𝖮 𝗂𝗌 𝖿𝗈𝗋 𝖮𝖻𝗌𝖾𝗌𝗌𝗂𝗈𝗇 ʰʲᵖ

• ℭ𝔥𝔞𝔭𝔱𝔢𝔯 𝔗𝔥𝔦𝔯𝔱𝔢𝔢𝔫 : 𝔗𝔥𝔢 ℑ𝔫𝔳𝔢𝔰𝔱𝔦𝔤𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫 •

• Chapter Thirteen : The Investigation •

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No one slept that night. The factuality of a prefect being harmed gained a different kind of atmosphere that circulated the Ravenclaw Tower. Younger students, mostly first years, are being shaken up in fears and were frantically writing letters to be sent for their parents. But that was an attempt.

After the dinner that day, Dumbledore specifically told them that no one will send a letter to anyone not before the investigation starts to avoid gaining too much attention from the whole wizarding world. Of course, this had been another protest as some pointed out that their parents need to know about this problem, and the wizarding world in extent.

Dumbledore, however, also pointed out that if the wizarding world would know about this, they wouldn't want to have their children to go back to Hogwarts, which is a big NO in the whole point of magical education.

Despite this whole predicament, however, some of them wrote letters to their parents and told them what was happening in Hogwarts, but Dumbledore knew better. He didn't let any owl fly at any rate.

At the moment of deep sorrow and confusion, some of the other Houses had visited their Ravenclaw friends, including (Y/N)'s, Cho's and Luna's. They are gathered on Luna's dormitory, as all of her dorm mates left to try to find assurance from their other friends.

"A prefect!" Hermione started, her hands shaking in either fear or anger, no one knew. Ever since since she learned that a prefect had been killed, she started feeling jumpy. "Why would someone kill a prefect?"

No one answered her. Besides from the fact that no one knew the answer, the silence was a bit comfortable for their own thoughts, which (Y/N) took advantage for.

She was one of those people Anthony had been with before he actually died. She was partnered with Anthony and two other Ravenclaws in their class in Herbology. He had been a real great laugh while they poured over their activity in the class. And not just that, they had been friends since first year. He was actually the first guy she befriended on their House, and now... he was gone... he was now gone...

"I don't understand this." said Ginny, who was sitting beside Luna, her hands covering her face. "Like... how come the staffs still didn't know who or what did all of this?"

"Maybe because the killer don't want to show themselves?" Harry suggested calmly. "Who would want to admit to everyone that they killed those people?"

"You've got a point." said Blaise, scratching his chin with his thumb and point finger. "But still... the staffs didn't have a clue about who did this."

"It could be a creature." said Cedric absentmindedly. "I mean... if they couldn't see an evidence that it was a human, then maybe it wasn't human after all."

"Yeah... remember the legend of the Chamber of Secrets?" said Ron, his eyes glinting in eagerness.

"Yes, but that was a legend, Ron." Pansy snapped at the red-haired Gryffindor. "There's no proof that it actually existed."

"Fine." Ron resigned with a shrug. "It was a suggestion."

"That made sense, though." said Draco. "There's no proof that it existed, but there's also no proof that it never did."

"Or." said Ron. "Or there's another creature other than on the legend that could only resort onto Muggle killings, right?"

"You two don't make sense." said Cho exasperatedly. For the first time since they had arrived on Luna's dorm room, she had finally spoken.