Minerva read the riddle over and over again. She put her hand to the Hippogriff and gave it a few cautious pats. "Good boy.. or girl" Which was it she wasn't sure. Moving away a bit she continued to look at the paper. " Work your way to the center of the maze... Well that is a pretty easy part." That told them where they had to go. "And animate me if you'd like some praise, Face of Stone, tongue of cement, please bring me to life. I'm heaven-sent!" She walked near the hedge without even realizing it deep in thought, she began speaking out loud, but not really to Wade just herself. " Animate well that she knew would be Piertotum Locomotor, but animate what the scroll? You couldn't use Piertotum Locomotor on a scroll could you and praise wouldn't that be to talk? Pierotoum Locomotor wasn't really to talk." She couldn't think of any spells that made something talk other than the charm to record something, but this was transfiguration not charms.

Minerva let out a frustrated sigh, why wasn't this just coming to her. Why didn't she just know what to do. She looked at the riddle again, "Face of stone, tongue of cement.. well that seemed like a statue, but a scroll isn't a statue and not cement. Please bring me to life. I'm heaven-sent! What on earth does that mean. Heaven sent unless it's wings or bird or something." She let the words go over and over in her brain as the confusion stayed. She could transfigure it into a bird, "Maybe Avifors, but that doesn't explain the stone and cement... No that can't be it." She looked up at Wade feeling really stupid. Why was she picked for this again? She was suppose to be the best and right now she felt like the dumbest kid at school.

"Wade I'm not sure... " She looked back at the parchment again reading it once last time and her eyes widened, "Wait.." She started to get a bit more excited, could it have been that easy, was she over thinking it and not seeing the big picture. Of course she probably was. "I totally lost track of center of the maze, I think we need to go to the center of the maze and whatever I'm suppose to animate will be there. I think it will be Piertotum Locomotor by the sounds of it. What do you think?" Did all her rambling confuse him, most likely it did.


She looked towards the right, "Well we already know that way is a dead end so I'm thinking if we keep heading this way it has to head towards the center don't you think?" Well she hoped at least.