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fandomsecrets2012-05-06 03:28 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2012-05-06 03:28 pm
[ SECRET POST #1951 ]
⌈ Secret Post #1951 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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Secrets Left to Post: 05 pages, 102 secrets from Secret Submission Post #279.
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(Anonymous) 2012-05-06 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)no subject
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It started with reading Philosopher's Stone shortly after I had turned twelve and suddenly realizing that son-of-a-bitch, a kid who was younger than me did all this badass stuff that I never got to do when I was eleven, and I had a big sense of loss because I knew I'd never be eleven again, and would therefore never have the chance to say "I beat a deadly obstacle course at age eleven". And every year, more stuff would have to be thrown out of the list of Stuff I Could Hypothetically Still Do: oh snap, I'm never gonna be able to kill a basilisk with a sword at age twelve; oh snap, I'm never gonna time-travel to jailbreak an innocent man at age thirteen; oh snap, I'm never gonna duel with and escape from an evil wizard at age fourteen, etc.
And yeah, I knew it was fantasy, but even as a hypothetical it meant so much: those books were probably the most powerful kind of wish-fulfillment possible, because they made you believe that if, if, by some wild chance, you were suddenly somehow whisked into the wizarding world and thrown into a situation like the ones the trio was thrown into in the books, you would have the capacity and inner fortitude to be as brave and heroic as Harry and the others were, because after all, there was nothing special about them that made them different from you. So if they could do it, you could too. Of course, you never got to prove it like them, but you still had time -- you never know what would happen by the time you turn their age. Maybe it wouldn't involve wizards and magic, but the inspirational, comforting message still applied: "you are smart enough to solve a mystery that could save hundreds of lives even when all the adults are stumped!" "you are noble enough to stand up to a murderer and tell him that if he's going to kill your best friend, he'll have to kill you too!" "you are brave enough to keep your head even when you're tied up and surrounded by armed enemies and an adult far stronger than you is about to kill you!" So every time I got a little older, I would realize that my chance for proving my mettle the way Harry did was slipping away. I was twelve, not eleven, so even if I was somehow hypothetically whisked away and fought a basilisk just like Harry, I still wouldn't be as badass as him, 'cause he beat an obstacle course of death when he was eleven, and I didn't. And that was something I'd never be able to get back.
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Every year that I got older as I read the HP books just made me more and more depressed. I get that it's fictional and that I have plenty of things that I can accomplish irl, but the irrational, imaginative, deep-down hope that I'd get to go to Hogwarts and do all kinds of cool bad-ass stuff like the trio was so wonderful--losing that really sucked. :(
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(Anonymous) 2012-05-07 06:18 am (UTC)(link)I was sad about being 11 because Pokemon trainers get their first pokemon at age 10 to set off on an adventure.
12 because then I couldn't get an owl to go to Hogworts anymore.
18 because now I'm 7 years older than my favorite character and it makes me look like a cougar/paedophile for liking a character I did when I was 10. Also, not to mention, all of my favorite characters from manga are always 11-15 year olds kicking ass and taking names.
Like, the secret isn't about how in real life, a girl should always be younger than the boy for getting married. It's just that I have to grow up now and stop dreaming about childish shit or else I'll get laughed at. I didn't know I'd cause so much twillight hate drama. Where did people even get that from??