The Hufflepuff
A Harry Potter Fanfiction
Chapter One
[Author's note: This fanfic takes place during the first book and is centered around my oc, an American wizard named Joseph, Josh for short]
Joseph's pov
"A wizard? What the hell is a wizard?" I said aloud.
Hello, my name is Joseph Sandburg, a 12 year old 'wizard' from Flint, Michigan.
I am 6 foot, tall for my age, and my birthday is in January, and you can see what happened when I opened the mail this morning.
The letter read, "Mr. J. Sandburg, Smallest Bedroom, 75656 Kennel Ave., Flint, Michigan" on the front, and that immediately caught my eye.
'How?' I thought, opening it.
Inside it read, "Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Headmaster: Albus Dumbledore
(Order of Merlin, First Class, Grand Sorc., Chf. Warlock, Supreme Mugwamp, International Confed. of Wizards)
Dear Mr. Sandburg,
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 no later than July 31.
Yours sincerely,
Minerva McGonagall,
Deputy Headmistress."
'This must be a Prank' I thought sitting down at my kitchen table, brushing my black messy hair away from my brown eyes.
"What's wrong Joseph?" I heard my mom say.
I looked up at her. "It's nothing mom, though I think someone is trying to pull a prank on me." I said, handing her the letter.
She read it, and as she did, her eyes lit up and she smiled. "This is no prank!" She said, very excited.
She sat down next to me, "Joseph," she said, "You have powers most kids don't have, you are a wizard. I am a witch, but your father is not a wizard. That makes you a half-blood, so I thought you might not be one."
"But," she said, her brow furrowed, "Hogwarts is in London, so way are you going there?"
Third person view, headmaster's office
"I cannot allow it," Minerva McGonagall said, stand before the headmaster's desk.
"Cannot or will not?" Albus Dumbledore said.
"Cannot," McGonagall said, " I cannot allow an American to go to Hogwarts."
"I have already told you Minerva, I have talked with all the headmaster's in the American schools, they all are completely filled." Dumbledore said.
"I still cannot allow it!" McGonagall said, "I cannot allow a daft American to go to Hogwarts!"