Chapter Two: Discover What Lies in the Letter
Author's Note/Disclaimer: Disclaimer is in the prologue and first chapter. So, you decide to continue on further? That's nice. Oh well, keep reviewing please! Oh yeah, once more, Annis is pronounced Anne-eese not Anne-ihs. Thanks!
Annis did not want Aunt Margaret knowing about the letter. Knowing her aunt, she'd probably toss it and fussing about how pranksters are such nuisances. But Annis wanted to find out, to see, if this letter was the answer to her questions.
After she tossed the other mail onto the dining table, she quickly but quietly dashed up to her room. Locking her door soundlessly, Annis flopped onto her bed. She didn't want Aunt Margaret getting suspicious, or else Annis would never be able to read the letter. Again, she scanned the front of the yellowish envelope. There was no return address and no stamp. Maybe it was a prank after all, she thought sadly. Surely a letter needed a return address and at least a stamp. However, when Annis flipped the envelope over she saw that the envelope was held shut by a coat of arms seal. She made out the lion, snake, badger, and eagle on the seal as she broke it. Annis dumped out the contents of the envelope, which held two pieces of the same thick parchment. Closing her eyes, she chose a one of the letters and read the letter written in neat, curly letters:
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
Dear Miss Johnsen,
We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Please find an enclosed list of all necessary books and equipment.
Term begins September 1, 1938. We await your owl by no later than July 31.
Yours Sincerely,
Professor Albus Dumbledore
Deputy Headmaster
Annis stared at the letter. We await your owl?? Maybe it was just a prank, she thought, her heart sinking. Then she shook her head in disgust, of course it's fake. Nobody would send her a letter telling her about her parents. That's just plain weird. Frustrated, she threw the letter at the envelope and supposed "list."
At that moment Aunt Margaret was knocking on her bedroom door. Annis, sighing as her small flicker of hope was dashed, replied rather melocholy, "Come in."
She didn't even bother to hide the letters. They were just junk mail, something that she would usually laugh about. But this was different. It just felt different. Her thoughts were distinquished when Aunt Margaret entered quietly.
"Hi sweetheart," she murmured quietly, "Listen, about the entire birthday situation. It's just that ----" Suddenly her aunt stopped in midsentence. Her eyes locked in with the strange-looking bundle of letters. Annis didn't seem to worry, though. Not too much.
She waved at the letters and said sheepishly, "Oh, this? I just thought that, that it was a letter from somebody, even though there was no stamp. Silly me, right? Well, it's only a letter about some fake magic school or whatnot...." However the reaction Annis got was not the one she expected. Never, would she have suspected this to happen.
Author's Note/Disclaimer: Disclaimer is in the prologue and first chapter. So, you decide to continue on further? That's nice. Oh well, keep reviewing please! Oh yeah, once more, Annis is pronounced Anne-eese not Anne-ihs. Thanks!
Annis did not want Aunt Margaret knowing about the letter. Knowing her aunt, she'd probably toss it and fussing about how pranksters are such nuisances. But Annis wanted to find out, to see, if this letter was the answer to her questions.
After she tossed the other mail onto the dining table, she quickly but quietly dashed up to her room. Locking her door soundlessly, Annis flopped onto her bed. She didn't want Aunt Margaret getting suspicious, or else Annis would never be able to read the letter. Again, she scanned the front of the yellowish envelope. There was no return address and no stamp. Maybe it was a prank after all, she thought sadly. Surely a letter needed a return address and at least a stamp. However, when Annis flipped the envelope over she saw that the envelope was held shut by a coat of arms seal. She made out the lion, snake, badger, and eagle on the seal as she broke it. Annis dumped out the contents of the envelope, which held two pieces of the same thick parchment. Closing her eyes, she chose a one of the letters and read the letter written in neat, curly letters:
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
Dear Miss Johnsen,
We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Please find an enclosed list of all necessary books and equipment.
Term begins September 1, 1938. We await your owl by no later than July 31.
Yours Sincerely,
Professor Albus Dumbledore
Deputy Headmaster
Annis stared at the letter. We await your owl?? Maybe it was just a prank, she thought, her heart sinking. Then she shook her head in disgust, of course it's fake. Nobody would send her a letter telling her about her parents. That's just plain weird. Frustrated, she threw the letter at the envelope and supposed "list."
At that moment Aunt Margaret was knocking on her bedroom door. Annis, sighing as her small flicker of hope was dashed, replied rather melocholy, "Come in."
She didn't even bother to hide the letters. They were just junk mail, something that she would usually laugh about. But this was different. It just felt different. Her thoughts were distinquished when Aunt Margaret entered quietly.
"Hi sweetheart," she murmured quietly, "Listen, about the entire birthday situation. It's just that ----" Suddenly her aunt stopped in midsentence. Her eyes locked in with the strange-looking bundle of letters. Annis didn't seem to worry, though. Not too much.
She waved at the letters and said sheepishly, "Oh, this? I just thought that, that it was a letter from somebody, even though there was no stamp. Silly me, right? Well, it's only a letter about some fake magic school or whatnot...." However the reaction Annis got was not the one she expected. Never, would she have suspected this to happen.