The Letter

Keosha "Koko" Vani was at most a mediocre girl, at least in her own opinion. She was just eleven years old when her life went from simple-weird to falling down the rabbit hole-weird. Her parents had gotten divorced a year before and now her father had gotten married again, this time to a British woman. Keosha truly liked Maria but she was finding it hard to trust anyone new in her life. Just a few weeks ago, she lost the few friends she had thanks to coming out as bisexual. The whole school detested her even more now but she didn't care about them. She didn't care when they bullied her for being a "freak", she wouldn't care now. The loss of her friends, that opened up old wounds, and broke down walls with the thoughts that she had kept standing for a long time. She'd gone through that far too many times for someone that was her age. At least she still had Spencer.

"No more simply trusting people! Let them prove to me that they are trustworthy.", she thought to herself. "Even if I end up alone for the rest of my life, which is the most probable situation."

The only happy thing that happened to Keosha was her brother who learned how to talk and being the first that called her Koko. Though discovering her slightly sadistic side could either be seen as a good thing or bad, depends on who you are. It was no surprise, considering that since she was a kid she used to lie to people and manipulate them. It started out of fear of what her mom would do to her when she was angry, and then eventually became a bad habit. She was trying to break out of that habit but not completely. Those skills can be advantageous in life, especially when it comes to reading people.

A sudden knock at the door broke her out of her thoughts. She opened the door and saw a plump woman who was wearing something that looked like Maria's mother's clothes. She had kind and motherly eyes, but Koko knew better than most that those could be deceiving.

"Hello. Who are you?", Keosha asked.

"Hello dear, I am Pomona Sprout. Are your parents around?", the woman, Pomona Sprout answered.

"Yeah. They should be in the backyard. Do you want to come in? I can go get them for you."

"That would be lovely! Thank you."

Keosha opened the door wider to let her in and went through the back door to the backyard.

"Dad, Maria, There's someone here to see you. She's in the living room."

They both looked up, nodded and stopped what they were doing and walked back into the house with her.

Keosha's dad walked up to the woman and held out his hand to shake.

"Hello, I'm Kumar Vani. What can we do for you?"

"Good afternoon, Mr Vani. I'm Pomona Sprout and I am actually here to talk about young Keosha here."

Keosha, who barely paid attention to the conversation, looked up in bewilderment at her name.

"What?", she said. Her eyes widened in confusion and shock, she continued, "Me? Huh? I don't recall meeting you. Have I offended you somehow? If so, I'm sorry."

Sprout giggled and held up her hand to placate Keosha, who had slowly started to ramble.

"Oh no! It's nothing bad! On the contrary, actually. I'm here to talk about the unusual things that happen around your daughter. You must have noticed them."

She directed the last sentence to the adults. They had a cautious expression and nodded slowly. Keosha stared at the woman in curiosity. She didn't care if it was rude. If this woman had some sort of answer to what is happening to her, she wanted to know.

"Do you know why that's happening?", Keosha's dad asked.

"Yes, I do. The same thing happened to me as a child, as well as thousands of other people. She is a witch."

Keosha, her dad, and Maria froze in shock.

"I'm sorry about my delivery of this fact but I fear there was no other way.", Sprout continued.

Maria looked like she was about to faint and Kumar wasn't that much better. Only Keosha looked like she was remotely alright. She looked up at Sprout

"Magic is real? Could you please show me?", she asked

"Of course." Sprout said. She looked around for a moment, took a stick out of her pocket, pointed it at a lamp that was nearby and turned it into a badger.

Keosha's eyes gleamed with excitement at the scene before her. Her dad and Maria stared in awe, both at the demonstration of magic and the glimmer of hope in Keosha's eyes. It might have been a minuscule amount but it was better than the completely hopeless and blank look. At that moment they decided that no matter what, they would do everything in their power to keep that look in their daughter's eyes.

Pomona Sprout looked at the scene in front of her with a fond expression.

"If we could sit down and talk, I can explain everything to the best of my ability."

Maria looked up shocked and embarrassed.

"Oh my! Forgive me for my manners! Please take a seat!"

"No need to apologise, dear.", Sprout said as she sat down in the armchair.


"Now, I am here to also tell you about Hogwarts. It's the British school for witchcraft and wizardry and I am a teacher there. Hogwarts is a boarding school and the term starts on September 1st."

Sprout talked about Hogwarts and the wizarding world, and everyone was paying attention but something bugged Keosha.

"What about Spence?", she thought. "Would I have to leave him here? I get the feeling that this new world I'm about to step foot in is a secret that not many know about. I can't leave him alone with his father!"."

"Oh thank you!", Keosha sighed in relief.

Sprout chuckled and handed her a letter.

"This is the instructions on how to get into Diagon Alley and all the supplies you need for the school year. Now I must be going.", she said as she stood up. "Oh, and you wouldn't happen to know a Spencer McGee by any chance, would you?"

"Yeah...no way...Spence...he's a wizard too?!", Keosha was shocked and ecstatic at the same time. She wouldn't have to take this adventure alone and he would be safer at Hogwarts!

"Yes, he is, and it seems like you two are friends. I look forward to seeing you both at Hogwarts.", Sprout replied with a soft smile as she walked towards the front door.

Keosha's mind was buzzing as her dad and step-mom escorted Pomona Sprout out.

"I guess it's Professor Sprout now.", she thought to herself with a chuckle.

Keosha looked forward to that new chapter in life. She might have been disillusioned to quite a few of life's ways but it the new start was refreshing.

A/N:
Hi all! I'm Koko! Yeah, like the character. The character is based on me, although we aren't completely the same. *Snape voice* Obviously. Anyway! There might be a few tense shifts(is that what they are called?), it would be really nice if you could point them out and where. Also, any opinion and ways to improve my writing will be greatly appreciated. I write a lot but I don't post that many of my works, partly because I'm too lazy and partly because of me being scared of peoples opinions. Now, I don't know what else to write other than that all the chapters in Koko's POV are written by me. Oh, and I'm not the only author of this story. Read on to see my partner's work...

See ya!
-K