I finished a book recently, as I crawled into bed, I sighed and said 'I miss them', to which my husband asked 'Who?' and I was forced to say the people in my book, they are real to me and after 11 novels they should be.
writing prompt (For those who don't recall this from the sadly short-lived television series John Doe... although, technically, viewers had no way of knowing if the character had ALWAYS been colorblind, and I suspect he hadn't been.)
28 Things That Happened After The Harry Potter Books Ended as told by J.K Rowling (In a series of interviews over the years, the author has revealed the future of the Harry Potter characters, far beyond the Deathly Hallows epilogue)