'thoughts'

"talking"

parcel tongue

spells

letters and books

PREVIOUS CHAPTER All Chain could do was to face-palm and say in exasperation "Only you could be so smart, yet so dumb at the same time." _

Spike only stood still with a blank look and deadpanned "You should've seen it coming, it does seem like something I would do." Chain only shook her head and said "I really don't know why I try anymore." While looking out the window, only to see two barn owls sitting in a tree in the front yard.
Chain looked out the window also to see the avians. "Maybe we should let them in, my mom seemed pretty excited about them being in our rooms." She said. "These are still wild animals we're talking about here." Chain said with a frown. Spike disregarded her to open the window. The two owls immediately flew in to sit on the back of the couch of the living room. "They must've been trained really well, but what would they have been trained for." Asked Spike out loud. "I'm more interested in who would send them to us." Replied Chain. "They're here to give you your letters" both girls spin around in surprise to find both of Spikes parents in the door way. Her mother look'd as if Christmas had come early, while her father just looks amused with her actions. "Letters?" Both girls replied simultaneously. They both looked more closely at the owls and saw there were indeed a letter attached to each of the owls. The girls reached out and relieved the birds from their burdens, immediately after the owls left through the window once again.

Both girls looked down at their letters only to immediately trade them after reading the name of the other on the parchment. Their letters read:

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

Headmaster: Albus Dumbledore (Order of Merlin, First Class, Grand Sorc., Chf. Warlock, Supreme Mugwump, International Confed. of Wizards)

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 by no later than July 31. Yours sincerely, Minerva McGonagall Deputy Headmistress

UNIFORM

First-year students will require: sets of plain work robes (black) plain pointed hat (black) for day wear pair of protective gloves (dragon hide or similar) winter cloak (black, with silver fastenings) Please note that all pupils' clothes should carry name tags.

COURSE BOOKS

All students should have a copy of each of the following:

The Standard Book of Spells (Grade 1) by Miranda Goshawk A History of Magic by Bathilda Bagshot Magical Theory by Adalbert Waffling A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration by Emeric Switch One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi by Phyllida Spore Magical Drafts and Potions by Arsenius Jigger Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander The Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Protection by Quentin Trimble

OTHER EQUIPMENT

1 wand 1 cauldron (pewter, standard size 2) 1 set glass or crystal phials 1 telescope 1 set brass scales Students may also bring an owl OR a cat OR a toad. PARENTS ARE REMINDED THAT FIRST YEARS ARE NOT ALLOWED THEIR OWN BROOMSTICKS

Spike upon reading the letter immediately started to crack up laughing, falling onto the floor holding her sides from the absurdity of what she just read. Chain merely gave the two adults in the room a bland look and said "explain." Everyone sat down, Spike's parents on the couch, Chain in the chair adjacent, with Spike on the ground right in front of her. Spike's back against Chains legs still giggling slightly wiping tears from her eyes occasionally murmuring "magic school".

Linda, Chain's mother, decided to cut right to the chase with "You both are witches." When she didn't get a response from either girl she decided to elaborate. "Those letters you have there is an acceptance letter to Hogwarts, one of the best magical schools in Britain. The only way to get a letter is to have enough magic to be put down in the ledger book. The ledger is a self updating book that keeps track of accidental magic within Europe." Chain stopped her at that point "What is accidental magic and how can a book keep track of who uses it?" Dave, the only male in the group decided to have his input here. "Accidental magic is just that, accidental, usually it is children who use it as they don't have full control over their magic. Most often when they are stressed or have high emotions."

"Is that why those papers caught fire when me and Chain were mad at that teacher, who was trying to get us in trouble for correcting her" piped in Spike with a reply of "you were trying to correct her." From Chain. "Yes, as well as the time where that group of boys spontaneously decided to put on dresses and only cluck like chickens for a week." Replied Dave dryly, only to have all the girls to start giggling at the thought. After they all calmed back down he finished answering Chain's questions. "The ledger book was created for the sole purpose of finding magical children and recording it. It was created by the four people who created the school, and is able to do it because it is a magical item."

"How do you know all this?" Asked Spike. "Well me and your father are squibs, that means we come from a magical family but have no magic ourselves. Because of this when we turned 11 and we both got no letter, our families sent us to live with muggles, that's people with no magic, it's very common in pure blood families. The rest of our families died out after a few years, and now that you are a witch you can claim your ladyships when you turn 16 since our families wouldn't let us as squibs."

"How is it that I'm a witch then, does it mean my parents were wizards or squibs?" Chain was adopted at a very young age, she was barely a year old and has two blurry memory's of her parents. Warmth, comfort, red eyes, peacefulness, inky black hair, and loving blue eyes, are her favorite of them. He other is of fear, green light, a man crying, then finally a single scream before everything goes dark. Chain has no idea who her parents were, but they are most likely dead from what she could gather from the second memory. But that brings up the question of how she came to be at the orphanage's doorstep with only a letter saying her name, Nicole Chain Riddle-Black. Besides for wondering who her parents were she'd lived a good life, she never wanted for anything material, but with her adoptive parents being so busy with work, a doctor and a nurse, she couldn't help but feel lonely. Especially since her parents push her to do well in everything, but no matter what she did it wasn't enough. If it wasn't for the Bell family taking her under their wing she didn't know what she would do. Linda and Dave have been more loving parents then her adoptive family could ever be. "That's two possibilities, but witches and wizards can also be from muggle families, they're called muggleborn. It is more than likely though that at least one of your parents were magical in some way, if not the school would've sent a teacher to tell you and your family about magic." Said Linda "Don't they keep track of where magical children live? I mean what if Chain did't know us where who she have gone to then?" Asked Spike. "I'm afraid that no one would've explained to her any of this, the school only sends teachers for an explanation to muggleborns.

Knowing Chain she would've write this off as a joke." Said her father. "Hogwarts is stupid then, how can they be so backwards?!" Exclaimed Spike. "Hogwarts headmaster is a very influential man and uses his connections to get his way with the government and school board. We have some books about the wizarding world and its history. Knowing you two girls you're gonna take those and pick them apart piece by piece." Linda said with a smile. Both girls look over at each other with mischievous grins and asked "Are you ready to turn Hogwarts onto its head?" _

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