Grace's Plotter/Journal

Grace consumed a whole gross food combo during lunch(#19), then finished up her homework in the homework session. Follow that, she went down to Professor Snape's office to ask about using the student lab. She met up with Gerald Smithes and Ryan Barrow, and the three collected five ingredients as instructed by Professor Snape, then cleaned cauldrons. After saying 'bye,' to Ryan, Grace stopped by her common room to grab her rat, worried she might feel lonely, and headed over to Professor Rickard's office to ask the Sorting Hat some questions, where she was joined by Gerald. The two determined that they should go talk with Professor Archerose to learn more about the founding artefacts.

Grace and Gerald went to their separate house common rooms to search the fireplaces. They found similar though not matching pieces of paper, and determined that they'd have to go into other fireplaces in order to match them all up. Grace and Gerald switched uniforms, completing dare #2, and went to go do other dares involving professors. Grace serenaded Professor Archerose, #13, then complimented Nyx Nordstrom, who had just insulted her(#1). Grace and Gerald went to find Lucas Mardling, in order to get polyjuice potion, discovering that they'd need to go out to the Forbidden Forest--at night! Grace decided it would be a good idea to practice defensive spells, so they headed down to the duelling chamber to practice them on each other, then it was off to dinner, where Grace hid with Marcia under a table until the food fight died down.

Grace and Gerald later went out into the Forbidden Forest, in order to collect dusk-caps(a resounding success). They also saw a herd of centaurs. Grace thought nothing of it, until a figure in a dark-cloak fired a spell at her and Gerald. The two first years escaped, and Grace caught the end of a common room party regarding 5th year Tiana Thomas' promotion to Quidditch Captain.

Grace, tired from being up late, shows up to breakfast and eats. She slips into the duelling chamber to practice on a duelling dummy, but is greeted by Ruby Farrowbrooke, a fellow first year, instead. Grace thinks Ruby is fun. The two girls are joined by other first year boys -- Gerald and Ryan. Through a series of duels, Grace and Gerald win 2, Ryan and Ruby win 1. Grace and Gerald leave the other two to keep duelling while they attempt to collect honey, one of their polyjuice ingredients. Though they are successful, Madam Pomfrey has to look after their bee stings, giving them a special cream. Then, Grace and the other first years have a flying lesson. Grace's mild fear of heights makes her nervous to ride the brooms, and it takes her a few tries to get the broom "Up!" She manages to hover on the broom, though she is quite frightened, and eventually figures out that it isn't too bad. She does stumble, but for the most part succeeds.

She and Gerald find Fluxygrass, the last ingredient, and go to find Lucas Mardling, the deal kid, who takes their polyjuice things and promises to get it to them by Dinner. Grace duels a dummy for a while, the duels Lucky and loses, deals Gerald and loses, then wins, then loses. They go to Dinner, which is interrupted by Braxorns. Grace assists Madam Pomfrey, Lindsey Bryce, and Gerald in healing.  Grabbing her Polyjuice, she heads to the Ravenclaw, Slytherin, and Hufflepuff common rooms to retrieve parchments, then quickly back to her own so she isn't caught. Grabbing her rat, Grace assembles the pieces, still in unreadable ancient language, and passes Marcia an apple slice.

During Breakfast, Grace hands Gerald his robes back and they discuss finding a book at the Library, and what this little adventure could possibly mean about Hogwarts. First years have History of Magic, a short class, and then head off to the library, eventually asking Madam Pince for a book to help translate. It's in the Restricted Section, so Grace and Gerald hurry off to get permission. Grace gets hers from Professor Archerose, only for the Questers to discover that the Deal Kid has the book. They're able to translate the messages, but then it's Lunch time. Grace completes dare #14, introducing a pet to someone you haven't met, and talks to Amelia Twiggs, then heads off to Charms class where she sits by herself, overwhelmed by choice. She learns the Lumos Charm.

During Gryffindor tryouts, Grace does well enough to be considered for the position of Chaser, and makes it. Afterwards, she searches for the Hall of Mirrors, the location revealed to her from the translated Founders' Message. She fails the puzzle, and goes to dinner, where she cheers for the Twiggs siblings who made it on the team. When the topic of broom expenses comes up, Toby runs away. After Dinner, Grace peeks in to check that he's okay, following Amelia's instructions. They talk, and she and Toby help a second year find a cat.

Grace enjoys breakfast, and is sad to hear about the Swans, though excited for her new broom. She's a bit sad when the Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff tryouts are cancelled. She attends Herbology class, where she learns about Teepom plants, something she had never heard of before, and works together with Rose Hadley to replant the Teepoms.

After class, Grace went to try her luck at the Mirror puzzle once more. She succeeded, coming upon a terrifying creature with scales that resembled a bear. After deciding to do more research (read: being chased away), Grace talked with Ryan and Toby during Lunch, eventually meeting up with Gerald and deciding to talk to Hagrid for tea to see what he knew. They were informed of Professor Fairburn's possible knowledge, and Grace got to pet Fang.

