Dear Dad,
I asked Uncle Harry and he said he was a Gryffindor, but Alby says the hat wanted to put him in Slytherin. Odd as the two houses are night and day.
Oh I should back up and explain. There is a hat that can talk, and when you first arive (in a little boat over a giant lake with an enormous squid) they put the hat on your head so it can read your mind and tell you where you belong.
Gryffindors are suposed to be brave and chivilrous. Slytherins are sneaky. Was Uncle Harry terribly Sneaky father? He seems quite upfront about nigh everything. I am having a little bit of trouble getting Lil to come with me to the chamber. She's rather worried about how we would get back out. I told her thats all part of the adventure and I can tell she is very intrested so we shall see how that goes.
Myrtle is doing well I think. Of course she can be rather self conscious but as long as I keep her circumstances in mind, and not mention the worng phrases then we get along wonderfully. I keep a small notebook on things Myrtle finds rude, so as to not make a mistake. I imagine mother would be horrified by that. Having to keep a notebook about manners! It dosnt write back though.
Oh probably no ones told you about that. Jimmy explained it to me there was a journal that Aunt Ginny found in her old school books.
Her standard book of spells
Year one.
Yes thank you. Well she took to writing in the diary
Horcrux actually Uncle Dudely, but mom didnt know that then.
She took to writing in it and then it started writing her back. But the boy who wrote back wasnt as nice as he was pretending to be
He was downright awful.
Course he was, he was You- know- who!
But Hugh, Father dosnt know who You- know- who is so he can't be you know who.
Well his real name was Tom but he called himself Vol-
DONT SAY THE NAME
If you say his name he'll come back to life and eat you in the night.
Then he'll take your shoes. and he'll put them on and dance to showtunes!
I would think he had better things to do in the afterlife than eat people who say his name. I think the twins are having us on. But back to the diary.
Horcrux
Yes. Well Aunt Ginny wrote to Tom for ages and he wrote back. But then he took over her and made her do things then he kidnapped her and took her into the chamber of secrets! She dosnt really remeber. Uncle Harry went down into the chamber itself and brought her back!
Ill tell you more later. Right now I need to get to potions.
Michief managed
Del.
James
Lily
Dev
Kev
Hugo
P.S. you neednt worry about the giant Squid, he's harmless and rather friendly. He waved to me on the crossing!