Disclaimer: I do not and will never own all seven books of Harry Potter. That belongs to Ms. J.K Rowling. However I do own characters and things that you didn't see on the books, movies, ect.

Chapter 1: Cey and Letters

"Oh my gosh!" Erika, my best friend exclaimed. "This is the best super sweet 16 I've ever been to."

I smiled at her. "Thank you" I've been planning my super sweet 16 months ago and I want it to be the best party ever for the year. Everyone from school is invited. Some of teachers even came. Well of course those only cool and young teachers. The other teachers didn't like the idea of partying in a school night but of course they can't do anything about it. This party is outside of school ground so they don't have any say on it.

"Cool party" a guy from the seniors said as he passed us by. I don't know everyone's name but I treat them all as my friends. Many people have already greeted me and told me that this party is the coolest one they've attended for this year. Well, this should be. My parents spend a lot of money just to give me the party that I've wanted.

"Thanks" I told him. There is a lot of loud music everywhere. Drinks and foods are also everywhere and more foods are coming. Some are at the living room, some are at the garden and some are at the pool side or in the pool. People are everywhere, except of course at the second floor and onwards. They're off limits to everyone. And besides we have a big hall in this house where we spend every party that was been and being held in this house.

Most of us are actually not allowed to drink any alcoholic beverages because we're minors but who cares this is a party. Besides I'm not the one doing drinking. I'm not allowed to drink until I become 18. It is dad's rule and even though my parents aren't here now because they don't like the noise, my brother is here to make sure I wouldn't take a sip of any alcoholic beverages.

Everyone is having a good time and even though it's a school night we don't care. I think most of the senior wouldn't be able to go to school in a good state tomorrow. They're the ones who drink the most because most of them are of legal age already. Today is only my 16th birthday but I'm already at junior year and incoming senior next school year. I skipped freshman because of the high marks I've got on the entrance exam.

At eleven in the evening people started to diminish bit by bit. Most of the reason why they leave at 11 even though they still want to party is because tomorrow is a school day. People said that I should've have just celebrated my birthday on a Friday night but I don't want to celebrate my birthday not on its actual date. Besides I was confident that people would still come even if the party was held on a school night. My schoolmates and friends say that they wouldn't want to miss any party that I or Erika organized. They said that our parties are the best. At 12 pm only me, my brother, Erika's and her brother is around but Erika and her brother didn't stay to long. She wanted to stay over for the night but her brother won't let her because like I said tomorrow is a school day.

The whole first floor of the house is a mess and We don't have a maid. We'll just call for a cleaning service tomorrow. At around 1 am in the morning my parents came back.

"Happy Birthday sweetie" my mother said when she saw me.

"Thanks mom"

"This is our gift to you" my dad said handing me a medium sized box.

"You didn't have to. The party is already enough" I told them. That's quite true actually. I don't really like material things and the party is quite enough for me. In fact it's more than enough. They've already spent a lot of money for the party and don't need to give a gift anymore.

"We know that you don't like material things but we're sure you'll love it" My mom said looking quite sure that I'll like whatever it is inside the box. Unwrapping, the gift and I saw that it was the thing that I've been asking my parents to give me. They told me that they'll give to me if I'll finish my junior year with high marks but my Junior isn't over yet.

"We know that we told you that we'll give to you if you'll have high marks but your mother and I Thought that it will be the perfect gift for you" My father said. I'm speechless because of the gift and I think I'm even hyperventilating because of excitement. Then suddenly, and without warning, things become very difficult for me. I can't breathe and I can't talk. There's something within me that makes me unable to move. It feels like something that's inside is trying to get out be seen. I don't know what's happening and this is the first time this ever happen to me and I don't like it. My excitement has been change of fear. I don't know what to do and I can't even think properly.

Then I began to see things. Things I already saw in my dreams before but know they're more vivid and clear. I saw a hooded figure carrying me as a baby. I couldn't see the face but feel comfortable and protected. Then he placed me under a tree and I saw a very bright light coming from him. I couldn't see what he's doing but after the light had gone out I saw him walking away leaving along under a tree. He was wearing a black cloak. As I look at the surroundings I saw that he left me with a forest.

