My broom is still missing.

[alt_harry]

I still don't know where my broom is. It makes me sad and angry cause I had to miss Quidditch practice now. As good as miss anyway.  I had to fly an old Cleansweep and it was no good for anything. At tea today Mr Malfoy told me I ought to keep better watch on my things, but I don't see how this is my fault. But it made it a little worse actually because he brought me a copy of Quidditch Through the Ages and now I want to fly but I can't really. And then he went and talked to Pansy alot. I think he's angry with me for losing the nice broom he gave me. But like I said it isn't my fault.

Maybe if I get it back it will be okay. Who's going to help me? I've made a list of clues.

Hannah said that it went out the window but I can't find it anywhere.  I still think someone took it and is keeping it. Fawcett said that she saw Bob Summerby out there but I don't know how Bob Summerby would be able to cast a Summoning charm like that. It could actually have been a Slytherin girl because Greg says that they can get up to our dorm since he let Daphne up to fetch a quill to borrow. So it could be almost anyone, really, except the people I was playing Exploding Snap with.

Comments

[alt_draco]

You already know that I'll help you.

We should study that book that Father brought for me. It might have some good stuff to use against the broom-thief.

Do you think that this has anything to do with that Gringott's break-in that Auntie Bellatrix has been investigating?

[alt_harry]

Good idea.

Maybe it is! Maybe there's a thief. Who would be able to break in to Gringotts who's also at Hogwarts?

[alt_lucius]

I'm not cross with you, Harry. If someone Summoned your broom it hardly matters where you left it. I thought I said that when we were there to-day.

I don't wish to bring up a ... delicate subject, and I didn't like to speak of it in front of Mrs Malfoy, but you should tell me immediately if that despicable man harasses you again. You're not troubled by him, I hope?

[alt_draco]

I don't really know. No one is supposed to be able to break into Gringotts. But if they could do that then I suppose it wouldn't be difficult to steal your broom too.

I'm going to go check my things again and make sure they're all there.

[alt_harry]

I suppose you did but, you still seemed like you were cross.

He hasn't said anything else and I suppose that if I ignore him he'll go away. I'll tell you if he does.

[alt_harry]

Good idea. Were they?

[alt_draco]

Yes. From what I can tell, anyway.

[alt_lucius]

What you might do is think who stands to gain from assuring that Harry's broom remains lost. Motive, means, and opportunity, son.

It was good to see you looking fit, by the way. And don't over-use that book, hm? Remember what I told you about being irksome.

[alt_lucius]

Ha, likely I did seem out of sorts, but it wasn't your doing, lad.

If only he were so easily dispatched, but I fear it will take more than a cold shoulder to stop that odious oaf. I'm glad, at least, that you do not let his lies affect you ill. By all means, continue to ignore him and his bilge. Good show.

[alt_sally_anne]

The Gryffindor Seeker is named Ritchie Coote but I don't know what year he's in. Is he old enough to have learned the Summoning charm? Because Slytherin plays Gryffindor in two weeks, and Harry's brilliant at flying. Maybe Ritchie's the one who took it? And maybe he flew it into the Forbidden Forest just to be sure Harry couldn't find it? Because he wouldn't be able to fly it himself in the Quidditch match, everyone knows it's Harry's broom, but if he took it and hid it in the forest so Harry doesn't have it for the game, that would disadvantage the Slytherin team when they play Gryffindor.

[alt_sally_anne]

For that matter anyone on the Gryffindor Quidditch team could have a motive, not just the Seeker. I doubt it was Fred or George Weasley, though, they'd have given it back with rude words written on the handle or something by now, if it was them.

[alt_gredforge]

thanks for the vote of confidence.

(Though if it were us we probably would have blown it up instead)

[alt_harry]

He's only a year older than us I think. I don't know if they've learned it yet, but he wouldn't be that good, would he?

Maybe we ought to go ask him.

[alt_sally_anne]

Maybe ask Oliver Wood? He's their team captain. He ought to know if anyone on the team has it. Dunno if he'd say if he did, though.

[alt_sally_anne]

Why would you blow up such a nice broom? It's a really nice broom!

Do you know if any of your teammates took it?

[alt_gredforge]

well, don't you ever wonder if, in all the protective enchantments that are on it, it could be blown up?

Not that we have heard.

[alt_pansy]

Could your broom have been summoned out of the castle somehow?

[alt_harry]

I suppose that makes sense. But who by!?

[alt_pansy]

Someone who wants it. Or maybe they want to put a hex on it. Should you get it back, I'd check it out very carefully. Hate to say it, but you could be a target, being who you are and all.