[On the other side of his journal Marshall is laughing hysterically.]
I like you already.
No, I'm a student at Hogwarts just like yourself. All of the students journals are enchanted to be connected to each other so we can write back and forth to one another.
..I can actually Spellotape a picture of myself here if you want to know what I really look like. I promise I'm not a book wrapped in a Slytherin tie.