Then at the corner of my eye I could see that all the lights in the room started to flicker on and off in a violent way. The vision has ended and my mind was back at home. Windows and doors started to close and open. There's a heavy air around and I could see my family is frighten of what is happening. Then suddenly it feels like I was being drained of very bit of energy I have. My vision started to blur and the last thing I know is that I black out that night.

4 months later

My name is Alana Ceyranese Moon Martel. I'd like to be called Cey and nothing more. Others calls me Alana since it's my first name but I like Cey better than anything and it also makes me feel close to them. I'm 16. My two ultimate favorite things are Harry Potter books and Ice Creams! I would say that I'm very much ordinary if it weren't for my 16 birthday just 4 months ago.

My 16th birthday party started good and 'ordinary' and it ended just like that. However when my parents gave me my birthday gift right after the party things became difficult. When I open the gift and saw that it was the 'Harry Potter Ultimate Edition box set'. It was the thing that I have been my asking my parents to buy for me. They told me that they'll be me that if I'll finish junior year with hig marks but they have decided to give to me as birthday gift. When I saw that gift I began to become so excited and every light in the room started to flicker. Windows started to close and open. It's almost becoming a horror movie and the next thing I knew is that I'm lying flat on my bed the next morning. But they said that I even levitated that night. I just can't' remember it. I black out and couldn't remember anything aside what I already described. Good thing the only people left behind were my parents and my older brother. If my friends and schoolmates saw that whole fiasco they will think that I'm a freak and I'll be out-casted. Of course the event stayed as a secret from everyone even from my friends. No one else can know it. I wouldn't be able to bare it if someone else finds out.

Since that day every time I become excited, angry, sad or too happy something extra-ordinary will happen that's why I tried my best to distance myself from everyone without them noticing. Many says that I'm the queen bee of the school, but for me I am just friendly and like to have a lots of friends and because of that not an easy task to keep the secret from everyone. It would have been easy if only Hogwarts is real. But of course it wasn't. It was just fictional school in a fiction novel. And besides if it was real a letter should have appeared in our house carried by an owl when I was eleven. Another thing that helped me hide my secret is because of the summer. Thank God that it's summer because another month in the school feels like I'll be busted.

My friends kept calling me during the first month of summer. They kept inviting me to different parties and I kept declining saying that I am out of town for the summer which is true because the family decided to go the country side for the summer to give me time to control my feelings. Everything is actually getting better and I like it here in the country side. Everything is quiet and peacefully and most of all I don't have to worry about getting busted. I'm isolated. And also I get to run every morning with a breath of fresh air or go swimming near a falls. It's really wonderful here.

Tonight is July 23 and I sat at the couch at the balcony of my room feeling the summer breeze of the night. I usually sleep here because of the cool air. I was already half asleep when my phone rang and Erika's, my best friend, number was flashing on the screen. "Hey" I said when I answered the phone.

"Hi, how are you doing?" she replied

"Fine, I guess" I actually wanted to tell her about my secret but she tells her boyfriend everything. And if I say everything it means everything. She and her boyfriend never kept a secret from each other. If I tell her she'll tell her boyfriend and her boyfriend has a habit of slipping out things when he's drunk.

"When will you be back?" she asked.

"Before the start of the school year I guess. Why?"

"'Why?' You asked my 'Why'?" she exclaimed "You've already missed a lot of the parties for this summer and you're about to miss tomorrow's party which will be the biggest one this summer and you're asking me 'Why'?" she said excitement in her tone when she talked about the party and disbelief at the last part. "And for crying out loud I miss my best friend."

"Well I guess this year is for a change" I joked. "And don't worry I miss mine too."

"A change? Is it good or bad?" she asked laughing. She knows I like attending parties and socializing. It's rare for me not to attend especially when I'm invited. Sometimes we go party crashing but they don't mind. In fact they said that we rock the party. And also that's very seldom. In fact it's rare, since we're always invited.

"I don't know maybe I just want this summer to be different" I said nonchalantly.

"Well it better be for good or else I'll miss the old you" she joked "Or maybe you just found a yummy guy out there that's why you didn't want to go back" I actually want to stay here but it wasn't for a guy. I just love the place. i was even thinking of transferring in one of the local school here but of course my parents wouldn't agree on that. They want the best for me and my brother and we're already attending the best school in the state. And also I'll miss my friends really bad especially my best friend.

