Sherlock Raja Holmes & The Fugitive Mystery

Ron was still raving about Honeydukes and Zonko's Joke Shop.

"You should have seen the Fizzing Whizzbees, Raja! They literally make you float!"

Hermione rolled her eyes. "Honestly, is all you care about sugar and pranks?"

Ron grinned. "Well, we didn't get to see the Shrieking Shack. It's supposedly the most haunted place in Britain!"

Raja, puffing his detective's pipe, raised an eyebrow. "Most haunted, you say? Challenge accepted."

As they approached the Gryffindor common room, a crowd had gathered.

"Ugh, Neville probably forgot the password again," Ron groaned.

"Excuse me?" Neville huffed. "I'm right behind you!"

Ginny suddenly gasped. "She's gone!"

Hermione frowned. "Who's gone?"

"The Fat Lady!"

Ron snorted. "Maybe she finally shattered all the glass in the castle with her singing."

Hermione scowled. "Ron, be serious!"

Dumbledore and Filch arrived, ordering an immediate search for the Fat Lady.

Just then—

A puff of smoke bomb blasted from nowhere.

A dramatic shadowy figure stepped forward, cloak billowing.

"Fear not, students! For I, Sherlock Raja Holmes, have already cracked the case!"

Raja stroked his imaginary beard. "Hmm, let me see..." He dramatically turned and pointed at a nearby painting.

"There she is."

The crowd gasped as the Fat Lady peeked out, trembling.

Dumbledore approached gently. "Dear lady, who did this to you?"

The Fat Lady, still shaking, whispered, "Eyes like the devil... a soul as dark as his name…"

Then, in a trembling voice, she uttered—

"Sirius Black. He's inside the castle!"

The students panicked.

Raja, however, just grinned maniacally.

"So, the fugitive has finally arrived. Fascinating." He turned slowly to Harry.

Harry blinked. "Why are you looking at me like that?"

Raja smirked. "Because the first place he went was the Gryffindor common room. Almost like he was looking for Someone or Something."

Harry gulped.

Dumbledore narrowed his eyes. "Mr. Raja, what exactly do you mean by 'Something'?"

Raja adjusted his pipe. "Elementary, Headmaster. I shall reveal it once I catch our dear fugitive."

Suddenly—

Snape appeared.

With one swift motion, he grabbed Raja by the collar. "Oh no, you don't. You have cauldrons to clean, Mr. Holmes."

Raja flailed dramatically. "SAVE ME! THIS IS POLICE BRUTALITY!"

The students just watched as Snape dragged him away.

Dumbledore, suppressing a chuckle, turned to Filch. "Lock down the castle. No one enters or leaves."

Later that night, the teachers gathered to discuss the search results.

Filch, out of breath, announced, "No sign of Black anywhere! Astronomy Tower, dungeons, even the Owlery."

Snape, narrowing his eyes, muttered, "How convenient. Black just happens to slip through undetected. Almost as if... he had help."

He pointedly glanced at Lupin.

Dumbledore sighed. "Severus, we have no reason to suspect any professor."

Snape's frown deepened. "And what of Potter? Should he not be warned?"

Dumbledore smiled wistfully. "Let him sleep. Sometimes, our dreams tell us more than reality."

A voice suddenly echoed—

"Ah, poetic as always, Headmaster."

Everyone jumped as Raja casually strolled in.

Snape whirled around. "HOW DID YOU GET IN HERE?!"

Dumbledore smiled. "I invited him."

Snape looked betrayed.

Dumbledore folded his hands. "Mr. Holmes, I believe you predicted Quirrell's involvement and the Basilisk's existence before anyone else."

Raja smirked. "Yes. And ?"

Everybody's jaws hit the floor expect the Head Master.

Dumbledore " Can we know how you solve the mystery and how much time it took you to solve the case."

Raja "Then gets ready for Sherlock Raja's Monologue of The Unmasking of Professor Quirrell."

From the moment I laid eyes on Professor Quirinus Quirrell, I sensed something was amiss. The man stuttered like a malfunctioning phonograph and twitched as though perpetually dodging imaginary Bludgers.

