Please take care of Mindy, Volt #2012 At Gringots Bank. That is all the letter in the blanket said.

October 31,1981 this is exactly three months and 4 days after Mindy's first birthday. Out on the door step of 's home for lost and abandoned children sat a blanket containing a child with deep blue eyes, almost violet and mousy brown hair. The child did not cry despite the chill or the fact that she had not eaten since morning or for the fact that both her parents and all her relatives abandoned her on the steps of a god forsaken orphanage. No she did not cry for she knew that if she cried it would show weakness and weakness was not tolerated by Mindy.

an elderly woman with a bloodhound like face ran a tight shift at the home. Boys to the right of one-hall way girls to the left of the same one, the children work in shifts girls watch the younger children and cook dinner and boys clean, do the yard work and get the paper, but all go to school. didn't like children she didn't like noise or mud or worms either but she liked children the least of all of the things she disliked. When one of the boys who was assigned to collect the mail walked in the house holding a wad of thick black blanket he was not only annoyed that he was not doing his job but also confused.

"Why on earth would he bring this…this thing to me." She thought and then looked the boy up and down.

"He looks old enough to know where the laundry goes and he has lived here long enough to understand that they don't visit me unless called." She closed he eyes and scrunched her eyebrows together.

"Alexander…" she sang sweetly trying to hide her annoyance. The boy looked up at her with big frightened eyes.

"Yy…yes Mrs. Hatty?" he said shakily

"What does say about coming to her room before you are called."

"Nn…n…not to." He swallowed

"Exactly. So would you mind telling me why you Alexander are so special that you are exempt from these rules?" The anger in her voice emerging with every word until she was screaming at the boy.

"Well , um that blanket over there is well it's a…" Mrs. Hatty cut him off

"Are you trying to tell me that I don't know what I'm talking about do you realize who you are talking to… after I fed you and clothed you and gave you a place to live." She rose her hand as to hit him, the blanket moved she put her hand down quickly. She walked over to the bundle and opened it up a baby girl stared back at her.

"You are dismissed" she said she was mesmerized by the child skin pale as the face of the moon a starless night and eyes deep and blue like the ocean. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath the chilled had a note next to her. She picked it up and then looked back at the child before reading it. She walked over to her computer and looked at the name on the paper again then typed it in.

Gringots Bank according to the Internet didn't exist. She sighed and walked back over to the child picked her up and carried her out of the room.

Over the years began noticing that Mindy wasn't like the other children sure she still acted the age that she was she wasn't smarter, stronger or healthier than any of the other children. Well let me just give you some examples of how Mindy differed from the other children. At the age of 6 Mindy acted like any 6 year old does and so one day when playing with another child began to get, annoyed shall we say? This caused her to become angry and at the very moment when this emotion swept over her the sky grew dark and thunder boomed and lightning struck the ground. Despite the rainy season being over and the chance of a storm being a 5% chance that day according to the news. This seemed to happen every time Mindy threw a fit another thing that made Mindy different was the fact that she didn't cry or complain sure she would get angry and yell at another child but never did she cry. Once she was running with some older kids out side and tripped over a tree root she had a deep cut on one knee and waked her head on a rock but she didn't cry, and the other time she broke her arm and had to pop the bone in place still she didn't cry. At that point being a very religious person had taken Mindy to countless priests and churches she had, had her exercised twice and by this time she was only 9. For her 10th birthday took the children to the zoo. Mindy had read about the zoo and heard they had snakes witch she was especially fond of. She and some of the boys went to the reptile room where on this specific day just so happened to have a special show where a zoologist talked about the reptiles.

"Ok I think I heard it was someone's birth day today who's is it?" The young lady on stage asked scanning the crowd. Mindy raised her hand.

"Oh well what's your name?" she asked in a peppy voice that bothered Mindy. She held a microphone to her face.

"Mindy my name is Mindy and I am turning 10 today." She said bluntly trying to avoid being asked any more questions.

"Well, Mindy where is your guardian?"

