CHO CHANG: 15 September 1995
15th September
Dear Healer Jones,
Thank you very much for your kind letter. It was good of you to think of me.
Yes, I decided there was no point not coming back to school. You have been such a help, and I now feel I can face Hogwarts without him.
The only trouble is, I seem to be crying all the time. You said that was quite normal, but it’s getting a bit out of hand. The other day in Transfiguration I was so upset that I couldn’t read the instructions in my textbook, and I turned a snail into an albatross. Professor McGonagall got very flustered, and said that it was a bird of ill-omen and I was a silly girl. She took me aside after the lesson and apologised, but I felt awful all the same.
You know I told you about the other boy I like? The boy who saw Cedric die? Well, he’s been very nice to me, and we chat to each other from time to time, though we haven’t actually discussed Cedric yet. But that’s where the crying thing gets really ridiculous! I seem to burst into tears every time I see him. He must think I go round howling my eyes out all the time. Well, I do at the moment. It doesn’t help that he’s being so brave about it. I feel so guilty that I can’t cope as well, when I wasn't even there and he was.
I’m still having the nightmares. Last night, I had a lovely dream that I was in a field full of flowers, and then I realised they were flowers on graves, and I was walking on dead bodies… I woke up screaming, and couldn’t get back to sleep for hours. I had to go to the infirmary so Madam Pomfrey could give me some of the potion you prescribed for me, but it didn’t have much effect. I think I need a stronger dose.
Anyway, I’m doing okay, and it’s wonderful to know I can owl you if I ever feel bad and need someone to talk to.
Yours sincerely,
Cho Chang
Dear Healer Jones,
Thank you very much for your kind letter. It was good of you to think of me.
Yes, I decided there was no point not coming back to school. You have been such a help, and I now feel I can face Hogwarts without him.
The only trouble is, I seem to be crying all the time. You said that was quite normal, but it’s getting a bit out of hand. The other day in Transfiguration I was so upset that I couldn’t read the instructions in my textbook, and I turned a snail into an albatross. Professor McGonagall got very flustered, and said that it was a bird of ill-omen and I was a silly girl. She took me aside after the lesson and apologised, but I felt awful all the same.
You know I told you about the other boy I like? The boy who saw Cedric die? Well, he’s been very nice to me, and we chat to each other from time to time, though we haven’t actually discussed Cedric yet. But that’s where the crying thing gets really ridiculous! I seem to burst into tears every time I see him. He must think I go round howling my eyes out all the time. Well, I do at the moment. It doesn’t help that he’s being so brave about it. I feel so guilty that I can’t cope as well, when I wasn't even there and he was.
I’m still having the nightmares. Last night, I had a lovely dream that I was in a field full of flowers, and then I realised they were flowers on graves, and I was walking on dead bodies… I woke up screaming, and couldn’t get back to sleep for hours. I had to go to the infirmary so Madam Pomfrey could give me some of the potion you prescribed for me, but it didn’t have much effect. I think I need a stronger dose.
Anyway, I’m doing okay, and it’s wonderful to know I can owl you if I ever feel bad and need someone to talk to.
Yours sincerely,
Cho Chang