"There's no yummy guy I'll be back before the school year starts"

"Too bad, I was thinking on following you there if there's any" We bought laughed at that. "Well I was just checking you out and wishing that I may change your mind and bring you back 'cause remember we actually planned the biggest party for the summer before your birthday and it was already going well and then suddenly you said we have to cancel and move it for the next year or maybe on the winter break because you are going to some country side God only knows where."

"Puh-lease you just want to know if I found a cute guy" again we bought laughed at this. "And besides the ride from your house to here would only take 4-6 hours car ride. It's not that far"

"Well there's nothing wrong about trying to know if my best friend will have her first boyfriend" she screamed at the phone and started laughing again. I never had a boyfriend since birth. Yes I do fling around with some boys but that's that. No kisses, no hugs, no touching and most of all no sex. Though some angry bitches accused me of being a slut and most of my schoolmates thought that I'm not a virgin anymore. "And for your information bestie 4-6 hours car drive is far for me." She hates travelling especially if all she'll ever see during the ride are trees and farms and animals and more trees.

"There's no guy I promised I'll tell you if I found one didn't I?"

"Yeah yeah, fine. Miss you babes," she said sighing in defeat.

"Miss you too"

"I'll call you tomorrow?"

"Yeah sure. You know you can call me anytime" I replied.

"Yeah I know. I was just making sure"

"Bye"

"Bye" she said then hang up the phone. Then I was off to a dreamless sleep or maybe I dreamt and I just can't remember it.

The next morning I was awaken by mother shouting my name from the kitchen. I looked at my phone to see what time was it and it was just past seven. I hate waking up so early especially during summer except if I was planning on going to a long run or a swim. I closed my eyes ready to sleep again but my mom didn't stop calling me "Cey come down here and have some breakfast" still I made no move. I want to sleep more "Ceyranese!" she shouted. That's my cue to get up or else she'll come and drag me. I hate it when she does that and I hate it more when she does that and I know I wasn't going to have my favorite breakfast because they hate it.

"Okay I'm up" I shouted back but I wasn't sure if she heard that. I pulled my air into a messy ponytail as I pull myself from the couch. I was already at my balcony door when something caught my eye. There's a letter on my balcony rail. No scratch that. It's not just one. There are two of them.

I went near to see the letters better and picked them up. Both of them are addressed to me. And when I say that they're addressed to me, I meant it to be literally. The letters have my full address in this country side and they even have the location of my room in this house. Ignoring the address I flipped one of the letters only to see that it was sealed by a purple wax bearing a coat of arms: a lion, an eagle, a badger, and a snake surrounding a large letter H.

Did I just describe Hogwarts letter seal in the Harry Potter books? I looked at the seal again. Oh boy. I think I just did describe the Hogwarts seal. Looking back at the letter, the envelope wasn't thick and yellow. That's when I realized this is impossible. I bet this is just one of my brother many pranks on me. He loves playing pranks on me. I can feel anger radiating in me. The lights in my room started to flicker violently just like the night of my birthday. The balcony door started to close and open. The wind started to swish violently making the trees lose its early morning dews. I have to calm down before I passed out again. I took several deep breaths and calmed myself down before going downstairs to join my family be really and at my brother. He's going to far. He treats my situation as a big joke and I don't like it. I don't to be different from others and he knows it so why still play prank on me connected t whatever is happening to me.

When I arrived at the dining area I saw mom preparing my breakfast. Dad sat on his usual seat while reading is news paper. I could see he's already done breakfast and only the coffee is left for him. And saw my brother happily eating his breakfast as if he didn't do anything. I stomped beside him and harshly throwing the letters on the table just before his plate. "Ah…Cey? The letters aren't addressed to me." He said innocently.

"I won't fall for your pranks Anthony" I said with a loud voice but keeping my anger under control. By the way my brother's name is Anthony Caydrin Martel and he's two years older than me.

"What's wrong sweetie?" Mom asked me as she put my plate on the table in front of my usual seat. And my breakfast for this morning is composed of bacons, egg and hotdogs. Maybe I should wake up earlier than usually so I can cook my own breakfast.