I am going to Mindy tell the rest of the story because I can't reach any farther forward in her memory.

I pointed to the back of the room in the corner where sulked exhausted.

"Oh, can I let Mindy be my lovely assistant."

I looked at her trying to send mental messages to make her say yes. She waved her hand giving me her consent.

"YESSSS…finally I finally get to touch a real snake." I screamed in my head.

The tall thin woman pulled a large snake out of a cage.

"Burmese Python why else would she let me hold such a large snake." It was kind of a let down but still it was a giant snake!

"Okay the snake is kind of hea…" before she could finish the snake bit her arm the woman loosened her grip and the snake let down to the ground and then over to me and up my leg.

"Hello" said the snake

"Hello" I responded everyone was staring at me like I was the weird one the snake was the one who was talking. Even the bleeding zookeeper was staining at me like I was some sort of monster.

"Ahem, excuse me human but might I ask can you understand me?" the snakes head was slightly tilted to one side.

"Apparently I can why do you need help?" the snake nodded its head.

"This is rather curious isn't it? Yes I do need help could you point me towards the exit please madam?" I smiled and pointed towards the door.

"Make a right past the monkeys and a left at the elephants then just go straight." She looked in the direction I was pointing and then back at me.

"Thankssssss."

"Anytime."

With that she slithered down my leg and across the room to the exit. Every adult looked at me with fear the girls with disgust and the boys with admiration.

"What and who are you?" asked a disgusted look on her face.

"You know I would like to find that out for myself." I turned walked back to my seat and no one said a word to me for the rest of the day.

We sat on the bus no one sat next to me the bus was silent but I felt there stares on my back. Finally someone said something.

"Hey Mindy how'd ya do that?" asked an older boy.

"How did I do what?" my eyes narrowed as I asked.

He paused a moment as if questioning his methods.

"How'd ya do that hissing thing to control that snake?" he smiled smugly and looked back at his friends.

I smiled my sweetest smile and leaned over the seat and whispered,

"First of all I didn't control it we just had a conversation and second of all if I wanted to I could conger up hundreds of snakes to eat you and your idiot friends right now so I'd watch my mouth if I were you."

He looked at me disgusted and a little bit in shock. He apparently didn't have anything to say after that because he got up and went to the back of the bus. When we got off the bus pulled me off to the side and we had a little chat, as she would call it.

"I don't know what satanic rituals you are doing up in your room but if I ever see anything like today happen again your out on the streets got it? "She had jowls and when ever she moved they jiggled I followed them with my eyes. This made me nod my head and she was content with that and she sighed grabbed my arms and dragged me inside.

The rest of the night was normal we eat dinner get ready for bed read for 30 min and lights out at eight o'clock. My room is in the attic there is one door leading to a staircase that goes down and there is another in the same area that leads to the roof. There are two windows on either sides of me one of the windows is broken and the other doesn't roll up and in the summertime it gets deathly hot so at one point I broke the window that doesn't roll up. I stared at the tall ceiling wispy strings of destroyed cobwebs hung from the columns running through the ceiling.

"What the heck was that today the snake talked…or did I talk to the snake?" I thought to myself out loud.

"Whatever it was probably just my imagination I was just talking to it out loud and now people think that I'm crazy." And with that thought I drifted into the oblivion of sleep.

I awoke to the sound of my cheap plastic alarm clock ringing in my ear I reached my hand out from the warm, dark, depth of my bed sheet I felt around on my nightstand for the cool feel of plastic.

"Come on alarm, alarm…. Alarm?" Something warm and soft was sitting on my side table I sit up in bed. My vision blurry I rub my eyes and blink three times. There sitting on my night stand on top of my alarm clock was a large dark brown owl.

I sit there staring "oh, an owl is that all." I lay back down and pull the covers over my head… "wait… an owl how the, what the, woah,woah wait. Whoa ,whoa wait what?" The owl sat there and cooed. "

Okay there is an owl in my room, I haven't done any drugs and I am almost positive that I am awake witch brings us back to the conclusion that there is an OWL IN MY ROOM!" I take three deep breaths.

