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This popped up in my head recently. I'm pretty sure I own a Kindle book for this, but I'm not having much luck searching for it. The main character is a pudgy boy who is sent off to a magic school. I believe he came from a line of evil magicians, and is expected to follow in that line. He, however, is a reasonably decent sort. I remember him as being quite hapless, including, I think, losing his money from a thief while he slept on the train ride up. As is fairly typical for English schools, and books following Harry Potter, he is sorted into a house. He is frequently bullied by the other students. And I remember that he participates in some sort of a game that combines Capture the Flag with the use of offensive magic, with his first game ending with him hung upside down by a spell, his robes falling away from the lower half of his body, increasing his embarrassment.

I'm pretty sure that I read the first parts of it about 5 years ago, although there's a decent chance that the book is older. I don't think that I bought the book, but rather found it as a free one. I am fairly certain that it was the first book in a series, although I couldn't say the length.

Answer 1

Ah, and another case where a bit of searching turned up the book. Avis Blackthorn: Is Not An Evil Wizard! By Jack Simmonds.

From the outside you would think my family exceptionally strange. They pride themselves on being the most evil family in all of the Seven Magical Kingdoms, a title which no one is due to question. We, the Blackthorns, are pretty notorious.

My name is Avis Blackthorn and I am twelve years old. I am currently at the end of my summer holidays and due, in six and a half days, to start at Hailing Hall School for Wizards. It’s a school for other young Wizards like myself from all over the Magical and Non-Magical lands.

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I stood and stretched, the carriage now empty. My pockets felt oddly empty too. With a sinking feeling, I put my hands in them to check, all my gold pieces had gone! I would have cried if that boy resembling a lamppost wasn't standing there. I made sure I had enough gold for the entire year, but now I had nothing. I shouldn't have left it in my pocket, that was so stupid. If I found out who stole my gold I would do something… evil to them.

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“AHH!” I cried as I was launched into the air. I hung upside down with David Starlight’s face grinning at me.

I think I considered an early scene where his evil brothers yank his pants down and spell them to a floor during a party for the humiliation from being exposed.

I found it by searching the YA Fantasy and Sci-Fi Books That Take Place in Academies, Boarding Schools and Summer Camps list on Goodreads.