[ SECRET POST #3890 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3890 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Harry Potter and Pretty Little Liars]


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[The Crown]


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[Me Before You (novel)]


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[Little Women, Jo/Laurie, Jo/Professor Bhaer]


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(Supergirl, Wynonna Earp)


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07.
[The Defenders]













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Comments

[mrs_don_draper]

I don't think most people see regular school itself as magical. What is magical about Harry Potter is literally just the magical aspects.

Also:

"I liked my childhood, but I'd rather be an adult, thanks."

But you're a fan of queen bees and bullying? Doesn't sound very adult to me...

[(Anonymous)]

What does being an adult have to do with ones tastes in fiction? I'm sure OP doesn't condone bullying irl and liking aspects of it in a fictional context has no bearing on their adultness.

[(Anonymous)]

The part where op dismisses Harry Potter as a childish series because it's a school story, but loooves other school series, might have something to do with this comment. Just perhaps.

[(Anonymous)]

Where? OP just says they don't have any romantic notions of school and they don't understand the interest in reliving school years. I think the OP is misunderstanding the appeal of getting a Hogwarts letter (which has nothing to do with going to school and being young, but finding out you are special and finding a community), but I don't read dismissal of the series in the secret at all.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

My point was, it seems to me (from an outside perspective) that a lot of HP's fandom wants to go to Hogwarts and be a child again.

I don't read/watch highschool dramas because I want to be there, but because I find the psychological aspect interesting.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

"Look at me and how MATURE I am, aren't I so MATURE unlike those other people!"

That's how you sound, OP

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

For most of us, we were exposed to the series when we were children, and either miserable or just bored. It's not about wanting to be a 'child again,' it's about a sense of...hope and wonder that we wanted and didn't have, a dream we fell in love with because it sounded so much cooler than our actual lives.

The books fundamentally are children's books. I loved them dearly and read some of them maybe, literally hundreds of times, but I haven't in years, because I too am an adult now, even if I mostly don't feel like it.

I don't think you're wrong to like what you like, but I think you're making a lot of unfounded assumptions based on a couple of easy-to-see wacky public behaviors like mocking up letters being a cool thing some dedicated nerds do. It doesn't mean ~going to school~ is the allure, it means ~going to school~ is the easy-to-talk-about framing device for a whole alluring world.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Fair enough. :)

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think you're wrong to like what you like, but I think you're making a lot of unfounded assumptions based on a couple of easy-to-see wacky public behaviors

Well said, anon.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Wow. That sounds SO pretentious and frankly fucking obnoxious. Like what you like but don't act like it makes you somehow better than everyone else. When your fantasy life revolves around escaping a shitty situation for someplace magical, maybe you'll get it.

Or you'll keep sounding like a stuck up fuckwad who doesn't get how fucking lucky they are. I'm betting on the second option.