Silvia was glad to be earning a few house points in this class, especially since astronomy was the subject she was most interested in. She finished writing a few notes and then stored them in her bag and pulled out her telescope.

Silvia set up her telescope and began to look around. The grounds were large and the balloons could be almost anywhere. It was hard to know where to start. She started by randomly pointing the telescope in various directions hoping to spot one, but that didn’t seem very effective. Maybe she needed to focus the search by searching one area thoroughly before moving on to the next area. She decided to turn her telescope first to the courtyard and scanned it for a few minutes.

Finally she found one.



“Professor I think I’ve found one,” she said.