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Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry: Cluedo (Suggestion)
Suspect - Sir Nicholas, Location: Riddle House, Weapon: The Guillotine
Sir Nicholas
Sir Nicholas entered the Riddle House. He looked around but didn't see anything. He sniffed the air, and he smelled something foul. It was like something was rotting.
He walked through the rooms, searching for the cause of the stench. He came to stairs leading downward, to what he assumed was a basement and with a sharp swallow, he started descending. When he entered the basement, he saw the old Guillotine. It was something he heard about, but executions never happened like that now. Now, it was a man that wielded an ax.
Guillotines were especially famous for the use in the witch hunts. Muggles preferred that way of executing when they found what they thought was a witch. (Of course, nine times out of ten, they were mistaken and killed a hapless Muggle.)
Wizards and witches feared Guillotines because of what they represented. He walked to the ancient contraption and saw what looked to be dried blood.
"What?" he questioned, not expecting an answer.
"Someone came," a hollow voice said.
Sir Nicholas whirled around and came face to face with a ghost. "Were you the one killed by this?"
The vision of the young girl sadly nodded. "My father did it. Accused me of being a witch. Said I was wrong, and that he was doing the world a favor by ridding it of me."
"You couldn't move on."
She shook her head. "Not until someone found my body and discovered the truth." The ghost moved to a cabinet.
Hesitantly, Sir Nichols walked over to it and pulled the door open. A skeletal body without a head fell out. "Where's your head?"
"Buried," she said, "But it's okay. Now, I know I can move on, and hopefully, it will be to something better."
Sir Nicholas watched her fade away to nothingness and deeply hoped there was such a thing as an afterlife where the girl could find some sort of happiness.
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