Grim Discoveries
Amanda opened the envelope and started to read the letter from the American Ghoul Council. She read it to everyone at the Gryiffindor table.
Dear Ms. Amanda Mitchell,
We must ask that you be present at a demon extermination briefing on September 31st, at 9:30am. This will give you time to look through the file also enclosed are reports from other 'sixth spotters', their extermination teams, and some auorors who have also been investigating this house that is dire need of help. Family after family have either been slaughtered or driven out by this terror the house has. We usually don't put young 'sixth spotters' on such dangerous, but all other 'sixth spotter' is either on another case or has been killed while on this case. We must warn you that this house is infamous for taking exterminators and top aurors in and none of them have ever been seen again. In the file is information on these unfortunate souls and hope you and your team can find them or find out what happened so their families can start the healing process. Also in this file are files about the team you will be leading on this mission. Good Luck!
Miriam Baxter
Supervisor of Ghoul Council
Amanda's hands were trembling slightly as she picked up the red file and opened it. She started looking through all the things provided in it. She started by looking through the missing people files. "There are like a million people missing. There is no way these poor people are still alive and no one has seen them all this time. Now I know why Mom was so upset. She's scared I'll end up on the file. I don't blame her." Amanda moved on the reports that had been filed. She read some of the accounts by people who had once lived in this haunted house; Amanda was getting paler and paler until she was as white as a sheet.
"Amanda, listen to this one. Mrs. Gomez, one of the Henderson's old housekeepers when they lived in the house was upstairs in one of the bedrooms dusting when she heard a loud thump and a scream from the attached bathroom. Mrs. Herderson had been taking a shower. Gomez thought she had fallen and went to check on Henderson. Upon entering the bathroom she went over to the shower, it's curtain was closed, and she pulled it back and she says and I quote "I thought I was going to drop dead right there on the floor. She says she found Mrs. Henderson dead with a rope tightly tied around her neck, here's the kicker. She wasn't only strangled, but whoever did it had also dismembered her body and all the parts, but her head were there in a tub full of blood. Gomez called the police and the police had the suspicion Gomez herself killed Henderson, but then the police say at the moment they were about to bind her a ten year old girl with long, stringy, black hair over her face and almost blue skin jumped from the ceiling and started screaming in their faces then out of nowhere it brandished a knife from behind its back and ran at them, luckily they all got away along with Mr. Henderson and his six year old daughter. They've never stepped foot in the house since then, but they did sell it a month after the incident. A young, newly wed couple, the Andrews." Hermione finished and looked at Amanda. Hermione was getting pale herself with this strange home.
"What happened to the Andrews?" asked Neville from across the table. Everyone at the Gryffindor table were shocked of what was being asked of Amanda by her superiors, Were they insane for sending a sixteen year old into a life threatening situation like this? "Amanda, do you really have to get rid of that demon girl?" Seamus asked from behind Amanda. "It's mandatory. I could get into serious trouble if I refuse." Amanda said rubbing her now tired eyes. At that moment Dumbledore stood and Seamus hastily took a seat next to Amanda.
"Now that everyone has caught up let us all retire to the dormitories. Good Night." Dumbledore sat and the students stood and filtered out of the Great Hall. Amanda quickly gathered all the contents of the red folder and raced to catch up with Harry and the others. Amanda and the Gryffindor sixth years spent the rest of the night looking over the file. Amanda wished they didn't pry, this was embarrassing her. Everyone almost flipped when they discovered 'crime scene' pictures from all known occurraces that went for criminal investigation, but in the end became cold cases. Interestingly enough there had been group tours at the house and various people had sent in pictured, claiming it was of the many demons in the home. The pictures were shocking.
"Is that a face on the wall?" Ginny asked, who had joined in out of concern for Amanda. Indeed a hideous, marred up face had presented itself to an unsuspecting tourist just two years ago. "I have to tackle all these things? I lost count after that headless five year old. That was number twenty. Did anyone actually count?" Amanda said in a small voice. "I think forty, counting that last one, the deranged ten year old who killed Henderson." Ron said. "Man. I didn't think that many ghouls could all fit in one house. Who had this case before me? Why didn't they finish?" Amanda looked on the front to see whom all the other people who handled this case before her. None of the names look familiar; she looked at the name who had the case from the beginning.
" My dad had this case when he got captured. This is what he did for a living? My God, how did he cope?" Amanda was utterly stunned he father hunted ghosts and demons for a job, she had no idea. "Seriously? Your taking one of your father's old missions? What irony." Neville said from the couch in front of the fire. He and now all of Gryffindor knew of Amanda's past. "We all need to go to bed. Don't forget classes start in the morning. We'll all look at it more at breakfast. Night!" Hermione said as she left the group and headed up to the girl's dorm. "As always Hermione is absolutely right." Dean said and everyone went their separate ways and to bed.