Plithsev hurried to the owlery to send a message. She remembered what Mord had told her:

"I will help you improve in all your subjects if you do a few small favors for me. I want to know if anything strange is happening at the school. I want you to learn about the teachers,especially the headmaster,and then to tell me. Everything. In return I will send you help,I will give you advice in all your classes."

This man had been a stranger,she remembered asking him why he wanted to know. He had just said that it was Ministry business. So she had decided to send the information. And why not? She was only good in DADA,not any of the other subjects. So she would send this information. She would investigate the going ons at school and report to him.

She wrote down:
"Hello Mord.
I just arrived here. Things have been going on recently,a ship has appeared in th lake. Headmaster Tate says that it's safe and that we will be going on it sometime this year. I looked at it from the distance and it's nothing special. Also that annoying Iris is way too popular."

She hoped Mord would reply soon. She would soon excel.