7:00 in the morning is usually an odd time to wake up during the summer. However, today was the day the Hogwarts letters arrived and James Potter kept waking up from nightmares about not being accepted so he figured he might as well get up.

There was no noise above or below him, therefore his parents weren't up yet. He really wished they would get up and make him breakfast before he starved. James slowly got out of his bed and walked to the door, opening it and looking down his hall. At the end of the hallway were stairs leading up to the third level of the house, where James's parents slept. James walked up the stairs and to his parents' room, he smirked and opened the door, tip toeing in and getting on his parents bed. He then started to jump up and down whilst shouting, "I'M HUNGRY, I'M HUNGRY. GET UP, GET UP. COOK, COOK."

"James!" Daisy Potter said sitting up. Donald Potter continued to snore, and snore, and snore. This was fine with James because his mother did all the cooking and made especially good waffles. After a while Daisy finally got up and dragged her son down two flights of stairs to the kitchen. Waffles were made and James shut up for a while, as he ate all twenty on his plate.

Twenty minutes later an owl flew into the house, dropped a letter, and flew out. James, having waited for this letter his whole childhood life, grabbed it and looked at the rich emerald green ink on the cream envelope.

Mr. J. Potter
The fifth room to the right of the stairs
12 Owl Avenue
Fencegate
Hogsmeade

James smiled and ripped the envelope off. Inside was the typical Hogwarts invitation.

HOGWARTS SCHOOL
of WITCHCRAFT and WIZARDRY

Heamaster: ALBUS DUMBLEDORE

(Order of Merlin, First Class, Grand Sorc., Chf. Warlock, International
Confed. of Wizards)

Dear Mr. Potter,
We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Please find enclosed a list of all necessary books and equipment.

Term begins on September 1. We await you owl by no later than July 31. Yours sincerely,

Minerva McGonagall
Deputy Headmistress

James took everything out of the envelope, wrote "Duh, of course I'll come" on it, and sent the owl on it's way. He then looked at the supply list.

HOGWARTS SCHOOL
of WHITCHCRAFT and WIZARDRY

Uniform

First-year students require:
Three sets of plain work robes (black)
One plain pointed hot (black) for day wear
One pair of protective gloves (dragon hide or similar)
One winter cloak (black, silver fastenings)

Please note that all pupils' clothes should carry name tags

Course books All students should have a copy of each of the following:

The Standard Book of Spells (book 1)
By Miranda Goshawk

A History of Magic by Bathilda Bagshot

Magical Theory by Ella Pancaking

A beginners' Guide to Transfiguration by Emeric Switch

One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi
By Phyllida Spore

Magical Drafts and Potions by Arsenius Jigger

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
By Newt Scamander

Defense against Basic Dark Forces
By Dorrie Thimble

Other Equipment

1 wand
1 cauldron
1 set glass or crystal phials
1 telescope
1 set brass scales

Students may also being an owl OR a cat OR a toad

PARENTS ARE REMINDED THAT FIRST YEARS ARE NOT ALLOWED THEIR OWN BROOMSTICKS

"So how much money are we going to have to spend on you?" Daisy asked walking over to James and looking over his shoulder.

James shrugged. "A bunch," he said. "So what should we do at the moment?"

"Wake up your dad." Daisy said sitting down on the couch and picking up the Daily Prophet. James did so and came running down, pulling his father.

"Why'd you wake me up?" Donald asked.

Daisy rolled her eyes. "The letter came; it's time for a little celebration." She walked over to the refrigerator and took out some butterbeers. She set them down on the table, walked over to her husband and sat down. The three Potters picked up the butterbeers and drank. A little while later Donald went to work at his book store and Daisy went to Mr. Fudge, working as a secretary. James was, therefore, all alone at Hogsmeade, in his house.

"That's nice." James said picking up a bag of money and skipping out of the house. He got to Honeydews and walked up to two of his friends.

"Did you get the letters?" James asked sitting down on a bench. The two boys sat next to him and smiled.

"Yep. Oh yeah, finally we get to see inside that place." One boy said pointing to the far off school.

"I can't wait. Soon we'll be powerful wizards." The other boy said with a smile.

"Powerful? You boys.... powerful?" A girl laughed. James glared and her and stuck out his foot so when the girl passed by she tripped and fell into a mud puddle. The three boys laughed and continued to talk about what they think Hogwarts will be like. They talked the whole day and finally stopped when their parents called them in for dinner.

"Mom, what does Hogwarts really look like?" James asked his mom during dinner. Daisy smiled.

"I can't tell you that, it would take the magic out or all of it." She said picking up the plates, "Your father's working late again, so I'll have to tell you without him." She sighed.

"Tell me what?" James asked, becoming more curious.

"The plan, we will go to Diagon Alley tomorrow and buy you everything, and then we will stay in London until it's time to go onto the train, and you will go to Hogwarts on the train like a normal kid."

James nodded with a huge smile. "Instead of one that could easily walk there."

Daisy laughed and pushed James up the stairs, "Go to bed now. You've got a big day ahead of you." James walked into his room and sat down and pulled out his scrap book then taped the invite letter to it. Then he slowly fell asleep.

Disclaimer: We own nothing (probably). We do own the OCs that will appear later in this story.

AN: There will be no romance in this book, but there will in the sequels. Anyway, we hope you are enjoying this and this will be one of the shorter chapters. Please review. Oh yeah, this is by both Aya and Kokoro, who usually write anime fanfics. Oh yeah, all names and occupations were made up after midnight. Please review with any mistakes that we might have made from the canon (this applies to all chapters, since we are bound to make mistakes, and fix them).

On top of that, we NEED a beta.