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Far. One year old and already zooming along on a toy broomstick, he looked so pleasedwith himself. I’m enclosing a picture so you can see. You know it only rises about two feet Off the ground but he nearly killed the cat and he smashed a horrible vase Petunia sent Me for Christmas (no complaints there). Of course James thought it was so funny, says he’s going to be a great Quidditch player but we’ve had to pack away all the ornaments and make sure we don’t take our eyes off him when he gets going. We had a very quiet birthday tea, just us and old Bathilda who has always been sweet to us and who dotes on Garry. We were so sorry you couldn’t come, but the Order’s got to come first, and Harry’s not old enough to know it’s his birthday anyway! James is getting a bit frustrated shut up here, he tries not to show it but I can tell – also Dumbledore’s still got his Invisibility Cloak, so no chance of little excursions. If you Could visit, it would cheer him up so much. Wormy was here last weekend. I thought he Seemed down, but that was probably the next about the McKinnons; I cried all evening When I heard. Bathilda drops in most days, she’s a fascinating old thing with the most amazing stories about Dumbledore. I’m not sure he’d be pleased if he knew! I don’t know how Much to believe, actually because it seems incredible that Dumbledore Harry’s extremities seemed to have gone numb. He stood quite still, holding the Miraculous paper in his nerveless fingers while inside him a kind of quiet eruptions sent Joy and grief thundering its equal measure through his veins. Lurching to the bed, he sat Down. He read the letter again, but could not take in any more meaning than he had done the first time, and was reduced to staring at the handwriting itself. She had made her “g”s The same way he did. He searched through the letter for every one of them, and each felt Like a friendly little wave glimpsed from behind a veil. The letter was an incredible Treasure, proof that Lily Potter had lived, really lived, that her warm hand had once Moved across this parchment, tracing ink into these letters, these words, words about him, Harry, her son. Impatiently brushing away the wetness in his eyes, he reread the letter, this time Concentrating on the meaning. It was like listening to a half-remembered voice. They had a cat… perhaps it had perished, like his parents at Godric’s Hollow… or else fled when there was nobody left to feed it… Sirius had bought him his first broomstick… His parents had known Bathilda Bagshot; had Dumbledore introduced them? Dumbledore’s still got his Invisibility Cloak… there was something funny there… Harry paused, pondering his mother’s words. Why had Dumbledore taken James’s Invisibility Cloak? Harry distinctly remembered his headmaster telling him years before, “I don’t need a cloak to become invisible” Perhaps some less gifted Order member had needed its assistance, and Dumbledore had acted as a carrier? Harry passed on… Wormy was here… Pettigrew, the traitor, had seemed “down” had he? Was he aware that he was seeing James and Lily alive for the last time? And finally Bathilda again, who told incredible stories about Dumbledore. It Date: 2015-12-11; view: 902
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