Flora,

As usual, my brain has spoken without thinking things through. I did not mean to imply that there was something wrong with Slytherin, not at all. My family is full of Slytherins, as is Mabell. I merely thought that you were not going to be a Slytherin due to your abundance of qualities that would better suit you in Gryffindor.

Maybe the Sorting Hat will see right through me and you both and place us somewhere we've never considered. Perhaps you will be in Hufflepuff and I will be like Mabell and be in Slytherin. I suppose, we will have to wait for September and see. How are you holding up outside of Hogsmeade? I dearly miss you.

Yours,