Queen Farli - "Say you, as a muggle, happen to own a spiked truncheon and for some obscure reason are carrying it with you. This spiked truncheon is ridiculously illegal, iffy legality on owning but definitely hyper illegal on using. You are a member of a gang, as is your godfather, and a member of a rival gang shoots your godfather and he dies.
You chase after her blinded with rage and attack. You attack using the illegal spiked truncheon and beat the murderer up severely but don't kill her, nor will she die from her wounds."

Practically everything in this example has nothing to do with Harry's situation, is exaggerated or irrelevant.
Harry didn't happen to own an illegal weapon for an obscure reason. He had a wand, just like everybody else, which is technically capable of casting the curse.
Harry is not a member of a gang. Sirius is a member of the order, but it is irrelevant since Dumbledore and many members of the order are the ones that are responsible for Harry standing trial. Nobody else would've known about Harry casting the curse otherwise.
Harry wasn't in the right state of mind. He was mentally and physically tortured throughout the year, and he was sleep deprived - considering that soon after that event, Harry was in Dumbledore's office as the sun was rising. He was in an extremely stressful situation fighting for his life.
If his trial was just, then the people that followed him wouldn't have had to lie, to claim that they were forced, pressured or pulled in by his fame or whatever. Some of them were coerced into testifying against him or face similar charges.
Furthermore, Harry FAILED casting the spell. He wasn't trained for it, he wasn't in the right state to cast it. Harry's victim was laughing at his attempt, they weren't brutally beaten to near death. Even a successful cast wouldn't have necessarily caused that - Harry was under Cruciatus several times the previous year and was still strong enough to resist and escape.

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Hi, so, I know you haven't written anything in 8 years and probably wont see this but I'm going to review with my point of view anyway.
To preface: I love this story (both the epilogue and the actual one).

However I disagree with your basic premise. The idea that Harry didn't deserve to go to prison for casting the cruciatus curse on Bellatrix. Your idea that it was a miscarriage of justice. I do agree that his friends should have visited though.

My reasoning: Say you, as a muggle, happen to own a spiked truncheon and for some obscure reason are carrying it with you. This spiked truncheon is ridiculously illegal, iffy legality on owning but definitely hyper illegal on using. You are a member of a gang, as is your godfather, and a member of a rival gang shoots your godfather and he dies.
You chase after her blinded with rage and attack. You attack using the illegal spiked truncheon and beat the murderer up severely but don't kill her, nor will she die from her wounds.
What response would you expect from the jury? You'd expect serious jail time for excessive use of force and possession and use of an illegal weapon. They would not care much that you were distraught - you might get a reduced sentence but you are still going to prison for a time (potentially unless you are a white middle/upper class male, but we can agree that would be positive racism and wrong).
However, if you had chased her and beaten her up the exact same amount using just hands, feet and teeth you would have a MUCH reduced sentence (barring racism/sexism/classism). It might even be a suspended sentence with community service and they WOULD take circumstances into account.

Now relate this to Harry's situation. The cruciatus curse is an unforgivable. The use of it on ANY (magical) HUMAN gives a LIFE SENTENCE in Azkaban.
In the analogy the cruciatus curse is the spiked truncheon. If he had chased Bellatrix and attacked her with any legal spell - even the potentially lethal reductor or cutting curses - he would have been treated like the second scenario and probably given lee way, especially considering it was a running battle.
But he used the spiked truncheon on a fleeing enemy. He SHOULD have gone to jail for LIFE from both a legal AND SOCIETAL perspective. If you are a rich pureblood (the white middle class male) you can bribe your way free but everyone disapproves of that. How would he have reacted if Draco had used the cruciatus curse on Hermione and got off as he, Harry, thinks he should have? He would have been in a furious uproar and tried to get revenge. If DRACO should have gone to prison for life for this then so should Harry.

In fact, society was overly forgiving - I assume a mix of circumstances (distraught and enemy 'soldier'), being underage and probably HIS FAME - by not giving him the LIFE SENTANCE he legally deserves! (And we know the lack of punishment turned him into an entitled git in this regard specifically due to his use of it AGAIN for a MINOR insult in the last book! So you can't just say 'oh it was heat of the moment and he'd never do it again, his personality doesn't allow it' and you SHOULDN'T. He's a violent reoffender). If it had been Hermione you can bet she'd have a life sentence!
He says he would have stood up for her and that's probably true, they should have at least visited and perhaps stood up for him but that has NOTHING to do with following the law and him being imprisoned.

