Through The Veil「 The Veil Trilogy Part Ⅱ 」✔

[04] Leprechaun Gold And Nine Os

When we reached back at the Burrow, Mum was just as worried as she could possibly be. Because this was the first time she had let her children go on such a big event without her supervision and chaos had been unleashed.

After all the fussing of making sure that none of us was badly hurt and treating the minor injuries, we were sent off to bed. Fred and George had been the first to leave while me and Gin were the last.

As I climbed the stairs up to the attic, I could hear an uproar from the twin's bedroom. It was nothing like the usual explosions when they would be inventing stuff. Instead it sounded like a heated argument with cursing involved.

Being the nosy annoying sister that I am (according to Perce), I decided to pop in and see what had got their knickers in such a twist.

I threw open the door without knocking, as it had become quite a ritual with us, and saw that they had angry faces and the scarlet bag of galleons they had won from Ludo lay open at the bed.

"Who put pepper in your soup?" I asked casually.

"Damn Ludo Bagman!" they spat out.

Oh... Wait, what? I didn't know the Quidditch commentator had enough time for such silly pranks. 

However, I noticed that the bag of galleons was empty yet I do remember Bagman handed it full to them. "Where did all the galleons go? Used it all up already?"

"Didn't have the chance to do so," George spoke, "he paid us in Leprechaun Gold, that nasty fraud."

Now what type of gold is that?

Seeing the questioning look on my face, Fred elaborated, "it is exactly identical to galleons but vanishes in a few hours. We were fooled by that vile, disgusting backstabber!"

Ah I see. "I do feel sorry for both of you but you should have known better than to bet against him. No wonder Dad disapproved."

As expected, they eyed me as if I was some sort of alien who had just turned up out of nowhere. "If you are here to be Percy Weasley 2.0 then we request you to kindly leave," they snapped.

Come on, there's no need to be so rude. "If I really were Percy 2.0, I wouldn't even feel slightly sorry for you two."

"Thanks for the compassion, sis. But we're utterly disappointed at the loss of such good fortune."

I knew it would take them a while to settle down after such a deceit. So leaving them to their mourning session, I left for my own room.

***

It was early morning when I was woken up by tapping sounds at my window. Rubbing my eyes I sat up and saw a tawny owl perched up on the window sill. Now who could be sending me mail at this time of the year?

All of a sudden an alarm went off in my head; the OWLs result.

Frantically I opened the window and untied the letter from its tiny leg. However the envelope didn't bear the school crest. Looking at the owl closely, I saw it wasn't a school owl either. Hogwarts uses barn owls for mailing while this was a tawny owl. 

I breathed a sigh of relief. Giving the owl a few tidbits to devour, I sat back on the bed and tore open the letter. My cat, Priscilla, climbed up and curled beside me. The commotion I created must have roused it up as well. 

Stroking the beautiful white fur, I trained my eyes on the letter. It was from Remus. Finally.

"Dear Katerina,

Hope you are doing well. I'm good too as I did find a job soon after resigning from Hogwarts. Your OWL results must have been dispatched by now as far as I know. If you have received the result, congratulations in advance. If not, then best of luck.