Professor Cramming,

But a curse would be such a predictable response; surely you would wish to throw me for a loop by sending a howler instead?

I tease as well. Look for your spot in the dedication page: "To Carmelina Cramming, my unwitting but ever-so-kind victim in this installment." This is the ninth one, but the third in a series I began shortly after the Irvingly fog. I would have been a fool not to capitalize on the sudden market for adventure-mysteries.

Sometimes I fear that I'm running out of ideas, but it seems every conversation I have leads to new ones. Now that I think about it, you do have the makings of a perfect villain. Smart, sensible, unsuspecting—you could curse a man and he'd seek your help breaking it.

Perhaps another book? I'm not sure you'd fit so well in this one. The protagonist is a Hogwarts graduate who makes an unbreakable vow with such vague wording that he'd forced to embark on a quest across Europe to prevent his own death. You don't seem the sort to trick men into unbreakable vows, do you?

Yours always,
Mr. Julian Fisk

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