December 2nd, 1999

Auror Office London, England

Neville Longbottom ran into Senior Auror Grey's office. She was standing over the files on her desk, staring at a pile of images. Zaima was leaning against a wall nearby. She was sorting through several others. Neville was trying to catch his breath while Grey looked up at him questioningly.

"Ron tried to hex Harry again"

"You've got to be shiting me," Grey groaned

"What number is that?" Asked Zaima

"Ron to Harry or in general? Also, are we counting outside of work?" Neville asked

"In general and no" Zaima said

"24"

"Merlin," Grey muttered, "where are they now?"

"In Lyra's room, They're staying in between them for now" Grey moved to the door and began to power walk over to Lyra's office. Zaima and Neville both had to jog to keep up. She opened the door to see Lyra keeping them apart.

"Both of you, the conference room, now" She growled. The whole team of Aurors walked into the conference room. Grey sat down at the head of the table. The rest of the Aurors filled into their seats with the exception of Zaima. "24 incidents in 9 days, dear Merlin that must be a record. I don't know how else to make this clear to you two idiots. Get. Over. Yourselves. Ron, nobody else here gives a shit that Harry missed a mission that went wrong. Harry, you seem to be the only one here blaming Ron. Does anyone else disagree with my last two statements" Grey looked over the other Aurors. Neither Neville nor Lyra disagreed "Good. You two need to get over your issues and work together for the sake of this team. You two will be working together on our next case" both of them were ready to complain, but Grey's glare silenced both of them in a second. Due to Grey's speech, no one noticed Zaima slip into the room pushing a pin board covered in different photographs.

"I set up the board," Zaima said. Neville had to look away for a second. The photos were filled with blood

"We don't know if this case has magical origins, but I think if we can help, we should. As you can see, the first victim was repeatedly stabbed and was killed by the killer severing her throat. The other injuries were inflicted post-mortem. She was found in the white chapel district. The second victim was killed the same, however, several organs were partially missing. The third victim had her throat slashed, but no other injuries. She was found yesterday morning. Victim number 4 was found less than an hour later, with her liver removed. All four of the victims worked for the same madam. We are expected at the scene of the crime at 12:00. Lyra will stay behind. The madam has agreed to speak to us, and only us, in exchange for full immunity. Neville and Zaima will go to meet with her. Ron, Harry and I will go to the crime scene. Now one more piece of advice going into this case, the murders are a clear copy of Jack the Ripper." Ron and Neville looked confused, "the world's most famous serial killer. We need to keep that in mind while dealing with this killer. Any questions? Good, see you guys back at the station"

19 Grimmauld Place, London, England

Neville Longbottom rang the doorbell of 19 Grimmauld Place. He had laughed when Grey had told him where the Brothel was. It was on his own block after all. Zaima was trying not to laugh at him due to his blatant shock. Good thing none of his neighbors knew him, or that would be an interesting conversation. There was a for sale sign in front of the house. An older woman opened the door. She smiled at them. They took out their badges.

"Mr. and Mrs. Long, now this is the house for you. Here, let me show you around." She led them into the house and quickly closed the door behind them. "Honestly, could they have made you any more obvious? For future reference, don't wear your uniforms to something like this

"I'm sorry, we don't usually work directly with madams" Zaima said

"Yes, well someone is killing my girls and I want to know why. Oh sorry, Gina Tuffin" she said "it was a shame to hear what happened to my girls. They were all hard workers"

"We have reason to believe that they might have been killed by a client, seeing as they all worked for you"

"I thought you would ask me that, I already had the list ready for you. Marina!" A young woman came in with a book.

"Here Ms. Tuffin" She said quietly

"This is a complete list of names. I've circled the names of clients who saw multiple of the girls. I also circled some names of clients who stood out to me."

"What do you mean?" Zaima asked as she passed Neville the list

"Weird preferences, the one who made my girls uncomfortable. I circled the worst in red. Now, I know you probably don't want me to color your judgement but one name did stand out to me" she took the list from Neville and opened to a specific page.

