Changing Hogwarts

Prologue

Another swift kick to my stomach makes me see stars as the boys on the playground beat me, for what you may ask? I wouldn't call a girl pretty. I just didn't find any girl pretty, I don't understand what I did wrong. They continue to hurt me until they get bored and I'm lying in nearly a puddle of blood, My arm obviously broken. I limp home to my home at nearly dark, my mum isn't home yet so I slowly make my way through my dark home and to my small bedroom. Well if you could call it that, it was a large supply closet once used for maids and such but is now my bedroom. According to my mother I didn't deserve a real bedroom since I was too 'strange'. I had been since birth, mum said strange things would happen around me, I can tell I frighten her.

I clean myself up in the bathroom, careful to keep it clean so mum doesn't know I left my room. I'm sure she won't be able to tell the wounds apart from the ones she gives me. I go downstairs to check the mail and find a letter with my name on it for the first time, curious I quickly slip it under my shirt as I hear the start to unlock and quickly run to my room. When I reach my 'room' I hurriedly pull up a certain floor board near the window and hide the letter along with my very few possessions I've managed to hide from mum. I hear her yell my name and quickly run down, preparing myself for anything she does...

I don't make it back up for another hour, When I do it's with an added split lip for not calling her m'am. I wait for her to fall asleep before I quietly crawl over to the board and pull out a letter. The front has my name and underneath it in neat cursive says 'Hogwarts school for witchcraft and wizardry' Odd I think as I turn it over to see an actual wax seal holding the thick parchment together. Huh. I gently pull open the letter and pull out a paper starting with "Dear Mr. Justin Dean, You have been accepted to Hogwarts school for Witchcraft and wizardry to study the magic arts.." I sigh when I realize this must've been a prank. I set the letter down sadly and look up only too see an owl staring straight at me through the glass of my window. I startle a bit before realizing its outside and slowly stand up. The dusty brown owl watches me stand up before rustling it's wings slightly. Sadly my window had been nailed shut many years ago so I was unable to open it or call out to the creature. 

I sigh and give it a small wave before hiding the letter once again and making my way towards the blankets I was given as a make shift bed, however they're so threadbare they barely provide any warmth. I settle in for the night, having to adjust myself to not make my surely broken arm worse. That night I dream of dusty brown owls and hazy memories that don't feel like my own, almost as if I was seeing it through someone else's eyes.

I wake to tapping on my window and see the same owl standing there watching me. I shake my head and sit up, wincing as I jostle my injured arm. Cradling it, I stand up and change into my only sweater and pants and sit back in my 'bed' The owl still sitting in the window. I'm startled when I hear my mother scream my name as she pounds up the stairs. I watch my door fly open as my mother storms in, an angry look on her face "What is this!" she screams as she holds up yet another letter in her hands, the same seal on it as the other. I stutter a bit as I back into the wall "I-I don't know..I-I -" She cuts me off when she comes over and grabs me by the hair yanking me forward. I cry out in pain and try and stand up to lessen the pain "Is this some kind of joke!? Did you think you could get away from me you freak!" she throws me to the ground and I lay there as too not anger her further. I stare at the ground as she screams at me, Thinking of what it would be like to be that owl. I look up and toward the window at the beautiful owl, a small smile on my face. My mum catches me and looks up at the window at my friend "What is this?! talking to animals now huh?" She storms over the the window and bangs on it making the owl fly away. I look down as she walks past me, spitting on me as she passes  "Don't expect to ever leave this room, your a disgusting freak who belongs dead but the government pays me to take care of you so you'll stay alive until your 18." She storms out of room and locks it behind her. 

I slowly lay down and cry. I cry for hours. Cry for the life I could've had, a life with caring parents and a real home. A place where i'm accepted for who I am and can have my own room and other things that are only wishes. I think I eventually fell asleep when i'm woken up by my mothers screams. I jolt out of bed and to the door, nervous about what could be happening on the other side. I hear her yelling something about an intruder and the police before my door is nearly ripped off the hinges as its opened by a large, almost giant, burly man. He steps aside to show a tall lanky man with medium length black hair. His face is in a sneer but softens as he looks at my small form huddled on the other side of the room, right over my floor board. He slowly comes in, his odd black robes billowing behind him, a smile almost-smile on his face. The man crouches down and introduces himself "Hello, I am Severus Snape, a teacher at Hogwarts and your uncle..I've come to take you away from this...wretch" I eye him warily but hesitantly nod. 

Snape, as I've come to learn, pulls out a robe similar to his and motions for me to stand up before wrapping it gently around me "Do you have any shoes young man?" I shake my head an look up at him nervously..'is he gonna hit me..?' I think as his expression turns angry and dark. He then hands me to the burly man from before with a 'take him' before going downstairs to, well i'm not sure, must be talking to mother. The giant man takes me the opposite way to a window at the end of the hall and slides it up "r'igh this 'er way youngin" He helps me up the ledge to a..floating bike?! I look at it in astonishment as it hovers midair by the window which, thankfully, is at the back of the house so no one could see me as he sets me down on the back before squeezing himself out somehow to join me 'did that window widen??'. We lower to the path next to the house leading out of the back garden and stop, I suppose waiting on the go ahead from my supposed uncle.  After a minute Snape comes out the backdoor obviously annoyed and heads on over to us "you'll be staying with me until the beginning of term, I will buy whatever you need for school but..your safe now Justin" I feel tears well in my eyes as the big man starts his bike "don' worry professor snape, i'll take good care o' im". My uncle nods and steps back as we begin to ascend into the sky, the professor watching until we were out of sight.

So this is my new story!! Keep in mind, I am American, I WILL get things wrong and I apologize. If I get anything seriously wrong feel free to let me know and i'll change it as I want to be as accurate as possible ;^;.