The Black Letter

1: The Black Letter

It's all started on the last day of summer. I was packing my things for Hogwarts. Yes, I go to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and I am going to start my third year! I was searching for my potions book when I heard the flapping of the wings. I turned around and saw an owl black as darkness sat on my bed. I untied the letter from her leg, and she flew back out the window. When I touched the letter, I felt like I was hypnotized. I heared the voice in my head. It was like it wasn't from this world.

"I'm someone no one knows about,
the next king of snakes himself,
Son of a respectable master,
My father's death was all rejoicing,
but his name was never spoken" it said and everything was normal again. I tried to open a letter that I was still holding in my hand, and I made it. The green writing was shining from the parchment. There was a riddle written that the voice in my head told me. "I must have deciphered it" I said to myself and put the letter in a crate.

The next day I was sitting on the Hogwarts express with my bestfriend Zaya Malfoy. She is the first Gryffindor in the Malfoy generation, because she isn't bad. She's so smart, kind and funny. We were talking about yesterday. Zaya took her history book out of her bag and start to search it for the king of snakes. Since we didn't find anything, we re-examined the letter. Meanwhile, the lady with the food came to our dome and we bought Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans. We'we played guess the flavour.

The sun was setting, we've changed into school robes and prepared on arrival to Hogwarts. We soon arrived and drove to Hogwarts in carriages.

At the sorting ceremony Zaya and I told all about the letter to our best friend Alatar Longbottom. He reacted like always. "Bloody hell!" he said "Why didn't you just throw it away?! This is absolutely the dark magic! You can go to Azkaban if the Ministry of Magic found out about this!" He was really shocked. I was afraid everyone would hear him, so we calmed him down a little bit. When the sorting ceremony was over the Headmistress Fleamont stand up and said: "First years welcome to our school and to other students welcome back! Everyone please note that the Dark Forest is strictly forbidden to all not just first years! But now let the feast begin!" The tables started filling up with food, and we filled each of our own plates.

After the feast, we headed to our common rooms. On the way, we met Rawenclaws who were talking loudly about the summer holidays. Zaya and I went straight to our bedroom, which we share with Sophie Prince and Emily Black. Sophie and Emily were still in the common room, so we tried to find out more about the king of snakes.