"August Knells?" Zaima read

"That's the one. Terrified poor Anna, two days laters, the police found her"

"And he visited all 4 girls?" Asked Neville

"Yes, he did"

"Has he seen any other girls recently?" Asked Neville

"Katrina and Lisa"

"We may want to move them into protective custody. Here is our card. We will be meeting with the head inspector and will bring it up with him. We'll be in touch." Zaima said, leading herself and Neville out of the front door

White Chapel District, London, England

Harry Potter and Ron Wealsey followed Grey through the crowd of reporters to the crime scene. Several muggle detectives were standing around the body, which was covered by a sheet. Harry tried to avoid the smell of decay and blood. When they got close enough, Grey showed the muggle police her badge. One of them stepped forward

"Agent Grey, Inspector Jones, we spoke on the phone"

"Right," Grey said, shaking her hand "Can you show us the body?"

"Yes, Miller, pull back the sheet" the girl was covered in blood. There was a hole in her side, which was thankfully mostly covered by her shredded shirt.

"Her name was Katie, her id said she was 19 but-"

"You think it was fake?" Asked Grey

"Yes, our best guess is that she's under 18"

"Ok, do you have someone working on finding out her real name and information?"

"Yes, but so far nothing"

"Ron, call Lyra and get 'em on it." Grey gave Inspector Jones a business card "that's the email to our main tech wiz, can you send the other girls information to her?"

"Sure, Smith! Can you deal with this?"

"Yes ma'am" he said, taking the card

"Ron and Harry, can you look over the body? See if there is something the others missed?" She asked, glaring at them. They knew what she meant. Look for magic. Harry and Ron walked over to the body. Miller pulled back the sheet. Harry was immediately hit with the scent of decay.

"When do you think she was killed?" Asked Harry

"Between 5 am and 6 am" Miller said

"No way the body should be this decomposed by now" Ron muttered

"Look kids, I know you too haven't been around that many bodies-"

"Trust me, I've been around plenty" Harry said

"Yeah well, so have I," Ron retorted. Grey glared at them again. This time it was a warning

"Right," Miller said "The liver is missing we haven't been able to locate it"

"Killer probably took it. Serials like this take trophies" Grey said. "Guys, anything else you noticed about the body?" They both shook their heads "We need to regroup and go over what we have" Grey told Jones

"I can drive you there" Jones said

White Chapel District police station, London, England

Ronald Weasley sat at the table of the white chapel stanton's conference room. Neville and Zaima had arrived a few minutes before them. Grey was opening her laptop and put it in front of them. She pressed a couple of buttons and Lrya's face appeared on screen.

"Testing one two, Testing one two" Lyra said

"We can you hear you, loud and clear Lyra" Zaima said

"Hello, my fabulous murder solvers. I ran the names you gave me. I got nothing from that, but I had more luck with the pictures. Those girls were really trying to look older, but that wasn't a problem for my self-made poly juice proof facial recognition software. I ran them in the muggle system and I got 3 out of 4. Today's body's real name is Dorothy Tomas, 16 and from Cornwall. Nothing stands out there. Ran away from home and hasn't reappeared since. Girl number 3, her id says her name is Anna and she's 21. Real name is Victoria Meadow, 18, similar story. Girl number 2, Izabella Snyder, 19. Her id was actually accurate. The last girl wasn't in the muggle system, I'll check her in ours. I'll get back to you about it."

"Thanks Lyra," Zaima said

"Lyra, signing off"

"Call us when you get more info" Grey said

"On it" the screen turned black. Grey shut the laptop.

"Where does that leave us?" Asked Grey "Neville, Zaima?"

"We got a list of names from Madam Tuffin. She circled some names for us. She highlighted one name in particular. August Knells. He met all of the girls before they were killed." Zaima said

"Ok, what about the body?" Grey asked

"It was over-decomposed. It didn't make sense"

"Great, so we have little at best," Grey groaned. She looked at her watch. "Look, usually I would say we keep at it until we come up with something, but given that this is a copycat, we have some time. I'm going to talk to Jones about getting some surveillance on Knells and then we can call it for the night."

"How long do we have?" Asked Neville

"If the killer sticks to his pattern, 10 days before he takes his last victim" Grey said "he'll send us part of his trophy to us first though"

"You mean Dorothy Tomas's liver?" Ron asked. Grey nodded grimly.

"Look, go home for the night. We won't be at our best unless we get some sleep. Ok guys?" They nodded as they collected their things. Ron, Harry and Neville left the station and apperated home