Hi everyone. Since the bastards at FF.Net deleted this chapter since it didn't actually include a chapter of the story, I've decided to include my intro here. It's nesecary for me to have this intro, otherwise I don't think anybody would understand what's going on.
So, whoever you are that deleted my intro-chapter, if you're reading this,
I HOPE THIS ISN'T BREAKING ANY MORE OF YOUR FF.NET LAWS!!
Ugh. Enough of that. On to the intro.
I'm a bored 15-year-old girl from Israel, who's fed up with the bombing here and with, to be honest, this whole dammed situation this whole damned country is in. I won't be venting in this fic; the rating's PG13, for a few not-so-mild swearing cases, I suppose, but I'm not venting.
Just imagine that Harry Potter wrote a random boredom-letter and asked Hedwig to deliver it to someone interesting. Keep on imagining, and imagine that Hedwig found me. Even though I'm a "muggle". Imagine that Harry Potter and I continued to write letters to each other, and became, what-do-you-call-them? – Pen Pals. Remember, I'm from Israel; he's from England. A plane takes 4-5 hours to cover the distance; let's say it takes one to two days for an owl.
Title: Letters To and From a Stranger.
Author: g0ldensnidget, a.k.a. Snitch.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything. I don't own anybody but myself. I don't own anyplace but the place I live in and the places I describe. I don't own Harry Potter or anything he describes in his letters that you recognize – anything, one, or place you do recognize belongs to J.K. Rowling and Co., lucky monkeys. I won't be writing my real name or any of my friends' names; everything I'll be writing is more or less my real life, but with different names and all.
Rating: PG13 for some not-so-mild swearing.
Summary: I'll spare you. You've already endured enough. I've written it all above. This is NOT an AU (Alternate Universe) story; it's after OotP and contains severe spoilers, so if you've gotten this far and haven't yet read the 5th Harry Potter book, I strongly recommend you do, and then return.
Something Else You Might Want To Know: since this whole story will be based on and composed of letters from Harry Potter to me and from me to Harry Potter, Harry's letters will be in bold, and mine will be in italics. Ok?
And now...
The story.
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Letters To and From a Stranger
By: g0ldensnidget, a.k.a. Snitch
(Letter I)
Hello.
This is what I call a boredom-letter. Basically, it's a letter I wrote during a very boring night when I couldn't fall asleep.
I don't know to who I'm writing; I'm relying on my owl, Hedwig, to deliver this to someone interesting. She's good with these kinds of things. I just asked her to deliver it to a muggle, which is someone without any magical powers.
The world is divided into 2 parts: the magical world and its people, and the non-magical world and its non-magical people, who we call muggles. I'm a wizard. My name is Harry Potter. My best friends are a wizard and a witch, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. We go to a boarding school called Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, somewhere in England. We learn all we need to know for seven years, from the age of 11 until 17, after which we graduate (hopefully) and are considered of age and allowed to perform magic with our wands.
As I said, my names' Harry Potter, I'm 16 (nearly, I will be on July 31st, though), and I hate my life, basically. I'm an orphan. My parents, Lily and James Potter, were murdered my Lord Voldemort, who's the most evil wizard there is right now. He wanted to kill me, too, but because my mum sacrificed herself to save me, Voldemort wasn't able to kill me. His spell backfired onto him and nearly killed him. Nearly. That was 15 years ago. Since then, he's tired to kill me and regain his old power 4 times. I managed to stop him in my 1st, 2nd, and 3rd years at Hogwarts, but in my 4th year, he managed to kidnap me and regain his body and his Dark powers. He tried to kill me, but I escaped. He tried to kill me this year, too, but I escaped. Again.
The only problem is, I lost the last person I counted as family. My godfather, Sirius Black.
Sirius was my father's best friend. He was entrusted with the secret information that could have lead Voldemort to my parents, and he betrayed us, by telling Voldemort where we were hiding. He killed Peter Pettigrew, who was also a friend of his and my father's. There's also Remus Lupin, but he's still alive.
Sirius was put in Azkaban, the horrible wizard prison. He was reckoned to be one of the most dangerous wizards in the world, after Voldemort. He was his right-hand man.
In my 3rd year in Hogwarts, Sirius escaped. By the end of that school-year, my friends Ron and Hermione and I had discovered that Sirius was innocent. Peter Pettigrew, who was still alive and disguised as Ron's pet rat Scabbers, had been the Secret-Keeper for my parents, and he had betrayed us to Voldemort, not Sirius. Sirius was innocent.
We never got around to proving that, because Peter escaped and we couldn't prove Sirius innocent. And 5 weeks ago, he was murdered by a Death Eater, one of Voldemort's followers. Voldemort is still at large, and he's set to kill me.
So that's my story.
Who are you, what's your story?
This was just a boredom-letter. You don't have to answer if you don't want to. Answering won't put you in any danger, as no-one will know about the letters, I promise. I'll tell Hedwig to stick around if you want to reply; just give her a bit of water and she'll be fine for some time. If you'll want to continue with the letters, I'll send a different owl next time, and you could keep him, to deliver your letters to me.
If you don't want to answer, just give this letter back to Hedwig and she'll find someone else, don't worry.
Hoping to receive an answer from whoever you are,
Harry Potter.
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Ok, people. I just found out that this isn't really the fist thing I've posted. I tried something else once, a L&J story, called "Lily and James, How It Started". If you come across it, please don't read it. It's a very crummy story.
So, I kind of consider this the fist thing I've posted, cos it's the fist thing I've posted properly. Heh. So, what did you think of the fist letter? The second is just a mouse-click away, but first, please review!!! There's a button down there, next to Subnit review, that says GO. Click it and write down what you think.
Thanks!!
-Snitch.