Avada Kedavra: Investigating the death of Draco Malfoy.
by Kuroi Shi


Disclaimer. -_-;; why do I even bother.
A/N This doesn't take place in any specific year.

~ * ~ * ~ Saturday April 1st. 5:08 am. Harry's dorm room. ~ * ~ * ~

"Harry Potter sir! you must wake up!" Shouted, a little yellow eyed, green elf, who was standing on the end of Harry's bed, waking everyone in the room "Something bad happened. Mr Dumbledore sir sent all of the house elves to wake up everyone in the school. You must hurry, Mr Harry Potter sir!"

"Whoa... Slow down Dobby." Ron said to the little elf, from the bed next to Harry's "What happened?"

"Dobby does not know, Mr Weezy sir. Dobby only knows that something bad happened, and everyone must go to the geat hall." Dobby explained, before he made sure everyone was up, and left the room.

~ * ~ * ~ 5:11 am. Gryffindor common room. ~ * ~ * ~

Harry, and Ron practically had to drag Seamus, Dean, and Neville, out of bed, and down the stairs to the common room, where the rest of the Griffindors were already wating. Seamus was not a morning person. Harry, and Ron didn't even bother to change out of their golden Snitch print pajamays.

"What's going on?" Hermoine asked, when Harry, and Ron met up with her. She too didn't bother to change into real clothes. "Some house elf woke up me, and the rest of the girls in the dorm, and said we were to meet in the great hall, at 5:30" She continued, While trying to flatten her un-combed hair, with her hands, and failing horribly.

"We heard some Ravenclaw kid was hit with the Imperius curse, by a student here, and turned a Hufflepuff 1st year into a parakeet." Said George, when he found Ron. "Or... Maybe it was the other way around"

"We heard some teachers talking, when we snuck out to get food earlier." Fred added.

~ * ~ * ~ 5:30 am. The great hall. ~* ~ * ~

The 4 long tables were pushed to one side, and piled on top of each other. there were rows of chairs and benches where the tables had been, and the teachers were at the front, as usual.

The great hall was almost full, when Harry, Ron, and Hermione arrived. They took thier seats with the rest of the Gryffindors, and waited for soemthing to happen, while watching the rest of the school enter. The Slytherins were the last ones in. Not surprising. But, Draco wasn't with them, Harry pointed this out to Ron.

"Well, Maybe he slept in? Or just doesn't care?" Ron suggested.

As soon as the great hall was filled, and everone had taken thier seats, Professer Dumbledore sood up. "The reason I called you all here, is, there was a murder at Hogwarts."

Imediately, the entire school began talking amongst themselves. Gussing who died, and who the killer was.

Dumbledore continued, having to speak louder this time, to be heard over the students. "Draco Malfoy was found dead, in the forbidden forest, at 2 this morning, by Hagrid. But, he was not killed my magic. He was stabed my this, muggle weapon." Dumbledore held up something that looked like the knife Sirius had given Harry, for christmas in Harry's 4th year at Hogwarts.

"Hey, isn't that your knife, Harry?" Ron whispered.

"Umm.. yea..." Harry replied, looking incredibly nervous. Many Gryffindors had seen Harry with that knife before, and they all knew that Harry hated Draco.

"Because there was no magic involved," Dumbledore continued, "We can only assume that he was killed by someone not strong enough to use the Avada Kedavra curse. And since no muggle can even see Hogwarts, Every person here, including all students, and teachers, Is a suspect. No one is to leave the school grounds, until the murder is caught." Dumbledore walked toward the door beside the teachers table, and was about to leave. "Oh. One more thing." He said, before he pushed the door open, "Have a nice day." The rest of the staff followed Dumbledore out of the room.

All of the chairs, and tables flew back to where they were supposed to be, with the students still sitting on the chairs. Then, breakfast appeared.

Since there was no way in hell any of them were going back to sleep, Harry, Ron, and Hermione, decided to stay and eat. Even though, now, none of them were really very hungry.

~ * ~ * ~ 6:00 am. Gryffindor Tower. ~ * ~ * ~

Harry Ron, and Hermione were still in their pajamays, so, Immedately after breakfast, they went up to thier rooms to change.

"What's this?" Harry asked, when he noticed a letter on his pillow.

"It looks like a letter to me." Ron replied, after he saw the note too. "Open it."

So, Harry opened it.

"You have until noon today." Harry read the the peice of parchment out loud.

"Is that all it says?" Asked Ron.

