After migrating my files from an HP laptop to my MacBook Pro....

After migrating my files from an HP to my MacBook, how do I combine the accounts in which my transferred files is under?

Well that is just it. You should not have more then one account unless you created a second user on the Mac.
If after the transfer from the HP you ended up with 2 user accounts that is because the system you used to do the transfer created the second user to match the username from the HP. There is no good, or any, way to combine 2 user accounts and if you copy files over the permissions may not get set correctly.
Migrations assistant strike again.
You might be better off starting from scratch, Over. IMHO.

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