It was a laptop. A laptop with a giant coat of arms on top, proclaiming Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, with a badger, an eagle, a snake, and a lion. Candice frowned. She hadn't suspected these people would have computers. Well, this was the 1990's, maybe this one was special. Starting with the way it couldn't be opened. There seemed no way to open it. Getting frustrated, Candice stared at laptop with her arms crossed and shouted:

"OPEN YOU DAMN THING!" It opened. So, it's word coded is it? Candice thought. A sharp lady with her mouth in a very straight line raised an eyebrow at her.

"I am not amused. You have kept me waiting for a very long time. You nearly missed school opening. Your schoolbooks are on the desktop, you may owl-order everything else from here. Here is what you need to order, send the money with the owl that brought the letter." The lady said, and the video ended.

Candice went that very day to withdraw money form her account to give to the owl. She hoped someone would sort out the whole wizard/people money difference, she didn't much understand the wizarding money, and had only sent normal. She ordered a cauldron, a set of glass phials, a telescope, and a set of brass scales. She could have sworn that in her first letter it had said she needed a wand, but maybe these mind magicians didn't use them.

In no less than three days, a flutter of owls entered her room with the items she had ordered. She had already been looking at her textbooks, and was mostly reading "A History of Magic". She found this book most helpful in deciphering wizard's ways. Sure enough, when she heard from the voice on the computer again, it told her she would start by learning magical history, and would take the first three years of tests on it before she moved on.

Looking back on it now, Candice couldn't imagine how she had handled it all, school, dance, and magic. Anyway, in preparation for when they would again call for her to come to Hogwarts, Candice began practicing two more activities: Martial Arts, and Gymnastics. Martial Arts to ensure they couldn't physically harm her, and gymnastics to ensure speed and agility. Candice felt that when the time came, she would end up fighting what sounded like one of the most advanced species known (or unknown) to man.