elvendork:

ok no… no wait. earlier i saw a post w/ a bunch of lesser known hp facts and one of them was 

Only one non-magical person has ever managed to get as far as the Hogwarts Sorting Hat before being exposed as a Squib.

and i have been thinking about this for hours… because like, this is a “funny fact” until you remember that some eleven year old got a letter saying they were magic. they got taken to diagon alley, they bought robes and a cauldron and their class books and a wand, maybe with their magic parents or, worse, with their muggle parents, and they waited through the rest of summer, thinking i’m special, i’m magic, and then they have this long, nerve-wracking ride to hogwarts on this magic train—maybe they even made a friend or two on the ride to school! and they go across the lake, and can you imagine how nervous you would be, at eleven? theyre thinking about what house they’re going to be in, about what subjects they’re excited to learn, about finally being able to use their wand,

and they get to the sorting, and they put on the hat, and someone says, “i’m sorry, there’s been a mistake—you don’t belong here”

and if you dont think thats some ice cold bullshit idk what to tell you 

His name was Agnus buchanan and he was a squib to a pureblood family with a father who was prejudiced against squibs. His sister forged the Hogwarts letter. He made it all the way to Hogwarts because his siblings covered for him. He knew that he didn’t have magic but he and his siblings hoped that Hogwarts might be able to change that.

He later went on to be disowned by his father for being a squib and went to work as a laborer in muggle Edinburgh, where he learned that muggles were actually nice people. He then became a famous rugby star and is the reason why wizards follow Scottish rugby.

it’s on pottermore or you can read about it here