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Saturday 7/3/92
Dear Spencer
I heard Dudley's friends talking about Jurassic Park though you're right I didn't get to see it, and I can't say if dragons look anything like that but I can tell you that they're as smart as that really dangerous one that could think, and got out of the cage and nearly killed them all. The movie gave Dudley nightmares for weeks, I wish I could send him some photos of dragons to let him know they really do exist and not just in the wilds of some foreign jungle but actually here in the United Kingdom.
I would like to be able to send you photos of things as well. I will look into magical cameras over the summer. Or if I find out they work I could get one of those disposable ones and send it to you.
Ron and Hermione haven't found out about the letter yet, and Hagrid still has the dragon egg, he says it should be getting close to hatching. He's been staying up tending the fire for days to keep it hot enough to incubate the dragon, but if it requires that much heat then the egg might already be dead from being kept in Hagrid's pocket the night he won it. His spells don't work well enough for him to have risked insulating his pocket and spelling it hot, not to mention that from what Hagrid said the guy he won it off had it in his pocket too and just handed it over so it must have been cool enough to touch. I don't want to hope it won't hatch, part of me really wants to see it but it might be the best option. Maybe that's why McGonagall hasn't done anything but that would be kind of cruel to let Hagrid be tricked with a dead egg like that and keep his hopes up all week waiting for it to hatch. I'm trying really hard to trust that she'll do something before the students are put in danger but it's getting harder and harder.
Ron and Neville both have what look like old family wands not new ones. I don't think that the Weasley's could afford to buy Ron a new wand. My wand cost 7 Galleons which is about 350 pounds sterling which doesn't sound like that much for something so important, but I have no idea what the average wage is in the magical world. I don't think his wand is fake though. He hates having second hand things so much that if his wand is just a transfigured stick then wouldn't his mum or dad have transfigured it to look new? It would've been just as easy. It must be real but I wonder why they didn't try to get him one of his own, if they could afford to buy presents for me and go to Romania for Christmas then they must have been able to afford to buy a wand. Surely nobody who bought a wand and received Ollivander's ramble about the wand choosing the wizard or saw how it took multiple tries to find an appropriate match would question why even a poor family would buy their children their own wands. I don't know what reason Neville has for using a second hand wand, I think Neville's family have money. All the rest of his school things look new and his nonuniform clothes look like they're high quality and fairly new though I really can't judge wizarding fashion. I've heard some of the second year girls gossiping about the Longbottom heir so I think his family might have had a serious lot of old family money at one stage though I don't know if they still do. Those girls thought they do though. Seamus' wand looks new but half his spells turn out as explosions like the wands that Ollivander said weren't suited to me did. I haven't asked him whether he went to Ollivander's and was properly matched to a wand or not but I think he secretly enjoys making things explode so maybe he's doing it on purpose half the time and his magic has just got so used to doing it that it's become his go to reaction to trying to use magic?
I'm spending a lot more time studying with Neville, I always invite him to sit with us or come to the library when Hermione drags me there. I invite Dean and Seamus too but they won't sit to study with Ron or Hermione. I don't think Ron likes me including Neville all the time but Hermione seems happy to concentrate on helping him and leaves me be a bit more when he's there. Neville doesn't seem to mind letting her take over his work but I've noticed that he doesn't write a rough draft, if Hermione doesn't interfere, he hands in the first draft of an assignment so she is correcting his finished work and not stopping him from learning, and his marks have got better since he started studying with us more often.
I'm also spending more time with the quidditch team turning up early for afternoon training and hanging about afterwards. They still treat me more like a little brother but they don't seem to mind me hanging about and some of the spells they show me are really useful, well the one's Oliver and the girls show me are the twins mostly show me pranking spells which are funny but a lot of them are a bit mean too for the person hit with them. I don't know that I'll use any of them unless someone attacks me first and even then it would be better to cast something that stops them from attacking me again than to turn them into a girl or something that makes them even more angry at me.
Your friend always
Harry
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