Safe House

Eighteen

After a whole week of receiving letters about the wretched article I had enough!

Hermione obviously had it a lot worse than me, some people even went far enough to send her howlers full of insults.

Mine wasn't so bad, Draco, Theo and Blaise mostly went through mine, mainly out of pure nosiness but because secretly I wanted to know what people were saying but not actually wanting to face it.

Hermione and I had thought a lot about what Skeeter was up to.

We were determined to take her down or find out her secret that could potentially destroy her career, hey, you have to do whats necessary.

Hermione was so beyond mad she Didn't even gasp with shock and talk to me about Morales when I told her, she just simply agreed and said she wanted bloody Rita Skeeter took down if it was the last thing she did.

"Okay so I asked Moody, she definitely does not have an invisabili- Oh" Hermione stopped talking when she realised the Slytherin boys were there, I made Hermione ask Moody whilst I waited outside because to be honest, he scares me.

But the guys wouldn't leave me alone and decided that they were going to wait with me.

"Just ignore them" I said walking closer to her when she took a step back "Was he a hundred percent sure she wasn't there?" I asked

"Yeah, he would of seen it with his magical eye" she said

"And your certain she wasn't there when Krum talked to you, oh, have you decided wha-"

"Keira! stay focused" she said

"Right yep sorry, so no one was around?"

"Yes, it was just us, I even checked, just in case your brother was around" She rolled her eyes

"Then what is it then?! How is she having interviews with students if she's not at Hogwarts, and listening in on conversations, Like the one with Fred and George about Harry and ... Pucey, no one was around" I crossed my arms "Wait! I've got it!"

"What is it?" Hermione asked

"Come on, lets go to the library and talk in private" I said

"Where are you going, Weasley?" Draco asked as I went to head out the corridor with Hermione

"Didn't realise you were my babysitter, lay off, yeah?" I told him before tugging Hermione along to the library.

"So what, did you think about?" Hermione asked me when we sat at a desk.

"How much do you know about animagi?" I asked her

"Well- uh, j-just the stuff th-that we were t-taught in third year, yeah thats it." She said

"Riiight, Okay... Well what if thats how she's doing it, think about it, if she were an Animagus, she could just hide in plain sight and be on Hogwarts with out getting caught" I said

"If that were true, that would mean she's most likely an unregistered animagus, because there are only seven in the twentieth century, that could get her in a lot of trouble if it were to be revealed." Hermione smirked wickedly.

"Exactly! Now we just need to find out what she is and where she is" I said

"It has to be something small, where she can just be there with out being spotted, so like a bug or someth- Wait! When Krum asked me, he pulled a beetle out of my hair" Hermione said "It is definitely the perfect way to spy"

"Alright, so what we have is, Skeeter is mostly likely an unregistered Animagus that takes the form of a beetle now we just have to catch her" I said

"She did make it kind of obvious, didn't she, Think about that ugly beetle broach she wears" Hermione said.