Hogwarts..?
The next day two men where walking the streets on the outskirts of Yokohama. They both were wizards and worked at Hogwarts, School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in England.
One man had shoulder length black hair and black eyes, the man was Severus Tobias Snape, the potions master.
The other man had long white hair and a matching beard, he also wore half-moon shaped glasses and had baby blue eyes. This man was Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts and one of the strongest wizards known to wizard kind.
“Why must we come all the way to Japan just to recruit some muggleborn for Hogwarts Albus? I’m sure there’s multiple completely fine wizarding schools in Japan that the child can be enrolled in.” Snape says coldly.
”…This is a special case Severus.” Dumbledore says calmly as he scans the houses lining the street.
“Yet you refuse to tell what said ‘special case’ is…” Snape mutters bitterly under his breath.
”Hush now Severus, we’ve arrived” The older man declares as they stop in front of a nice, well kept 2 story house. He walks up the little stone pathway and knocks on the door while Snape trails behind him.
After a moment or two the door is pulled open to reveal a tall, dark haired man with deep purple eyes. He wore a white lab coat which led to the wizards to believe he was either a scientist or a doctor of some sort.
”Hello? How may I help you?” The man asks in a smooth voice. Unfortunately, the wizards have no clue what he said, as, despite their mutually large intellect in languages neither of them happened to know Japanese.
“Pardon me but could you perhaps repeat that in English, if possible?” Dumbledore asks politely, speaking in English with his heavy British accent.
“Oh!” The man exclaims, “My apologies, I ‘ought of known ‘ou weren’t Japanese, their simply isn’t many English speaking folk around ‘ere” He said, his voice thick with an accent but nonetheless, he was speaking English.
“It’s quite alright, are you Mori Ougai?” The older wizard asks.
The man, Mori, nods. “I am, what can i do for ‘ou?”
“We need to speak to you about something regarding your child, may we come in?” Dumbledore asks.
The man looked confused but opened the door a bit wider.
”I suppose you may, come on ‘n”
The wizards nodded politely at him and entered the house, as far as they could tell it was spotless and if it weren’t for the multiple child sized shoes and jackets Snape would have thought they’d gotten the wrong address and the matching names were merely a coincidence.
As far as Snape could tell, the living room and kitchen were completely bare of any toys or signs that a child was living here.
Mori gestures for them to sit on the living room couch so that’s what the two wizards did as Mori sat across from them in an armchair.
“You wanted to speak to me about my child?” He asks, prompting the wizards to begin speaking.
”Yes, we came here to tell you that your son has been expected into a boarding school in England.” Dumbledore said.
Mori blinked a few times.
“Boarding school? In England? How? I had never applied for ‘im to go to a boarding school, nonetheless ‘n England!” The man exclaims, his tone of voice a mixture of shock and confusion.
“Well, you see, he has been accepted into Hogwarts, school of Witchcraft and Wizardry, there is no application process as most often than not we seek out our students ourselves” Dumbledore explains patiently.
Mori’s eyes widen in confusion and been more shock, his mouth opening almost immediately to deny that Magic was real.
It took a grand total of half an hour for the wizards to finally convince the man that Magic did indeed exist and that his son was indeed a wizard before he walked off to go and retrieve his son.
After a few minutes he re-emerged with a small, brown haired boy following him closely. The boy sat down in the same chair his father had previously been sitting on as he exchanged words in Japanese with the man before Mori left with a ‘I’ll leave you to it then’.
Something that immediately caught both wizards eyes were the bandages covering the boy’s right eye and neck as well as peeking out from under the boy’s shirts long sleeves.
“What’s your name?” Dumbledore asked after a moment of awkward silence, forcing his gaze away from the bandages the meet the boy’s eyes.
”Dazai Osamu” The boy, Dazai, responded hesitantly.
The two older men noticed the different last name from his father but didn’t say anything about it.
Dumbledore smiled warmly at the boy, on the other hand, Snape observes him closely with a carefully neutral expression.
