Apprentice

Early the next morning, before the sky had fully brightened, the dim light shrouded everything beneath its shadow.

In Godric's Hollow, houses stood on both sides of the narrow lanes. In some windows, the Christmas decorations of lazy households had yet to be taken down and were still sparkling. Not far ahead, the golden streetlamps that had not yet gone out marked the center of the village. At its heart were several shops, a post office, a pub, and a small church. According to History of Magic, the graveyard outside the church was filled with surnames from ancient wizarding families, and for that reason ghost stories had haunted the little church for many centuries.

Godric's Hollow was named because Godric Gryffindor had been born there. In the Middle Ages, Bowman Wright had forged the first Golden Snitch here, and it was also the final resting place of at least one member of the Peverell family.

Many famous wizarding families had once lived in Godric's Hollow. The Dumbledore family had lived in this village before Albus Dumbledore's sister Ariana was killed, as had Bathilda Bagshot, the author of History of Magic and also Gellert Grindelwald's great-aunt.

Of all the wizards who had once lived here, Harry Potter was probably the most famous, because when he was still an infant, he had survived Voldemort's Killing Curse and caused the Dark Lord to lose his power for the first time. From then on, Harry Potter had been known as "the Boy Who Lived," and the village had become famous once more because of it.

Outside a three-story house whose garden looked rather desolate because of the season, the ground had been frozen hard by a layer of black frost. Allen and Hermione walked along the gravel path, bordered on both sides by gooseberry