Interlude: Letters

Italic - Harry/Dicta-quill

Bold - Severus

Underlined - Poppy

Dear Madam Poppy, /Dear Mister Sev'rus,

I made it to France safe and sound and I wanted to write to you as soon as I could. Remus is still working with me on that though so I had to use the quill you gave me; It's a very nice quill though. I haven't been gone that long but I miss you, you were always so nice to me and I liked coming to visit you. I got to meet my family! My new one that Remus gave me. I have a grandma and two aunts and an uncle. My gran is very nice, she likes giving me things like toys and chocolates and she speaks to me in a soft voice all the time. She likes me helping in the kitchen, I'm learning to cook! But she won't let me near the stove though. But its still fun and I really love her. She calls me her bébé , that means baby in French. I'm learning French too. Everyone here speaks it! But they also speak lots of other languages too. Gran sings to me in Italian, she says her old husband was Italian but she can speak it. Sometimes when they argue, my aunt Lianna and uncle Levi will speak in Latin and aunt Maribell speaks Russian all the time because she lives there and she can talk Polish too. They ALL know a lot. My aunt Lianna calls me honey-child. She likes buying me things too but she likes to get clothes and stuff and she always buys something for herself. She's really a lot of fun and she likes playing in my hair. She turned in blue yesterday! Remus wasn't very happy but he said it looked nice anyway. Uncle Levi works at the Ministry In France and he's very important he says. He says that one day he will take over as Minister and change the world! They talk about that a lot, changing the world. Him and aunt Maribell do. She works in Russia and has a business. She says that she's very busy but she likes staying here because she can see me. She seems scary sometimes- she doesn't blink like she'd supposed to- but she's really nice. She calls me her childling. She's always whispering to me in Russian and even though I don't understand it she says she only whispers nice things because I'm a good boy. Uncle Levi calls me little one and is always trying to get me in trouble! He told me it would be fun to turn auntie Mari's hair yellow. I don't think she liked it to much but it did look pretty on her. I like her black hair better though because it makes her look more like gran. Oops, Remus is telling me I have to go cause we're going to the park today. It'll be the first time I leave the house! Aunt Lianna wants to play dress up with me though. Moony say she can as long as she doesn't take all day. I don't know if she'll listen to him though. She doesn't seem to listen to anyone but gran, but that's okay because gran is her mommy! I have to go now. I'll write you later. Maybe by next time I'll be able to write it by myself. I gonna practice really hard, okay? Bye-Bye!!

Love

Harry

Dear Harry,

It's wonderful to hear from you dear. I'm so glad that you're getting on well with your new family. They sound absolutely wonderful and lots of fun. In all your fun I'm happy you didn't forget about little old me though, it's rather lonely around here without you. I miss you helping me stock the shelves and just talking or reading your story books to me. I hope to see you in the near future, little one.

I suppose with all these new people around you you're learning a lot of things. Don't spend all your time on writing, that can be accomplished later. You are being presented with a grand opportunity. You may want to use this chance to learn some of those languages you family speaks. Russian may be useful if your aunt lives in that country, you may have to visit her there when you're older and you would want to be out of the loop now would you? And Latin will be good for helping your spell casting when your older; most spells are done in Latin you know.

Nothing very exciting is going on here at Hogwarts at the moment, just Severus and myself waiting for your letters and taking care of silly children who like picking fights. It's a shame they can't be as sweet as you, little one.

On that note, I hope to hear back form you again soon, okay?

Love

Poppy

Brat,

As it is, I was not actually expecting you to write to me. It was… interesting to hear about your exploits I suppose but I assure you, the picture you drew of your new… family… was unnecessary.

I suppose I'm satisfied that your learning something over there and not just fooling around causing mischief with some local brats. Keep up with your studies, in both your languages and your reading and writing. To not do so would be completely imprudent. Practice and you may one day not be SUCH a dunderhead.

Professor Snape

Author's Note -

In Harry's stationary set from Poppy (mentioned somewhere in chapter six I do so believe) , there was a dicta- quill. It writes whatever a single person (in this case Harry) said. Not taking into account age of user (meaning no correction of grammar).

So it was short, but that's not the point. It did say interlude. Besides, come on!! Three chapters in one day!! I rock!! I rock out loud!! /grins/

Okay, so Harry's letter: is in actuality two letter, on for Poppy and one for Severus but they both say basically the same thing. I found it redundant to copy the same twice, thus it is addressed to both though they won't be getting on letter to huddle over.

About the last chapter: Maribell's odd, that's obvious, but she'd not like dangerous - to her family. That includes Harry. She's not going to like set him up and ship him out to war or something. I got the feeling when I was writing her that she seemed a bit dangerously cruel, and she is, but she loves Harry and he's safe in case anyone was wondering.

About the next chapter: As you can probably guess by now, this story is going to be chock full of OCs. And in the next chapter, the hits just keep on coming. I hope you like that one though because though it's not the original (That was on my sisters computer a few years ago and she got pissy one night and deleted all my stuff out of spite because I called her a bitch (in my defense she was acting like one). But I'm not mad about it anymore. Nope.) it was actually the first chapter I wrote for this story. The idea bombarded me and I wrote that chapter and I told myself that I would eventually have to write a story to go with it. That mean's Lianna was actually the first OC character I came up with, the eccentric aunt was always in my 'plot', and so was the character, Maxie your gonna meet.

In general: Obviously the rating has gone up, simply because of the adults. The innuendos and whatever cursing there might be (along with paranoia about being deleted from this site) forced my hand. But for no other reason… so far./grins/

I don't know myself how the story is going to proceed. I never really intended to spend this much time on the beginning. But I think I promised a few chapters ago (I put up three today!!!) that things would speed up after Remy and Harry get to France and so I will try to make it happen. Harry is going to be meeting and greeting a lot of new people but I have the feeling that they will be introduced in flashback of some sort. Unless some people have some serious flashback issues. /raises eyebrow/ Do any of you? I try to make the reader happy and I'm sure it will be just as frustrating to write these characters in flashback as it would normally so it makes no huge difference to me. Let me know if you have a preference and we can have a little vote.

Anyway, I think that's all. Really I just like ranting. In any case, the next chapter will be up whenever. Feel free, as always, to correct me on things. Love you all, hitori.