Chapter Two ~ Discovered
I woke with a start, to bushes rustling across the clearing I had spent the night in. Hands fumbling, I pushed myself up into a sitting position. Then, a massive hairy man tore through the undergrowth and stood gawping at me.
"An' who are ye'? he yelled in confusion.
I shook from head to foot. Hagrid, the Hogwarts gamekeeper, had just spoken to me. This was real, I pinched myself. Ouch. Well, I wasn't dreaming. But, this meant that I was in the Forbidden Forest, and that only a few metres away, witches and wizards were sleeping, their wands at rest after a long day of magic. Of course I had heard giggling! But it wasn't any stupid, old stream, or pebbles. It was children! Students! Young witches and Wizards! And the whispers, those weren't the trees! Gosh, I was stupid. But how did I know this wasn't some elaborate dream, or some sort of hallucination? The answer was, I didn't. For all I knew, it probably was, but for now I wasn't going to dwell on the fact. I was going to enjoy myself! After all, I was at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. I was a witch!
And with that thought in mind, I fainted.