"Good evening everyone," Rita Skeeter said as she addressed the crowd who watched with rapt attention. "I'm Rita Skeeter here to update you on the latest happenings in London."
"Tragedy strikes the Lovitt Hotel as Lucius Malfoy, principal of Hogwarts Academy, was killed after falling off the roof of the hotel."
"While we are unable to know why he chose to go to the hotel in a taxi of all things, we are not sure." Skeeter said. "However, we do know why he went to the hotel, to have sex with his mistress."
Suddenly, a photo of a silhouetted woman appears on the TV screen, and Rita continues on with the segment, "Despite the clean image Lucius Malfoy worked oh so hard to keep, even he couldn't risk temptation." Skeeter smirked.
"Isn't it such a shame to know those who are in power will inevitably become corrupt?"
"While we're on the topic of Lucius Malfoy's death, let's note the connection between the two crimes." Skeeter said. "Both crimes have one specific motive, revenge."
"For the viewer at home you may be asking yourselves, "What did they do to make someone want to kill them in revenge?""
"Well the reason for this is simple, you are all aware of Quirrell's alleged relationship with a student, correct?"
"And I suppose you're all aware about the actions that student took right after that, correct?"
"Well there were some rumors floating around," Skeeter said as she intentionally built up the drama, "That Lucius Malfoy paid off the police chief so the allegations wouldn't be looked into."
"But you may be asking yourselves, "But why would he try to cover up a 'lie' from a student?""
"The reason for that is simple, if word got out that one of Hogwarts professors had a relationship with a student, and the vice principal knew or suspected about the relationship, it would do catastrophic damage to the school's image." Rita said.
"And we all know how uptight Lucius Malfoy was about his image," Skeeter sighed melodramatically, "It's such a shame that a master of deception is dead, I'm sure his family is sorry to see him go."
"This has been Rita Skeeter with the Daily Prophet, signing out!"
"You know, glaring at the TV isn't going to make her go away," Remus said as he walked up to Sirius, "No matter how much you wish she would."
"She's like a freaking bug..." Sirius frowned as the news broadcast continued, "She just never knows when to quit, and she always keeps coming back for more."
"Haha, you really hate her, don't you?"
"Kinda."
"Anyway, this isn't the time to talk about reporters," Sirius said as they headed down the hall to the room they had been yesterday, "Did we at least make some progress in the case?"
"Yeah we made some headway in the case," Remus said as he quickly logged into the computer in the room, "For example we learned this;
Remus hit the 'play' button on an audio file, and soon Sirius could hear Lucius's voice.
"I recognize you...don't you go to school at Hogwarts?" Lucius said, before saying in a more aggressive tone ,"What do you think you're doing-attacking your vice principal like this?!"
The sound file stopped playing, and Remus couldn't help but smirk. The bug he had planted on Malfoy had actually paid off, despite the fact that it shorted out immediately after that bit of conversation. The biggest thing now was, they had an actual lead on the case. The killer was someone from Hogwarts, they probably hadn't graduated yet given the fact that Malfoy recognized them from school, but they couldn't be someone who had recently entered the school.
"So it looks like we'll be paying Hogwarts another visit next morning," Sirius said, "I'm pretty sure that by tomorrow will have this case wrapped up in a tiny little bow."
