She asked each and every ex-headmaster and ex-headmistress present within the frames. Luckily, she had to wake no one as they were all very much alert to her presence. Alas, her visit turned out to be fruitless as none of the portraits claimed to have seen anything. None of them had been around at the time, all coincidentally wandering other parts of the castle. Crestfallen, the Potter Heiress turned to leave, but was abruptly stopped by a thud somewhere to her left. A book had fallen out from one of the many shelves and being the curious girl that she was, Ashley went ahead and approached it. Oddly enough, it was flipped wide open but the pages were blank. At least, they were blank until a single page started glowing and words began appearing.