Chapter 1
Alice Jones woke up from the sound of her mum calling her down for breakfast, on a nice day in mid-July. She rolled on to her side in bed to look at the clock on her nightstand. 11:00. She sighed and rolled out of bed, and went downstairs to eat.
"You have mail," her mum said as she came in to the kitchen. Alice was really surprised, because she never got mail.
She saw an envelope beside her plate and picked it up to look at it. It was made of heavy parchment and said: 'Ms. A. Jones, the bedroom at the end of the hall' and followed by her address, written in acid green ink. She thought her friends were just pranking her, but she opened it anyway.
The letter said: 'Dear Miss Jones, we are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.' She then burst out laughing and didn't bother reading the rest.
"What's so funny?" her mum asked.
"My friends just sent me a fake Hogwarts letter. I wish it were real!" she answered.
She was a complete Potterhead and everyone knew it. On the first day of summer she just sat outside all day waiting for an owl- and that's what she would have done, if her mum hadn't made her come inside. She first read Harry Potter when she was 9, and since then she couldn't wait to be 11, and now she was. She loved Harry Potter so much because they were such good books. Another reason was that she felt like she could relate to Harry a bit because her father left when her mum was pregnant, so she never knew him.
She went upstairs after breakfast and tossed the letter on to her nightstand, and just read for most of the day. She, of course, read Harry Potter.
She didn't read much other than that. Everyone kept teasing her, saying that is she read the series one more time, she will have it memorized. Since she was 9 she read the series over 20 times. The reason she woke up at 11:00 today (11:00 was pretty late for her) was because she stayed up past midnight finishing Deathly Hallows for about the 22th time. Today she started Philosopher's Stone again.
For the next few days, she got more and more of those joke Hogwarts letters. About a week after she got the first one she was sitting in her room reading (Prisoner of Azkaban already) and she heard the doorbell ring. She heard her mum open the door and talk to the person there in muffled voices for a few minutes, and her mum called her downstairs.
Alice closed her book and came down. She found her mom sitting at the kitchen table with a strange woman that she never saw before, although she looked familiar. Alice sat down.
The woman said "Hello Alice. I am Professor McGonagall from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry."