for instruments and singing.

*Improved speed of learning to sing or play instruments.

*You will have a magnetic, rhythmic and melodious voice.

Okay, I think I could be a good artist with this, not that that was my goal, but it's not bad. I suppose that now I will be able to take better advantage of the guitar I buy, it will be good to put it to use...

"Aaughh... it's time to get up and get ready..." I woke up, but when I heard myself speak I realized... my voice sounded like I was singing "... It can't be.. ." I said and again it sounded the same.

For a while I didn't stop saying things trying not to sing them, but it was useless, not only that, but when I walked I could notice how my body moved differently. With Tenebrius it was not so noticeable, I judge by the modifications that he has in his body, but with Red it was something very outstanding.

Auxiliary-type skills can be turned off at will, but blood magic and aura skills are not so easy. They can be controlled with will, but it is more difficult, that is the reason why everyone in Hogwarts feared me, I could not control the effect of my auras very well, since it is like learning to contour an underused muscle, it takes time . Controlling my voice will be quite complicated, I barely control some auras... but at least with Tenebrius it will be easier, in clones the minimum of the aura skills are less, so I can live normally with him, with a little With practice I can also solve this, but with Red...

"Tenebrius... are you awake? If not I'll wake you up the same way you did with me" Tonks' voice was heard behind the door, I had been in here for a long time concentrating on my problem.

When I heard her from her I went directly to open the door, on the other side was the pink-haired girl who came to wake me up, I think, because she is waiting for her breakfast from her.

"We have a problem…" I told him.

"Which?" I ask confused by the way I said it.

"My skills developed again"

"And what's wrong with that? Isn't that good? And why do you sing?"

"I'm not singing and that's the problem, I can't stop doing it"

"..." I stare for a moment, but I could tell that I could n't contain his smile from him "hahaha ca n't you really stop putting that tone in your voice?" She laughed in disbelief at my situation.

"This is serious" I reprimanded her.

"Let's see say: 'the bravest and most talented, of women the most beautiful, she is Tonks the wonderful'"

"The bravest and most talented, the most beautiful of women, she is Tonks the wonderful" I repeated, fulfilling her wish from her.

"Hahaha, don't go on like this you'll make me blush" she laughed and patted me on the shoulder "You seem to be serenading me"

"Could you take it a little more seriously"

"No... it doesn't matter, you sound amused and it seems that your voice is nicer, it wouldn't bother me if you stayed like that, now go prepare breakfast I'm hungry"

I rolled my eyes and realized that I had chosen the wrong person to discuss these kinds of 'minor' issues. I went to make breakfast and after that, we were about to leave, but I stopped Tonks for a moment to say something to her.

"You know that today we will possibly see rivers of blood, right?"

"I don't want to be rude, but you are a weak point in our plan, we must slightly modify your memories so that everything agrees for any eventuality"

"That's true, but we can't just alter his memory because of a problem you caused" the director chided me

"We're not going to modify his memory, we're going to create some false memories without supplanting the real ones or the fact that they're false, and then we're going to cast a confusion spell on him so he thinks they're more truthful than the real ones, then we remove that spell and everything as before " I said causing the director to stop for a moment to think about it.

"Even so, we can't force her, I won't let you do it" he warned me, it seemed that he had a bad impression of what he was willing to do.

"I know perfectly well, she's my friend... Tonks, this is completely your decision"

The girl who was caught in this chaotic web thought for a while, but she didn't doubt the two people in front of her. She felt a little nervous, but she was willing to do what was necessary.

"Okay, let's do it" she decided.

"Let's hurry up before someone comes" I reminded the old man "Don't worry Tonks, we'll both watch each other to avoid doing anything too much"

We quickly got to work, while the director created the false memories in Tonks, I was telling her everything she knew about Tenebrius or that we had established in the lies of the work.

When we finished, Tonks didn't notice any difference, for her everything was normal, only that Tenebrius had no relationship with Red, that he was another friend that she met at Hogwarts and nothing more. He had nothing to do with what happened either, he was a victim like her.

Taking a breath that we made it, we heard the door suddenly open and as if programmed to do so, the soundproofing spell wore off. Fudge entered the door with some Aurors.

"Albus! You're finally here, why didn't you come straight to me? We need you" said the minister relieved and anxious, who seemed to be at a crossroads at the moment.

"I just wanted to see how my students were doing, you know that after hearing all this I was a little worried, I wanted to make sure they were okay" he returned to his old man attitude, wise and kind.

"Okay, let's go, the German ministry is at my door" The minister looked at us for a second, he wanted to know who were the people involved in all this mess.

"Let's go" replied the director and then gave me one last look.

A couple of Aurors who came with the minister stayed in the office and told us not to leave this place, that we might be called shortly. But it wasn't any time soon, we had to eat what I had in my inventory, since we had spent lunch time locked in the office.

By evening the pair of Aurors came to us and asked us to follow them. We got to the elevator and to our surprise we started to go down a lot, on the way we realized where we were going, the tenth level. There we were detained in a small waiting room.

After a while they did not make us enter the courtroom while we listened:

"Let the witnesses pass"

Torchlit black walls, a grand gallery filled with plum-clad wizards with a 'W' on the left chest, Dumbledore being the most prominent as he stands in front of the main lectern. In addition to them, I was also able to recognize Fudge and... Umbridge... by God, it's horrible, his actress didn't do him justice at all, but if they had put something similar in the movies, they would probably only see them for morbidity.

