Hydra Lestrange Finch-Fletchley

Harry,

I thought you should know that I heard Mummy and Daddy talking last night, and they both think that the person who wrote the grim truth is Snape.
Since you're back at the castle with Raz and Granger, I thought you should know.
I know other teachers are there too, so he probably wouldn't try to get into the castle again, but why do you suppose he's writing grim truths?
I don't know why he'd tell mudbloods to do wandless magic, it's really difficult to learn and you have to know how to use a wand first, anyway.

From,
Hydra

Dear Sir,

I hope that it's alright that I've chosen to write You here instead of using an owl.
I've been thinking for days of what I need to tell You and I wrote it down on a piece of parchment first so that I won't miss anything or ramble about something that might not be interesting or important.
First, You wanted to know what I told Tom about You and the Protectorate, and I already told You all that I could remember.
And it was true, I really did go on an awful lot to him about New London and how wonderful it is, and all of the statues of You, and how the air is cleaner now and wizard-kind is much safer now that muggles are strictly controlled.
Tom was very happy about that.
But what I didn't tell You was that he was very happy with everything...except he didn't like that there were muggles still around at all.
I know that I should have told You that face to face, but it was such a difficult thing to say, I hope You understand.
I find it much easier to write down difficult things.
What Tom said was that the muggle and mudblood filth should be stamped out of England, and especially from Hogwarts, and that he thought You would have taken care of them by now, and that he hoped You hadn't turned soft.
He said that no one can control filth, they can only get rid of it, the way they would get rid of any other rubbish.
That's what he said, but I didn't agree with him and I told him that I thought You had done everything just right because it made the most amount of people happy.
It was so confusing sometimes, though, because he seemed to know so much about You, even though he was from ages and ages ago.
The way he spoke of You, it was almost as if he saw himself as Your Mothe parent.
Sometimes what he said about You made me so upset that I would be cross with him, and I would refuse to speak to Him for a while.
I even tried to flush him down a loo one time.
But then I decided that maybe he didn't mean to be insulting, because Hogwarts really did mean so much to him, he was always asking me about my teachers and classes, and wanted to hear all about my classmates, and also about Draco and Harry.
Especially Harry.
But he seemed to remember everything about the school, and knew ever so much more about its secret passages and hidden nooks than I ever could.
That's why I let him come over me, that first time.
He had shown me what Hogwarts looked like when he was a student, and I wanted to show him what it looked like now, when I was a student.
And then, when he starting taking me over more often, I wouldn't know that he was doing it until something big happened, like when Dennis fell over like a piece of stone, or when Tully was died.
He was so very powerful, my Lord, and he wasn't even a man yet.
Do you think that Harry really killed him?
It didn't seem like anything in the whole wide world could, but if there were one thing that could, it would make sense that it was Your son.

I didn't tell Mummy what Tom said about You.
I'm sure that she would punish me dreadfully for saying such evil words, even if they weren't my own.
She's already so unhappy with me for keeping secrets, even though I swore to her that I wasn't trying to.
Did You say something to her about it?
I don't want to preso presume but she seemed to act differently after our last meeting, like she was leaving it all to You now and would stop questioning.
Thank you

I'm also wanted to write so that I could tell You that I very much apologise for being so jumpy the first few times we had tea.
Only I didn't know what to expect, and I thought that it must surely mean that I was in trouble.
But you were just
It was just like
But now I would just very much like to serve You and please You, so if we have tea again sometime before I go back to Hogwarts, I would like that.

From,
Hydra

Some people have asked me where Tully is so I suppose I should just tell.
He's been sick, but I don't know with what, I just knew that he wasn't feeling very good.
I noticed it a few week ago, right after Draco's mudblood was killed.
I took him to Professor Brutka who said he didn't seem that sick and then he reminded me that animals can't get the epidemic.
But then he said he could keep Tully for observation for a little while if it would make me feel better, so I said yes please, Sir, and that's what he did.
Only today Tully was back in his hutch by my bed and Professor Brutka left a note saying that Tully was doing well and to just make sure he gets plenty of water.
So I think that means Tully is all better now.
That's good, right?
I have to say, though, that Tina was a lot less work and worry.
The older students are talking about electives today.
I wish I could take electives next year, I'm certain I'd be very good at Care of Magical Creatures by now.
And very good at Dark Arts too, of course.
I don't know if I'd be allowed to take Divination, though.
There seems to be a lot of birthdays this time of year, haven't you noticed?

Hello and good evening to you.
I am so happy Mummy has finally let me have a book like everyone else.
I saw Draco and Harry using there's sometimes and I wanted one so very much.
Not so much to write in it but to see, to see what everyone else was writing when they wrote.
But Mummy said that I would have to be old enough for Hogwarts before I was old enough for a book.
She said it wasn't proper to see what people wrote until I was old enough.
I thought she might have forgotten that she said that but then today at Kings Cross she gave me a surprise.
Just before I was to get on the train, she gave me my very own book.
A new kind of book like everyone else's which has never been written in.
She put it in my hands and said Hydra please write in this every day.
Daddy didn't give me a book, but he did give me a packet of sweets and a kiss and a hug.
Rigel is too young to give me anything, so he was left at home with Mrs Baylock.
I was going to save the sweets, but Draco told me that the mudblood Dennis will get them whenever I want.
It's so nice to have sweets whenever I want it will make me so happy.
I think I will eat the sweets in my new bed tonight, and watch my book to see what people are writing.
I was sorted Slytherin like I should be.
Harry mightve missed it because he was in a car that flys with a boy I don't know.
Draco let me sit near him and his chums at dinner, but I think maybe because Mummy said.
I've never seen so many children before I don't think, there's an awful lot here.
Some of them are very large and must be close to being adult aged.
I wonder if they will be nice to me.
I have never seen mountains before, but I think those are mountains out beyond the lake, or else very T A L L hills.
It will be strange, though, to live so far from the ocean.
The lake is very lovely but isn't the same.
It's smaller and has no salt.
I wish I was more fond of snakes, but they aren't so nice to pet.
Will anyone talk to me?
In my book, I mean.
I want to see how it works.