A few Harry Potter girls

The list is dizzyingly extensive, it presents a top 100 IPs sorted by all time popularity, it’s allot to process, you don’t even want to press the “next” arrow. A banner on the top of the catalog flashes between various clickable links and RealDreams articles, your mom reads them aloud in a whisper, a common habit of hers, as you continue squinting at the list considering the options.

“Hottest anime characters of 2019. Oh she’s cute.”

Anime? Ooh the My Hero Academia girls are hot.

“Training manual 2020 edition, $599?!?! Reminds me of college”

wait, what anime even came out in 2019?

“Character ownership linked to better health, jeez, we’re sold already”

You should start watching anime again.

“Character of the week: Hermione Grang-“ you suddenly interject “wait Hermione? Ah, that makes sense actually” you remember an Emma Watson W.A.R. Speech popping up on YouTube recently, you didn’t watch it of course, merely did your moral duty by downvoting and linking it on some troll forums. It’s funny to think, who would’ve thought ten years ago that Emma would become the worlds favourite lolcow. Hmm, Hermione though, that’s a tempting idea.

You quickly press the banner before it changes again and are brought to her listing. $13,000 is not a bad price honestly, for such a high demand character, then again, that doesn’t matter to you. Before you can even begin to read her information and accessories tab you see something in the “similar characters” section that catches your interest, “a $100,000 listing, what the hell?”

It turns out to be a combo deal of harry potter’s most eligible witches Hermione Granger, Ginny Weasley and Luna Lovegood. The listing boasts in the description “Low, matching instance numbers. highly collectible!” all caught in the same universe huh? That was certainly appealing, in an odd way, it wasn’t like they would know the difference. “Instance no.707, 18 years old, unknowingly captured in their school uniforms on February 27 2011 Prime universe EST” you weren’t sure how they could be both captured at the same time and all be the same ages, that must have been a timeline nightmare. It was also weird to think, they had been in temporal stasis in a warehouse for 9 years, completely unaware anything was wrong. You shift in place uncomfortably, unsure why that’s so disconcerting to you considering they’re just merchandise, plaything for the amusement of “real” people. As for accessories They come wearing the uniform they were captured in, their full casual wardrobe and their wands (nonfunctional on Prime Earth)

It’s an easy decision, and mom comments “good choice” as you add them to the terminals cart. You’re then directed by a prompt to either proceed to the checkout desk or continue shopping. Hmm, while you’re here is there anyone you wanted for now? Three could be a handful already.