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Siriusly Moony · 04-16-2010, 01:27 PM

Ronan Cavanaugh listened to what Brian Lee had to say about the next challenge, chuckling when he said that he would offer anyone who needed a book of the basic spells. Taking out his wand, the young man went into the room and seeing the disarray of the scene in front of him, said the first instructed spell, “SpeRevelio” with the accompanied wand motions.

As if waiting for something to happen, Ronan paused and looked around the room for something obvious to appear but there was nothing. And then he realized that he had to still say the second spell. He felt his face flush suddenly at his mistake before saying the second instructed spell, “Novus Res” with its accompanied wand motions and saw the various items glow in the room.

Taking out a quill and pad Ronan wrote down what he saw:

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Object #1: bag paperclipped to a calendar; bag says mammoth
Object #2: parchment with kidnapped
Object #3: parchment with 0_0
Object #4: parchment with Try Again
Object #5: parchment with I am
Object #6: parchment with I'm not a fool
Object #7: a book with a quill and Hufflepuff written
Objects found top to bottom left to right.

‘Right.’ He said twirling the quill between his index finger and thumb in concentration. Ronan saw that the papers that read ‘I am’ and ‘kidnapped’ seemed to fit together. ‘So they must have been written by the victim to inform whoever did approach the room that they were taken.’ He thought to himself. The second item that made sense to the young man was the book with a quill and the Hufflepuff crest. ‘The victim was a former Hufflepuff.’ Ronan thought, his eyes squinting in concentration.

He began to try and make sense of the bag with the words ‘Mammoth’ on it as an illusion of the witness came forth to speak with various other people in the room. Ronan just listened on trying to catch on with how this could have all played out.

The intruder just wrecked the place? But for what purpose? And perhaps the victim IS the intruder as well and was staging their own kidnapping. It was time for his thoughts to be known.

Approaching Mr Brian Lee, Ronan cleared his throat trying to get his attention so that he could announce his theory of the crime scene before them. "Mr Lee." Ronan began in a solemn tone, his hands in his pockets again. "I have come to the conclusion that this entire crime scene is just a cover up for a different crime that took place. "Whoever's office this is, a Hufflepuff, no doubt, wanted to cover their tracks or had an accomplice do it for them while they escaped."

mathi · 04-16-2010, 02:05 PM

Brian did not stop the witness as he rushed past the door after giving out the details as much as he could to everyone. Thanks man!

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Originally Posted by Zellanna

Armand gave him an elegant bow. "I most graciously thank you."

"Good luck!" he wished him and walked back to the center of the room to study others' progress.

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Walking into the room, Lilah sighed and listened to what the man named Brian Lee was saying. Security department. Which meant investigations. Which meant thinking through the crime scene and coming up with a conclusion. Perhaps she was going be stumbling her way through these tasks throughout this entire thing. She knew about animals! Not crime scenes.

Taking note of the spells that were being said, Lilah walked into the room to the left like instructed and stood in the doorway for a moment, taking everything in. Well wasn’t this room a massive disaster. Before taking another step forward, she brought out her wand and made the weird circle jab movement, saying ‘SpeRevelio’. Nothing happened, so she was pretty sure there were no traps set around the place and it was safe to take another step forward. Walking around, looking at the walls, the floor, the ceiling, and finally the desk, she swept her wand in a diagonal pattern before flicking it up with the words ‘Novus Res’.

She wasn’t expecting anything to happen either just like the other spell, which was why she was so surprised when she found a few things glowing. One of which, she had no idea why was even there in the first place. Taking a deep breath, she poked her wand around on the disheveled desk, looking to see what was under what and where everything was, trying hard not to move things too much around before spotting a ripped paper with words that were quite eye catching. Kidnapped? Frowning, she levitated the paper, taking note of the handwriting before looking around for the other half. I am. I am kidnapped.

Lowering the two pieces down on the desk so it almost looked like they were connected back into one sheet of paper again, Lilah took one more glance around, making sure she looked at every detail and memorized it. “Well, from what I can tell, three things could have happened here. For one, the man, a Hufflepuff perhaps who originally went to Hogwarts? According to this notebook that is, really was kidnapped by someone. Now if this was the case, either the kidnapper was looking for something and didn’t want any witnesses to be hanging around giving the man time to write down this ‘I am kidnapped’ message, or two, the kidnapper was after the man and there had been a mighty struggle. Or it was both combined. However, the last one more likely than the first seeing as we already have two kidnapped on our hands at the moment.” Which was weird. That one lady being taken right in front of them. This person, whoever it was, didn’t like to play it safe.

“A second theory I have is that perhaps this was a set up. Perhaps the kidnapper, if this person who previously at this desk really was kidnapped, was forced to make it look like there was either a struggle or something was being searched for. A third theory, is that this man wasn’t even kidnapped at all, assuming that it was a man of course.” This could also be a woman in trouble. Whoever was behind this seemed to be only going after woman so far. Besides, Lilah had suddenly spotted what looked to be a piece of paper that was part of a calendar and what appeared to be a little purse attached to it? Mammoth. Might’ve been a magazine or something. “Perhaps this person was in trouble and needed a way out. Maybe they knew someone was after them and needed it to look like someone got there before they did…Or they did something...” There could be endless possibilities of how this happened. There just wasn’t enough details to make up a correct conclusion. “But what I don’t understand, is why they didn’t write down any descriptions of what happened if they were being kidnapped. Perhaps describing the person? Or what they were wearing? Familiar smells, sights, sounds. Instead, we get…this.”

A torn note. Yaaay.

"Excuse me Ma'am, are you talking to yourself?" Brian asked gently, watching the lady's pre-occupied status.

