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Chapter Two- More Pointless Investigation

The next morning, I woke up next to my fireplace, still wearing the work robes I had worn the day before. I got up and changed into a nice, ironed set for my meeting with the MoM that day. Ever since last Christmas, I had been regularly attending Cho's meetings once a week. I pulled out my new brief case, that Ron had given me for my birthday because he was sick of seeing me carrying a bunch of loose papers around, and stuffed some of the latest files into it.

The MoM greeted me as I entered the headquarters.

"Oh, Hermione..." someone said from behind me as I walked down the hallway. I turned around to see Bill, a huge grin on his face.

"Hi Bill," I said, smiling back.

"Just wanted to let you know how much we appreciate what your doing for us, I mean, with the case and all," he exclaimed, his shiny, straight teeth glittering.

"No problem," I said, feeling a bit guilty. "Sorry, but I'm late for a meeting, if you'll excuse me."

"Oh, sure, go right on. I was just in here, some trouble at Gringrotts..." he said, his grin not vanishing at all from his face. I turned and began to walk down the hall, feeling even more guilty. It's not my fault, I said to myself over and over, there just isn't anything to work with at the moment.

I twisted the knob on the door and entered to the waiting bunch. Chang looked a bit irritated, but the others smiled and waved at me. I took a seat next to Alicia Spinnet and grabbed a bagel from the center of the table.

"Ahem," Chang said, motioning for me to stop eating.

"Sorry," I whispered, turning red as I put the bagel down.

"Anyways," Chang began as the others chuckled quietly. "Here are the clues and documents on the case at Gringrotts."

"What happened?" I asked, examining a paper Chang had just handed me.

"Just a burglar, well, not an average burglar..." she replied.

"Not average?" Li inquired.

"Well, they didn't just steal money..." Cho continued.

"Then what'd they steal?" I asked once more.

"Paperwork, just paperwork. And just average documents that didn't mean anything to anyone," Spinnet said, reading from the files Cho gave her.

"Paperwork? If they just took some lousy papers, then why are we worrying so much?" I asked, too lazy to actually believe this was a serious case.

"It's to easy," Cho stated, looking through some stuff. "Why would someone take paperwork? Well, it must have been pretty important to them. Couldn't have been stupid, or they wouldn't have gone through so much trouble to get it."

"Trouble?" Spinnet said, looking up from the papers.

"It's not exactly easy to break into Gringotts and leave no trace what so ever, except for this..." Cho exclaimed, taking out a small key.

"How is that a trace?" Lee Jordan said, for the first time speaking up.

"Well, see, this key is very important. Before they closed last night, the one who looks over it, specifically checked to see that it was in place. He even signed his signature to say that it was there! This morning, it wasn't in it's place, and instead left outside of the door it leads too. You see, the door was locked tightly, but a special system told us when it had been opened last. It said 4:13 in the morning. So, investigators checked the room it led to, and nothing was missing, except those old documents."

"But... if the key led to some old documents... then why is it so important?" I asked.

"That is something that Gringotts won't tell us."

"So, there isn't anything we can do about this case..." Li sighed.

"Well, there might be something, if anyone of you are willing to take it up?" Cho said, her eyebrows raised.

Everyone glanced around at each other. This was the kind of case that led to nothing, and would produce no salary what so ever for a detective. No one wanted this job, certainly not me... But then I thought about it. This was the kind of case that would let me take a break from Percy's, and actually have a reason not to work on it.

"I'll do it," I said, raising my hand slightly.

"Great, you can get started on it right away. Here are some files," Cho said, handing me a notebook. I smiled, and happily took them. Spinnet had an expression on, asking me "what the hell are you doing?". I smiled and shoved the notebook into my brief case.

"Well, that'll be all," Cho said, pulling on her coat. Everyone exited the room, and started to walk back down the hallway. I spotted Bill leaving from a small office, and heading towards me.

"Looks like we'll be working together on this Gringotts case. I'll see you tomorrow," I said, winking at his grinning face. At least I had a break from the traumatizing Weasley case, no matter what salary it would produce.