Chapter 6

The rest of the summer went like a blur; I spent all of my time in my room studying my school books hanging on every word. Although, I did lose my temper quite a few times because fellow residents kept barging into my room uninvited to ask me why Dumbledore took me out that day but after the fifth person had left in tears the message finally got across to everyone. The only time I was forced to part from my wand and books was when it was my 11th birthday and I did this with great resentment as I preferred to spend my birthday alone because I could tell everyone was there because they had to not because they wanted to. I walked grimly into the kitchen

"Happy Birthday" said an unenthusiastic group of people, I made a smile that felt impossible to form, sighed and sat down, Ms Goldstein put a present in front of me, I opened it and pulled out a pair of socks, I looked impassively at the socks as I get the same socks every year, I put the socks to one side

"It's great" I said trying to muster up a smile. Ms Goldstein then put two cards on the table, the first card was from the orphanage and the second card said

To Alexis

Hope you have a good birthday

This is for next summer when you need to write to friends

Yours Sincerely

Albus Dumbledore

PS. Please do not tell anyone about this

I looked at the group confused

"Um has anything else come?"

"Yes" said Ms Goldstein piecing her lips "but you can't have it because it's against health and safety regulations"

"What you can't do that, that's my birthday present."

Ms Goldstein narrowed her eyes and walked out of the room, I looked at everyone hoping someone could tell me what was going on. Then Ms Goldstein walked back into the room holding a cage, containing a black tawny owl. I smiled, I quickly got up and walked straight over to the owl and took the owl from her

"Erm I'm just gunna take my presents upstairs" I said flustered, I took the socks and walked back upstairs. Once I was upstairs I just stared at the owl. It didn't come downstairs after that and no one bothered me after about that so we were all happy.

I mean I was happy until I found out that Harry and the Dursleys had returned so now it was even out of the question to go outside in case I ran into Harry. This was okay though because I had so much to do. So days turned into weeks until it was the day before I had to go to Hogwarts, I walked downstairs into the sitting room to where Ms Goldstein was

"Ms Goldstein, can you take me to Kings Cross tomorrow because that's how I'm going to get to school"

Ms Goldstein frowned "very well, what time do you need to be there"

"11:00" I replied

"Fine, we'll leave here at 9:30 so we won't hit the traffic" said Ms Goldstein, from the corner of my eye I saw other occupiers in the room whispering and looking at me no doubt wondering where my new school was and wondering why they weren't going there to. I nodded and walked out of the room and up the stairs in a civilised fashion until I was sure I was out of the sight, then I broke into a sprint, I burst into my room and slammed the door being sure to lock it, then I pulled out my trunk with a large H embossed onto it and started to pack all my stuff. This took most of the day because I kept unpacking everything in the fear that I might forget something. Finally once I was sure I had everything I fed Midnight the owl and went to the kitchen for dinner. It was silent at dinner and I knew exactly why, everyone wanted to know about my new school but they were all too shy to ask. I was happy about this though because the last thing I needed was to answer unanswerable questions.

Once I had finished I slunk upstairs and flung myself onto my bed and thought this time tomorrow I'm going to be at Hogwarts, this time tomorrow I'm going to be free this thought brought a smile to my face and with that I fell to sleep with dreams about Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry