A New Take On A Wizard's Tale

The Real Hogwarts

When October rolled around, Guen's parents told her that she would in fact be going to Hogwarts. Guen packed her suitcase and got ready for the end of her life. She put the suit case against the wall and rocked back and forth in her bed, a thousand inauspicious thoughts racing through her head.

The next morning when she boarded the train, they gave her a pamphlet. The mash of colors seemed to act as a drug, shortly after Guen got done reading the pamphlet she felt sick. There were two trains. Both were extremely packed. As the trains started moving, one went on its track seamlessly. However, the second train crashed into a cement subway wall, bursting into a brilliant light display. The people on that train seemed to have the worse of the mental conditions. Guen couldn't help but think that the crash was intentional.

Upon arriving at the top of the blustery mountain, the people on the train were herded out and into the building. The building itself had an antique feel to it. The wooden fixtures had beautiful carvings and all of it was symmetrical.

The new recruits were guided to a large room filled with bleachers. They were instructed to sit down. As they did, clamps came out of the seats and locked them in place. As Guen struggled the rusty metal dug gashes into her wrists. The head of the institution strolled out across the stage with mock serenity and began his speech.

"New students of Hogwarts, we welcome you. You will be living here from now on. We have a very strict schedule and punishment will be administered for breaking rules. After the first month you will be assigned to your permanent rooms. We have instructors for school, as well as nurses for your daily care. After you pass level 3 you will be trusted enough to decorate your room and go shopping, with assistance from a nurse, and classes will get harder. You are here for good now. Consider yourselves lucky you weren't on the second train."

The headmaster smiled a smile of pointed teeth and walked off the stage. The instructors replaced him on the stage and called out students to their classes. Guen was released and went to the history teacher. As she sat in class she realized that the history was distorted. It was not the truth, it was lies. Lies meant to change the way they think about the world. That's what the whole place was.