Vickers darted across the Courtyard between classes, then looked up squinting at the sky. The sun was high up shining brightly against the clear blue, and although he knows his class schedule, he was curious if the sundial would reflect the time as well as it did that morning. The Ravenclaw boy peered across the arches and can see the Whomping Willow from where he stood, and the spot where he had his first sundial reading earlier that day.

He debated whether he would travel all the way there to use the same spot as he did for his morning reading, but he feared that he would be late for classes. Deciding that the Courtyard was the next best thing he brought the sundial out of his bag and set it down on the ground, pointing the gnomon in the same direction as he did earlier that day.

He peered into the sundial and read the shadow-- it was approaching 11 am. He noted it down on his parchment just as the clocktower started to sound off-- which also meant that he had roughly 5 minutes to get to his next class before getting tagged late. Hurriedly he grabbed the sundial and sprinted back into the castle.