Hello again!

I last wrote to you when I was ten. Well not a lot has happen in a year, except in the last week. You won't believe it. It's so strange … I'm a witch.

There, can you believe that? I'm a real proper witch.

I didn't believe it at first, because I got this letter from a place named Hogwarts. It said I have been accepted to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. But I didn't think it existed, also I haven't sent a form away or anything, I hadn't even heard of the school before, so how could I be accepted. I didn't even believe in magic, It was just fairytale stories to me.

So anyway, the days went on and I had another letter. Mum and Dad were really getting suspicious; they didn't know who were sending the letters. Until finally this woman showed up, her name is Professor McGonagall, and I just know she's very strict. But she seems nice. She told me that I was a witch after; of course my mum and dad had invited her in. Mum was very confused and Dad didn't believe a word of it. I didn't know what to think.

But she showed us … she showed me magic. And it's real. And I can do it too. That's why strange things happen, it explained a few things that had happened over the years and Mum and Dad finally believed it. They asked why they were never informed about me or even told about the magical world at all. It's a secret world apparently. Well not secret, there are witches and wizards in the street every day. But they dress like us; Professor McGonnall called us 'Muggles' she said it was non-magic people. Like Mum and Dad. I don't understand how I'm magic if they are not; But the Professor said it's common. I'm called a Muggle-born.

I'm so excited; I'm starting on the 1st September. Mum and Dad are excited too; they can't wait to learn about magic. I will be always all year, except the holidays. But I'll be away all school year. I guess I'll have friends now, maybe best friends. Because these are people like me now. Professor McGonagall is going to take me to get my school equipment in a place named Diagon Alley next week. I can't wait to go and see everything, the Professor told my mum and dad a lot about Hogwarts, but also said I could buy books to tell them about Hogwarts. They seemed happy about that, they always trusted books, I think that's why I do too.

I'll also be getting a magical wand. And I'll be a part of a whole new world, Mum and Dad won't really be involved in, which makes me sort of upset but I'll just have to see how it goes.

Also I'll be going to Hogwarts for the next seven years, I think it's going to be a really good experience. Mum and Dad didn't like the fact we can't tell anyone else about where I'm going during the year. We won't be able to tell my grandma's or grandpa's. I don't have any cousins; both Mum and Dad is an only child, so I don't have to keep it from too many people. But I think they are mostly unhappy because we never do keep secrets but this is a big one, and we really can't tell. I'm not allowed to do magic outside of school either, not until I come of age, which is seventeen in the magical world. I can't wait to go to this school. It's going to be wonderful.

I'll most likely write after Diagon Alley if nothing interesting happens between then.

Hermione ..