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Well, you talk about him being a muggle, and then it's boom, Mommy gave permission.

Maybe something like:

Liam was an ordinary kid, with ordinary dreams, sitting at home on the couch.

For a first sentence, then build into the plot that he's becoming a wizard.

It's like one paragraph
Make it a bit longer

It's time for S65 Fanfiction Improvement Hour!

Liam was a wizard. But like all wizards, Liam used to be a Muggle. And this is the story...(dramatic pause)...of how he became a wizard.

Liam lived on the hard streets of Brooklyn, where violence and gangs were rife. Since Liam didn't like the gangs and his mom didn't either, Liam spent all his day inside playing Dungeons and Dragons.

But then...one fateful day, Liam found a clue. He had climbed up to his treehouse, inputted the correct 6-number combination in the high-security padlock, opened the 3-ton steel doors, and gotten past the treehouse laser traps and fake laser holograms installed to catch thieves when he saw something on the ground.

It was a red scarf. Liam couldn't read (he was illiterate), but he thought the scarf said "Hogwarts" since he, too, had seen a Harry Potter movie (a bootleg edition, with Chinese actors). He also noticed a letter and a box of old dusty magazines, and he realized his true destiny. His destiny, written in his bloodline, was to be a wizard like his idol Harry Potter.

He went downstairs, and a permission form appeared out of nowhere. "Woah where did that form come from," Liam's mom said. She signed it, and suddenly a helicopter appeared. "Looks like I'm going to Hogwarts," Liam said. Then he put on sunglasses, backflipped into the helicopter, flew the helicopter to a metro station, jumped on top of a train, and rode that train to Hogwarts.