"That was it?" Harry was feeling very smug.
He was often smug, but today he was especially smug.
During the hearing's show-of-hands vote, the overwhelming majority believed he was innocent. That made sense. After all, Harry had both witnesses and physical evidence, while on the Ministry of Magic's side, Fudge's claim that the Ministry could fully control Dementors did not seem to hold much water.
And so Harry was declared innocent.
That felt great.
What felt slightly less great was that Dumbledore had left after exchanging only a couple of words with him, which puzzled Harry somewhat. In the past, Dumbledore had always liked saying all sorts of strange things that did not seem like smart-ass remarks at the time, but proved to be exactly that afterward...
But with Sirius beside him, Harry did not particularly mind. He left the courtroom with Sirius, and they went to find Mr. Weasley first.
Mr. Weasley looked very nervous and anxious, but when he saw the two of them come in smiling, he immediately knew the outcome had been good. "Wonderful! I've been worrying all this time, but it looks as though you sorted it out?"
"Of course. It was easy," Harry said smugly.
Mr. Weasley was very used to Harry's irrepressible nature, while Sirius loved it.
As Sirius put it, Harry's appearance had taken him some getting used to, but his personality was just like his father James Potter's.
"Right, I need to go to Serbia." Once he was sure there were no more problems on Harry's end, Mr. Weasley scratched his head and said, "No telling what the situation is like over there. Harry, Sirius, let Molly know for me that I might not make it home tonight."
Harry and Sirius nodded, then left Mr. Weasley's office together.
Just as they