Chapter 182

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Dear Harry,

You started using magic much younger than any of the other people you mentioned. Is it because they were late starters or is it rare for kids to start using magic before eight or nine. Do you think that it was just because you needed your magic to protect and heal you more than the others did and it responded to that by becoming stronger through use that any of the other students, like Seamus and Dean's magic seemed to grow stronger over the summer because they were using it more because of the time dilation? Or did you just start being able to use magic earlier because your magic was stronger in the first place? It might explain why you don't need to use your wand when everyone else seems to be using real wands for all the spells they cast.

You know that I didn't want you to go back to Hogwarts next year, even less now that I know that you can't even get proper medical attention when you are injured or nearly killed. But I don't want them to bind or take away your magic either. Particularly not when you don't know that it won't harm you to lose it like that. Do you think that they'd track you down if you left the country? Or would they just assume you'd found an international school that would accept you, or that it was your new countries job to track you down. Can they even track your magic. I know they use the threat of it to prevent students from using magic at home over the holidays but how true is it? Could it be an empty threat? If it is, then could having your magic bound also be an empty threat to try to convince students from nonmagical families to stay at Hogwarts and end up working in the magical world? Also, if they are tracking magic use, are they tracking your magic or the use of your wand? Since I know you used a lot of magic at the Dursleys. Could that be why they put the wards up to stop you from being able to use magic?"

With the way the wizarding world has deliberately isolated itself from the nonmagical world, it's surprising that there's not more differences in the language spoken between the two worlds. The students coming from the nonmagical world would bring across the modern changes to the language and slang and such but with the way purebloods look down on them I would've expected them to resist picking up the changes in their speech or choices of words. Of course, I may be underestimating the differences since your language doesn't seem to have changed since you started school but then again, your closest friends are Dean and Seamus who both spend considerable amounts of time in the nonmagical world and so does Hermione, and you still also spend the extended summer away from Hogwarts. Still, that doesn't mean that there aren't words that have a different meaning in one world than the other, just like some words mean different things in British and American English and that might be a lot more difficult to notice.

I don't know what I would want to see if I could travel back in time for a day or so, there are so many things that would be fascinating as long as I could guarantee my presence there wouldn't change the course of history or put me at risk of injury. I think I would want to see the launch of Apollo 11, or better yet be there watching Neil Armstrong take the first steps onto the moon as long as I was protected from the vacuum of space, and he couldn't see me. I would hate to ruin that moment for him, and I don't know how life on Earth would change if he came back and told everyone that aliens either lived on the moon or travelled there to spy on Earth. Or I'd like to be there to witness the discovery of a new element or to meet Sir Isaac Newton in 1687 when he developed the classical mathematical description of thefundamental forceofuniversal gravitationand the three physicallaws of motion.

I thought about wanting to meet my mother before she developed schizophrenia but I'm afraid it would break my heart to see how much happier she was then. Or if I could make changes, I'd go back to the night you were left at the Dursleys and steal you away, bring you to America and have you put up for adoption. I would like to say I'd try to prevent your parents' deaths, but I wouldn't know where to go let alone believe I could change that, any more than I could go back and prevent my mother from developing Schizophrenia. I know there are things that could trigger it, but I don't know if Mom actually experienced or was influenced by any of them, let alone exactly when. I'm sorry Harry.

The Germans hated Batman during World War II, they complained that it was full of American propaganda and was leading young people all over the world astray. Looking back on the older superman comics they weren't wrong. The political messages undoubtedly went over children's heads, but they are there and would still subtly affect their beliefs about America and it isn't only children that read comics.

Your friend always

Spencer

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