Summary: There was Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Any witch or wizard powerful enough to use magic could attend. Then, there was Hogwarts School for Gifted Witches and Wizards. Only wizards and witches that demonstrated advanced accidental magic, frequent use of intentional wish magic, and high levels of intelligence were invited. The is the story of one such witch.

Chapter 1 – The Letter

Miss Brooke Shelton,

We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Hogwarts School for Gifted Witches and Wizards, sister school to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Our school requires more to become a student, including early advanced accidental magic, frequent use of intentional wish magic, and high levels of intelligence.

You have been found to meet these criteria.

Young witches and wizards are expected to begin their wizarding education at age 11, and after that, it is no longer lawful to continue to use magic without having received instruction on using it safely.

However, magic is much more than the wish magic you have been employing. There are vast numbers of magical plants and animals, potions and other magical races, to name just a fraction of what is there.

Please see next sheet for more information regarding the magical world, and the following page contains information as to supplies and instructions on how to reach Hogwarts School for Gifted Witches and Wizards.

We hope that you will join us for your educational journey.

Please let us know of your decision promptly. If you and your family decide you should attend, please have your parents and yourself sign below.

We hope to see you at school on August 31st , and have a great rest of your holidays.

Sincerely,

Headmistress Anna Whitlock

Brooke blinked. And blinked again. So it was magic she'd been doing all those years. That didn't surprise her much, but the fact that other people were aware of it and could do it as well as a bit startling. She'd never intentionally showed her parents what she could do, but she doubted they'd be too surprised – strange things, as they referred to them as, did seem to happen around her quite a lot.

She set the first page aside and began to read the second page. What she read was a real eye-opener. Not only did witches and wizards and schools for them to be trained exist, a whole magical society existed that no non-magical person would know about. They had their own money system (a system that seemed rather confusing – 29 Knuts in a Sickle, 17 Sickles to a Galleon – really?), though she could tell immediately that she preferred pounds, and they had their own government, among other things. It was all quite fascinating, especially the concept of whole shopping areas and towns that were strictly for magical people. This worried her for a moment – how would she get her school supplies without her parents? – Before she saw that situations like hers was allowed. Good.

The final page in the envelope consisted of the list of supplies she'd need, as well as a uniform. Yuck. Brooke didn't like uniforms, but she knew it was standard for schools, especially boarding school, to have them. It wasn't much of a cost to learn more about her magic and what she could do with it. She noticed a store name beside each item or category of items and at the bottom was an estimated total cost for supplies, in pounds. It was noted immediately after that students and their families would need to go to Gringott's, the wizard's bank, to get their money transferred into wizarding currency.

All this was so amazing that Brooke had to sit back and let it soak in. Trying to fulfill her nonverbal wish, the bed had started to turn soft and start the transition to something she could soak in. "Oh No!" she yelled, and to her relief the bed sprang back to normal. That would have been hard to explain to her parents. Speaking of her parents…