Two additional grandstands had been added to the sides, in addition to that of the Wizengamot. We were placed in one of them with all the other Aurors who were in the warehouse at the time and a few more people I can't recognize. In front of us was the other gallery full of unknown people, but one of them made me understand who they were... there was Ambassador Muller that I rescued, they should be the staff of the German ministry. The ambassador looked more groomed than when I found him, he's clearly not in good shape yet, but well enough to show up here I suppose. When we met eyes he nodded and smiled to which I returned the greeting.

In addition to them there were a few Aurors among which was Mad-Eye Moody, I think they had the security role or maybe they were here, since this happened in his apartment.

And the last person inside this room was Garrick Rotenrot, sitting in the defendants' chair in the center of the room, from how pale he looked I could imagine how he was going this trial.

"Now I want the first Witness to come through" Dumbledore exclaimed.

One of the Aurors who was first on the right side got up and moved to face a seat that was more in the center of the room, although not as close to the accused. There they asked him to explain what he witnessed that day, but I don't know if it was fear of Garrick or complicity, all the details he gave were so vague that little could be said about it. After a few questions he came back with us and one person after another passed by.

Of the seven Aurors who accompanied us that day, 3 did not tell the truth even though they were clearly there, 2 said exactly what they witnessed and two other people who were the old man and the woman who helped us at that time said so many things against Garrick that Dumbledore had to put an end to it because the trial was going to be very long.

Soon it was Nymphadora's turn and although she was nervous, she stood in front of everyone to declare what happened from her point of view...

"So it was Tenebrius Akaichi who was reluctant to leave, since he thought there was someone else in the room?" Dumbledore asked.

"Yes... when we were finishing he told us that there was someone else in the room, but when they didn't find anything they were all leaving, he insisted once more being only Aurelius and Camil who believed him and helped him once again.. At that time they didn't find anything either, so he pointed out that it was inside one of the trunks that formed the base of the ground. Several times our boss didn't hurry to leave there, but he resisted and when no one went to help him, even when I claim to find the place, I went there and I was in charge of cooperating with him so that he finally found the bag where the place where all... the prisoners were held was kept" said this last part somewhat choked by memories.

"Why did he decide to help him even against his leader's orders?" asked a member of the Wizengamot.

"Because he trusted him more than someone who leaves his job in the middle just because he doesn't want to be there. Tenebrius, although he is a bit exaggerated sometimes in certain things, he knows well when he has to act, he can always give the best solution in right time and never does anything he's not sure about... he's very dependable when you need him, so if he could swear on his mother's grave that someone was there then someone would be there."

After a few more questions, it was finally my turn and much of the attention fell on me more than on all the other witnesses.

"Tenebrius Akaichi... can you tell us what happened that day in the warehouse..."

Having already prepared my speech and the correct temper to tell it, I began with the story, in which I gave so many details of how it happened that Garrick on one side trembled throughout my talk with fear and hatred in his eyes.

When I started to speak, everyone stared at me strangely because of how I was doing it, but no one interrupted me until I finished. Two or three Wizengamot elders had to hold back their laughter when they heard me 'sing' the story.

"Can you explain why I hum the whole story about him? I want to remind you that this is a court and disrespect like that can end in a serious sanction" A gray-haired woman demanded, somewhat disgusted.

"Sorry, I had a problem with my magic recently and I can't stop doing it, but I'll try to fix it soon, I didn't have time with the trial so soon"

"Give us the freedom to check it out" he asked.

"Of course" I agreed.

One of the Aurors approached me and after casting some spells on me, with which I didn't feel anything was wrong, he turned to the woman and answered.

"Nothing has been detected, no trace of magic or particular curse or traces of chaotic magical energy due to any accident" and to which the woman nodded for her to continue.

After the auror said that, everyone looked at me with some distrust and disagreement. The auror, now cast another spell that made me recite a tongue twister without interruption, and there everyone saw that my intonation still persisted when I said it. Then there were several others who also forced me to say some gibberish, some that changed my voice or made me speak at different speeds, in all of them you could see that I sang what I said and they all believed me.

"I apologize" said the woman.

"Can you tell us how she knew where they were?" asked Alastor Moody, who was standing on one of the sides of the stands like other Aurors. The look on his face seriously said that he was suspicious of me.

"It's a born ability, I can feel the living beings around me, although not far away. I felt it when we were there and the numbers of the people present did not match"

"Do you have any way to prove it?" An elderly wizard asked.

"Well…" I said as I closed my eyes and after quite some time and some complaints from Dumbledore, I opened them and said "In addition to everyone else visible, I can assure you that there are four more people here.

When I said that, both the British and German ministry staff widened their eyes. They both looked at each other for a moment before pointing to places where there was clearly no one.

Several meters behind the accused, two figures appeared after removing their invisibility cloaks, as did two people behind German ministry personnel.

"It's just a precaution..." Someone on that side of the rostrum apologized in broken English.

"It's understandable in this situation," Dumbledore said, trying to lighten the mood that had become somewhat awkward with the hidden presence of staff from both ministries.

"I have one more question" said Alastor "I have been investigating you and I can't find any trace of you before your appearance in the ministry. How is that possible and why are you only now appearing on the map?"