My parents were rich; I'm not boasting I'm simply stating a fact. My father was an award winning particle physicist and my mother was the CEO of a top earning company. Such as it was they were never home, and I spent my days with our butler and maid, Tom and Gina. That's what I called them; however my father and mother preferred to call them by their proper names Thomas and Regina.
I realized I was different when on my eighth birthday when suddenly and without provocation my neighbor's hedge, which had been trimmed to look like a swimsuit model, burst into flame. The only reason why I had reason to believe it was me was that I angry that my parents had missed yet another of my birthday parties, and I had been staring intently at the topiary that lined the border between our houses.
Luckily Tom and Gina knew exactly what was going on. You see, they were wizards and soon after the "incident" they explained what had happened. They explained that this was not the first instance of a demonstration of my abilities. As a baby, I had levitated toys into my crib to play with them; on my first day of school I had transformed into a porcupine and hid in the school garden until about lunch time when I suddenly found myself sitting in a bed of roses.
Needless to say I was elated at the prospect at having magical abilities. And for the next three years I studied up on all things magic. You might think this would be difficult to do in a Muggle, it still bothered me to use that word to refer to my parents, but that's what they were, house. Fortunately for me our library contained a rather large volume of books on all matter of magical subjects.
You see my father had asked Tom, "Thomas, as you might have realized the library is empty. While I'm gone would you please fill it? I won't read any of them so just choose whatever you like, just make it look expensive." That was my father, couldn't care less about what was in his house so long as it looked like was expensive. And Tom, for reasons even he couldn't explain, had filled the shelves with books on magical subjects.