By: Amanda Li

August 19, 1971

Our mom sighed. “Fine. But remember, only the wands.” We all danced around like maniacs. Then Sophie tripped over my feet. I crashed into mom. The pan went flying—right into our dad, who just came in.

“Merlin’s Beard! What’s all the fuss?”

Jessie screamed in shock, and the super glue on the table went flying to the ceiling.。I jumped to catch it, then Soph tripped on a chair, and it (the chair) flew onto my back, and I kicked the super glue bottle, accidently backflipped, and a few seconds later, I was temporarily stuck on the ceiling (wow, Amanda, amazing). At that moment, Sophie lost her balance, and her mouth landed on the oven. Suddenly, we all just realized that our owls were eating the popcorn in the cupboard and watching us like we were in a comedy movie. Mom was yelling at Jess, and Jess was getting angrier until her rare ability was activated. Her hair turned into fire. Jess tore off a clump of her hair, which turned into a fireball. Mom pulled out her wand and pointed it at Jessie’s hair, ready to extinguish.。

Dad was extremely calm about this and cleaned up everything and read his newspaper. The main fact was that she was hanging upside down from the super glue on the ceiling, and mom was in a Hero- Academia fight with Jess, and Soph was basically kissing the oven (at least mom hit the stop button!). Dad being that calm during all the chaos was kind of funny. After dad read the first page, he turned to us dramatically and asked….”Soo, what did I miss? Kids, tell me the starting sentence, and your mother will explain everything with me privately.”

So we did. “We got our Hogwarts letters!” we triplets said in unison.

After mom explained the situation downstairs, I got out my (don’t laugh) rubber chicken and spent hours trying to smash my piggy bank. After I smashed it, I counted the gallons and the sickles in it. The only thing we needed was a new wand. We got the books from our four grandparents, each for every year. However, they lost their wands, so we needed to save up for a new wand. After this, mom called us down for magic class. We got our trainer wands and burst into the kitchen with our broom sticks. After doing magic class, mom explained about the letter. And of course, we were just, well, beating up purebloods. We brought our wands and packed up for Hogwarts. The day passed quickly. We were eating dinner, and then an owl arrived at our window. Soph opened it and closed the window.

“Oh my! The boy who lived is going to-tt-o Hogwarts!” Soph exclaimed.

“Let me see that!” I snatched it out of her hand while mom, dad, Jess, and Soph watched me over my shoulder.

“Oh wow. Galloping Gorgons! It’s true! The scar boy is going to Hogwarts.“

The other triplets and I were about to blow when mom said, “Go to bed.” We groaned and went to bed.

September 1st, 1971

We were filling our bags and checking our luggage because we were going to Hogwarts. The Muggle taxi driver was twitching one of his eyes in confusion. I snuffled a laugh. Muggles are so strange. After driving to King’s Cross, we went through the invisible doorway to platform 9 to 3 quarters. There stood the famous engine, the Hogwarts Express.

After waving bye to our parents, we picked a compartment and settled in…

”HCCOHG, suhhhhh” Jessie was fast asleep and snoring like a pig.

I slapped my head to wake myself up. Yeah, I know we woke up at 3:00 in the morning, but you can’t be THAT tired! The lady with snacks came over in a few moments. I got a limeade cup. I also got licorice wands for Soph and Jess; it’s their favorite. And after an hour, we arrived at (play Hogwarts theme song at this point) the castle of Hogwarts. Gee, that was a little corny.