Editor's Note: Welcome to the Letters from Remus special series. This is
the final letter given to the Daily Prophet for publication. This letter
ran on 11 December. Please be reminded that the opinions expressed in these
letters are the personal opinions of Sirius Black and should not be
accepted as fact. Thank you.
Dear Remus,
Now I know that I'm leaving soon. I hope I'm not leaving you with too much responsibility, but you're the only one I've got left. If and when I go, the house is yours until Harry is old enough. Unless you do one last thing for me, old friend. Find my son. Find my son with the red hair, big nose, and brown eyes she says are mine. He'll be seventeen soon, I think. There has to be a Fidelius Charm on him because I can't remember his name. You probably think he's dead. Well, he's not. The charm didn't get me way out in Azkaban. He's alive, Remus. Find him for me. Give him this journal, or whatever you want to call it. Tell Harry about him. Maybe they'll be friends. And if you're sitting down to dinner in ten years with my grandkids, don't say I didn't tell you so!
All the best, Sirius
Weasley Gives Interview on Journal Release
Editor's Note: Ron Weasley, the renowned hero of the Hogwarts War, recently gave an interview with Quibbler reporter Luna Lovegood about the release of his father's journal. The Daily Prophet asked for and received permission to reprint the interview following the publication of excerpts from the journal in the Prophet.
Luna Lovegood: Good morning, Mr. Weasley. You're looking well today.
Ron Weasley: Good morning, Luna. I would say the same for you, but I
can't exactly see how you look. Instead I'll say, hello, and you're
sounding quite well yourself.
LL: Always making fun, you are. But this is a rather serious interview.
About a serious topic.
RW: Luna, please, no puns. It's unbearable.
LL: If you insist. Last September you and Miss Hermione Granger agreed to
release parts of your father's journal to the public. What was the
reasoning behind your decision?
RW: We thought the public had a right to know the man behind all of their
rumors. Everytime I hear the name Sirius Black it has been linked with
either 'murderer' or 'martyr'. I don't think he liked either of those
words, so I wanted to change them. And Hermione says she loves him even
more now that she has read the letters. She thinks it will be a very eye-
opening look at a man whose life has been hidden in darkness.
LL: And I shall refrain from the Sirius puns if you stop talking about
eyes and darkness. It's rather unnerving.
RW: It's a deal.
LL: We've heard that you have plans to publish the journal as a book.
RW: That's true. The original plan was to make copies of the journal as
precisely as possible in order to preserve the feel of the journal. This
plan collapsed after one of the editors complained that the handwriting
was completely illegible. I only saw the journal once, but I do remember
the handwriting being a problem.
LL: What are you doing about that problem?
RW: Hermione says I should copy the diaries onto parchment again, and
that it would be a great improvement on his handwriting. (laughs) That
tells you how messy it is. Really, we're going to print them in a form
much like a magazine, with pictures of Sirius and his friends.
LL: And maybe some of you and your friends?
RW: You mean Hermione and Harry? I don't know. It hasn't come up yet. It
might not be appropriate. We are going to put in comments from others in
the book. Letters back to Sirius, obviously ones that never really were
sent, from Remus and Hermione and Minerva McGonagall. And me.
LL: You mentioned Harry. Any word from Mr. Potter?
RW: No, and you know that, Luna. Next question, please.
LL: Will any of his writings be in the journal?
RW: (sighs) You won't give up, will you? All right. We may put in a few
of his earlier letters to Sirius from a few years ago, but since he
probably doesn't know about this publication, we don't have anything new
to put in it.
LL: Then you don't believe he is living with wizards?
RW: I don't know.
LL: All right, I can tell you want to stay away from that topic. How is
your daughter Liliana doing?
RW: Now there's something I can talk about until the sky falls down. Lili
is amazing. She's ten months old, and I just love her to pieces. You've
probably seen the pictures. After all, they were in your paper.
LL: That's right. Now we're getting to a touchier topic. Does it ever
bother you that you don't know what Liliana looks like?
RW: I know exactly what she looks like. I've had so many descriptions of
her I could recite them. And I probably shouldn't tell you this on the
record, but I've seen her in dreams. Some sort of angel is sending me
dreams where I see her with Hermione. And contrary to popular belief, I
can see just fine in my dreams. All I'm looking at in real life is the
backs of my eyelids. So I've seen her, and she is beautiful. My mother –
Molly Weasley, that is – is absolutely over the moon with happiness.
Lili's her first grandchild, after all. Who wouldn't be happy?
LL: Rumor has is that Lili's great-grandmother came out of the woodwork
to meet Liliana. Is this true?
RW: It is, actually. My grandmother Abigail had decided to stay out of
our lives, but when Lili was born she couldn't resist, and I don't blame
her for it either. She has been a blessing to everyone, and a special
help to me. She is a link to a past I can hardly believe is true.
LL: That past is a very interesting story. Care to share any of it?
RW: That, Miss Lovegood, would be a rather long story to put in an
interview. And besides, they've all heard it before.
LL: Well then we should wrap it up. Thank you again for coming, Ron.