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Originally Posted by SilverTiger

Dorian's grey eyes watched a figure running from the room as he entered. The man, if he chose to consider him that since he had seemed somewhat young, had seemed agitated, which piqued his curiosity. But he needed to get to the Ministry task, so he sent the curiosity to the back of his mind as he looked over for the instructions. Seemed easy enough, but something told him things weren't as they seemed.

Heading into the room after making a mental note of the spells that were given them, he glanced around at the chaos before casting. "SpeRevelio," he intoned, before inclining his head slightly as nothing happened. Some people might think that meant they hadn't cast the spell right, but he figured it just meant there was nothing in the room to trigger a reaction. So he went on to cast the other spell. Sweeping his wand in the diagonal pattern given them, he said "Novus Res," only to let a half-smile creep across his face as items started to glow. At least that told him something. Moving closer, he examined the items before walking back out of the room.

"Common opinion, given the evidence, would probably point toward someone having been kidnapped," he said then, acknowledging the woman who had come out before him. "And given the fact we already know both the Minister and her senior undersecretary have been taken, that might lend credence to that theory. Of course, it would be easy to assume that. Obviously the office had been ransacked, but I don't believe anyone was taken forcibly from that office." He paused, whether to add to the drama or to let himself get his thoughts together he didn't know. But either way, he'd done so so he just had to continue.

"The wording on the torn note seems to awkward to really be believable, although there is always the possibility it was written by someone who was planning on disappearing of their own volition. They might have thought people wouldn't think about the message beyond the physical words on the paper. All the rest of the hidden things seem entirely random, but perhaps they explain something as well as to why the desk was ransacked." He glanced at the man who seemed to be overseeing the task, then. "I assume the man who ran off was a witness?," he asked. It would be curious to know what he'd seen.

Excellent !

Brian couldnt stop but admiring the man's assessments as he smiled, "Brilliant. You captured the right link Mr.....?" he paused "But are you really asking me this question?" his smile never left from his face all the time.

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Rinatta entered the room and listened intently as she heard Mr. Lee's introduction and instructions. Alright , Magical Security...not her forte. Crime scene investigations were not exactly something that she had regularly dealt with. Okay the challenge levels were corresponding to the ministry levels. Education, then Security and so on. At least she would sort of have an idea of what to expect...she hoped.

She did as suggested and circled her wand , at the end making a little stabbing motion and uttered "SpeRevelio". Seeing that there were no potential threats at the moment ,she proceeded. Alright time for clues. "Novus Res" she while sliding her wand as she was shown and making a flick at the end. She watched as suspicious items were illuminated and pulled them to her one by on with magic , as not to disturb the crime scene. She levitated the objects rather than handling them so that she did not contaminate them and then put them back where they were once she finished examining them. What a strange batch of clues....time to reason them through. Did the book and quill with Hufflepuff have anything to do with the matter or were they simply planted to confuse investigators? The O_O face...did that mean anything to the situation at all? She was going to assume that one was just dropped or planted for now. Try Again and I'm not a fool...weren't telling her anything except for the culprit seemed as though he or she had the intent to confuse and or was arrogant. The calender bag that held the mammoth ,which was partially crossed out held some interest for her though. MM...she would keep a not of that for later. Then now, as for the two ripped pieces of paper that spelled out I am kidnapped, that spoke worlds....but what possibility could be the accurate one? Was someone indeed kidnapped or was this a ruse?

Her mind wandered and she listened as others questioned the witness, to the point of too much frustration upon which he had left. Bringing up mysteriously vanishing papers for sighing..not knowing whom your boss is..That all sounded fishy to her. Something was arranged somewhere, it definitely stunk of something other than simple thievery. As for the room being trashed...nothing was really broken or damaged too badly, just strewn across the room. It looked to be more searched through than struggled with and ...who would give their victim time to write a note...let alone try to hide it the way they did? Why not just destroy it completely? No this was too hinky, the delivery boy at the perfect time to see ,yet not see the crime. This had to be a setup to some degree, besides just being set up by the MoM, of that she was pretty certain. The question was, was there a kidnapping at all? Was the culprit alerting that they had kidnapped some one? Or just being distracting? The culprit wanted seen, yet unseen it would seem.

"Looking over evidence....it doesn't appear that there was a struggle here. There did seem to be extensive searching, but nothing damaged too badly or any marks of the sort. The delivery boy at a nigh perfect time to witness the act, also things that seem to have no relevance whatsoever planted in with the rest. I would say that this is a setup." she said somewhat thinking aloud.

"That doesn't mean that there was not a kidnapping per se...but perhaps elsewhere and the culprit wanted to draw attention to that. For what reason that may have happened I am uncertain. As for the papers...if we don't know what they contained we cannot decided why they would desire to take them. Another thought is that the culprit may have had an accomplice. The papers being missing and the lengthy amount of time that the delivery boy was gone may have been a signal that the task was completed." she said while wondering if she made any sense or sounded like a fool. "So my conclusion for now is that this is a setup. Formulated to either distract or inform us of a different crime." she said wondering if she was alone in her line of thinking and if she was in the right ball park.

Mhmm...Was she very close to the end?!

"Well..if you say so, what would be the hidden or different crime as per you said?" he asked her, expecting more explanations and solid conclusion.

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Originally Posted by Lara_the_Firelady

Lookign around casually Ryan walked in the room and listened to Mr. Lee carefully. Ah, investigating was his job actually ex-job but he would not say no to another, would he? Once the man had finished his speech, Ryan walked to the said room and casted ''SpeRevelio'' before he stepped in the room which was a little messy. First of all, before he used his hands to investigate the room, he observed it not missing the pieces of paper with notes on it. Hmm...

After some observation he began with his beginning idea''It is indeed hard to tell this working place belongs to a man or woman but i think it is most likely a woman's and she had been working on...something, i guess. Something that some other people would like to have a knowledge of, however if someone had searched this room for something i guess they failed to find it. So, it is possible that the woman (or man) escaped with that information.'' he stopped took a breath then went on ''Nevertheless i think the owner of the studying place purposedly made the place a mess to taunt the person who should come after her (him).''

