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Harry wished that he'd taken a moment to look through the pile of letters properly and hide away the one for him. it was really annoying that he wasn't allowed to have it. In the beginning he was worried that something had happened to Spencer and they'd sent the letter to his relatives' house to get hold of him more quickly than using their letter drop at the restaurant. But the next day when more letters arrived, he was able to get close enough to notice that it didn't have stamps and a postmark let alone the international postage. Whoever had written it had hand delivered it which was odd. Why hadn't they knocked on the door and asked to speak with him. it made even less sense as the letters continued to arrive. He was rather pleased that whoever was sending the letters had managed to get him a real room with a window even if it was actually cooler under the stairs. The change in address that freaked out the Dursleys also worried him. if they were keeping that close an eye on him and what was going on inside the house did that mean the letters were from the person or people who had healed his injuries and removed his memories of the assault and attempt to go to the police for help?
Sunday 28/7/91
Dear Spencer
The summer's being going well after it's less than satisfactory beginning, and my friends at the restaurant are all well, I've been spending quite a bit of time there since school's finished and the chef has let me graduate from cutting vegetables to starting to make some of the desserts. It's a lot of fun. I would send you something but they mostly have cream or custard and wouldn't keep. I've also been reading a lot and the restaurant owner's mother has come to live with them and has been helping out/ hanging around the restaurant and has started teaching us a little bit of Italian, mostly food and cooking related words but it is fun.
Vernon, Petunia and Dudley are to normal after the scare of being locked into the snake enclosure at the zoo, Vernon's almost a bit too normal. I almost think they might have forgotten it though I haven't and I don't know why anyone would make them forget something a couple of weeks after they locked me in the cupboard for doing it. It didn't help me at all. I wonder if they didn't hear about it until the day I got out or they wanted to wait until the Dursley's finished punishing me before they made them forget?
Well I should say Vernon and Petunia were back to normal, before someone started sending me prank letters, or at least I think they're a prank. It's pretty daft if it is a prank, and even more daft if it isn't. If it's aimed at me then it's a really lame prank since Vernon and Petunia won't even let me read the letters anyway and if someone is trying to get in contact with me why send more than one or two letters before coming to see why I haven't answered them? They've sent dozens, more every day. What's the point in that? If I'm not going to reply to a letter then surely sending me two the next day then half a dozen then more and more is only going to make me angry.
On the other hand, if the prank is aimed at Vernon or Petunia it is strangely working though I don't understand why. I can't imagine why sending somebody strange letters would be funny before now, but watching Vernon and Petunia freak out about them his hilarious, or it would be if it didn't mean spending the rest of the day in the cupboard without meals every day. I hope whoever's doing it stops soon before I run out of protein bars and the water I have stashed away. I'd send you one of these letters to look at but I haven't been allowed to open one of them yet. Maybe it's a prank on Vernon and Petunia, they've certainly freaked out about them enough, though I don't know anyone who would go to these lengths to prank them. It isn't Dudley which doesn't surprise me of course, he doesn't have that much imagination, but he's as curious about the letters as I am and Vernon and Petunia won't let him see them either which is odd. He's thrown several tantrums about it and they still haven't given in. I don't know when I'm going to be able to send this as they aren't letting me out of the house at the moment. They've even boarded up the letter slot but these letters still get in. If it's not a prank then I think it might have something to do with the freaky power stuff that I can do. The letters must be arriving in some freaky way, about forty of them even came down the chimney like Santa today. Not that I believe in Santa of course, but Dudley still does and when the letters came flying out of the chimney he got very excited, and then extremely upset they were all addressed to me and he wasn't allowed to have them, though Uncle Vernon wouldn't normally care about giving him my things. We were right about someone spying on me here in Britain. The letters were addressed to my bedroom in the cupboard under the stairs which is kind of frightening. I can't believe that even among the other people that have powers they thought it was okay for me to sleep in a cupboard. And if they know that, how much else do they know? Why didn't they come and rescue me? Are the letters from the same person or people who altered my memories and forced me to come back here when I tried to go to the police for help.
Then when the Dursleys moved me up into Dudley's second bedroom because of the letters, the address on the letters changed to the smallest bedroom the very next morning. Nobody at all came to the house that afternoon or evening so how did they know I'd been given a bedroom let alone which one? Maybe they are watching the house more closely than I thought they were but I don't think they'd have seen this from the outside, my new room faces the back of the house. They'd have to be watching from inside the house somehow, but then why haven't they tried to stop me from using my power to get out of the cupboard at night. If anyone is watching, I hope they got a kick out of Vernon and Petunia's reaction to the letters.
The Dursleys' reaction makes me think that Vernon and Petunia know what's going on…
Got to go. The Dursleys are taking me on a road trip. I think they're trying to run away and hide from the stupid letters. I'll post this as soon as I can. We will have to stop for food and petrol eventually. Food especially since Dudley's coming.
Your Friend
Harry
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