Chapter 2
SEVEN YEARS LATER
"Mum! Mum! Have you seen my shin guards?" Ewan shouted looking through the hamper.
"In the Hallway!" she shouted from the kitchen, where she was getting ready for the after game ceremony which was taking place at their house.
"Thanks!" he threw everything back in the hamper and ran into the hallway. Opening the closet door, to find 15 other pairs of shin guards. 'This is going to take some time' he thought and start going through them.
Ewan Evan Tyler was an 11- year old, who was deeply in love with the game of football (Soccer). Though as he was only 11 he had dreams of being on the England U16 squad, then one day he wants to play for Manchester United. Now, however, he had to stick with the little league football. Ewan was fast and agile, making him one of the best players on the team.
'And one of the weirdest…' he thought. Mysteries things always seem to happen around him. Like the one time that Ewan got made at losing the ball to another player, only to have the ball pop right in front of him. And even off the field, then the neighborhood bully tried to pick on him and a group of friends, he pushed out his hands to protect his face when the bully disappeared.
That was four years ago, and since then he tried over and over again to make things happen. What was weird, was it usually it did. Two years ago, he was told to take the trash to the curb for pick-up, he thought about the trash and how he didn't want to touch it, and the trash picked it self up, he thought it should move itself to the curb and it did.
After first Ewan thought it was fake, but it couldn't have been, everyone could see it. Then he thought he was a magician, but he had seen on the telly how the magician always had secrets and knew about them, but Ewan didn't know any secrets.
Then he thought he was a wizard like Merlin, but wizards had wands and other little trinkets and said things like "Abra Kadabra", he didn't. He decided to give up; he was just Ewan Tyler, the boy who could do weird things.
Except sometimes, he wasn't Ewan Tyler, he was another boy, who knew about potions and lions and vampires, and other weird creatures, he was a boy who had his real parents, his parents he could barely remember except in his dreams.
"Ewan! Let's go!" said his father, his new father. Who happened to make him and Ewan late for the last game, 'It's all his fault' Ewan kept thinking. "I'm coming!" Ewan shouted back.
Jon wasn't blaming Ewan but Jon is the Assistant coach, so they had to leave now or they would never make it. Behind him were clanking noises indicating that the mail had just arrived. Picking up the mail, there was a TV bill, a letter from Lara's sister, a letter from the library asking for their book back, and a letter for Ewan. A letter for Ewan! Jon was curious so he took a peek at the letter. The envelope was thick and heavy made of yellow parchment; the ink was an emerald- green. There was also no stamp, and on the back was a wax seal bearing a coat of arms; a lion, an eagle, a badger, and a snake surrounding a large letter H. The address said:
Mr. E. Tyler
21 Langley Ln.
London, England
Jon, knowing that he should respect Ewan privacy shouted "HEY EWAN, LARA COME HERE!"
Down the steps came Ewan with his football gear and thru the kitchen came Lara.
"You have a letter Ewan." said Jon curiously. "It doesn't look like the letters your pen-pal from Australia sent you."
"Who is it from then?" he said while taking the letter and looking at it.
"I don't know" Jon said shrugging his shoulders.
"Open it Ewan" said Lara still holding a juice container.
Ewan opened the letter, and read:
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. Tyler,
We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Find enclosed a list of all necessary books and equipment. Term begins on September 1st. We await your owl no later than July 31st.
Yours Sincerely,
Minerva McGonagall
Deputy Headmistress
There was silence after reading the later only to be broken a second later by Ewan.
"What the bloody hell was that all about!?"
"Ewan!"
"Sorry" he said innocently.
"They can't be serious", started Jon, "A Wizard School? Like Magic? They have got to be joking!"
"I knew it, I knew it! There is magic and wizards!" said Ewan jumping up and down.
As if on cue, there was a knock at the door, Ewan open the door to find a giant man. This man had long shaggy hair, a tangled beard, and had black beetle like eyes. He wore a large overcoat and carried a pink umbrella.
"'ello," the giant said. "You must be Ewan Tyler, yes?" Totally oblivious that he was talking to Ewan Potter, the son of James and Lily Potter.
Now Ewan, who was small for his age, felt really small. He nodded.
"Good. My name is Rebeus Hagrid, Keeper of Keys and Grounds at Hogwarts."
"That's a real place?" asked Jon threatening to laugh.
"O' course it's a real place but yeh never find it cause yeh muggle's" he said pointing his umbrella towards them.
"Muggle's?" asked Ewan, interested.
"Non-magic folk, like your parents"
"Oh" Ewan said looking at his letter again. "What does' it mean 'we await your owl'?" He asked the giant
"Oh yeh that reminds me" said the giant pulling out a piece of parchment and feather quill.
He wrote on the Parchment:
Headmaster,
How are yeh? Weather is fine. Went to muggleborn boy's house taking' him to get his things.
Yours truly,
Hagrid
"First of all" said Hagrid." I gonna tell yeh all about it. Hogwarts is..." Hagrid talked for hours about Hogwarts its four houses, quidditch, which is something that Ewan really wants to try,
Ewan's football game was long past by the time Hagrid stopped.
"So wait, if wizards use a different type of money, how are we going to be able to pay for this?" asked Jon concerned.
"You can exchange your muggle money for wizard money". Hagrid then looked at a watch. "I'll be leaving yeh for now, it's late, see we'll get yeh things in the mornin, okay?"
"Okay, bye Hagrid"
"Bye" with that the giant was gone.
For the rest of the day and night Ewan kept having little flash backs of another little black haired boy, and another two people, they looked familiar to him.
Before falling asleep that night he remembered another flashback.
Flashback
"Then the werewolf, Moony, would come and save you from terrible things." said James.
"What rrible things?" said the two year old
"Terrible, and um he would save you from... from... dementors...he would save you from dementors" finished James.
"Nice save, hon." Said Lily rubbing her belly.
"Nice belly, hon." James said with a smirk
"This is holding your future son or daughter James Potter!" she said in an angry tone, she been angry lately and that means baby should be here in approximately a month.
"Mummy, will you still love me when the baby comes?" showing his nice big emerald eyes.
"Of course" said Lily who was about to tear up and start crying,
'I will not cry, I will not cry' she thought, while hugging her son.
'He just so plain cute' her thoughts thought back
"Son, your mother and I will always love you, for the rest of your life, even when Harry or Ann comes in this world" he said, he wanted to hug his son but his wife, or should I say wife's belly was blocking his path.
"I luv you mummy and daddy" he said with a wide smile.
End of flashback
When he awoke the next morning he didn't remember anything from the flashback.