Once he stopped remarking what he got by observation, he took everything in ''Perhaps this friend likes to study on some magical scientific stuff'' and he passed to the next step to collect clues... ''Novus Res!''

Clue #1 = An agenda paper
Clue #2 = A ripped paper with the word 'Kidnapped'
Clue #3 = A ripped paper with '0_O'
Clue #4 = A paper with words 'Try Again'
Clue #5 = A ripped paper with words 'I am'
Clue #6 = A paper with words 'I am not a fool'
Clue #7 = A notebook with 'Hufflepuff' crest.

Two ripped papers were combinable saying 'I am kidnapped'. Could it be that easy? Well...he was going to see. To be honest except clues number 2,4,5 and 6 all the clues did not seem to be worth dealing with. Yet he was still thinking the way he observed things.

"Hello Ryan, everything is going fine?" he gave him a warm smile, watching him working on his perceptions silently.

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Approaching Mr Brian Lee, Ronan cleared his throat trying to get his attention so that he could announce his theory of the crime scene before them. "Mr Lee." Ronan began in a solemn tone, his hands in his pockets again. "I have come to the conclusion that this entire crime scene is just a cover up for a different crime that took place. "Whoever's office this is, a Hufflepuff, no doubt, wanted to cover their tracks or had an accomplice do it for them while they escaped."

He hummed slightly, "Leave the hufflepuff part, but can you tell me the motive behind the so called escape?" he was curious about to know everyone's thoughts.

Siriusly Moony · 04-16-2010, 02:20 PM

“A motive.” Ronan repeated looking from the man before him and then off to the distance to think. After a few brief moments of what would cause the man to want to be seen by the witness and randomly mess up the room, all the cogs seemed to fit together.

“He wanted to make sure that he was the distraction from the actual crime being committed by some unknown accomplice. Although he wasn’t identified, if the eye witness were to give an account of seeing him, everyone would pay more attention to his whereabouts and not of the person who was doing the true kidnapping. It gives the real criminal a chance to escape far away from the Ministry.”

The young man finished his explanation and looked to Mr Lee curiously, on edge of whether his assumptions were correct or not. It really was ingenious for the true criminal to set up a fake crime scene to gain him time.

MeredithRodneyMckay · 04-16-2010, 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by mathi

His attention now turned to Olivia, "so you think this's all pre-planned? And they came for some important papers? " his ocean blue eyes watched her getting nervous slowly.

Olivia sighed and shrugged her shoulders towards Brian.She didn't know what to think anymore.Apart from the fact she certainly wasn't cut out for this kind of work. "I really have no idea," she mumbled, turning her head to face and listen to everyone elses thoughts.

The more she listened, the more her theory fell apart in her head.It was a little silly to begin with anyway...Getting papers sent to your office, after the person who kidnapped you had ransacked it.Pfffttt.NO.How would the person know when they would be kidnapped?

No, the more the distraction theory was bandied about the more she thought it might be true.And then the witness went nutso and stormed off, and Olivia eyed the door he disappeared through. O__o Oooookay...

"Maybe the person that the witness saw WAS the owner of the room? It's possible that they were in a panicked state, trying to find something, and snapped at him when he interrupted them.Perhaps they had commited an earlier crime and were seen by someone, and that person was blackmailing them.The notes with the 'I am not a fool' and 'Try Again' could be because this person tried to fob the blackmailer off, and they were having none of it.So the person thought they only had one option....make it look like they were burgled and kidnapped, so they could escape, and by the time the blackmailer and law enforcement worked it out, they'd be long gone...."

Olivia took a deep breath, having not done so for the whole of that speech.Starting to feel faint through lack of oxygen, she out her hand on the wall to steady herself. "I'd say, for now, that is my final theory..." Yes.Please say yes, Mr Lee.

Cinn-O-Bun · 04-16-2010, 04:33 PM

Erik walked into the room and looked around. Well someone was messy. He smirked to himself and took in the scene again. A crime took place here. Obviously. They were told it was a crime scene that means...guess what a crime took place here so it wasn't just a case of someone needing a maid. Though one couldn't hurt.

Alright down to business. Pulling out his wand from his new holder he waved it around before taking another step into the debris riddled room, "SpeRevelio". Waiting curiously for any kind of booby trap to pop out at him he smirked as nothing happened. So not a staged crime though it could be if someone was trying to hide from someone. One thing at a time. Waving his wand around again he said, "Novus Res" and was surprised when seven things glowed trying to grab his attention. Well so far this was easy.

He walked closer to them and with his wand levitated them closer making sure not to touch them. His years in law enforcement taught him all about contamination of evidence. One by one he looked at them and placed them back. "Well someone has a sense of humour", he said as he viewed the try again and the weird circle line thing that were on pieces of paper. "Well it seems to me either someone was kidnapped or someone's wantin' to make it seem like they were. The way the room is scattered about tends to indicate a struggle took place but at the same time the weird notes and things out of place just don't fit."

Levitating the two halves of the ripped page together. The way the "A" was written on both pages indicated it was the same handwriting. "I am kidnapped...." he frowned thoughtfully as he looked at them both and shook his head, "If I were writin it I'd say I've been kidnapped..." he slipped the pages back where they had been. There were too many things that didn't make sense and aside from the 'I am kidnapped' page none of the handwriting matched. So several people with a sense of humour. He smirked to himself and continued to look around What does a bag paperclipped on a calendar page have anything to do with...well anything. And someone, the kidnapped or the kidnapper if in fact there was a kidnapping either liked Hufflepuff's or was one or just wants to throw someone off. "Maybe it was a Ravenclaw trying to frame a Hufflepuff..." he muttered to himself and chuckled. "We need witnesses...are there any witnesses?" Now that was the question.

