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Chapter 12
The Code
The next day was unusually hot. When Harry had finished his classes for the day, he walked back to the Gryffindor common room to meet Jenna.
When he went inside, he saw that Jenna wasn't there yet, so he sat down to wait.
After looking over Dumbledore's letter every free minute he had the previous day, Harry still hadn't found any other clues in it.
When Jenna finally arrived, Harry looked up to greet her. Even with the extreme heat, Jenna looked as cool as ever.
"Why don't we go outside?" Jenna asked, "We can go down to the lake where it's cooler."
"Okay," Harry said.
They walked out of the common room and went down the hallway to the staircase.
"So did you find anything?" Jenna asked.
"No," Harry admitted, "I just couldn't see anything different about it."
"There must be something.Dumbledorewouldn't just send you a letter like this and leave you with so many questions. The reason you can't find it is probably because there isn't anything different about it, that it's always been there, andyou just haven't seen it because it's hidden."
"Well I still couldn't find anything."
"No matter," Jenna said, "We'll find something."
They walked for a few more minutes until they finally reached the doors opening to the grounds.
They went outside and walked down to the lake. At the edge of the lake, Jenna sat down on the grass and Harry sat across from her.
"Do you have the letter?" Jenna asked.
"Yes," Harry said, pulling it out of his pocket. Jenna took the letter from him and started to open it.Afteropeningit, shegave it back to Harry.
"Now look at it again. I'm justgoing to take off my vest, it's too hot to wear it," Jenna said.
Harry looked at it again and still found nothing.
Jenna pulled off her vest, revealing a tight low-cut white short sleeve shirt. She neatly folded her vest up and put it on the ground next to her. Harry looked up at Jenna. His mouth dropped open and he quickly clamped it shut.
Jenna took the letter from Harry again and looked down at it wondering what she could look for.
Harry noticed the way Jenna's shirt clung tightly to every curve in her slim figure.
"He must have left something," Jenna said.
Harry looked away and tried to pay attention to what Jenna was saying but his eyes kept wandering.
'Just look at her face,' he thought, 'focus on her face.'
Jenna moved over to sit next to Harry and he fought to not look down at her.
Jenna pointed at an area of the letter, "Harry, look at this again...right there," she said.
Harry looked at the place Jenna was pointing at. It was the area under where Dumbledore had written, "Remember I will only truly have left Hogwarts when there are none thereare loyal to me."
Obviously Jenna was seeing something Harry couldn't because all he could see was blank parchment.
He looked back at her and shook his head, "I don't see anything," he said.
Jenna sighed deeply causing her ample chest to swell against her shirt. "Don't you see anything about it that might be even a little bit different from the rest of the letter?"
"Nope nothing at all," Harry said quickly.
Jenna moved back to where she was sitting before and Harry turned his head away.
"Harry, are you okay?" Jenna asked.
"Yeah I'm fine, why wouldn't I be okay?" Harry asked in return.
"Well, you're acting kind of ... strange."
"Well I'm fine, can we just get back to the letter?" Harry took the letter from her and looked down at it.
'Damn it,' he thought. 'How the hell am I supposed to focus on the letter?'
Jenna was puzzled - why Harry was acting this way?
"Wait Jenna...is this what you mean?" Harry pointed at the same spot Jenna had pointed at. The parchment that the letter was written on had a barely visible pattern on it. But in one area, the parchment was completely blank.
Jenna looked at where he was pointing and smiled. He had found the spot.
"That's exactly what I mean," Jenna said.
"But there is nothing there. I mean, it's different from the rest of the letter, but it doesn't tell us anything," Harry said.
Jenna took the letter again. She pulled out her wand and pointed it at the spot.
"Acclara Biceleio" she said.
All of a sudden something appeared in the blank spot.
6-14-14-3 9-14-1, 24-14-20 7-26-21-4 5-14-20-13-3 12-24 2-11-20-4. 8 26-12 26-11-8-21-4, 8 22-8-11-11 2-14-13-19-26-2-19 24-14-20 26-19 2-7-17-8-18-19 12-26-18, 10-4-4-15 26-13 4-24-4 14-20-19.
"How did you do that?" Harry asked.
"It doesn't matter, all that matters is that," Jenna said pointing at the numbers.
"But what does it mean?" Harry asked.
Jenna shrugged. "I don't know, it must be a code."
"Well how do we figure it out?"
"Maybe each number stands for a letter in the alphabet, you know like 1 stands for A, 26 stands for Z."
"Well let's try it out," Harry said.
He and Jenna went through and changed every number to a letter in the alphabet and wrote it down on the back of the letter.
When they finished, the message was decoded to look like this:
FNNC INA, XNT GZUD ENTMC LX BKTD. H ZL ZKHUD, H VHKK BNMSZBS XNT ZS BGQHRSLZR, JDDO ZM DXD NTS.
They looked at the letters.
"This makes no sense," Harry said.
"Maybe we did it wrong," Jenna said.
"Oh man this is going to take forever" Harry said as Jenna started looking over the letters and numbers again.
When she finished checking the letters Jenna said "Nope, we didn't make any mistakes."
"Maybe it's scrambled, like the letters aren't where they are supposed to be" Harry offered.
"I doubt it," Jenna said. "I mean, I don't think Dumbledore would do that. It would take too long to figure out, and even if we did figure something out, we would have no idea if that was how it was supposed to be."
"We have to figure this out," Harry said, "We've come so far already, we can't just stop here."
"Who said anything about stopping? Of course we'll figure this out," Jenna said, "But maybe we should take a break first."
"Okay," Harry said.
"So what do you want to do now?" Jenna asked.
Harry looked at her, she still hadn't put her vest backon.
'What do I want to do? I'd like to do a lot of things...' Harry thought, then he quickly pushed the idea out of his head.
"I don't know," he replied.
"You're good at flying right?" Jenna asked.
"The best," Harry said jokingly.
"People keep saying you're so modest, but I'm just not seeing it," Jenna said smiling.
Harry laughed.
"Well if you're so good, then you shouldn't have any trouble teaching me," Jenna said.
"Teaching you how to fly?" Harry asked.
"No teaching me how to cook. Of course teaching me how to fly!"
"Well, uh... okay," Harry said.
"Now I just need a broom," Jenna said.
"You can use mine," Harry said.
"Okay," Jenna smiled. "You sure you don't mind?"
Harry grinned. "Not at all."he said. He didn't mind doing anything that would allow him to spend time with Jenna, especially when she was wearing that shirt...
A/N: I know this chapter was kinda short, but I didn't want to give too much away just yet. I've already written the next chapter, but I'm going to wait a little while to post it because I like to watch people suffer. No I'm just kidding, I want you to try and figure out the code for yourself. If you have any idea what it means, you can send me a private message to see if you're right.
