Jake stared across the room for a moment, deep in thought, he chose to mutter his ideas out, rather than announce them to the room.

"If teachers don't know about it..." Jake started slowly. "And they're getting affected like this, then they haven't uncovered it. Someone has done it and kept it a secret, or the castle is doing it..." Jake's head started to hurt at all the thinking. "Wild guess here, but maybe they're trying to turn us insane, whoever they are... Or whenever the door closes and the dragon is tickled, maybe something happens with the mirror, like... we all get hypnotised..." Okay... that was a really wild guess, but Jake needed to know, so he was wildly pulling ideas out of thin air.

Jake shrugged off his robes and dumped them in front of him, sitting in his uniform. Loosening his tie somewhat, Jake couldn't help but thik what a pain those robes got at times, really slowing you down and stuff.

Right, maybe pretend he hadn't seen her crying was the way to go, unless someone asked him outright if he had. "Professor Pierce?" Jake asked, tentatively and softly, intending to find out how much staff knew, but doubting she'd be willing to reveal it.