To 87,
I must first state before anything else that I am writing this in protest, as I believe the notion that a 'peer letter' will some how help my find inner peace to be absurd. Furthermore I hope that you do not plan on endeavoring on a long, deep and meaningful correspondence. You will not gain, learn or expand your knowledge in any way by this political grand standing done by the Ministry, This is nothing more than a blind fold wrapped around the London Wizardry communities eyes.
By corresponding with me via letters every fourteen days, will not make my time spent in this shallow well any less damp, dark and any less abundant. So now I will tell you what will make this beneficial for the both us.
Don't write to me with idle chit chat, I am not your friend, brother, father or anything remotely relative to the sphere of someone who would care to hear every little detail of your sad life. For you must be sad and pathetic to have nothing more to do than to write to a convicted in mate.
Do not ask me questions. You will not learn anything from me that you can not already find in an issue of the Daily Prophet. I will not have a stranger using my life mistakes as a means for personal gain, no matter what the contracts say I will not risk it. My secrets are mine and shall remain so.
Do not tell me anything personal about yourself. I neither care not want to know anything about you.
As this is mandatory on my part I would suggest that you just suspend your contract with the A.I.R.S Company, but I know that if you have come this far in the process it is not likely to be that easy to dissuade you. So this is the only thing I will ask from you nicely, instead of writing to me with all of the above simply write with the current news that is relevant towards these topics:
- Politics within the Ministry
- Politics concerning Azkaban in mates
- News regarding anything to do with the Dark Lord and his followers
- Any new information within the professional Potions field
As long as you abide by these simple guidelines, this correspondence will fit the requirements of our contract. That is all.
S. Snape
P.M