brandi. (zombiephile) wrote in daiquiri, @ 2008-08-20 01:35:00 |
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Dear | 30 April, 1979 |
Happy birthday Where are you, I miss you Love, Matilda ---- | |
Dear Dad, | 28 July, 1982 |
I'll be starting Hogwarts in just over a month. My letter came today! Mum was worried about paying but Grand-mère Janette and Grand-père Nicholas are helping pay for what I need. Grandma Seren hopes that I'll be in Hufflepuff like she was, but Grand-mère and Grand-père and even mum say that I'm best for Ravenclaw. Arrière-grand-père Lucien wants me to consider Beauxbatons, but I want to go to Hogwarts like you did. Grand-mère says that you were in Ravenclaw too. We're going to Diagon Alley next week to get my things for school, before its crowded. I wish you could come with us. Love, Matilda --- | |
Dear Dad, | 1 September, 1982 |
I'm in the Ravenclaw common room right now. I just finished a letter to mum, I promised I would write and tell her where I got sorted. I thought you would be happy to hear too, because I was sorted into Ravenclaw. You used to sit at these tables too when you were a student, and wear blue and bronze and sit at the Ravenclaw table. The hat only just touched my head before it said Ravenclaw. I bet Grand-mère and Grand-père are gonna be happy when mum tells them. Love, Matilda --- | |
Dear Dad, | 25 July, 1986 |
I just received my booklist for this year (fifth year already! O.W.L.s are coming up! Grand-mère said that you earned eleven O.W.L.s! I'm positive I'll get Os in Charms, Astronomy, and History of Magic, but I'm worried about Transfiguration) and with it came a prefect badge! I was just made Prefect! I'm utterly excited, but I just hope that my new duties won't get in the way of studying. Grand-mère says that I am following right in your old footsteps. Business at the pub is booming. Mum, Grandma Seren, and Grandpa Geraint are now paying me, when I help out during the hols. They were talking about hiring someone to help out while I'm at school. I'm saving up my money now, so that I can travel around Europe like you did, after I finish school. Grand-mère still has all the letters you wrote her about where you were, so I'm going to try to go to the same places. Anyway, mum is going to buy me an owl to celebrate my Prefect badge. I want to name it after your family, because if not for you and Grand-mère and Grand-père and their generosity, mum wouldn't have been able to afford to send me to Hogwarts. So thank you, Dad, wherever you are. I hope I'm doing you proud. Love, Matilda --- | |
Dear Dad, | 30 July, 1988 |
I've officially surpassed you! I was just made Head Girl, and Grand-mère informed me that you were never Head Boy. I'm nervous about the N.E.W.T.s at the end of the year, though. I've been thinking for years about what I want to do when I finish school. After traveling, I mean. I'm thinking about joining the Ministry. The Accidental Magic Reversal Squad sounds completely fascinating. It sounds like what they do is one big puzzle after another. But I'll need excellent marks on my N.E.W.T.s if I expect to get into the Ministry. It's so exciting, but daunting, to know that I'm about to start my final year at Hogwarts. After this, I'm off to travel the world like you did, then it'll be off to work, with worrying about all those adult worries like rent and food and work schedules. But I know I can handle it, and I hope you're proud of me, wherever you are. Love, Matilda --- | |
Dear Dad, | 26 June, 1995 |
It's been a while since I've written, and I'm sorry about that. Chilling news has come, though, and I wanted to share it with you. Harry Potter, the Boy Who Lived, who survived a killing curse from You-Know-Who and ended the war in 1981, said that he saw You-Know-Who come back to life. Professor Dumbledore believes him, but the word around the Ministry is that he's lying. I honestly don't know quite what to believe. I mean, that's a horrible joke, and I don't see why he would lie about such a thing. I don't know if you knew his parents, Lily and James Potter, but You-Know-Who killed them before trying to kill Harry. He seems like one of the last people in the world who would lie about You-Know-Who returning. Mum always said that it was because of some great secret that you disappeared. I always thought that it was because of the war, and I've been enjoying the peace. Now I'm just worried that, if he is back, more children will lose their parents again. I miss you. Love, Matilda --- | |
Dear Dad, | 20 June, 1996 |
It's true. He's back. There was a huge battle in the Department of Mysteries, and Minister Fudge himself saw You-Know-Who in the atrium. I feel like all of this should just be a bad dream. Matilda --- | |
Dear Dad, | 18 November, 2000 |
After four years, the war is over. You-Know-Who fell last night, hopefully this time for good. Mum and everyone is fine. I'm fine, too. Everyone in the wizarding world is celebrating today. I wish you could be here to see all this. I'm going to go home to the Pub for a bit to celebrate with Mum, then I'm going to go out and celebrate with some of my coworkers. There's been precious little to be happy about, these past four years, and we could all do with some celebration. Love, Matilda --- | |
Dear Dad, | 16 January, 2001 |
I'm pregnant. And I have no idea who the father is. I just ... don't know what to do. I haven't told mum yet, though I'll be telling her shortly, we're meeting up for lunch in London in a bit. I'm scared, Dad. This wasn't in my plans. I've never spent much time around babies, and having one of my own was only a vague idea for far in the future, if I ever got married. But I don't want to settle down with a kid, not now. I want to travel more, see the whole world. I'm also worried about what Mum will say. I know I'm older than she was when she met you, but at least she knew you were my father, and she was able to find you. I really wish you could be here. I miss you, Dad. Love, Matilda --- | |
Dear Dad, | 4 August, 2001 |
You have a granddaughter. Her name is Gwendolyn, and she's absolutely beautiful. Janette says that she looks a lot like you did when you were an infant. We'll be living with Mum, Grandpa Geraint, and Grandma Seren for a while, so that they can help me take care of her. I'm on maternity leave from work right now, but I'll have to go back eventually. Mum has been teaching me how to take care of babies, using a doll. I'm still scared witless, but I know that I can do this. I'm only sad that she'll never know her grandfather. We're (all of us) making a photo album, with pictures of you when you were growing up, and pictures of you, mum, and me. That way, we can tell her all about you when she's older. I think this will be my last letter to you, Dad. I'm going to tie it up with all of the others that I've never sent and put them in with my own memory box. I know you're gone, and I hope you're at peace wherever you are, but writing these letters to you has been a crutch, a way of getting things out when I have nobody else to talk to, or when something has happened that I'd want you to know about. I wish I could have had more time with you, Dad. When I cross over to the other side (but hopefully not for a long, long time, when I'm old and wrinkled), I hope I'll get to see you there. Love always, Matilda |