A Letter 2 Years Late

Chapter 23 - Is Mr Filch Involved?

We all turned around and found Mr. Filch standing angrily behind us. Not the same caretaker as from the books by the way. This Mr. Filch I had learned was a nephew of the one in the novels.

We were mostly confused rather than shocked as to why he was asking us such a question. It couldn't be curfew yet.

"I'm sorry Mr. Filch but what do you mean?" Rose asked politely.

"Curfew's in ten minutes. Why are you kids still out here?" He growled viciously. He's definitely much less impatient than his uncle.

"Because we still have ten minutes," Abby deadpanned.

"Your dorm rooms are far! You should get a move on, go!" He snapped and pointed a finger down the hall.

"Fine," Stellar grumbled and we all grabbed our stuff.

"What do you reckon that was about?" Lilith asked when we arrived a safe distance away.

"Who knows, I've never seen him this grumpy. He's usually more cheery," Rose muttered. That's another thing about this Mr Filch, he's very impatient, yet somehow very cheery. Unless of course he's stuck cleaning up a prank since those are the worst to clean up.

"I don't know, he seemed to want us out of there quickly. Am I reading too far into this?" Scorpius asked.

"Honestly, with the circumstances, no," Fred admitted. We walked in silence until we had to say our goodbyes and take our separate ways back to our dorm rooms.

The hike up to Ravenclaw tower was silent and tiring. We let Penelope answer the question at the door since we were too lazy to think and followed her into our common room. Without question, we marched up the stairs and into our dorm room. The twins flopped onto their beds as Penelope grabbed a magazine and Cecilia grabbed her pyjamas. I mimicked the twins and hopped onto my bed.

"So who's ready for exams?" Kaitlin grumbled tiredly.

"Of all conversation topics," Penelope groaned, putting her magazine down.

"Would you rather it be dead silent in here?" Kaitlin countered.

"Actually, that would be a nice change," Penelope retorted. The two girls continued their bickering by glaring at each other. Cecilia and I both nodded at each other, silently making a pact not to get involved.

Once changed, I crawled under my warm blanket and curled into a ball.

"'Night!" I quietly yelled. I received four tired goodnights in return before I instantly fell asleep.

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One month.

Thirty days.

Just thirty more days left.

This meant that exams were less than four weeks away and summer was right after.

"Is it just me or was Mr Filch kind of suspicious last night when he kicked us out?" Rose asked.

"It's just you and Scorpius," I mutter at the same time as Abby agreed with Rose. The two of us looked at one another and just stared.

"You think something's up too?" I grumble.

"You never know," Stellar agreed.

"You guys are reading way too much into this," I sigh and stab my eggs with my fork.

"Like I said, you never know with the circumstances," Fred stated as he came up behind and gave me a hug before taking a seat beside me.

"So what? He has a secret broom somewhere in the hallway that he doesn't want anyone to know about," I guessed, my voice dripping with sarcasm. Rose gave a look and I smiled back sweetly.