CSI England

Harry and Ron entered the lower levels of St. Mungo’s and saw Examiner Luna Lovegood had been joined by Neville Longbottom, the healer who had done her rape examination.



“She was raped both vaginally and anally, and beaten, but it was blunt force trauma to the head that eventually killed her. Seven or eight different blows to the wall.” She told them.



“Was there semen?” Harry asked.



“No, but there was spermicide.” Neville said.



“Sperma-what?” Ron asked confused.



“Spermicide.” Harry told him. “It’s used on condoms to kill sperm.”



“So we are looking for a muggle, or a muggle born.” Ron said.



“That’s unusual isn’t it? A condom in a rape case?” Harry asked.



“Why take the time to cover up, she could have gotten away.” Ron theorized.



“Not is it was charmed.” Luna said. “Magic and electrical devices aren’t compatible but anything else in the muggle world is fair game. He could have charmed to the condom to stay on and unroll with his erection. As to the why, he knew it would keep any evidence away. Condoms collect ejaculate in a nice easy take away package.” She said with a smile.



“I agree, I don’t think this guy was thinking about pregnancy or diseases, he made an effort to cover his tracks, semen included. It took me some time to figure out what the muggle chemicals were in her false rape case, maybe he was counting on magical examiners not being able to identify spermicide.”



They left St. Mungo’s with copies of the report in hand. “A muggle of muggle born is the assailant, but that doesn’t rule out pureblood who have taken muggle studies.”



“Last time I checked Harry, they didn’t teach contraceptive in muggle studies.’ Ron told him. “Besides, lost of magical citizens have muggle friends, the knowledge can easily be passed around.’



“Fair enough.” They headed back to the Ministry. “I think we should view that pensieve for ourselves.”







Once they were in their office they dunked their faces into a wide bowl and were brought into Aggy’s mind, as scary thought in itself according to Ron.



The moved to the other window and watched the attack unfold. The rape itself had taken place when the attacker had her against the wall, and took several minutes. Harry recognized the sound of a fist on flesh and soon enough the body fell to the ground still.



They left the memory and sat down. “She told him, ‘I’m not doing that again so you can just forget it’. Do you think she was talking about blackmail. Maybe try to pull another false rape?” Harry asked.



“She didn’t say anything about another party when she was taken in, only that she wanted money.” Harry told him. “Maybe a former lover that wanted her back?”



“Possible,” Ron agreed, “but according to the notes from the first case, she didn’t have routine contact with her ex’es, even the ones she got on with.”



“Well, we can narrow the list a little at least. The man in the memory is tall, taller then her and from the view we had, he has a wide build, so he’s not thin.”



“We need to see her home. She may have photos. She obviously knew the man.”



“Good idea.” He called in an office clerk and handed him the memory. “Take this to Penelope Clearwater and ask her if she can make a model of the attacker for us.” The young man ran off and Harry and Ron left for the girls apartment.



The landlord let them in and they easily found her room. The other room belonged to a man, who the landlord said was her roommate. They went through her desk and saw her ministry papers right on top. Her fine was paid according to the paper, but the file Hermione had given them said her father paid for it.



“Look at this.” Ron told him from the dresser. “Letters.” He shuffled through a stack of opened and unfolded letters. “Some of these aren’t signed. Listen to this, ‘You weren’t raped, I saw you,’. There was a witness to her and Snape.”



“He must have written it and wanted her to do it again. She refused and we all know how angry he got.” Harry said.



Ron folded up the letter and put it in his pocket, then sealed it to stay clean. He sent the rest of the letters to the their Ministry office to go through one at a time later.



The next place they stopped at was Vincent Crabbes restaurant. “I’d like to help you both, but I fired her. It says clearly that any illegal activity is grounds for termination.”



“Did she come to pick up anything left behind? Harry asked.



“No, she didn’t keep anything here and even if she did, she would have asked her friends to grab it for her. She was upset and didn’t want to stay here anyway. She was upset at losing her job.” He said.



“Can we talk to her friends. I understand he had a few close ones here.” Ron asked him.



“One of them is in the back right now, I’ll get the other two to go back and talk to you.” He said moving to the kitchens.



“There was nothing we could do for her. She accused a man of rape.” One of the girls said.



“Did she speak to any of you yesterday?” Harry asked them. “Did she mention a man who was giving her trouble?”



“No, she was very quiet since the whole thing at the Ministry. Her father kept on her about coming home since he paid her fine and she lost her job.” The other girl said.



“What about you?” Ron asked the young man sitting in the corner with an angry face.



“I haven’t talked to her, I don’t want to ever again.” He said not looking up.



“Angry with her?” Ron asked.



The young man looked up with rage in his eyes. “You don’t accuse a man of rape. It doesn’t matter if you like him or not, that’s a disgusting thing to do to someone.” He rose and let the room, going back to the kitchens.



“He was so upset with her. He would have hated it if someone did that to him.” The older of the two girls said. “I can’t blame him though. What she did was horrible.”



“Do any of you recognize this letter or the handwriting?” Ron asked taking out the letter and showing it to them.



Neither girl recognized the handwriting, and neither knew of a current boyfriend.



“Well, that went nowhere.” Ron commented outside.



“Let’s talk to the parents. Eckly’s notes said he spoke with them briefly when he notified them of her death.” Harry said checking his notes.



“That’s one thing I don’t like about him. He’s sees a scene, makes an opinion and then runs with it. He doesn’t wait for anything to unfold.” Ron told him. “He did some damage with them I just know it.”





A/N: Any guesses?