Harry kept hitting the box in frustration.
"Harry, what's wrong?" Hermione asked from where she was sat at the dining table, writing on parchment.
"Hm?" He hit the box again, then looked from the computer desk. "Oh, I'm trying to read this thing, but nothings working."
"What thing?"
"Just a story on Fanfiction dot net. damn thing keeps crashing the web browser."
"So just use a tablet then."
Harry sighed. "They burned out from magic last week, remember? We," He paused barely a moment, thinking 'you', "forgot to put the protections on it when we bought it, and the batteries turned my favourite jeans into a smouldering pile of crispy cloth."
"Oh. I thought there was something that... anyway what's the problem anyway?"
"Cloudfare. It keeps breaking the browser, and when it doesn't, it still takes a dozen refreshes to load a page. doesn't help that I get maybe one or two chapters before it asks to check I'm not a bot or something again."
"Ouch. Just use Archive of our own then.."
Harry grumbled. "Would love to, but this author doesn't post there. Even though if he did, he wouldn't have to post a pointless disclaimer saying that the author-"
"Doesn't own Harry Potter and all that." Hermione finished, rolling her eyes, then grinned. "We both know who owns your ass."
"No matter how many people hate that because 'offended' or something."
Harry frowned. "What was that about anyway? never really kept track of Jo."
"Oh just some twitter thing."
"... isn't that the dumpster fire Elon Musk bought?"
"Yeah."
"Anyway, how long has it been playing up?"
Harry sighed, and tried again. "Well it's been about a year since the cloudfare thing started, but it's been about three weeks since I was last able to load any story."
"Wow."
"I know, I've got a couple chapters of the Force Whills to read! I want my SI as Ahsoka story fix!"
Guess what issue I've had. I probably wont even be able to read THIS myself.