Letter was left on Anne's pillow before leaving for Hogsmeade day so Violetta wasn't around while she read it.

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Miss Moony,

Anne, Mon ami?

I think this letter has been a long time coming. I can see you now rolling your eyes and making scoffing noises but you need to hear me out and Maman always told me you can't reread an argument. This might be my last six months in Hogwarts and I do not wish to have it defined by the failure of a friendship that I had grown to cherish over the years and dearly hoped would continue to be with me long after we graduate. I wish to try and rebuild, but unfortunately mon ami I feel I must share with you some truths that I do not feel you will enjoy reading.

I understand that you have long coveted the position of Slytherin prefect and if I am honest mon ami, I too believed that you would be wonderfully suited to the role. You are brilliant Anne, you are smart, and hard working and have already shown that you will not be held down by the circumstances of your birth. For this reason, I am sorry that they did not pick you for the role. What I am not sorry for, is that they picked me as their choice, and do you know why Anne? Because whatever you may have convinced yourself, I had no bearing on the decision, I did not steal anything, I was given it. And whether I deserve it or not is not for you to decide, I am not the greatest academic I will admit, but I am a good person and I do try.

Now, I understand your pain to be passed over for this position and I will not argue against your theory that the class system has worked against your favour, I'm not as smart as you but am well-versed in society. But again mon ami, this is not my fault. I am just as responsible for my privileged station in society as you are for your own place. I am not attempting to pretend that I am a victim of society, I love my life, but I am still beholden to it, as you might have realised with these annoying rumours about parts of my life that might remain private had I not been born where I was.

I have said it so many times Anne, you are brilliant, and you will smash that broom through every glass ceiling that society puts in your way, but if you allow your naked jealousy to impact you in this way. To blame and give a friend the cold shoulder, simply because of her class? Well, you are too smart not to see the irony in that manner of behaviour, oui? You may well hold yourself back. This animosity between us needs to stop, I had expected to see you as prefect in September and hoped to celebrate it with you, why can you not grant me the same grace?

I wish you to remain in my life as a friend Anne, I have never treated you as any less than me despite this ridiculous social stratification that we are forced to endure. I even invited you to my home in France because I hoped to solidify our friendship, and if I recall it was your family, and not mine that decided it should not happen? I even have pictures in my mind of you standing beside me when I take my vows next year.

If this is not what you want then I shall simply have to accept that and move on, I will lament that you are making yourself less than I thought you were by holding on to jealousy, but I shall know I have done nothing wrong. Please return as my friend, believe it or not there are parts of my life that cause me trepidation and your attitude to life has always been the strength in our dormitory.

Yours Faithfully,

Mademoiselle Violetta Elise DeCroix
Vee

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