*Kirishima's POV*

Sometimes, a bit of silence is nice.

Not awkward silence, not dead silence, not a scary silence. Just a sweet silence of an empty park or a house to yourself.

My house is never really quiet, but I've grown used to the comfortable chaos. All things considered, I've had a pretty good life.

But that's a bit too deep, isn't it? I just like coming to the park and laying on the grass. I bring snacks with me sometimes, when I think I'm gonna be gone late, so I munch on some pretzel sticks while staring at the clouds.

It's summer now, right after I finished 5th grade. I should be going into junior high this year.

"Gah! Looked at the sun- Ow, ow, oww....."

I rub the sun out of my eyes and sit up straight while I blink the spots away.

The little obstructions to my vision slowly fade away and I blink away the last of them. In the corner of my eye, a dot that I thought I had blinked away begins to get bigger.

When I look over at it, I realize it's not a dot, and it's a bird.

The bird is flying towards me. It looks like an owl, which is really weird seeing as it's the middle of the day.

When I try to squint to see the bird better, it swoops right down towards me. It looks like it's gonna hit me, but a bird wouldn't do that.....

Oh crap yes it would oH CRA-

Smack

"Squawk!"

"Owwwwwwww oh shut up you stupid pigeon wannabe."

I looked more carefully at the owl and saw it had a tiny little letter tied to it's leg. The bird shook the foot towards me, so I carefully removed the letter and flipped it over.

'Kirishima Ejiro'

It also had my address on it, weird.

I leaned over and pet the owl a little while I started opening the letter. It ruffled it's feathers under my hand and started trying to open my bag of pretzels.

Inside, there was just two pieces of paper. Nothing else in the envelope. And it looked like there wasn't much written at all on one of them.

Before I could start to read, the owl tore my bag of pretzels open, and I had to dive to try and pull them away from the bird.

"Oy, you can't have those! They're mine!"

The owl squawked at me, pecking my hand and hovering just out of reach to taunt me before flying away, pretzel bag clutched in his claws.

"Ow!! Fine, whatever, stupid bird..."

Finally, I unfolded the letter and started to read.

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Oh my god-

HOGWARTS SCHOOL

of  WITCHCRAFT and  WIZARDRY

Headmaster: Nezu

Dear Mr. Kirishima, 

       We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Please find enclosed a list of all necessary books and equipment.

       Term begins on September 1. We await your owl by no later than July 31.

Yours sincerely

Toshinori Yagi

Deputy Headmaster

What the heck is this??

Is this some kind of prank? I mean it would make sense, but who would train a literal owl just for a prank?!

I looked at the second piece of paper and found a small list of items. Things like text books, paper and quills....

Robes?

A wand?!

I quickly folded the paper back up and shoved it back into the envelope. I collected up my snacks that the bird didn't take, then put everything into my little bag and stood up.

The bag bounced on my back and I hopped onto my bike that had been discarded in the grass a little ways a way. Quickly readjusting the handles, I snapped my helmet onto my head and took off toward home.

This is a really elaborate prank.

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Thank you for reading my rewrite! Comment anything I can fix for the next chapter :3

~Foxy <3