A/N: sigh, i have finished deathly hallows. Personally I think some of it was a cop-out. oh well. I hope you all like this chapter. (if you have not finished Harry Potter number 7, do not read the next sentance) This chapter is for a few of my favorite characters who dies: Fred, Tonks, Lupin, Dobby and more.( Ok, now back to the story!) Hope ya'll enjoy this chapter! I decided to have a little mystery involved in this chapter because of my inspiration over the weekend playing the same game!
Disclaimer: I do not own HP (DH spoiler) If I DID fred and tonks would not have died, SO THERE NYAH! I also do not own Harpo Marx, or his funny way of killing someone in 'Murder', and I do not own the game 'Murder'.
Claimer: I own uhhh...some stuff, like a copy of Deathly Hallows and a pop tart. Also, a deck of cards with which to play 'Murder'.
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March 18, 10:34 AM
Diary,
Something QUITE interesting is happening. You remember those two little weasley brothers I told you about? Well, somehow, they snuck onto the Hogwarts grounds with their little friend Lee Jordan (whom I will describe later). I will describe the scene like a story, in story format of course!
You see, the only reason I know this is because they happened to POP in whilst our group of friends were playing "Where In The World Is Emily Pappas?" (a slight variation of a muggle game, "Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?" played as a board game). The three of them just poped out from behind the statue of the one-eyed witch.
Prew, Precy and Charlie jumped up at the sight of them. They looked red faced and angry. Charlie was the first one to speak, "What're you lot doing here? Mum's going to KILL you and US when she finds out."
"Which is why she won't."
"But she'll notice you're missing."
"No she wont, we won't be here for long and we left when she was fussing over Ron and Ginny, PLUS, she said she was going shopping later. SO we left a note saying we went out with Lee and Lee left a note saying he went out with us."
"You know," I interjected, "That doesn't work, it has been proven on many muggle sitcoms."
"What?" everyone but Jfunk, Penny and I asked.
"It's a muggle thing," all three of us said that at the same time.
The rest of them shook their heads, then Charlie continued to glare at the twins and their friend, "How exactly did you three get on the school grounds, or even to Hogsmede for that matter?" Charlie looked suspicious, so did Precy, Prew just rolled her eyes.
"Uhh….magic?" The twins grinned sheepishly.
"Right, coming from two ten year olds who don't even have their wands yet," Percy tried oh so hard (not really) not to sound gleeful at their impending doom when they went back home.
"I guess there's nothing we can really do right now though, except contact Mum and Dad," Charlie said, gloomily, "and make sure they know it wasn't our idea."
All of us sighed, in unison (to tell you the truth, that was kind of creepy) and we went off to the Gryffindor common room.
So now you know that weird little story. Now, of course, I have to describe Lee for you.
He seems amusing. Like someone who would narrate someone else while they were doing something. Probably a good quality for a commentator in quidditch. He has dread locks, and is pretty cool. Someone I would not mind if Katie (she's practically my little sister) dated. Hell, I would not mind it if he was my brother, or Honorary Brother in Law. Like the twins he has an eye for mischief, and I know for a fact he's smarter than the two of them put together. He may not be a pranking genius, but I have a sneaking suspicion that he knows more about people than he lets on. I think he is one of the only people who can tell when the twins have set up a prank to get him.
My hair is purple today, but more a like a shade of lilac. Very nice if I do say so myself.
8 DAYS AND COUNTING!! OH MERLIN I CANNOT WAIT!
-B
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(A conversation with Charlotte and her friends)
I CAN'T WAIT TILL MY BIIIIIIIIIRTHDAY I CAN'T WAIT TILL MY BIIIIIIIIIRTHDAY!
Oh put a sock in it. I wasn't like this before my birthday with you.
Well that's because you weren't talking to me.
Details, tiny little details.
HUMPH. Hey, Emms are you done with your homework yet?
No. I haven't even started, I can't talk, must start.
