Dear Harry, Dear Ginny

31^st July

Dear Harry,

Counting the times we've been apart on one hand isn't exactly the best way to start a letter is it? But its true we've only ever been apart 4 times and our fourth time lasted until now. I don't really know what to say except that I'm alive and well and I miss you terribly.

Do you remember some of the times we had together? I went away so that you could focus on the task at hand but the going away sort of went longer then I had actually planned. Did you know I now hate Trelawney with every fibre of my being because of the stupid prophecy a boy will come to those who have thrice defied the Dark Lord...who has power the dark Lord knows not..either must die at the hands of the other for neither can live whilst the other survives. Did you know its been about 17 years since I saw you last remember the last time? Well I do, guess what? You're a father you know? Her name is Faith Harriet Potter (though that is not the name she is enrolled under. She is a beautiful smart young witch she just finished her OWL's got more then Hermione if you can believe that! Our daughter is the smartest at her school there are only about 100 people from the 1^st year to the 5^th because that is all it goes up to. They actually start went they are ten and not eleven like at Hogwarts. She is going to Hogwarts next year to do her NEWT's because she begged and pleaded to be able to go there because as she said it is the best in Europe and also because as it said in the brochure Defence Against the Dark Arts Teacher Harry Potter is one of the best in world and we are lucky enough to have him!

All her life I've told her about you- the real you not the hero the world painted the one who was kind, generous and giving who wanted to give up all the money he had just to have a family, the person who defeated Tom and lived to tell the tale the one who wanted me to be there but knew we couldn't risk it. The whole problem with her going to Hogwarts is that you'll be there I'm worried that she'll forget about me when she meets you. Do you think she will? I think I've painted a picture of a normal decent man but what if you're not like that any more? What if your hard, conceited, indifferent? What if you've got a family of your own and don't want to know about her? When she was little she wished so hard for a dad she even had a list of what she wanted her dad to be like. I know I found it the other day she was so embarrassed that I had she took it back a shoved it underneath what I can only describe as a rubbish dump (its her room I don't know how she lives in there must be magic). She is so scared to be going away to a place that she doesn't know and where she will know nobody at all, the house she wants to be in is Ravenclaw but she'd take Gryffindor over Hufflepuff and Hufflepuff over Slytherin.

So stuff about the school that she knows (and I wish she didn't know half of them):

She knows about the chamber, she found out inadvertently that like you she's a Parselmouth but be warned she does tend to slip into it when she doesn't want anyone to know what she is saying especially cussing. She also knows that you are a Parselmouth also so she might not in your class unless it is about something she doesn't want the other children to know about or for a bit of a shock factor! She's like that you know always up for a bit of mischief like you were at school believing that all the time you'd never get caught but then again you had the Marauder's Map and the cloak. Please whatever you do, DO NOT send either item to her though she doesn't know about them both. Unless of course you tell her who they are from and how they work and how she is meant to use them (for good and not for the you and my brother got up to alright? Just joking but please be nice to her and don't tiptoe around her like she's a china doll she really resents that) she's too curious for her own good. She plays Quidditch as a Seeker just like you. She got captain last year (yes I am boasting but you can boast as well) and her school team (which she was also in) won the Inter-school Cup (fierce rivalry here) she said it was the dirtiest match she had ever seen and she loved every minute of it.

Believe me when I day I want the best for both of you and I want you both to get to know each other but I don't know how the hell I am going to do without her for 2 years!

Yours forever,

G.W