On Sunday morning, Hogwarts woke late. Since students could visit Hogsmeade on Saturdays, most of them had developed a habit of sleeping in on Sundays.
Professor Flitwick usually enjoyed a leisurely Sunday, but today, he simply could not sleep and had risen bright and early—all because of his favorite student, Will.
Will's paper on ancient runes was due to be published today, so Professor Flitwick had got up early to wait for the owl to deliver his copies of the Daily Prophet and the Rune Research Gazette.
By the time some of the early-rising young wizards began having breakfast, Professor Flitwick's owl finally arrived.
Ignoring his overturned breakfast, Professor Flitwick cheerfully opened the two newspapers.
The Daily Prophet's headline was certainly eye-catching: "New runes?! A true magical genius silences the doubters!" The author was not Rita, but the Daily Prophet's editor-in-chief.
Only after an extensive recap of the series of sensations caused by Will's papers did the article introduce his latest work.
In fact, Will's paper took up almost the entire back of the newspaper, with only a few little articles nobody cared about and assorted advertisements down either side.
Although Professor Flitwick found little substance in the editor-in-chief's words, he still read them with a smile before opening the more academically inclined Rune Research Gazette.
In the Rune Research Gazette, the Rune Association issued a statement hailing Will as a once-in-a-century genius and a rising star in the field of ancient runes. In just one day, only two veteran specialists had mastered the sleeping runes, but that alone spoke volumes—if they could be mastered, that proved they were genuine!
Naturally, the Rune Association's experts could also tell that these belonged to no known rune system. Nor did they believe Will had plagiarized them from somewhere—not unless his coauthors, Professor