I guess I'm not like that

by thelordoftheringsfreak

When Cassandra Marlowe is sent by her parents to hogwarts, she is determined to ignore all this "magic". but when she realises she is a very talented young witch, she has to choose between embracing her talent, or going back to the normal life she loved.

I Guess I'm not like that

Looking out of the window, I smiled. The sun was shining brightly into the garden, hitting the water droplets on the trees and flowers. The effect was dazzling. I gazed out at the warmth and tranquillity, remembering my garden at its most beautiful. I was leaving today, and I wanted to have a memory of my home that I could cherish.

I frowned as I turned back to my bedroom, seeing the trunk still only half full in the middle of the floor. I started school tomorrow, and I still hadn't packed. I suppose I was reluctant to. That would mean accepting my parents' choice to send me away.

I was to be sent to some school in the north somewhere. I bet there was never any sun there. The place probably wouldn't even have a garden. But my parents insisted that I go. Apparently it's where all young people like me go. Where my parents went. But I didn't understand. They told me we were special. That we were different.

I didn't believe them. The story they told me was ridiculous. That our family can do tricks and conjuring? That we weremagical? I sighed again. I had noticed that we were different from the other people around us. But that didn't mean I had to be sent away to some cold, dreary, hopeless school for freaks! ...Did it? Once again, I couldn't stop the tear that traced a path down my cheek. I finished my packing while sobbing silently, and lay down to sleep until the next morning, when I would be leaving for this place, this school. The name eluded me...

Hogwarts. That was it. The name was the last thing I remembered before I fell into a dreamless sleep.