Dear Colin,
YOU MET HARRY POTTER! What's he like? He's really really nice, right? Okay, you need to tell me absolutely everything! Can you try to get a picture? Pretty pretty please. Maybe even a picture that moves. That would be wicked!
I knew you'd be in Gryffindor! You're the bravest person I know. You would always protect me from Will, whenever he would pick on me about my lisp. You always were the best big brother ever. I already miss you soooooo much and you just left. I won't get to see you until Christmas. That's way too long. I can't wait until I'm eleven and then I can come with you. You can show me everything.
Your friends sound cool. Alex sounds alright. I mean he seems to read a lot and I guess he's in Ravenclaw, so that makes sense. If Ginny's like Emma, it might be okay. I mean it would be annoying, but Emma's nice enough (when she isn't acting all crazy and girly. I mean yuck!). It's so cool that she knows Harry Potter though. Maybe you could ask her or even her brother about Quidditch. You know how much I want to learn.
I don't think anything in the world could taste better than Mum's food, so I guess I'll just have to wait and see. Do you think I can send you a howler? I mean it wouldn't be mean or anything. I could tell knock knock jokes or something. It would be brilliant to have my voice echo around the Great Hall. It'd be so funny.
By the way, I have Mrs. Mathews for a teacher this year. I'm not sure how I feel about that. I mean she is just, you know, scary. She carries around a ruler with her during class and she glares a lot. I don't like her very much.
I love you,
Dennis
Friendly reminder Dennis would be 9 and so his exuberance is to be expected. Also, Colin sent the first two letters, right after each other. Dennis would have had to wait for the owl to get there before he would have been able to respond.