The Real Dark Lord
Chapter Two
After a few weeks of more and more letters, some with strange addresses like: Ms Cally Chase, smallest bedroom, and Third room on the left. I began to get a strange feeling that someone was stalking me, then my thoughts were confirmed.
My father had sent me out to run to the shops to buy him some more bread and I suddenly realised they was a strange man behind me. He was very tall and very big built with a scraggy beard and piggy eyes. He looked like a giant to me, he must have been eight feet tall.
As I carried on walking he almost followed me, dogging my footsteps until as I turned the corner to the shops. He was gone, I looked behind me and he had vanished.
Good, I thought, no more strange people to follow me. As I turned back to carry on walking there he was, dead ahead. I tried to keep calm and pursued to walk straight past him as if he was just another neighbour.
"Are you Miss Cally Chase?" The tall man said very quietly, so I couldn't tell if I'd actually heard him correctly.
"Pardon" I said, almost rudely.
"Miss Cally Chase, am I correct in assuming?"
"Yes and of what business is it to you?" I tried to sound mature and older than I was.
"I'm here on Professor Dippet's orders, it seems you haven't replied to 'is letters and term will be startin' soon."
Great, so here was my practical joker.
"Are you the one who sent all those letters?"
"Me? No, I just deliver em' for the Professor see." He replied gruffly.
"Is this your idea of a joke?"
"No miss, I assure you its all true, you're a witch, believe it or not, though you don't know it."
He got that part right.
"Prove it then!" My childish curiosity seeping through.
"Alrighty then."
And suddenly, he got this flowery umbrella out of his jacket and pointed it at the ground.
"Accio, stone"
And then as if by magic, a stone shot from the ground and into his awaiting palm.
"Good trick, but that's not going to make me believe you."
"Alrighty lets see then, err, accio shopping list."
My shopping list shot from my hand into his.
"Bread and milk huh."
"Ok, now that's strange, ok, I sort of believe you," I stuttered, my voice breaking, "say I am really a witch, wouldn't I need a broomstick and a cat, oh and a wand to be one?"
"All that will come later, but for now, you've gotta go tell your Dad."
Great. That would be the easy part.
I opened the door to hear my father singing away merrily, he was drunk as always.
I walked into the living room followed by the tall man, Rubeus Hagrid he'd said his name was. I opened my mouth to speak and my father suddenly turned the television off.
"Who's that man, and what's he doing in my house!"
"I'll explain everything, but first, I've got a place at a really good school, this ma- Hagrid, he's the caretaker, that's what all those letters where about."
"Why'd you rip em up then?"
"I told you, I thought someone was playing a joke on me."
"They probably still are, you're so gullible and stupid."
"Well they aren't a joke, and it's a really good school."
"How the hell could you get into a good school, your stupid and pathetic and not worth anyone's time."
"Well apparently I am, it's a very special school and Hagrid is going to take me to get my uniform and books and other bits."
"Special? More like stupid to let you enrol, and what about this bloke, taking you to get your uniform, he's probably some pervert that lives in a box down an alley and you've fell for it like the idiot you are!"
"Now Mr Chase, there'll be no need fer that, your daughter has shown a special talent, which is held in high regard at our school and she has been asked to join as a first year student." Hagrid said calmly.
"And what school is this, the school for retards and 'special' children?"
"No, it is Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and your daughter is a witch."
"Pahahahaha, what a load of rubbish, oh, whatever Mr Hagrid, take the stupid girl. She'll be no more use to you than she was too me, just be sure to keep a belt on you so you can thrash her if she gets out of line, do they still do hangings where you're from?"
"Good day to you Mr Chase."
"Goodbye Father."
"See you in the cemetery girly."
And with that, Hagrid and I walked out the door and I wondered what was store for me.
Going to Hogwarts, that's how I met Tom Riddle. Who would later be known as Lord Voldemort, the greatest Dark wizard of all time and my one true love.