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To: Spencer Reid
From: Harry Potter
Friday 17/7/92 6:03pm (GMT)
I mentioned your theory about our magical core not being affected by the time compression so we're actually casting five times more spells than normal each day and the effect it's having on us. Dean agreed that it seems to get worse the more nights we've spent here and it's better on Mondays both time expanded 'Mondays' all week and the whole five days of real time Mondays. We've decided to try to cut back our spell casting to see if it helps any. Since you suggested the problem, I've also noticed that the kids that were here last summer and those who attend the regular school here do seem to use less magic outside of classes than we were. Of course, now Seamus is imagining that it's a conspiracy that everyone else knew and none of them were willing to tell us. Dean and I tried to tell him that it's the same with a lot of things in the wizarding world and at Hogwarts. Everyone assumes that we know things because to them it's common knowledge among their peers or things that they've grown up always knowing and they don't realise that the muggleborn students don't know those things and the official welcome to the school doesn't tell us either. In fact the attitude is even more prevalent at Hogwarts, though that might be a conspitracy by the purebloods to put muggleborn students at a disadvantage and make them feel like they're never going to really fit in in the wizarding world, and it's probably even worse for me because Dean at least has being muggleborn to make people realise he didn't have the same sort of upbringing as them, I've found that most of my classmates tend to forget, or refuse to believe, that I was brought up in the muggle world and have no memories of the magical world before coming to Hogwarts. They seem to think that my parents must have taught me all the things that their parents taught them.
To: Harry Potter
From: Spencer Reid
Friday 7/17/92 10:08pm (GMT)
So, it seems my theory that you replenish energy at the same rate as normal time when your in time compression might be correct, or at least partially correct. It's odd then that you seem to get enough benefit out of sleeping the compressed nights. If you tired strictly at the rate of normal time you wouldn't need five naps a day, nor would you need to eat 16 times per day. There must be something else involved as well, your physical energy must be used and replenish at the compressed time rate, though if you were moving thinking and digesting food at five times the speed you usually do you would be using a lot of energy, though I still don't think it would be enough to need that much food and five full night's sleep.
As to not warning you, I don't think it is a conspiracy, I think that it is more likely they didn't realise that you weren't told, or maybe Mrs Finnegan was told when she enrolled you and didn't think to pass it on since you weren't doing any active magic classes and she wasn't planning on letting you take your wands to school anyway and by the time she changed her mind she'd forgotten or forgotten you wouldn't know.
Are you still planning on going shopping on Sunday? Please keep an eye out for anyone who might be looking for you. I'm sure that someone should have noticed that you didn't return to Little Whinging by now. Of course, it could just be someone worried about your welfare since I'm sure there are people who care for you who you aren't in communication with and don't know where you are but it also might be whoever forced you back there the last time you ran away.
To: Spencer Reid
From: Harry Potter
Sunday 17/7/92 6:06pm (GMT)
Shopping went well, Dean, Seamus and I all wore one of Seamus' family's 'Kenmare Kestrals' quidditch caps and nobody seemed to recognise me and I didn't see anyone that was obviously looking for Harry Potter or hear rumours of someone looking for me either, though I'm nor sure that anyone would think to ask a group of kids. The magical shopping centre in Dublin seems much bigger than Diagon Alley, or maybe it only seems to be because they also have butchers and bakers and greengrocer shops amongst the rest, I don't know where those sort of shops are in London, I never even really noticed that they were missing. None of the shops are the same as the ones in Diagon Alley either, though there is an apothecary, a wandmaker, a broom shop and all the other things you'd find there. There's still not what I would call a supermarket or chain store though, but you can buy things like milk and flour from a grocer's shop there. Nothing pre-packaged like in a normal supermarket though and none of the food supplies have brand names on them other than sweets like Bertie Botts all flavour Beans, and Chocolate frogs. There are no tin cans or plastic bags either, even things like preserved fruits look like they've been made by hand into glass jars with glass or wooden stoppers instead of screw lids and hand written labels, stating what fruit and when it was bottled and the name of the witch who made it. I think that's why wizarding food all tastes so good, none of it is the processed food with artificial colourings and preservatives we get in the nonmagical world but all made fresh from natural organic ingredients. Of course, they could just be buying bulk flour from the magical world and rebagging it because purebloods wouldn't want to buy a muggle product, but it doesn't look quite like the flour I bought in Little Whinging supermarket, more like the flour they used at the restaurant.
