Chapter 16: lottery winnings

The days continued to pass quietly and William's knowledge increased greatly, of the spells learned only one reached one hundred percent, this was Lumos the lighting enchantment.

Having one hundred percent understanding of the incantation William could now illuminate the tip of his wand with quite a bit of control, depending on the magic used in the incantation was the exposure of the light but the maximum limit is comparable to lumos maxima of any other wizard.

The library was practically his second home, being despised by his housemates he didn't have many friends and continued his thorough search for adventure.

It was one Tuesday morning while he was eating after his morning classes when a group of owls came through the window, everyone was surprised by the number of birds on the students and William was one of them but his surprise grew more when he noticed that he himself was the target of the owls.

Several bags were placed on the table in front of the astonished William each of the bags had a card which left the magician more surprised, when he lifted the card he could see the note.

Congratulations, you were the winner of the goblin lottery.

Congratulations, you were the winner of the leprechaun lottery.

Congratulations, you were the winner of the elves' lottery.

All the letters were congratulations for having won the lottery, William expected to win but more than anything he expected to have to go and collect the prizes himself, the letters also only had one sentence which presumably was written with some displeasure, the goblins hated to give away their money and right now William won quite a lot or that could be seen from the bags.

William opened one of the bags finding several gold galleons, he reached in and could feel that there were several ways, he read the small note again "a thousand galleons?!" the young man checked each one of the cards and all of them had the same message, nineteen of the twenty bags had the message of a thousand galleons plus the bags had the necessary space to carry the coins inside.

Now that he had that amount of money in his possession William felt a weight less on his back, it didn't matter if his grandfather expelled him from the castle, he would be able to fend for himself having that money.

William couldn't help but laugh silently, many of the worries he felt now were nothing, he could continue learning with peace of mind, as long as he wasn't expelled from Hogwarts then everything was fine.

When he was organizing the bags he noticed the last one, the one that had a different note from the others, this one did not have gold coins but a white egg completely round, William put the egg in his hands ignorant of the contents inside it, he looked everywhere and noticed that the attention was on himself so he decided to put it away again and leave the dining room, he had to discover the contents of the egg but it was not the right place or the right time.

As soon as William left the dining hall to go check the egg and put away his winnings, all the students started talking about it.

"Did you see it?" asked Ron looking at Harry next to him who nodded "Those were all lottery owls, my brother Charlie told me about it but there were never that many prizes together."

"so he's really lucky?" asked Harry innocently to which Ron just shook his head in the negative

"He can't possibly be that lucky, he obviously cheated after all he is the son of a dark wizard"

"But he saved Hermione from the troll earlier."

"That was just a mistake, McGonagall said it herself, it is impossible for a student to kill a Mountain Troll and you saw it yourself, William was smiling when he was attacking the Troll with his spell, he is an evil wizard we both know it" Ron was filling his mouth as he commented on what had happened days ago, they were both present during the attacks on the troll, before the professors arrived on the scene.

"Yet William saved Hermione, she said so herself."

"You don't understand Harry, Hermione was just wrong, fear wouldn't let her think and she only believed what she saw" Ron had a certain contempt for conservative pureblood wizards among those clearly were the Rosiers, but Harry who didn't understand much about the wizarding world and being a long time object of abuse himself, knew that not all people are like their families are.

Hermione who was a few stands away from the duo could only sigh helplessly, she knew all too well what she had seen, that night of the attack she could see William in the hallway away from the Troll, she called out to him quietly but knew her voice would not reach him, still William confronted the Troll.

At first she thought William didn't know she was in the place but using the wingardium leviosa charm he pushed the Troll away allowing her to escape, it was obvious he knew of her existence.

Hermione tried to talk to William several times but he would quickly disappear at the end of class hours and when he was in the library he was so focused that it was best not to disturb him, only at meals was he at peace but he would seek out the farthest stalls, she couldn't understand him. William was a rare wizard like no other at Hogwarts, wizards are carefree and try to fit in with their houses but William didn't seem to care at all about his peers.