Weasley174 · 04-16-2010, 04:37 PM

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He then looked around the room. "I'm only going to say this once. So listen up and take notes." he shouted out. He was sick of telling the same story "I was sent here to get some papers signed. I came into the room, saw a man going crazy and was immediately told to 'Get out now, or never leave the room again' and then I ran and hid." There. That was clear.

With an upset and scared glance at everyone in the room, the young man shook his head and then ran towards the door he'd entered through. It was too much. His job. Him being used. Him being accused. His boss being accused. He had to get out! Disappearing through the door quickly, he slammed it shut behind him and was gone. No more witness, people had to really think and take notice of what he'd said now.

Tom smiled this was interesting. "Well I would usually say this is a kidnapping but I am sure someone has made it look like it." He wasn't sure if it was the man who was suppost to be a witness or somone else. "Why would someone allow this witness to go, surely he would have known he would tell on him, the kidnapper would have taken them both hostage, ever the person who has lived here has gone underground because he doesn't want to be found or he's scared someone was following and so stage his own kidnapping so they stop following that, that is what I think, this is a staged kidnapping why would someone allow the witness to leave surely he would do something about it,

"Okay I've got it. I am sure this person was working on something important and was told by someone that he was being followed and so he escaped and to put people of his scent he has got this witness who works for him to pretent there was someone in here so that no one can find him, This is an office of someone important and he was working on something to do with Hogwarts and Hufflepuff, he looked at the Parchment with the symbol 0_0 upon it again oh that's it he was talking to someone important probably an ex Hufflepuff about something big and he was warned by the other person that there was something wrong."

Golden Monkey · 04-16-2010, 05:55 PM

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He then looked around the room. "I'm only going to say this once. So listen up and take notes." he shouted out. He was sick of telling the same story "I was sent here to get some papers signed. I came into the room, saw a man going crazy and was immediately told to 'Get out now, or never leave the room again' and then I ran and hid." There. That was clear.

With an upset and scared glance at everyone in the room, the young man shook his head and then ran towards the door he'd entered through. It was too much. His job. Him being used. Him being accused. His boss being accused. He had to get out! Disappearing through the door quickly, he slammed it shut behind him and was gone. No more witness, people had to really think and take notice of what he'd said now.

Darius listened, taking notes with his quill like it was the easiest thing to do. He didn't know why he didn't think of it before, but when the witness told him what he'd seen a little light bulb went up in his head and he had a Sherlock Holmes moment. Watching as the poos man ran from the room, no doubt upset beyond belief at nearly being fired - which he surely wouldn't be - Darius approached the man in charge, his theory in his head.

"Mr....Lee is it? I believe I have come up with a plausible theory. That man who had just ran out of the room is most definitely the witness to something horrible, but it wasn't kidnapping. Everything is too neat and tidy to be kidnapping. Of course we know there is a real kidnapping happening right now but not in this room.No, this man walked in on a perfectly staged play, with all the actors playing their part." he paused looking through his notes some more. "I found it strange that there were more clues than I thought there would be for a kidnapping. normally the kidnappers are very concise in making sure there's only one piece, a note. However they don't normally rip the note in half, tossing it to opposite ends of the room, even if it is to try and dissuade us." he chuckled shaking his head.

"No I believe that the 'kidnapee', is also the kidnapper. That is to say the man who resided here played out his own kidnapping. The note is to well written for a man to be kidnapped and forced to write a note. But I do wonder about the other notes however, they could be from him to make us think there were others involved or to dissuade us from finding the truth." He stopped again ticking something off in his mind as he took one more look around the room. "So in conclusion that poor man here had seen nothing but a perfectly executed play performed by one man." he finished, wondering if that made any sense to the man before him.

mathi · 04-16-2010, 06:47 PM

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“A motive.” Ronan repeated looking from the man before him and then off to the distance to think. After a few brief moments of what would cause the man to want to be seen by the witness and randomly mess up the room, all the cogs seemed to fit together.

“He wanted to make sure that he was the distraction from the actual crime being committed by some unknown accomplice. Although he wasn’t identified, if the eye witness were to give an account of seeing him, everyone would pay more attention to his whereabouts and not of the person who was doing the true kidnapping. It gives the real criminal a chance to escape far away from the Ministry.”

The young man finished his explanation and looked to Mr Lee curiously, on edge of whether his assumptions were correct or not. It really was ingenious for the true criminal to set up a fake crime scene to gain him time.

This man is thinking a lot. Brian put his wand back on his trouser pocket while talking to him, "You're almost near the real and simple logic. If you tell me about the Actual crime it would be useful for you to go to the next challenge" he indicated him that he was close to the line.

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Olivia sighed and shrugged her shoulders towards Brian.She didn't know what to think anymore.Apart from the fact she certainly wasn't cut out for this kind of work. "I really have no idea," she mumbled, turning her head to face and listen to everyone elses thoughts.

The more she listened, the more her theory fell apart in her head.It was a little silly to begin with anyway...Getting papers sent to your office, after the person who kidnapped you had ransacked it.Pfffttt.NO.How would the person know when they would be kidnapped?

No, the more the distraction theory was bandied about the more she thought it might be true.And then the witness went nutso and stormed off, and Olivia eyed the door he disappeared through. O__o Oooookay...

"Maybe the person that the witness saw WAS the owner of the room? It's possible that they were in a panicked state, trying to find something, and snapped at him when he interrupted them.Perhaps they had commited an earlier crime and were seen by someone, and that person was blackmailing them.The notes with the 'I am not a fool' and 'Try Again' could be because this person tried to fob the blackmailer off, and they were having none of it.So the person thought they only had one option....make it look like they were burgled and kidnapped, so they could escape, and by the time the blackmailer and law enforcement worked it out, they'd be long gone...."

