owls for friends of Stephen: a fond farewell

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(( Taking a leaf from Mayday's book, it's an IC popcorning to avoid freaking out other chars with whom Stephen's associated! I haven't been up ons the 19th-century-ese in a while, and you probably saw this coming.))

( He saw it coming... )

There was a letter for everyone who'd been close to Stephen, everyone from little Rose Casson to the indomitable Perry Cox. While his mun is sometimes forgetful, Stephen would not have forgotten anyone.

To my friends:

When Aloysius brings you this letter, it means I am gone from Hogwarts. I have had to return to my own time, for pressing reasons I am not at liberty to discuss.

I have a theory: that when we enter this world in which Hogwarts stands, there is a displacement of matter in our own world, which must be filled. Likewise, when we leave this world, there is a displacement of matter. Hogwarts redresses that balance by supplying a giant kernel of popcorn.

I once mourned someone dear who had turned to popcorn, I thinking it death. Since then I have seen the return of many popcorned, some the same as I knew them, others as though they had never been here at all. Popcorn is a phenomenon we do not yet understand, but I do believe there is one fact of which we can be sure: popcorn is not death.

Do not be alarmed, therefore, if my theory proves correct and my absence results in a popcorn kernel. I have gone home, not to Heaven but to my own time, my own world, where my daughter and my work are waiting for me. Please know I will remember you all as long as I live.

- S. Maturin.

Owl to Charles Macaulay

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((Backdated to shortly after Mia was Sorted. Sorry for the hold-up on this, but as company has left and the house is clean I now feel justified in tagging.))

Thanks to Phoenix and Pearl, Mia had very little trouble getting settled into Ravenclaw. So it wasn't long before she sent out an owl.

( Owl to Charles Macaulay, unwarded )