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Etiquette and Correspondence: The things Harry can't seem to get away from.



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Dear Harry,



You received this letter today. Theresa, Abby, and I discussed Tatum, the letter writer. You told us to sort your mail and pass on things that you should handle. We decided you generally want to help people as much as you can.



You helped Tatum get into Delacroix. Now that he is out for the time being, maybe you can help his family get on their feet. Let us know whether we decided correctly in this case.



We've continued to forward the lady fan mail to Madam Beverly. We've saved Cedric and you a few letters that you will absolutely love. We have set aside the families who want to talk to you about outstanding life debts. We have categorized them according to need or level of urgency. Please let us know if you have any other specifications.



As I close the letter, I want you to know Hedwig and her children are absolutely brilliant. We receive your current day owl post through your post box. Hedwig and her owlets bring past mail which had been redirected to somewhere else. We are keeping up with your current mail, but your owls have brought 6 months worth of mail. We have absolutely no idea where they have brought this post from, but they are smart enough to know you want it.



If you ever want to part with any of Hedwig's owlets, let me know.



Yours truly,



Juanita



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Dear Mr. Potter,



I want to thank you for getting me into Delacroix Missionary Magicks. I have been here about a month or so. Ihave included a copy of my notes; list of my courses and books; and recommendations for further study. I have enjoyed this chance to go to adifferent school and learn how differently wizards can practice magic.



The reason I am sending my letter two months early is my family circumstances have changed. I have four younger siblings. My last school was close to home. When my parents needed a extra pair of hands, I went home to baby sit, cook, clean, or take my siblings to school. My former headmaster gave me a free pass to come and go, so it didn't interrupt my classes. I can't stay at Delacroix now because my father has taken ill. He is at hospital seeking treatment. My mom can't handle the strain around the house. I need to return home to London to keep things going while my family finds a new plan.



I want you to know that Iappreciate the effort you went to that gave me the educational opportunity of alifetime. I am not normally a quitter even if I had to quit at this time. The Delacroix headmistress, Ms. Sudsey, has invited me back to complete this year when my circumstances have changed. It will turn out alright in the end.



Again, thanks Ms. Potter.



Tatum O'Connor.



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Dear Tatum,



I have sent a letter to Ms. Sudsey thanking her for being willing to allow British students to come to her institution. I have also been assured that she has welcomed you in the future.



As I thought about your responsibilities for the year and what you are facing, I turned to Healer Tonks for the name of a specialist who could come and treat your father. She assured me that Healer Francis is a home visit mediwitch who will come to your home periodically to check on your father's progress. Healer Francis is muggle raised and has been working on duel treatments for muggle and magical patients. She has assured me that if there is a cure to be had, she can and will find it for you. She is willing to accept you on a five year internship in return for any medical treatment rendered.



I also am lending you the services of Janus. Janus is the Potter house elf most responsible for training and educating each generation of Potter governesses. It has been ten years since he has been asked to serve. He is rusty, but he is looking forward to managing each O'Connor child's success. Janus is bringing several young house elves with him. You should be able to return to your London school after Janus gets an idea of how you O'Connors run your household.



If you need any further assistance or have any suggestions for Janus, let me know.



Sincerely Yours,



Harry Potter





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Dear Dad,



Medini Magicks is brilliant! We have studied more for class in the past few weeks than we ever studied at Hogwarts. Our core classes are different here than at Hogwarts. If you let us continue here until after O.W.L.s, we will have to do some additional work so we can place in Hogwarts remaining core classes.



We have Alchemy first hour. We had to start out as first years in that subject since Hogwarts doesn't offer it. They let us learn at our own pace here. We train with all the other Medini students assigned to first hour. The professor groups us by the projects we are working on, not the level of skill. We have seen transmutation that was lost to us in Britain. It is beyond exciting.



We have Potions second hour. Although we have taken it at Hogwarts for the past two years, the Potions master has forced us to start over. He said we have learned bad safety habits. He refused to let us touch any potions ingredients until we pass health, medicine, and potion safety classes. We have observed some potion classes in the meantime. The teacher actually demonstrates the skills needed for each potion before he lets anyone attempt the assigned potion. Each student has to show a knowledgeable proficiency in the subject area before we can make any potion. It means potion making is much more slow going than any other area.



