Chapter 2: Miss Searces

It was about a week since the letter arrived that Miss Searces appeared on our brick doorstep on a sunny Saturday lunchtime. You could tell that she was not of the Muggle world simply by the way she dressed even though the wizardry decree prohibits the wearing of wizardry clothes in the Muggle world. She was wearing green robes that fell to the floor, and even though Dudley wasn't as prejudice as his parents were when he was younger, (they had since realised the error of their ways for some reason) he still didn't want to openly show the world that he had strange people wearing robes seen at his home, he had nothing against wizard dress, just the fact that he knew that his neighbours were rather nosey like his mother and were rather fond of asking awkward questions that couldn't be answered nicely.

She was very polite about it all as well and rather young, I'm guessing in her twenties or something.

We moved to the living room after the introductions as it would be far more comfortable and easier to speak.

(From here on out I'm just going to do a script because I hate doing dialogue's)

Dudley- Welcome to our home

Miss Searces – Thank you for having me

Caroline- it is no trouble, we are delighted to have found out our daughter is a witch

Miss Searce- I can imagine, I still remember the first time I received my letter, gave me quite a fright, my family are Muggle born you see, that is why I get the job of going around to all the Muggle family's and explaining how things work and give you all your information

Caroline- why thank you, it was very kind of you to come all the way from Scotland to inform us about the information we will need for our daughters education at Hogwarts.

Miss Searce- Tell me, do either of you have a family member who was a witch or wizard?

Dudley- I do my mother's side of the family, my aunt and her son.

Miss Searce- Excellent, I presume that you do not know very much about the Wizarding world them?

Dudley- Correct, I never had any to do with what they did really.

Miss Searce- that's fine, I understand that some family's get torn apart by the knowledge of wizards and witches. I'll start from the beginning

School will start on the 1st of September

The train will leave from Kings Cross Station at exactly 11 o clock

The train will leave from platform 9 and ¾, as you can probably tell there isn't a platform at Kings Cross with this name, to get onto the platform you need to run through the barriers between platforms 9 and 10

To get to Diagon alley from the Muggle world, you need to go to the pub in London called the Leaky Cauldron, ask the barman for access to the Diagon alley and state that you are muggles; he will show you how to get into Diagon alley for future use.

Your school list will be included in the following letter

Please try and stick to the rules

Hogwarts has repaired itself magnificently since the war and is state of the art while still being traditional as well

Is there anything else you will need to know, any questions?

Dudley- Nope, I think we've got it

Miss Searce- Excellent, I look forward to seeing Gabriel at Hogwarts on the first

Caroline- Thank you for your help

Miss Searce- It was no trouble, I assure you

Dudley- I'll show you out.

Gabriel- (who had just walked down the stairs ready to leave.) Lets go then

Caroline- Excited are you sweetie? (Laughing)

Gabriel- Just a little mummy

Dudley- We'll go tomorrow honey, when we can spend a whole day looking around and buying you all your new school stuff, how does that sound?

Gabriel- Perfect daddy!