"Bye!" I called to my best friend as they drove on down the street. My friend was dropping me off from school. When I started to get my house key from my backpack the front door just disappeared suddenly. I shrugged and walked inside.
I sighed as she plopped on the couch and turned on the T.V. WAM! Something had hit the front door.
I went over to the door and opened. I hoped I would just open by itself like it did just a while ago. There was an owl lying on the ground! There was an envelope tied on the owl's claw.
I picked up the owl and plopped on the couch again and started to open the envelope just as my mom walked in the room with a basket of laundry.
"Hey Leah. Wacha reading?" My mother asked.
"Oh. Just a letter I found on the front porch." I replied. But she wasn't listening she was too focused on the owl on the coffee table.
"Was that owl um, on the front porch?" She asked in a nervous voice.
"Yeah." I answered.
"Fine. You can go if you want to but I would like it if you didn't."
"Mom! I haven't even read the letter yet!" I said. I started reading the letter. It said that could go to a school called Hogwarts. It was a boarding school for young witches and wizards.
After 12 minutes of thinking I told my mom that I wanted to go and she just said that we were going to go and get my books and stuff next Saturday.
Next Saturday came very quickly. My mother had told me all about Hogwarts and what you do and learn there. And she also told me that she was not my dad was and that he would have told me all of this if he were here. My dad had died when I was five.
After a long bus ride to London we walked to a door next to a bookstore. We entered and walked fast back to the back of the store there were a lot of weird looking people in the dark place.
There was an old black door and my mom opened it. When the door closed she let go of my hand. And took out my dad's old wand and tapped some bricks and then the bricks separated into two parts. And we walked into a place called Diogon Alley. "Leah, what do ya say we go and get some ice cream after we get your stuff." "Sure." I said not paying attention to what my mom was saying because I was too busy looking around at everything and all the things that the people were wearing.
Finally after we had gone to Gringotts, the wizarding bank, we went get my robes, my wand and all the text book that were needed.
"Which flavor do you want?" "Chocolate." I answered quickly looking at my wand very eager to try a new spell or two.
When we sat down we immediately started digging into our ice cream. After we were done my mom had a smudge of ice cream on nose and she realized it because I was giggling too loud.
It took forever for September first to come. When the day came we rushed to Platform 9 3/4 to get on the train in time. " Let's get you a spot on the train." She said in a hurry. Just as I hopped on the train it started to roll on the tracks. "Bye Mom!" I yelled to her through an open window. It ducked to get my head out of the window and headed off to find a compartment.