After breakfast, Harry snuck to his cupboard to hide the letter under his mattress, a thin lumpy thing, and then got back to the kitchen to receive his list of chores.
While his Aunt made lunch and prepared some snacks for tea time, Harry vacuumed and dusted the front room, the went outside to tend to the front garden in preparation for Aunt Petunia's book club meeting that afternoon.
After eating a light lunch of ham sandwiches, Harry took his letter from the cupboard and went out to the park closest to his house.
After checking that no one was watching him, Harry climbed a tree and hid between the branches where his cousin and his gang of bullies won't notice him then got the letter out of his pocket.
After turning it in his hands for a couple of times he opened it and started reading
HOGWARTS SCHOOL of WITCHCRAFT and WIZARDRY
Headmaster: Albus Dumbledore
(Order of Merlin, First Class, Grand Sorc., Chf. Warlock,
Supreme Mugwump, International Confed. of Wizards)
Dear Mr Potter,
We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted 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
At first Harry was angry, he thought that the letter must have been a joke, a new way that his cousin invented to torment him. But then after a bit of thought he concluded that that couldn't have been, because even if Dudley had the mental capacity required to pull such an elaborate prank, Harry was sure that he wouldn't of have spent the money that it would take to make a letter of this quality. And besides, his cousin wasn't one to deviate from his preferred method of torment.
But if his cousin wasn't the one behind the letter then who was? The address was too specific and Harry was sure that outside of his family no one knew that the cupboard under the stairs was his room.
After some more minutes of thinking, Harry decided that maybe the letter was really an admittance letter, because no matter how silly and farfetched it seemed that magic would be real, it sure explained a lot of things, like how he could turn his teacher's hair blue, or how he could grow his back after being cut too short.
Nodding to himself, Harry decided that the letter was real which meant that he would have to write them back and accept his spot in the school.
After rereading the letter again he found that writing back would be impossible as there was no address listed, and what did they me by "Owl?" what did birds have to do with post?
Sighing in defeat, Harry hid the letter under his jumper again and headed back to the house, wishing with all his heart that he would find a way to send a replay.
That night while he was laying on his cot, he closed his eyes and wondered if he would meet his soulmate in this new school, because it seemed as weird and exciting as the words branded on his wrist.