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Written for the November Event (Male Appreciation) over on Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Challenges & Assignments)

Male Character: Expert – Angus Buchanan

Bingo Prompt: (feeling) Upset

Chocolate Frog: Bronze – Travers – Prompts: Commit, Mock, Street, Accord

Gringotts Prompt Bank: Instead of sad – Downcast, Depressed, Miserable, Dejected; Instead of Little – Miniscule; Sex and the City: Episode 1 – (First Line) Once upon a time; Sex and the City: Episode 3 – (word) Adolescence

Faked Letter

Once upon a time there was a young boy called Angus Buchanan. He was the middle child of eleven in the pure-blood family, and as his eleventh birthday approached he waited every day and night by the window for his Hogwarts acceptance letter to arrive. His biggest hope was that he was just a late magical developer. He didn't think he could face the shame of being a squib!

"Hey Ang," his sister Flora said when she approached the window ledge he was perched on. The sound of her voice drew Angus out of depressed thoughts about how his adolescence had been a series of disasters as he tried to prove he was magical, and more recently fake outs staged with his older brother and sister. "Still no letter," she sighed, as she perched next to him.

"No," Angus frowned, "I'm beginning to think that it'll never come, that I'm not magical. What will dad say if I don't get a letter?" he wailed with tears leaking from his eyes.

He had always felt miniscule and insignificant next to all his siblings who had displayed magical ability since infancy. His younger brothers and sisters would mock him on a daily basis of their own accord, whether it be in the street or commit it in front of their family, it didn't matter, it still letft Angus feel rotten, downcast and insignificant to the core..

"Well luck for you dear brother, I have a plan," his sister sang as she wrapped her arm around him.

"And what would that be Flora?" he asked hopefully, wiping the stray tears from his cheeks.

Flora smiled wickedly at her brother and said, "Well I still have my acceptance letter; it wouldn't be too hard to fake one just in case. But we'll need Hamish's help."

Hamish loved his brother Angus dearly, and when he came to him asking for help, he was more than happy to grant it, especially since he knew what a vicious man his father could be when he was disappointed.

Within a matter of hours, the fake letter was completed to perfection, and Hamish had apparated to an owl postage unit to lease an owl to deliver the letter. Angus meanwhile, was praying that his elder sister's scheme would work.

The next day, on the eve of Angus' eleventh birthday, an owl fluttered through the open window whilst the Buchanan's were having breakfast.

At his father's insistence Angus detached the official looking letter that contained his fake letter and proudly read it aloud to his entire family, and for the first time in his life Angus was embraced loving by his father; the elation at finally receiving some semblance of love from his father was overshadowed by how dejected and miserable he truly was; somehow he managed to contain his upset and despair over not only deceiving his father, but also the fact that he wasn't magical at all. His only hope was that Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry had made a mistake.

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