Not long after Douglas returned to his office after class,
Percy knocked on the door, bringing a letter with him.
"Boss, this is a letter from Mr. Slane. He said owls couldn't deliver letters to you, so he sent it to me instead."
Douglas took the letter and asked in puzzlement,
"How does he know you?"
Percy stared at him, saying incredulously,
"Boss, have you forgotten?
Back in Diagon Alley, you were the one who introduced me to Mr. Slane and told him to give me a complete set of books.
I received the books from Mr. Slane on the day term started...
I remember mentioning it...
You can't go back on that now..."
Of course, Percy was joking with that last remark. He did not think Douglas would actually take the books back.
Douglas slapped his forehead.
"I almost forgot about that.
But what puzzled me just now was,
as a Hufflepuff, he should have thought of asking Head of House Sprout to help him contact me.
Instead, he went to a Gryffindor like you..."
Douglas opened the letter and skimmed through it.
It essentially began with a long complaint about being unable to write to him directly.
Because Douglas's actions had also left his fans unable to send him letters,
all sorts of strange letters had once again overwhelmed Slane's office...
(The last time, Douglas had stopped updating, and his fans, not knowing who the author was, had overwhelmed Slane's office with letters!)
There were also a few matters to discuss with him. The company was considering releasing collector's editions of several sets of books, with the author's name changed to Douglas Holmes,
and wanted him to write a foreword in his capacity as Professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts. It would be even better if he