And that was it. Sometimes people just leave. For whatever reason they make up, or none at all. They might see you again like it was fine, like you’re one of those people who “can catch up where we left off,” but you never agreed to that. They don’t reply to anything. You were a prop to entertain them for a while, like they knew you and actually cared, but they didn’t, and they can’t.
concept: instead of hedwig, Harry goes into the pet store and this little snake in the back of the store talks to him, obviously gets his attention more than the other animals, and harry feels sorry for it so he takes it home. Then the snake helps Harry throughout his years at hogwarts as harry carries it wrapped around his hand all like “pssssst, haaarryyy, the dark lord isss coming sss” or just petty shit like “haaaarrryy, now is the time, assskkk out cho chaaannngg”