A/N: Nothing to say here. I don't own anything. Looking forward to the new Beasts movie. Enjoy.

Auror Investigation

Early December, 1993
Fifth Year
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"Leili! Lei-li!" a first year said, trying to get Leilani's attention,

"What-y?"

"The ministry sent an Auror to investigate the Dementor thing!"

"What dementor thing?"

"The dementor thing! You know!"

"No, no I really don't."

"Can you pull your head out of your cauldron for 5 minutes and pay attention to me?!"

"Oi, don't get snippy with me, kiddo. If I explode this cauldron, I'm blaming you. Here, mash these." She handed the girl the mortar and pestle and turned back to her cauldron, adjusting the heat. Taking the bowl back from the firstie, she turned off the heat. "Stand back," she said and upended the bowl over the cauldron; there was a 'poof!' and a cloud of steam, or possibly smoke, rose from the cauldron. Leili waved her hand over the cauldron to try and disperse the cloud. "Well, that went well. Now, you wanted to talk to me?"

"The ministry has sent an Auror to investigate the dementor thing." She repeated, enunciating each word.

"Yes, you said that. Would you explain? What dementor thing? The fact that they're invading school grounds every other week?"

"More like why they're acting weird, not that I know how anyone could tell that they were behaving oddly, they're dementors."

"You mean Spike." Leili said with a wry grin, "Jo should be here for this, he's her book." Leili stood and went to the door, "Jo! Come hither! It's about Spike," she called. Jo came, Spike following close at her heels.

"Who's shoe has he eaten this time?"

"No one's, but the ministry has apparently started an investigation into the odd behaviors of their dementors."

"So? No one's gonna believe a book is attacking the dementors, it's silly."

"But it's true!" the 11 year old protested.

"You know that, and I know that and she knows that, but that doesn't mean they have to know that." Leili said with a grin as she ladled potion into a bottle.

So it went that the Ministry's Dementor investigating Auror came to the school and questioned the students. He gathered the students in their houses and questioned them briefly there, telling them to come to him should they think of anything. House by house was questioned, "Does anyone know anything about the odd behavior of the Dementors?"

Gyrffindor:

"They're plaguing the school, if that's what you mean," George said.

"Ah, no, no that's not what I meant."

"More like they're being chased away by something?" Colin Creevey suggested.

"Who said anything about that?" The Auror asked.

"Well, if you won't tell us what defines 'odd Dementor behavior' then how are we to know if we've noticed anything?" Fred asked.

"Trust me, you'd know," the Auror said cryptically before going to the next house on the list.

Ravenclaw:

"Did you know that Dementors are possibly related to Lethifolds and wraiths?" one girl asked.

"Uh, no, now about the question…"

"How about that they 'see' by sensing emotions?" an older boy chimed in.

"Yes, but about the-"

"Did you know that they are the only beings that can drain witches and wizards of their powers?" another boy said.

"Now that is a myth, it has never been proven!"

"Funny how they've been posted around a school full of young witches and wizards; isn't it?" Luna said.

Slytherin:

"Did somebody hear something?" Draco asked.

"Mm, no, don't think so Draco," Pansy said.

"Why, did you hear something Draco?" Marcus asked with a smug grin, it wasn't often they got to make fun of outsiders.

"I suppose not," the Auror rolled his eyes and threw his hands in the air before going to the last house on the list, Hufflepuff.

At Hufflepuff now, once again the same routine; he asked the same boring questions, "Does anyone know anything about the odd behavior of the Dementors?" however, unlike at the other houses, this time he was met with stifled laughter. "What's funny? Do we know something in here?"

"They're Dementors, your question is too broad," Wayne Hopkins told him.

"None of the other houses laughed,"

"Well, they either have less of a sense of humor, or they're just more polite," Leilani told him.

"Gryffindor mockingly tried to dig more information out of me, Ravenclaw tried to educate me on the subject of Dementors and Slytherin pretended I was invisible."

"Yeah, that sounds like them," Jo grinned, "Sorry guy, we don't know anything about Dementor oddities."

"Well, where do you suggest I look next?"

Jo and Leili exchanged grins before looking back at the Auror and saying,

"Ravenclaw."