Takes place after Malfoy and Harry's confrontation before the Quidditch Match in HBP.

Malfoy decides to use his "girls" to his advantage.

Over fifty people died at the Battle of Hogwarts. There are dozens of stories of loss, betrayal, heroism and sacrifice. These are some of those stories.

A novelette in five chapters:

An incredibly valuable item has gone missing, and everybody is completely stumped. There is no way a stranger could have entered the room!

How was the crime committed?
More importantly, whodunit?
Were those blue beads on the floor before?
What about those two mugs on the table?
Why is Pansy Parkinson sitting on Blaise Zabini’s lap?

Theodore Nott investigates.

Written Pre-HBP. It’s been almost twenty years since Harry Potter graduated Hogwarts as the ‘Hero of the Wizarding World‘. It was near the end of his seventh year when he finally defeated Voldemort. The details of that battle can be found in any number of history books or in one of the hundreds of biographies about Harry’s Life; well at least the first twenty-five years of his life, nobody knows what happened to Harry the morning after his twenty-fifth birthday. But we are about to find out.

Beta'd by Tamargrl