Olivia took a deep breath, having not done so for the whole of that speech.Starting to feel faint through lack of oxygen, she out her hand on the wall to steady herself. "I'd say, for now, that is my final theory..." Yes.Please say yes, Mr Lee.

Oliva..Brian didnt know what happened to his brilliant division head. She looked bit unusual. WAs she tired or something?

Looking at her concernly, he smiled, "Well done, Olivia. You explained the motive behind the scene, that's really logical" he nodded his head.

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Erik walked into the room and looked around. Well someone was messy. He smirked to himself and took in the scene again. A crime took place here. Obviously. They were told it was a crime scene that means...guess what a crime took place here so it wasn't just a case of someone needing a maid. Though one couldn't hurt.

Alright down to business. Pulling out his wand from his new holder he waved it around before taking another step into the debris riddled room, "SpeRevelio". Waiting curiously for any kind of booby trap to pop out at him he smirked as nothing happened. So not a staged crime though it could be if someone was trying to hide from someone. One thing at a time. Waving his wand around again he said, "Novus Res" and was surprised when seven things glowed trying to grab his attention. Well so far this was easy.

He walked closer to them and with his wand levitated them closer making sure not to touch them. His years in law enforcement taught him all about contamination of evidence. One by one he looked at them and placed them back. "Well someone has a sense of humour", he said as he viewed the try again and the weird circle line thing that were on pieces of paper. "Well it seems to me either someone was kidnapped or someone's wantin' to make it seem like they were. The way the room is scattered about tends to indicate a struggle took place but at the same time the weird notes and things out of place just don't fit."

Levitating the two halves of the ripped page together. The way the "A" was written on both pages indicated it was the same handwriting. "I am kidnapped...." he frowned thoughtfully as he looked at them both and shook his head, "If I were writin it I'd say I've been kidnapped..." he slipped the pages back where they had been. There were too many things that didn't make sense and aside from the 'I am kidnapped' page none of the handwriting matched. So several people with a sense of humour. He smirked to himself and continued to look around What does a bag paperclipped on a calendar page have anything to do with...well anything. And someone, the kidnapped or the kidnapper if in fact there was a kidnapping either liked Hufflepuff's or was one or just wants to throw someone off. "Maybe it was a Ravenclaw trying to frame a Hufflepuff..." he muttered to himself and chuckled. "We need witnesses...are there any witnesses?" Now that was the question.

"Yes, a witness was here before, you just missed him .." Brian said, "But dont worry he hope I can get him back soon.." he told him convincingly.

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Tom smiled this was interesting. "Well I would usually say this is a kidnapping but I am sure someone has made it look like it." He wasn't sure if it was the man who was suppost to be a witness or somone else. "Why would someone allow this witness to go, surely he would have known he would tell on him, the kidnapper would have taken them both hostage, ever the person who has lived here has gone underground because he doesn't want to be found or he's scared someone was following and so stage his own kidnapping so they stop following that, that is what I think, this is a staged kidnapping why would someone allow the witness to leave surely he would do something about it,

"Okay I've got it. I am sure this person was working on something important and was told by someone that he was being followed and so he escaped and to put people of his scent he has got this witness who works for him to pretent there was someone in here so that no one can find him, This is an office of someone important and he was working on something to do with Hogwarts and Hufflepuff, he looked at the Parchment with the symbol 0_0 upon it again oh that's it he was talking to someone important probably an ex Hufflepuff about something big and he was warned by the other person that there was something wrong."

Brian's smile widened at this man's theory, "So is that your conclusion?" he looked at him expectingly.

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Darius listened, taking notes with his quill like it was the easiest thing to do. He didn't know why he didn't think of it before, but when the witness told him what he'd seen a little light bulb went up in his head and he had a Sherlock Holmes moment. Watching as the poos man ran from the room, no doubt upset beyond belief at nearly being fired - which he surely wouldn't be - Darius approached the man in charge, his theory in his head.

"Mr....Lee is it? I believe I have come up with a plausible theory. That man who had just ran out of the room is most definitely the witness to something horrible, but it wasn't kidnapping. Everything is too neat and tidy to be kidnapping. Of course we know there is a real kidnapping happening right now but not in this room.No, this man walked in on a perfectly staged play, with all the actors playing their part." he paused looking through his notes some more. "I found it strange that there were more clues than I thought there would be for a kidnapping. normally the kidnappers are very concise in making sure there's only one piece, a note. However they don't normally rip the note in half, tossing it to opposite ends of the room, even if it is to try and dissuade us." he chuckled shaking his head.

"No I believe that the 'kidnapee', is also the kidnapper. That is to say the man who resided here played out his own kidnapping. The note is to well written for a man to be kidnapped and forced to write a note. But I do wonder about the other notes however, they could be from him to make us think there were others involved or to dissuade us from finding the truth." He stopped again ticking something off in his mind as he took one more look around the room. "So in conclusion that poor man here had seen nothing but a perfectly executed play performed by one man." he finished, wondering if that made any sense to the man before him.

Brian patted on his shoulder gently, "Good. Meet me in my office when you get time. Could you?" he smiled, hoping he would understand what he was trying to convey.

Weasley174 · 04-16-2010, 07:11 PM

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Brian's smile widened at this man's theory, "So is that your conclusion?" he looked at him expectingly.

"Yeah that is my conclusion, this person whoever he was was talking to someone very important like I said before they were probably an ex hufflepuff about something very important and was told that he was being chased, so this man came up with his own idea, he got the witness to say that he had been kidnapped and that he had seen everything incase anyone came to look for him." Tom smiled at the man. "This room has been made to look like there've been kidnapped when infact all the person has done is run off somewhere so that no one can find them until they want to be found."

Golden Monkey · 04-16-2010, 07:21 PM

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Brian patted on his shoulder gently, "Good. Meet me in my office when you get time. Could you?" he smiled, hoping he would understand what he was trying to convey.

