I am not young enough to know everything.

Oscar Wilde


While I was outside in the rain, I was oblivious to some very important machinations of some very clever people within the dry walls of the castle.

"Alright, so we're agreed? We have our mission?" questioned Anthony.

"I think it is a wonderful idea, Tony!"

"Awww, Mira, do you have to be so girly?" moaned Nicholas.

"It just so happens, Nicholas, that I am a girl. Is that a problem?" Mira drew up to her full, though uninspiring height, as she pulled out her wand. It was the wand and her ample knowledge of how to use it that quelled her friend's comments.

Anthony chuckled, but was interrupted by a cutting voice.

"What are three young Gryffindors doing so far from their common room on such a dreadful day? One might think they were causing trouble."

A moment of shear dread spread over the three as they turned around and saw none other than their headmistress looming over them. At her height with the addition of that plumed hat, she inspired no little fear in the three imps plotting, well, something.

Finally Anthony, the spokesperson for the group, found his voice. "Headmistress, we were just taking a break from studying and stretching our legs a bit." He likely would have managed this bit of a lie were it not for two key things. One he glanced at the door that supposedly only teachers knew went directly to the grounds. Two there was a very small piece of confetti barely peaking out from under the collar of his shirt. A good professor at Hogwarts, especially one who survived the infamous Weasley twins does not forget the effects of pranks. She glanced down the hall, nodded to herself, and declared, "I see."

Thereupon, she opened the door and spied her Professors of Transfiguration and Defense Against the Dark Arts doing a waltz in the rain. "I see," she murmured. "Indeed." The three children peaked around her to see what she saw.

Miranda's sigh brought the Headmistress back to the moment. She pondered her next words for just long enough to make the three before her begin squirming. "It is safe to say you three are aware of the situation outdoors?" They replied with meek looks. "Yes, and it is safe to say that you three are planning to encourage such behavior from your professors, as you know better than them what their lives should be like?" Here they barely brought their eyes up to meet hers. "Yes again, I may also say that it is safe that you have some tricks up your sleeve?" Here she glanced at Nicholas. He blushed and the three wondered if she possibly knew that he had the Marauder's Map tucked in the sleeve of his robe.

"Hmmm, yes again. I have one last thing to say. You have my full support in all that you do so long as it is with the best of intentions and does not disrupt your studies or classes. Nor shall you share with anyone my condoning this little mission of yours. Understood?" Here three bewildered Gryffindors looked up at their new hero with wide eyes of awe. "Should you need assistance at any point, you are free to contact me, even in my office or chambers. Dobby, the house elf, I'm sure you are already familiar with will be made familiar with this and direct you to me should you need me. I suggest you return to your common room to discuss the day's developments and avoid being found by your professors when they return to the castle."

Here Miranda, Anthony, and Nicholas scuttled up to the Gryffindor common room while the ever surprising Headmistress created a window in the wall. As she gazed out she spoke quietly to herself, "Hopefully that will get things moving. Those two are taking quite long enough realizing what they are about." She had full faith in the three youngsters tearing their way through the castle back to their common room. For there is nothing that three determined children with a cause they believe in cannot accomplish. She had seen great deeds done too many times by those often overlooked due to age or size. Yes, those three should manage to accomplish their mischief quite efficiently.