Muggle Hogwarts
Dear Mr. H. Potter,
This year Hogwarts
School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is embarking on a new endeavour. As
you know Voldemort has risen to power once again, and with this comes
a great threat to both muggles, wizard-kind alike. There is no
greater need then now for the gap between the muggle and wizarding
world to be closed. With the approval of the
Ministry of Magic,
Hogwarts has been allowed to create awareness of the threat of
Voldemort through our Muggle counterpart – Hogwarts School for the
Gifted and Talented. You most likely didn't even know existed,
because since it's beginnings it had been agreed that the two schools
would remain separate in order to comply with secrecy laws. However,
after spending the last month in consultation with the Ministry of
Magic, it has been decided that we may send four of our students over
to Hogwarts School for the Gifted and Talented, in order to educate
the muggle students about Voldemort and the danger he presents to
them. You are one of the four students we have chosen to send.
At the start of the school year you are to meet with the other three students at the back carriage of the Hogwarts Express. From there you will be transported to Hogwarts School for the Gifted and Talented. You will be briefed about what you are required to do on the train.
Yours Sincerely
Albus
Dumbledore
Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and
Wizardry
It's
been two weeks since that letter arrived, and tomorrow school starts
and we all head off for muggle Hogwarts. I've since found out that
the other three students are Hermione, Ron and Ginny, no surprises
there. I haven't seen them since those three weeks that I
spent at
the Weasley's house at the start of the holidays. It'll be great to
see them again. Life with the Dursleys hasn't been any different to
normal, so it'll be great to get out of here and back to Hogwarts
(well sort of) with my friends. Tomorrow morning I'm booked
to
catch the Knight Bus to Kings Cross station. I'll meet the others on
the platform.
Well I managed to get to the station
alright, I got there about an hour early and so I had to wait for the
others to arrive. About fifteen minutes before the train left Ron and
Ginny arrived and we all headed over to the rear carriage of the
train. When we stepped into
the carriage we found that Cornelius
Fudge and Professor Dumbledore where there, along with Jacob Hayes
who we later learnt was the headmaster of Muggle Hogwarts. The three
of them explained to us what we were going to be doing over this
coming year at Muggle Hogwarts. We were told that we would all be
spending the coming school year at Muggle
Hogwarts, and that we
weren't to use any form of magic unless it was absolutely necessary
(i.e. Voldemort was around) while we were at the school. Once every
week we return to Hogwarts to learn the work for our sixth year
(fifth year in Ginny's case). New sixth year Gryffindor prefects were
appointed so that Hermione and Ron could attend the Muggle
School.
Once we got to the school we were put into classes
according to our school years at Hogwarts and our experience in
muggle schools. Hermione and I were put into fifth year, we would
have been put in sixth year but they felt that we'd be better in
fifth as we
hadn't attended a muggle school in five years. Ron was
put into fourth year and Ginny into third. That was basically because
they've never been to a muggle school before.
Everything's been going pretty well here. We've had no major problems. There were a few minor problems when we first arrived. Like how do we explain the threat of Voldemort without telling them anything about the wizarding world? That's been sorted out now, and everyone knows that we are from a counterpart of Hogwarts (they don't know it's a magical school). At the moment all we've told them is that there is a dangerous threat to our school and that it may become a threat to them too. We've been told not to say anything else unless Voldemort becomes more of a threat.
They have the same houses here which
I found kind of funny seeing as they're the founders of Wizarding
Hogwarts, and I know the Muggle Hogwarts wasn't created until
Dumbledore became headmaster of Hogwarts. Though I suppose they were
the founders of Hogwarts. We've all been put into Gryffindor, like we
are at Wizarding Hogwarts.
Everything is so similar it's almost as
though it's the same building, well aside from all the magic at
Wizarding Hogwarts, though even though, there appears to be a sense
of magic around here. I bet there is magic around here too. It's
probably built magically.
I'll have to find out while I'm here.
