At Hogwarts Luna sat up reading a book about how to travel by tornado, L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz. She wondered that muggles had such insight into alternatives methods of transportation. It was something she did when she wanted to lose herself. Reality sometimes seemed a little too dark and books helped her sort her thoughts. The unlikeliest answers presented themselves sometimes.

Elsewhere in the castle Harry Potter and Nicholas Black sat alone by the fireside in the common room their shadows flickering on the walls like a silent film, their arms flinging and gesticulating as they whispered their dark plans.