"Ding-dong."
It was the sound of the doorbell. Miss Granger, still in her pajamas and standing on a stool as she brushed her teeth over the bathroom sink, immediately wobbled and turned anxiously toward the door.
"Mom! The teacher's here!"
"Quick, darling, bring me my tie!" Mr. Granger shouted at the same time.
The Grangers had specifically taken the day off to stay home. Yesterday, a professor claiming to be from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry had called to inform them that he would be visiting today to take them on a tour of the mysterious Magic World.
Both were dentists. They ran a dental clinic together in another building in the neighborhood, and aside from their shared love of caring for teeth, they were both very open-minded parents.
Ordinary people who received a notice from some magic school telling them that their eleven-year-old daughter would become a witch definitely would not be this easygoing.
Whether they would call the police was another matter. Let alone think of replying by owl.
Indeed, Mr. Granger had graduated at the top of his medical school class. After receiving Professor McGonagall's letter from the owl and seeing his daughter's acceptance notice and the new school year's shopping list, the first thing he did was verify whether the owl truly was a mail carrier.
If that was true, then the magic school probably really existed.
As a middle-aged man with dreams, he immediately wrote a letter and had the owl take it back to Hogwarts. The fluffy creature could fully understand his words and simply stood quietly on the windowsill while he wrote.
Before long, it returned with Professor McGonagall's second letter. Written in elegant cursive, it introduced the Magic World and Hogwarts to the student's parents. It also expressed understanding of the