My first day with this laptop.

[waitingfortom]

Dear Tom

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[cornered_beef]

Who's Tom?

[waitingfortom]

What?

You wrote back! Nobody's written back in years! Oh wow! I didn't expect this laptop thing to do that!

My name is Ginny!

[cornered_beef]

...

Yes, I know. Ginny, this is Michael. Michael Corner?

[waitingfortom]

This is funny! Well, hello then, Michael. I wonder why you're the voice in the laptop? How strange!

[paparazzi_colin]

My letter was on a COW.

[waitingfortom]

I'm not totally sure who that is behind the camera because everything is so BRIGHT on this laptop.

Is this Colin? Hello! How do you know it was on a cow?

[paparazzi_colin]

Yes it's me!!! this is a photo Dennis took with my old camera when I got my new one for my birthday.
It was on a dead cow because it looked like cow skin, I KNOW WHAT COWS LOOK LIKE GINNY!!!!

[waitingfortom]

Oh, I wonder how your brother's pictures ended up on my laptop? How odd! Well, I'm glad you have a new camera. It's nice to have NEW things. My poor brother Ron. At least I don't get any of my brother's clothes since I'm a girl. What about yours?

Of course you do. I'm very sure you've seen that cow, yes. Well, I suppose a memory can have an imagination. Tom could think of new things, after all.

[herbology_dork]

hullo ginny! did you have a nice summer? mine was decent.

i don't know who tom is either, but it's kind of neat that we all have these journalthings to all talk to one another. pity about the parchment though.
cheers!
neville

[waitingfortom]

This is really getting ridiculous, but oh well. I guess I don't mind having this many voices to talk to. I've had a nice summer, yes, and I hope you did. Well, I hope Neville did. I mean. Oh this is confusing having voices that think they're real.

I don't think you and Tom would've liked each other.

Ohhh I think I get it now! You must all think you have journals, too, and that they write back to you. How weird that you don't know you're not--

Yes, cheers!

[herbology_dork]

what? i am so confused now. you think we're not real? er, i am neville, i swear i'm real.

ok, i'm glad i don't know tom then.

didn't you read what it said on that rooster? yes we all have journals now, because we can't use parchment at school anymore. but my journal doesn't write back, other people like you do. your journal writes back to you??

[waitingfortom]

Of course I read what it said on the rooster! I could hardly ignore the poor owl dropping a dead cock in my lap. I wonder if everyone else's journals write back, too?

Don't worry, Neville. If it's easier this way, I'll address you as if you're him.

So hello, Neville!

[pious_zacharias]

Hello.

What should I bring to Young Witches? I have a flat iron.

[waitingfortom]

Really, how many more voices do I need?! Honestly! Did someone do this because they think I'll get too busy talking to laptop voices to talk to REAL people?!

If you were coming to Young Witches I'd suggest something, but you're STAYING IN HERE!

[pious_zacharias]

Humor me. What should I bring?

It can't hurt anything to tell me, except perhaps your tenuous hold on sanity.

If we aren't real, why did you imagine a whiny, rather loopy Potter? You should try to imagine him as mute instead.

[waitingfortom]

Oh very well. You should bring a hairbrush or comb if you prefer, cosmetics, maybe some costume jewellery-- please. What kind of club do you think it is?

I have a very firm hold on my sanity. It's not my fault if other people don't understand me!

I didn't imagine him that way. It's not my fault that it must be the personality contained within.