Muggle Hogwarts
Dear Mr. H. Potter,
This year Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is embarking on a new endeavour. As you know
Voldemort has risen to power once again, and with this comes a great threat to both muggles,
wizard-kind alike. There is no greater need then now for the gap between the muggle and
wizarding world to be closed. With the approval of the
Ministry of Magic, Hogwarts has been allowed to create awareness of the threat of
Voldemort through our Muggle counterpart - Hogwarts School for the Gifted and
Talented. You most likely didn't even know existed, because since it's beginnings it had been
agreed that the two schools would remain separate in order to comply with secrecy laws.
However, after spending the last month in consultation with the Ministry of Magic, it
has been decided that we may send four of our students over to Hogwarts School for the
Gifted and Talented, in order to educate the muggle students about Voldemort and the danger
he presents to them. You are one of the four students we have chosen to send.
At the start of the school year you are to meet with the other three students at the back carriage of the Hogwarts Express. From there you will be transported to Hogwarts School for the Gifted and Talented. You will be briefed about what you are required to do on the train.
~ Yours Sincerely
Albus Dumbledore
Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
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It's been two weeks since that letter arrived, and tomorrow school starts and we all head off for
muggle Hogwarts. I've since found out that the other three students are Hermione, Ron and Ginny, no surprises
there. I haven't seen them since those three weeks that I
spent at the Weasley's house at the start of the holidays. It'll be great to see them again. Life with the
Dursleys hasn't been any different to normal, so it'll be great to get out of here and back to Hogwarts (well
sort of) with my friends. Tomorrow morning I'm booked
to catch the Knight Bus to Kings Cross station. I'll meet the others on the platform.
***
Well I managed to get to the station alright, I got there about an hour early and so I had to wait for the others to
arrive. About fifteen minutes before the train left Ron and Ginny arrived and we all headed over to the rear carriage
of the train. When we stepped into
the carriage we found that Cornelius Fudge and Professor Dumbledore where there, along with Jacob Hayes who we later
learnt was the headmaster of Muggle Hogwarts. The three of them explained to us what we were going to be doing over
this coming year at Muggle Hogwarts. We were told that we would all be spending the coming school year at Muggle
Hogwarts, and that we weren't to use any form of magic unless it was absolutely necessary (i.e. Voldemort was
around) while we were at the school. Once every week we return to Hogwarts to learn the work for our sixth year (fifth
year in Ginny's case). New sixth year Gryffindor prefects were appointed so that Hermione and Ron could attend the
Muggle School.
Once we got to the school we were put into classes according to our school years at Hogwarts and our experience in
muggle schools. Hermione and I were put into fifth year, we would have been put in sixth year but they felt that
we'd be better in fifth as we
hadn't attended a muggle school in five years. Ron was put into fourth year and Ginny into third. That was
basically because they've never been to a muggle school before.
***
Everything's been going pretty well here. We've had no major problems. There were a few minor problems when we
first arrived. Like how do we explain the threat of Voldemort without telling them anything about the wizarding world?
That's been sorted out now, and everyone knows that we are from a counterpart of Hogwarts (they don't know
it's a magical school). At the moment all we've told them is that there is a dangerous threat to our school and
that it may become a threat to them too. We've been told not to say anything else unless Voldemort becomes more of
a threat.
They have the same houses here which I found kind of funny seeing as they're the founders of Wizarding Hogwarts,
and I know the Muggle Hogwarts wasn't created until Dumbledore became headmaster of Hogwarts. Though I suppose they
were the founders of Hogwarts. We've all been put into Gryffindor, like we are at Wizarding Hogwarts.
Everything is so similar it's almost as though it's the same building, well aside from all the magic at
Wizarding Hogwarts, though even though, there appears to be a sense of magic around here. I bet there is magic around
here too. It's probably built magically.
I'll have to find out while I'm here.
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