black and white ✰ g.w.

CHAPTER TWELVE

On the last day of the summer holiday, Fred, George, and Olivia sat in the twins' bedroom as usual when there was a knock on the closed door.

"You decent?" Catrina asked them from the other side.

"Nope," they all responded in flat tones. Catrina entered anyway.

"Your Hogwarts letters came." She handed out the envelopes.

"About time," Fred said.

"I was beginning to think they'd chucked us out without bothering to tell us," George said.

"Don't get your hopes up. There's still time," Olivia teased.

"Well then. I'll leave you to it. I'll be in the kitchen if you need me," Catrina said before leaving.

The twins tore into their letters immediately, but Olivia found herself frozen as she stared at the envelope with her name on it. After George had looked through his letter and found nothing new, he looked to his girlfriend, confused on why she hadn't opened hers yet.

"Is there something wrong?" he asked her. At his words, Fred looked up from his letter.

Olivia looked up at them both and smiled. "It's heavier than usual. Heavier than the one I received before the start of fifth year," she said.

"Well, go on, then."

"Open it!" Fred urged her.

With slightly shaky hands, Olivia tore open her envelope. She reached inside of it and the first thing her fingers touched was cold metal. Slowly, she took out a red badge with the letters HG emblazoned upon it.

"I've been made Head Girl," she told them with slight disbelief.

"No surprises there," Fred said.

George beamed at her. "I knew you would," he said. "I was just waiting for them to tell you so I could celebrate with you."

"Now we're left with the question: who's Head Boy?"

"I bet you anything it would've been Diggory," Olivia said, her expression solemn as she remembered the boy in her year that had been murdered by Lord Voldemort just two months previously.

Much more soberly, she took the letters out of the envelope and began to go through them. The first two were the usual ones: one told her that term would start on the first of September, and the other was the booklist for the upcoming school year. The third one was one she had never received before, so she read through it with furrowed eyebrows until she realized what it was.

"Oh, and I've officially been made Gryffindor Quidditch captain," she informed the boys.

"Head Girl and Quidditch captain? Good luck, Wood, you're going to need it," Fred said.

"Don't listen to him. You'll do great," George reassured her.

"Oh, but Oliver's going to be dreadful when he finds out," Olivia groaned. "I know he means well, but once you get him going about Quidditch, he never shuts up. I just hope he has something helpful to say, though I doubt it'll be something he hasn't already told me twelve times before."