Darius nodded, a soft smile on his face as he relaxed, "Very good Sir. I'll see you soon." he replied his eyes conveying he knew what he was saying. Putting his wand back in his wrist holster he smiled once more before turning away from him allowing others to approach if needed. With a final look around he turned from the room and moved on.

Siriusly Moony · 04-16-2010, 07:31 PM

The actual crime. That’s what Ronan was supposed to be figuring out. ‘Merlin’s beard this is making my brain hurt.’ He thought, with a furrowed brow deciding to pace back and forth in order to think clearer.

‘The actual crime was the kidnapping. Or was it? Could it possibly be something underneath the surface that no one but the owner of the room knew about? So either the owner of the room was an accomplice or..’

“Is he the kidnappee? The owner of this room? He must have seen something really horrible to begin with which is why he staged all this. Trying to cover his tracks so he won’t be sought after for quite some time. He scared off our witness because he was in a state of distress and wanted to get away from the Ministry, perhaps so that he wouldn’t be hurt by the person who committed a different crime, or a witness who saw our kidnappee commit an awful crime of his own.”

Ronan felt like he was going around in circles and really just wanted to move on to the next stage. He waited patiently hoping this was the right answer.

MeredithRodneyMckay · 04-16-2010, 07:42 PM

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Olivia..Brian didnt know what happened to his brilliant division head. She looked bit unusual. WAs she tired or something?

Looking at her concernly, he smiled, "Well done, Olivia. You explained the motive behind the scene, that's really logical" he nodded his head.

She had? She'd - she'd done it?

A smile broke out across Olivia's lips, and she nodded her head in a proud-of-herself way. "Thank you, Sir." Taking one final look around, she leaned forward so she could whisper to Brian. "That was a great task, Mr Lee.Very confusing, but great.I'll be off now." Giving him a little wave and a smile, Olivia walked over to the door and exited to the next level.

Roselyn · 04-16-2010, 07:53 PM

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"Excuse me Ma'am, are you talking to yourself?" Brian asked gently, watching the lady's pre-occupied status.

Hmm? Lilah was too lost in thought and was surprised when someone interrupted her train of thought. "Oh, I'm so sorry. Was I talking to myself again?" she asked, embarrassed to be caught at doing that. "I'm sorry. I only do that when there is a lot on my mind, and at the moment...there is a lot on my mind. Helps map out my thoughts..." And as if it would prove her point, she glanced over at the desk and nodded slowly, still taking everything in. But then...a strange thought occurred to her...

"Do you happen to know who worked at this desk?" she asked in a curious tone. "And if there was any, strange behavior before from them?" Should she be asking him questions? Lilah didn't really have a chance to hear what the man who ran out of the room said, so she just had to go from her own ideas and theories. One of which, slightly disturbed her.

Poisonedbyyou · 04-16-2010, 08:51 PM

Laura stepped into the room and listened to what this next challenge was all about. Quite unfortunately, it was an investigation of sorts. And Laura wasn't looking forward to deducing things and pulling theories out of the air and whatnot.

Yep, yep. Using those nifty spells that Mr. Lee demonstrated, Laura sifted through the crime scene, finding seven curiously suspicious looking items along the way. She looked at each of them in turn, scrutinizing the page out of a planner, five pieces of paper, and the diary and quill. She felt quite like someone trying to put together a puzzle with pieces from a number of different boxes.

One thing she noticed off the bat was that the pieces of paper had different styles of handwriting on them. "I am" and "I'm not a fool" seemed to be written similarly while "kidnapped" was more scripty and loopy. Therefore, Laura thought, it was possible that they were written by two different hands. As for "Try Again" and "0_o," well, she was one to be stumped by their meanings.

Of course, then again, when Laura looked closer at "I am" and "kidnapped," they appeared to line up at the rip, suggesting they were on the same piece of paper and then torn apart. But still, the handwriting was different. Argh! And what about this "I'm not a fool" thing!?

Feeling as if she would get nowhere at this rate, Laura began formulating her theory...

But her mind was blank. Blaaank.

She needed more time to think.

VRSCIKA · 04-16-2010, 08:51 PM

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Mhmm...Was she very close to the end?!

"Well..if you say so, what would be the hidden or different crime as per you said?" he asked her, expecting more explanations and solid conclusion.

That was a good question. She wasn't quite aware that Mr. Lee had heard her reasoning things through or that she was doing it aloud. That was a bad habit of hers. "Alright ,this is definetly not a strong suit of mine." she murmmered softly. She didn't see how anyone else would have been kidnapped besides the whoever was in the room. There really weren't any clues to say that there had been a kidnapping elsewhere..no known motive or sign and when someone is kidnapped it is for a reason and that is typically stated by the kidnapper somewhere. The note that was left was not of a typical kind for a kidnapping though and not disposed of which could have been done easily. Looking at her it was as if you could see the wheels turning and then the little light come on. The answer to the strangeness dawned upon her and she felt like smacking her head against the wall. It was a much more obvious answer than her coffee-deprived mind was leading her round in circles about.

"Here it goes." she spoke softly staring down at her feet. "The crime itself remains a mystery to me as there isn't evidence of it in this room, as far as I can tell anyways. As for what happened in this room though.....I would have to say that the kidnapper is the kidnapped as well." she stated a little more sure of her reasoning this time. Explanation time. " He was staging his own kidnapping so that he could remove himself from being found. He planted random clues in an attempt to make his abduction seem all the more real and confusing. I also believe that this man may have been the witness's boss himself. He sent him just in time to witness the departure of a seemingly crazed man and potential kidnapper. The witness may have dropped the papers in his flight from the room and the reason that they were taken could have been that they were meaningless. They were a last minute addition, made to seem important to distract us all the more and enforce the idea that perhaps this was a theft as well and the reason for the kidnapping. And with all the distractions in this room and testimony from the witness, the culprit had plenty of time to escape completely before its even realised that this scene is but a ruse." she concluded with a sigh. That was a long reasoning out and her conclusion for now. Hopefully this was the correct one...if not she was back to square one and very confused indeed. "That is ,at least the conclusion that my untrained mind has presented to me Mr. Lee."she said a little less certain of herself as she looked to Mr. Lee. Oh please, let this be at least in the same qudditich field.

