The room shuddered. The statue cracked. The tablet rebooted with a gentle ding , and Leo found himself back in his bedroom, covered in pixelated snake bites, his Amazon account now permanently locked.
Leo was the kind of wizard who believed magic had a "workaround." Why wait for an owl from Hogwarts when you could just Google it? So, when his Muggle-born friend Jamal mentioned he’d never read Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets , Leo scoffed. "Libraries are for first-years," he said, pulling out his hacked enchanted tablet. "I’ll just download it for you." Download Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secret...
The Download That Backfired
The basilisk paused. "He… purchased it legally?" it hissed, bewildered. The room shuddered
Just as the basilisk began reading his browser history out loud in Parseltongue ("Search: 'Can you fail out of Hogwarts?'... Search: 'How to fake a dragonpox note'..."), Jamal's voice echoed through the stone chamber. "Dude, I bought the audiobook on Libro.fm. You okay in there?" Leo was the kind of wizard who believed
"Unauthorized copy detected," whispered a cold, parseltongue voice. "You did not buy the book. You merely… borrowed."
Moral of the story: Don't download Chamber of Secrets illegally. You might just open the Chamber for real. And the basilisk has terrible bandwidth.