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"So please do your best to acclimate yourself to this reality as quickly as possible."

Okay, look. This is all well and good for…whatever it is they're trying to do, but I really, really don't have time for this. [It's okay, Harry, we know you're inwardly freaking out about waking up suddenly absolutely not dead. There is a reason that he's keeping the video off for now.] I suppose they don't care about that, do they?

Right. Anyway, here's my question. Is there anyone who actually thought they were fictional before arriving here, or are we just believing what we've been told since there's nothing else to go off of? Because no offense, but the last seventeen years of my life have been a bit too chaotic to be anything but real. I can't imagine why anyone would want to fictionalize my life in the first place. Also, fictional or not, can anyone tell me what happens to our lives back where we came from? Do they just stop existing? It's really important that I get an answer.

...er. I think that's all for now. Thanks.

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Then you better hope you're one of the lucky ones. Then again, you might not want to be.

No one knows if people who vanish are sent back home or released into whatever place the doctors say is "the real world".

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Really. How often do people vanish from here?

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People are always vanishing; there's a whole list every month.

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It's not a long list every month, is it?

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Sometimes, sometimes not. Kind of hit and miss.

Still not a place you want your name on.

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I'll try to avoid that then. Thanks for letting me know.

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No problem.

I'm Alisha, by the way.

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Harry Potter. It's nice to meet you. [May as well be open about it. If he was fictional, supposedly, maybe people wouldn't actually recognize him. He's ignoring the giant flaw in that logic.]

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[She might not have read the books and only watched bits and pieces of the first movie, but she knows that name.]

You've got to be shitting me.

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Er. No? I don't think so.

...DW, please send me notifs, that would be great. I'm so so sorry about the wait ;;

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You're like proper famous. There are books and films about you and shit.

no worries, I've been totally MIA anyway til recently so o/

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[Well that's just great.]

Are you sure they're about me?

oh, whew! that's certainly good to know! \o

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If you've got those funny glasses, brown hair, and a wand, yeah, I'd say they're about you.

[And that's pretty much the extent of her movie poster/advertisement knowledge on the subject.]

and by recently I mean like literally today...so \o/

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...it's black. [That's all he can say though and he knows it's a really, really crappy argument. That's pretty much right.]

Er. What are the books and movies about? [Somehow this smells like Rita Skeeter and that is certainly not okay.]

WOW good timing, then!

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Dunno. Can't really remember the first movie, and I never touched the other films or the books. All I know is that it's about you going to magic school.

[She's not the best of help on that front, though that's probably a blessing in some regards.]

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[On the one hand, that is helpful because he's not sure he's ready to handle how meta the situation is. On the other, now he's really, really curious and it might drive him completely insane.]

That's what I thought. [It occurs to him then.] ...they don't keep books and films like those here, do they?

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I don't know about that, either. Can't hurt to check the library, though.

At least there are /definitely/ other people here who are in the same "famous character" boat as you. Superheroes, Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, at least one other wizard.

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I'll check later. Thanks.

Really. [The Dursleys never really let him read or watch films or anything but he's still vaguely familiar with some of these names thanks to Dudley's overexposure to media.] How do people treat them?

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Good, I suppose. I'm guessing so, at least; the superheroes have their own groups and shit, and Sirius runs his own business, and I've yet to hear any horror stories about that.

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--wait, what? What does Sirius do? [And why is this just now coming up, but he's going to ignore that.]

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He runs a place called Maraudering Magic, or something like that.

...You know him?

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Just like him.

He's my godfather.

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/You're/ his godson?

[Well, doesn't she feel sheepish? It's painfully obvious why Sirius was so well known now.]

I probably should have guessed that, with his wand and magic all.

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Yeah, I am. He's mentioned me before?

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Not by name, no.

Well, this isn't completely awkward.