Marak's trembling fingers opened the letter. He still felt intimidated by the massive form of Hagrid. He read the letter…
HOGWARTS SCHOOL
of WICHCRAFT and WIZARDRY
Headmaster: Albus Dumbledore
(Order of Merlin, First Class, Grand Sorc., Chf. Warlock,
Supreme Mugwump, International Confed. of Wizards)
Dear Mr. Barker,
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 your owl by no later than July 31.
Yours sincerely,
Minerva McGonagall
Deputy Headmistress
Marak had to read it a couple of times over then looked up at Hagrid a little confused,
"Wizards?" Marak asked dubiously. Hagrid just grinned and nodded,
"Yea, yer a wizard." Hagrid affirmed, then started shuffling through his enormous pockets again as if looking for something he had forgotten, "I suppose I should send an owl you got yer letter." Hagrid said, taking a rather ruffled black owl out of hic pocket. Marak wondered how he could fit so many things in those pockets… especially a live owl!
Hagrid scribbled some words down, mumbling to himself has he wrote, but Marak didn't listen to what he said.
Hogwarts? A school for Wizards? But... I couldn't be a wizard! Marak thought, his hope dropping at the thought of having to tell Hagrid that he wasn't a wizard, and that he had to go… But then he remembered all the times that he had been adopted before, and how all those strange things had happened. Marak looked up a wide grin on his face. Hagrid had just given the letter to the owl, which clamped it tight in it's beak and flew out the window, which Hagrid had just opened.
Marak suddenly noticed how he was no longer afraid of Hagrid, like he had been just moments before, but now felt very comfortable indeed while he was near the giant of a man. Hagrid noticed his grin and laughed,
"Aye, it takes muggle-born wizards a few seconds to realize what they are." He said a grin himself. Marak looked back confused,
"You keep on using that word, what does it mean?" Marak asked. Hagrid looked a little surprised.
"Oh yes… I've forgotten I need to explain it'all to ya." Hagrid said, then cleared his throat and continued.
"Muggles are non-magic folk like the rest of the kids 'ere. Even if two muggles marry and have kids, they may not have muggle children. It isn't as rare as you might think though. The school yer goin' to is Hogwarts. 'Tis a famous school, one of the best." Hagrid said. Marak interrupted,
"How can someone like me get into a good school like that if I never even knew I had magic?" Marak asked, Hagrid continued,
"You were selected because of Magical talent, you show promise." Hagrid said. Marak felt so full of questions he had to ask another one, and a memory of earlier that day floated up to his mind,
"How come the letter shocked Joe… I mean the muggle who grabbed my letter?" Marak asked, Hagrid laughed,
"Aye, it shocked him because he was a muggle. Any muggles who try to open a Hogwarts letter will be shocked, unless the muggles are part of the family the wizards in. It won't do any good for muggle-borns if their parents can't even look at the letter for their kids ter go to school." Hagrid said. Marak nodded. "Anyways, I'd better provide you a way to Diagon Alley if you're going to get yer school supplies." Hagrid continued. Marak looked up,
"Diagon Alley?" He asked, Hagrid nodded, "Of course! A wizard needs to get his supplies somehow." He said, "Now, off ter sleep with ya. I'll take you tomorrow. I need to talk to the headmaster of this place anyways ter let him know where you're going for so long." Hagrid said, picking up Marak like he was a rag-doll and placing him onto his bed. Marak didn't feel the least bit like sleeping, but after Hagrid's massive form became lost within the shadows (His fire spell was extinguished) Marak felt his eyes shutting close, and Marak found he couldn't stop them.
"Good Night… Hagrid…" he said, feeling like he finally found a place he belonged…
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Author's Notes:
Disclaimer: (See Chapter 1 for full disclaimer) Just as last chapter Hagrid is not mine but J.K Rowling's.
Sorry to all of you, since this chapter really isn't a chapter at all, it's far too small, but I promise next chapter will make up for it! (Now onto the stuff I wanted to talk about )
Thank you so much for the reviews! I have taken all of those into account, although not for this chapter since as I said I had already completed this one, but the next chapter will be much longer (The Lord Of pencil ), and have plenty of new character names and ideas (Fairy to the World -).
I had origionally wiped Voldemort totally from the books, since this would be mostly origional (Except the concept of Hogwarts, the teachers, and the magic) there would be new charcters, new spells, new events, ect. so I had erased Voldemort so no one even knew about him (This is not Chronological to the Harry Potter books.) But as I though about it I realized that I probably would need a "big bad guy" figure, instead of the "little bad guy" idea. So I'm going to make my own bad guy for the next chapter. Thank you to Lady Meriadoc for promting these thoughts.
Also, thanks to Sophie for her comment and offer, I will e-mail you. Infortunately I can not put pictures in here, but I can have a site where the full chapters and pictures will be shown. I gotta get cracking if I'm going to do that.
On a side note: I'm getting suspicious that Fanfiction is deleting my smiley faces that I put here . .
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