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Hermione Granger has created a new chat

Hermione Granger added Harry Potter, Dean Thomas, and Seamus Finnigan to the chat

Hermione Granger renamed the chat Testing

Hermione Granger changed their name to Hermione

Hermione: Welcome! Did everybody get their phones to work?

Harry Potter: I did

Seamus Finnigan: Im good

Dean Thomas: Yeah same

Hermione: That's great! I'm glad it worked for everyone. I was worried that it was a one time thing

Seamus Finnigan changed their name to Seamus

Seamus: I think were good. It's been like an hour since mine started working and I haven't seen a single glitch or anything

Dean Thomas: Same here. I even called my parents and there wasn't any problems with the call. Hogwarts has shockingly great service

Dean Thomas changed their name to Dean

Harry Potter changed their name to Harry

Harry: And internet too. I tried for the hell of it and somehow YouTube worked perfectly? Fast loading speed and no buffering

Seamus: Wait what?!

Seamus: Hang on ive gotta check this!

Dean: and we will never see him again

Seamus: BLOODY HELL HES RIGHT! The internet works perfectly!

Hermione: But…how? Technology isn't even supposed to work in hogwarts. I don't understand how we all got our phones to even work at all. Let alone have cell and internet in the middle of nowhere

Harry: Maybe it's because of magic?

Harry: It's just a guess but hogwarts is a magic castle

Harry: and it's not like we've been students long enough to know what magic is supposed to do so it's possible

Dean: Magic makes my head hurt thinking about it

Seamus: It's the only theory we have so

Seamus: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Hermione: I don't like that it's the only idea we have but I agree with Dean about it giving me a headache.

Hermione: I'll go to the library later and see if there might be anything in there that could explain better

Dean: I'll help

Harry: Maybe some of the older students or teachers would have an idea too? We could ask them about it

Seamus: Just make sure you ask someone who knows what a phone is

Seamus: Ron asked what I was messing with and didn't have a clue what I was talking about. I had to explain what it does before he had any idea what I was talking about. He actually "corrected" me about what a cell phone is called

Dean: He calls it a fellytone

Harry: Neville was confused too but he seemed interested so I showed him how to use mine

Hermione: Are you three in your dorm room right now?

Seamus: Yep

Hermione: then why are you texting instead of talking to each other?

Hermione: I don't mean to sound rude but I genuinely don't understand

Harry: Cause youre apart of this conversation too

Dean: Yeah what he said

Dean: Plus Ron snores so loud I can't hardly hear myself think. There is no way we can hear each other over him

Seamus: It's barely even been three weeks and we all learned if you don't fall asleep before him then you don't sleep at all

Seamus: The only one who doesn't have a problem with it is Harry

Harry: My relatives are louder so I'm used to it

Hermione: That honestly sounds awful

Hermione: I have some earplugs if you want to try them?

Dean: Hermione you are a godsend

Seamus: Please save us

Hermione: I'll leave them in the common room on the table we were at earlier

Dean: You're amazing!

Seamus: If this works I'll owe you my soul

Harry: You should see their faces right now

Harry: It's hilarious

Hermione: I'll take your word for it. You guys don't owe me anything

Hermione: Guys?

Harry: hey sorry. They just passed out. The earplugs worked like a charm

Hermione: That was fast

Harry: it's been a couple nights since they could get any decent sleep thanks to the noise

Harry: Astronomy kept us up late and by the time we got ready for bed Ron was already snoring

Harry: the only thing he does is change into pjs while we go brush our teeth first

Hermione: That really sucks. I wonder if Professor Flitwick knows anything that could help?

Harry: Ask him tomorrow. It's late. You need to get some sleep

Hermione: So do you

Harry: I'll sleep if you do

Hermione: Deal

Hermione: Goodnight Harry

Harry: Night Hermione. See you at breakfast

Chatfics are HARD I've discovered. I'm not one to message people without proper grammar so writing this will be a challenge for me. But a fun one. I've just been writing the chapters as I normally text then going back and changing things that I think work best. Though some of the typos may or may not be mine. I typed a good portion of this on my phone and I always hit the wrong key on simple words.

I have four chapters of this one finished so far, but I might post them tomorrow since I don't have a lot of time before I need to get ready for work. I don't want to take my computer with me babysitting since my niece can crawl now and she's in the "explore everything" stage. After babysitting I have my new job at a movie theatre (which is actually really relaxed and fun) so I wont get home until around 11pm. When I get home I'm just going straight to sleep. But I'll have time during work to write more so I'm going to work on my stories there, and then I can type it up and post tomorrow morning.

This fic isn't on Ao3 (yet) since I'm still trying to figure out the formatting for it over there. I'll have it posted hopefully tomorrow.

Anyway, I hope everyone enjoys this fic! I had a fun theory that technology just needed time to get used to the ambient magic in the air before it was turned on, since magic would be like a strong electrical shock to a phone. I guess think of it like static. You don't feel anything but then you touch a doorknob or someone else and ZAP. Giving time for the phones and other tech to adjust lets the static dissipate on its own and there's no issue. The "technology doesn't work at Hogwarts" came about thanks to muggleborns not waiting long enough so their tech fried.

Please Follow/Favorite/Review! I'll see you all in the morning with the next chapter!