Dear Albus,

I'm sorry I didn't realize your deceased daughter was such a sensitive matter for your. What I don't understand is how Severus's father got away with beating Alisa to death. If it was my daughter I would have and killed him myself but of course you have always been so much nicer then me.

Now you claim to be protecting young Severus yet all you are doing is driving him closer and closer to me with every clear favoritism toward James Potter and the Gryffindors which makes me think you are not trying to protect him at all.

I did notice in your last letter that you didn't say that you love him. That you just wanted to protect him. I wonder how he feels knowing his own grandfather cares more about his nemesis Potter then he does his own grandson. After all I hear that your told Potter you loved him after he fell off his broom during a Quidditch match.

I have said it before and I will say it again Albus. Whatever that boy becomes is forever on your head because we both know it can't be good and to think he could have been so much better off if you would have cared about the boy or at least put him out of his misery while he was still a baby.

Now I highly doubt you would agree but I think Mr. Snape looks so sorry I mean't would look very nice in a silver cloak and mask and if he did decided to join me there is really nothing you can do about it. I am not dumb enough to burn the Dark Mark onto him while is still in school and I wouldn't send him out in raids to be caught. No I would have bigger plans for the young potions master. Now I readily admit you might be able to rip open his mind but we both know that isn't admissible in a trial and I wouldn't give him any usefull information anyway so it wouldn't do any good.

Have a nice day Professor.

Sincerely, Tom M Riddle