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#21 - violence; pillage/plunder; extortion
Conspiracy Theory
- in which we learn about the Great Gryffindor Homework-stealing Conspiracy -
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Harry, Ron and Hermione were just making their way back to the Gryffindor tower after a particularly dull lesson in History of Magic when they were interrupted by a voice calling Ron's name, and a flying Charms book hitting the back of his head.
"Parkinson," he said, turning around and seeing who the culprit was.
"You have my Divination notes. They've been gone since we had to work together on that group project last weekend. Give them back."
"I don't have your notes, Parkinson. You've probably just lost them."
"Sure," she said, walking up to him and grabbing his book bag, which she then turned upside down and emptied on the floor.
"Told you," Ron said smugly a moment later as she had to give up the search after rummaging through all his books, notes and quills.
Pansy glared at him. "Well, it's still your fault, I'm sure. You're coming with me to look for them." With that, she grabbed his sleeve and dragged him away. Harry and Hermione stared after them for a few seconds, then looked at each other and shrugged. They then continued on their way, after first pausing for a while to pick up Ron's things from the floor.
Meanwhile, Pansy dragged Ron into an empty classroom.
"Think they suspect anything?" Pansy asked, closing the door behind them.
"Well, since that's the third time this month you've used the missing Divinations notes-excuse to drag me off, I think it's safe to say they do."
Pansy shrugged. "Oh. Well, Draco still buys it. He's convinced it's part of a Gryffindor conspiracy to find out all our secrets and use them to make Slytherin look as bad as possible. And to destroy our grades in the process. He just hasn't decided if you or Potter is the mastermind behind it, though I think at the moment he's leaning towards it being you."
Ron stared at her.
"You're not going to say anything sarcastic?"
"It would be too easy. That just made fun of itself, really."
"Whatever. Let's just snog."
And so they did.