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"Pretty recent, yes," Regina responded with a nod of her head. "Likely by students," -- more specifically ones that previously or currently studied the subject -- "and perhaps some former staff members too. It's hard to say unless they left their names beneath their message." In most cases, they weren't. Just initials or nothing at all.

She smiled at Maddie's ambition to do her own writing on the wall, when the time was right.

The woman couldn't help but let out a quiet laugh the moment the Hufflepuff's eyes went wide. Why so surprised that she couldn't open the box herself? She was only human after all and still had much to learn even at her age. "Hogwarts has plenty of undiscovered mysteries and secrets. I certainly don't have all the answers."

Another laugh escaped her mouth at the mention of Maddie once believing once that runes were useless. "No offense taken. Many often believe that, or that Ancient Runes is horrendously difficult -- which it can be. But I find that working at things that are difficult or challenging are the most interesting and often have the best rewards."

"As for what I'm doing in here," she carried on, "I'm just checking in on things. Making sure nothing vulgar has made its way onto the walls, and then after I was going to make sure everything in the Advanced Rune Study is still in tip-top shape." So, in other words, she was neither lost like the Hufflepuff was nor up to anything terribly exciting.


So there was a whole wall in the school where they could just draw and paint and create as much art as they wished?! Well, no. Not exactly. But this was the next best thing. "I'm going to leave my mark in here one day! I'm going to start thinking about a good quote right now," she declared, and she even promised herself it wouldn't be anything about cupcakes, puppies, or anything of that sort. It'd be something meaningful, like... Well, she didn't know! But when she did know, she was going to carve it on the walls in this very room!

"I should probably get better at Ancient Runes, too," she said, but only as an afterthought at first. "I don't want my carving to end up like one of those tattoos people sometimes get. You know, the kind in a foreign language that they think says something really cool? Then it turns out to just say 'Bathroom' or 'Hamburger', and they don't even know it!"

She quietened down, for once, when the Headmistress explained how she didn't know all the answers. "But you know most of them," she pointed out. The box just happened to be an exception, probably because it belonged to Merlin, and he just had to be extra about keeping it under lock and key. She peered at the walls again when the Headmistress revealed her true reason for visiting. "Oh, well, that's a good idea. I guess you can never have too many eyes and ears in a castle this big," she agreed. "I'll be on the lookout, too. Well, once I get good enough at Runes and all."
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