This letter is sent to Harper Graves at the Ministry of Magic in the early morning on March 18th. The owl comes from Hogwarts, bearing a message jotted on thin, cheap parchment.


Dear Harper,

Hi Harper I hope you are good.

Can I ask you a question? Sorry to bug you, but it's^noturgent and I'm_... fine.

What do you do when the person in charge who you thought you could trust is being fooled by a student who's really good at lying? Something bad happened yesterday but nothing makes sense and I don't know who else to talk to. It's more a personal thing. Not legal. It's just you've always listened to me.

You can ignore this if you're busy!

Greer

Dear Greer,

Thank you for reassuring me that you're fine - and I'm never too busy for my favourite client! That's a tricky question you're asking.

In an ideal world I guess you would appeal to the logic and rationality of the person-in-charge: state your case for why you think the student in question is lying. You could ask the person-in-charge why they think the student isn't lying, and point out the problems in their reasoning. If there are other people of authority around you might also approach them. I'm not sure if I can offer any better advice without specific details.

What's the matter? What is this bad thing that has happened? I've slipped in some chocolates with this note.


Dutifully yours

Harper Graves

Hi Harper,
Thanks. I'm saving the chocolates for later and some for my friend. Ok so it's a long story but I'll do my best. I'm not great with writing. You're a good writer though.

Me and another girl were pranked by this dumb kid. It was a really mean prank. Professor Storm saw and hexed his sorry-_

Professor Storm handled it. Theres a little large burnt patch in the woods near Hogsmeade where it got handled.

Afterwards they had us all meet in the headmaster's office to find out what happened. I tried to state my case like you said but I couldn't talk much and it was hard. It's like when you tried to get me to talk to you when we first met and it look a long time for me to talk. Everyone was in the same room and it was just hard.

It sucks because I thought the Headmaster at least was on my side. He says he is. But he sent us away. He was mad at what happened and at Lucinda for getting mad at the kid.

Anyway they don't think it's the kid, Felix, who attacked us. They think it's somebody else? I don't understand who else. Kids can do bad things too. We saw him and what if the kid learned dark spells and stuff from someone. He even beat Storm in the duel and ran away. Storm found him later and he was pretending he played Quidditch all day. Little sh-_..

Sorry to bug you.

Greer