Dropped off and it surrounds you
I walk over to the writing desk and place the letters in the left drawer. I pick up the key that lay inside; slide the drawer closed and locked it. Then I slipped the key into the left breast pocket inside my robe, so that I could feel it resting against my heart.
I leave the study feeling lighter than I did before entering. I know in my heart that my brother is suffering as much as I am. Deep down though, I really want him to live life for the both of us… I want him to be happy; I want him to have a life that I can be proud of even though I will miss it. I want to meet him in the end and be able to hug him and tell him that he lived so marvellously that I was jealous of him.
It is forever before he writes me again, and I start to worry. I rip open his letter as soon as I can touch it: so feverish am I for news that I almost tear it in half.
Dear Fred
Mum came by this morning. She dropped off a copy of the Quibbler to cheer me up. There was a letter from Luna and Hermione on the inside. It was really sweet of them.
My shrink thinks I am doing a lot better, so she is writing a request letter for my release. Even though I still think of you every moment, I have come to realise that I now have to live for the both of us.
I hope I make you proud.
I'm sorry it took so long to write this letter, it's just that I didn't know what to say to you anymore. My shrink said that I can write whatever I want. You know, talk about the weather or the strange patients I have come across or even the food, but I don't want to write to you unless it is absolutely important or earth shattering.
Does that make me selfish?
Anyway, back to the Quibbler. So I was reading through it when I came across an interesting article. Harry spoke to the wizarding community after someone allegedly desecrated Snape's grave stone. The inscription read "The bravest man I ever met", which someone changed into "The most spineless and deceiving man we have ever known" and then unstickable stickers were plastered all over it with really foul words on it.
Harry came forth and said that in Snape's last moments, a memory was given to him by the dying professor. Harry later went to the pensive in Dumbledore's office and took a look at the memory. In it, it revealed just how much loyalty Snape had towards Dumbledore and how much Snape actually put on the line to spy on You Know Who for the Order.
Harry went on to say that whoever ruined Snape's grave should be ashamed of themselves for what they have done because they did not know the truth, then the Chosen one sponsored a portrait of Snape to the school so that it may hang beside those of the previous headmasters.
Can you believe it? Snape was on our side after all. And after all the pranks we pulled on him too…
I feel like an idiot for hating the guy. In Hermione's letter, she said that Harry saw Snape ask Dumbledore to keep the best of him a secret. That made me feel even worse.
Mum hugged me for a long time. I have forgotten how her scent surrounds you when she hugs you so tightly. I mean, she smells like home.
I just want to go home Freddie. Not the apartment above the shop but home home, the Burrow.
I hope the doctors let me out soon. I am tired of being alone all the time. Maybe if I have people I will miss you less, but you and I both know that isn't true…
Yours
Georgy
So Snape is a hero huh? I suppose that isn't that farfetched. I hope you go home soon brother, I really do.
