William Revenous

William Revenous Chapter One - Departing from Platform 7 1/3

After eight long weeks summer vacation had finally ended. It had been way too long since William could finally use Magic again. To him, it was a relief to be finally back at school and meet up with his best friend once more.  

A world without Magic is different. Even for a muggle-born like William. Some things just go a little more easy with magic in your life. Especially laundry and cleaning around the house is a chore, even though William isn't allowed to use magic yet. He figured out that when you accidentally trip and fall, a lot of "accidental" magic does not register with the Ministry for Magic. Though William prefers that no one ever finds out how he figured that out. But it had to do with something embarrassing with a bucket, a rabbit and some french fries.

First he had to actually get to the train. In London the train to right platform, namely 9 3/4, is fairly easy in comparison to the Dutch platform William had to get on. Even though Amsterdam would have been a very logical place to put the platform on, the Netherlands has decided that the center of the country is better suited, which was called Utrecht. And to make things even worse : platform 7 1/3 was very hard to reach as well.  The problem here is that there was a kiosk right in front of the Pillar William had to walk through to get on platform 7 1/3. So there was usually a salesman looking right at the pillar and there is no wizard to fix his memory when William would be spotted. William often wondered if this was perhaps a test for foreign students to be allowed to practice magic at school, as they had the disadvantage to not have English as their first language. 

His parents dropped him off half an hour before the train departed. It was around eight o' clock when he got inside the station. The car stopped right in front of the train station. This would be the last time William sees his parents for at least a couple of months. 

"Well.., We'll see you at the end of the year around Christmas I think. I still have no clue what you're exactly doing at that school though. Why haven't you told us anything about it the last two months?", William's father asked him through the little mirror between him and his mother.  William had kept his mouth shut about everything that he learned at school. He even requested Hogwarts to modify his grades into common subjects instead of subjects of the supernatural, so that his parents wouldn't suspect anything.

His family had a bad history with Magic. A couple of years ago when William and his parents were on vacation, someone has lived in their home. But weird part of it was, other than the living thing of course, is that not a single alarm went off throughout the house.. Everything in the house was moved to apparently some person's liking and there was something.. supernatural in the air.

The weirdest thing William and his father spotted was that the mirror in our bathroom that refused to show any wrinkles on one's head. They kept this a secret from his mother of course.

On the table they found a small parchment with a few odd gold and silver coins. On the parchment was written : "I thank you for your kind unknowing hospitality. Horace Slughorn."

From that moment on his parents became frightened and looked for anything superstitious and they thought of the possibility of Magic in the world. And how it could be abused and how the government might be covering it all up. Because of those claims William was pretty sure their parents would freak out if they found out he was a Wizard as well..

This wasn't the only time William's parents were confronted with the wizard world either.

When William turned eleven the postman delivered a normal letter to invite him to Hogwarts. Eventually he figured out that you usually received the news by a delivery owl and the writing would have been on parchment. But apparently the people at Hogwarts were aware of the reaction of his parents.