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Harry Potter was nine when he noticed that he was not alone.
“Hello?” He whispered cautiously, not wanting to be heard by his aunt.
“Hello..?” The whispering voice came out of his mouth unprompted by him. It was sharper than his. Harry thought it sounded smarter.
“Who are you?”
“I’m Harry Potter.” It responded. Harry frowned at the voice.
“Why do you think you’re Harry?”
“Everyone calls me by that name.”
“People call me that name..”
“Well, we can’t have the same name, now can we?”
“I guess not….” Harry curled his toes.
“Well, how about my name is Harry and yours is Potter?”
“No, that won’t work. How about we just have different names, like you can be Thomas Potter and I can be Harley Potter?”
“Where did you get Thomas from?”
“You don’t have to call yourself Thomas-“
“No, I like having my name be Thomas. I’m just curious where you got it from.” Thomas, the newly named voice crossed their arms which felt weird to Harley.
“Oh, I heard my teacher say that Thomas was a smart name and you sound smart.. so”
“Thank you, Harley.”
They both smiled.