January 1993
Bill Weasley to Ginny Weasley
Hey Gin-Gin,
I did find out about the Egyptian Quidditch rules. On an international level, it is exactly the same but I played a couple of games with some mates of mine and guess what they have in place of a snitch? Walnuts! And the game only ends when the seeker has found all seven walnuts and each team member has eaten theirs. The walnuts just like the snitch zoom around everywhere and are just as hard to spot. Maybe you can get all the brothers to try it. I'm sure Fred and George will be up for it.
Hope you are enjoying Hogwarts. I heard about the events at school this year and the silly rumour about the chamber being opened. Don't you worry about it. It isn't your headache -let the professors deal with it.
Love always
-Bill xxx
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February 1993
Percy Weasley to Penelope Clearwater
Dear Penny,
I feel that in the past year we have really grown to know each other well. When you are there it is as if I can be myself. I do not have secrets with you and you are amongst the few people who really make me smile. Your happiness becomes my happiness. We share so many interests and is it really any wonder that we are best friends?
I'm too shy to ask you in person but will you Penelope, be my date for the Hogsmeade trip on Valentine's Day? I would be truly honoured to take you.
-Percy
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March 1993
Albus Dumbledore to Severus Snape
Severus,
There comes a time in life when we must put our own displeasures out of the window and do what our duty commands us to do. I am writing this letter to you in the strictest of confidence. From a fellow teacher to another. From a friend to a friend. I consider you an equal and therefore feel it al right to burden you with providing Mr Lupin who will join us for the next academic year, with the correct potions to curb his problem. I assure you that I have everyone's best interest in mind and it is with this assurance that I ask you to be both welcoming of the situation and cooperative.
-Albus
P.S: I hear that Pomona provides some excellent Magical Thyme. You must try some; I understand it is rather good for decreasing stress levels!
April 1993
Narcissa Malfoy to Andromeda Tonks
Today, after a long time I felt that I needed to write to you. It has been almost a year since my last letter…not that you would know this. Andy something terrible happened today. Lucius' father died. Lucius was very very upset. He…he…hit me. He actually slapped me. I'm in shock. I hope that it was a lapse in judgement and not something of a daily occurrence. I know many witches who suffer from this type of treatment. But I don't want to become a doormat. Andy. I wish Bella were here. She would have stood up for me. But here, I am, my only fan and even I can't defend myself. Sometimes I feel if it weren't for Draco…
Anyway, as usual I am sealing this letter up and stacking it up with the rest of hundreds of letters I never sent you.
Love always,
-Narcissa
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May 1993
Ron Weasley to Molly Weasley
Mum,
An awful event has occurred. Hermione is in the Hospital Wing! She has been petrified and so has this fifth year prefect called Penelope Clearwater. No one knows how it happened and all the professors seem very anxious. Harry and I are totally confused and have no idea what happened to her! Will write again if we find out anymore.
-Ron
June 1993
Fred Weasley to Charlie Weasley
Hi Charlie, how are the dragons keeping? And what about our fire-breathing namesakes? Really wish we could meet them! I bet we could do a grow-me-older charm and sneak in…but if mum ever found out we'd be dead and buried before you could say dragon. Haha…
Anyway I am actually writing to tell you that… GRYFFINDOR WON THE QUIDDITCH HOUSE CUP! We came first! Wish you were still at Hogwarts to celebrate eh? Oliver already has plans and tactics ready for next year's season…I think he might even be a more obsessed captain than you were.
Anyway, getting late for dinner. Take care.
-Fred
July 1993
Petunia Dursley to Severus Snape
I wonder if you still live at Spinner's End but as this is the only point of contact I have, I suppose this will have to do.
We left things at a sour point last time and so I wouldn't be surprised if you don't even bother opening this letter. I obviously hadn't expected her to die. But she did. And as usual I got stuck with her problems. I will not bore you with my dealings and feeling with both my sister dying and the repercussions of it on my family. You must know by now that I met her husband and his friend at her wedding. You didn't attend so of course you wouldn't know that I…I spoke with a certain Sirius Black.