AlwaysDance · 04-16-2010, 09:22 PM

Wait Amaria thought the person who wrote this stuff may have been the eyewitness. He was probably saying someone was kidnapped and that he is not a fool. The eyewitness was probably the Hufflepuff with Mammoth bag and diary.

Boy Wonder · 04-16-2010, 09:33 PM

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Listening them patiently, he spoke up, "So...You said there was not any kidnapping?" waiting for his clear-cut conclusion.

"No..." Benjamin said realizing the truth. "Of course not. This is so silly." He looked at the witness, realizing that it was actual person not an illusion like the last challenge. "The clues are so outrages and obvious that they aren't realistic. I think that the 'I'm kidnapped' clues are important, but they are a red herring. We're interpreting meaning wrong. It's to show us that the crime is would be too obvious. I think the crime... Isn't a crime." Benjamin was putting all the pieces together. "The thing that the man witnessed... Was the set up! For this event! That's what happened! A guy set up the office, the man walked in... And that was it!" Benjamin actually felt extremely confident with his answer.

GrapehSarah · 04-16-2010, 09:39 PM

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Brian looked at everyone, "There are other possibilities too guys," he grinned, "Relax, and think again..you will find the way" he said, was so confident.

Pierre looked at everything again as he was told about other possibilities. He really wasn't built for this. He looked back at the clues that he had gathered. His eyes drew back to the parchment that said 'I am kidnapped.' Things started to work out in his mind. "Well, it says I am kidnapped, which means the person that was 'kidnapped' is the one who wrote it. Maybe this person was trying to stage his or her own kidnapping to get away from something or someone." This made sense with the things he had realized. "And maybe this person messed up the room to hide the fact that they were the one who wrote the note."

littledhampir · 04-16-2010, 09:50 PM

Hannah stepped into the room and gasped. It was a mess! She wondered what happened the realized what she was thinking. That was why they were here, duh!

"SpeRevelio," she said, making the wand motion. When nothing happened she did the other spell, "Novus Res." Seven things glowed. Hannah walked over and examined them. She wrote each of them down in her pocket notebook.

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Bag paperclipped to a piece of paper, says MAMOTH
Half piece of parachment with Kidnapped written on it
paper with 0_o on it
Brown paper with Try Again written on it
Half Paper with I am written on it
Paper with I'm not a Fool written on it
Quill, book, hufflepuff inscribed

She pieced together that the two halves of paper it together. So it said I am Kidnapped. So someone was kidnapped. And they were a Hufflepuff. She walked over to the person who had instructed them. "I conclude that someone was kidnapped," she said. "And that someone was a Hufflepuff."

SilverTiger · 04-16-2010, 11:07 PM

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Excellent !

Brian couldnt stop but admiring the man's assessments as he smiled, "Brilliant. You captured the right link Mr.....?" he paused "But are you really asking me this question?" his smile never left from his face all the time.

Dorian went back to his contemplation of the so-called crime scene as he waited to see if the man running the whole thing would respond. Everything he'd said seemed logical to him, but it was always good to make sure he hadn't missed anything. It all seemed to be pointing toward his original thought about the person not having been actually kidnapped. All the evidence he was finding seemed to obvious to be genuine.

But then he heard the man speak, and glanced back over. "Tamerlane," he supplied. The flaw to having been a new hire, he guessed. "And thank you. It's all just basic logic, really. Sometimes something that seems too easy is just that. And that note seems that way to me. Even if you consider someone that is panicked about being taken against their will," like his fiancee had been, "may not use appropriate grammar, things are just too obvious. Therefore the office was ransacked, we can all see that, but it was for no other reason than to throw people off the scent of the alleged kidnappee, who, if they indeed disappeared, did so entirely on their own." A half-smile crept onto her face at the man's, especially when he was asked about his last comment. "Not really a question. It seemed likely, considering I doubt you all would have been talking to the person who belongs to this office. So just an observation." If they were going with the owner having been the ransacker/'kidnappee'. Unless the witness and the culprit were one and the same, but that seemed just as unlikely.

PattyH. · 04-17-2010, 02:36 AM

Prometheus was close to crack this but he needed the last crucial part. He needed the motive and it hit him like a crack of lightning.
"If this was a staging as I have previously stated, then the motive would have had to have been self preservation. Often those who fake their own disappearance are running away from something, or someone. Perhaps the desk’s owner was being blackmailed, but with out more information that we can only assume. However that is not what we have to here to deduce, we have to here to figure out what happened to the owner of the desk. As I stated before the incorrect grammar of the note “I am Kidnapped” is the initial proof of a staging, second the eye witness account told us that someone was trashing the desk, however the eye witness had never before seen the desk owner. Also what stands out is the other note, “I am not a Fool”. Initial this note could be overlooked as something insignificant to the case; however to me it is a testimony of the desk owner saying not only to those who discover the mess, but also to himself, that he has outsmarted us.
His motive to destroy his office and tie us in search for the kidnappers, was to give himself time to escape, or too perhaps create a diversion to do some evil of his own.”
Prometheus folded his arms and crossed his fingers hoping he had cover all the bases.

daliha · 04-17-2010, 03:40 AM

PIerre walked into the messy room...oh dear. He pulled out his wand SpeRevelio nothing happened so he went on to the next spell Novus Res' Pierre saw a couple of items float towards him, he pulled them each out of the air his brows furrowed. A diary....Hufflepuff....I am...a mammoth bag? he continued to read the papers. He put his wand to his chin his brown hair was on getting messier as he ran his hands through it....

