(6) A fork in the road of life

Fairy tales are beautiful, and probably every child fantasizes that at the age of eleven or twelve, an owl will fly down on his window.

A young girl like Gwen and Missy, who is between reality and fairy tales, how can she not yearn for the fantasy world of Hogwarts.

Five years later, at the graduation ceremony, Gwen was filled with emotion when she remembered again that she had taken the letter and silently read every word of it in a trembling voice tonight.

"Dear Gwen Stacy, congratulations on your acquisition to become a member of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry!

If you're interested in learning magic, you'll be the 1138th student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and you'll spend five years at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

From 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. at the North Train Station in Joclinton, you can wait for an old-fashioned steam train that departs at 12 midnight at Platform 9 and Three-Quarters, and your place is in the third car, D1!

Writer - Principal Deng Liduo! ”

This letter was indeed written by Dumbledore four years ago, without much flowery rhetoric, and the purpose was only to express the other party's admission to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and to describe the non-specific location of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Of course, this is a magical letter, and only the true owner of the letter can see its contents, and the rest of the inconsequential people can only see a wordless letter from heaven. And the original style of the epistle is dear XXX.XXX, and your place is in the XX compartment XX, because Dunlido only wrote a basic format.

Dumbledore still did not tell the students that the nine and three-quarters were the stone pillars between platforms 9 and 10 of the platform, and that between 11 and 1 a.m. they could see a new world.

To ride the steam train to Hogwarts, wait through the stone pillar on the other side of the platform, where you can buy a beginner staff made of cypress wood and a two-star owl.

These one- and two-star owls are extremely intelligent and can learn magic, but they cannot escape the end of birth, old age, sickness and death, and their intelligence and magical ability are far inferior to those of four- or five-star owls.

"Gwen, do you say that the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry mentioned in the letter really exists, does magic really exist in this world, and are we really admitted to this school of witchcraft and wizardry? Tell me if any of this is true! ”

Compared with Gwen, who has a relatively calm personality, Missy is even more uncontrollable, with a hint of excitement and a hint of suspicion, she holds Gwen's arm tightly and can't wait to ask Gwen.

"Maybe this magic school really exists, but it doesn't have to be ......"

Gwen hesitated, her tone filled with all sorts of uncertainty,

Gwen will treat anything calmly, but today's incident almost broke Gwen's worldview, and Missy asked three questions in a row, and she couldn't answer any of the questions for Missy.

It's just that the two owls that sent the message showed that they were extraordinary, they were as intelligent as humans, and they flew extremely fast.

Such strange things have happened, and the existence of Hogwarts, the school of witchcraft and wizardry, seems to be a real possibility.

"Then we can go learn magic! After learning magic, can we fly into the sky, can we not teleport things, can we let my BDJ doll have life! My God! I can't believe it's all real! ”

"Missy, don't be too happy, maybe it's a scam, it's more likely that magic is not suitable for us to learn, or what does it cost to learn magic!"

Gwen, who had been drowsy, woke up suddenly, and she couldn't imagine how magic would change her life, whether it would become a problem for herself, or the end of her ordinary life.

She has no way to see what is right and wrong, and she can't even make decisions about her future. She was just as confused as Missy, she was afraid of losing this opportunity to fall from the sky, and she was afraid that if she took a step, she would go into the abyss.

"As long as I can learn magic, I'm willing to pay the price! Legend has it that as long as you sell your soul to the devil Mephisto, you can gain great power and bear such a big price, isn't there a lot of people who are looking forward to the devil Mephisto knocking on their door! ”

Missy is a horror movie lover and also loves all kinds of ghost events, and she knows that she is far more timid than the calm Gwen, but her yearning for magic is far greater than the calm Gwen.

"We can go to Clinton North Train Station to see what is going on, but my father said that Clinton District is a largely abandoned area, and that area is full of outsiders who rent houses, or young people who have just graduated from college and lack the money to start a business, because Clinton District is located on Broadway, a bustling area. There are branches of organizations in many countries, and there are dozens of large and small organizations in the region. It might not be safe for the two of us to go there late at night."

"Gwen, that's a school of magic! I don't know if you believe it or not, but those two magical owls make me think it's very likely that the school of magic really exists! ”

"It's also that I think too much...... Compared to Clinton, if the Hogwarts in the letter is really going to be against us, that's what we really have to worry about...... Oh my, I'm really messed up right now! ”

At Missy's instigation, Gwen was also very tempted, and she also wanted to see if Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry really existed in the letter, and if they could really learn magic.

Of course, Gwen, who is still underage in a major decision, will also ask her parents for their opinion, but the parents do not see the two strange owls, and they can only think that Gwen is talking nonsense.

Gwen really couldn't imagine that if the school of magic really existed, if magic could really make her reborn and change her life without too much cost, she couldn't imagine how she could face her meticulous sheriff father and say the words that broke him.

"Dad, I don't want to study at Imperial State University anymore, I want to study magic at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry!"

The 207 teenagers who received their Hogwarts acceptance letters, including Gwen and Missy, were destined for a sleepless night.

Because from the moment they saw one miracle owl after another, they knew that this was the most important fork in the road in their lives.

However, after all, people think differently, and last year Dunlido had a total of 123 owls, and forty percent of them were left behind when they sent letters for four consecutive days.

Then why don't you let the owl send letters every day, the reason is that like most ordinary schools, it is easy to manage the unified opening and holidays, otherwise some magic cultivation is high and some magic cultivation is low. What's more, he can't let one teacher teach a thousand students, let alone let students sleep on a stone without eating or drinking.