Lily J. Potter's letter to Sirius Black

Lily's Letter was a letter written by Lily Potter to close family friend Sirius Black around the year 1981. The letter was found in Sirius's bedroom by Harry Potter in 1997 while Harry, Ron, and Hermione were staying at Number 12 Grimmauld Place looking for Horcruxes in the Quest to defeat Lord Voldemort. The letter was partially ripped, leaving the last portion on the letter to be cut off. There was also a picture of Harry riding on a toy broom found with the letter. Harry, Ron, and Hermione searched the room up and down for the last part of the letter, but were unsuccessful. The End of the Letter was dicsovered in a memory of Severus Snape's that was extracted by Harry at Snape's death, which was brought upon by Nagini, under the order of Lord Voldemort, because Voldemort believed that killing Snape would allow him to master the Elder Wand.

The Letter
The Letter read:

Dear Padfoot,      

''    Thank you, thank you, for Harry's birthday present! It was his favorite by far. One year old and already zooming along on a toy broomstick, he looked so pleased with 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 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 Harry. 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 news about the McKinnons; I cried all evening when I heard. ''

''    Bathilda drops in most days, she's a fascination 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 -- ''

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''                                                                  -- could ever have been friends with Gellert Grindelwald. I think her mind's going, personally! ''

                                                                                         Lots of love,

 Lily