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Hello again. I've been giving a bit of advice out to people who need help with dealing with lost ones. I've never used it myself, actually, but it doesn't seem like a bad idea. When we got here, me and my friends, we were astonished we couldn't speak to anyone from back home. Back home, you just send an owl, you see, and you can usually find anyone you're looking for. Well, here, that isn't really possible, especially if someone's gone.

[Harry pauses to carefully consider his words. He doesn't want to sound like someone who's experienced a lot of loss, which makes this harder. His parents, Sirius, they'll wonder why he's so used to this, so he decides to leave that part out. If anyone wishes to know, he'll tell them somewhere else—or just hope that his parents aren't so involved that they'll listen to every conversation he has. They haven't given him that impression, anyway.]

My point is—I've recommended that people write letters. They might find their way to where they belong sooner or later. Luna liked the idea, and I've been considering taking it up myself. And that's just to tell people from home things.

So ... yeah. It might help. But sorry for all your losses.

[Harry feels like that's enough.]

There is one more thing. I contacted a number of people about training. Merlin, Lancer ... others. But then the battle happened and my parents showed up, and, er, most of the meetings were meant to take place during that battle, which obviously, they just couldn't. Since the bracelets have still been acting up, I've been holding off on contacting anyone again, but if you received a message from me, I'm still very much interested. I'd make it easier and contact you directly, but I'm not counting on the messages making it to you just yet.

Right, that's all.

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Of course it won't.

Honestly, it's for the benefit of people writing them. If that's something they're ... interested in.

Do you really think something like that will help? You don't think it might just make people miss their friends more? [ She's not bitter at all. N o p e. ]

It might.

But won't you miss your friends anyway? Won't it be the same in the end? Some people feel better using something like this. Others don't.

Of course I will, and I do. But it's strange to suggest something that might make someone miss their friends more as a way of coping with missing them. It's just... [ Sorry, dude, she's emotionally handicapped. Always. ] -- Does it really help you?

To tell you the truth, I haven't tried it yet. My entire life, I've been used to ... seeing people go. Or them not being there at all. Writing letters to them never occurred to me.

[He really, really hopes his parents aren't reading this, but he presses on.]

But for the friend I suggested it to, it seemed like the type of thing that she'd like. And then more people liked it, and everyone's lost someone recently, so I thought it might help.

It doesn't stop, even here. Everyone's lost eventually. [ Letters are pointless and attached and not nearly distant enough to be safe. ] It's dangerous. It might lead people to think their friends will actually get to read them.

It could be dangerous if you saw things that way. I admit that I don't know too much about that myself. Not just because I haven't written them, but I'm used to having my hopes dashed. And er, it's because of what I said already.

I admit that makes me sound like the worst person to give this advice, because I am rather shortsighted. But that's also why I was surprised people liked it.

[ Oh. So you're jaded like her, at least. You just have an annoyingly optimistic outlook on everything. Unlike her. ]

So you know how badly it could go. [ And yet you continue to suggest it. ] It just seems... Foolish.

Something that could go badly for one person wouldn't for someone else. I guess ... it is foolish, yeah, but it won't go badly for some people.

You're very optimistic.

I think it's more that I understand that people are different.

[ Hrm. ] Whatever you want to call it.

I think I'll stick to that version of it, yeah.

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