Then my life changed. One morning in the middle of the summer, Albus Dumbledore arrived at my house and offered me a place at Hogwarts. I had long given up on any thoughts of school and so it was with both great joy and reservation that I agreed to attend. Little did I know that my life had been changed entirely by that visit. Just a few months later on my first day, I met James Potter, Sirius Black and Peter Pettigrew, and for the first time ever I had friends. They accepted me without question, even when they discovered my secret, and as time went by I began to realise that they were more than just my friends, they were my family. The first people in the world to accept me and who I was out of genuine love, not obligation.