Chapter 2: OWL Results

Harry turned to the school owl, which bore a thick looking letter and a messily wrapped parcel with Hagrid's handwriting on. He untied these and the school owl took off through the window.

He decided to open his school letter first, which was unusually thick. It was a few seconds until he realised why - the letter contained his Ordinary Wizarding Level results! Hands shaking slightly, he unfolded the parchment. He discarded the standard letter explaining that term began on September 1st and slowly began to read his results.

"Dear Mr. Potter," it read,

"On behalf of the Department of Magical Education, please find enclosed the results for your Ordinary Wizarding Level exams (OWL's) which you sat last June.

Key:

O Outstanding

E Exceeds Expectations

A Acceptable

PASS

P Poor

D Dreadful

Astronomy A

Care of Magical Creatures O

Charms O

Defence against the Dark Arts O

Divination D

Herbology A

History of Magic P

Potions E

Transfiguration E

Congratulations on achieving 7 OWL's, Mr. Potter.

Yours Sincerely,

W. Martoch, Head of the Department of Magical Education"

"Seven OWL's..." Harry muttered to himself, "that's pretty good... I obviously wasn't going to get History of Magic... or Divination, thank God I can drop them now... and somehow I have managed to pass Astronomy, even though that was the night that Hagrid was attacked... Exceeds Expectations in Potions – Snape said you had to have at least Outstanding to enter his NEWT level class – so, yay, I can drop potions!"

It then occurred to Harry that he was talking to himself, which he was trying to avoid, because it was what that scum Kreacher did. He wasn't too bothered, though – seven OWL's was good! He wondered what Ron and Hermione got, then again remembered that it wasn't long until he saw them again.

He then opened his present from Hagrid, which was an extremely furry scarf – an interesting gift to be given in mid summer...

It was then that he remembered the last owl, the unfamiliar one, which had been sitting so still on his bedside cabinet that he had almost forgotten it was there. He untied the note that was tied around it's leg, and unfolded it. It was a very small and thin piece of parchment, a little torn at the edges, and it had been written in deep purple ink.

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