"What do you want?" I ask the owl. It cooed and nudges an envelope towards me.

"You brought me a letter." The owl cooed again and nudged my hand

"That's It I am schizophrenic." I opened the envelope and begin reading the letter here is what it said:

HOGWARTS SCHOOL
of WITCHCRAFT and WIZARDRY

Headmaster: Albus Dumbledore
(Order of Merlin, First Class, Grand Sorc., Chf. Warlock,
Supreme Mugwump, International Confed. of Wizards)

Dear ,

We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Please find enclosed a list of all necessary books and equipment.
Term begins on September 1. We await your owl by no later than July 31.

Yours sincerely,

Minerva McGonagall
Deputy Headmistress

I quickly grabbed a pen and paper.

"Wait right here" I commanded the owl.

I ran down the stares to and asked, "Uhm I understand what I did yesterday was uncalled for so I created a contract clearly stating that I would never do something like that again would you please sign it verifying that you agree with it?" I forced the pen into her hand and she scribbled down her name looked at it and looked pleased with herself. I smiled and nodded and ran back op the winding staircase. On the paper under 's signature I scribbled down:

My guardian gave her consent, and I would be happy to attend your school.

I grabbed some string and tied the note to the owl's ankle and sent it on its way. I sighed and then laughed.

"yea right like that was real probably someone playing a prank." And with that I went to get dressed. There was a knock on my door and 's voice came through.

"Mindy?" she called

"Yes one moment" I pulled my shirt over my head and shoved the letter and list into my front pocket.

"May I come in?" she asked

"you may." She shuffled into my room holding a small slip of paper and a dark blanket.

"Mindy I was saving this for your present yesterday but I forgot to give it to you." She handed over the slip of paper witch read:

Please take care of Mindy, Volt# 2012 at Gringots Bank.

I look at the paper and then I smell it maybe it still smells like my family. No luck the smell reeks rose and jasmine potpourri. Then she hands me the blanket ,the blanket smells of something warm and sweet the smell of home, the smell of family.

"I should have given this to you sooner maybe you wouldn't have gotten into being a follower of satin. There is a family who is wanting to adopt you do you think you would like to go stay at there house for a trial run?" I looked at her blankly

"oh now I know why she is being so nice to me" I thought

"its because I'm going to be out of her hair she's in a good mood." I laughed to my self.

"Mindy would you like to?" she asked you could see the sparkle in her eye, you know the kind you get when your about to get something you really want yea that kind.

"Yes, yes oh please can I go?" I begged "yes anything to get out of this place. my chance at freedom had arrived.

Her eyes grew wider and the gleam got bigger.

"Of course my sweet just pack your things and be on your way." And with that she skipped out of the room like a bunch of weight had been lifted off her shoulders. I folded up my blanket carefully. My clothes tooth paste, toothbrush ,hairbrush ,books and stuffed snake I threw in my bag quickly and carelessly. But my blanket I made sure was away from my toothpaste and I made sure that the corners weren't bunched up. I scanned the room for any of my things I might forget but saw nothing.I pulled all of the papers out of my pocket an placed them on my bed I folded the papers back up neatly and placed them all in the envelope then put the envelope in my pocket.

I walked down the stairs like you see all of the princesses do in the movies slowly and gracefully. In the doorway talking to was the most beautiful person I had ever seen. Long dark flowing hair ,pail skin and lips as red as a new rose. She was perfect in all ways visually. She looked up at me and smiled a big, toothy gleaming ,white smile. I forgot about acting like a princess and getting out of that prison and I ran down the stairs to the side of the beautiful woman. looked at me an then the women. Then said in her best sad acting voice,

"I'm going to miss her so much if you decide you want to keep her call me up and we can go over the legal information okay." The beautiful woman nodded.

