Since the students were allowed to go to Hogsmade, Daniel began to spend more time in the snowy town than posing. It was that afternoon when everything made sense:

The entire snowy forest was splattered with a liquid that looked like blood. There were small puddles and lagoons filled with that liquid, and the redhead, for his part, was standing on one of these, with his head down and a sickly and manic half smile while his eyes moved frantically in all directions.