I initially assumed he was simply an overcaffeinated scholar suffering from a chronic fear of students. Ah, the Troll Incident—a spectacle of poor planning and mildly terrifying odors. Who, I asked myself, would allow a troll into Hogwarts unless they were criminally incompetent or strategically deceptive?

Quirrell, our resident Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, just happened to faint immediately after delivering the news? Suspicious. I mean who in the world will be little himself in front of his students and colleagues if he is scared of Troll he would collapse at the time he saw it. Quirrel wants every student locked and Half the professors to find the Troll and other half to protect the children from danger. So he can complete his mission.

During the first Quidditch match, when Harry's broomstick acted as if possessed by a poltergeist with bad intentions, I noticed something odd. While professor Snape was whispering intensely, Quirrell looked like a first-year who had mistakenly walked into the Forbidden Forest after dark.

Everyone suspected Snape, but I asked: "Why would Mr. Snape wants to kill Harry rather he would make Harry's school life as misery as his Hairstyle."

Raja "Seriously you should change your hairstyle and some steroids to transform into a handsome hunk as the pictures I Draw Opps!."

Snape " I knew it it was you who circulated the photos you germlin, I hope we will have a deep discussion in the Dungeon after this, now continue."

Raja shaking his head with fear and continued the monologue

Then came the centaur-filled joyride into the Forbidden Forest, where I discovered something most chilling. A hooded figure was drinking unicorn blood, a sight both unnerving and unhygienic.

It was evident that this was not just a standard lunatic wandering the woods but someone with darker intentions.

 As I pieced the clues together like a masterful game of wizard chess, I realized that the final confrontation lay beneath Hogwarts. With my wits sharper than a goblin's accounting skills, I deduced that Quirrell was playing host to something far more sinister than just a nervous disposition.

The turban? A mere disguise for a parasite of historical evil proportions.

Raja " then comes the second year, best adventure, mystery solving and chasing what a year! I enjoyed everything that year expect for cauldron cleaning in the Dungeon."

It's all began with whispers only heard by Harry as "Kill… kill… time to kill…" it hissed. A voice slithering through the castle like a particularly sinister draft.

Me and My fellow students? Deaf as a doorknob.

Due to my serious addiction towards Adventure, Mystery and causing chaos, I enquired everything Harry can hear and its sounds.

Ah Next comes, petrified cat and ominous bloody messages—a classic Hogwarts welcome package.

"The Chamber of Secrets has been opened. Enemies of the Heir, beware."

Obvious deduction #1: Someone opened something that should have stayed closed.

Every great mystery solver knows: When in doubt, break into the library.

There, I found a book describing the legend of Salazar Slytherin and his secret chamber, hidden within Hogwarts itself.

The chamber supposedly contained a monster capable of ridding the school of those unworthy.

Obvious deduction #2: A creature or a person was involved—because let's be honest, Hogwarts ghosts don't petrify people, they just cause mild existential crises.

I always thought a criminal is doing the petrification not a mutated creature created by Salazar Slytherin.

Next comes victim no.2 of petrification Justin Finch-Fletchley and Headless Nick after that Professor Minerva McGonagall narrating the 50 year old tale and most important point here is victim died not petrified, so the criminal wants to make muggles leave Hogwarts rather than kill them, that is the first contradictory and there is no suspicious character in second year whose attending Hogwarts I checked everybody.

Then comes the bizzare incidents like spiders leaving Hogwarts and mysterious killings of Hagrid's chicken two contradicting things without any relations.

Then I started to think like a child who fears the unknown, first thing the child thought after watching the message and finding out about Salazar creature they will completely believe there a Slytherin Heir who unlocked the secret chamber and tamed a massive creature and released it on Hogwarts to petrify everyone and cause mayhem.

Petrification could be inflicted by the statue curse, along with the gaze of the Gorgon a magical beast.

If there is really a heir who knowingly/unknowingly found the chamber and opened it and released the creature, My first Question as a child would be "what kind of creature the great Salazar raised if he want to cause harm to Muggles."

