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Chapter #44: Beware the magic thieves.

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Harry and Hermione were in the great hall enjoying their breakfast with happy expressions on their faces, if things went according to their plan, soon they were going to add another victory to their collection, and the balance of power was about to change.

Suddenly out of nowhere, tons of owls appeared in the great hall, bringing copies of the daily prophet. Hermione and Harry could only watch with amusement the confused expressions of the people in the room.

“A special edition of the daily prophet?” Seamus asked with a confused expression.

“They’ve seen them…It’s not just a person, it’s a pair, the serial squibbers, the magic thieves!” Neville said with a surprised tone.

Soon, those who didn’t have a copy got closer to those who had one to read what happened, but instead of reading, paid more attention to a picture of two random people, a wizard and a witch, standing behind the sobbing figure of Goyle Sr. His son was surprised to see his father in the daily prophet, however, he soon focused on eating again, he didn’t care that his father was a squib.

“Goyle, do you realize that now that your father is a squib, you’re the new head of the family?” Asked Daphne Greengrass, and the smirk on Goyle’s face was disturbing.

“So, this means I’m the boss now? That old man is going to pay for everything he did to me!” Goyle cheered before he gulped more food.

“This is what’s going to happen to the followers of the dark lord and those politicians that enabled these bastards to roam free without being punished!” Neville said with a happy tone.

“Is this Harry Potter and Albus Dumbledore’s fault? This breaks the pattern, the perpetrators have made an act of appearance and have manifested their ideas and why they’re doing this, and this reporter can’t help but feel like they’ve been misguided by two liars.

It’s clear that this is the consequence of Harry Potter and Albus Dumbledore’s lies, they have created a monster who’s targeting the important and influential families of our country, the people that are essential to keep our traditional values alive, if I were a relative of one of the victims I would’ve been already planning to sue these two.

This man claims he only attacks the dark lord followers, but it doesn’t make any sense, the minister assures that there’s no such thing as the dark lord, he’s dead and he’s been gone since, ironically, the mother of the supposed hero sacrificed herself so the ungrateful child could live…” Neville stopped reading, he was tired of reading all that crap.

“Well, I guess the message is clear…Don’t follow Voldemort and you’ll be fine,” Harry said with a calm tone.

“This is truly interesting,” a blonde fourth-year said, her sudden appearance took everyone by surprise.

“Oh, hey, Luna,” Harry said cheerfully. “What did you find so interesting?” Asked the emerald-eyed wizard with a curious tone.

He didn’t know why but he wanted to know what people thought about the perpetrators and their theories, it made him feel a sense of pride, Hermione explained to him that many criminals want to brag and tell the world about what they do and they like the sense of people talking about them, many serial killers enjoyed the police’s theories throughout history.

“It seems like the magic thieves have broken their pattern,” Luna said without hesitation.

Harry and Hermione smiled.

“Really? Could you elaborate?” Hermione couldn’t help but ask, after all, she was in the same state as her boyfriend, she was curious.

After all, they've achieved something amazing, and they couldn’t tell anyone, people could either fear or be amazed at them but, she didn’t mind, she just wanted to know how people feel about this.

“Well, they only used to attack during the weekends, which made me feel like the perpetrator or perpetrators in this case were either a teacher or a student from Hogwarts,” her words surprised Harry and Hermione.

The blonde was good, after they became the undesirables of the school, Harry and Hermione started to hang out in places people rarely visit, but during one of those visits, they met Luna Lovegood, she’s strange but honest and her honesty is what makes her the purest and oddest person in the magical world.

“However, after seeing the teachers every weekend, I realized that it was a ridiculous idea, then I thought it could be a student, after all, the schedule of the attacks matches with our free time, we use less magic on the weekends but then, this attack happened and it happened in the  middle of the week, it seems like I have to start from scratch again!” Luna said with a happy expression.

“You truly are enjoying this, don’t you, Luna?” Asked Neville with a raised brow.

“It’s fun, would you guys like to join me to investigate more?” Luna asked with a hopeful expression.

“Sure thing, but let’s do it after classes, okay?” Hermione told the blonde with a sincere smile.

Luna nodded happily, and soon, everyone grabbed their things to start their classes.

Today they had class with Snape and with the new DADA professor, it was an Auror, a member of the order, she was Hestia Jones and she wasn’t bad at teaching, Harry was grateful they finally got rid of Umbridge, but the happiest person about that decision was Hermione because she was finally learning something useful. After the classes of the day ended, they traveled back in time to attack Goyle.

Evening at the Auror department Amelia Bones was desperate, she and all her Aurors were in a private room discussing their theories behind the identity of the magic thieves as now the press was calling them, she preferred the term serial squibber, it sounded more mysterious but that was the least important problem in this situation.

“Okay, so, we managed to find fingerprints on Goyle’s clothes and his wand,” Tonks started. “We’ve tracked them and we got the identity of the supposed attackers, the man’s name is Marcus Smith while the woman’s name is Amanda Johnson,” Tonks finished.

“So, are they related to the Johnson and Smith families?” Amelia asked, a bit surprised.

She knew her niece went to school with a girl named Angelina Johnson and a boy named Zacharias Smith, and as far as she knew, those families weren’t associated with the dark arts.

“No, you see the thing here is that…They’re both muggles,” Tonks’ words caused everyone to gasp.

Amelia tried to keep everyone silent, but it was hard even for her to remain like that after such a declaration.

“Are you sure about that, Auror Tonks?” Amelia asked with a concerned tone. “Maybe you meant muggleborns?” The red-haired woman was so confused right now.

“No, ma’am, they’re both muggles, like real muggles, they’re people without magic, and in fact, both of them were at work all day, after we tracked them, their coworkers claim that they were working while Goyle lost his magic,” added the metamorph.

“Well, this sucks, I knew this was too good be true…It’s obvious they’re using Polyjuice potion,” Amelia couldn’t help but massage her temple.

Once they get questioned about it and they tell the truth, people are going to start to panic, they could be everywhere, it could be the bartender who didn't receive tippings, their friend whom they could randomly offend without noticing.

“Good work, Auror Tonks,” Amelia had more questions than when she started.

However, on the other hand, she felt happy, letting those people clear the trash wasn’t such a bad idea, to be fair.