Within the Veil - MalfoysChick
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Remus walked into the Death Chamber. The veil stood in the left hand corner, shrouded in darkness. Fitting, for an item of instantaneous death. His need to mourn Sirius had drawn him here.

Here Sirius had died.

Here, Remus had lost the last of his friends.

He walked over to the archway. The veil hung within it, but Remus noted something wrong with it. It didn't swirl in the imaginable wind like it had in the past. It hung, instead, bunched in the middle of the curtain-rod. (veil-rod?) Remus narrowed his eyes and stepped forward. A moment later he jumped back in shock.

He could swear on Harry's life that the bunched veil had moved, and it hadn't been a motion normally related with wind on thin material. It had been - there, it did it again! Another jerky movement.. Remus stared, and his eyes widened as he heard a humanlike noise.. almost like a grunt.

Another one came. The movements came in rapid succession. Remus was apprehensive; what could be inside the veil?

What could be inside the veil? his mind whispered again and again, over and over, piercing his brain.

Suddenly, the bunch of material burst open and a human-like figure fell to the shale floor with a loud thump.

"Blimey!" Sirius's loud voice surrounded Remus.

"Blimey! My God that was hard to chew through! It's bad enough that I had managed to get stuck in the material of that bloody veil, but honestly! Couldn't I have been graced with the luck of having some random knife in my bloody back pocket to make my life easier!?"

Sirius sighed and stood up. Remus was already dead to the world (no pun intended), laying on the floor after fainting.

"Well," Sirius continued in a more humorous tone, "at least I know what a butterfly feels like."