Daricio: Ok, there are only two suspects left. The story's almost over!!! If a suspect is cleared this chapter, then we KNOW who did it. (Big grin)

Malik: Yay! Now I FINALLY get to see who did it! Yes yes yes yes yes!

Daricio: I must warn readers, though; this is a very short chapter. Something very important happens in it, but unfortunately, that really important thing doesn't take very much time to happen... And I don't want to just keep the chapter going, because the next thing that happens after that is my big climax scene...

Malik: AKA fight scene?

Daricio: Possibly...

Malik: Oh, just tell me.

Daricio: No! (starts chapter)

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The next day at school was, once again, completely uneventful. It was boring. Nothing happened. DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS??! (nods) Yup, you're right. It means that I'm not going to tell you what happened there at school.

Moving right along, after school, Harry-tachi was walking home with Yugi-tachi, as per usual.

The group was a lot more animated than usual, (excuse the pun) mostly because Harry-tachi felt a lot more comfortable talking with the rest of the members of the group now, because of having talked with Yugi and simply because they knew that all in that group had been cleared.

At Yugi's house, everybody split off to their own places, cheerfully saying their goodbyes.

Yugi hadn't even reached his front door yet when Hedwig suddenly flew out of the sky, landing heavily on Harry's shoulder and almost knocking him over. Yugi came over to look at her in slight awe.

"So this is your owl, Harry?" he asked, stroking her gently. She gave him a strange look and Yugi giggled.

"Hold on a sec there, guys, what does she have there? Is that... Is that another owl she's got?" Hermione noticed, pulling the small owl out of Hedwig's grasp.

Hedwig gave her a hoot of thanks and then stuck out her leg for Harry to remove a letter.

"Thanks, Hedwig. There's food and water up in my room, I left my window open." Harry said quickly. Hedwig flew upward and into the house as the other three gathered around Harry to see who the letter was from.

"It's from Sirius." Harry said. "He still thinks I'm at the Dursley's, so he's just basically checking up on me to see if I'm bored out of my mind or not... Nice of him..." Harry grinned.

Yugi laughed, but then grew serious again. "So what's the other owl for? Does he have a letter, too?"

Hermione checked. "Yeah, he does. Poor guy's out cold, though. Maybe we should go inside so we can try and nurse him back to health a bit?"

Harry nodded. "You want to come in with us, Yugi?"

Yugi shook his head. "Can't, I'm in charge of the shop today. Tell me about it at school tomorrow, ok?"

"All right, we will."

They all went inside, Harry opening up the letter as he did so. As he read the first line aloud, though, he almost dropped it, blinking quickly.

Hermione whirled on him. "What did that say?!" she asked. "Are you sure?"

Harry read it again. "Yes I'm sure. It's a letter addressed to 'Moldyshorts'..."

Ron almost snickered. "Well, here we've got ourselves two clues. One is whoever sent the letter is the one who made Hogwarts disappear, and two, whoever sent it has a sense of humor."

Hermione grinned. "Great! So because Hedwig intercepted this letter, we'll be able to tell who did it!"

Harry nodded. When they reached the top floor, they all sat in chairs and Harry read the letter aloud to all of them.

"Dear Moldyshorts;

I've got you figured out now. I did what you asked me to, as we agreed. Then I gauged the power outtake from the disappearance, and I only received a miniscule amount of the total power that came from it. Where exactly is the rest of it going towards?

We agreed that any magic intakes we got from this would be split equally between us, and you're holding back. Furthermore, I figured out how, and have reversed it.

Thanks so much for being stupid.

Also, I've been reading the news lately. I didn't realize that we were sending entire cities to the Shadow Realm, idiot! That dimwit Kaiba had a part of his company located there in Egypt, and now he's starting to get into the search for me!

Are you aware just how difficult it is to act innocent around him when he's doing stuff like this?

And Malik, too! Apparently, his stupid sister, Isis, was there in the city doing more digs or something like that while we were working last night. Now that he's convinced that the magic had its origins here in Domino for some odd reason, I'm stuck again.

More than that, both Bakura and that new student Harry, along with the brat's two siblings are getting suspicious of me again.

I'm going to be under rather close watch by a lot of people, Voldemort, thanks to you. Especially by those Ministry people you talked about. If you need me, I'll be at the warehouse. Or my house. But mostly I'll be hiding out.

--Your "humble" servant

P.S. I think your bird's half-dead over here. What have you been doing to it, idiot?"

Harry blinked. "He sure isn't very polite, is he?"

"Definitely not. Unfortunately, do you realize just what this letter has told us?" Hermione asked.

Ron shook his head and asked to see the letter.

"We've only got 2 suspects left, guys." Hermione reminded them. "Anybody who's mentioned in that letter couldn't have been the one writing it, right?"

Ron blinked and frowned as he looked it over.

"Hermione's right, Harry. We've got Kaiba and Malik as our remaining suspects, and they're both mentioned here... We have no more suspects... we just cleared them all." Ron almost whispered.

They all sat in silence, taking turns reading the letter again and again, the only sound being that of Hedwig's hooting.

"Well... That sucks..." Harry commented after a while.

"Understatement." Ron muttered.

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And there you have it, folks, the shortest chapter of Millennium Magic. (grins)

Malik: (staring at the story) ..... No suspects?!? Daricio, you cheated!

Daricio: (innocent look) No I didn't! In that letter, I left little hints and clues as to who it was, don't worry.

Malik: .....Little hints and clues!?! Daricio, you said you were going to tell me who did it THIS chapter!!!

Daricio: ....... So?

Malik: ARGH!!!! (stomps off)

Radley: Temper, temper...

Daricio: (nods) very strange... Oh well. (turns to reviewers) Hope you enjoyed it! Review!