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|name=Albus Dumbledore's letter to Harry Potter (1996)
 
|sender=[[Albus Dumbledore]]
 
|sender=[[Albus Dumbledore]]
 
|addressee=[[Harry Potter]]
 
|addressee=[[Harry Potter]]
 
|date=[[9 July]] [[1996]]<ref name="HPL">[http://www.hp-lexicon.org/timelines/calendars/calendar_hbp.html Harry Potter Lexicon: Calendar - ''Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'']</ref>
|date=[[9 July]] [[1996]]
 
 
|subject=Dumbledore tells Harry about his arrival at [[4 Privet Drive]] and taking Harry to the [[Burrow]].
 
|subject=Dumbledore tells Harry about his arrival at [[4 Privet Drive]] and taking Harry to the [[Burrow]].
|delivered=[[Owl]] (presumably)
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This '''letter''' was written by [[Albus Dumbledore]] to [[Harry Potter]] on [[9 July]] [[1996]]. Its purpose was to tell Harry he would be picking him up at [[4 Privet Drive]] and letting him off at [[The Burrow]] the following Friday, and that, on the way, he would take him with him to [[Horace Slughorn]]'s [[Muggle house where Horace Slughorn stayed|current residence]].<ref name="HBP3">''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]'' - Chapter 3 (''Will and Won't'')</ref>
 
This '''letter''' was written by [[Albus Dumbledore]] to [[Harry Potter]] on [[9 July]][[1996]].<ref name="HPL">[http://www.hp-lexicon.org/timelines/calendars/calendar_hbp.html HPL: Calendar: HPB Harry Potter Lexicon calendar]</ref>
 
   
 
==Contents==
 
==Contents==
 
''Dear Harry,''
 
''Dear Harry,''
   
''If it is convenient to you, I shall call at number [[4 Privet Drive|four, Privet Drive ]]this coming Friday at eleven P.M. to escort you to [[the Burrow]], where you have been invited to spend the remainder of your school holidays.''
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''If it is convenient to you, I shall call at number [[4 Privet Drive|four, Privet Drive]] this coming Friday at eleven P.M. to escort you to [[the Burrow]], where you have been invited to spend the remainder of your school holidays.''
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''If you are agreeable, I should also be glad of your assistance in a matter to which I hope to attend on the way to the Burrow. I shall explain this more fully when I see you.''
 
''If you are agreeable, I should also be glad of your assistance in a matter to which I hope to attend on the way to the Burrow. I shall explain this more fully when I see you.''
   
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Revision as of 18:10, 4 August 2013

This letter was written by Albus Dumbledore to Harry Potter on 9 July 1996. Its purpose was to tell Harry he would be picking him up at 4 Privet Drive and letting him off at The Burrow the following Friday, and that, on the way, he would take him with him to Horace Slughorn's current residence.[2]

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Dear Harry,

If it is convenient to you, I shall call at number four, Privet Drive this coming Friday at eleven P.M. to escort you to the Burrow, where you have been invited to spend the remainder of your school holidays.

If you are agreeable, I should also be glad of your assistance in a matter to which I hope to attend on the way to the Burrow. I shall explain this more fully when I see you.

Kindly send your answer by return of this owl. Hoping to see you this Friday,

I am, yours most sincerely,

Albus Dumbledore

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