I really needed to focus on the cipher with all the concentration I had and I surely couldn't use a blond-headed Slytherin who was currently sitting and reading on the couch in front of me.

I groaned in frustration

'I'm never going to decipher this code!' I said to myself.

'Maybe you should try to turn it upside down.' Malfoy suggested, not looking up from his book.

'I've already tried, I'm not THAT stupid!' I snapped.

'You're not?' he asked amused, while raising an eyebrow.

'If I can't decipher this code, you can't do it either!' I challenged him.

'Oh, you're on!' Malfoy exclaimed.

We sat for hours and tried all different things we came up with, until Malfoy had an idea.

We laid the cipher next to an Astronomy map and looked if there were any similarities, but we found none. We were about to put it away, when I thought of something.

I flipped the parchment with the cipher on it over and turned it upside down.

We found that the 2 and the 5 were standing for T and Y.

After doing the same thing with our other schoolbooks, we'd finally deciphered the whole code.

'Why did you actually need this code?'Malfoy asked.

'There was this weird looking parchment sticking out of a book in the library and this cipher was there too, so I decided to decipher it to find out what the parchment said.' I explained while taking a piece of parchment out of my pocket.

It took me a few minutes, but I managed to decipher the parchment.

Hello,

This is a guide about how to decipher a code.

I see you already managed to decipher one, so I won't bother you anymore.

Sincerely,

V. I. Z.

I face palmed when I read the parchment. All this effort for this stupid joke?!

'What does it say?' Malfoy asked.

I handed him the note, so he could read it by himself.

He soon finished and looked at me with the same expression and for once we agreed: we would never try to decipher a code again…

Hi! I've got a few messages from people who wonder about how I get my ideas. For this drabbles, I've just picked some random words from my dictionary and tried to write a decent story.

Hope you all like it!

- Tay