Chapter 180

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Dear Harry

I am so angry at Mediwitch Pomfrey and Dumbledore and McGonagall and Molly and Arthur Weasley. They all knew that you'd been bitten by a basilisk and not only did they insist o interrogating you about what happened in the chamber before letting you seek any medical help at all, they must have known that you needed a real healer not just an incompetent school nurse. And she was incompetent. It has to be in her job description to call in a healer if she isn't able to heal you herself and she failed to do so, whether she failed to recognize the severity of your injury or she didn't call in a healer out of laziness or corruption.

Your new Mediwitch is correct that Pomfrey should be sanctioned for neglecting you like that. Working at a school without supervision or oversight should be something only a very well trained and experienced Mediwitch could do and my experience with school nurses has always been that they give you a note to take home to your parents encouraging them to take you to a doctor if they have the smallest doubt that their care wasn't completely enough or there might be an injury or illness that they think needs more expertise or investigation. Your supposed headmaster and head of house should also be sanctioned, they're legally responsible for your wellbeing while at school. Denying you appropriate medical treatment is abuse!

Or are you suspecting that someone prevented her from calling in help, either by forbidding her or by manipulating her mind like what happened last year with Professors McGonagall and Flitwick to try to keep what had happened a secret so there wouldn't have been an inquiry into the dangers at the school. I could have bought that in your first year but after the number of students petrified for months, and them starting planning to close the school early and send the students home for their safety and a professor suddenly losing all his memories, there should be an investigation into what happened whether you were injured or not. I know you think that Lockhart is an idiot, a terrible professor and horrible human being who lies about the things he's claimed to have done in his books, and I can't say that you're wrong about any of that, but he is still a popular author and minor celebrity in the British magical society to people who don't know him well. Even if they could smuggle him out of the country or have him admitted to a private hospital or care home in the muggle world his disappearance will be noticed. Especially after the professor of the same subject was killed or disappeared the year before. If they avoided getting you decent medical treatment to keep things from attracting official attention, who knows what they've done to those two professors. I know that you know Quirrell is dead, and I assume you told your so called friends and dorm mates but does the rest of the school actually know that he was killed within the school last year? Do their parents know? I would have expected a public enquiry at least.

I don't even know how to go about trying to find you a healer here, has your mediwitch given you any advice about that or did she just give you an address in Dublin or London? There has to be some way to find a magical district in a city you don't know but there may not be one in Los Angeles, I have no idea how many magical districts there are in America, but if there's three in the UK then population wise there should be about 16 across America if we have the same percentage of witches and wizards, maybe more since the geographical area is so much larger though magical travel seems to make distances less important. Is there a way you could find out this information without giving away what country you're planning to visit.

I think that you need to keep asking about the side effects of having your magic bound, perhaps ask a healer or perhaps the goblins at the bank. They'd still be in contact with people after their magic was bound even if it was not long after when they came in to close their accounts. You've said in the past that there are some potions deliberately made to work on squibs who don't have enough magic to go to Hogwarts and some even work on nonmagical people so there probably are potions that would help them deal with whatever the side effects are. Perhaps it would be good to have an idea what those potions were so you can keep a stockpile in one of those stasis cupboards just in case you need them. You will also need to make sure that your tent is warded in a way that you will still be able to use it, and it will keep you safe without magic too, because if you are on your own without your magic then you will need your tent more than ever.

I can't even begin to picture what some of those tents you describe look like, but if tents can do all that then why was it so hard to find one to buy. I would've thought there'd be a lot of school leavers who want to buy a tent and live on their own while completing an apprenticeship or further training and couldn't afford a house yet. Especially since you could put runes on a tent like on my satchel to keep it at a stable temperature so you wouldn't need to pay for heating and air conditioning, and runes to prevent damage and make it last for decades longer than a normal muggle tent, or if you did need to live in a city you could put your tent inside a small room and have a whole house to yourself for the price of renting a single room. The tents sound a lot nicer than cheap student housing in the nonmagical world, particularly if you can put silencing wards on them to keep out the noise of your housemates partying while you're trying to study or sleep.

The problem would be hiding the tent or anything else magical in the room from nonmagical people. Would you get in trouble for breaching the statute of secrecy if a burglar broke into your home and found or stole magical items? Or would you be expected to ward your home to prevent uninvited visitors, before you would be allowed to have those things. Wouldn't a ward also tip off a determined thief?

For that matter where on earth could you put up any of the other tents that you described without risking breaking the statute of secrecy? Is there a camping ground or more likely an entire area or island that can't be seen by nonmagical people? There would have to be something like that wouldn't there since the purebloods wouldn't want to go anywhere muggle. So, our idea of time dilation holidays wouldn't be that far out there if they could find a way to ward an outdoor area big enough.

I would love to be able to spend some time in that library, to be honest I wouldn't mind spending a couple of weeks reading my way through the Hogwarts library either if I thought it would be safe for me to be there and a way to tell which books were safe to read. I think that you're safer away from Hogwarts too. Who knows how many people there wish you harm but someone there wants you dead enough that they're actively trying to murder you. It's a miracle you've survived the last two years there. It's strange that it's so dangerous but the only student you've heard about dying was Myrtle, about 50 years ago. Though the only reason we heard about her was that she became a ghost and remains in the castle, there could have been other deaths.

I've been looking into the high schools near here. They aren't the best schools in the state, but they aren't terrible either, there have been no deaths or serious injuries or assaults, and they're generally considered fairly safe. I think that you'd be okay there if you can't get into a magical school and they all offer Spanish as both a basic and an AP (advanced placement) subject which isn't all that surprising given that a large percentage of the students are of Latino descent. Glendale about half an hour from here by bus has some better schools but I hope you end up in this area somehow. You're an independent learner and self-motivated enough that you don't need to be spoon fed or external motivation so there's no reason you couldn't excel academically whichever school you get into.

It must be stressful for children who don't show signs of accidental magic until later than their peers, particularly if the family starts to distance themselves from the child, and to keep them away from other people in case they do turn out not to have magic. It sounds like your magic manifested much earlier and more often than your friends magic did, probably because you needed it to protect you from the Dursleys. I hope that that's not too well known, otherwise purebloods would be deliberately abusing their children to make their magic stronger and present earlier. Still, it isn't exactly a safe thing to do to try to provoke a violent outburst from someone who isn't going to be able to control it, so hopefully I'm wrong. Was your friend Neville treated well? What about Seamus and his sister, I trust that the Finnegans treated them well but how old were they and Dean when they first started using magic?

I think that peanut butter and sardine would be a terrible sandwich. I tend to pair peanut butter with sweet foods like jelly or bananas.

In spite of the fact his favourite food is a sandwich, Superman likes to cook like you do, he says it relaxes him. His favourite thing to cook is steak.

Your friend always

Spencer

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