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This is a Harry Potter guro fic I wrote that got rejected by an HP fanfic site. Let me know what you think.

Scare Bear

Katie Bell's bad luck still held. She rubbed soap over the bruises, hoping that it would somehow make them heal faster. Still, the water, which sprayed on her from the shower head, seemed to have a secret cleansing power, which helped her to think about her position.

It was bad enough that Katie had to repeat 7th year, having missed most of her classes the previous year due to a certain cursed necklace. Now, in the middle of Quidditch practice, Ginny just had to go and collide with her.

As if on cue, Katie heard Ginny enter the Gryffindor girls shower room.

Wait a second, was Ginny whispering to herself?

Come to think of it, Ginny had been acting weird lately. She seemed so listless. So lethargic.

"Ginny," Katie called to her fellow Gryffindor as the other shower began to hiss, "Are you alright? I mean about earlier and all?"

Then Katie heard Ginny scream.

Bloody water washed past Katie's feet.

Katie froze with horror. Another scream escaped Ginny's throat, but this one was muffled. It sounded as if she was choking on something. Then another scream, and another.

Suddenly, the screams were cut off and replaced by the unmistakable sounds of eating.

Blood seemed to flow by in gallons.

Then, just as suddenly as they had begun, the sounds stopped.

Katie realized that she could still move, but wasn't sure if she should. She slowly pushed aside the shower curtain and cautiously approached Ginny's stall. Her fingers trembled as she reached for the curtain.

Katie took a deep breath and yanked the curtain opened.

Nothing.

No Ginny. No blood. Just an empty, hissing shower.

Katie looked around. There wasn't so much as a drop of blood anywhere. Nothing to indicate that Ginny had even been in the room other than the shower and the...

Katie paused for a moment. Something by the door had caught her eye. Her first thought when she saw it was what's that doing there. Then she remembered seeing it near Ginny's things sometime earlier in the year.

Katie shut off the hissing shower and walked over to it.

She then bent over and picked up the black and white teddy bear.

___

Hugging her legs, Katie looked into the stuffed animal's eyes. The panda was propped up at the foot of her bed.

It had been a week since her scare in the showers. In that time, Katie had seen neither height nor hair of Ginny Weasley. It was as if she had simply vanished.

Katie shook her head at that thought. People don't vanish simply. How did the saying go? It's either because they want to vanish or someone else wants them to vanish.

Not that Katie's search for the vanished one turned up any results. Everyone that she asked had about Ginny all replied as if they had never heard of her.

Katie remembered Luna Lovegood's rather haunting reply of "Ginny who?"

Damn you, Katie thought at the panda, what have you done to her.

Katie yawned. Normally at that time, she would be feeling rather spry. Lately, however, she seemed to have almost no energy at all. She could barely stay awake during classes and she knew her grades must have been suffering.

Then, Katie realized something. This was exactly how Ginny was acting right before she disappeared.

Katie looked at the Panda. She thought that she could see a red gleam in its eyes.

"You," she said aloud, "you’re draining my strength. Damn you! What are you?"

As if in answer, the panda rose in the air. Its eyes glowed blood red.

For just a brief moment, Katie thought she saw a pale, serpentine face behind those eyes.

Then, in a flash, the animal was no longer a toy, but a very real and very large panda bear.

The animal swiped at Katie, opening three giant slashes across her chest.

Katie was knocked back against a wall by the force of the blow. Blood began to pour from the open wounds down Katie's robes. She tried to scream for help, but it came out muffled as she choked on her own blood.

The beast loomed over Katie for a moment, then bent down its head and bit into her shoulder.

Katie could hear her own bones cracking as the monster crushed her shoulder in its powerful jaws. Blood sprayed into her face. Her blood. Flesh and sinews tore away and Katie's right arm fell limply to the floor, attached only by a few nerves. Oh God, Katie thought, it's still twitching.

The beast then turned its attention to the arm. It lifted the nearly severed extremity to its hungry mouth and started to suck the flesh away from the bone. Then, when it was finished, it snapped the bone open to suck the marrow.

Katie saw her splintered bones fall to the ground.

The beast then bit into her leg, chewing it all the way up to the hip. With a swing of its head, the beast tore out Katie's hip, splitting her pubic bone in half and ripping out much of the skin from her left side.

Katie's intestines spilled out of the opening.

A murmur of pain escaped Katie's lips as shock began to set in. Tears rolled down her cheeks.

The monster looked up at her face.

With a single talon, the beast sliced open the skin on Katie's chest, exposing her rib cage. It then reached in and tore out the breastbone with some broken pieces of ribs attached.

The beast then buried its face in Katie's guts in a rabid feeding frenzy. The heart, the lungs, stomach, liver, spleen. It sucked up her intestines like spaghetti. It licked the meat from the spine enthusiastically.

It then bit into Katie's neck, crushing her clavicle into white splinters.

Then the beast took Katie's head in its paws and sank its teeth into her skull. The brain case broke open and chunks of grey matter dribbled down the monster's chin. It didn't notice, however, and continued with its feeding.

One of Katie's eyes shot from its socket and landed near the door.

Katie's brain was reduced to pulp between the monster's teeth.

Katie's jawbone hung from the beast's lips as it sucked away the last bits of flesh. It licked its blood and brain smeared lips for one last taste of Katie Bell.

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Lavender Brown entered the Tower after her last class for the day. Feeling absolutely bushed, she decided to go directly to bed. The Common Room was filled with activity but, luckily, the girl's dormitory was all but deserted.

Lavender was making a beeline for her bed when she felt something squish beneath her foot. What was that, she thought, a grape or something.

No matter, once she was at her bed she was absolutely ecstatic.

Must be from one of the boys, Lavender thought as she smiled at the stuffed panda sitting on her bed.

THE END?