I have read your recent post concerning The Bruce with great interest, dear Rapparree, and I am grateful to you for posting it. Reading it occasioned a delightful respite from the plebian travails of the day and provided a short and welcome excursion to a simpler time, when heroism and wits could be trusted to defeat arrogance and authoritarian meddling. Such a simple landscape, with such strong men roaming through it, revives my heart and brightens my eye, and I am the better for having encountered your post.

I do not understand why you provide no accreditation; did you fear that revealing your fan-boy relationship with McGonagall would make Mom think less of you? Do not fasch thyself on that acount, sir; it could not happen!!


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