WRITE WRITE WRITE WRITE WRITE!
Why are you writing that?
I'm hopeing that if I say that enough times it will make you do my bidding.
It isn't working.
Oh drat, I guess I'll have to cross that off my list of ways to control people's minds.
I guess you will.
Hey
Have you seen Roberta recently?
No, oh I love that movie.
Yeah, it's kind of nice sometimes to get Fred and Ginger in supporting roles, then you don't have them with their annoying 'courtship'.
Yeah, 'boy and girl meet', then 'boy and girl are in love', 'boy and girl get lost in translation somewhere' and finally, 'boy and girl live happily ever after.'
Oh well, at least in those movies we get the 'falling in love' dance.
Yeah. I have to go study, talk to you later though.
Ok.
What WERE you guys talking about?
Muggle films.
Eww.
That comes from someone who has never seen one and dumped Valls for Rodger Davies.
Your point is?
Oh, nothing.
F- Hello
G- How are you doing?
L- WHY are we writing here again?
F- Dunno, it was George's idea.
G/Feorge- Don't you mean 'Feorge', 'Gred'?
F/Gred- OH, right Feorge.
G/Feorge- Thank you Gred.
Why are you writing on my paper?
L- Dunno, I think Geo- I mean Feorge saw Charlie do it so he wanted to.
Oh, it's like that is it? You know boys, idol worship won't get you very far at Hogwarts. I'm pretty surprised actually that Mrs. Weasley isn't here yet to take you home and smack you upside the head.
G/Feorge- Frankly, so are we.
F/Gred- Indubitably.
L- What they said, except slightly different.
AH! A hablar del Diablo!
L- Que?
AH! To speak of the devil (not that she's a devil, it's a saying!) Mrs. Weasley's here!
G/Feorge- Oh Merlin's Beard.
F/Gred- SAVE USSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!
(All three run away.)
Well, THAT was an easy way to get them away from my paper. (snickers)
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We are boooooooooooored.
Yes we are. Want to play a muggle game?
F- SUUUUUUURE what game?
G- YEAAAAAAAAAAH
L- We want to play tooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Okie dokie then. I say we play….(dun Dun DUN!) Murder.
L- we don't want to kill people.
It's a game no one actually dies. Jfunk, you take the rule explaining.
Thank god, for a second I thought you wanted us to go all homicidal.
No, Murder is a muggle game where you draw cards, one card, the king of hearts for example, is the murderer and another card, like the ace of spades, is the detective. The other cards are just regular citizens.
After you draw a card, you just act normally, unless you're the murderer. If you're the murderer, you have to pick people to 'kill' by saying 'you're dead' to a person. That's how the muggles do it, but since we can do magic, well most of us, if someone says 'you're dead', either they, or you should cast a spell to make them look like a corpse. (Am I a genius or what?)
When you see a 'corpse', you shout 'corpse' and the whole group assembles, then the detective has to solve the murder. If the detective is the victim, another random person is picked to be the detective, the detective CANNOT be the murderer. Oh, and on a final note, once corpse has been called, NO MORE MURDERS! Also note, ONLY the murderer can lie during this game.
L- that sounds like a fun game.
F- I agree, let's play!
G-Totally!
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And so the idea of the game of 'Murder' swept through the Gryffindor common room and it was decided that people would play.
The players of this ingenious game, (which Charlotte learned about by reading Harpo Marx's Autobiography, Harpo Speaks, which is a great book by the way,) were as follows:
Emms, Prew, Jfunk, Charlotte, Christine, Greens, Tonks, Fred, George, Lee, Trish, Freddy, Charlie and Percy.
Sure, they were all mostly friends, but a game of Murder does things to people.
Two minutes into the game, (which was being played in The Room of MysteryTM, because it would have all they needed) Fred and George cried out- "WE'RE BOOOOOORED!"
"Oh put a sock in it," Prew harrumphed.
And the twins did, Literally.
"Ew."