When we have gotten certain skills under our belts for alchemy and potions, we will be able to join the rest of our classmates in their different classes. They don't offer 5 or 6 classes throughout the year that we take. Instead they explore 1 or 2 subject areas every couple of months. For instance, we study potions for daily life, potions for particular professions, and lauded potion masters. By the time we are done this in depth coverage, we should be able to make basic potions we generally go to an apothecary to purchase.



When we return in a few months, we will be tested on what we retain from this potions period. If we remember enough information and can make most of the potions, we can advance. If we fail to remember, we will have to go back through this potions period. Medini potion masters are known as the best and the most consistent brewers because they have to test, retest, train, and retrain constantly. Anyone who graduates from this institution should be able to all basic potioneering without asking any potion master for assistance. When we leave here after O.W.L.s, we should be able to work in any apothecary. Medini students are highly sought after because of our consistent brewing skills.



We want to know how Ginny likes her local school. We have received one or two letters from her, but we can't tell how she feels overall. She has inundated us with new terms, new concepts, and a new way of life but we don't quite know what to make of it.



Bill has already make a trip to Medini. He and Professor Taub have gotten along famously. We think he is more interested in visiting to check on Professor Taub. He has given us money to buy additional supplies and books. Bill said not to worry about the cost, but we thought we should tell you how much he has covered out of his own pocket. If we need anything else, we will let Bill know.



Love,



Gred and Forge





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Dear Perce,



I am glad you have made so much progress in so little time. I appreciate you helping me with Ministry business at the tender age of 15. As you can see from the documentation I included in my first packet, there is a discrepancy in our files. I trust Perkins and do not think he would destroy the integrity of our department like this.



I have already gotten Madame Bones to let me work from the Burrow. I have begun to set up offices for the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Department here. I am using my authority as Head to bring all my subordinates here to the Burrow. When I first pulled back from my department, I thought leaving Perkins in charge would be sufficient to insure muggles were protected from magic artifacts. Instead I found a hole in security for my department. Son, I know you want to work in the Ministry when you graduate but take this as a practical lesson of what happens when you let other people take responsibility for your work. I had Madam Umbridge transferred out of my department before I changed our work site.



At the Burrow, I erected a two story building for my department. All five of us have spread out across the two floors. I have transferred storage of all our case files to the basement of this building. We still use our offices at the Ministry to meet with other departments or answer any summons from the muggle authorities. When our offices our complete at the Burrow, the move will be complete. Madam Bones will extend the rest of Magical Law Enforcement into our area.



My subordinates all seem happier here. Madam Bones has had nothing but good things to say about our expanded capacity to manage these cases. The increased fines Artifacts have brought the Magical Law Enforcement has caused us to become more respected. She has given me additional funds to hire any new workers. Do you have recommendations from the pool of recent Hogwarts graduates? They do not have to work for us full time. We are willing to do some job share arrangements to accommodate different possible employees.



Ginny is doing well here. She has asked me to force you to help her transfigure her clothes to the muggle styles. I will not ask you to do more than you are already helping me to do here. You have my permission to come home any weekend you have available to help Ginny or me. Give Headmistress McGonagall the attached permission slip as a waiver from Hogwart weekends.



We should have some extra galleons in the near future. I contacted Stan Shunpike, received the waivers from Minister Fudge for my muggle automobile business, and will hire a few broom engineers in the future to help design better vehicles. I have been able to sell my services in automotive fixes.



The good news is the Weasley family has gotten out of debt in just a few short months. Bill and Charlie should be clear to make any new career choices now that old Hogwart tuition bills are not hanging over their heads. I am making more money than I ever have. I am reasonably certain that I can afford to get you that apprenticeship you wanted after Hogwarts now. If you take an interest in either the Artifacts department or help with this automotive business, you should have be able to save enough for the live comfortably during your apprenticeship.



The bad news is your mum has not returned to the Burrow yet. She says she will let us know more when she is more settled. She moved out of Prewett family's home. She has even went back to school somewhere for a master apprenticeship. She sends her love.



