Dear J.K.Rowling 9-05-05
Remember me? I am Suchismita from INDIA.I am a huge fan of yours. Because I, personally think that with being the world’s best author you are totally a wonderful person. The attitude of yours towards your fans makes me feel like that way, about you. You are always so nice to them & never neglect them. It was always my dream, or rather beyond my wildest imagination to get a few lines from a great author of the HARRY POTTER. But you make it possible. I felt so warm, overwhelmed with joy & apparently lost of word after I got your first letter. I got the news from the newspaper that you gave birth a sweet little baby girl. Actually, I read it a couple of months ago, but couldn’t send my words because of my graduation exam & I sincerely apologies for it. Please forgive me for such an undesirable delay. Though I am perfectly aware of the fact that I am not any kind of important person to you but still can’t resist congratulating you from the bottom of my heart for giving birth to another adorable girl. I wish from the bottom of my heart that –There would be shower of blessings, there will be promise of love….
Now let us come down to the magical world of Harry Potter. In these days I am dwelling with some thoughts & some ideas about it. Actually, some Characters apart from Harry, Hermione & Ron leave an effect in my mind. Well, the first one of it is Professor R. J. Lupin, The former & probably the best defence against dark arts teacher in Hogwarts, taught Harry to conjure a corporal Patronus & one of the best friends of his dad James Potter. He is a really nice & decent person but having an ill fate. In the 3rd volume he took entry in the life of Harry & from then on he guided Harry throughout the year. He was not only Harry’s teacher but became one of his best friends. Harry was able to share some feelings or more appropriately some of his confusions with him. He even sometimes rescued Harry from the jaws of misery, named Severus Snape. But when the innocence of Sirius Black was revealed to Harry in the Shreiking shack, Harry’s first choice as a guardian became Sirius Black, not Lupin. Throughout the whole school life also Lupin remained the second choice of both James & Sirius. Well, I don’t deny the fact that Both Sirius & James could go to any extent for Remus Lupin anytime, but the situation would not be so easy for either of them if each of them was given the choice to pick either Remus or the other (i.e. to James Sirius & to Sirius James). I, personally think that after a little hesitation James would have picked Sirius & Sirius would have picked James. I can say this pretty confidently because we found that both Padfoot & Prongs thought Mooney i.e. Lupin was the Spy for Lord Voldemort & that’s why Sirius switched & made Wormtail (Peter Pettigrew, the traitor) as the secret keeper for the Potters without even telling Remus. This is really unfortunate for him in spite of the fact that, Sirius after 12 years apologies for that. Lupin was the most sensitive, mature, clever & fair man among the three of them. May be he wasn’t a rank holder like Sirius or James but still he is probably the best in studies after them. We saw through Harry’s eyes in Snape’s worst memory that Lupin was sitting quietly on the grass while James & Sirius were tormenting Snape. He was neither approving nor saying anything to two of his best friends to leave Snape (although, unlike them he was a prefect). In my opinion, that was due to a mixture of feelings of gratefulness & a little bit of fear apart from the feelings of the friendship. He was grateful to both of them because after knowing the truth about him that he is a werewolf, instead of breaking friendship with him, they learnt to be animagi by themselves & gave him company during his transformation as different animals & transferred the most painful & tough period of his life into the most wonderful one. Besides, both James & Sirius had got an extremely dominating personality & you really need lots of guts to tell them anything. Cleary, Lupin had no such guts. But unlike him Lily Evans (Harry’s mother) had got the guts & so as we saw in the pensieve, she was shouting at both of them, especially at James for his arrogant act. I think that it will be a matter of great difficulty for Lupin to pick only one of them & that’ll be a problem to him without a solution. Lupin’s character here is like a connecting bridge that connects Harry’s past & future life. It seems to me that as if his importance is only to introduce Harry with his beloved godfather Sirius Black. But it’s true that without the help of Lupin’s tactfulness & patience, it would not be easy for Sirius to convince Harry & his mates about his innocence because of his own impatient, arrogant & tactless attitude. I really feel bad for Lupin. Why a man, having so good heart has such a miserable fate? I do not understand. Till now, we saw no girlfriend of Lupin & I think because of his werewolf thing he didn’t want any & didn’t go for it. To him, it may be like destroying a girl’s life by growing any type of relationship with her. That’s really pathetic for a man.