I couldn't buy a learn to speak Spanish audio class in either the magical or nonmagical shops, the nonmagical bookshop offered to order me one but couldn't guarantee it would come in before September, so I would really appreciate if you could send me one. I'd offer to pay you for it but it would be in pounds or galleons unless there's something I could buy for you that you can't get in America and send instead of money. I did send you some chocolate, not frogs this time so it's safe if your mum sees it just really good milk chocolate. Write and tell me if you liked it. Magical chocolate is so much better than any chocolate I can buy in the nonmagical world but we also went to a shop that sold Hersheys American chocolate and I hate to say I really didn't like it at all. I guess it's just too different from the chocolate I'm used to. I was also tempted into buying some sound crystals for German and Russian along with the more advanced crystals for Italian French and Latin and my own crystal reader so I don't have to borrow the school's or Seamus' anymore. Don't worry I don't intend on starting to learn Russian or German over the summer, I just thought it would give me something to learn while I slept during the year if I'm not accepted into the "Nezcalilizcali Naualotl Tlateotokani Toltekayomeh" (it means the "School of Witchcraft and Pagan Arts" in Nahuatl, but I have no idea how to actually say it.) in fact nearly all the magical schools I've heard about mean something like that in their native language, it makes me wonder what Hogwarts might have meant in old English or a Scots Gaelic or a former language from that area because warts on a pig is a stupid name for a school.
I did my Science and Math tests and I did it I got 98% for math and 96% for science. It was good to let myself do as well as I could for a change. The new classes aren't much more interesting than the old ones, I still already know about a lot of the things we're studying but having to keep up with the new class work and go back and cover the topics they've already finished is at least keeping me busy and it means that I'll get through the stuff I know quicker and hopefully will be able to learn something new soon.
I'm reading my way through the library but I've got used to doing things not sitting and reading the way I used to and I don't find it as relaxing as I did and I can't concentrate for as long before I get too restless.
To: Harry Potter
From: Spencer Reid
Sunday 7/17/92 10:17pm (PST)
Are you worried that your lack of desire to read could be magically influenced? I think that it's more likely that you are just a little too run down from studying too hard. Even I need a break from reading and studying occasionally and struggled with a summer semester, let alone a condensed year of study like you're doing. Or possibly the problem is that you've read too many things about your parents and their deaths that are emotionally draining, or you're just sick and tired of the poor quality of magical books. You used to want to read fiction and nonfiction every spare moment you weren't writing to me or helping out at the restaurant, now you're complaining about having too much time to read. It doesn't seem like you. How long have you been feeling like this? Do you actually spend a lot less time reading and studying than you did back then or are you spending more which is what's causing you to be less motivated for your personal projects and reading? Because you don't sound less motivated to learn things when you're writing to me. Were you being honest when you wrote that you liked the idea of reading the books I am sending you for your birthday or were you just being polite. I hope you know that you don't have to pretend to like things I send you, I'd rather you were honest with me. I'm happy to get you something else that you would like next time, please let me know.
You've been studying hard, remember you also chose to do the testing to advance a grade in both math and science and did very well at the tests, and you're already putting an effort into caching up quite a lot of work with your new classes, so it doesn't sound like you're not motivated to learn and it's understandable after all that study you were drawn to more active leisure pursuits. It's great to hear you aced your exams and have been put in a more appropriate class for your level, even if it is only for math and science. I hope that the students in your new classes will treat you well. Have you met many of them yet? Made any new friends? Do you know if you have any joint assignments that you'll need to work on with them?
I'm glad that you're trying to use less magic at school? Do you think that it is helping you not feel so drained all the time? That might also be adding to your lack of focused attention if you really need to be resting not reading or studying to let your magic recover properly.
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Marry Christmas everyone.