Letters To and From a Stranger
By: g0ldensnidget, a.k.a. Snitch
(Letter IV)
J.K. Rowling's a witch, you say? And she wrote the Harry Potter Books – hell, this makes some sense. Ok, I'm willing to believe you.
Some secret facts about yourself you want, huh? Careful, don't get me started. I'll give you a full ID. You want a list of anything Harry Potter-related, you'll find yourself with a kilometer-long list. I'll try and control myself, though.
Your name: Harry James Potter.
Your parents: father: James Potter; mother: Lily (Evans) Potter. Lily had a muggle sister named Petunia – your aunt. She's now married to Vernon Dursley and has a son, Dudley. Your cousin. You hate them all. They make your life a living hell every summer vacation.
Your best friends: Ron Weasley: has five older brothers: Bill, Charlie, Percy, and twins Fred and George, and one younger sister, Ginny. Parents: Arthur and Molly Weasley; Hermione Granger: only child, muggle-born. Dentist parents.
Your enemies (other than Voldemort...): Draco Malfoy, his father Lucius Malfoy, and Severus Snape, the Potions Master.
You go to school at Hogwarts. You're in Gryffindor House, along with Ron and Hermione. You're on the Quidditch House Team; you're the Seeker. You got the part in your first year, by accident, even though first-years aren't allowed on the House Teams.
Your favorite lesson: Defense Against the Dark Arts, most probably in your 3rd year, when Remus Lupin taught.
Your least-favorite lesson: potions with Snape. You hate him, and he hates you.
Your greatest fear: Dementors. They make you hear the worst moments of your life; usually, the night your parents died defending you from Voldemort. You conjure your Patronus to defect them; it takes the shape of a stag, Prongs, your father James's Animagus form. You learned all about the Animagus story from Sirius and Remus in the Shrieking Shack during your 3rd year.
Your crush: Cho Chang. You met in Hogsmade last year and had a fight, so you don't really know what's going on with you two. Don't sweat it; it'll turn out all right in the end. Maybe Cho's not the one.
Very important – your looks: sorry, I forgot. You're tall and skinny. You have jet-black hair that simply will not lie flat and sticks up every-which-way at all times, just like your father. You have your mother's emerald-green, almond-shaped eyes, and you wear round glasses, like your father.
I hope that's enough?
Now, as for myself. You want to know about myself. Well, here, according to your letter, is all you want to know about me.
I'm a girl. I'm from Israel. My name's Vered. Don't laugh, I didn't pick it. And besides, it sounds good in Hebrew. It means 'rose', so if you feel weird calling me Vered, just call me Rose. Ok? I'm 14 years old. My hobbies are writing stories and reading books. My birthday's 14/6/89. My favorite lesson at school is ... I don't know. Chemistry, I suppose, cos my teacher likes me and doesn't go too hard on me. ^_^ Least favorite lesson... Mathematics. I simply and completely suck at math. Well, I suppose I'm not that bad, but it's hard. Just be thankful you don't have to study it. My best friends are Reut (it means 'friendship') and Gan (it means 'garden'. Her dad's a gardener, so you can't blame him...). My enemies... I don't think I really have any enemies... unless you count this one girl who's been trying to make a living hell out of my school life. Not that I let her – she doesn't bother me that much now that she's realized that her insults don't get to me. It's very amusing to watch her practically hurtling insults and swear-words at me, while I'm sitting there on my desk, studying her with my head cocked to one side and this odd look plastered onto my face... You have no idea. My favorite teacher is probably my Chemistry/Biology teacher, since, like I said, she's not too hard on me. Least favorite – sports. You wouldn't believe the bitch they hire to teach us sports. Just imagine Snape, only instead of bullying you at a cauldron in a freezing cold dungeon, he's barking at you to complete 5 laps around the school before time's up, either in baking hot summer or in freezing cold winter. That's how bad she is. We all hate her.
Was that all you want to know?
Yes? Well, I'll give you some extra facts anyway.
I'm diabetic. If you don't know what that means, it's basically a chronic illness that makes your body unable to produce insulin and turn everything you eat into energy. The results (call them symptoms if you like) are not pleasant: you're constantly tired, alternately running between the kitchen, drinking, and the bathroom, peeing. You start feeling depressed and angry, for no apparent reasons.
And your blood-sugar level rises. It rises like hell. A normal, healthy person's blood-sugar level should be between 90 and 120. I had an average of 340. I was 8 when I was diagnosed: Diabetes Type 1. So, the basic deal was that I couldn't eat anything with sugar, and I had to take 3 insulin injections per day. I hated it. But, it's been 6 years since then, and there have been some great improvements. I've had an insulin-pump for a year now. It looks like a beeper, fits in the palm of your hand. There's a long silicon tube that transfers the insulin to a patch that's in my stomach. From the patch, there's a thin silicon tube that goes into my body (are you getting goosebumps?) and that's how the insulin gets into my body. I change the patch every 3-4 days. It's much better than the injections – instead of 3 shots a day, it's like a shot every 3 days! It's wonderful. I can eat whatever I want, whenever I want.
Well... nothing much to say... You said something about an owl...? There's a small forest near my house; he could stay there and come every night to my bedroom window... think about it, ok?
Well...
Send your answer soon...
- Vered, a.k.a. Rose.
p.s
Here's an interesting fact about me, if you're interested: I'm a chronic sneezer. You wouldn't believe. It's like waking up with a cold every day. The sneezes usually come in 3s, but I once got to 7.
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Ok. How was that?
I remind you all: THE NAMES ABOVE ARE NOT MY REAL NAME, OR MY FRIENDS' REAL NAMES. THEY ARE JUST ISRAELI NAMES THAT I LIKED. THEY ARE NOT REAL.
Got that? Good.
I'll update soon.
Reviewers' response:
Iggie – thank you, thank you, thank you!! You have no idea how much you reviewing my story means to me. I've been following your story for a few months, and I really admire you. I just got the guts to post a story of my own a few days ago... As for the Default Chapter. I have no idea where it pops up from. It's just I tried posting once, and it gave me the Default Chapter... so, I decided I might as well take advantage of an extra chapter, to introduce myself and the story... And besides, it kept you all in suspense... ^_^
AderynGoddess – thank you for reviewing! I love your story – when are you going to continue???
Amiana – you are something else. Something else completely. Girl, you are weird. I like you. Girl power to us Amazons all and thank you for reviewing!
Buffybot – I never though to putting Ron and Hermione in; it's actually a great idea! I'll get right on that!
M.J. Kobayashi – tell your friend she's welcome.
PhoenixPadfoot89 – it's always nice to see a new face. Yes, I'm from Israel, but I was abroad for a few years (in Japan, no less! ^_~) and so I went to American school, so I speak, read and write English fluently enough... As for your question: no, I read the HP books in English. You wouldn't believe the horrible, absolutely crappy translations we have here.
Ronnie – you have got to be kidding me. You're from Israel? Where? How'd you get to this site?