Whoo it looks like I came up with this idea first as far as I can tell, please inform me if i’m wrong. I do know other people came up with the wands as evidence around the same time though. I was hanging out in the tvtropes thread but then I realized if I wanted actual intellectual stimulation I should probably just hang out over here instead.
The Pringlescan Plan -
Harry gestures to the door, and a new witness shows up right on cue. Its Fred and George Weasley ready to testify at how around midnight they were out of bed pulling a prank when they saw Lord Jugson leaving the trophy room. Possibly muttering something like, “Malfoy finally will get what he deserves” They didn’t report it because they had been breaking the rules at the time and didn’t want to get in trouble. Harry or whoever Harry got to escort them in to testify then explains that Lord Jugson must have disappeared after the army battle to imperius draco into challenging Hermoine to a duel at midnight. Then Lord Jugson snuck into the school at midnight (being a school governor might have some perks helping him with this but the important thing is if he could have plausibly done it) then stunned both Hermoine and Draco floating them outside the wards (or to the room of requirement or to the chamber of secrets) did the memory charms THERE obliviating draco’s imperius charm and putting in the false memory of the battle.
Harry then demands that the wands of all the people involved are presented as evidence. This then shows that Draco’s and Hermoine’s wands haven’t been used since the army battle but Lord Jugson’s wand has been used to perform the false memory and obliviate charm. Lord Jugson protests and points out that he is innocent but Harry says Jugson merely had someone obliviate him and his wand is the proof. Trial over, Lord Jugson goes to Azkhbahn for use of an unforgivable curse upon the heir of malfoy and Hermoine is freed and acquitted.
Now if you haven’t figured it out yet Harry after the trial goes back in time an hour, using the cloak of invisibility steals the wand of Lord Jugson and the wands of Hermoine and Draco out of custody, goes back in time farther and gets Quirrel or Snape or Dumbledore to false memory charm George and Fred so they can testify, and then uses something like the counfounding charm or something similar to wipe the evidence of any fight off of Hermoine’s and Draco’s wands assuming they were properly prepped when they were originally framed. Then they cast the obliviate imperius, and false memory charm spells using Lord Jugsons wand and return it to Harry. Harry then sneaks back into the trial and replaces all 3 wands a second after they were originally stolen.
Okay so in this scenario Hermoine is cleared of all charges, she and Draco can go back to being friends and Lord Jugson is put into Azkhbahn. Its a tall order but I think the boy who lived can manage it with some authorial fiat and a time machine. I’m hard pressed to think of any way it could turn out better.
FIrst, your grammar is poor, and you abuse run-on sentences, making your idea a pain to read.
Second, it is unnecessarily convoluted. All you really had to say was “Harry retroactively implicates Lord Jugson by using his wand, and clears Hermione’s and Draco’s.”
The problem, of course, is that presumably H&D’s wands have already been checked.
I had a long post enumerating things, but it can be replaced with this: A power only provides you with an advantage if the other side doesn’t have it; a power only provides you with an unexpected advantage if the other side is unaware of it.
This is the Wizengamot. Worst case, the majority of the people here probably have time turners, best case, enough people know about them that you couldn’t keep time travel secret. The DMLE has protocols about how to use time travel, which means it’s known to the ministry. Time travel would not be a sufficiently unexpected advantage.
Whoo it looks like I came up with this idea first as far as I can tell, please inform me if i’m wrong. I do know other people came up with the wands as evidence around the same time though. I was hanging out in the tvtropes thread but then I realized if I wanted actual intellectual stimulation I should probably just hang out over here instead.
The Pringlescan Plan -
Harry gestures to the door, and a new witness shows up right on cue. Its Fred and George Weasley ready to testify at how around midnight they were out of bed pulling a prank when they saw Lord Jugson leaving the trophy room. Possibly muttering something like, “Malfoy finally will get what he deserves” They didn’t report it because they had been breaking the rules at the time and didn’t want to get in trouble. Harry or whoever Harry got to escort them in to testify then explains that Lord Jugson must have disappeared after the army battle to imperius draco into challenging Hermoine to a duel at midnight. Then Lord Jugson snuck into the school at midnight (being a school governor might have some perks helping him with this but the important thing is if he could have plausibly done it) then stunned both Hermoine and Draco floating them outside the wards (or to the room of requirement or to the chamber of secrets) did the memory charms THERE obliviating draco’s imperius charm and putting in the false memory of the battle.
Harry then demands that the wands of all the people involved are presented as evidence. This then shows that Draco’s and Hermoine’s wands haven’t been used since the army battle but Lord Jugson’s wand has been used to perform the false memory and obliviate charm. Lord Jugson protests and points out that he is innocent but Harry says Jugson merely had someone obliviate him and his wand is the proof. Trial over, Lord Jugson goes to Azkhbahn for use of an unforgivable curse upon the heir of malfoy and Hermoine is freed and acquitted.
Now if you haven’t figured it out yet Harry after the trial goes back in time an hour, using the cloak of invisibility steals the wand of Lord Jugson and the wands of Hermoine and Draco out of custody, goes back in time farther and gets Quirrel or Snape or Dumbledore to false memory charm George and Fred so they can testify, and then uses something like the counfounding charm or something similar to wipe the evidence of any fight off of Hermoine’s and Draco’s wands assuming they were properly prepped when they were originally framed. Then they cast the obliviate imperius, and false memory charm spells using Lord Jugsons wand and return it to Harry. Harry then sneaks back into the trial and replaces all 3 wands a second after they were originally stolen.
Okay so in this scenario Hermoine is cleared of all charges, she and Draco can go back to being friends and Lord Jugson is put into Azkhbahn. Its a tall order but I think the boy who lived can manage it with some authorial fiat and a time machine. I’m hard pressed to think of any way it could turn out better.
Why do I have −2 points with no posts explaining it?
FIrst, your grammar is poor, and you abuse run-on sentences, making your idea a pain to read.
Second, it is unnecessarily convoluted. All you really had to say was “Harry retroactively implicates Lord Jugson by using his wand, and clears Hermione’s and Draco’s.”
The problem, of course, is that presumably H&D’s wands have already been checked.
Fair enough.
I had a long post enumerating things, but it can be replaced with this: A power only provides you with an advantage if the other side doesn’t have it; a power only provides you with an unexpected advantage if the other side is unaware of it.
This is the Wizengamot. Worst case, the majority of the people here probably have time turners, best case, enough people know about them that you couldn’t keep time travel secret. The DMLE has protocols about how to use time travel, which means it’s known to the ministry. Time travel would not be a sufficiently unexpected advantage.