Chapter 186

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From: spencer.

Dear Harry

There's no arguing that magic cannot make your life easier. My satchel is amazing and it's so great to have everything on hand when I want it without lugging a suitcase around everywhere. Not to mention being able to keep leftovers hot and fresh until I want them, and the convenience of having a hot meal available when I've got lost in my work and forgotten to eat dinner before everything has closed. I don't know whether you're experiencing and I'm hearing more of the negatives than most people for some reason because of who you are and the enemies you've made through no fault of your own, and I know you weren't actually safe living with the Dursleys.

Though now compared with everything that has happened at Hogwarts, somehow the Dursleys seem like a more manageable threat, though of course they weren't, I used to worry that one day Vernon would go too far and kill you or injure you beyond repair. I think that it feels less of a risk because it's more of a known quantity, at least before all of this you knew where the danger was coming from and you had some strategies to avoid some of it. But now you don't even know who all of your enemies are let alone where the next attack will be coming from and you have no way to know how to mitigate their actions against you. You'd also be equally in danger without magic if you'd attracted the attention of a pair of rival mob bosses the way you have Voldemort and Dumbledore and the mysterious unknown person interfering with the wards and things at the Dursleys, thought that seems just as farfetched as the idea of magic seemed before we found out about it. So, I'll try to stop blaming magic for your circumstances and just keep hoping that if you can get away from Britain, your problems will be left behind.

I know you're interested in visiting the magical shopping district in Barcelona and I agree it would be a risk but while I think of Spain as a small country in comparison to America, its land mass is twice the size of the UK, and since you know where the main magical enclave is, there's no reason you couldn't live there safely in another part of the country though I would prefer it if you came here.

There's a saying by Lord Acton "Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely." It doesn't actually mean magical powers but political and economic power but it seems made to fit the magical world even more than non-magical America or Britain. I think that the problem with the British magical world is that it's easy to overlook the suffering of others when they're not in front of you or when you've dehumanized them by declaring them to be of lesser value than you are like the purebloods view the muggleborn and non-magical people. It's even easier when you can wave your wand and make them forget the worst suffering themselves, or forget that you were the cause of their suffering so it cannot come back at you.

Do you think that Hermione will try to write to you if you don't go back to Hogwarts? I know that you've told Seamus and Dean not to try to write except through Dean's mom, but would anyone else try? Is there a way that someone could send you a portkey to bring you back the school without your permission? Is there any way to prevent that? There must be a way to limit who is able to write to you via owl post, otherwise you should have received a heap of fan mail considering the way people reacted when they first saw you and how much fan mail you said professor idiot received. Would you have to prevent all owl post from getting to you to prevent letters with spells on them?

Mom is doing well, she's had a couple of great days actually and decided to try to teach me to cook. I say try because her thoughts are still not quite organized enough to explain things clearly and in order. She got the meals done in the end and they were delicious, it's just her method of getting there seems so chaotic. Thankfully, with my memory I can go back and put her advice and instructions into the order I think that they should be in, but I don't know enough about cooking to be sure I've got it right either. Still, it was great to be cooking with her and we had a lot of laughs, mostly at my attempts to do what she was trying to tell me.

Superman speaks a lot of languages, it would make sense that Batman would speak Eskimo because that would be spoken near the fortress of Solitude (though what we call Eskimo is a group of Inuit and Yupik languages) and they are friends so maybe Superman learned it from him because I can't think why else he would have learned it, but I think they just added the rest over time to fit in with the storyline they were writing without remembering what they'd said before, or added them as America went to war against that country so he could negotiate with his enemies. Superman comics aren't all written by the same person either, there's no proof that the story lines are written in the order they appear. More than one writer could have some fully developed story lines they were working on drawing out at the same time and not know that they were contradicting other stories that hadn't yet been published. Superman's favorite animal is also an owl, just like yours. Are you sure you're not related to him?

Your friend always

Spencer

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