To Whom It May Concern:
Things have not gone as planned. The war was a bust. After nearly ten years of fighting, we are doomed—all of us.
I cannot talk for long and what I write must never be made public for the sake of all of us. Our world has been destroyed.
We were winning our war. The Death Eaters had reduced eightfold in their numbers and we were making headway. We had recaptured Hogwarts and the Ministry was soon to be ours but Voldemort pulled his last card. He went public.
With a devastating demonstration to the public of Great Britain everywhere, Voldemort revealed everything we had worked so hard at concealing and then he disappeared. We don't know where he lies.
The war was a trying experience for us all and many of the wizards and witches close to us were lost.
Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, Bill, Arthur and Fred Weasley, Albus Dumbledore, Minerva McGonagall and Nymphadora Tonks…dead. In one fell swoop, the stronger members of our battalion were wiped out when Death Eaters attacked and captured Hogwarts. That was four years ago.
The attack left many dying or otherwise incapacitated, I leave their names here so that maybe someone, some day will discover their fates.
Ginny, George, Molly and Percy Weasley, Rubeus Hagrid, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Rolanda Hooch and Filius Flitwick lie barely lucid in St. Mungo's.
There are those of us that are still living that I must also mention for they may one day be the key to saving the wizarding world: Severus Snape, Harry Potter, Ronald Weasley, Luna Lovegood, Seamus Finnigan, Alastor Moody, Anya Sinistra and Olympe Maxime.
They may be our key to building up that which we are about to destroy and should be found if ever the opportunity arises.
We must destroy this world, which we have lived in for centuries or else risk the Muggles' wrath. There have been talks of witch burning and trials. It has been decided that we are not to be trusted if everything Voldemort has told the public is true and so we shall destroy our world.
For the past year many of the people mentioned above have been working upon a spell called the Memory Altercation spell and in a few short minutes it will be performed by the likes of Severus Snape, Harry Potter, Alastor Moody, Luna Lovegood and myself.
It will use the memories various officials have collected from various Muggles to change our own memories of our lives. This spell will erase the memory of magic from everything and everyone in Great Britain (others around the world are doing the same thing) and magic will cease to exist.
Once this spell is cast we will take our places amongst the Muggles and work and live and die and we will be safe though Voldemort has won. God help us all.
I go now and it is done, the bell invites me. The spell will begin soon and this letter will be nothing more than paper in the wind.
I cannot help but think how Slytherin we all turned out to be.
-Sincerely,
a wizard.
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I go now and it is done, the bell invites me-- This is a line from Shakespeare's Macbeth where Macbeth is about to go and murder King Duncan