Send a Hogwarts Acceptance Letter

HOGWARTS SCHOOL

OF WITCHCRAFT & WIZARDRY

By owl-post and under seal, from the tower where the Book of Admittance is kept.

✦

Dear A Future Student,

The first time you did something you could not explain, a quill no hand was holding wrote your name into the Book of Admittance, and the Book has kept it ever since. We write to you now because the time has come to act on it: a place awaits you at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Term begins on the first of September. The Hogwarts Express leaves King’s Cross Station, Platform Nine and Three-Quarters, at eleven o’clock sharp. Walk at the barrier with confidence. Hesitation is the only thing it refuses to let through.

You will wish to acquire:

• One wand (it does the choosing; try not to take that personally)
• Three sets of plain work robes, ink, quills, and parchment
• One cauldron, pewter, standard size 2
• An owl, a cat, or a toad (owls are traditional; toads are underrated)
• Courage, curiosity, loyalty, or ambition: whichever you carry naturally

We await your owl by no later than the thirty-first of July. Between us, the castle has already decided, and the castle is rather fond of you.

P.S.