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Saturday 31/8/91
Dear Spencer
I leave for school tomorrow and I'm sending your birthday present early because I still haven't worked out how to send or receive mail at Hogwarts, let alone packages. I'll send it tomorrow because I wanted to make sure you get this first and don't open your present in front of anyone. It's books, of course, what else would I buy you? One is a History of my new school and one of the history of the magical world. It isn't my history of magic textbook but something Mr Blott recommended for students new to the magical world. My history of magic textbook was nowhere near as interesting as either of these. I hope you don't mind too much that I read them before sending them to you. You'll need to keep them somewhere nobody will find them. I was going to send them to your address in Vegas so you could keep them in the hideout but I was afraid your mum might open them and they'd upset her and make her think she was having an episode if she did because the pictures in the books move like the ones in the newspaper.
This last month hasn't been bad. The Dursleys have been mostly ignoring me and locking me in my new room. Dudley is frightened, Hagrid lost his temper with him and gave him a tail which he has to go to hospital to get removed. I told you about that. Hagrid promised me that he'd send someone to fix it or to take them to the magical hospital to get it fixed. I don't know whether he lied to me or just forgot or if he tried to and the Dursleys refused to let someone try to fix it or to go to the hospital where they might be seen as being freaks themselves. I would have thought they'd put up with using magic to have it removed immediately, as it is they had to wait nearly a month and then go to a surgeon and show him that Dudley isn't perfectly normal to get it cut off and they had to have the surgery in a private hospital to get it done before he started school so Vernon is fuming about the cost. I thought it was funny for a moment and it might have been if it wore off, but it really isn't. Dudley will have the scar from the tail being removed for the rest of his life. I offered to write to my school and ask if they can come and reverse the spell but Vernon and Petunia don't want any more magic used on him. The problem is that being frightened makes Dudley even more mean and violent than normal, and he's pretty much trapped in the house because Petunia doesn't want to risk his friends seeing the tail, luckily though he is mostly avoiding me as much as he can and I'm helping by staying in my room even when I'm not locked in unless I'm asked to do something. The Dursleys don't want me going to Hogwarts but they also don't want to keep me here, they're worried that the wizards would send someone to get me again.
It's okay, I didn't calculate on the Dursleys not feeding me at all so I'll be a bit hungry if I run out of food if they don't let me out for meals, but I suspect that if I wrote to Tom at the Leaky Cauldron and sent some wizards money he would send me some more meals. At least I've had the chance to read all my school introductory books and start on my textbooks for the year. Most of them are fascinating but as I said the language is a bit off, maybe old fashioned or something, so they weren't easy to read at first but I'm getting used to it. I'm sure you'll get used to it even quicker than me though you probably already are from the stuff your Mum used to teach. I also read through the second hand science and math books I would have used this year if I went to Stonewall High. They all seem so simple, I guess Little Whinging Primary did a better job of teaching us than I thought.
Hope your visit home went well, and that you have a fabulous birthday if I can't write to you again before then. I hope I can. That someone at school will be able to tell me how to send international mail.
Your Friend Always
Harry.
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