RW: Thank you, Luna.
LL: And watch your head on the way out. The doorframe is a bit too short
for you.
RW: I'll keep that in mind.
Dear Remus,
Now I know that I'm leaving soon. I hope I'm not leaving you with too much responsibility, but you're the only one I've got left. If and when I go, the house is yours until Harry is old enough. Unless you do one last thing for me, old friend. Find my son. Find my son with the red hair, big nose, and brown eyes she says are mine. He'll be seventeen soon, I think. There has to be a Fidelius Charm on him because I can't remember his name. You probably think he's dead. Well, he's not. The charm didn't get me way out in Azkaban. He's alive, Remus. Find him for me. Give him this journal, or whatever you want to call it. Tell Harry about him. Maybe they'll be friends. And if you're sitting down to dinner in ten years with my grandkids, don't say I didn't tell you so!
All the best, Sirius
Weasley Gives Interview on Journal Release
Editor's Note: Ron Weasley, the renowned hero of the Hogwarts War, recently gave an interview with Quibbler reporter Luna Lovegood about the release of his father's journal. The Daily Prophet asked for and received permission to reprint the interview following the publication of excerpts from the journal in the Prophet.
Luna Lovegood: Good morning, Mr. Weasley. You're looking well today.
Ron Weasley: Good morning, Luna. I would say the same for you, but I
can't exactly see how you look. Instead I'll say, hello, and you're
sounding quite well yourself.
LL: Always making fun, you are. But this is a rather serious interview.
About a serious topic.
RW: Luna, please, no puns. It's unbearable.
LL: If you insist. Last September you and Miss Hermione Granger agreed to
release parts of your father's journal to the public. What was the
reasoning behind your decision?
RW: We thought the public had a right to know the man behind all of their
rumors. Everytime I hear the name Sirius Black it has been linked with
either 'murderer' or 'martyr'. I don't think he liked either of those
words, so I wanted to change them. And Hermione says she loves him even
more now that she has read the letters. She thinks it will be a very eye-
opening look at a man whose life has been hidden in darkness.
LL: And I shall refrain from the Sirius puns if you stop talking about
eyes and darkness. It's rather unnerving.
RW: It's a deal.
LL: We've heard that you have plans to publish the journal as a book.
RW: That's true. The original plan was to make copies of the journal as
precisely as possible in order to preserve the feel of the journal. This
plan collapsed after one of the editors complained that the handwriting
was completely illegible. I only saw the journal once, but I do remember
the handwriting being a problem.
LL: What are you doing about that problem?
RW: Hermione says I should copy the diaries onto parchment again, and
that it would be a great improvement on his handwriting. (laughs) That
tells you how messy it is. Really, we're going to print them in a form
much like a magazine, with pictures of Sirius and his friends.
LL: And maybe some of you and your friends?
RW: You mean Hermione and Harry? I don't know. It hasn't come up yet. It
might not be appropriate. We are going to put in comments from others in
the book. Letters back to Sirius, obviously ones that never really were
sent, from Remus and Hermione and Minerva McGonagall. And me.
LL: You mentioned Harry. Any word from Mr. Potter?
RW: No, and you know that, Luna. Next question, please.
LL: Will any of his writings be in the journal?
RW: (sighs) You won't give up, will you? All right. We may put in a few
of his earlier letters to Sirius from a few years ago, but since he
probably doesn't know about this publication, we don't have anything new
to put in it.
LL: Then you don't believe he is living with wizards?
RW: I don't know.
LL: All right, I can tell you want to stay away from that topic. How is
your daughter Liliana doing?
RW: Now there's something I can talk about until the sky falls down. Lili
is amazing. She's ten months old, and I just love her to pieces. You've
probably seen the pictures. After all, they were in your paper.
LL: That's right. Now we're getting to a touchier topic. Does it ever
bother you that you don't know what Liliana looks like?
RW: I know exactly what she looks like. I've had so many descriptions of
her I could recite them. And I probably shouldn't tell you this on the
record, but I've seen her in dreams. Some sort of angel is sending me
dreams where I see her with Hermione. And contrary to popular belief, I
can see just fine in my dreams. All I'm looking at in real life is the
backs of my eyelids. So I've seen her, and she is beautiful. My mother –
Molly Weasley, that is – is absolutely over the moon with happiness.
Lili's her first grandchild, after all. Who wouldn't be happy?
LL: Rumor has is that Lili's great-grandmother came out of the woodwork
to meet Liliana. Is this true?
RW: It is, actually. My grandmother Abigail had decided to stay out of
our lives, but when Lili was born she couldn't resist, and I don't blame
her for it either. She has been a blessing to everyone, and a special
help to me. She is a link to a past I can hardly believe is true.
LL: That past is a very interesting story. Care to share any of it?
RW: That, Miss Lovegood, would be a rather long story to put in an
interview. And besides, they've all heard it before.
LL: Well then we should wrap it up. Thank you again for coming, Ron.
RW: Thank you, Luna.
LL: And watch your head on the way out. The doorframe is a bit too short
for you.
RW: I'll keep that in mind.