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18/5/90
Dear Spencer
By the time you get this you will be in your last few days of high school. That seems crazy since I still have another year of primary school. When we were together you didn't seem that much older than me and now you seem pretty much a grown up. I'm a little afraid that you'll grow up and leave our friendship behind. Especially if Caltech is everything you've imagined it will be and you're surrounded by like minds and make dozens of new and interesting friends. Your life will be full of grown ups and you'll leave the end of your childhood behind.
I know you're looking forward to leaving High School and looking forward to going to Caltech but are you afraid of how much and how fast your life is changing. I'm looking forward to the year after next when Dudley and I will be at different schools but I'm also a very little bit glad it isn't happening now. I don't feel ready for the change as good as I think it will be, and Stonewall high is so much bigger than Little Whinging Primary School. I know that's a good thing, it means that most of the kids in my new grade will never have met Dudley and the friends he has left will be only a small part of the class as a whole and not have the power they have now. I'll hopefully be able to make friends. I want it so badly, I don't know why I'm so scared of it at the same time. Does that make any sense to you? But I can pit it out of my mind because it's so far away. You can't? Does it help to know that I'm still going to be here and that our friendship wont change unless you want it to?
I'm going well, the staff at the restaurant are still feeding me and giving me odd jobs to do for a little cash to buy stamps and stash some food that will last a long time, in my cupboard in case of trouble from the Dursleys. They're teaching me how to make pizza dough and they've been experimenting with toppings for the gourmet pizzas to go onto their new menu. Some of them are surprisingly good and some surprisingly bad, I'm surprised sometimes about what will and won't go together. The chef lets all of us try it and vote on what we liked and disliked. He says that he needs lots of opinions because it's hard to know whether you personally like something nobody else will like or if it will sell. In any case it's great, I get to eat a lot of pizza even if some of them are rather strange. School is mostly boring but I understand all the work even if I'm not allowed to show it. I'm still spending most of my free time in the library and Dudley still hasn't come looking for me there, I don't know whether he doesn't know where I am or if he and his friends don't think of bullying me when I'm not there to remind them. The Dursleys are still their same unpleasant selves but so long as I don't embarrass Dudley or cheat and bring home better grades than he has and get my chores done they leave me alone for now. There's nothing really to tell you about them. This is a bit of a boring letter because I really have no news for you. Everything is going along the same as always. I haven't been hurt or punished for anything recently.
Our science class is starting to study physics, our class today looked at acceleration and deceleration. The teacher showed us movies of cars accelerating and breaking as hard as they could. Dudley enjoyed the video but he hadn't listened to any of the educational bits so I'm afraid I did much better tan he did on the test. We have a new science teacher and I think he realises that I'm deliberately not trying. He sent a letter home asking to have me put into a remedial science and math class while the others are doing arts and crafts. The Dursleys thought it was a great idea to separate me from Dudley and he and his mates were picking on me for needing the class but when I got in there it's really interesting. It's a remedial class for the year above me, so they're repeating experiments and getting more explanations of things they've already done but it's all new to me. Of course, it will cause problems next year when I'll have to fail at all these things he'll know I know but at the moment it's nice to have a class by myself. The other kids are all older than me and Dudley so they haven't paid much attention to his bullying. They're not willing to befriend me in the playground but they're nice enough in class. The remedial class are doing experiments with temperatures at the moment and Pythagoras for math.
I did like that book you recommended, time travel is an amazing idea. I wonder if any one will ever manage to make it work, and what they would do with it if they did. And I wonder how it would work, if someone changed something in the past, would everyone's memories of that thing change too or would people know that it had been changed? I think it would be interesting but also a very dangerous thing.
Your friend
Harry
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