On the morning of January the 26th
Percy,
I have to tell you something ridiculous, and I need you to believe me. You're not the only person I intend to tell, but you're the one I hope... I hope you will understand. Because of late we've been caught on the same side of a sharp divide, and this... This is about Tom Riddle, Percy, and it's about the future. And it is going to sound crazy, but you know what Tom believes, and you've fought with him, and I need you to listen to me. I've been having these dreams.
Ugh, there, now I've actually communicated it to someone else. I thought I'd feel less stupid once it was out of my head, but I don't. I have been having dreams, where I am running down a street, and it's in flames, all the buildings, the trees, even the ground is roasting, and then, it's like my consciousness widens, and the view gets bigger, and it's a whole neighborhood, a whole city, a nation, a continent, the world, the whole world in searing flame, one vast conflagration. And I am viewing it, not from space, but from a true void outside of it. And he rises from the globe like death, Percy, like death itself. Smiling and laughing and trailing his own green fire.
I think the threat is very real. I think he's supremely dangerous. And I'm telling you, because if anyone is going to believe me, it's going to be you. I don't know what to do. But I know, and if you believe me, then we will both know. And that's a start, a start to resisting it, to turning back the tide, and saving the world from being whelmed in fire.
Harry
I need to talk to a few other people. Hold this under your hat for a day or two before deciding what you think of it. Or me.
I have to tell you something ridiculous, and I need you to believe me. You're not the only person I intend to tell, but you're the one I hope... I hope you will understand. Because of late we've been caught on the same side of a sharp divide, and this... This is about Tom Riddle, Percy, and it's about the future. And it is going to sound crazy, but you know what Tom believes, and you've fought with him, and I need you to listen to me. I've been having these dreams.
Ugh, there, now I've actually communicated it to someone else. I thought I'd feel less stupid once it was out of my head, but I don't. I have been having dreams, where I am running down a street, and it's in flames, all the buildings, the trees, even the ground is roasting, and then, it's like my consciousness widens, and the view gets bigger, and it's a whole neighborhood, a whole city, a nation, a continent, the world, the whole world in searing flame, one vast conflagration. And I am viewing it, not from space, but from a true void outside of it. And he rises from the globe like death, Percy, like death itself. Smiling and laughing and trailing his own green fire.
I think the threat is very real. I think he's supremely dangerous. And I'm telling you, because if anyone is going to believe me, it's going to be you. I don't know what to do. But I know, and if you believe me, then we will both know. And that's a start, a start to resisting it, to turning back the tide, and saving the world from being whelmed in fire.
Harry
I need to talk to a few other people. Hold this under your hat for a day or two before deciding what you think of it. Or me.