In the morning instead of making it to classes the Head of each house would enter and instruct them to head to the Great Hall for an emergency meeting. As everyone took their seats Hogwarts illustrious headmistress Dolores Umbridge went up to the podium. No one could quite tell what this was all about, especially not by Umbridge’s expression. “Dear children…it’s with a heavy heart that I must inform you that…there has been an…accident during the night. I assure you all that it is nothing that you children need to worry about however. I and the faculty are working on it as we speak, you just worry those heads of yours on the academic part of it all.” As Umbridge said that lips pursed. “This next order of business however does concern you. It has come to my knowledge that there has been a theft of numerous highly volatile and highly important books from the libraries restricted section. ”
Umbridged sighed heavily before continuing. “Despite the severity of this, if anyone knows something or if the culprits themselves step up then no formal punishment will be delivered to anyone.” Umbridged waited for someone to speak up, but she was only met by silence. “No matter,” She finally said looking mighty pleased with herself. “You had your chance to come clean but now I and the faculty will have to take this into our own hands. You will be found and will get what is coming for you. Have a pleasant day of school, children.” With that the gathering was abruptly ended and all teachers and students returned to their regular routine of classes. Though there wasn’t much teaching being done since everyone seemed to be talking about this accident that had occurred. No one seemed to know what this was all about.
It was a dark and cloudy day as lunch came around with rain hitting the windows and the halls filled with students again the chatter was still on the accident. Talks from Hufflepuff however seemed to have some hints as to might have been going on. The 4th year student from Hufflepuff, Sandra Mellanox had not been seen since yesterday during first period.
It seemed that if anyone wanted to know what had happened. They had to start asking around to try and find any clues that might give them some idea about what had gone on during the night. What had happened to Sandra?
Rolien Langenberg
Rolien Langenberg listened carefully at the announcement made. Yet, she had difficulty to follow it entirely. There were words used that she did not know what they meant. Yet, she was certain of one thing, something was wrong. And it was something involving the library. Yet, she had no idea what kind of books Umbridge talked about. Which left her with questions.
During lunch, Rolien kept almost completely to herself. Trying to figure out in her mind what was said.
After lunch, Lorien went on her own to the library. However, she lost herself in the school for a got ten minutes before she would eventually reach the library. Once she reached it, she started to search for books regarding languages, Muggle languages to be precise. Yet, not understanding fully what the word meant. As she searched, she eventually stumbled upon the dictionary 'Dutch' and 'English - Dutch'. She grabbed both books and looked into them. The books being surprisingly very up-to-date. She walked to one of the tables and sat down on chair and laid both down in front of her. She began with the one from English to Dutch. She started to look up the words she didn't understand from the announcement. Or at least what she remembered of it. She first searched under the letter 'A' for 'academic'. It didn't take her long to find the word. She then took the Dutch dictionary and started to look up the word '
Academisch'. She quietly speaks what she found.
"
Academisch... aca-de-misch. Bijvoegelijk naamwoord. Van of aan een academie. Hij is academisch geschoold, als hij heeft op de universiteit gezeten..." she took a moment to read this over several times.
"
Interessant... Nu de volgende..." she said quietly.
She then took the first book again and started to look for the next word. 'Volatile', yet with this word, she had a lot of difficulty to find as she didn't entirely understand the word. Searching it under the letter 'F' in the dictionary, but after a while she failed to find it. She then started to search under the letter 'V'. After a while searching, she did finally find the word.
"
Vluchtig. Vluch-tig. Bijvoegelijk naamwoord. Natuurkunde, gemakkelijk in damp overgaand. Bij deze temperatuur is zink een vrij vluchtige substantie. Hmm... dat is niet echt makkelijk te begrijpen... het volgende... Zonder al teveel aandacht voor alle details. Bij een vluchtig onderzoek kwam dit snel boven water." Rolien read quietly, yet it was loud enough for people near her to hear it clearly.
She then starts to search for the third word 'restricted'.
"
Beperkt. Be-perkt. Bijvoegelijk naamwoord. Verminderd, met specifieke grenzen. Dus, beperkte toegang...?" she said and thought out loud.
There was one last word she was unaware of, 'severity'. Yet, she could immagine that whatever kind of punishment these people would get, it wasn't going to be a nice one.
