I clarify again that this story was written in Spanish and later passed to English through Google translator, so I apologize for any mistake that grammar may have or if the text cannot be easily understood.
The day had already come when I would have to go to Hogwarts, mama, me and Mr. Mungst were leaving the dripping cauldron to go to a train station, as Mr. Mungst would have to go through platform 9 3/4 in the one that would take me to the Hogwarts Exprest, a train, and from there to school.
I am not going to lie, I was more than excited, not only because I could go to school and learn to do magic since I could not do it outside of it, and I already finished reading the books we bought, but as I said before I couldn't do magic outside of school.
Already inside the train station Mr. Mungst guided us to a column between platforms 9 and 10, in front of us walked a family of redheads who had crossed the wall !, a smile spread across my face, I wanted to know how to do that and be able to go through my room directly to the bathroom.
-It is very easy just relax and walk straight to the column, nothing bad will happen to you- Mr. Mungst had said before doing the indicated thing and seeing it disappear between the bricks.
My mother held my shoulder and guided me to the front, I closed my eyes and breathed, I was not afraid, since I entered this world of magic all I felt with everything I saw was amazement and excitement to learn, the days of waiting in the dripping cauldron were years.
Before I knew it, I had already crossed the column and now I was on a single platform where many people dressed in robes like those of Mr. Mungst and people dressed in normal clothes were with their children. They touched my shoulder, I recognized immediately that it was my mother without the need to turn around.
- You have everything, isn't it? The books? Clothes? The ... - Mom started to list but I interrupted.
- Yes mom, I have everything, I never forget anything - she just smiled at me.
- Mrs. Wilson, young Alan, the train will leave the station in ten minutes, I recommend you hurry up and get a cabin - that was Mr. Mungst.
Mom helped me carry the trunk with all my things, I walked a little too fast, so much that I almost collided with a lady ... wait, I withdraw what was said, I was a man alone who was on his back and his hair too long, smooth and blond confused. When he turned around he looked at me with an expression of disgust and pulled his cloak coolly away from me to get away. Already at the door of the train mama bent down and looked at me.
-Please take care, don't get in trouble.-
-I'm not Alex, mom, I'm not going to do anything wrong.
-Do you have your cell phone? Call me every day. - She kept quiet for a few seconds before hugging me tightly, I hugged her back. In the distance the whistle was heard indicating that I should hurry up and go up.- Go and enjoy, my little wizard.
Just open it for a moment and enter the anxious train.
Getting a cabin that was not occupied was more difficult than I thought, not that I bothered you to share with other children, the problem was that they were completely full with no space for more people. Luckily and patiently I found one in which there was only one person, it was a girl, she had her feet on the whole seat without leaving space for another person.
-Sorry for bothering, there are almost no booths, does it bother you if I stay here?
-Not at all, in fact I was already bored of being alone, I am Marie Allard, a pleasure.-she said as I pointed to the seat on the opposite side of the cabin.
I raised an eyebrow when I heard the French name and didn't notice a proper accent for him (not that I know what a French accent is like to know it), I sat in front of her.
-Alan Wilson, it's also a pleasure- I said while extending his hand.
-Hello Alan, are you been nesting? Isn't that right? - I ask while shaking hands is a greeting.
-What do I give up? The accent or the name?
-Both, why do you come to Hogwarts instead of Ilvermorny? Mama told me that school is in the United States.
-It's because I was born in Britain during my mother's vacation- I replied
- Well, you are luckier than many children in your country, you are going to attend the best magic school in the world or so my brother said - before I can answer she continued with a question - You are a Muggle born, aren't you? You have one clothes.
Bitter the expression by remembering everything Mr. Mungst had taught me about magical society and its racism. - Any problem if it were?
-No, it was just an observation, they wear very ridiculous things.
-For me you dress like clowns and answering your question, I am not a Muggle born, I am a mestizo.
-Great! Then it is not the first time you hear of magic.
-Actually if it's the first time and I still can't believe it, I want to learn everything, especially how to go through walls like in the station column.
-If you liked me then you will like the enchantment class, my brother told me that this is where you learn those things. I, on the other hand, prefer the herbology and flight class. What do you prefer?
-I'm not sure, if what you said is true then I would like the enchantment class and maybe potions but I definitely will not like history of magic, in my previous school I never liked my history class ... too many dates to remember .
-My brother says that the Magic History teacher is the worst teacher in the whole school but that his class would sleep if he was tired.
-How is the worst if you can sleep in your schedule?
-I don't know, when I asked him, he just looked at me with an expression of evil and said "I won't ruin your surprise" - he said it while trying to imitate the same expression that his brother used and raised his hands dramatically.
-It seems that your brother told you a lot about Hogwarts, did he tell you how he is? I know it is a very large castle but nothing more.
- I also asked him the same thing but in addition to the Houses and the classes he did not tell me anything else, he always says that the majesty of the school has to be seen by oneself. I never understood
Before I can continue the conversation, a woman craves with a candy cart to knock on the door.
-Good day little ones, they like to buy some candy, another child bought a lot of cabins behind but I still have a lot.
I didn't have many galleons since most used them to buy the supplies and I didn't know if the ones I had would reach for much. Suddenly Marie spoke in a slightly loud voice.
-It's true, you should never have eaten the Dragees or the chocolate frogs! You have to try it. I will buy four pairs of each one.- said the latter to the woman in the cart.
The woman just muttered something about "these spoiled children today" and gave Marie the candy, she to pay for it takes out of her bag a little box, took from inside Barios galleons and handed them to the lady.
-Take, they are Dragees of all flavors and a chocolate frog, they are the best sweets in the whole world ... as long as you don't touch a mucus dragee or something similar.
