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Setting down her things, Lily rushed over to her owl and untied a rather large roll of parchment. As she started reading, her eyes widened and her mouth opened in disbelief.

Dear Lily,

We never meant you to find out about this. This is why it was so hard to get Ministry to send Hogwarts students to Muggle schools on sabbatical – fear that the whole wizarding world would find out and there would be mass Muggle murders. I suppose we should tell you the story from the beginning. You see, it was because of your father that J. K. Rowling found out about wizards…

Chapter 4: How It Happened

Harry was taking a train from Manchester to London for Ministry business when a reporter from the Daily Prophet stumbled upon him. Even though it had been years since the whole You-Know-Who fiasco, the wizarding world still loved, and loves, hearing stories about "The Boy Who Lived" and "The Chosen One." So, this reporter started interviewing him about the final battle between Harry and You-Know-Who – that's the Prophet's favorite story. They were sitting near some Muggles, so they were talking quietly, but apparently Rowling was intrigued by the reporter's use of a quill, and perked up, listening. The reporter started asking other questions – about the night in the Ministry in Harry's fifth year, and various other You-Know-Who events. Then he started asking about the things Harry had done in his seventh year, while he wasn't at Hogwarts. He mentioned that Hermione had preformed a memory charm on a couple of death eaters, and Rowling started writing what she had heard down.

Apparently, when she got to London, Rowling wrote down several copies of what she had heard and hid them in a few different places, also saving a copy on her computer, just in case her plan didn't work. She had heard about the visitor's entrance into the Ministry, and she went to the phone booth, punched in the code, and announced that she was here to see Harry Potter. When she went to the desk, Rowling claimed she had left her wand at home; this was believable, as everyone was feeling so secure due to the absence of You-Know-Who. They pointed Rowling towards Harry's office, and she went up in the lift. Once there, she found Harry and asked him if he could come by to her house so she could interview him – she was writing a book. He agreed, and they settled on the next day.

When Harry arrived at Rowling's house, he was confused by her lack of magical things. At loss for an answer, she just stammered. Assuming her lack of answer to be embarrassment, not that she was a Muggle, Harry asked Rowling politely if she was a squib. Happy to have an answer, she agreed. From then on, he did not question her use of a pen instead of a quill, and anything else Muggle-ish. Rowling got Harry's whole story, from before Hogwarts, through his education, to a scene on Platform 9 3/4, a year before your first time at Hogwarts.

Of course, to get the whole story, Harry had to come back several times. But after a couple weeks, Rowling knew everything about wizards. Thinking it was just another interview, Harry said nothing to the Ministry; he suspected nothing.

A few years later, Rowling got her first book published. By then, the damage was done. The Ministry couldn't wipe the memories of that many people! They monitored the situation, threatening Rowling to make sure she would only call the stories fiction, and making her promise that she wouldn't go to Diagon Alley, or Hogsmeade, or any other wizarding community. Of course, once the last book came out, the Ministry wiped her memory of the fact that it was real, so Rowling is currently convinced that her books are fictional.

Of course, some Muggles know that it is true, but only the ones that would know anyway – the parents of Muggle-borns and so on. There had been almost no danger in sending most students to Muggle schools, as most of the last names would not be remembered; for example, when Colin Creevey's daughter went to a Muggle school in Bath no Muggles realized what she was, because Rowling had not mentioned Colin's children, and Colin wasn't a terribly important character in her books anyway. But leave it to the Ministry to forget to have your name changed for the Muggle school. Not only was your name mentioned in the last book, Harry is the main character and so almost every Muggle in the world now knows the name "Potter."

So now, all we can do is hope that we don't get an uprising of wizards. These books are a perfect opportunity for You-Know-Who supporters that still live to start gathering support, killing Muggles, and beginning another wizarding war.

And that is exactly what we don't ever need again.

Love,

Mum

After reading the letter, Lily just sat there, snatches of the letter running through her mind.

… Hermione had preformed a memory charm on a couple of death eaters, and Rowling started writing what she had heard down… claimed that she had left her wand at home; this was believable, as everyone was feeling so secure due to the absence of You-Know-Who… thinking it was just another interview, Harry said nothing to the Ministry; he suspected nothing… Rowling got her first book published. By then, the damage was done… all we can do is hope that we don't get an uprising of wizards… killing Muggles, and beginning another wizarding war… another wizarding war…

This is bad, Lily thought.

I need to get home.

AN: Okay, when I was originally writing this fanfic, I had a completely different plan. But after writing this chapter, I have a better idea. So therefore, I will soon change the title, description, etc., once I have the idea completely formulated. The previous content will stay the same.

…another wizarding war… is exactly what we don't ever need again.