you are 163 days old on the date of this note your father and i are pnng to give this to you when you are seven， you can read on your own with fewer probles but you see，i’ve already bought this book and started iagg the day，jt like how we look forwards to(while al nervo about)every sta of your life if you’re readg this on your seventh birthday，or aybe a few years ter(dependg on how ick you learn)，you should know that your o is writg this，bearg d what i would like the seven-year-old yself to hear and hold for the years to e and i trt you to be a cleverer boy than i ever was
childhood has been distant for ，y baby boy it is thg that you are cky to be right now what’s ore wonderful is that you still have a long way to go i know you will on start feelg the ur to grow up，as i did when i was at your a but if there is one thg that i would tell the little girl i once was，it would be to cherish everythg you have as a child，alongside all your iagations your o，no atter how borg i look nowadays，ed to y on the grass，stare at the clouds，and thk about the nversations held beeen those white dogs and horses all the ti if you want to share news about your toys，or aybe the friends that no one else can see，i want you to know that i’ always here to listen
the stories that you have read far，they don’t jt e the shapes of lourful ias of urse，there are dancg dolls，sgg flowers and chatty ducks，fairies the woods and scary evils that will probably give you nightares(do e to when you can’t sleep，ok? but only when you really can’t) as you would have known by now，there are al horrible thgs that happen stories there are bad guys and even people dyg tis，jt like how life will unravel front of you
how do i describe life，y beloved boy? i do not for one send assu that a boy senses the stranness of the world less than adults do fact，i thk that we grown-ups tis see less of the world becae we have aepted it jt a little bit too uch，hence ceasg to see how origal it can be when it es to this，your dad is one of the bravest pern i’ve ever t he challens any，but al allows his believes to be chand，and fight for what’s proved ost right the end it is a virtue that you will learn to vae as you t older for this，i forever love hi as y hband，as your father，and as y best friend
your grandother once wrote thg on the back of a book for as well she said that a other should have expectations for the children，otherwise she will not be a good parent she uld be strict tis i wish that you had a chance to et her，but as it is，i iss her strictness very uch you are too little and too purely geo for to put down any expectation now i feel that it is a s to hope that i should ould you to thg particur，especially when i look at your curio eyes i thk，i’d rather share with you a few thgs to expect and look for the future，now that you are seven and have already stepped to the first world of yours— a school and as i said，you defitely have the look of an explorer
as you grow up，y n，thgs can t a little…nfg i wish these won’t happen to you often，but tis you will lose thgs that ake you feel safe，and people will leave you or treat you badly for no apparent reans at all i want you to reber，harry，that this is not your fault o spent ost of y teen years a school(that you will probably jo one day)，and i’ve seen，even a supposedly holy environnt，events that were unpleasant and happened for no good cae both your dad and i have been responsible for hurts…but that is the thg，y n tis it is other people’s dog，tis you have a part it as well(i trt you to know what to do when that is the case)，and tis it’s nobody’s b at all it’s jt people don’t see thgs the sa way however，that is al the wonderful side of huans，becae we are tis a little…silly if you’re honest enough，that silless will ph you to listen to others，and dog ，you will fd frictions and bonds that are ore truthful than anythg else
you will fd friends，and good ones i have no doubt of this，as your father and i are both blessed with it trt ，tis i a a little jealo of your godfather，but how uch joy and the support he brought hi！thgs that i cannot and do not tend to be the one to provide becae，harry，friends give you thg that is all too special different fro ，they will aopany you as you work to fd out who you are，and stay with you for the answer you give to that they ay understand you uch better than we do，and for that rean，hold onto your good friends，and they will give you power the ti of need and though i know that you will be a strong boy，do not ever thk that you will have to do everythg alone be cautio about who you are ttg close with once you know you can spare the trt，lean on the jt like you would lean on
you will fd rrows and anrs，alongside happess and fulfilnts they e side-by-side， don’t be scared of any tis they ay drive you to unwanted pces，but there are always truths the life is born out of wounds and nflicts the gaxies would not for，if one star does not llide to another; flowers wouldn’t blos if a branch does not break the va stay truthful to yourself，and learn fro every tear you drop what it is that you truly want，and what it is that you fd right the stories that you have read，sa with all the thgs you will hear，they have lesns to teach reber the case of need，but to see which ones you want to sign your life with，you need only to look to your heart