Hobbit notes; Slightly AU: Post DH Im still writing a lot of this so The updates will slow down I apologize for that but I want to start getting this up and I hope to write more for it before I post everything I have already. The whole thing will be in letter format.

Slainte,

Hobbit

Dear Harry

Hi, it's me, cousin Dudley.

I been trying to write for years and years but I never learned your address. Then I remembered you never got letters through the mail anyway. It was Daffy that reminded me in a roundabout way actually. Daffodil, she s my little girl. I seen pictures of your mum, Aunt Lily, and that s who she looks like most. Thank goodness too, because I don t think She'd be so much to look at if she looked like me. She s got those green eyes and lots of red hair. She s 11 now. In fact, Daffys the reason I'm writing to you.

But first I need to apologize

I don t know if you remember me and if you do I don t blame you if you hate me. See I was a real jerk growing up. I never really learned to be a proper human being when I was a kid. I don t mean to make excuses. I know I coulda done a lot of things differently. My parents pampered me and spoiled me and you were left out in the cold. I prolly coulda changed that but it never even occurred to me to try.

Mum and dad are gone now. Dad had a heart attack about three years ago, and Mum died a little after. I was putting their affairs in order and I sort of started piecing things together, you know?

I was told all my life that you were bad and a freak and odd. I was told you had to be kept in your place because you were awful. It never really occurred to me to ask you about your life. I never really grasped what you had gone through.

I was pretty sure I knew what kind of guy you were and then one day midsummer when we were 15 you did the damndest thing that I could never figure out.

You saved my life.

I thought about it all that year. I really started asking questions. Things I took for granted to be so. Why were you bad? Why were you to be avoided? Why did Mum and dad punish you for for- well just because.

Got me thinkin, Harry it really did. I never got to tell you this in person and I know it doesn t make it up in any way but I'm sorry. I know it don t mean so much after all these years and I understand if you re mad at me forever. But I m writing you for the sake of Daffy, Harry. Please don t punish my little girl for my mistakes.

My true intention of writing you is my daughter Daffodil (Its tradition to name the girls in our family after flowers ) Daffodil turned 11 this year. She s smart and beautiful and talented. I wish you could see her, she s wonderful. We found this great girls school in the south of France where she would learn all about becoming a lady. We were all set to send her there too, when something came up.

See... this owl came and dropped a letter off from a Professor Mcgonagal. Daffodil has been accepted into a school called Hogwarts for Witchcraft and Wizardry...

Hope to hear back soon, for Daffys sake.

Dudley.