celandineb: Even-handed Justice (Harry, general)

Jul 13, 2006 22:04

Title: Even-handed Justice
Author: celandineb
Rating: general
Prompt Set: 50.1
Prompt: #14, "Honor"
Word Count: 100
Summary: Harry must set free an old enemy.
Notes: The title is from Shakespeare's Macbeth, Act I, scene VI, lines 9-13: "But in these cases / We still have judgment here; that we but teach / Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return / To plague the inventor; this even-handed justice / Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice / To our own lips."

"I've never been able to use it against him, not properly," Harry had argued, but the Wizengamot overrode him, even though the only person he had ever loathed more than Snape had died by Harry's hand. If Harry had managed to use both Occlumency and Legilimency against Voldemort, he could do it now.

So he took a deep breath and met Snape's gaze, striving to force his way through the curtain of cloudy thoughts. Thin lips twisted bitterly, and suddenly Harry could see -

It was due to Harry's testimony that Severus Snape was acquitted of the murder of Albus Dumbledore.

harry 50.1 (celandineb)

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