They sent an owl with a letter; he could still remember the day it came; the owl had flew into the room, shattering the glass and scaring Neville; Frank had put him down in his cot and giving him his teddy bear before turning around to scold the owl, but it had gone, and burnt on the table, was the Dark Mark. There was nothing he could do- they were coming; either to kill him and his whole family or to ask his alliance, or to force secrets out of them; and there was nothing he could do about it.