Whacking Great Anachronism, a harry potter fanfic

Whacking Great Anachronism.

Taken from 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire':

Dear Sirius,

Thanks for your last letter, that bird was enormous, it could hardly get through my window.

Things are the same as usual here. Dudley's diet isn't going too well. My aunt found him smuggling doughnuts into his room yesterday. They told him they'd have to cut his pocket money if he keeps doing it, so he got really angry and chucked his PlayStation out of the window. That's a sort of computer thing you can play games on. Bit stupid really, now he hasn't even got Mega Mutilation Part Three to take his mind off things.

I'm OK, mainly because the Dursleys are terrified you might turn up and turn them all into bats if I ask you to.

A weird thing happened this morning, though. My scar hurt again. Last time that happened it was because Voldemort was at Hogwarts. But I don't reckon he can be anywhere near me now, can he? Do you know if curse scars sometimes hurt years afterwards?

I'll send this with Hedwig when she gets back, she's off hunting at the moment. Say hello to Buckbeak for me.

Harry.

The above letter was written by Harry Potter to Sirius Black, his godfather, before he attended the Quidditch World Cup prior to the beginning of his fourth year at Hogwarts. This would have been in 1994. So Dudley Dursley must really have been spoiled rotten if his parents managed to get Sony to send him a games console which they had yet to release in his country of residence for over a year!

('Harry's Letter to Sirius'; Copyright © 2000 J.K. Rowling. All rights reserved. Used without permission under a Fair Dealing exception to UK copyright law for the purposes of criticism as described in the Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988 [Amendments].)