"Until noon? What will happen if we don't make it?" Harry said.

"Do you even want to know?" Ron replied.

Harry and Ron changed out of their matching Golden Snitch pajamays, (Provided my Mrs. Weasly) and into school clothes. Harry took the note he found down to the common room to show Hermione

"That's weird" Hermione said, When she read Harry's letter. "I got one too. So did Lavender, and Parvati."

Right at that moment, Seamus and went up to their room, and returned seconds later carrying identical notes. Exactly the same as Harry's. Within minutes, more half of the Gryffindors in the common room were holding notes, from the possible murder. None of the Weasly's had notes. Neither did Neville.

"It looks like... whoever did it wants to get caught. or they wouldn't be leaving evidance like this." Harry suggested.

"I'm not so sure about that." Hermione said. "These notes have been typed. You know... by a muggle computer." She added, noticing Rons obvious confusion, over the word 'Typed.' "And, Draco was killed using a muggle weapon So, one would assume the killer is either muggle born, or is trying to frame them... But, ... Oh never mind. I don't know what I'm talking about. We need more clues." Hermione admitted. For the first time. In more then 5 years.

"Then, Lets go find some more clues, or evidance or something." Ron said. "After all, we have less then 6 hours to go, until umm... We have to figure this out."

~ * ~ * ~ 6:15 am. Walking through the halls of the school. ~ * ~ * ~

"I'll bet it was Snape." Ron said.

"What? Why?" Harry asked.

"Well, because he's always the first one we blame for everything. But, he's never guilty. Maybe we'll get lucky this time."Ron explained

"Malfoy was Snape's favourite student. Do you honestly think Snape would kill him?" Replied Harry.

"That Potter probably did it. He's always hated Draco. And, I heard him say it was his knife that was found by Draco's dead body." Said a random Slytherin who was walking by.

"Let's go ask Hagrid. He found Draco. Maybe he heard something." Suggested Hermione.

~ * ~ * ~ 6:25 am. Hagrids cabbin. ~ * ~ * ~

"Hagrid!" Harry shouted, while banging on the half giant's frint door, "Come on! Open up!"

After what seemed like 10 minutes of kicking, banging, and shouting, Hagrid had finally opened the door. He was sporting a lovely pair of 10 sizes to small dragon print pajamays, Accesorised with a functional, yet practical, stuffed Norwegin Ridgeback toy.

"What's all the screamin' for? it's 6:30 am. What do ya want?" Asked a very tired Hagrid

Harry, Ron, and Hermione were quite puzzled by his remark. He had found Malfoy, didn't he?

"What do you mean, what do we want?" Harry asked. "You found him didn't you?"

"What do ya mean? found who?" Said Hagrid.

"Draco!" Shouted Hermione.

"What on earth are ya talkin' about?" Hagrid Truly lookes like he didn't have a clue as to what was going on. "Come on inside, and tell me what ya are shoutin' about."

Harry, Ron, and Hermoine followed Hagrid into the little cabbin, and took a seat on his giant bed.

"We were waken up at 5:00 this morning, and told we all had to meet in the great hall for something important." Harry explained.

"Professer Dumbledore told us that you found Malfoy dead in the forbidden forest at 2:00 this morning." Hermione continued.

"Dumbledore thinks the murder could be a student, or a teacher here. Someone not strong enough to use the Avada Kedavra curse. because Malfoy was killed by a muggle weapon." Ron finished telling the story.

"Well.. I didn't find anyone, or anything this morning." Hagrid stated. "I didn't even know any of this was going on."

Harry took the little note, most of the school received, out of his pocket. "Most of us got this note from the murderer this morning. No one is allowed to leave the school grounds until the murder is caught."

Hermoine read the letter out loud to him.

Noon? then what? He asked

"Are you sure you had nothing to do with this?" Asked Harry.

"Of course. I didn't find out about all this till you guys came along." Hagrid explained.

"Ok. Thanks anyway." The trio left Hagrid, and headed back to the school.

"Now what?" Said Ron.

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To be Continued

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Any accusations? Who do you think did it?

(A/N I already have the entire thing written out. It's 40 pages. I'm just posting this part to see how many people like it. If I get reviews, I'll continue. If I don't get reviews, I'll continue. Because, It doesn't really matter. But, feedback is always nice : ) I just have one favour to ask. If you don't like it, tell my why, so I can improve upon it later on. k)

(Re-uploaded, Cuz someone thought I should make the times stand out a bit more.)