Merlin's beard he had! He then stuck his wand in his pocket "obviously someone who just graduated from Hogwarts most probably....to be soo proud of being a Hufflepuff this person if either a student or a recent graduate...further more it seemed they were arguing with someone of some sort why else would they write I am not a fool on a piece of torn parchment? Then the papers I am and kidnapped were probably written separately part of a letter perhaps. A letter that was torn and probably gave away the crime. Or a letter that the victim wrote before the struggle and was then torn to hide the evidence." Pierre looked around....now what was he to do?

Who...who....Who would go to such lengths to mess up a room...like this Pierre snapped his fingers there he had his theory " alright this is a setup...man or woman....a frog for all I care ! But some one set this up...messed up the office thinking that would lead them off the trail, probably a rookie if I dare say so...probably a runway too scared of leaving someone behind or probably of someone else's reaction...so unless there's something missing the victim set things up all by himself."

Cinn-O-Bun · 04-17-2010, 03:47 AM

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"Yes, a witness was here before, you just missed him .." Brian said, "But dont worry he hope I can get him back soon.." he told him convincingly.

Erik stopped himself from rolling his eyes and looked around. "Well until he gets back I'd have to say that this whole thing is a farce. There is no coherency to any of it. The writin' on the note 'I am kidnapped' while fundamentally incorrect grammar also is written too neatly so he wasn't pressured into writin' it." He walked around the crime scene again and this time took note of wear things were. "It doesn't particularly look like anyone was searchin' for anything. Nothing seems missin' and without a credible witness cause if that bloke that walked in here was your witness I don't buy it...I'd say the guy who's office this is wanted someone to think he was kidnapped and left on his own after a great deal of effort on his part it seemed." It was the notes...they didn't make sense and generally when something doesn't make sense it's usually not true. He ran his finger over the desk and shrugged, "And in the eyes of the law leavin' on one's own free will isn't against it so there's no crime."

Hermione J. Granger · 04-17-2010, 04:52 AM

Oliver walked into the room for Challenge One. After listening to some instructions from a man named Brian Lee he proceeded into the next room. What a mess thought Oliver, but now wasn't the time to be worrying about neatness. Oliver took out his wand and said "SpeRevelio" to make sure there were no traps in the room. Thankfully nothing happened. Next Oliver raised his wand and said "Novus Res" waiting for the clues to glow that would help him solve this case. Several pieces of parchment floated into the air one saying "Try Again", another one saying "I'm not a fool", but there were two pieces of parchment that stood out to Oliver the most. They were both ripped in half. One said "I am" and another said "kidnapped". Oliver started thinking about what this could possibly mean and was trying to decide if this was an actual kidnapping or just a setup.

Maxilocks · 04-17-2010, 06:01 AM

Right.

One step, forward. Marina entered and, once Mr. Lee had finished speaking, nodded to herself and stepped up to the left of the room, without any further ado. The moment she entered, she frowned slightly - total disarray. Everything was pretty messed up.

Time to analyse the situation and absorb everything in the scene. That was the easier part - she had a quick eye, and took note of everything, that she could. Of course, before she began, she used a nifty spell - SpeRevelio - to make no traps were in action. Then, notebook in hand and having cast a quick Novus Res, she noted down the clues that she came across.

Seven of them, in total.

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1] Bag clipped to a calender.
2] Torn parchment. Reads 'kidnapped.'
3] Torn parchment. Says 'O_o'
4] Try again.
5] Torn parchment. Says 'I am.'
6] Notebook page. Reads 'I'm not a fool.'
7] Hufflepuff diary, and quill.

Next step, was to question any eye-witness. But the eye-witness, he was gone -- she had just seen him 'flee' the scene. Marina shook her head, and decided she would list out her set of possible explanations, until he came back. Well, she hoped he came back, anyway.

"Mr. Lee --" She stepped up to Brian, to get his attention. "I am afraid the eye-witness has left; but, until he returns, I have a theory. Two of the notes -" She gave a little nod - "Fit together. The 'I am,' and the 'Kidnapped' ones. If you fit them together, you see they form the a whole parchment. That is very perfect and, if you look more closely, you can tell that someone first wrote the whole sentence on a paper, and then the paper was torn into two pieces." Did that matter? It did, to her.

She took a little breath, before going on. "That is basically what makes me think this is a set-up -- everything is too perfect. At first sight, it looks like a kidnapping, but if it was a kidnapping, and the kidnapper had enough time to whisk off the kidnapped person, I would say he or she would also have had enough time to whisk off the note, because it is just too brilliant an evidence. Someone actually leaving a note. The kidnapper couldn't have missed that - and, if he or she did, why is the note torn? If there's a reason that the kidnapper was concentrated somewhere else, and could not actually see the note, then why would the kidnapped person tear the note up?"

"That brings me to my real hypothesis: this was a set-up. Maybe even the witness has been planted, without the witness's own knowledge -- perhaps it was arranged that the witness be sent here, so that he would say what looks like a kidnapping. Which means there is a person who wants to make others believe that he, or she, has been kidnapped."

"This could be because the person was afraid of something - perhaps he had committed a crime, and did not want people to know of it - and so, to cover things up, she or he made it appear as if she or he has been kidnapped, leaving false clues. Alternatively, it could be for the person's own protection -- maybe he or she was being blackmailed, or threatened because he or she possesses some secrets. He or she tried to ward off the blackmailer - there are some strange notes, like the one that says 'Try again,' in the room - but did not succeed, and decided that the only real option left, now, was to remove him or herself from the scene, for a while."

"At any rate, I would say that this is a set-up, and the person who has been kidnapped, is himself or herself the kidnapper. He or she is running from something, or trying to hide him or herself."

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