I looked at her for a moment thinking it was a joke but she looked at me with a face, which although exaggerated, very serious.
-They can't be of all flavors, can they? - I asked a little insecure about the last thing she said.
He kept looking at me with that serious face, I took the box and took out a few dragees with many colors. The one I ate was a brush with brown spots.
-It tastes like chocolate cake! - I said excitedly, I threw all the contents of the box into my seat and began to separate all those that had the same colors.
-You are lucky, the first one I ate, I knew wood. - While I speak I take one of its boxes to start eating.- Doing that will not work for you, they may seem alike, but their flavors are completely different, there is never the same flavor in a box.
Take one of the dragees I separated, willing to approve your statement, I immediately regretted it.
-This is from ... dog hair? I am not sure.- This time I was not as happy as with the first one.
My roommate just laughed at me while she took a dragee to her mouth and spit it a second later.
-Glass. I did not know that it existed, I better leave them for later, I do not feel like eating one with earthy flavor. - She closed the box she had and kept it next to the others in the bag from which I take out the box of galleons.
- Why so many?
- They do not sell them at school and only the third year they can go to a town near the school, I can sell these and win some galleons or some magical object that the parents of pure-blooded children give them.
While she was talking I was taking one of the things she called chocolate frogs, when I opened the package a frog literally jumped out of chocolate and crashed into my face. For a moment I wondered why magical things like to jump into my face.
Marie was laughing very hard at my misfortune. I took the frog stuck to my right eye and watched it, it was moving slightly while holding it by one leg, the desire to eat it left my body, it seemed as if I was alive.
-Don't be afraid, they are not real frogs, they are only animated.
-Even so disgusting or nauseous, do you want it? - She took it from my hand and started eating it.
-The chocolate frogs come with a chrome, they show some famous wizard. Which one did I touch you?
Tilt your head to look at the box - says Falco Aesalon, who is it?
-It's the first known animagus, I already have that one- he talked while chewing the chocolate frog, it seemed that the remains of the leg were still moving in his hand.
-What is an animagus? - Ask anxiously to know more about the magical world.
-An animagus is a magician who can transform at will into an animal and still preserve the intelligence and useful life of his human form- it did not seem that he was explaining it rather by reciting the phrase that he should have heard from somewhere.
-That is incredible! Do they teach it at Hogwarts?
-I'm not sure, my grandmother was an animagus but she did not go to Hogwarts, she told me that to be an animagus you have to do a lot of things and it is very difficult, besides you cannot choose which animal you become, I do not want to make so much effort to then you can only transform into an ant or something even more disappointing.
-Even so it would be amazing, you could spy on other people while you're an ant, nobody pays attention to them.- she seemed to consider what I said.
-Yes, but for that same reason we step on them all the time and nobody notices, I would not like to end up on foot.
-You could be another type of animal, you said you don't know what animal you will become, how about an animal that flies?
-Falco could be transformed into a hawk, but the animals that become flying animals are rare, even more rare are those that become weights and stuff. But it would be amazing to be able to fly or breathe underwater like a fish.
We continued talking for a long time going from topic to topic, first it was in which animal you would like to become, I said anyone who flies, she said a cat (to be able to sleep all day and not be able to tell her anything). Then she showed me a spell to make her eyes shine, I asked her to teach me and twenty minutes to do it right. When I was saying that I would like to turn my history teacher into a worm she said that we were already arriving and that we should change to school uniforms, I will be honest and say that I was struggling to get mine and even more to To be able to walk with him, every time I took a step I stepped on the tunic that reached the ground, tripping me and almost falling ... all the time.
When we were getting off the train I heard someone indicate that the first years had to go in votes, the idea did not get me excited but I was not terrified, we would see if I liked the experience.
I turned around to follow the voice and go to the boats and freeze at that moment, that man was the biggest one ever seen, I think he is about two meters. Marie was close to me, I leaned in and whispered - Are all wizards that big?
They just laughed and said - not he must be half giant or descendant of one, he is not taller, dad has an employee who also has giant blood and is four meters tall.
Swallow, I should be amazed but thinking and seeing such tall people was a bit intimidating.
Marie and I boarded a boat with another child, he seemed very shy so we did not talk but when we started to see the castle from where we were the three we exhaled that almost left our lungs.
-My brother was right - Marie said, I ignored her just to lean a little closer than I almost fell off the boat.
Inside the castle is much more impressive than from the outside, the place looked bigger than it looked and the best thing was the paintings that moved and greeted. What almost made my heart run out of my mouth were the ghosts, I remembered the many fantasy novels and in them the ghosts were always violent creatures that lurked in houses or roads, but these were very kind greet some and Two of them said they expected to see us in their homes, they may be friendly but sleeping next to one of them was something he definitely didn't want to do.
We reached the end of the stairs where a somewhat older woman spoke to us and explained the function of the Hogwarts houses for those born in Muggle who do not know (I knew it by reading the textbooks), after the interruption of a boy I take his toad, we enter the great hall.
I was beginning to believe that I would be amazed even by the school cleaning cabinets, the great hall was so large that four huge tables and more could fit. We stood in front of the teachers' table and started calling each one to find out which house we belonged to, but I was almost sure which one it was.
and a new chapter, I hope that the one who is reading this likes it and if so I could comment on the reviews if he likes it, I just want to know if people are liking what I write (it's a nice feeling)
I left in the previous chapter (I think) that I planned to introduce an element of other franchises into history, and as a recent mind I read until the third book of THE WITCHER I thought about including the signs used by witchers in that saga.
This concludes the author's comments, thanks for reading.