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Chapter One: Mundungus Fletcher is born.
Mundungus Fletcher was not born a Mundungus Fletcher he was actually born Matthew Jr. Fletcher in a muggle hospital to a pair of loving parents. His parents not being magic themselves had quite a few surprises in store for them, because from the moment he was born it was clear the Matthew Fletcher was not a normal child. His mother, Maurice Fletcher gave birth to a tiny child with two front teeth and a full head of wavy orange hair.
One cool summer day Maurice was taking Matthew Jr. for a walk through the town. She had a couple of errands she wanted to run. On her way to pick up bread from the bakery they walked past the large candy shop, Sweets N' Things. Maurice knew she was in trouble the moment she saw Matthews eyes light up and he ran to the display in order to scrutinize the candy more carefully. She tried to hurry him along but he defiantly plopped down in the middle of the street, "I want Candy! Mommy buy me candy."
Amid her protest that it was too expensive, it would rot his teeth and that it was too close to dinner, Matthew continued to shout. His hands pounding the street and his little legs kicking .An all out tantrum was about to begin just as Maurice turned around to count to ten, the crying stopped. Bewildered she looked around there was Matthew sucking on a huge slab of candy. "Now who gave him that she wondered, but the street was quiet empty.
She concluded that it must have been the store owner that felt bad for young Matthew and gave him something for free. Now how was he supposed to learn if he was always given what he wanted? Angrily she pushed opened the door to let the storeowner have a piece of her mind. "What were you thinking giving a little kid candy just because he cried a little that will spoil his appetite it will," she yelled at the first person she saw, a bored young girl working at the counter.
"I'm not sure what you mean." She started but Maurice just pulled Matthew along and left the shop. Maurice pushed that incident to back of her head and things were actually quite normal until Matthew turned five.
Matthew, who had decided to be called Mundungus now, something that greatly annoyed his parents, had gone to the town pool with his cousins His cousin Zach was much older than him about 13. "Come on you coming swimming he taunted, before diving into the deep end of the pool. Matthew only hesitated a few seconds before running across the sand to join his cousin.
Forget the fact that he couldn't swim her ran to the diving board and gazed out at the water. He bounced on the board a couple times. "Mundungus No! His mother yelled. But it was too late he had already jumped into the cold eight foot deep water. Miraculously, he didn't drown, he didn't even sink. Mundungus Fletcher was floating happily in the water.
At age eleven an owl flew in Mundungus bedroom window letter and left a big parchment envelope on his bed. "I'm a... a Wizard!" he yelled! "Both his parents pounded on the door they didn't look happy.