Oh My God, We Hit a Boot

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The Note

Hermione Granger had just finished her favorite class, Transfiguration with Professor McGonagall, and was going to her room to study. She passed through the Gryffindor common room and waved to her best friends, Harry and Ron. "We have been through so much together," she thought. "Harry has had a hard life and I'm glad he has friends to back him up."

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* I'm sitting by the lakeside in Harry's arms. "We can't tell anyone about this," Draco is saying. "It could get us killed or worse." "All right," we all agree. *

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She gets to her room and walks between the beds until she gets to her own. She looks down at her trunk and there is a note written in rainbow ink:

Hermione,

I know what you did last winter.

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* We shouldn't have enchanted that riding lawnmower. We were drunk on butterbeer and didn't know what we were doing! *

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Warnings

* We were all there. Harry, Ron, Ginny, Draco, Fred, George, and I. We shouldn't have tried it... it was too risky. Fred was driving and then... Oh my God... *

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Hermione shudders just to think of it. "I need to warn Harry and the others." She goes into the common room and gets Harry, Ron, Fred, George, and Ginny. "I found this on my trunk," she says. " Someone *knows*!"

"What are we gonna do?!" She was freaking out. "We need to tell Draco," says Ginny. "He'll know what to do."

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They found Draco in the Great Hall, talking to some other Slytherins. Ron motioned for him to come over. Hermione showed him the note and his face turned a shade of pale unknown to man. "My Quidditch shoe was taken yesterday!"

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Clues

"We need to find out who did this," says Ginny. " We need to think of who was here over winter holidays last year. They made a list:

Harry

Hermione

Ginny

Ron

Fred

George

Hagrid

Draco

Pandora

Cho

Teachers

Dumbledore

"Ok... We know it's not any of us," says Hermione, "and Hagrid wouldn't do this."

"Well, Dumbledore and the teachers were having a meeting," says Draco, "and Pandora's my girlfriend, so I don't think she did it."

"I bet it was Cho," says Hermione.

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* I am sitting in the back of the lawn mower and then we start going all over, spinning and bouncing. We are all so dizzy... we didn't even see it coming. All of the sudden we hear a shredding noise. I yell, "Oh my God! We hit a boot!" *

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Questioning

A week later there was two more shoe-nappings, Harry's sneaker and George's flying shoe. They decided to talk to Cho and Pandora. They found Cho in the library and went right up to her. Ron asked, "Cho, did you write a note to Hermione?"

"Yeah," said Ginny, "and leave it on her trunk?"

"Yeah, on her trunk," said Fred and George simultaneously.

"No, I don't know what you are talking about," said Cho.

"Well," said Harry, "OK, but we'll be keeping an eye on you."

They went to find Pandora, which wasn't hard since she was looking for Draco at the same time. "Hi sweetheart," said Draco giving her a kiss. "You didn't happen to leave Hermione a note on her trunk did you?"

"No, Honey, I didn't but I'll help you find out who did," said Pandora.

"All right," said Fred. "We'll go look for clues," said Harry. "First of all we know this was written in rainbow ink and secondly the thief has our shoes."

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* We are all frightened. "We need to promise that we won't tell anyone about this and that we will never talk about it among ourselves," said Draco. "Are you with me?" He puts in his hand, followed by Fred, George, Ron, Harry, and Ginny. Reluctantly I put in my hand. "I know this is not a good idea..." *

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Confession

They met by Pandora's locker and decided to make a list of the clues. "May I borrow a quill," asked Ron. "Sure," replied Pandora. She opened her locker and out fell a Quidditch shoe, a sneaker, and a flying shoe. "Nice shoes," said Hermione. Pandora pulled out an enchanted rainbow quill. "OK," said Draco, "the clues are the missing shoes, and a quill with rainbow ink... Hey wait a minute." He bent down and picked up the Quidditch shoe, "This is my shoe."

"Yeah, and this is mine," said Harry. Fred said, "Hey, this is George's shoe!" They all turned and looked at Pandora. "All right, I admit it! But you know what, I'm glad I did! That night when you hit the boot... Well that was my boot...." By this time she was crying. "My favorite little gogo boot... It was for dancing!" They all looked at her like she was crazy.

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Explanation

"Let me explain," said Pandora. "I used to be a dancer back in the States. When I came to Hogwarts, I had a huge crush on Draco, but he didn't notice me. So I left my dancing boot by the lake so he would bring it back to me. I didn't realize when I hid in the bushes that you all were drunk. Before I could get back to my boot, it was too late. I swore I would get revenge." She looked up at them and waited. They were all silent for what seemed like an eternity. Finally Hermione said, "We're sorry, we didn't know." Pandora replied, "Oh, well... I can get new boots... and anyway, Draco did notice me," plopping a kiss on his cheek. "And he knows everything about me from my black hair and purple eyes to my six toes on my right foot.

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From then on they never were afraid to talk about 'The Incident by the Lake Last Winter.'

THE END