"Good Buy" waved blowing fake kisses. Then the door shut the peppy beautiful woman wasn't so beautiful any more the color faded from her lips her hair lost its shine and you could say its like the life was being drained out of her every step closer we got to the car. I looked at her again and now saw the burses on her arm and her black eye with bags underneath them. She grabbed me by my hair and dragged me too the back seat and yelled "Sit down and buckle up!"

In the front of the car there was a man with a shaggy beard holding a cigarette. He looked me up and down then smiled a yellow toothy smile. He held his hand out and said, "Hi, I'm Greg and that's Nancy and were your new mommy and daddy." With that they both started laughing. Luckily for me Greg and Nancy lived close to the city so I didn't have to sit in the same car as them for very long. We got to their house it was small but not a shack and not a trailer so I was content for the moment. I grabbed my backpack and walked into the house the moment they opened the door I was immersed in the smell of alcohol and cigarette smoke it was awful. Nancy walked in the kitchen and looked in the fridge the rancid smell of rotten milk and meat immediately filled the air. She looked at me and then she looked back in the fridge. "Hey Greg" she yelled to Greg who was now sitting on the couch dirinking a beer. "What?" he yelled back even though they were just a phew steps away. My head rung from all of the fumes in the air ,Nancy pulling my hair out and now them yelling I was in a daze so I didn't hear them calling. Greg walked up and smacked me in the face. I looked up at him holding my cheek "Hey, we called your name like six times." He nagged "Listen up kid you need to go to the store and get all of the items on this list got it kid?" He asked forcing the list into my hand. "My names not kid its Mindy and I don't know where the grocery store is and even if I did I don't have any money." They stared at me blankly and then Nancy walked up to me and handed me a roll of 1dollar bills "There's your money and if you don't know where the store is well you better go find it Mandy useless piece of crap." I got up off of the floor and hoisted my backpack over my shoulder. Turned and said "Its Mindy and by." The door slammed shut behind me and I began my quest to find the store. I walked down ally ways and across roads I finally stopped and took a break in front of an old music store. I reached in my pocket to look at my letter and it wasn't there. "Oh, crap that had all of my things in it." I thought out loud.

"Excuse me did you looses something." I looked up and standing there was a boy he appeared to be about the same age as me.

"As a matter of fact I have lost something, you haven't happened to see an envelope have you?" I asked hopefully

"Is this it. An acceptance letter to Hogwarts?" I stood up

"Yes, that's it exactly thank you so much."

"Hey no problem so are you a mixed-blood or a pure-blood?"

"What? I don't know what you are talking about."

"Well you are going to Hogwarts so you aren't a muggle right so what are you a pure blood wizard or a half blood wizard?"

"Wizard?"

"Oh sorry witch ."

"Wait so this Hogwarts place is real?"

"Yes its one of the finest wizarding schools in the world."

"So your telling me that if an owl comes and gives you an acceptance letter to this school you are a wizard or witch."

"Yes, generally people who go to wizarding schools are in fact magical beings?

"So my parents were wizards that's why I could talk to that snake and all that other weird stuff happened."

"Wait did you say you could talk to snakes that means you're a direct descendant of Salazar Slytherin sweet you can't be a mud-blood then."

"Ok so I am a pure blood so how do I get all the stuff on this list because I know there not going to sell this at your local School Box."

"Yea, well first ya got to go to the Leaky Cauldron that will take you to Diagon Ally. Gosh you remind me of someone I know I just can't put my finger on it."

"Draco!" a tall thin blond man yelled from down the street.

The boy turned his head "coming papa."

"My name is Mindy what's yours ?"

"Draco, Draco Malphoy just call me Draco."

"See ya" they walked into a building that appeared to be a shut down bar and inn I stared at the sign suddenly the blackened out letters appeared the name "The Leaky Cauldron."

So I'm a wizard hum, what do ya know. I am a wizard wow so it appears I have two choices I can go back and be abused the rest of my life or can become a wizard and possibly find out whom my parents are. I'm going to go with plan number two.