30th August, 1991, London :
A boy is playing guitar and singing, in front of him is a hat that has some money in it. The boy continued to guitar and sing till after noon. He only stopped after his stomach grumbled for some food. Looking at the hat, he smiled and counted the money. It's almost £20.
His name is Kevin Lawrence. He is an orphan abandoned in the nearby St. Paul's Orphanage that is closed due to insufficient funds five years ago. Since he is 6, he is surviving streets, he scavenged food, looked for work, slept on the streets, kept the things other threw away.
He is living in the pipes in an abandoned construction site. Kevin never blamed anyone for this situation, he used to believe in God and took everything positively until a particular incident changed his mind completely. He abandoned his belief in God and started believing in only himself since then.
As Kevin pocketed all the money and went to eat, when he is passing an alley, a big hand pulled him. This area is filled with all kinds of scum from normal thugs to notorious murderers. And Kevin has to passby here to get to his house. Now in front of him is a man who is pointed a knife at him. He threw Kevin to the ground and asked him while pointing the knife," little shit, give me all your money or you won't live few more seconds ".
Kevin stood defiantely looking at the Gangster, he didn't expect to encounter someone on his lucky day. He got 20 pounds for the first time. He thought he can eat his full today and sleep peacefully. But fate seems to have other plans for him. Kevin looked at the knife.
Then his eyes dsrted around. But the man became impatient and slapped him. He is going to reach for Kevin's pockets, but Kevin ducked the hand and tried to run away. But the man grabbed him and threw him across the small alley before saying with a cold and murdurous voice," I thought robbing and letting you go for another day of some pounds will be good. But how I change my decision. You'll die here ".
Kevin felt a chill, this area is a den of criminals. No one cares if he gets killed or critically injured here. They will even rob his corpse and harvest his organs. Kevin gritted his teeth and grabbed the dustbin lid, before hitting the man who is approached square in the face. Kevin tried to run but-
*Slice*
*Stab*
He is stabbed in the back. Gritting his teeth, he hit the man again with all his strength in a punch. It hit right on his nose and broke it. The man screamed and grabbed his ankle angrily as he tried to run away. Before Kevin can do anything, he stabbed Kevin, this time on his abdomen. Kevin mind went blank as he fell down, blood started dripping from his body. He is losing his strength, as he felt the end is near. A blue tv screen like box appeared in front of him.
[ Do you wish to live? ]
[ Then accept the bond with system ]
[ Yes / No ]
[ You have 5 second remaining ]
[ 5 ]
' am I hallucinating? ', Kevin thought.
[ 4 ]
' what if this is real? ', he thought again.
[ 3 ]
' if I can live again. I won't lose this opportunity ', Kevin yelled in his mind and urged his hands to click yes.
[ 2 ]
[ Yes ]
suddenly a rush of energy made him awake. He saw the man floating in air before blasted into a wall.
To his astonishment, his bleeding also stopped although the wounds itself is still there though it's partially healed and he only felt his outer skin is damaged. Muttering his strength and gritting his teeth in pain, Kevin forced himself to walk towards the street opposite to this area.
That's where the enforcement is strong and services like police stations and hospitals are available. He staggered to the street before falling down in front of the check post. A cop ran towards him as Kevin lost consciousness.
When he woke up, he is in a hospital room. He sighed in relief, he made it. As he is thinking a cop appeared and took his testimony before disappearing. That cop told him to take rest and also there is visitor for him.
As Kevin is confused who will visit him, suddenly an old lady wearing emerald coloured strange robes walked in. She has pointy hat on her head, she looked at Kevin and said," hello Mr Lawrence. I'm Minerva McGonagall, profressor of transfiguration at Hogwarts school for witchcraft and wizardry. It seems you're in an unexpected circumstance. I can help you with your wounds. But before that there is something you need to know ".
Kevin frowned. Just then the blue transparent rectangular box appeared again. Just when Kevin is going to ask if she can see it to know what it is, but then Kevin became silent, her eyes seems to ignore this box and he can't exactly trust this woman.
Kevin knew this isn't normal at all. This rectangular box that calls itself a system made him vigilant. Because it healed and granted him some kind of super power to throw the man and knock him out cold in a few seconds.
Maybe this old lady is connected to some super hero Beaureu secretly run by the government. Kevin observed her for a while, then suddenly a text appeared in front of him.
[ ??????????? Lv ?? ]
Huh, what is this. As Kevin is keep on looking at the empty space in front of him, McGonagall said," you may think, you're like every other kid in the muggle world, but Kevin, you certainly are different. You're a wizard, Mr Lawrence. Someone who can use magic and cast spells like in fairly tales ".
McGonagall then transformed into a cat proving her point while examining everything around. Then she started explain everything that he needs to know before coming Hogwarts. Their talk extended to like an hour.