He has every right to be bitter and refuse to help them. He has the right to refuse to mature and realise his punishment was just by both the laws and mores of his society (well Dementors are fully excessive but ignoring this). HIS actions I don't argue.

Tonks liked/admired/fancied him and her opinion is understandable, the wives of murderers and assaulters often claim the punishment is too harsh for their beloved - generally to the disapproval of the general public. As do parents (Remus). There is always something to excuse them.

What I DO argue is Bill's statement that ' It was us condemning you for that which was truly unforgivable'. No. Harry deserved prison for his actions. He was old enough to understand what he was doing and did one of the worst things and individual in his society could do. What WOULD have been unforgivable is NOT condemning him. That would have made them as bad as Bagnold and Fudge who they revile for letting Lucius Malfoy roam free. Therefore I think they should NOT apologise and am a bit sad that the only rebuttal is "you're evil" and not this legitimate argument.

In summary: Harry went to prison rightly, and for not as long as he should but there were mitigating factors. His refusal to accept this shows willing blindness and immaturity but is unsurprising as a human character trait. Tonks was in love and would have explained away anything, like the wives of murderers do in reality. His friends should have visited. Bill, Flitwick etc were wrong to claim his arrest is a miscarriage of justice and by doing so prove they are [racist/classist bigots] and hold the same views as Malfoy in this - if they are on MY side then anything they do should be forgiven (they're only muggles - torturing them is fine, they're on the dark side - torturing them is fine).

Thanks for writing it anyway, as I said: I like the story.
I hope if you do read this you aren't annoyed and I'd like to hear your opinion on my analogy.
Yours
Queen Farli

Sigh, bei8ng a Harmony shipper, this saddened me in many ways, but I can't say you were wrong. Although I do like to think Hermione would have stood by Harry.

Yes ... STILL HATING IT! ... but it's good story.

Having just read F of A and A of F, i really liked the consistency you had acrossboth stories. 10 years was easy for the Order,. There was no bashing Ron, Hermione and Ginnie just as immature as ever.. Ipersonally never saw HHr or HGW as ever being viable. A hufflepuff spouse always seemed right give his abusive upbringing in canon.

I loved your original story and this is just a sweet topping, or a magnificent bow to a stunningly beautiful gift. Thanks for the fantastic story mate

Beautiful

A kind of apathic story of betrayal. It had heart and a good story line. Thanks for writing it I rather enjoyed it.

I liked both of these very much. Will have to go and hunt to see if there is another epilogue. Thank you.

Thank you. This should have been with the original story. Very well written and well done. Again thank you.

As with other imprisonment and betrayal of Harry stories I've read, I find myself stunned at the way those who abandoned and betrayed Harry - Hermione and Ginny, in particular - expect and demand not just Harry's forgiveness but the reinstatement of friendship as it was before the betrayal. The fact that they can make such demands would suggest that they have absolutely no experience of ever having been abandoned and betrayed.

Hermione already showed a lack of empathy pretty clearly in book 5, when she scolded Harry about occlumency and not trying hard enough. She was equally harsh about blaming him for getting detentions with Umbridge, when it was absolutely clear that Harry would receive them no matter what he did or did not do or say. I also found it interesting how she was perfectly willing for him to break rules (usually he got a lecture for it) and teach DADA. I guess its okay for him to risk his neck, if she can benefit.

Harry has had punishments and betrayals and losses heaped upon him since he was 15 months old. Never has there been a break in the pressure. Since his two friends were treasured children of loving parents, there was no way they could understand the depth of his loneliness. Their betrayals, on top of everything else, were just too much. The fact that they see their actions as simple mistakes shows how little they even understand the concepts of friendship and betrayal.

Bill may finally have made a breakthrough, and I suspect the Twins and Charlie may get it. Ron never will, because Ron never really apologized for things he did in canon. He sort of laughed them off with lame statements like "Gee, I guess you were right." He never owned up to what he did and why it was wrong or asked Harry's forgiveness for all of the cr*p he put Harry through in year 4. I'd have to check DH, but I don't think he did there, either. He expects forgiveness as his due, without having to apologize or ask. If Harry doesn't comply, then Harry is evil.

I think Harry and Tonks have a tough row to hoe.

A one shot of about Harry’s death bed to learn about everything he accomplished after this point in time. How the Wizarding World changed, how the school was received, his kids etc.

Loved it.

Damn, this was good! I really like that he isn't actually forgiving any of them! :)