For those of you who haven’t heard… our beloved Star Bucky, the site elf, has been killed. The other night as I prepared the final riddles for the upcoming competition on HPFF I sent Star Bucky on an errand. I needed my very special coffee laced with Inspiration Draught to help me think of a few more clever rhymes. I simply could not think of a word that rhymed with ‘orange.’

As I labored I heard Star Bucky in the hallway talking to himself (he has/had a habit of doing that), “Poor Star Bucky he must pick up these doughnuts for Master Jay or else he will have to iron his hands.”

After a couple minutes I heard a terrible scream followed by the sounds of spilling coffee and crumbing doughnuts. I ran into the corridor to see what all the racket was when I saw a long trail of crumbs leading into Jay’s office. When I opened the door I saw a ragged piece of cloth, possibly a jumper, attempting engulf somebody or something.

I whipped out my wand and demanded the enchanted whatever it was to cease with its attack or I’d be forced to riddle it to death. What happened next gets a little fuzzy. There was a sinister laugh and then the thing (whatever it was) attacked me. My wand flew out of my hand before I could even react. I heard Star Bucky screaming for it to release me and I think the little guy even tried to pry it off my head but he was unsuccessful. Star Bucky’s cries died a moment later when I heard the sounds of something being dunked into a boiling liquid.

I managed to climb to my knees and I crawled out of Jay’s office. I think I even managed to call out for help a few times but before knew it I collapsed from exhaustion. When I came to I was in melihobbit’s broom closet.

After my terrible ordeal I was asked to report to the Department of Mysteries to give them testimony on the enchanted garment that attacked me but I was not notified of Star Bucky’s death **sniffles** until later that day when one of the Auror’s at the Department showed me the horrible picture and then asked me to identify Star Bucky’s body.

I was in denial… I’ll admit it. I refused to accept that Star Bucky had indeed been killed trying to protect me. I’m highly suspicious of this Tara Theede character who I saw carrying around a list that looked like my riddles that Star Bucky had been keeping safe for me. When I returned to Jay’s office late last night I found two new house elves snooping around my (now empty) Coffee Cauldron.

One of odd creatures threw themselves at my feet and begged me to tell them that it isn’t true, that Star Bucky wasn’t dead. My denial had finally been broken and I realized the terrible truth. I tried to comfort this rather plump elf with really bad pink lipstick but my words failed me. Instead I bent down and picked up one of the doughnuts left behind by the attacker and handed it to her. (I think she likes doughnuts.)

Her companion wasn’t quite as friendly and this vial little beast even tried to bite me when I tried to pat him on the back and offer him a doughnut as well. His breath reeked of really strong coffee and a hit of dung. The exact ownership of these two elves is still being determined but according to elf law they were supposed to take Star Bucky’s place if anything ever happened to him since they are his cousins.

The Ministry is still busy investigating things but the elves told me that xobebeox and the snitch were both wandering around the crime scene performing cleaning charms right before I arrived. I wonder if the Ministry has been made aware of this information. More importantly, the riddles and doughnuts are still missing. We can’t have a competition until these riddles are recovered and the attacker apprehended. The elves are going to patrol the site for evidence while I attempt to remember what I had written down. It could be a LONG week.

# posted by LogicalRaven @ 6:07 PM