Chapter 2
Alice couldn't believe what she was hearing. The Professor McGonagall? Could it really be her?
"You have been accepted to Hogwarts. You are a witch, you have magical abilities!" McGonagall said.
Alice looked at her mum and her mum gave her a look that said: pretend you don't know what she is talking about. Alice understood, so she asked "Are you really a witch? Prove it!"
Professor McGonagall pulled out a wand and made a teapot float across the kitchen. Then she turned in to a cat with markings around her eyes that looked like her glasses. Alice immediately recognized that as her Animagus form.
"Wow" Alice said, trying to sound impressed.
McGonagall turned back in to her normal self and said "thank you. You seem like you would be a very talented young witch, and I am sure you will enjoy Hogwarts very much."
Alice turned to her mum and said "can I go? Please, please, please?"
Her mum thought about it for a few minutes and said "I suppose you could, but I'd be very lonely without you."
Alice felt like- well… there is no way to describe how happy she felt! She hugged her mum as hard as she could and said "thank you soooo much!" she and her mum hugged for a few minutes until McGonagall cleared her throat and said "I can take you to Diagon Alley tomorrow to buy your equipment and stuff you will need for school."
Alice, remembering that she was pretending to not know what that is, asked what Diagon Alley is. McGonagall explained but Alice didn't really listen because she already knew what it really was.
After that McGonagall explained more about the wizarding world but Alice already knew most of it.
After McGonagall left, Alice went back up to her room and took out the one letter she did keep (she threw out the rest) and read the whole thing. She found out that it said so much more than it did in the movies and books about what living in Hogwarts was like.
For the rest of the day, Alice just read and finished Prisoner of Azkaban. When night came, she went to sleep full of excitement for the next day.
