This is set from the point of view of Elle a young witch on her way to Hogwarts. This is after the last Harry Potter book.
I own only the characters. I do not own the places or the sorting hat or the train or the founders of the school or any of the things I might have used from the Harry Potter books by J. K. Rowling, including the letter from Hogwarts.
My World Upside Down
Chapter 1
You will never believe what happened to me. I am a witch. Yes, I am a real witch, with a wand and everything. OK, I am getting a little ahead of myself. My name is Elle and I just turned 11 last week on April 26. I am finally going to get away from my crazy mum.
My mum is a comic book writer and is always concocting some crazy story. The thing is sometimes she gets the real world confused with her comic world. In other words crazy. My mum is not a witch and I don't know who my dad is so I haven't a clue if he was a wizard or not, but that doesn't matter because I am a witch. (did I mention that)
Well, on my birthday last week this man showed up at my house. He was a tall lanky man in his mid 30s with a slightly balding head he covered with a cap. He was wearing jeans with a bright orange T-shirt and miss matched flip-flops. I was opening the door when I say his crazy outfit and almost cracked up laughing. After I got control of myself (it took about a minute) I called my mom thinking this was one of her crazy friends.
"El what do you want me for?" asked mum.
"Well, there is a man at the door and I figured he was here for you," I said.
She looked him up and down and said,"I've never met this man in my life."
The man who had been waiting there patiently for about 5 minutes now interrupted us at that moment and said," Excuse me ladies but I am here to offer a Ms. Elle Reign a fully paid ride to a boarding school."
"But I already go to school," I interrupted.
He continued," It is a highly rated school that will teach her all she needs to know and she would stay at the school during the whole school year. This starts September 1 and ends at the end of May, and if you choose she can come home during Christmas break."
Mum thought about this several minutes. You see she made just enough money to get us by and I guess she thought this would be a better life for me so she said," Yes, we accept your offer."
The man then said," You need only to sign this sheet saying you accept."
While she signed the paper he said," Elle you will need to come with me for a week to London to go buy your school supplies and you Mrs. Reign will need to have her at King's Cross station at 9:00am on September 1. I will give her her ticket later," then to me he said," Now Elle I will pick you up tomorrow morning at 10:30am, so you better be ready. Good evening and goodbye." And with that he left.
I was in a state of shock. I was going to a new school that I knew nothing about and nobody there. The only good thing was that I only had one friend to say goodbye to, Kristy. She was my one and only friend because everyone else thought I was too unlucky to be around. I was the one that always got bullied on, I was the one that always tripped over herself, and I was the one that always got the worst of everything. Kristy was what made it bearable. She picked me up when I was down and now I had to say goodbye to her.
So I called her.
"Hello."
"Hello, I want to speak to Kristy."
"This is her."
"Hey Kris, this is El."
"Hey El, what are you calling about?"
"I called to say that I'm going to boarding school."
"You're what?!"
"I am going to boarding school, but we can still see each other over the summer."
"El just wait a minute. Tell me how this happened."
So I told her. I told her everything and when I was done we started making plans of things we would do during the summer. Before I knew it mum was calling lights out and I was saying bye to Kristy. Then I got into bed and the moment my head hit the pillow I was asleep.