Love,



Dad





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Harry,



Although your request is HIGHLY unusual, I am able to complete your request. I call it, the Life Debt Equalizer. As you know my family have been enchanters for a few centuries. We used to be in much greater demand because most schools or masters did not spend time teaching charm students how to enchant objects to serve a single function. My craft has fallen out of favor because our ministry has stopped reaching for big tasks like the Triwizard Tournament. We have become lax.



Your project has been exciting. You wanted me to prioritize the life debt request so you can answer the most urgent need first. I have done something a little more complex. You have until your majority age to respond to these debts. I agree with you that you should clear as much of this away as possible so these obligations don't follow a family in perpetuity. You place the person's name and the debt into the Equalizer. You must also place a goal or a need you have into the Equalizer. You give the Equalizer a time period and a number of people you need. It spits out parchment that lists the goal/need, the person's name and the debt. Voila! You have found a way to clear your debts in the most functional way possible.



I will come teach a section for enchanting objects as soon as Professor Flitwick contacts me. I didn't know that Hogwarts was transforming its curriculum. I am sure some other residents of Blues Alley will also come and teach about our craft. If Hogwarts will allow some apprenticeships, it will be worth our time.



Thanks again for giving me aproject worthy of my talents.



Beverly





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Dear Master Malfoy,



I hope this letter finds you full of light and health. I struggle to find the words to describe my shocked horror at reading your missive. What, sir, would you have me do?



You are a blood purist. I chose the light long before your birth. Maybe the imperious curse robbed you of your choice as far as Voldemort was concerned. Maybe you did have no intentions to attack and kill muggleborn and muggles outright. You seek now as you did from the first to limit what muggleborns can achieve in our world. Your aims seek to counteract the gifts that magic bestow.



You want me to work with you on improving Hogwarts? Do you think before Lady Hogwarts asserted her authority that I was blind to your attempts to bar muggleborns from attendance? Now we work together on improving Howarts as if your idea of improvement would be Hogwarts without muggleborns? Lady Hogwarts gave us one choice: forward. Our world has nearly come to an end several times in the past century because we tried to suppress what magic has given freely to muggle parents.



I will do to Hogwarts what I ask you to do now: think. These students need to be able to be critical thinkers in the world that exists today. Yesterday's solutions will not save the world of magic. We need these students to figure out where we all can go. You know that Grindenwald's world nearly killed us all. Voldemort would have us sacrifice the muggle world for our own magical paradise and kill us all. Do you know where magic first came from? It wasn't something wizards and witches dreamed up for themselves. We did not beget ourselves.



The split between the magical and muggle worlds has caused our society to atrophy. We let fear drive us. Fear from death propelled us to lose touch with what made us magical in the first place. When did we experience the notable rise in the number of squibs? How come we have had so few births in the last several centuries?



If you seek to work with me, there are truths you must embrace and acknowledge for yourself. The first being we have symbiotic relationship with muggles. It is due to their dreams magic came into the world. It is an old wives tale that we evolved separate and apart from one another. We erase a lot of their nightmares while they make our magic possible. We could exist for a time without them. They existed for a time without us, but there is no way that we could ever completely be apart.



Hogwarts represents a safe environment for magicals in a sea of mundane people. Merlin and the Founders knew we had to find a way to co-exist. Our magic has weakened the further we have gotten from living amongst muggles. The problem with muggleborn students is they have no true sense of the responsibility being magical bears on each of us. When we fail to educate them, they stumble along blind for the whole of their lives, doing the impossible but showing not a hint of what it could mean. Most muggleborns are already a height and level of magic that purebloods dream of. The difference is simple: raw potential versus learned discipline.



Can you agree to the basis of this working relationship? We can commit to a number of different plans to improve Hogwarts, but not at the expense of muggleborns. As governors, we can move magical society forward in ways the Wizengamot or any other leader could dream but will never achieve.



What say you, Master Malfoy?



Dowager Longbottom

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Harry and Neville left the Heir's Room and finished out the rest of the tour of Hogwarts with Madams Hooch and Burbage. They finished the standard Hogwarts beginning of the year feast. The older Gryfindors told them today was the oddest of their collective Hogwarts career. There was an air of excitement and uncertainty for all the changes this new year brought. The least change for all students was the dorm arrangement.



