A/N: Hello everyone, this starts of slowly but it'll get better, I promise. As for the title of this story, it is subject to change. Have fun.

Chapter One

Rain knew everything was going to change when she moved to England, but this had to be a joke. She had just received a letter addressed to her, and the very fact that she had a letter merely a week after arriving in Surrey, when she had yet to e-mail her relatives in Canada her new address, was bizarre to say the least. Though the arrival of the letter wasn't the most bizarre thing about it; it was the contents of said letter that were the strangest.

Dear Miss Bone,

We are pleased to inform you that you have a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry...

That's about as far as Rainnina Bone ever got into reading the letter. That's where she had to stop and reread it to make sure she hadn't misunderstood.

"Rain?" her mother, Tammy, called, coming up the stairs.

Rain looked up and stuffed the letter out of sight as her mother entered.

"There you are, what are you doing up here all alone?"

"Just thinking," she replied quietly, looking at her lap.

"I know you hate moving, but this one really is for the better."

"That's what you said when we moved to the States."

"What's the matter, you always said you wished you could live in England, now you do."

"I left all my friends behind, mom."

"You can still keep in touch with e-mail and letters and stuff."

"Yeah..."

"Hey," Tammy said gently, putting her hand under Rain's chin to bring it up. "Everything will be fine, you'll love it here."

"Yeah, I'm sure you're right," Rain agreed. "Promise me one thing though?"

"What?"

"Can we not move out of the country again?"

Her mother smiled. "You got it, love."

Tammy got up and left her daughter to her unpacking.

Two days later, Rain had almost completely forgotten about the crazy letter from the Wizard School. The letter itself, was still wedged between her mattress and box spring.

She dragged herself out of bed around nine in the morning and made her way to the kitchen for some breakfast. After pouring herself a bowl of cereal, she heard the click of the mail flap at the front door. Letterbox, she told herself. It's a letterbox. If I want to blend in, I can't be saying things like "mail flap." She got up from the table when she was done her breakfast and made her way to the front door.

Rain riffled through the letters, some for the people who used to live here, one for her step-dad about the change in address, and one for her. She separated the mail that wasn't theirs from her dad's and put it on the table in the front hall, taking her letter upstairs.

It was then that Rain remembered her other letter. The new letter looked just like the other one, she pulled the old one out from its hiding place and compared the two. They were identical. She opened the new one:

Dear Miss Bone,

It has been brought to our attention that you may think our earlier correspondence was a scam. We can assure you that this is all very real and a representative of the school will be in to call on you on 17 July for confirmation and explanation. Thank you for your co-operation.

Yours sincerely,

Minerva McGonagall

Deputy Headmistress

Rain stared at the letter. It's real? It can't be real, there's no way it's real. There is no such thing as magic. She read it again. 17 July. That was tomorrow! Well, she decided. I'll hear out this representative and if he or she can prove that magic exists, then I'll believe this letter. Until then, she would have to speak to her parents about it.

If this was real, her brother would be so jealous. Maybe there would be a way of making it up to him. She wouldn't want her brother to hold a grudge on her, they loved each other.

A/N: So what did you think? R&R.