Lake Superior School of Sorcery: The American Hogwarts
Disclaimer: This is a parody and nonprofit story based in the fictional universe of Harry Potter. All rights belong to Joanne K. Rowling.
A little house stood on the edge of the suburbs, a tiny cottage like edifice dwarfed by its comparatively huge counterparts that cast it into shadow. It was a poor man's house situated quite snugly in a rich man's neighborhood and looked as out of place as a garden snake among a litter of pythons. It was night, and the only sound was the distant blaring of police sirens and alarm bells, ever present in most American urban towns. A few cats milled through the neatly kept lawns of the structures while the houses stayed irrevocably silent and dark, not giving off any indication of an aberration.
The only thing out of place in the distinctly normal American neighborhood was the shadowy figure that stayed atop the swaying pine trees, its beady eyes alert and fierce. Its high, noble head and curved distinct beak were out of place and foreign to the petite sparrows and thrushes that made up the region's aviary area. It was an eagle, the same that propagated so much of national propaganda and symbols, far from its home and very out of place. It was waiting, quite diligently, on the small girl in the impecunious house to wake up and find her letter so that it could return and confirm that the recipient had found the message.
When at last the night sky turned to a darkened blue, a light in the upstairs bedroom switched on, revealing a tiny form that could be seen rolling out of bed and plopping down the stairs to breakfast. The eagle ruffled its feathers and launched into the sky, knowing that a certain ten year old would find a letter lying on the doorway addressed;
Miss Rebecca Nurse
Top floor, second door to the right
1692 Salem Drive
Bamberg, South Carolina
Notes: Rebecca Nurse was a convicted and executed witch in the Salem Witch trials. I have chosen to reuse her name here for ironic reasons. Her house number is the year she was executed. I changed the delivery birds from owls to eagles because I thought early American wizards would want to be patriotic, and would probably switch their mail delivery system during the American War for Independence to spite the British. I will probably put one of these at the end of each chapter to explain my reasons for changing something from the iconic Hogwarts image.