Grace and Gerald go to the staff room, seeking our Professor Fairburn, only to be met by Professor Rivera, who seemed glad to get Professor Fairburn out of there for some reason. They learn about the Gerodenus, the creature she met in the Mirror Room, and that it was supposedly tamed by Helga Hufflepuff with a fruit. They asked Professor Sprout, Hufflepuff's head of house, who informed them of Kahlin O'Klore.

After that, Grace made a deal for some pumpkins with Lucas, then lugged them up to her room before Dinner. At Dinner, she wrote part of a letter to O'Klore, then shared it with Gerald. Combined, the two made a letter and Grace suggested that Gerald let his owl, Rook, take the letter to O'Klore.

She went to the common room and watched some fifth years before heading to her dorm to set up a few mazes for Marcia, hoping to get the rat to please like her.

Grace heads to Breakfast with Marcia, where she anxiously awaits news of the letter and somehow completely misinterprets what her brother and Gerald are talking about, thinking they are having a nice conversation about Ravenclaw things where instead Jamie is missing home and hating Hogwarts. She and Jamie get a letter from their parents, she and Gerald get a letter from O'Klore.

During Homework, she talks with Gerald about house quidditch, does her homework, and considers the impending sacrifice of her favourite childhood book. Following that, she heads upstairs to the astronomy tower to place the book in the chest, as O'Klore's letter said, and for her sacrifice receives a seed. Then she heads to the kitchen to get the required things for an Owl Event.

After a visit with Hagrid and Fang, Grace heads out in a rush to get her Herbology kit and somehow manages to succeed. Thankfully, not much happens at lunch and she heads down to harvest the ancient seed. Instead of being easy, as she had expected, the plant bites back. She still manages to collect the fruit, and ends up in the hospital wing for the first time that day.

Heading up to the tower, Grace steps through the mirror again, this time prepared for the gerodenus. She spends some time trying to figure out the mirror's riddle, having special difficulties on the Ravenclaw portion. The Hufflepuff mirror shows her a distressing image of Gerald, and the Slytherin one, which warns her to "BEWARE OVERACHIEVEMENT."

The Gryffindor mirror is another challenge, showing her a false McGonagall telling her she is a Squib, her greatest fear. She charges through the mirror, defeating her fear (for now) and seeing the image of Godric Gryffindor himself, almost as if it was giving her a message as well as a choice "If I can impress on you any such knowledge, it is that Hogwarts is more than a school. A terrible price was paid in its creation, but everything we did was for you, You may belong to Hogwarts, but Gryffindor belongs to you."

Grace makes the choice to drink the potion that will help her find the artefact, and receives a vision of the cluttered room. Naturally, she heads there next, but upon spotting the box from her vision, an imp, later determined to be a Snuffron, attacks her and she almost dies, heading to the hospital wing for the second time.

She locates Jacob, an older student, to help her deal with the problem. Thankfully he doesn't seem to care too much. She retrieves the box and the key, and, making a connection, goes to the spiral staircase to unlock the door, vanishing the key. Behind the door--a book, looking over the lake. Signing her name, Grace is granted a vision of the house-elf, Mitsy, in trouble. A bird flies over the lake.

Investigating Mitsy leads Grace to the conclusion that the elf is in the dungeons and apparently receiving correspondence from Dumbledore. In the dungeons, Grace encounters Mitsy as well as a boggart, which repeats her earlier fear. She has to find an older student again, and chooses Harris Teague out of convenience. He defeats the boggart, leaves.

Grace discovers that in the cupboard, Dumbledore left a message saying he had been forced out of Hogwarts, and that Rowena Ravenclaw had an artefact room somewhere that she should try to find. Well, not her, specifically, but close enough.

Focusing on herself, Grace gets a niffler to give her a key, which she uses and gains Creature skills. At dinner, the school learns about a missing student, and Grace tries her best to help in the pixie room, though she fails.

Grace eats breakfast, attends Transfiguration class but fails to turn a worm into a string. Afterwards, Grace heads down to the staff room to pester Professor Archerose about the artefact room mentioned in Dumbledore's note, encountering Professor Fairburn before the Archerose lead turns up empty.

After the Library is also unsuccessful (and Grace is reminded just how scary the librarian could possibly be), Grace meets Moaning Mrytle in the bathroom, and after a while, learns about another Ravenclaw ghost, though Mrytle declines to go with her to meet the so-called "stingy hag-of-secrets." The Ravenclaw ghost (Helena Ravenclaw, but Grace doesn't know that) tells her about an artefact room that's only for students, but Grace has Lunch, Charms class, and Quidditch practice and can't explore more.

After experiencing some minor difficulties in Charms class, Grace does relatively well for Quidditch, considering it's some of the only time she's spent on a broom. After dinner, she heads immediately to bed to prepare for the match.