Daria Ravenclaw: The Year of the Owl. Chapter 25: Her First Letters Home

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There, done.

Daria folded up the letter and put it in an envelope, then addressed it. Hopefully Dad and Mom would get it within a week. She'd already written another letter for the Crazy Twins. She told them a little about Hogwarts, mentioned that she'd run into Cuthbert, and asked them how they liked the Instituto and Campeche. She then wrote postcards for Quinn, Ronnie, and Mrs. Ocampo.

When Daria started writing letters, she'd worried that she'd be forced to use Owl Post, even when sending letters across the Atlantic. She'd learned that that wasn't the case: true, letters going out of Hogwarts had to be send out using owls, but Daria had learned through word of mouth that the enterprising mother of a Hufflepuff student had created an unofficial hybrid letter-forwarding system: students sent her letters and packages by owl, then she turned around and sent them onwards by post or other shipping systems. True, her service was a little pricey, but on the other hand, anything forwarded through her service had a better chance of getting to East or South Asia or across the Atlantic than by using owl-mail all the way.

She looked at the postcards and shook her head ruefully. She should have stocked up on postcards back when she was in London, darn it! She thought she'd be SOL as far as getting Scottish postcards, but then discovered that Fred and George Weasley had not only set up a black market network selling wizarding goodies to students who'd grown up in magical families, but also sundries like postcard, toothpaste, and other goodies. Daria selected a couple of motionless Muggle-style post-cards, ignoring the Twins' blandishments for one of the wizarding ones: she did not want to freak out the US Postal Service.

-(((O-O)))—

A Message from the Author:

HELP!

As most of you all have deduced, Daria (Black) Morgendorffer entered Hogwarts the school year before Harry Potter did, which is why there is no trace of Hermione Granger, Harry Potter, or Ron Weasley on campus. A couple of the secondary characters mentioned later in canon Harry Potter like Charlie Weasley and Nymphadora Tonks are still students, howbeit much older than the eleven-year-old girl from Texas. There's also a different Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, and that is what caused me to bellow for help.

Another fanfiction writer, a writer who had also set her protagonist in Hogwarts during the 1990-1991 school year, had inserted a Scottish wizard into the DADA post. Unlike other Scots on campus, the Highlander Wizard had a far thicker Scottish accent and his speech was loaded with Scottish dialect.

If anyone recognizes who this author is and can send me her FF profile, please, please, please send it to me (I believe her last update was within the last six months). I very much want to acknowledge her idea and hopefully use the character.

Thank you.

-Meester Lee