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Meanwhile, in another section of The Room of MysteryTM, there was a flash of green light, and a body fell to the floor.
A person stood over the body cackling. Then swiftly left the room.
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"Has anyone seen Christine?" Freddy asked.
"Nope," Oliver responded coolly, "Want to help me look for her?"
Freddy nodded as she left the room with Oliver and Greens followed behind because there was nothing else to do.
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Charlotte sat with Tonks while Charlie drifted in and out of the room. "Pst," Tonks whispered, "I have an odd suspicion of him," she jerked her thump towards their pacing comrade.
"Hmm, now that you mention it, I think either of you guys could be the murderer or detective."
"Me?" Tonks exclaimed, "Never."
"Right."
A moment passed in silence as they both sipped tea which they had brought into the room, along with some biscotti.
Suddenly a cry of "Corpse!" racketed throughout the playing area, and all who heard stood up, and rushed to the source of the cry. It was Freddy, standing over a body of Christine, whose face was frozen in an expression of puzzlement.
"She looks Avada Kedavra'd," Tonks said solemnly.
"She isn't though, the spell that we used is supposed to make it look that way, so it's real looking, it also gives off a green light, but she isn't REALLY dead," Charlotte explained calmly to the assembled crowd of Emms, Prew, Jfunk, Tonks, Charlie, Fred, George, Lee, Freddy, and Percy.
"How do you know that?" Charlie asked suspiciously.
"Because we played this version of 'Murder' at my family parties. The spell I told you guys about is what my family uses," she calmly explained.
They all said this in unison, "Oh."
"Wait," It was Emms this time, "Oliver and Douglas are missing."
"Maybe they're also victims," Charlotte deduced, "Accio Victims!" As the words left her mouth, the bodies of Oliver Wood and Douglas Green came zooming through the rooms to lie next to Christine's.
"Okay," Jessica Finke spoke up, "Who's the detective?"
"I am," this came from Charlie.
"That definitely scratches him off my list of suspects," Tonks whispered to Charlotte, the two girls giggled.
"So," Charlie said to himself, "How to start…hmm…OK, Tonks, when did you see any of them last?"
"I saw Christine only right before the game started, then when it did, she went off into this room, I think," Tonks started.
"Did you see anyone else go in?"
"Yeah, Freddy, Oliver, Emms, and Prew."
"Ok thank you, how about Oliver and Douglas?"
"I saw them leave the room with Freddy, but she came back a minute later and Prew went off in the same direction they went."
"Thanks Tonks, just one more question, where were you when corpse was called?"
"In the room with you and Charlotte."
"Thanks," Charlie then rounded on Freddy, "Was Christine still 'alive' when you entered the room?"
"I think so."
"Did you see her in the room?"
"No, I went in there to get a tissue, there were none in the original room."
"How about Oliver and Douglas?"
"I believe they were alive, we went to look for Christine, but they said they had to go to the loo, so I just left them and came back."
"Were you not the one who called 'corpse' on Christine?"
"Yes I was, I came back into the room for another tissue and I saw her body."
"Oh, alright then, thank you," It was Prew's turn and we all knew it, "Miss Prewett."
"Oh Charlie I'm your cousin, you don't see me calling you 'Master Weasley'."
"Well, maybe you should," there were many eye rolls shared throughout the room, "Was Christine 'alive' when you entered this room the first time?"
"Dunno, I came in here to look at the books."
"Right. How about Mr. Wood and Mr. Green?"
"Dunno, I didn't see them at all."
"Okay. Let me mull all the information over, I'll be back in a minute," and Charlie left the room.
"I think it was Rachel," Tonks whispered.
"Maybe," Charlotte said, "But I have my suspicions."
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A/N: Hope ya'll liked this chapter, I tried writing in a different style because...dun Dun DUN! I was bored, and it looked like fun. "Whodunit" you ask? Was it Prew or Freddy? I know. You'll find out in the next chapter which should arrive shortly!