I don't know if I am dreaming or if this is truly what happened but…I saw him. Sirius Black, that is. I could never forget that face.
I'm not sure why I feel that this is important for you to know but he is one of your lot and well, he was on the evening news headlines. I feel that something very wrong is happening. And I don't give a toss about your world but she was my sister and had the situation been reversed she would have done something too. Warning you that this Sirius Black is a wanted criminal in my world is the least I can do. I sincerely hope that this letter finds you. And I knew that my brother-in-law was nothing but trouble but his son…Lily's son deserves to live in a world safer than the one in which Lily grew up.
-Petunia Dursley
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August 1993
Andromeda Tonks to Sirius Black
Congratulations cousin! You've made me proud. You've lived up to your house courage and unwittingly to your familial traits too. I hope you are taking extra precaution of your safety and concealment wherever you are. You're quite the topic for discussion these days. Something you and your friends always wanted to achieve – looks like one of your post-school desires came true.
You know I always had faith in you. I never believed the lies they told us back in '81. You keep in there and one day I hope I can hear your side of the sad tale.
Don't worry about your godson either, cousin. He is safe wherever Dumbledore is.
Hoping this reaches you and when you are able, do reply. I'm itching to hear from you again.
-Andy
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September 1993
Sirius Black to Peter Pettigrew
I'm filthy. I'm hungry. I'm thirsty and I haven't taken a shower for years. But I haven't forgotten what you did, you rat. I will neither forget not forgive until either one of us lives. You took everything from me and I'm ready now to take everything from you. I'm back Peter. Get ready for my wrath. And remember if anything happens to my godson…there will be more than hell to pay.
-Sirius Black
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October 1993
Bloody Baron to Fat Friar
My dear Friar,
This has been to date the worst invite to Sir Nicholas' death-day party. As much as your petulance and childish mannerisms amuses me and is indeed very becoming, I must refuse. You see, I don't respond to invites written out just because one ghost lost a bet to another. And for the records, it was rather foolish of you to think that Oliver Wood would be head boy. Clearly Sir Nicholas knows the students of his house much better than you and it was therefore quite silly of you to bet against him when he declared that Percy Weasley would be head boy. And he is, so congratulations it is another bet lost for you and yet another refusal from me,
With all due respect,
-The Baron
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November 1993
Remus Lupin to Sirius Black
I almost felt sorry for you. The one thing you had was that you could be suffering from magical flu and still look immaculate. But your unkempt hair, your hollow eyes and your sucked in cheeks show not only your true age but also the effects of Azkaban. But this is what you deserve isn't it. I hate you. I hate you. I hate you. You snatched away the few precious people in my life who I cared about. You even snatched yourself from me. Or was there anything to snatch? You were a first class actor, Sirius. When you accompanied me on my transformations, I actually believed that you cared. When you would run the risk of detention just to let James and Lily have ten extra minutes together, I actually believed that you were a good friend. When you helped Peter with Transfiguration even though he was ungrateful, I actually believed that you were a kind man. When you betrayed those who you called friends, when you killed innocents and destroyed every shard of normalcy in the world…I didn't know what to believe. Or more acutely, I didn't know how to believe that the Sirius of yesteryears and the Sirius of today were – are – the same person.
And yet deep down I still want to forgive you. But I can't, I can't because the reason is a young boy who has already lost too much and doesn't deserve more betrayal. I can't forgive you because if I did, I wouldn't be able to forgive myself. And living with guilt your whole life can kill a lesser man – you wouldn't know. You don't feel the guilt. Do you. Do you?
-Remus
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December 1993
Peter Pettigrew to Remus Lupin
I had gotten used to this new life. I had gotten used to holding up the burden. I had gotten used to forgetting everyone. And then you came to Hogwarts. And suddenly I wish I could turn back the clocks. What would I have done differently? What would you have done differently? Or our destinies and our fates already written out? No matter what I did…would I still end up where I am? But I can't start regretting now. It is too late for that. I've moved on. Time does that…it forces us to accept, embrace and move the hell on. See? I'm not as thick as you all thought. I have a brain too.
-Peter
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AN: and your thoughts? Peace! –Vitzy-