The letter

July 24th, 1991

Emerald green eyes fluttered open as sunlight streamed through the window, the child's chest moving in a slow pattern and they looked at the ceiling that was above them as they were waiting for a certain person to knock on his door.

The child's name was Harry, just Harry. He had black hair that looked like a birds nest and eyes with the colour of emerald green. He went to his wardrobe and him being an orphan, he didn't have many clothes to put on as he only had two t-shirts, three pairs of socks, two pairs of jeans and a pair of sneakers.

He puts on a white t-shirt with blue jeans and his black sneakers. He smiled as he heard a small knock on his door "right on time." He said to himself as he walked over to the door.

He opened the door to reveal a sixteen-year-old Alice, the girl with brown hair and blue eyes had a big smile on her face "good morning, Harry."

Harry smiled back at her. He was almost bouncing on his feet as he knew what he was going to get today "good morning Alice."

Harry had always seen Alice as a big sister that he could tell her everything, even the strange things that happened around him. As time went on, she would tell him stories of magical beings that would roam the earth.

Then one day she told him that magic was real and that he was a wizard, she showed him all her books that she had for the school she went to every year, she had told him that the school was called Hogwarts.

Alice looked at Harry's hair before she sighs "Why does your hair look like a birds nest?" She asked as she ran her hand through his hair, trying to tame it.

"It's not my fault that I was born with it." He answered with a pout on his lips. He tried to pry her hands away from his hair "Can't we go and have breakfast already." He asked with his hands on his hair after prying away Alice's hands.

Alice giggled, she closed the door behind them before she started to run down the hall "The last one there have to take the dishes." She yelled and Harry sighs before he started to run after her.

When Harry reached the kitchen he saw Alice already eating pancakes with a smug look on her face. A woman in her mid-thirties was at the stove making the delicious smelling pancakes that every child that came to the orphanage loved.

The woman at the stove was also the owner of the orphanage. Her name was Maria Mason, a muggle that accepted children even if they had magic.

Harry glared at Alice before he smiled at Maria "Good morning Maria." Maria turned around to find Harry behind her with a smile on his face, she was always wondering why someone would leave little Harry on her doorstep.

"Good morning Harry" she went back to make pancakes for the other children that would probably wake up in an hour. Harry took out his plate before he started to load on pancakes, he was now playing the waiting game as he would sneak a peek at the window from time to time.

It had been twelve minutes before he heard a knock on the window, an owl with two envelopes on its leg was trying to get in and before he knew it Alice had gotten out of her chair and opened the window to let in the bird.

Alice untied the letters and she gave him his letter, he looked at the red seal with a big smile on his face.

If he only knew that his life would turn upside down.