Chapter 8:

Little White Lies


Headmasters office
"Rachel and Artemis, I have reason to believe that you two are Trouble and
Rogue," Dumbledore said. Beside him stood there heads of houses.

"Sir we deny it," they replied smoothly. It was right after breakfast and they had been expecting this.

"Headmaster, Artemis could not have possibly been responsible for what happened last night for what you've told me the culprits appeared in the shrieking shack at around midnight. Artemis was with me in the potions lab grading papers, and helping with the wolfsbane potion since she is our best and brightest," Snape interrupted smoothly. He didn't want to know what horrible pranks they'd play in his classroom and on him if he didn't cover. After all they were worse then the Marauders.

"I must also object. Rachel was in Transfiguration with me around the specified time. She requested help with the dobletrnas charm," McGonagoll also cut in.
Dumbledore thus started thinking of other female students who could do this.
After all why doubt his best teachers, the two teachers he trusted least; why
would they cover for the girls? No they wouldn't period, he believed them.
"Well, my apologies girls. You both have nothing to do with the unfortunate
incident. Now I believe you all have classes to attend. If your heads will
please escort you there so there will be no argument with professor Flitwick,"
Dumbledore requested and turned to a list of students who could and would
have enough power, enough intelligence and a motive to do this to them.

The list was rather slim when it came to a motive against the four occupants of the room last night. It went even slimmer for the people who had enough power to lock them in that room. The intelligence was by far the thinnest. Putting the three lists together for someone who had the power, intelligence, guts and motive he had only come up with Artemis and Rachel. He was so preoccupied he didn't see the four leave.