I think it must be a very difficult task to try to explain the workings of the universe while missing out all the magical theory. I've heard some of them do very well for muggles.
He sounds like an attentive father. I shall manage. I am used to being away at school, but not being able to visit or even to write is - well, it is very difficult to be without the guidance of my family. Yet I know there is nothing to be done about it, and so I simply have to try to conduct myself in a way he might be proud of. Which means not fretting and moping about like a homesick first-year, even if I feel