People were acting weird, Hayley noted. Not that they didn't always, this was Hogwarts after all. Weird things happened all the time, weird was.. normal, if normal even existed, and Hayley wasn't convinced it did.

Her peers, especially, were acting stranger than usual though. Even her closest friends. It was like an illness was spreading, first with Gracie, then Noel, and now.. even Chloe seemed to be acting odd. It was hard to say what was changing, but something was.

Tapping her quill against her parchment, the thirteen-year-old tried to push away her pesky thoughts in favor of her homework.