Dear Professor McGonagall,
I truly regret to inform you that I am unable to attend Hogwarts. If you are reading this message then I am afraid I am dead. I left instructions for this letter to be delivered to you on this date unless I counteracted the order. Since I have not, then I must have been the victim of one of my uncles many drunken rages.
Please tell the Headmaster of your school that I blame him for placing me here, ignoring all attempts to contact him, and his continual use of oblivation and compulsion charms to keep me here.
Please see to it that this letter finds its way to the media in it's entirety, as I would like Albus Dumbledore, the man who plotted my death to be brought to justice.
Sincerely,
The former Harry Potter
