Mrs. Norris Goes Walking Options

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Argus Filch's cat, Mrs. Norris, is a busy girl. Write a short post, picking her up from her location in the previous post and taking her through a few moments in her life. Don't kill her or signal the end of the world. The next writer should be able to continue from the end of your post.


Mrs. Norris smelled something unusual wafting under the door of her and Argus' chambers. It was early morning and they'd only just come back to their chambers to rest until their afternoon duties. It had been a relatively quiet night, but not the sort of time she'd spend laying about like other cats, doing nothing. She had a duty to Argus and even to the castle to work those corridors at night, searching for any rule breaking or security breeches.

She was used to smelling breakfast from the kitchens at this time. In fact, she'd just come from the kitchens where the little ones had given her some liverwurst and strawberry jam on toast for her shift's end dinner. She wasn't expecting this smell. This smell was something she'd expect to smell inside Horace's classroom, or even in his office. It was too strong to be something that belonged out of there.

Argus was snoring already, bless him. It was up to her to look into things. She sighed and rose from her bed, exiting their chambers through a secret passage under a tapestry, which seemed to move in anticipation of her passing.

[McGonagall's Cat]

Around the corner and partway down the next passageway she stopped. Pushing a paw against a worn stone in the wall, the piece of floor her feet touched started to drop below its normal level. A span of dark rock passed upward and sideways before her eyes as the platform she was on slid downward. In very short order it came to a stop between the floors. A fresh draft made her twitch her whiskers.

Darting through the shrub in front of her, she found herself on the castle grounds very near the base of the west tower. Glancing back up to the windows of the floor where she'd just been, so many floors above, she switched her tail smartly, glad she knew the shortcut. If she hurried she could get to the Greenhouses and duck back into the castle under the Flutterby Bush in the corner of Number Three. Due to the interior of the castle being so much larger than the exterior, this was the quickest route to kitchens from where she'd been. Suspecting that to be the hooligans' destination she hastily continued on.