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Spencer was astounded at the latest letter from Harry. Though after the shock wore off a bit, he supposed that he shouldn't be so surprised. He'd known about Harry having some mysterious power that not only moved things and lit up the night, it could heal him and make the bullies want to back off, and from what had happened when Harry tried to go to the police for help they'd known Harry wasn't the only one able to do what he could do and that the other person or people who'd sent him back to the Dursleys had been able to do a lot of things that he and Harry had never imagined could be done. They'd speculated about their being a community of people who had powers like Harry though he never guessed that that community would be as large and self-governed as the wizarding world seemed to be with their own school and hospital and both British and international governments separate to the rest of the world. And if they had their own school, it made sense that they'd be contacting Harry now as he was about to start what the British called secondary school.
What didn't make sense was with this much of a developed society so very deliberately keeping itself separate from the nonmagical world, why Harry had been excluded from it for the last ten years. Not that he wasn't glad that he had been, Spencer would never have met him otherwise but it didn't make sense. Especially since Harry's powers were so strong that he had trouble controlling them and when someone had been keeping a secretive eye on him this whole time. He wished that he could actually talk to Harry, ask questions and hear the answers straight away and listen to the whole story so he could give more useful and meaningful advice. He would also like to be involved in the excitement of the whole thing, to have Harry take him to Diagon Alley, to meet the goblins, and to read through the text books together.
Tuesday 8/6/91
Dear Harry,
It all sounds too fantastic to be true, and I was surprised until I thought it through and realised the most shocking thing about this secret society is the powers the people in it have and I already knew you had them. We also speculated that someone from their society would eventually make contact with you so while I wasn't expecting it to happen now, I feel like I should have been waiting for it to happen at any time.
I guess calling it Magic is as good an explanation for the impossible things you can do that defy all laws of physics and biology and everything else, as any other explanation would be. But it still seems lacking in really giving us knowledge of what's going on. Sure, calling it magic rather than mysterious power thingies is slightly more convenient but it's just a better label. Did they explain how it all works, what causes it and why some people have it and others don't like your mother and her sister? It sounds like it could be partly genetic but that doesn't fully explain it either. From what you said in some families it is a dominant trait and in others it can sometimes become a recessive trait like red hair that can pop up generations later if both parents have the recessive gene.
And they did have their own hidden society like we thought they must, whoever they were. I wonder though, why you were left outside of the society and not kept within it when your parent's died. Surely your father had relatives or they had friends that could have taken you. Did Hagrid give you a reason or a way to contact the magical side of your family?
I did get your page of newspaper with the moving pictures. The pictures are brilliant but the articles seem to lack hard facts and be made up mostly of sensationalism and speculation. None of them would ever have been published even in the worst local newspapers let alone a national daily paper. The clothes in the pictures look like they come from oxford university in another century. I wonder why they are so different to regular clothes, surely dressing so differently would make it much harder to hide their society. Which really doesn't make any sense, they can't be that totally isolated if their main shopping centre is in the middle of London even if you do have to walk through a pub and use a wand to get into it. What do the goblins look like, are they similar to humans but with pointy ears like Vulcans on Star trek or more like Yoda in Star wars?
It's great that you'll be going to boarding school and be away from the Dursleys, somewhere where you will be fed properly every day, though I'll warn you not to have too high an expectation of institutional food, and have the opportunity to do your best in class. You will have the opportunity to make new friends. You didn't say what subjects other than potions that your school will teach you. Does it teach normal subjects like math, science and English grammar and literature? History and Geography and all the other subjects you would've taken next year? Am I going to be able to write you at school? You didn't send me the address. Of course, I'll understand if you drop our correspondence once you have friends in school with you.
Be careful at school Harry, Dumbledore might be more neglectful than malevolent but he might not be. Still you'll be only one of a large number of students and if he does have three full time jobs, like you think he does, he's not going to have much time to notice you and interfere with your plans if it looks like you're going along with what he wants. It also worries me that you thought Hagrid was trying to stop you from finding out something. Your description of him made it sound like he wasn't likely to be doing that of his own accord, he was following someone else's order or advice so you don't know what he was trying to hide from you or who was trying to keep you ignorant. Learn all you can Harry but you might want to be a little sneaky about it. I hate to say it but it might be a good thing that you've got plenty of experience in pretending not to know things. That doesn't mean I don't expect you to get decent marks, just not to be the top of your class or to do well enough to stand out. It's going to be hard to blend in when you don't really know what they expect of you.
One thing I know they will expect though is that having been living with her sister you'll know all about your mom. So even if some of the teachers have been at the school long enough to have taught your parents you mustn't ask about her. Ask about your dad, it would be normal enough for Petunia not to have known all that much about him. I know this will be hard for you and I'm sorry but I think it might be important until you're sure you trust someone enough to tell them about your home life and the abuse. I also know this might make it harder to try to find somewhere else to stay for the holidays but I just don't want you to risk trusting the wrong people. Wait and get to know them as well as you can first.
Your Friend
Spencer
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