Neville and Harry had been assigned a room to bunk together. They had a combined bedroom with two beds, an in suite bathroom and a separate study area. The older students told them each year used to be separated by gender and by age. Harry was glad he only had to get to know Neville and learn just one person's habits. Each year did have acommon area where they could socialize and talk, but they had larger activity areas if they wanted to study or play games. The entire Gryfindor tower was in use. The older students said it had been different before. They used to just have a common room and just dormitories.



When Harry settled his belongings and sat down at his desk, he pulled out parchment. After he had read that the Potters funded Hogwarts, he researched if the Potters had funded anything else connected to Hogwarts. He found a list of beneficiaries to the Potter Trust. The mission of the Potter Trust was to educate and defray the cost for any needy student. The Trust ran independent of the Potter inheritance, but its rules allowed for any Potter heir to contribute additional money, input, or sustenance to make it run better. The Trust had funded at least a quarter to half of all Hogwarts students over the years.



He discovered that several headmasters over the centuries had tried to divert money from the Trust to other pet projects. Their efforts failed over time because the beneficiaries were in charge of directing its grants. Harry wanted to inform them of the efforts he had made to allow other students to take advantage of scholarships the different schools had offered him. He didn't have a sense of how he could maintain contact with so many different students, so he hoped the Trust beneficiaries had developed a way to help a student matriculate all the way through the educational process.



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Former Minister Thurston,



Please be advised that I have recently discovered you were a former recipient of the Potter Trust. It is my understanding that you have taken it upon yourself to run the Potter Trust. Under your leadership, the Trust gives out more money to more students than at any time since its inception.



I am impressed and excited to know my family has a legacy like this. I am writing because I need your help. As you know, I lost my parents when I was a toddler. I asked an adult to help to distribute the scholarship offers I received to go to schools across the world. He helped me to pass these offers to other students so they could take advantage of what I was offered.



It has gone as well as you can expect for so many British born magicals going to different places across the world. I had no way of knowing that each student would need a unique set of skills and resources as they journey to new places. I know that you normally deal with need based scholarships. Some of the students who received my scholarship offers were financially strapped. Since I came into this world, I have had several students start at these schools and have to return home because they had needs which weren't being met. I was able to help a few return to school, but others have needs greater than what I can manage on my own.



I ask you to take over managing these students because I know they need more than I can do for them. I plan to help each student fundraise so they can remain at their new school for as long as they desire. I was hoping we can get someone to match our contributions for the students until they are fully funded. From the muggle world, I know celebrities use their names, photographs, and other personal memorablia as ameans to raise funds for causes. I thought we could use the enclosed items as a means to generate money for each scholar. Ian MacKenzie has set up dinners for me to attend throughout the world during my school years. Muggles also dial for dollars and create celebrity roasts where wealthy people volunteer their time and services.



I know you haven't let down the Trust students in your care. I doubt you will turn aside additional students even though they are spread so far across this globe. If you can think of anything I am not doing please let me know. I have 3 ladies who read my mail and have a fleet of owls at their service. They can take on the additional volume in mail the Trust has to create in order to accommodate all these new students. They also have names for magicals who have contacted the Boy Who Lived in the past. Most of these magicals are willing to help me make the world a better place. If you ask them, I am pretty sure they can help us.



Gratefully Yours,



Harry Potter



4 Encls

1. Abby Bundle of Information Requests

2. Juanita Bundle of Hard to Resolve Cases

3. My Attempts to Reconcile the Hard Cases

4. Theresa Future Prospects for Funding

5. Memorabilia for sale or fundraising







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Dear Mr. Potter,



I request additional funds to finance your request to receive your parent's wills and get Gringotts to disclose the specific facts of your inheritance. I used the information your justice ritual reference set gave you to find how Griphook betrayed you and your interests.



Griphook told you the truth about losing your inheritance with Asgard and Hemlot Potters by not taking the Potter legacy box or redeeming the marriage/heir debts they left you. Asgard Potter is the first in line of the Potter inheritance you can collect from Gringotts. Griphook deceived you into believing it is the only one or it's the most prestigious. It is not completely the goblins' fault. The ministry of magic voided the goblins' ability to disclose trusts and vaults that young heirs did not know about due to the death or lost of their head of house. The goblins'honor prevents them from allowing the ministry to take money or possessions that are not goblins or the ministry. They have held these legacies in trust for the families who stand to collect.