Now, the second thing, that I’d like to know that in the 5th volume we saw that Sirius was telling Harry that his biggest disguise as a dog became useless, as Wormtail would tell Voldemort about him being animagi by then. Well that’s a bit confusing. I mean, Voldemort must be aware of the fact that both James & Sirius were animagi since when the scum Peter started to work as a spy for the dark lord. But I doubt that whether Wormtail told Voldemort about his own animagous nature. I think he didn’t, in the first place, because he wanted to keep it as a secret weapon, which would hide him from the world of death eaters & Voldemort himself, if necessary. (& It worked well for him for 12 years). Now here another thing clicks into my mind & that is Severus Snape, yes, the nightmare of Harry’s life. Snape used to be the most important & dangerous death eater having several skills & was right in the inner circle of the Lord Voldemort, just like Lucious Malfoy. So, during the period, before Harry’s birth, when the whole lot of the death eaters were searching for the Potters, Voldemort must filled the members of his inner circle & most trustworthy servants with every bit of information about Potters, which he thought useful for the search. So, in that context he must told them that both Potter & Sirius were animagous (if Wormtail told him). In that case, Snape must be aware of Sirius being an animagi. Then why didn’t he revealed his true nature in front of Albus Dumbledore, in Harry’s third year, when Sirius broke out of Azkaban & everybody thought that he was after Harry? Snape came back to good side after the vanquishment of Lord Voldemort. So he must knew that Sirius wasn’t the secret-keeper for the Potters, it was Peter Pettigrew. So why didn’t he tell the truth to Dumbledore, if he is really reformed? Was that only a schoolboy grudge? Stranger is this, that nobody, not even Dumbledore noticed this suspicious nature of Snape. In the fourth volume when Voldemort was rose again, he was telling about someone who has left him forever & said that he’ll have to pay. I think, here, he meant Snape. So, Snape must be loathed & searched by Voldemort & his fellow death eaters & becomes one of their targets. But in spite of this, Lucious Malfoy, who is another dangerous & skilled death eater & right under the inner circle of you know who, is quite friendly with Snape & Snape’s attitude towards his son i.e. Draco is just unspeakably WELL. Here, I personally think that, the whole situation is quite fishy & a real mystery lies beneath it.
Now lets come down to another field, where my thoughts deal with Lily Evans & Lily Potter. I am really surprised at Harry that how little curiosity he has got for his mother. In the pensieve, within Snape’s memory, he was satisfied by finding his dad & his mates (i.e. Sirius & Remus), even he searched for the traitor Peter, but he completely forgot about his mother & made absolutely no search for her. That’s really unnatural. Every time, Harry was told about his dad’s greatness, his dad’s qualities & everybody compared him with James all the time. Only when his eyes come in the way, Lily is mentioned. That is totally unfair. Harry is not James’s son only; he is Lily’s son too. He has got Lily’s qualities within him too. He is decent & not arrogant like his father. (Well, the miserable 10 years with Dursley may be partly responsible for this). That’s lily’s nature that reflects within him when we found that he felt sorry for Snape after watching him being tormented & humiliated in front of the whole school in the hand of his own dad & his mates without any good reason. As long as I get, Lily was a bit like Hermione Granger but not totally like her. Her shouting, at James & Sirius was similar to the shouting match of Hermione with Fred & George Weasley. But, unlike Hermione, Lily was surrounded by lots of girls. & I think that her best friends at Hogwarts must be girls. But, we have no trace about her friends in side & outside Hogwarts, apart from James & his gang. All we know about Lily, the bits, which are connected to the world of James & Harry. She has no independent existence in the books till now. I’ve got another shrewd suspicion about the relationship between Lily & Lupin. Well, Lupin was decent than the rest three (James, Sirius, Peter) & unlike them & like Lily he was a prefect too. So, according to me, there are two possibilities. May be Lily was angry with Remus about his no support for her against James, just like the situation between Hermione & Ron when the question of telling off to Fred & George comes. Or she might like Lupin as a friend because of his decency. For these reasons she must be in talking terms with Remus Lupin, at Hogwarts than the rest 3. For this, it was not impossible for Lupin to develop some kind of feelings for her. If that so, he suppressed his feelings for two reasons – James & his werewolf nature. Talking about love life &relationships, I must ask you about one thing that is bothering me for a couple of months & that is, the handsome, charming & totally heartthrob Sirius Black. Sirius was the one of the brightest student at Hogwarts & was very good looking also. He was a height of cool in his age of Hogwarts. I also saw, that you mentioned, that in the pensieve Harry saw a girl was eyeing him hopefully in the examination hall of O.W.L., but Sirius took no notice. So, I’d like to ask you about Sirius’s love life at Hogwarts. It seems impossible to me that no girl was interested in him. Was he too arrogant & overconfident to choose one or he had a secret heartache? Then again, I must admit one thing that, it was painful for me to read about Sirius’s death, but no offence ma’am; I didn’t find it remotely true. All we know that his body curved in a graceful arc as he sank backwards through the ragged veil hanging from the arch. That’s all & no trace of his dead body. After all, it was a department of mystery & so loads of phenomena remained unsolved there. So, I think that it’s not totally impossible for Sirius to reappear alive.
I found something a bit funny that how a coward, selfish, traitor & scum like Peter Pettigrew became a GRYFFINDOR in the first place? Had the sorting hat gone mad temporarily during his sorting or anything else? I’d really like to know about it. On the contrary, if GRYFFINDOR can produce a scum like Peter then why can’t SLYTHERIN produces someone decent? Apart from all these confusions I’d like to tell you one thing that I like the sweet & bubbly character of Nymphadora Tonks very much & I have no shame to admit that I am also dead clumsy like her.
Last of all, I must say that I am totally absorbed in the thrilling & magical world of Harry Potter. I day dream about it & always wait for an owl post, addressed to me from the magical world (although I know that it is highly impossible, but still I can’t help to think about it). I really wonder that how anyone creates such an imaginary world, which seems so real? I am waiting hungrily & eagerly for the next volume of Harry Potter i.e. Harry Potter & the Half blood prince. Just can’t wait to go through it & explore loads of unknown secretes. Anyway, I’ve already written a lot & I know that it has taken a lot of your precious & valuable time. So I thank you from the bottom of my heart for going through it & I just can’t restrain myself from begging at least a few lines from you. Please, please, pretty please. I am waiting very anxiously for your reply. Thanking you.
With lots of love,
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