Creature will not be cute, chubby, dumb and fly. It has to be a cunning, horrifying, poisonous and quick, these Qualities can be found in only one animal that is a Snake the emblem of our Slytherin House.

Then all the incidents started to connect

harry's hearing Hissing Sounds check.

Criminal killing chickens check.

Spiders fear the creature so the flee check.

This concludes that the creature is a Basilisk but here is the twist the creature gaze will kill not petrified and then it came to me an important detail when I was studying about Magical beast In the case of the Basilisk, its gaze ordinarily killed living creatures, but when seen indirectly, or by a ghost (who was already dead and couldn't die again), it caused Petrification instead.

 Then unimportant clues started to connect like a Spiders Web.

On Hallowe'en night, cat was petrified and the most Unobserved and Uninterested clue everybody doesn't consider in the crime Scene was a puddle of water in front of the unused bathroom on the second floor.

Justin Finch-Fletchley and Nearly Headless Nick are petrified by the Basilisk. Justin petrified in a pose that he I likely taking a photo and photo film is destroyed when Dumbledore try to opened it.

Then I was 100% sure that creature is Basilisk, then comes mystery where is the chamber and how no one can find the giant creature roaming the castle.

Then another dot connected when did chamber opened and who died and where the murder victim found, "50yrs ago a girl died in the second floor Ladies bathroom and I searched the bathroom and saw the pipe with Slytherin Symbol under the wash basin but couldn't open it its seems voice activated or blood related spell to unlock the chamber so I left it there.

Raja " Now Gentlemen, Ladies, portraits and Dumb chicken it's all elementary."

Dumbledore started to clap saying "Bravo" and other's also joins and even snape clapped unconsciously and stopped after I looked at him.

Maya "Stop Lying and manipulating People! you exaggerating not grown man child you used movie knowledge and shamelessly acting like you solved it like some detective."

Raja "Maya My Tsundre system where have you been fan's missed you voice as for the lying and manipulating it is who I am a chaos incarnate Rudra D. Raja Kumara!"

Raja " anyway why where you silent all this time after we reach Hogwarts?"

Maya "I was nurturing the Hogwarts castle kid spirit all this time and teaching her knowledge and ethics."

Raja "What Hogwarts has manifested spiritual conscious can I meet her please!"

Maya " Shut up the kid is scared of your antics, it took me lot of time to befriend and gain trust from that child and she saw how you easily clones yourself and teleports from Hogwarts without leaving a magical trace. I found her when you get rid of the Voldemort and the creature she started to observe you from afar even for me it took a while to trace and confirm that she exist and befriend her so don't contact her know and wait."

Coming to the situation now

Dumbledore's eyes twinkled. "Then tell us, what is your perspective on Sirius Black?"

Raja became serious.

"I don't think you'll like my answer."

Dumbledore nodded. "And yet, I wish to hear it."

Raja slowly paced the room.

"Let's begin with motive. What does Black seek in Hogwarts?"

Snape snapped, "To kill Potter!"

Raja grinned. "Wrong."

Dumbledore's expression darkened. "Then what does he seek?"

Raja pointed a finger at them dramatically. "Something—or someone—not named Harry Potter."

Silence.

Snape looked livid. "Preposterous—"

Dumbledore held up a hand. "Continue."

Raja smirked. "To confirm my theory, I need to confirm two things: Did anyone visit Black in Azkaban recently? or Does he can access a newspaper in Azkaban?"

Dumbledore hesitated, then said, "No visitor, I can assure you that but it is possible he can Acquire a newspaper."

Raja's smile widened.

"That confirms it. I know why he's here."

Snape and Dumbledore leaned in.

Dumbledore whispered, "Then tell us, Mr. Holmes… what is he seeking?"

Raja adjusted his cloak. "I'll tell you after I catch him but I can say it with 100% certainty that he is Innocent and he is here for Sweet old Revenge."

Then, with a puff of smoke, he vanished like a ninja.

Snape threw his hands up. "I HATE THE Theatrics of that CHILD."

Dumbledore just chuckled.