HP-Hogwarts Story So Far

Transcript Five

Joss' Riddle

 

Editor's Note: A 'Time Catch Up' spell was placed on list to move action forwards

The strangest creatures have been seen around Hogwarts. From absolute silence suddenly Egreen and Achel seem to be very busy indeed. What are they up to?

Marvo's mood has been slowly improving over time, although he is still avoiding any contact with Nimue, as she also seeming to avoid him.

He seems to be paying very little attention in lessons, and has not been seen at Quidditch practise (unless dragged along by Kat) however he always gets top marks in essays and homework.

Right now he is wandering along a corridor, a smile on his face and thoughts of Bacon on his mind.

The Riddle (Day before the Ball)

It was late after yet another day of classes and Quidditch practice and friends and everything that consumes a Hogwarts student's time.

As she walked the towered steps up to the third years dormitories. As she stepped in that familiar sliver glow. Josslin was again in there, and looking quite sulky about something, as if very impatient with a pupil that hadn't shown up for class.

She cleared her throat. "bout time, suppose you've been spending MORE time with them and more paticualarly.. him." Josslin said these things with more than a little spite, and Kat was left to wonder which him her friend now had so much against..."WELL! Aren't you going to ask WHY I'm here. I do have better things to do."

She seemed a lot more bad tempered in death. But I guess anyone would be. Kat went over to the bed and sat down then asked. "Why ARE you here, I mean not only here, but HERE and not...where ever dead normally go?" she said anxiously. How many times to you get to ask the dead about dying. Joss Made no specific emotion on here face. "It would appear I have not ... finished my duties on earth." she said plainly.

"Do you have any more SPECIFIC questions?" She seemed to want to just say something but found she couldn't. Kat looked confused. "Ok, have you....seen anything I would need or want to know about?" Joss looked no happier. "Use you brain Kat!! Why else would I be here talking to you. Not that I'm not fond of our friendship but do you know what COULD be doing."

Kat and Joss were silent for a long time. Finally Kat said, "What do you want me to do something?" Joss seemed to think for but a moment, "Sort of."

Kat was trying to guess but Joss wasn't helping much," say something?" was her next question to be answered promptly, "NO.". "Am I looking for something?" Josslin for the first time smiled, but that was all. Kat took it for a yes. "Am I looking for the killer?" Josslin swiftly turned to her friend, "DON'T you DARE!" She said in a voice that echoed the walls, it was with such force and anger that Kat fell from the bed to the floor with a hard bump. She held up her hands defensibly, but Joss seemed to have Already returned back to "normal" and was making no motion to help her up. Kat tugged herself up and asked this time, "I'm I looking for an item? or a person?" She said. Joss replied, "Item." Kat looked proud for a moment.

"What? Kit? you're pictures? Wand? Paints? Jewelry? What?" Josslin once again looked annoyed. "NO a b--b---b-----" Josslin seemed not capable to complete the word, something was stopping her. She and seemed enraged that she couldn't. A solution to everything dawned on her face.

"Listen well Kathryn,

Those who look wide will not find, the thing that heals the blind, close to home is the treasured, so be search and be assured."

With that, Josslin smiled and left the room.

Kat sighed. Talking to Joss was still a little taxing, but easier than it had been. She briefly wondered about what Joss had said to the 'spending time with them and especially him' bit. She guessed that Joss meant Marvo. She had spent a lot of time with him recently trying to cheer him up and talking about the drawings she had been doing.

Then she turned her mind to the thing that Joss couldn't tell her. It began with a b... bomb, badger, biscuit, bread, bacon, broomstick, and book... The most sensible thing she could think about was a book. Come to think of that, maybe that was it. There were lots of strange books being secreted away by different people. The first was Egreen's that he bought in Diagon alley. Then at the Hogesmeade weekend there were 2 more bought. Now who bought them, Morticia and Arivel was it?

OK the riddle. She grabbed a pencil and paper and wrote it down while it was fresh in her mind.

"Those who look wide will not find, the thing that heals the blind, close to home is the treasured, so be search and be assured."

'Oh I hate riddles!', Kat thought. 'Maybe I should get someone to help me with it.' Then she went back to what Joss had said about them and him again. She would have run to ask advice from Marvo and Nimue but perhaps there really was a warning in what had been said. 'Oh what do I do?' Kat stared at the paper.

'Ok, Let's try and work this out...Those who look wide. - Ok, well how do you look wide? Are there already people looking 'wide'? Does she mean 'far and wide' like all over the place? will not find - That's fairly obvious. If I look wide I won't find it. The thing that heals the blind - Nothing heals people who are blind does it? Or does she mean sight? Or vision? Or maybe the sort of vision that Morticia has? close to home is the treasured - Well I guess that is something that is important or loved is that is nearby. But what? Could be anything. so be search and be assured - I'm really not sure about that. Maybe everything will be ok?

Kat pondered what it meant, but she wasn't getting any closer.