You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head.

“Wonder what it’s like to have a peaceful life,” Ron sighed, as evening after ev…”

“I saw youWanderingLike a lily in a meadowAfraid Of your secret potentialI knewW…”

“What do they think they’re doing, keeping a thing like that locked up in a scho…”

“Yeah, well, food's one of the five exceptions to Gamp's Law of Elemental Transf…”