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{Private to Death Eaters & Supporters}
I feel I should address my part in today's events since everyone seems to be using me as the scapegoat in these events.
First off, I have had my license for exactly 9 days, 4 hours and 32 minutes. During which I have spent three of them filling out the paperwork necessary, two days of moving from the interns office to the office for the junior counsels and then the other four frantically attempting to help a case which I should not have been placed on.
As I have told countless people before this, I am a junior counsel. As in I have only recently gotten my license, which means this is my first trial, my ninth day on the job and a case that should not have been mine. At this point in time I do what I am told. This is not my time to try to 'change the world' or 'do the right thing'. For now I am earning the respect of my peers and I have.
I've spent the past four days, searching through old law books, looking over the evidence and compiling it for the idiot of a man I was set to work for. I found every single loophole in the law that I could, and we used them. It helped somewhat, as his sentence was lightened was it not? I do not consider that incompetence.
The fact of the matter remains is that no matter how much we can appreciate Mr. Black's pride in the matters regarding his items, or the items themselves, the end result is the same. In the eyes of the law it is illegal for him to possess these items as they are considered dark and dangerous, and life threatening in most of the cases. Not to mention the Dark Magic residue that was found in the various rooms.
It was a case never to be won. The only reason there was a trial, was to stop any public outcry at the lack of one that no doubt would've started up. It was a formality and nothing more. Perhaps if there had been a shred of evidence against the Ministry's accusations aside from rumors and speculation then something could've been done. And if that had happened, I would not have been placed on his legal counsel.
I am not incompetent, I am not an idiot, and this was not my fault. So stop using me for your scapegoat for something I had no control over. What he had was illegal to these people.
Furthermore, it is not my responsibility to bribe the judge, or the jury or whoever else might need some persuasion. I did my part in this, and perhaps if his family had taken a moment to realize that, although my family is just as pureblooded as the next, we do not hold the same monetary resources, resources I am not willing to spend on one man's trial, then they could've helped instead of blaming other people for their own damn mistakes.
Not to mention the recent rumors regarding the family. Founded or not, they are out there and they do influence the mind so perhaps next time someone is on trial, don't do something stupid a few days before, or anything that might start the rumor. It's not good on the whole 'innocent' image.
Basically what I am trying to say here is get off your high fucking horse and realize that the events that transpired here today were not my fault, but rather the fault of someone who couldn't be bothered cleaning up after himself on the off chance that something would happen. That is incompetence, and that is not something you can accuse me of.
Was that too hard to comprehend or do you think I got my point through your thick heads?
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