Frau
Lyra Avery
Schwarzwald Dragon Reserve
Baden-Württemberg
Germany

Herr
Balfour Spectre
Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures
Ministry of Magic
England

Dear Balfour,

Haven't seen you in a long time. How's things? I'm sure they're all going spankingly well with you, though I won't account for England. My mum insists that England gets itself into trouble every other month, so I'll assume that for the sake of this letter.

I'm writing to let you know that I'll be dropping by England for a month or so to discuss some dragony matters with you. Specifically, it's to do with the latest discovery of dragon remains in the Black Forest.These particular remains don't match any of the records we have on hand about hybrid breeds or the ten pure breeds in Europe. 

We don't have that many dragon remains to compare on hand and other places in Germany have turned up nothing significant either. Black Forest has proposed they make me British liaison to your department to get some of yours to look at because we're thorough like that. You - and by you I mean England - have got one of the largest collections on hand with all the varieties, so naturally you guys got brought up in the conversation.

Procedure states I have to be there in person to receive the documents on hand as well as sign all the guarantees and forms and whatnot. Not to mention I'm supposed to make sure that they are going to be packaged with my own eyes along with you as authority on this. Signed and underlined with both our hands.

I'll probably make the trip earlier to find an old friend, if I can even find him - hopefully not dead but who knows - but I will be seeing you probably end of January or beginning of February give or take the schedule Germany wants me to be on, and what you say back to them too.

Enclosed is their letter to you, for records. Just let em know when you can receive this business on your schedule.

Hope I'm not coming in on a troubling time, if England is still trying to eat itself alive for the umpteenth time. See you around when I get there. I promise this time I'll let you know when I'm coming in, and no it won't be with trying to shove a dragon skull through the front door again. I swear on it.

Gruß Cheers,
Lyra

PS: This was supposed to be a formal letter as a colleague of mine advised, but I'm up to here with writing formal letters in German after writing like a hundred dozen to the other dragon sanctuaries and museums etc in Germany for help. Sorry bout that, you know me though.