A postcard from the Paris catacombs, featuring a wall of old skulls with fires flickering in their eye sockets.

23rd June '12

Wesley,

It's scary when there is one skull in a room but it isn't scary when there are two or three hundred. The catacombs are very easy to get lost in and papa said muggles get lost there all the time. Nobody finds them. An old lady on our tour told me she thinks they end up in the French department of mysteries.

People here like wearing moustaches. They don't talk soft French like Professor Onuris.

F is for Feliks

Two photographs with a letter written on the backs of both. One is a photograph of heaps of old wooden furniture in a stone cellar passageway. The other photograph is Feliks trying to take a picture of himself in the drawing room; an oblivious Balfour and Johann are in the background. Everyone is covered in dust.

26th June '12

Hello Sulwen!

My papa and Joha father showed me so many rooms under our house. We are cleaning and arranging everything, including very old family things. It is something Spectres do every year but this is the first year for our family. Will you come to visit after everything is clean again? IF everything is clean again. Poor Grizelda. She is our house elf and she does so many things (except make toast).

I have a nice desk in my room now that used to belong to my grand uncle. You will like it, there is a secret compartment and something was in it. But you will have to find out what it is when you come.

F is for Feliks

A postcard photo of a wizarding street in Milan. It is populated by fantastically dressed people, in bright shimmering colours. The words are crammed in, like he kept thinking of things to say.

29th June '12

Aoide!

I have not seen a lot yet because it is night but I have seen SO many clothes. The wixes here love clothes. My papa took us to a fashion show when we arrived, it was very interesting. Lots of people in nice robes go into a pretty house and we watch pretty model wixes in nice clothes. Then someone comes and gives us food and other someones come and ask us which clothes we liked.

Should I pierce my ears? I saw four wizards with earrings. Two French girls near me said-- nevermind. I will tell you when I see you.

F is for Feliks

The letter is written on a piece of notebook paper and the photo is a non-animated photograph of a sand castle with a lopsided tower.

30th June '12

S  is for spooky.

Ahhh spooky! So many skulls and mustaches. Mouse tache es. Do the skulls have mustaches?  When we're back at school you should change your face to a weird skull with a french mustache like you do with your hair but different. Scare Aoide! haha.

The inn is busy but we did go to the beach once and here is a picture of the Hogwarts castle I stepped on that Wren had made and remade. It was an accident, but I turned around and it looked whole again and I guess my little sister can do magic now? It wasn't me.

Wesley

27th June '12

Hi Feliks,

Thank you for the photo-letters and the invitation to visit. What days are you free? I'll see you once your house is clean. You can send me another photo as proof.

Our house is always clean but my mother likes forewarning before any friends come to visit. Have you ever been to Bath? One of the shops has pistachio gelato and it's my favorite.

Sulwen the secret keeper

A short letter written on Spectre stationery; enclosed are two photographs. One of Feliks' four poster bed, stripped of its curtains with a vine plant growing along its frame and two white Siberian huskies dozing on the muslin duvet. The other is a photo of Feliks waving in a field of lavender flowers, Provence.

2nd July '12

Sulwen!

I am back from Provence. We went to see Uncle Sylvain for a weekend, he is visiting his old family home. It makes me think of where I used to live - there are three little wooden houses and all around them are trees and fields and beautiful animals. Papa keeps calling them that: beautiful, gorgeous, fantastic, brilliant. He is very brown from the sun now. So is Uncle Sylvain but Joha father is still very white like me.

The house is clean now. I hope the photo of my room is enough proof? Can you come this week? But not Wednesday. We can go swimming in the lake and I can show you the desk.

Bath looks very pretty. I found photos of it in a book. It is a funny name for a place, no?

P.S. I am going to pierce my ears I think!

F is for Feliks

A postcard from the Isle of Sky, featuring a setting sun over the water.

4th July '12

Hello Wesley,

I am on a "day trip" with my great grandfather at a nice looking island. He is very old but he still walks fast and likes to eat. Do you know what haggis is? He loves haggis. We had a haggis pizza. It was not bad?

Your little sister must be talented. I have been practicing my skull face. I will show you. It scared our house elf! Will you come visit for my birthday? Papa says there will be a party. I am going to ask Sulwen and Nicola and Aoide and others also. It is on the 20th but the party is on the 21st.

F is for Feliks