Dear Padfoot,
Thank you, thank you, for Harry's birthday present! It was his favorite by far. One year old and already zooming along on a toy broomstick? he looked so pleased with himself, I'm enclosing a picture so you can see. You know it only rises about two feet off the ground, but he nearly killed the cat and he smashed a horriblr vase Petunia sent me for Christmas (no complaints there). Of course, James thought it was so funny, say he's going to be a great Quidditch player, but we've had to pack away all the ornaments and make sure we don't take our eyes off him when he gets going.
We had a very quiet birthday tea, just us and old Bathilda, who has always been sweet to us and who dotes on Harry. We were so sorry you couldn't come? but the Order's got to come first and Harry's not old enough to know it's his birthday anyway! James is getting a bit frustrated shut up here, he tries not to show it but I can tell - also, Dumbledore's still got his Invisibility Cloakso no chance of little excursions. If you could visit, it would cheer him up so much. Wormy was here last weekend, I tought he seemed down, but was probably the news about McKinnons; I cried all evening when I heard.
Bathilda drops in most days, she's fascinating old thing with the most amazing stories about Dumbledore, I'm not sure he,d be pleased if he knew! I don't know how much to believe, actually, because it seems incredible that Dumbledore could ever have been friends with Gellert Grindelwald. I think her mind's going, personally!
Lots of love,
Lily
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