"Anthony is playing a prank on me again." I told her politely. No need to bend my anger on her. This wasn't her doing.

"They aren't my pranks." He said putting an honest face "I haven't planned or deploy a single prank on you since your birthday. I promised" he said drawing a cross on his chest.

"Really?" I asked sarcastically. "So you're telling me that a fictional school would send me a letter huh?" I don't believe him. I know this is one of his pranks. This got to be a prank. How can Hogwarts be real?

Anthony grabbed one of the letters and tore it open. His eyes widen when he saw the contents of the letters and read it out loud to us.

HOGWARTS SCHOOL

of WITHCHCRAFT and WIZARDRY

Headmaster: ALBUS DUMBLEDORE

(Order of Merlin, First Class, Grand Sorc., Chf. Warlock,

Supreme Mugwump, International Confed. Of Wizards)

Dear Ms. Martel

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

Then he handed me the letter "It has a sign too. I don't go far as faking someone's signature"

I read the letter again and he was right it was signed but J.K. Rowling has the same sign too in the first book of Harry Potter "You could just get this sign on the internet. It wasn't faking signatures" I said rather harshly.

"Cey look at the letter carefully its hand written not computerized" He said. I studied the letter more. The more I look at the more it seems that it is really not computerized and it was just hand written. And also it doesn't seem to be written by an ordinary pen and my brother doesn't use pens he always uses pencil because he loves drawing.

"Are telling the truth when you said that this isn't your prank?" I asked unsure of everything.

"Hundred percent truth." he said "Besides, do really think I can't write that clean?" Well judging by the writing it might not be really his prank. Anthony maybe good in painting but his hand writing is the worst that I have ever seen.

"But how's that possible?" I questioned "Hogwarts isn't supposed to be real." Hogwarts isn't real. It's just a place in J.K. Rowling's series of Harry Potter. It can't be real. I refuse to think it's real. All my life I wished I have powers and Hogwarts is real but I don't want to keep my hopes up. I don't want to believe to find out the next morning that it wasn't real and it was just all joke.

"Why don't you read the other letter?" my father suggested.

All three of them is looking at me intently waiting for me to read the other letter. When I made no move, my brother quickly pick up the other letter and read its contents to us. "Dear Ms. Martel I am Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry. I would like to inform you that I'm coming to your lovely home on July 24th to explain you and your family about your admission in Hogwarts. Yours Sincerely, Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster." Every one of us was silent after Anthony read the letter. It was a letter from the Headmaster himself so I think everyone is freaked out especially me. Or maybe everyone is freaked out because a should-be-fictional-school sent me not just one but two bloody letters.

"When did he say he'll come?" Mother said breaking everyone's trance.

My brother looked back at the letter again before answering "It says here July 24th"

"Oh my, isn't that today?" she said mostly to herself. "I wonder what time he'll come."

"Mom, are you serious?" I protested "We don't know for sure if these letters are legitimate"

"Well found that out when he comes" she simply said as if it was an ordinary thing.

"Don't worry about it too much" my father said trying to comfort me. "Whether it is legitimate or illegitimate it is better that someone will try to explain us about your condition" he said then sipped his coffee and started reading his news paper again. I sat myself on my usual seat and ate my breakfast. My brother went back on eating his breakfast. Seriously? Are these people just going to accept that that easily? How can they just accept it and do nothing but wait for a certain someone saying he's Albus Dumbledore the Headmaster of Hogwarts?

Nothing eventful happened after the letters until about three in the afternoon when someone rang our doorbell. My mother asked me to answer the door. When I opened the door I saw an aged man wearing a half-moon glasses, had a long, crooked nose, and flowing silver hair, beard, and mustache, and most of all he's wearing a long cloak. "Um who are you?" I asked politely but I bet he is the one saying he's Albus Dumbledore. He doesn't look like the actor Richard Harris when he played the role Albus in the movie, but this man in front of me quite fit the description of JK Rowling in the book.

"I'm Professor Dumbledore, Ms. Martel" he answered with a soft voice. "I hope you got my letter" he has a European English accent so I think that Hogwarts is really located somewhere in London. If ever it is real.

"Oh yes. I receive your letter this morning sir" I said "Come in sir" I said as gave him way to come in.