"SNAP!"

"No, no, look, my hand's underneath yours!" Harry inched his hand underneath Alex's, which she playfully slapped away.

"These cards are all mine" Alex grinned gleefully.

10 year old Harry, and 11 year old Alex, had been playing snap for the past hour and a half.

"Damnit" Harry grumbled.

Alex poked her tongue out at Harry.

"C'mon, Alex, lets go outside, my legs are cramping up"

Alex got up, stretched, and then offered her hand to Harry.

Harry grumbled.

"my legs! Ouch"

"Oh, shutup, Harry, you little kid" she said, rufflng up Harrys hair.

"Hey, you only turned 11 3 days ago, and I turn 11 in 2 weeks, your not that much older than me!"

Alex's response was giggling and running from the room, to the back door. She fumbled with the lock and then flung open the door, she ran outside, laughing with joy.

Harry ran after her, and then put on a burst of speed, caught up with her, and wrestled her to the ground

"Hey!" she screamed.

Alex started seizing up, and her eyes popping, foaming at the mouth, her lips turning blue.

"Alex!!" Harry shouted, "ALEX!"

Alex was starting to shake.

"mom, MOM!!"

"Harry, I'm making dinner, love."

"MOM!!" he screamed at her, getting frantic, he started to wipe the foam from Alex's mouth, but then thought better of it, and tried to stop the shaking.

"MOM" he screamed again, she came out the back door looking angry

"What!?"

"Alex.."

"Oh my lord.."

Harrys mom, Chelsea, ran back inside and grabbed the phone from the hook, dialling 000, it took 3 times, she was shaking with fear.

A woman picked up "Hello, do you need 1. the police, 2. the ambulance, or 3. the fire brigade?"

"ambulance, AMBULANCE"

Chelsea shreiked into the phone-

Harry was outside, scared, but curious.

A few minutes later they could hear the siren of the ambulance, Chelsea ran to the back gate, and undid the lock, the men form the ambulance hurriedly put Chelsea on a stretcher, and shoved it into the Ambulance, Chelsea climbed into the back of the ambulance and offered her arm to Harry, Harry climbed in and shut the door behind him.

They arrived at the hospital and the men got Alex's stretcher out, with difficulty.

They rushed towards the hospital, and hurried in, the men went through another door, and Chelsea and Harry tried to follow, but a woman held her arm out, and told them they would have to wait outside the room.

Chelsea started to call Alex's parents, to tell them what had happened.

Harry felt sick, he mumbled to his mom about going outside for some fresh air, he couldn't bear to think that it was him who had caused this.

Harry started to walk around the outside of the hospital, eventually he stopped and sat down on a bench, when he heard a loud screech, and looked up, sitting in the tree next to the bench, was a barn owl.

"What're you doing here?" Harry mumbled to the owl.

A letter dropped from the tree, Harry looked over at it, and his own name seemed to jump out at him: Harry Potter, the bench outside of Fair Days hospital.

Harry, quite bewildered, picked up the letter, and slit it open, He read the thin slanted writing, Harry Potter, I am pleased to tell you that you have been accepted into Hogwarts school of Withcraft and Wizardry-