Outside of the walls of the school, Marcus and I were able to establish a means of communication. With his lifestyle, owls were notoriously inefficient and would make it easy for any of his enemies to find him. While most of them were other Vampires, he had plenty of others who were after him. Even with the Statue of Secrecy existing, there were muggle vampire hunters. Though they don’t know that he was one of the oldest Vampires in existence.