There was something about this boy that didn’t sit right with Snape, and that’s overlooking the bandages.
”Well Mr. Osamu-“ Dumbledore began before being cut off by the boy.
”Dazai”
“…Pardon?” The older wizard asked.
“I prefer if ‘ou call me Dazai, Osamu iz my first name” Dazai explained patiently.
”Ah, apologies Dazai. As I was saying, would you happen to have any siblings? I saw some shoes by the front door that would certainly be too small for you.” Dumbledore said.
”Mhm, three lil’ sisters, sir.” Dazai said, his voice also had a noticeably thick accent when speaking, however he notably seemed to speak it better than his father.
”How lovely, what is their ages?” The older man asked kindly.
”Uhm… Elise iz nine, Kyouka ‘nd Q iz five.” Dazai responds quietly.
”Q?” Dumbledore repeated curiously, he knew he might find some of these names odd as they were foreign to him but surely someone wouldn’t name their child after a singular letter.
”Nickname, ‘er real name iz Yumeno” the boy clarifies.
Snape’s eyes narrowed at the boy while he spoke.
’If there really are kids that young living here their presence should be known by now, wether by their actually physical presence or by toys scattered around or even a family picture’ the man thought before speaking up.
”And where are your siblings right now boy?”
“Q and Kyouka iz at a play date, but I think Elise is ‘round here somewhere” Dazai responded casually.
“How lovely, is it alright if we meet her?” The older wizard asks, curious as to who this quiet boy would most likely spent a considerable amount of time with.
The boy hesitated, opening his mouth to speak but being cut off by the door to the living room being opened by none other than the girl they had just been talking about, Elise.
The wizards watched as Dazai’s demeanour shifted slightly, a small smile slid onto his face and he seemed content to see his little sister.
Elise shuffles across the room over to Dazai, silently holding out a red bow to him with a smile.
Snape took note of the different appearances between Mori, Dazai and Elise. Mori and Dazai both had dark hair and dark-ish eyes, Mori’s being dark purple and Dazai’s being a burgundy kind of colour. Meanwhile Elise had blonde hair and bright blue eyes.
”Help me with my bow ‘samu?” Elise asks softly, speaking in Japanese.
Dazai took the bow from her hands with a nod and carefully positions it further back on the right side of her head.
”There you go ‘lise” he says when he finishes, also speaking in his native tongue.
Elise reaches up to feel the bow in her hair before smiling and rushing out of the room, leaving just as quickly as she had appeared.
Despite not knowing the words exchanged between the two children the adults got the gist of it based on the actions and it seemed to be a good interaction.
However, Snape thought it was a bit off, how the girl had came in as they were asking about her and how when they were talking with Dazai before she entered a few of his answered were like he had been speaking based on a well memorized script.
”She seems sweet. However we had gotten a bit off track, the reason we came here today is to inform you that you’ve been accepted into Hogwarts, School of Witchcraft and Wizardry” Dumbledore said, flawlessly switching back into the real reason they were here and easily dropping the small talk they had originally initiated.
Dazai stares at him with a (well practiced) shocked expression on his face, looking fairly confused while also shocked at the same time.
”I understand this is a shock but have you ever noticed anything odd happened around you when you get emotional, things that seem impossible?” Dumbledore asked, gently pushing the truth of him being a wizard into Dazai’s head.
Dazai stared at him for a moment before slowly nodding, still looking confused and shocked.
”That was magic my boy” Dumbledore says.
The boy shook his head lightly, opening his mouth to argue with the prospect of him being a wizard.
It took around 10 minutes and a showcase of magic to have Dazai convinced, luckily he seemed to believe them much easier than his father, having finally relented and accepted it after the quick show of magic.
”Alright then,” Dumbledore says as he stood up, preparing to walk himself out, Snake got up aswell. “Severus here will come get you in two days time to get your supplies from Diagon Alley, I’ll see you at school.”
And with that, they guided themselves out of the house, apparating back to England when they had found a non-populated alleyway.