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Chapter 2: Owls and Letters

AN: Here is the next chapter, hope you like it

It was mid-July and the summer holiday had finally started. Jen loved the summer holiday, she didn´t have to worry about homework, she could read all day and she could avoid seeing Danvers and her gang. She could sit and read in her room or in the walled in backyard so that it would be no chance that she would meet Danvers or anyone in her gang.

Jen loved to read, it didn´t matter if it was fictious books or schoolbooks she read everything she could get her hands on. When her brother had started his second year at Hogwarts, he had left some of his first-year books at home and Jen had tried to read them, but her mother had found out and taken them from her and forbidden her to read them.

But at the moment Jen wasn´t reading, she was walking home from the grocery store because her mother had forgotten to buy milk and asked Jen to do it because she was busy. It was in the middle of the afternoon and the sun was shining down at the street making the air tremble.

Jen was nearly home when someone suddenly walked into her from behind. She nearly fell over but managed to catch herself in the last minute.

"Oh, I´m so sorry," Jen heard a squeaky, high pitched voice say from behind her. "But you are so short that I didn´t see you."

Jen was shorter than most in her year and in the year below and it was one of the favourite things Tracy Danvers and her gang picked on her for.

Jen turned to the brown hair brown eyed girl and smiled a strained smile.

"Hello, Tracy it´s nice to see you," Jen said before starting to walk away.

Jen had learned that if Tracy was alone it was easier to pretend that she hadn´t done anything or just ignore her altogether to make her stop the teasing.

"So, you think it´s nice to see me," Tracy said with a laugh. "Well, that´s nice, I can´t say the same about you though, you are just too ugly to ever be nice to look upon."

Jen who had just opened the front door of her house turned to Tracy.

"Well, goodbye Tracy," Jen said. "And I´m sorry that I lied before, but it wasn´t nice to see your ugly face either."

Jen then turned and walked into the house closing the door behind her.

When Jen walked into the kitchen, she met Peter.

"Why are you looking so sad?" he asked.

"I met Danvers outside," Jen answered.

"What did she say?" Peter said furiously.

"You know the usual, that I was short and such."

"Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I don´t care what Danvers says anymore," Jen said as she put the milk in the fridge then she turned and gave Peter a reassuring smile.

"Good," Peter said and kissed the top of her head before walking into the living room to look at TV with their father.

Jen sighed heavily before walking up to her room so she could go back to the book she had started reading before she had gone to the grocery store.

At dinner that night it was only Jen and her siblings eating as their parents were working. Just before going to bed that night Jen opened the window in her room in a wane hope of cooling it down after the warm summer day.

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The next morning Jen was woken up by something landing on her bed. When she opened her eyes, she saw that it was a big grey owl that had woken her and was now sitting on her bed with a letter in its beak. Jen groggily sat up and rubbed her eyes before she reached her hand towards the owl and carefully took the letter from its beak. When the letter was safely in her hand the owl ruffled its feathers before swooping out of her open window.

Jen followed the owl's flight when it flew away over the roofs of neighbouring houses. Why´s an owl delivering a letter to me? she thought, Peter´s the wizard in the family.

Jen looked down at the letter in her hand; the envelope was thick and heavy and made of yellowish parchment. She carefully turned the letter over to read the address that was written in emerald green ink.

Miss J. MacAvity

The third-floor bedroom on the right-hand side

7 Rose Street

London

Jen stared at the letter. It's to me, were the only thing she could think of at first. Then she stated to think who in the magical world would send her a letter, and she could only come up with one answer.

She ripped the envelope open, pulled out the letter and started reading.

HOGWARTS SCHOOL OF WITCHCRAFT AND WIZARDY

Headmaster: Albus Dumbledore

(Order of Merlin, First Class, Grand Sorrc., Chf. Warlock, Supreme Mugwump, International Confed. of Wizards)

Dear Miss MacAvity

We are pleased to inform you that you have a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Please find enclosed a list of all necessary books and equipment. Term begins on 1 September. We await your owl by no later than 31 July.

Yours sincerely,

Minerva McGonagall

Deputy Headmistress

Jen read the letter again while a big smile crept onto her face. She was going to Hogwarts.

"Peter!" Jen screamed while jumping out of her bed and running out of her room.

"Peter, Peter, look what I´ve got!" Jen screamed as she ran into his room.

Peter, who had been reading his own Hogwarts letter, looked up from studying a blue and bronze badge.

"What?" He said a bit annoyed over being disturbed.

"I got my Hogwarts letter!" Jen screamed in his ear as she jumped up on his bed and shoved her letter into his face.

"Congratulations!" Peter said and hugged her. "And I got made a Prefect, look!"

Peter gave her the blue and bronze badge he had been studying before. Now that she was seeing the blue badge closer, she saw that it not only had a bronze eagle on it, but it also had big P on it.

"Congratulations Peter!" Jen said with a big smile as she gave him back his Prefects badge. "Come we have to tell mother, father and Olivia, they are probably already down in the kitchen eating breakfast."

Jen jumped off Peter's bed and was already at the door when Peter stopped her.

"You know mother and father isn´t going to be happy about this, right?" he said.

"Yeah, I know," Jen said sadly. "But I have to tell them."

"Yeah, I know," Peter said solemnly as they walked down to the kitchen, their moods significantly dampened.

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When Peter and Jen came into the kitchen, they saw their parents sitting at the kitchen table drinking coffee and reading the newspaper while their sister was eating a nearly finished plate with fried bacon and eggs.

When Jen and Peter sat down at the table their parents looked up at them and gave them a stern nod before looking down at their newspapers again while Olivia didn´t acknowledge them at all and just continued to eat her bacon.

Jen and Peter glanced at each other before speaking.

"I just got my Hogwarts letter," Peter said. "I was made Prefect."

"Good," their father said.

"I also got a Hogwarts letter," Jen said.

Both Mr and Mrs MacAvity looked up from their newspapers and fixed her with a steely gaze each. Her little sister on the other hand jumped up from her chair and hugged Jen.

"Oh, Jen I´m so happy for you," Olivia said excitedly. "I wish I could go, but I can´t so you have to tell me everything when you come back!"

"Of course, I will," Jen said and smiled at her sister.

"Are you done eating, sweetheart?" their mother asked, and Olivia nodded. "Then you can go and clean yourself a bit before we go to the park later today, can´t you?"

Olivia nodded before running out of the kitchen. When Olivia was out of the room both parents turned to Jen.

"Jennifer you're not going to Hogwarts," their mother said.

"But mother I want to go to Hogwarts!" Jen said. "I´ve wanted it since Peter got his first Hogwarts letter, please, please, let me go!"

"You can go," their father said and glanced at his wife. "But are you certain you want to; we can get you into a really good school if you want to."

"Yes, we can even get you into a really good private school," their mother said. "They even take in people with your grades."

Jen ignored her mother's last comment and stared her right in the eye instead.

"I want to go to Hogwarts," Jen said determinately. "And nothing you do can stop me."

AN: Okay two updates in one day, don´t get used to it I´m pretty irregular when it comes to updates. I have finished this book and started writing the next but I will update when I feel like it so I don´t expect to update regularly.

Hope you enjoyed the chapter