Marisa was bored to death. She had forgotten how used she was to magic, to munching a Chocolate Frog whenever she was peckish, to having… not friends exactly, but allies, equals, people she could plot with who would actually keep up with her.
And, of course, she also missed a certain scientifically-minded Slytherin. Currently she was sitting at her computer playing video games listlessly. She was thrashing everyone else on her server: so far, she'd managed sixteen kills and those who had got away were far too terrified of her speedy moves and killer blows to come back for more.
She watched as a ridiculously small cat avatar calling itself "Lioness" came up to her and launched a water attack. Marisa's avatar, a monkey, was weak to water but her health bar was so vast it barely made any difference. She pounded a couple of keys and launched a blisteringly strong fireball at "Lioness".
She glanced at the game chat as she waited for another victim to come her way and saw Lioness saying "Queen Asriel is so OP! She got me in one blow!"
"Epic powers," typed Marisa back, grinning.
She suddenly spotted a decent-sized player, "Lulu" who was apparently tenth on the leaderboard, and was coming her way. As she was about to launch an earth attack, the shark's biggest weakness, she heard her mother's voice.
"Marisa, why is there an owl knocking at the window?"
Marisa sighed and hit the Pause button, then dashed downstairs to open the window and let the owl in. "Wizard stuff," she said, "don't worry about it".
Her heart leapt as she looked at the letter the owl gripped in its talons, addressed in Leo's handwriting. She untied it from the owl's leg and shut the window just in case she needed to send a reply.
Marisa,
I need a favour. Could you possibly use your Muggle technology to make about twenty of the enclosed flyer? Make them as professional as you can.
Love, Leo.
P.S. I was thinking of giving us feline code names. How does "Lioness" sound?
P.P.S. Don't reply, for obvious reasons. Give me the flyers on the Express.
Marisa grinned as she opened the window to release the owl. Leo needed her help. Suddenly the magical world didn't seem all that far away after all.