Unfortunately for Ellie, she happened to be one of the students left in the corridors minutes after curfew. She wasn't the brightest candle in the bunch, but she most certainly wasn't trying to get caught. No, Ellie had noticed, on her way inside from being out enjoying the evening with a few friends, that one of her favorite necklaces was missing from around her neck.
The necklace was nothing expensive or something that would be worth anything to anyone else, but it was special to Ellie because a friend had given it to her as a birthday gift several years ago and she did tend to wear more than one necklace at a time so sometimes it was difficult to tell when one went missing.
She was trudging her way back toward the front doors to the castle when she spotted a blond, scary looking Draco Malfoy not too far ahead of her. "Shit," she mumbled to herself, but continued to walk, hoping that if she thought about it hard enough she would become invisible and he would totally miss her trying to sneak out of the castle to look for her missing neck piece.