What was going on? Night had been trying to study in the common room, but a dripping distracted her. Somehow, she followed it out to the clock tower entrance outside. And another hawk, that was weird. There were other students, from every house except Hufflepuff. A few, she recognized from her classes, including Vi, the girl who had helped her out at the flying lesson.

She hung back a little bit, trying to get a feel for the conversation. So these things were showing up in the village as well? And people thought the painters were...in a trance? What could it all mean? Something nagged at her brain, something about the first time a hawk had appeared, with the words EXPOSE THE INEQUALITY painted beneath it.

She stepped into the foreground and gave a little wave, making her presence known. "Do you guys remember the first one, in the basement corridor?" There was something very familiar about the handwriting from that one, something she recognized that hadn't been there in others. Suddenly, she felt stupid.

"I've been trying to figure that one out forever! But there's only one person I've really talked to, who I sit near in all my classes, and whose writing I would recognize. It's Emmalyn Walsh!" She wondered if her friend had been in a trancelike state when she had written those words. If the others her classmates gathered here were talking about were any indication, her guess was most likely so.

But it couldn't be the imperius curse, could it? That was illegal; if someone was casting it at Hogwarts, people would know...right?