A riddlesome adventure

Chapter 2: your reaction

Several months have passed but your family still seemed to be sympathising with you- like you now had some kind of deficiency and like you were missing out on the greatest chance life can offer. But you didn't care what they thought. From the moment you were born you'd known one thing and one thing only, which Hagrid's visit had only you more sure of- you were going to Hogwarts. So now all there is is to figure out your master plan for escape. But how to do it? You know your parents (let alone the Hogwarts professors) would never let you go. So you must become untraceable. There must be no reason to ever suppose you're even gone. First step: organise the perfect rouse. For the next few months you lie in your bed and refuse to get up. You wont even look at your parents, hoping they believe you've fallen into a deep depression after your dreams have been crushed. It's hardly unrealistic. Eventually they get the gist and only visit to give you food through the cat flap your mother has installed in your door. Perfect. Next step: fake death. You leave your room for the first time via the window. You buy a train ticket to Diagon alley- a public affair. You wait until there are at least 15 people in the pub and jump into a deep onion soup pot in the Leaky Cauldron, leave a corpse there and sneak out. You relax as your feet touch the cobbled pavement, you can feel Hogwarts getting closer with every step.