Harry Potter and the Year of Insanity

Narrated by Harry

I got a handle on the computer very easily. All I needed to know about putting it together, and installing the operating system, which was Windows NT 3.0, in case you're wondering, was in the instruction manuals. I also got a typing tutor, which taught me how to type faster. I even went on the Internet to see if there was anything interesting on there, which I found.

"ICQ" an acronym that stands for "I Seek You" was a program that I could download and use to talk to people on the Internet. So I downloaded the program, and signed up. But when it came time to decide on my user name, I was stumped.

I wanted to choose something that reflected my personality, maybe even got a laugh out of any witches or wizards, probably muggle-borns, who saw it. I then looked in the mirror, and decided to choose something different. I typed up my user name: Emerald_Lightning. I then had to choose a password, something I would remember, I decided instantly: Hermione. What caused me to use her name as my password, I will never know, but I did use her name as my password, and I don't regret it. I mean why should I?

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Afterwards, I decided to check a few chat rooms. One category caught my eye: "Supernatural". I clicked on it, then I saw another category: "Magic". I clicked on it, then a chat room: "Witches, Wizards, Warlocks, etc". I clicked on it and immediately people started "talking" to me.

There were five people in the chat room, not including me: MagicalBookworm, Viscious_95, WindowBreaker, Phoenix_48, and Ice645.

Emerald_Lightning has entered

MagicalBookworm: Hi Emerald.

Emerald_Lightning: Hi.

MagicalBookworm: You don't mind if I call you that do you?

Emerald_Lightning: No, go ahead, what should I call you?

MagicalBookworm: Bookworm would be fine.

Phoenix_48: Call me Phoenix.

Ice645: Just call me Ice.

Viscious_95: Dob.

WindowBreaker: Neo.

Emerald_Lightning: That name, Dob sounds familiar.

Viscious_95: It's not my real name that’s just a code name idiot.

Phoenix_48: Dob, don't call him an idiot.

Viscious_95: But he is.

Phoenix_48: Stop it anyway.

Viscious_95: Why should I?

Phoenix_48: Because it's rude.

MagicalBookworm: Because it's rude.

Emerald_Lightning: Cool.

Phoenix_48: What?

Emerald_Lightning: People are standing up for me.

Phoenix_48: You new to the Internet?

Emerald_Lightning: Yeah, how could you tell?

Phoenix_48: Instinct.

Emerald_Lightning: Oh.

MagicalBookworm: I'm new too, this is my first time in a chat room.

Phoenix_48: I have a lot to teach you two, number one, STAY ON TOPIC, please.

Emerald_Lightning: Okay. What were you talking about?

Phoenix_48: Possibilities.

Emerald_Lightning: Huh?

MagicalBookworm: We, me and Phoenix, believe that stuff like Witches and Wizards exists. However they, Dob, Neo and Ice, believe otherwise.

Ice645: All that's BS.

Emerald_Lightning: Bookworm, Phoenix, you have another member on your team.

MagicalBookworm: Cool.

Phoenix_48: Alright! Man, you da bomb!

Emerald_Lightning: What?

MagicalBookworm: Huh?

Phoenix_48: Canadian slang.

Emerald_Lightning: That would explain it.

MagicalBookworm: I'm from Britain.

Emerald_Lightning: So am I.

Phoenix_48: Cool, maybe you know each other.

MagicalBookworm: That would be cool.

Emerald_Lightning: One of my best friends is a bookworm, although I don't think of her as one.

MagicalBookworm: Why? Is being a bookworm a negative thing?

Phoenix_48: Burn!

Emerald_Lightning: No, not really.

Phoenix_48: I'm a bookworm.

MagicalBookworm: Really?

Phoenix_48: Yeah!

Ice645: This is boring, I'm outta here.

WindowBreaker: Me 2.

Viscious_95: Me 3.

Ice645 has left.

WindowBreaker has left.

Viscious_95 has left.

Phoenix_48: Finally, they're gone!

Emerald_Lightning: Good.

Phoenix_48: Yeah, now you can tell us about your bookwormish girlfriend.

Emerald_Lightning: She's not my girlfriend.

Phoenix_48: You wish she were though.

A couple seconds passed before I answered.

Emerald_Lightning: No.

Phoenix_48: It took such a long time to type up such a short answer, and a moment of hesitation is worth a thousand words.

MagicalBookworm: How intelligent.

Phoenix_48: So what's her name?

Emerald_Lightning: I don't think I should tell you that, she wouldn't like it.

MagicalBookworm: Can you blame her.

Phoenix_48: No, heck I would have given you $#!+ if you did tell us.

MagicalBookworm: Seriously, what can you tell us about her?

Emerald_Lightning: A lot.

Phoenix_48: Like.

Emerald_Lightning: She wouldn't like it if I told you her name, what makes you think she would like it if I told you her personal details.

Phoenix_48: Who said anything about personal details?

MagicalBookworm: Nobody, tell us more about her.

Emerald_Lightning: Okay, she's brilliant,

Emerald_Lightning: and she is also very opinionated.

Phoenix_48: Sounds like me.

MagicalBookworm: Stop!

Phoenix_48: What?

MagicalBookworm: Did she ever say anything about S.P.E.W.?

Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god!

Emerald_Lightning: Hermione?

MagicalBookworm: Harry?

Emerald_Lightning: Oh, My, God!

Phoenix_48: Cool! I'm telling you, it's fate!

Emerald_Lightning: Shut up Phoenix!

Phoenix_48: LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL!

Emerald_Lightning: Huh!

Phoenix_48: LOL, It means Laugh out loud!

That Son of a B!+¢#.

Emerald_Lightning: Shut up!

MagicalBookworm: What are the odds?

Phoenix_48: I don't know.

There was a moment of silence; well no one was typing.

Emerald_Lightning: It's fate. LOL.

Phoenix_48: LOL.