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ear Rue,

Don't say that! I really want to write to my parents and ask them if there is any way we could take you in, so you don't have to live in the middle of who knows where anymore. I'm sure they'd want to help, because they wanted to help Vaughn, but...Well, you know.

I haven't jinxed or pranked anyone, but my fingers are itching to do something, even with all the Durmstrang invaders around, school is as boring as ever. If not for Sally and Evie, I think I would have died from boredom by now. The only thing worth mentioning is the Halloween Ball - Sally went as a Quidditch player who's had half of their skull smashed by a bludger, it looked brutal! I... I went as her bat. Like, a beaters bat. It looked stupid, but she really wanted me to, so I agreed.

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ear Rue,


I don't think I understand by saving you. Vaughn wanted us to help you. So we'd help you. You can have his old bed in our room, and it would be great to hang out with you around Christmas! Our house isn't much, but I think you're used to worse by now. Maybe we can even find the money to buy you some wolfsbane, I'm gonna go count my pocket money right now and send it home with a letter to my parents! 


No pictures, but Evie spent the entire evening making stupid puns about my outfit, There was one about how if I liked someone and I'd be talking to them at the ball that you could say that I'm hitting on them. That one gave me a headache. I don't fancy anyone, all that stuff is stupid, makes people go nuts. My other option was to dress up as a little dog and follow around my brother, so, if I have to pick between stupid and stupid, I went with Sally's stupid. She's at least fun.

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ear Rue,



If my Pa even so much as grumbles anything against you being at home, me and my brother's are gonna give him an earful. I'm sure Vaughn will haunt him in his nightmares, too. Or something like that. I'll write to them in a bit, once I'm done with my Charms homework.

Me? Hitting on Sally? That's ridiculous! Sally is great and fun to hang around with, and she's teaching me how to be a Quid player -- I think I want to be a chaser, but I don't get what people see in all that smooching and hand holding stuff, and everyone is having fights left and right because so and so doesn't like them or likes someone else, people who were friends aren't anymore. 

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ear Rue,

If you ever mention something about me and Sally being together to Sally, I will mail you a stink bomb. We are not together, I don't like her, I never said anything about this! 

Please, Rue, forget the "pack" for a moment! There must have been a reason why Vaughn wanted to get you away from there, even though he didn't explain it to me. We can give you your own room, a warm bed and a proper meal. At least for the winter. If you want to stay with your "pack" so bad, you can go back when it gets warm!

Also, I think it's weird how you keep writing "pack". I don't like it. You're all still people, and people don't live in packs, unless they've gone absolutely nutty and act like animals. 


As for the homework... You know I'm not the best at all this theory stuff, but I'll see what I can do. Maybe ask the Ravenclaws for their notes, too.

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ear Rue,

Bollocks to all this "I'm different" stuff. You're still Rue, my friend, and my cousin, apparently, and all you have is an illness that can be helped! Otherwise you're completely normal! Unless you've started doing some Dark Magic stuff on the side and have sprung a few horns from your forehead that are now  poking out of it. Then we can talk about not normal. (Though that might look a little funny? Maybe? I'm not really sure, I'd have to see it).

*A few inkblots here* Well, if you're going to be so stubborn about this, then I'm going to stop trying to convince you and make someone else do it.