Name: [Harry Potter] The Little Witch Is the Flower of Pucker Town
Author: Ye Kaixin

Synopsis

Content warnings: The protagonist (referring to Lacia Williams) has both male and female reproductive organs, breaks up James and Lily, Peter Pettigrew is written out, and the Marauders are a foursome

Please make sure you are comfortable with this before reading on.

The following is an excerpt from Albus Dumbledore's notes.

It was October 19, 1967, and we were having breakfast. Minerva told me that before going to bed the previous night, she had seen a young wizard's name appear in the Book of Admittance. But before Minerva left the tower, the Book of Admittance and the Quill of Acceptance were still arguing. When Minerva went to check again the next day, she found that the child's name had disappeared.

This was not all that strange. The Quill of Acceptance was very lenient, and would try to write a name in the Book of Admittance as long as a child showed even the slightest trace of magic. But the Book of Admittance was strict, and would prevent any Squib from enrolling at Hogwarts. Sometimes even Squibs had faint magical fluctuations.

All in all, the strictness of the Book of Admittance and the sensitivity of the Quill of Acceptance made them a pair of partners who never made mistakes. Unlike me, who can never find matching socks. Fortunately, nobody wants to stare at an old wizard's socks.

The same thing happened again on April 14, 1968. A child's name appeared that evening. Minerva leaned in to look and found that this time it was different. Perhaps we had misunderstood what happened the first time, too. It was not that the Quill of Acceptance wanted to write the name but the Book of Admittance refused. Rather, the quill could not fully write the child's name and address. When the moon set and the sun rose, the Quill of Acceptance could no longer trace the child's whereabouts. The name disappeared.

This sort of thing had happened now and then. In Hogwarts' early days, many people did not trust the school, so they used powerful Confundus Charms to ensure Hogwarts could not find them or their children.

But as time went by, I had to admit that I could not think of anyone who might still do such a thing. Those capable of it were now far too old, living only in portraits, while those who might want to do it were too young to cast a Confundus Charm of such power.

Meanwhile, our good friend Armando reminded me that the same thing had happened on April 13, 1949.

To solve this intriguing mystery, I asked Minerva's permission to extract her memories of the matter and place them in the Pensieve.

I found that the matter had become even more interesting. The child who had never made it into the Book of Admittance, whose name and address were unknown, was the same person every time.

Strangely, the same person could not appear in the Book of Admittance over and over. Some children might decide not to attend Hogwarts, but that did not mean they would repeatedly appear in the Quill of Acceptance.

This intriguing mystery made progress at Christmas in late 1969. At the Christmas feast, the flower-adorned hat made me feel rather giddy, and I brought up this curious matter. Aurora, our new Astronomy professor, told me that she had graduated from Uagadou School of Magic in Africa, a school famous for Astronomy, which she said was better than Hogwarts. I suspect Britain's excessive fog and rain were largely to blame.

In any case, Aurora told me that these dates were all quite interesting: whenever the unknown child's name appeared, it was a blood moon night.

I spent about another six months searching for the child's whereabouts.

I suspected the child was in a marsh. Marshes carried an association with concealment, and concealment spells cast there were always twice as effective. Valleys had a similar effect. Hogwarts' concealment made use of its valley terrain. But Aurora told me that the light of a blood moon was not enough to illuminate a valley, so I would need to search somewhere shallower. I thought a marsh would be just right.

At the end of July, I went on holiday to Hoylake. It was really just a coincidence, or was it fate? I had randomly picked a town surrounded by marshland. In any case, I found the child.

On the night of July 28, the blood moon rose, and I entered another town beneath it.

It was not Hoylake, but a town in the space between, filthier and more corrupt.

I entered the town from the wasteland marsh, where several towers stood along the edge. As I stepped into the town in that narrow space, a giant eagle from one of the towers swooped down and fought me. To this day, I still do not understand why that eagle was so certain I intended to take its wife away.

After defeating the giant eagle, a pearl-colored ghost led me into the town. I am not entirely sure what it was: a ghost, a guardian, or a sorrowful shadow? This friend behaved differently from the ghosts at Hogwarts. The Hogwarts ghosts retained more of their habits from life and were accustomed to going through doors, while this friend preferred to travel in a straight line. In any case, we crossed the wasteland marsh, passed through the streets, and came to an orphanage.

"This is the place. Take her away."

I went up to the second floor. It was obvious that only one of the rooms up there had its light on.

There were two men and a child in the room. The child was clearly the young wizard who had been unable to enroll at Hogwarts since 1949. One of the men had black hair and was elegantly dressed. I assumed he was in charge of this place. The other man was very muscular and simply dressed. A sack was pulled over the child's head, a rope was tied around her neck, and the muscular man held the other end of it in his injured hand.

I gripped my wand and said to the two men, "Good day. I am pleased to inform you that your child has been admitted to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. I am here to take her away."

Merlin's beard, it's a good thing it was me who came. Otherwise, we might have lost several owls!

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