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| − | The '''disciplinary hearing of [[Harry Potter]]''' occurred before the [[Wizengamot]] on [[12 August]], [[1995]] as the boy wizard was charged for using underage magic, that is, he was forced to conjure a [[Patronus Charm]] to save himself and his cousin [[Dudley Dursley]] from [[Dementor]]s in the [[Muggle]] town of [[Little Whinging]] [[2 August|ten days earlier]] |
+ | The '''disciplinary hearing of [[Harry Potter]]''' occurred before the [[Wizengamot]] on [[12 August]], [[1995]] as the boy wizard was charged for using underage magic, that is, he was forced to conjure a [[Patronus Charm]] to save himself and his cousin [[Dudley Dursley]] from [[Dementor]]s in the [[Muggle]] town of [[Little Whinging]] [[2 August|ten days earlier]]. |
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| + | As this hearing took place in the midst of the [[Ministry of Magic]]'s attempts to [[Campaign to Discredit Albus Dumbledore and Harry Potter|discredit Albus Dumbledore and Harry Potter]], there was some bias against Harry's case in hopes to expel the boy and stop him from claiming Lord Voldmeort had returned, and Fudge certainly worked harder to convict Harry for this crime than Harry's previous use of underage magic, blowing up his [[Marjorie Dursley|Aunt Marge]]. |
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| + | Despite this, Harry was cleared of all charges, and later in the year discovered that it was actually Ministry bureaucrat [[Dolores Umbridge]], [[Senior Undersecretary to the Minister for Magic]] and one of Harry's prosecutors during the hearing, who had secretly ordered the Dementors to attack Harry Potter in the first place. |
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===Background=== |
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"Are you a wizard, or what?"
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- Harry Potter: "But the letter said..."
- Kingsley Shacklebolt: "Dumbledore has persuaded the Minister to suspend your expulsion, pending a formal hearing."
- Harry Potter: "Hearing?"
- Kingsley Shacklebolt: "Uh-huh."
- — Kingsley Shacklebolt and Harry Potter on the latter's hearing[src]
The disciplinary hearing of Harry Potter occurred before the Wizengamot on 12 August, 1995 as the boy wizard was charged for using underage magic, that is, he was forced to conjure a Patronus Charm to save himself and his cousin Dudley Dursley from Dementors in the Muggle town of Little Whinging ten days earlier.
As this hearing took place in the midst of the Ministry of Magic's attempts to discredit Albus Dumbledore and Harry Potter, there was some bias against Harry's case in hopes to expel the boy and stop him from claiming Lord Voldmeort had returned, and Fudge certainly worked harder to convict Harry for this crime than Harry's previous use of underage magic, blowing up his Aunt Marge.
Despite this, Harry was cleared of all charges, and later in the year discovered that it was actually Ministry bureaucrat Dolores Umbridge, Senior Undersecretary to the Minister for Magic and one of Harry's prosecutors during the hearing, who had secretly ordered the Dementors to attack Harry Potter in the first place.
Background
Amelia Bones acts as prosecutor
Subsequently, Harry was formally accused of performing underage magic, and was expelled. However, after Albus Dumbledore's intervention, the expulsion was retracted and changed to a disciplinary hearing at the Ministry of Magic's headquarters, before the Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement Amelia Bones, in her office. Cornelius Fudge, the then-Minister for Magic, was attempting to discredit Harry and Dumbledore's claims about the return of Lord Voldemort, and changed the hearing to an earlier time and different location, in the hopes of making Harry to miss it, as well as making it to be tried by the entire Wizengamot. Due to the change of time, Harry was five minutes late, but managed to attend it anyway.
The Hearing
During the hearing, Fudge was incredibly biased against Harry, in the hopes to discredit and expel the boy for his claims that Voldemort has returned. Fudge introduced highly irrelevant considerations and biassed accusations into the trial, all the while denying Harry and Dumbledore a chance to tell their version of what happened, and refused to believe the witness Arabella Figg, partly due to her being a Squib. Percy Weasley, the court scribe, was also nodding to Fudge's words and refusing to acknowledge Harry, much to Harry's fury.
Outfcome
Due to the fair Madam Bones and a majority of the court, Harry was found innocent, with only Fudge, Umbridge, and roughly half-a-dozen of the court favouring in pressing charges, despite Fudge's outrage of such a result.
Behind the scenes
- In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Mafalda Hopkirk's letter expelling Harry was a Howler, which looked less like the Howlers from the books than the one in Chamber of Secrets. Examples are: First of all, it didn't scream, second is that it wasn't red, third is that it had lips.
- In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, while Harry and Dudley were being attacked by Dementors, Harry uses Lumos in a hurried attempt to find his wand in the darkness. Though this is also magic, it was not mentioned at the hearing. It is possible, however, that they were including this when they said underage magic.