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I keep thinking back to a conversation I had with Alice a few weeks ago. About how much we all can't see and can't say, and how that keeps us apart from those who might in fact share our values and our desires.
I've worried, the past few years, that the isolation, the propaganda, the repeated insistence on the supposed virtues of the Protectorate will make it impossible for us to truly win out in the end. That we'll have a generation who can never trust, never reach out, never share - just hide and isolate and manipulate to their own ends.
But you give me hope, you and the friends who helped you. Hope that there's far more under the surface than most of us ever see, for, and that that resilience, that sense of self, can bear abundant fruit even in the darkest times.
I won't dwell. But I'm delighted to see the intelligence I knew off from Poppy, and the hard work I'd observed for myself (the few times you could help me), are twined with many other virtues. And I'm looking forward to what you do now you've got a far more proper place to grow.
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For instance, I don't know if you realise that this week at Moddey Dhoo and last night were the first times I can ever remember sitting in a chair in the presence of witches and wizards instead of sitting on the floor. Other witches and wizards, I mean, and other than with Hermione when we were together in our secret classroom. Well, and sometimes Madam Pomfrey would have me sit on a chair but that was just because it made it easier for her to reach me if she was treating me, after he hurt me.
It's all been sort of a shock, and it'll take me a while to adjust. And it's very odd being a source of hope, when you've been that for me. All of you, the wand smugglers. The Order. Before I ever knew who you were.
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As to the rest. Well. I'd known and tried not to think about, I admit, while there wasn't much to be done. But yes.
I'm sure it will take a while. But it also seems to me a much more enjoyable set of challenges than your previous ones, and I am sure you will do just as brilliantly with them given a little time.