"Cat, stop it. Go play outside or whatever" He whispered as he walked the corridor out of the library with a book that Lisa had gifted him in his hand. She usually scratched the frame of the bed so he wouldn't be surprised if she was scratching the walls too.

But, as he looked down, his cat walked alongside him, and he could still hear the scratching. Then perhaps someone was vandalizing school propriety? Daniel accelerated his pace, eager to catch whoever it was in the act. Was it this way? No that way!. He came around the corner and discovered not what he was looking for but something even better.

He was about to turn around and check the other corridor because he was disappointed that he hadn't found the culprit when he noticed the scribbles on the wall. The Hufflepuff got closer as he read the message, thinking it was the nursery rhyme 'Ring around the Rosie?' but as he read further, he realized it wasn't. After reading the entire thing, he felt a chill, but it wasn't fear, at least not yet.

A mysterious scratching sound? Mysterious writing on the wall? A mysterious riddle? Daniel could hardly contain his excitement as he reached for his small notebook in his pocket and began to copy the words.