User:Mnconnelly

Lily's letter to Sirius
Dear Padfoot,

'''Thank you, thank you, for Harry birthday present! It was his favourite by far. One year old and already zooming along on is broom stick, he looks so pleased with himself, and I’m enclosing a picture so you can see. You know it only rises about two feet of the ground, but he nearly killed the cat and he smashed a horrible vas Petunia sent me for Christmas (no complaints there). Of course, James thought it was funny, says he’s going to make a great Quidditch player, but we’ve had to pack 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 dotes on Harry. We were so sorry you couldn’t come, but the orders 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 a little excursion. 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 night 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, if he’d be pleased if he knew! I don’t know how much to believe, actually, because it seems incredible that Dumbledore could ever have been friends with Gellert Grindelwald. I think her minds going, personally!'''

Lots of love,

Lily