Harry and Miss Granger were called as witnesses in Sirius’s trial. They each stated that a little over a year ago, they had seen rat-animagus Peter Pettigrew transform and confess to framing Sirius. Much more effectively for Sirius’s defence, the "Slayer of Voldemort" told the court that, once he was assured that Sirius Black was no Death Eater, "I always have felt safe when I’ve been near my godfather Sirius. If I were still legally a minor, I would be asking you after Sirius’s acquittal to make him my Muggle and magical guardians. I definitely would prefer that Sirius Black be who controls my schoolboy self, if I weren’t emancipated, instead of the Dursleys and Albus Dumbledore being in charge of me."