You need a forensic accountant to discover the breadth and depth of your Potter inheritance. By all means, take the steps needed to claim what Asgard and Hemlot Potter left you. I have set about trying to get your parent's will executed and your money released from your magical guardian's control. As it stands now, your father entrusted Albus Dumbledore with a portion of his wealth to fight the war with Voldemort. In the records I have pulled from the Ministry, he wanted to insure your generation was not indebted by his generations' follies. The problem with his wish is the Ministry took James' bequeath as a license through Albus Dumbledore's role as Chief Mugwump to finance its auror department. I call Albus Dumbledore the Chief Mugwump because he is the Supreme Mugwump of the International Confederation of Wizards and the Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot. The Ministry has tried to take the lion share of James' money in the past 10 years. The ICW have not used this funding source since Voldemort was defeated Halloween 1981. They have kept it in reserve for any other dark magicals. The goblins have not released more than half of James' wealth to the British ministry, but Albus Dumbledore has been a lax administrator over the wealth the Ministry took.



I need your permission to fight the Wizengamot. They have taken James' selfless desire to help your generation as a license to ignore their responsibility to the magical community. As James'heir, you can acquire a dollar for dollar ledger for the money the Wizengamot spent. I want to bring Nicholas Flamel on as lead counsel for this fight. He is the only wizard who has forced the Wizengamot to monetarily account for its past wrongs. He also knows the Ministry's founding documents well enough to uncover when the ministry is in breach of its duties.



I also need your approval to rid yourself of Albus Dumbledore's guardianship. At best, he is allowed his role as Chief Mugwump to conflict with his responsibility to protect your fortune as guardian. At worst, he has turned James Potter's desire to protect you from war to fund the ministries' whims. The strength of the auror department has declined in the last decade or more. The minister has not put your wealth to good use. Albus Dumbledore has not intervened to make good on James' bequeath.



Your trust vault currently at Gringotts is available for each heir. The trust vault operates independent of each head of house. It becomes active at age 8 and usually remains accessible until the heir has finished formal education. If you leave school and/or return to school after a long absence, you will find this trust will open again to subsidize all your educational pursuits. You also have a travel vault and ahospice vault available to you when the need arises.



Your legacy is broad and deep. Your assets are not all tied to Gringotts. Some of your forebears did not trust the goblins to wisely invest their finances and left Swedish Gnomes to manage their wealth and legacy. Other Potters chose to strike out in the muggle world. They entrusted their money to muggle institutions. I'm sure in a 1000 years, each Potter did something memorable across the globe. If you want to track down all the branches of the Potter tree and plumb its depths, Ineed you to release additional monies for this search. I have consulted with Theodore Tonks in the past, but I need his expertise with these pureblood and muggle requirements involved in each Potter's legacy.



If you want a recommendation, Isuggest you start taking a sum of money from your vault every time you visit Gringotts until I get the Ministry to disgorge its hold on James' account. If you reduce the amount which is there, they can only ever take half of what is available. The ministry does not have a lifetime hold on your assets or any other Potter's money. When we execute your parents' wills correctly, they will not be able to continue this plunder.



Please let me know what direction you want to take.



At your service,



Marcus Finney





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Dear Harry,



We submitted to your friend, Ian's medical scans. Have you had a chance to review them? Has Ian talked to you about them? They should prove what I said in my first letter.



You are too young to look after yourself, Harry. We did not treat you as a son or as a younger family member, but you had an adult who could look after you being in our care. You have had acouple of months on your own. Do you know how to live without a parent or guardian? Do you, at the very least, have someone to monitor how much you eat or make sure you get to bed on time?



You may not want to have any future contact with us, but you must know that you were placed with us because of the wizard's war. Through us, you had protection against any magical who would bring you harm. Since you don't live with us, you need a secure place to live. Please find a safe place to live.



I hope you write back this time.



Yours truly,



Petunia Dursley