Madeleine, on the other hand, was lurking somewhere closer to the library.
She may have been swept up in the hullabaloo of the year beginning, but somewhere in the back of her mind, her desire to hex James Potter with a gigantic, bulbous nose still lurked. But she'd made friends with the girls in her year (well, for the most part; there was another blonde girl that seemed a little bit wary of her for some reason...), and had spent plenty of time running around the castle on her own time already.
On this particular night, she was off to find one of the paintings in the western wing. During one of their many late-night talks, one of the girls in her year had confessed to stumbling upon a couple of fifth-years snogging in one of the secret passages there. Madeleine had set out with a mind to hex the painting so that it would display whatever was behind it once it had closed. The charm was tricky, but she was sure that she'd be able to pull it off.
Now, she only had to find the painting that opened up to said secret passage...